• The Journal of Advanced Prosthodontics
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.205-210
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• 2018

PURPOSE. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of a gas-phase fluorination method under different fluorination periods through using two resin cements. MATERIALS AND METHODS. 84 zirconia specimens in dimensions of $5mm{\times}5mm{\times}2mm$ were prepared and surface treated with $50{\mu}m$ aluminum oxide particles or gas phase fluorination for 2 min, 5 min, or 10 min. One specimen in each group was surface analyzed under scanning electron microscope. The remaining specimens were bonded to composite cylinders in dimensions of 2 mm diameter and 3 mm high with Panavia SA Plus or Variolink N. Then, the specimens were stored in $37^{\circ}C$ distilled water for 24 hours and shear bond strength test was applied at a speed of 1 mm/min. RESULTS. The highest shear bond strength values were observed in the samples fluorinated for 5 minutes and cemented with Panavia SA Plus. Variolink N did not elicit any statistical differences between surface treatments. Panavia SA Plus resin cement and Variolink N resin cements featured statistically significant difference in shear bond strength values only in the case of 5 minutes of fluorination treatment. CONCLUSION. According to the results of this study, application of 5 minutes of fluorination with 10-methacryloyloxydecyl dihydrogen phosphate monomer (MDP) containing Panavia SA Plus resin cement increased the resin bond strength of zirconia. Fluorination of the zirconia surface using conventional resin cement, Variolink N, did not lead to an increase in bond strength.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2004

Multileaf collimator (MLC) is now rapidly replacing the lead ahoy block to shape the radiation treatment field. In addition to its defect of rectangular field shaping and increased penumbra width, it has another possible problem, and that is of radiation transmission between leaves, which needs to be maintained at as low a level as is permissible. The authors measured and analyzed the inter-leaf and cross-leaf transmissions of MLC by Varian Associates Inc, before its clinical application. The inter-leaf and cross-leaf transmissions were calculated by comparing the measured point doses in the polystyrene phantom in the open field and in a total closure of MLC. The beam profile of the inter-leaf and cross-leaf transmissions were depicted by using a water phantom. A photon beam of 6 MV was used in the measurement. The inter-leaf transmission was 1.63∼1.67%, indicating that the shielding effect of MLC is excellent. However, the cross-leaf transmission in the central area was 18.4∼18.7% and this is well over the clinically acceptable limitation of 5%. The beam profile of cross-leaf transmission displayed 80∼90% transmission near the field edge, so that the cross-leaf transmission was 14∼17% in this area. The multileaf collimator has an excellent shi디ding effect and the inter-leaf transmission is negligible so that it can be used in clinic as a good replacement of the conventional lead alloy block. However, care must be taken to avoid the cross-leaf transmission in the radiation field.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.137-145
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• 2000

Carcinogenesis is a multi-stage process that generally consists of at least three steps; initiation, promotion, and progression. If one of these carcinogenic steps were suppressed or delayed, the cancer could be prevented. Cancer chemoprevention is defined to be inhibition or reversal of the carcinogenic process by the specific chemical agents and is a novel approach to cancer management alternative to conventional chemotherapy. Chlorophylln(CHL), a water-soluble derivative of chlorophyll, containing sodium and copper, has been known to be strong antimutagen in several test systems, but its mechanism of antimutagenic action is unknown. In the present experiment, the possibility of CHL as chemopreventive drugs on 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene(DMBA)-induced hamster buccal pouch carcinogenesis was investigated by mutagenicity test, carcinogenicity test, and frequency or spectrum of H-ras mutations in the both of DMBA-induced and chlorophylln-pretreated-DMBA induced tumor by polymerase chain reaction and non-isotopic restriction fragment length polymorphism. The treatment of CHL reduced the yields and multiplicity of the 0.5% DMBA-induced tumor, 86% to 62.5% and $3.7{\pm}0.6$ to $1.4{\pm}0.3$, respectively. The occurrence of histidine revertant by $20{\mu}mole$ DMBA was inhibited 25.6 to 81.7% by 1 to $5{\mu}M$ CHL in a dose-dependent manner. The mutation rates of H-ras gene in DMBA-induced and CHL-pretreated-DMBA induced tumor were 96%, 94% of which the most mutations were in codon 12/13. These results suggest that CHL inhibits the carcinogenic action of DMBA by the formation of complex between CHL and DMBA or the inhibition of the activation of DMBA in vivo. But CHL did not affect the mutation rates or its spectrum in already formed tumor.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제23권12호
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• pp.1708-1716
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• 2013

Conventional molecular detection methods cannot distinguish between viable and dead Escherichia coli O157 cells. In this study, the loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method combined with propidium monoazide (PMA) treatment was developed to selectively detect viable E. coli O157 cells. Four primers, including outer primers and inner primers, were specially designed for the recognition of six distinct sequences on the serogroups (O157) of the specific rfbE gene of the E. coli O157 genome. PMA selectively penetrated through the compromised cell membranes and intercalated into DNA. Amplification of DNA from dead cells was completely inhibited by $3.0{\mu}g/ml$ PMA, whereas the DNA derived from viable cells was amplified remarkably within 1 h by PMA-LAMP. Exhibiting high sensitivity and specificity, PMA-LAMP is a suitable method for evaluating the inactivation efficacy of slightly acidic electrolyzed water in broth. PMA-LAMP can selectively detect viable E. coli O157 cells. This study offers a novel molecular detection method to distinguish between viable and dead E. coli O157 cells.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.46-54
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• 1996

This study was carried out to investigate the vacuum drying characteristics of 50mm- and 75mm- thick tree disks of some domestic softwoods for substituting the conventional hardwoods as the materials for wood crafts. Though the elapsed drying times from green to in-use moisture content(MC) were largely shortened by vacuum drying, the tree disks treated by EWS couldn't be dried to in-use MC, and so sapwood stains also were occurred severely. We suggest EWS treatment is undesirable for the species with very high sapwood portion or vacuum drying with hot water circulation heating system. Heart checks were slight, but sapwood checks, which have never been trouble in drying process of tree disks, were severe. For the reasonable explanation it is suggested MC differences between sapwood and heartwood were large and most of tree disks had already no barks before drying test. Ginkgo was vacuum-dried with very slight drying defects such as heart checks, sapwood checks. V-cracks and sapwood stains. In Korean red pine and pitch pine V-cracks were severely occurred. And it was found the special feature that most of these defected tree disks contained several V-cracks within one tree disk. It can be considered as the causes that the region of sapwood was defected by the several checks at the early drying stage because of the steep MC gradient along the radial direction, and then at the later drying stage the drying stresses due to differential shrinkage were concentrated on these brittle spots.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 2012년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.88.1-88.1
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• 2012

Silicon nanowires (SiNWs), due to their unusual quantum-confinement effects that lead to superior electrical and optical properties compared to those of the bulk silicon, have been widely researched as a potential building block in a variety of novel electronic devices. The conventional means for the synthesis of SiNWs has been the vapor-liquid-solid method using chemical vapor deposition; however, this method is time consuming, environmentally unfriendly, and do not support vertical growth. As an alternate, the electroless etching method has been proposed, which uses metal catalysts contained in aqueous hydrofluoric acids (HF) for vertically etching the bulk silicon substrate. This new method can support large-area growth in a short time, and vertically aligned SiNWs with high aspect ratio can be readily synthesized with excellent reproducibility. Nonetheless, there still are rooms for improvement such as the poor surface characteristics that lead to degradation in electrical performance, and non-uniformity of the diameter and shapes of the synthesized SiNWs. Here, we report a facile method of SiNWs synthesis having uniform sizes, diameters, and shapes, which may be other than just cylindrical shapes using a modified nanosphere lithography technique. The diameters of the polystyrene nanospheres can be adjustable through varying the time of O2 plasma treatment, which serve as a mask template for metal deposition on a silicon substrate. After the removal of the nanospheres, SiNWs having the exact same shape as the mask are synthesized using wet etching technique in a solution of HF, hydrogen peroxide, and deionized water. Different electrical and optical characteristics were obtained according to the shapes and sizes of the SiNWs, which implies that they can serve specific purposes according to their types.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.480-485
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• 1987

취반방법이 즉석쌀밥의 품질에 미치는 영향을 조사하기 위하여 상압취반, 가압취반, 열탕침지후 가압취반등 세가지 취반방법으로 즉석쌀밥을 제조하였다. 취반방법별 건조양상은 거의 차이가 없었으며 $95^{\circ}C$에서 열탕침지한 다음 가압취반하는 방법이 다른 취반방법보다 건조시간이 많이 소요되었다. $90^{\circ}C$에서 건조시작 후 20분이 경과된 다음부터는 감률건조기가 지속되었으며 2시간후 건조가 완결되었다. 즉석쌀밥의 복원속도는 $95^{\circ}C$에서 10분간 열탕침지하여 제조한 것이 가장 빨랐으며 열탕을 부어 실온에서 복원할 경우 7.5분후에 평형수분함량에 도달하였다. 즉석쌀밥의 관능적 품질특성 및 텍스쳐는 가압취반 또는 열탕침지후 가압취반하여 제조한 것이 일반쌀밥에 비하여 견고성이 낮고 끈기가 높았으며 상압에서 전기밥솥에 의하여 취반하여 제조한 것은 견고성이 높고 끈기가 낮았다. 한편 취반방법에 따른 미세구조의 차이를 형성된 air cell의 모양으로 판단할 수 있었다.

• 유기물자원화
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.57-63
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 돈분을 이용한 열분해공정(pyrolysis)에 의한 바이오오일의 특성을 분석하여 보고하였다. 기본적으로 bio-oil 생산을 위한 pilot auger형 반응기는 $400^{\circ}C{\sim}600^{\circ}C$의 고온을 유지하였다. 바이오오일의 특성은 수질분석, 열량가, 원소분석, GC/MS를 이용한 마이오일의 원소, $^1H$ NMR분광기에 의한 functional group 구명 등을 포함한다. 돈분시료를 이용한 바이오오일 생산량은 pilot auger 반응기의 온도가 $550^{\circ}C$일 때 바이오일 생산율은 질량의 21%로서 최대를 나타내었다. 이 결과는 본 연구에서 연속 auger형 반응기의 이송이 편리하고 bio-oil 생산량이 적지 않아 대체 축분처리기술의 하나로 검토할 수 있음을 보였다. 그러나 auger 반응기의 원료로의 열전도가 유동상 반응조보다 낮아서 향후 이를 개선하기 위한 연구가 성공적으로 수행되면 바이오오일 생산량을 제고시킬 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제51권5호
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• pp.597-601
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• 2013

본 연구는 액적기반 미세유체 장치를 이용하여 단분산성 마이크로캡슐의 간단한 제조방법에 관한 것이다. 본 연구에서 제시한 제조 방법은 이중액적을 생성시키기 위해 기존의 복잡한 표면처리가 필요한 이중 유화과정을 대신하여 하나의 교차점을 가진 단일공정을 사용하고자 한다. 먼저, 분산상은 광중합이 가능한 ethoxylated trimethylolpropane triacrylate (ETPTA) 단량체와 fluorocarbon (FC-77) 오일을 사용하고 연속상은 poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) 수용액을 사용하였으며, 미세유체 채널 내부로 흘려 주면 하나의 교차점에 흐름이 집중되어 균일한 이중액적을 생성한다. 생성된 이중액적은 광중합을 통해 마이크로캡슐을 제조한다. 상기 방법은 ETPTA 유체의 부피유속을 조절하여 이중액적의 껍질두께 제어가 가능하고 연속상인 물의 부피유속을 조절하여 전체 직경을 제어할 수 있다. 더 나아가, 본 시스템을 사용하여 다양한 물질들을 함입한 마이크로캡슐을 제작할 수 있으며, 약물전달시스템의 응용 기술에 활용될 것으로 예측된다.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.263-276
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• 2015

This paper deals with the influence of chemical oxygen demand to nitrogen ratio ((COD/N) ratio) on the performance of an membrane bioreactor. We aim at establishing relations between COD/N ratio, organisms' distribution and sludge properties (specific resistance to filtration (SRF) and membrane fouling). It is also essential to define new criteria to characterize the autotrophic microorganisms, as the measurements of apparent removal rates of ammonium seem irrelevant to characterize their specific activity. Two experiments (A and B) have been carried on a 30 L lab scale membrane bioreactor with low COD/N ratio (2.3 and 1.5). The obtained results clearly indicate the role of the COD/N ratio on the biomass distribution and performance of the membrane bioreactor. New specific criteria for characterising the autotrophic microorganisms activity, is also defined as the ratio of maximum ammonium rate to the specific oxygen uptake rate in the endogenous state for autotrophic bacteria which seem to be constant whatever the operating conditions are. They are about 24.5 to 23.8 $gN-NH_4{^+}/gO_2$, for run A and B, respectively. Moreover, the filterability of the biological suspension appear significantly lower, specific resistance to filtration and membrane fouling rate are less than $10^{14}m^{-2}$ and $0.07\;10^{12}m^{-1}.d^{-1}$ respectively, than in conventional MBR confirming the adv < antage of the membrane bioreactor functioning under low COD/N ratio.