• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.113-118
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• 2002

Alpha-lipoic acid is a known hypoglycemic agent that may be useful in the treatment of diabetes. The objective of this study was to investigate the fate of glucose in isolated muscles incubated with lipoic acid by determining its direct effects on specific metabolic and signaling pathways. Soleus muscles from healthy rats were incubated with lipoic acid in the absence or presence of insulin. Glucose transport, glycogen synthesis, glucose oxidation and lipid synthesis were determined and affects on major pathways associated with insulin signaling were evaluated. Glucose transport was not significantly altered by the addition of lipoic acid to the incubation medium. However, lipoic acid decreased glycogen synthesis in comparison to controls. Glucose oxidation was moderately increased while de-novo lipid synthesis from glucose was inhibited. Wortmannin repressed insulin stimulation of glucose incorporation into glycogen, an effect that was augmented by the combined treatment of wortmannin and lipoic acid. Basal and insulin-stimulated serine phosphorylation of Akt was not changed by the addition of lipoic acid to the incubation medium. These data show that in this in vitro model, lipoic acid did not significantly affect glucose uptake but dramatically modified pathways of glucose metabolism within muscle tissue.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.141-148
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• 1998

This study describes the effects of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3[1,25(OH)2D3, calcitriol] analog, 1,25(OH)2-16ene-23yne-D3 on proliferatin and differentiatin of the human histiocytic lymphoma cell line U937. This paper also describes the effects of 1,25(OH)2-16ene-23yne-D3 on ${\gamma}$-interferon(IFN-${\gamma}$) synthesis by phytohemagglutinin-activated peripheral blood lymphocytes(PBLs). In the present investigation, 1,25(OH2)-16ene-23yne-D3 was compared to the natural metablite of vitamin D3, 1,25(OH)2D3. 1,25(OH)2-16ene-23yne-D3 was more potent than 1,25(OH)2D3 for inhibition of proliferation and induction of differentiation of U937 cells, Its effects on inhibition of proliferation was about 30-fold more potent than 1,25(OH)2D3. On induction of differentiation as measured by nonspecific esterase (NSE) activity and morphologic change, this analog morphologically and functionally differentiated U937 cells to monocyte-macrophage phenotype showing a decrease of N/C ration in Giemsa staining and the increase of adherence ability of surface. After 3 days in culture, a more significant supression of IFN-${\gamma}$ synthesis analog on supression of IFN-${\gamma}$ synthesis was a dose-dependent manner, with peak activity at 10-7M. The strong direct effects of 1,25(OH)2-16ene-23yne-D3 on cell proliferation and cell differentiation, make this compound an interesting candidate for clinical studies for several types of malignancies, and the effects on supression of IFN-${\gamma}$ synthesis provide the further evidence for a role of 1,25(OH)2-16ene-23yne-D3 in immunoregulation.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 2009년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.24.1-24.1
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• 2009

The zinc oxide (ZnO) material as the II-VI compound semiconductor is useful in various fields of device applications such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs), solar cells and gas sensors due to its wide direct band gap of 3.37eV and high exciton binding energy of 60meV at room temperature. In this study, the ZnO nanorods were deposited onto homogenous buffer layer/Si(100) substrates by a hydrothermal synthesis. The Effects of the buffer layer annealing and post annealing temperature on the structural and optical properties of ZnO nanorods grown by a hydrothermal synthesis were investigated. For the buffer layer annealing case, the annealed buffer layer surface became rougher with increasing of annealing temperature up to $750^{\circ}C$, while it was smoothed with more increasing of annealing temperature due to the evaporation of buffer layer. It was found that the roughest surface of buffer layer improved the structural and optical properties of ZnO nanorods. For the post annealing case, the hydrothermally grown ZnO nanorods were annealed with various temperatures ranging from 450 to $900^{\circ}C$. Similarly in the buffer layer annealing case, the post annealing enhanced the properties of ZnO nanorods with increasing of annealing temperature up to $750^{\circ}C$. However, it was degraded with further increasing of annealing temperature due to the violent movement of atoms and evaporation. Finally, the buffer layer annealing and post annealing treatment could efficiently improve the properties of hydrothermally grown ZnO nanorods. The morphology and structural properties of ZnO nanorods grown by the hydrothermal synthesis were measured by atomic force microscopy (AFM), field emission scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and x-ray diffraction (XRD). The optical properties were also analyzed by photoluminescence (PL) measurement.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.417-420
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• 2012

본 연구는 Pd/$SiO_2$ 촉매를 이용하여 2,4-dinitrotoluene(2,4-DNT)을 2,4-toluene diisocyanate(2,4-TDI)로 환원시키는 반응에 관한 연구이다. 반응 조건은 $200^{\circ}C$에서, 일산화탄소를 주입하여 100 bar에서 실험을 진행하였으며, 피리딘이 TDI의 수율에 미치는 영향에 대해 연구 하였다. 반응 실험 결과 피리딘을 넣지 않은 경우 TDI는 생성되지 않았고, 피리딘을 첨가하면 TDI가 생성되었다. 직접 카보닐화를 이용한 균질계상에서의 TDI 합성 연구 결과에 의하면 팔라듐과 피리딘의 착이온이 형성되어 촉매작용을 하는 것으로 알려져 있다. 피리딘을 첨가하였을 경우 TDI가 합성되는 것이 팔라듐 용출에 의한 것인지 확인하기 위해 ICP-AES 분석을 시행하였다. 20 vol% 피리딘을 첨가한 반응에서 반응 후 촉매의 팔라듐 함량이 반응 전에 비해 52% 감소하였다. 이러한 결과는 피리딘을 첨가한 반응실험에서 용출된 팔라듐이 피리딘과 착이온을 형성하는 과정을 거쳐 TDI가 생성되는 것으로 설명될 수 있다.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.86-96
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• 2001

The objective of this research is to develop a robust design methodology for plastic injection molded parts wherein warpage will be minimized by a complex method which is a kind of a simple direct search method. The design space considered for optimization is divided Into two sub-design space : mold and process conditions. Warpage is quantified using the Moldflow injection molding simulation software. The design methodology was applied to an actual part of a fax machine, the Guide-ASF model, through two different design policies. The significance of this study is the synthesis of a computer simulation of injection molding process and optimization technique to determine the optimal robust design solution.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제28권10호
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• pp.757-766
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• 1991

These powder properties were investigated and prepared of ultrafine Mn-Zn ferrite powder by Direct-wet process from variation of oxidation condition. H2O2 oxidation the products were ultrafine spherical particles of about 400${\AA}$ in diameter and superparamagnetics. H2O2 and Air oxidation, Coexistance ultrafine spherical particles of about 400${\AA}$ and cubic particles of about 1000${\AA}$. The products were constructed of superparamagnetic and ferromagnetic particles, and Magnetization were about 30 emu/g. Air Oxidation, Above 6 hr Air 120 ι/hr and 4 hr of Air 180 ι/hr were uniform cubic particles of above 1000${\AA}$. The products were ferromagnetic particles and Magnetization of above 45 emu/g.

• Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.69-81
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• 1988

We studied on the synthesis of chloromethylated polystyrene as a precursor of optically active polymers for direct resolution of optical isomers. Changing the degree of crosslinking and the kind of crosslinking agents, several polystyrene resin matrices were synthesized. The matrices were chloromethylated with methylal and chlorosulfonic acid as chloromethylating agents. The effects of solvents of various dielectric constants on the chloromethylation were quantitavely examined. We also synthesized chloromethylated polystyrene of macroreticular type that retained large surface area and good physical stability. The differences between the macroreticular type and macroporous type were investigated.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 1995년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.71-73
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• 1995

In this work, we synthsized GaN powders by the direct reactions of Ga with NH$_3$at the temperature range of 950∼1150$^{\circ}C$ and we growth the GaN thin films on Si and sapphire substrates using the synthesized GaN powders by the vapor phase epitaxy method. The synthesized powder had hexagonal crystal structures with lattice constants of a$\sub$0/=3.1895${\AA}$, c$\sub$0/=5.18394${\AA}$. The reaction rates of GaN were increased with both reaction time and temperature, however it did not depends on the flow rates of NH$_3$. The island type GaN crystals were grown on (0001) sapphire substrates and fast lateral growth of GaN on (111) Si substrate than sapphire was observed in our experiments.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.724-727
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• 1999

In this paper, the direct and indirect neural adaptive controller are combined based on the Lyapunov synthesis approach. The proposed adaptive controller is constructed from RBF neural network and a set of fuzzy IF-THEN rules. And the weighting parameters are adjusted on-line according to some adaptation law for the purpose of controlling the plant to track a given trajectory. In this scheme, fuzzy IF-THEN rules are used to decide the combined weighting factor. It is shown that all the signals in the closed-loop system are uniformly bounded under mild assumptions. The effectiveness of the proposed control scheme is demonstrated through the control of one-link rigid robotics manipulator.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.45-51
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• 1986

$SrTiO_3$ reaction mechanism formed from $TiCl_4$ and $SrCl_2$ solution by direct-wet-process was studied. Through this study it is identified that crystalline $SrTiO_3$ is formed above pH 13.8 amorphous $SrTiO_3$ above pH7 and crystallization temperature of amorphous $SrTiO_3$ is at 37$0^{\circ}C$. the final products are composed of 60% crystalline $SrTiO_3$ and 40% amorphous $SrTiO_3$ The amorphous $SrTiO_3$ is identified with the IR absorption spectrum of Sr-Ti-O by FT-IR spectrometer. Under pH 7 gelationus metatitanate (H2TiO3) is formed from TiCl4 but above pH7 the activity by the formation of metatitnic acid ion $[TiO_3]^{2-}$ is so high that $SrTiO_3$is formed more easily through the reaction with $Sr^{2+}$.