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The Physical Properties of Thermotropic Side-Chain Triblock Copolymers of n-Butyl Acrylate and a Comonomer with Azobenzene Group

  • Dan, Kyung-Sik;Kim, Byoung-Chul;Han, Yang-Kyoo
    • Macromolecular Research
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.313-318
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    • 2009
  • The side chain liquid crystal triblock copolymers (TBCs), which underwent phase transitions below their decomposition temperature, were prepared by copolymerization of poly(n-butyl acrylate) and a comonomer containing the mesogenic azobenzene group. The physical properties of TBCs in the distinctive transition temperature ranges were investigated in terms of the liquid crystal (LC) content in the copolymers. The phase transition temperatures traced optically, thermally and rheologically were well coincided one another and clearly exhibited the phase transition of smectic-nematic-isotropic with increasing temperature. In the smectic phase, increasing temperature made the liquid crystal system more elastic, but viscosity (${\eta}'$) remained almost constant. In the nematic phase, increasing temperature abruptly decreased ${\eta}'$ and G', ultimately leading to isotropic phase. Both smectic and nematic phases exhibited Bingham viscosity behavior but the former gave much greater yield stress at the same LC content.

Simulation Study for Performance Measures of Resources in a Port Container Terminal

  • Choi, Yong-Seok
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.28 no.7
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    • pp.587-591
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    • 2004
  • In order to measure the performance of resources in a port container terminal, we conducted a state transition network simulation to model various equipment processes. The processes that container cranes and transfer cranes perform are idle, wait, move, and work. Vehicles perform idle, wait, empty travel, and full travel. Because cranes, vehicles, and vessels are movable entities and all equipment is classified as either a customer or server, we separated the various stages of the process based upon the state transition network To validate the simulation results, a real system was used to illustrate the use of various measurements using the state transition network.

Multibubble Dynamics in an Acoustic Field: Theoretical Study and Direct Numerical Simulation by MTS-DiCUP

  • Ida M.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.167-169
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    • 2003
  • This paper presents a theoretical study concerning multibubble dynamics in a sound field and the numerical validation for it by employing our new CFD code MTS-DiCUP. In recent papers, the author has shown theoretically that an unknown characteristic frequency, named 'transition frequency,' exists in a multibubble system. For a N -bubble case, up to 2N -1 transition frequencies per bubble have been predicted, only N ones of them correspond to the natural frequencies of the system. The transition frequencies that do not correspond to the natural frequencies give rise to the phase reversal of bubbles' pulsation without resonant response. In this paper, it has been suggested theoretically that those transition frequencies may cause the sign reversal of the secondary Bjerknes force, which is an interaction force acting between acoustically coupled gas bubbles. This theoretical result has been validated by the direct numerical simulation, at least in a qualitative sense.

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MicroRNAs as critical regulators of the endothelial to mesenchymal transition in vascular biology

  • Kim, Jongmin
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.51 no.2
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    • pp.65-72
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    • 2018
  • The endothelial to mesenchymal transition (EndMT) is a newly recognized, fundamental biological process involved in development and tissue regeneration, as well as pathological processes such as the complications of diabetes, fibrosis and pulmonary arterial hypertension. The EndMT process is tightly controlled by diverse signaling networks, similar to the epithelial to mesenchymal transition. Accumulating evidence suggests that microRNAs (miRNAs) are key regulators of this network, with the capacity to target multiple messenger RNAs involved in the EndMT process as well as in the regulation of disease progression. Thus, it is highly important to understand the molecular basis of miRNA control of EndMT. This review highlights the current fund of knowledge regarding the known links between miRNAs and the EndMT process, with a focus on the mechanism that regulates associated signaling pathways and discusses the potential for the EndMT as a therapeutic target to treat many diseases.

TRANSITIONAL FLOW ANALYSIS OVER DOUBLE COMPRESSION RAMP WITH NOSE BLUNTNESS IN SUPERSONIC FLOW (초음속 이중 압축 램프의 앞전 곡률에 따른 천이 유동 해석)

  • Shin, Ho Cheol;Sa, Jeong Hwan;Park, Soo Hyung;Byun, Yung Hwan
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.36-43
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    • 2015
  • Accurate prediction of supersonic transition is required for the heat transfer estimation over supersonic double compression ramp flows. Correlation-based transition models were assessed for a supersonic double ramp problem. Numerical results were compared with experimental data from RWTH Aachen University. A parametric study on the nose bluntness was performed using a selected transition model. As the nose bluntness increases, the boundary layer thickness is increased and the triple point of shock interactions moves downstream. The peak magnitude of the heat transfer is consequently decreased with the nose bluntness.

Tightness of the Transition State for the Reactions of Secondary Alkyl Arenesulfonates with Anilines in Acetonitrile

  • 오혁근;권영봉;정동수;이익춘
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.16 no.9
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    • pp.827-831
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    • 1995
  • Kinetic studies on the reactions of five secondary acylic alkyl arenesulfonates with anilines are carried out in acetonitrile at 65.0 ℃. The magnitude of ρXZ determined (ρXZ=0.12-0.13) is slightly greater than that for the alicyclic series (ρXZ=0.11) under the same experimental condition. Ab initio MO results are found to support the slightly tighter transition state expected from the greater magnitude of ρXZ for the acyclic series. Despite the small variations, the magnitude of ρXZ and the theoretical transition state tightness remain relatively constant for the secondary carbon centers. Secondary kinetic isotope effects involving deuterated aniline nucleophiles show a successively smaller kH/kD(<1.0) value for a more sterically crowded reaction center carbon. This is in accord with the later transition state for bond-making predicted by the Bell-Evans-Polanyi principle for the more endothermic nucleophilic substitution reaction. Further support is provided by the results of the AM1 MO calculations on the reactions of secondary alkyl benzenesulfonates with chloride nucleophile.

Phylogenetic study of trichaptum inferred from nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences

  • Ko, Kwon-Soo;Hong, Soon-Gyu;Jung, Hack-Sung
    • Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.79-86
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    • 1997
  • For the phylogenetic study of the genus Trichaptum, nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences from eight strains of four Trichaptium species were examined. Phylogenetic trees were constructed using molecular data on 18 rDNA and 5.8S rDNA and thei ITSs. Parsimony analyses of the Trichaptum species showed that T. biforme and T. laricinum made a monophyletic group respectively, suggesting that each species is phylogenetically independent. However, T. abietum represented a polyphyletic group and T. fusco-violaceum formed a polytomous group, suggesting that these species could be in the process of evolutionary differentiation. Examination of base substitutions of the 18S rRNA gene reveals that the C-T transition is most predominant and that there is a stronger transition bias between closely related organisms rather than between distantly related ones.

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A New GPS Receiver Correlator for the Deeply Coupled GPS/INS Integration System

  • Kim, Jeong-Won;Hwang, Dong-Hwan;Lee, Sang-Jeong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • v.1
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    • pp.121-125
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    • 2006
  • A new GPS receiver correlator for the deeply-coupled GPS/INS integration system is proposed in order to the computation time problem of the Kalman filter. The proposed correlator consists of two early, prompt and late arm pairs. One pair is for detecting data bit transition boundary and another is for the correlator value calculation between input and replica signal. By detecting the data bit transition boundary, the measurement calculation time can be made longer than data bit period. As a result of this, the computational time problem of the integrated Kalman filter can be resolved. The validity of the proposed method is given through computer simulations.

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Effect of Neutral Solvent on the Phase Behavior of Polystyrene-block-Poly(n-butyl methacrylate) Copolymers

  • Li, Chaoxu;Li, Guang-Hua;Moon, Hong-Chul;Lee, Dong-Hyun;Kim, Jin-Kon;Cho, Jun-Han
    • Macromolecular Research
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    • v.15 no.7
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    • pp.656-661
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    • 2007
  • The effects of a neutral solvent of dioctyl phthalate (DOP) on the phase behavior of symmetric polystyrene-block-poly(n-butyl methacrylate) copolymers (PS-b-PnBMA) were assessed herein. Closed-loop phase behavior with a lower disorder-to-order transition (LDOT) and an upper order-to-disorder transition (UODT) was observed for PS-b-PnBMA/DOP solution when the quantity of DOP was carefully controlled. When the molecular weight of PS-b-PnBMA became larger, the LDOT did not appreciably change at smaller quantities of DOP. With larger quantities of DOP, the reduction in the UODT is greater than the increase in the LDOT. This behavior is discussed in accordance with a molecular theory predicated on a compressible random-phase approximation.