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Tunable Photonic Band Gap Materials and Their Applications

  • Gang, Yeong-Jong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2010.08a
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    • pp.261-261
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    • 2010
  • Photonic band gap (PBG) materials have been of great interest due to their potential applications in science and technology. Their applications can be further extended when PBG becomes tunable against various chemical and electrical stimuli. In recent, it was found that tunable photonic band gap materials can be achieved by incorporating stimuli-responsive smart gels into PBG materials. For example, the characteristic volume phase transition of gels in response to the various external stimuli including temperature, pH, ionic strength, solvent compositions and electric field were recently combined with the unique optical properties of photonic crystals to form unprecedented highly responsive optical components. Since these responsive photonic crystals are capable of reversibly converting chemical or electrical energy into characteristic optical signals, they have been considered as a good platform for label-free chemical or biological detection, actuators or optical switches as well as a model system for investigating gel swelling behavior. Herein, we report block copolymer photonic gels self-assembled from polystyrene-b-poly (2-vinyl pyridine) (PS-b-P2VP) block copolymers. In this talk, we are going to demonstrate that selective swelling of lamellar structure can be effectively utilized for fabricating PBG materials with extremely large tunability. Optical properties and their applications will be discussed.

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New Record on Suidasia medanensis Oudemans 1924 from Stored Food in Korea(Astigmata : Acaridae) (한국산 저장식품응애 1미기록 종(Suidasia medanensis Oudemans, 1924)에 대한 보고)

  • Jung, Young-Hwa;Hong, Shin-Ji;Lee, Won-Koo
    • Korean journal of applied entomology
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    • v.49 no.4
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    • pp.273-276
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    • 2010
  • One of stored food mites, Suidasia medanensis Oudemans, 1924 is first reported form Korea after the stored food surveys in 2008 and 2009. The morphological characteristic is given.

A Peak Recognition Algorithm for the Screening of Target Compounds (목표물질 스크리닝을 위한 피이크 인식 알고리즘)

  • Min, Hong-Kee;Hong, Seung-Hong
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.185-193
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    • 1993
  • In this paper, the peak detection algorithm was developed for the purpose of screening of the target compounds. Algorithm is divided into searching the characteristic ion and peak detection. The heuristic knowledge about analytical chemistry was applied for the searching the characteristic ion. Peak detection was accomplished in comparison with the peak identification strings and pattern strings around the retention time. Pattern strings are composed with the number which generated by pattern identification function. The variables of pattern identification function are the codes which represent the difference of two adjacent abundances Some of the free steroids were selected to demonstrate the proposed algorithm.

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Biological Characteristic of Obolodiplosis robiniae and Control Effects of Some Insecticides (아까시잎혹파리(Obolodiplosis robiniae)의 생물학적 특성 및 약제 살충 효과)

  • Park, Ji-Doo;Shin, Sang-Chul;Kim, Chul-Su;Jeon, Mun-Jang;Park, Il-Kwon
    • Korean journal of applied entomology
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    • v.48 no.3
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    • pp.327-333
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    • 2009
  • Biological Characteristic of Obolodiplosis robiniae and insecticidal activity of some insecticides against larvae of O. robiniae were investigated. Egg was in oval shape, and its color was light orange and became red when close to hatch. Length of the major axis and the minor axis of egg was 0.4 mm and 0.1 mm, respectively. Larval color was milky and size was 2.6 mm. Pupa was deep brown and its size was about 3.2 mm. Wing and abdomen of adult was black and reddish, respectively. Size of female adult was about 3.3 mm, and larger than male adult. Number of eggs in the ovary was $192.3{\pm}50.7$. First emergence was from late April to late May, and second from late May to late June. Third emergence was from late June to late July. Newly emerged adult escaped from soil, and second and third emerged adult escaped directly from gall of Robinia pseudoacacia leaf. Egg parasitoid was identified as Platygaster robiniae and parasite rate was 51.6%. Among test insecticides, imidacloprid 10% WP and thiacoprid 10% FL showed very strong insecticidal activity against larvae of O. robiniae at 48h later after treatment.

Fourier and Wavelet Analysis for Detection of Sleep Stage EEG (수면단계 뇌파 검출을 위한 Fourier 와 Wavelet해석)

  • Seo Hee-Don;Kim Min-Soo
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.24 no.6 s.81
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    • pp.487-494
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    • 2003
  • The sleep stages provides the most basic evidence for diagnosing a variety of sleep diseases. for staging sleep by analysis of EEG(electroencephalogram), it is especially important to detect the characteristic waveforms from EEG. In this paper, sleep EEG signals were analyzed using Fourier transform and continuous wavelet transform as well as discrete wavelet transform. Proposeed system methods. Fourier and wavelet for detecting of important characteristic waves(hump, sleep spindles. K-complex, hill wave, ripple wave) in sleep EEG. Sleep EEG data were analysed using Daubechies wavelet transform method and FFT method. As a result of simulation, we suggest that our neural network system attain high performance in classification of characteristic waves.

Neuroglial Cells and Schizophrenia (신경아교세포와 조현병)

  • Won, Seunghee
    • Korean Journal of Biological Psychiatry
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.47-54
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    • 2015
  • In the past decade, structural, molecular, and functional changes in glial cells have become a major focus in the search for the neurobiological foundations of schizophrenia. Glial cells, consisting of oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, microglia, and nerve/glial antigen 2-positive cells, constitute a major cell population in the central nervous system. There is accumulating evidence of reduced numbers of oligodendrocytes and altered expression of myelin/oligodendrocyte-related genes that might explain the white matter abnormalities and altered inter- and intra-hemispheric connectivities that are characteristic signs of schizophrenia. Astrocytes play a key role in the synaptic metabolism of neurotransmitters ; thus, astrocyte dysfunction may contribute to certain aspects of altered neurotransmission in schizophrenia. Increased densities of microglial cells and aberrant expression of microglia-related surface markers in schizophrenia suggest that immunological/inflammatory factors are of considerable relevance to the pathophysiology of psychosis. This review describes current evidence for the multifaceted role of glial cells in schizophrenia and discusses efforts to develop glia-directed therapies for the treatment of the disease.

Electrical Characteristic and Optical Diagnosis for Atmospheric Direct Plasma Jet

  • Hong, Seong In;Ghimire, B.;Hong, Young Jun;Choi, Eun Ha
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2015.08a
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    • pp.155.1-155.1
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    • 2015
  • Nowadays, Plasma has been used in biological, medical such as wound healing, plant grow, killing cancer. When plasma generated, UV light and ROS(Reactive oxygen species), RNS(Reactive nitrogen species) can generated and those things effect to biological material. So we made simple plasma device using needle type of electrode and generated plasma. We used three kinds of gas and measured applied voltage and current. Also we observed optical emission spectrum. Using deuterium ramp, we can observed absorption spectrum and calculated radical density by lambert-beer's law. It is around ~1016cm3. And we can see the time-resolved absorption spectrum from monochromator, PMT(photo multiply tube), IV-converter, oscilloscope.

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A study on reduction of harmful compound in cigarette smoke(I) (담배 연기중(煙氣中)의 유해성분(有害成分) 감소(減少)에 관한 연구(硏究))

  • Kim, Ki-Hwan;Bae, Hyo-Won;Park, Taek-Kyu
    • Applied Biological Chemistry
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.131-136
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    • 1978
  • The effects of liquid sugar and sucrose on several characteristic of tobacco leaves, there combustibility and harmful compound in smoke were examined. results obtained were as follows. 1) Nicotine and total nitrogen content of tobacco leaves were reduced by sugars added to tobacco. 2) Nicotine and tar transfered to smoke were reduced by 4% sugars added to burley tobacco but not reduced by sugars added to hicks. 3) pH of smoke was reduced by sugars added but pH of tobacco shreds not reduced by sugars added. 4) The filling capacity and combustibility (S. B. R.) of tobacco shreds were increased by sugars treated. 5) Nitrogen oxides transfered to smoke was reduce by sugars treated but phenols transfered was not reduce by sugar treated. 6) The capacities of moisture absorption and retention was increased by sugars treated.

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An Antifungal Activity of Streptomyces sp. against Cryphonectria parasitica

  • Lee, Sang-Hyun;Kim, Kyung-Hee;Lee, Jae-Pil;Yi, Yong-Sub;Kim, Hye-Sook;Lim, Yoong-Ho
    • Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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    • v.48 no.4
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    • pp.222-225
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    • 2005
  • Strains showing antifungal activity against Cryphonectria parasitica were isolated from coast soil of Taean , Korea. Of 152 strains isolated, 6 strains showed antifungal activity in vitro against C. parasitica. Ta24 strain showed highest activity with 1.6 cm clean inhibition zone. For strain identification, the morphological characteristic and 16S rDNA sequences were determined. Ta24 strain showed 99% homology with Streptomyces sampsonii and was identified as Streptomyces sp.

Locomotive Characteristic Analysis of Terrestrial Vertebrates for the Modeling of Four-Legged Walking Machine

  • Park, S.H.;Jeong, G.J.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.743-747
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    • 2000
  • The coordinated mechanism of terrestrial vertebrates enables them to maneuver over all of the terrain conditions since they have a distinct ability to adapt to varying conditions. Their locomotions remain infinitely more advanced and elegant than that of present-day existing mechanical walking robots. However, the principles of existing walking robots are based more on technical rather than on biological concepts, yielding unstable locomotion with low speed. In order to apply these advanced biological phenomena to the mechanical design of 4-legged walking robot, modeling methods are introduced and mathematical equations are also introduced.

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