• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.1304-1309
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• 2005

The production of therapeutic proteins for human diseases in plants results in many economic benefits, including reduced risk of animal virus contamination, high yields, and reduced production and storage costs. Human cytokines, interleukin-11 (hlL-11) and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (hGM-CSF), cDNAs were introduced into rice or tobacco, using either the maize ubiquitin promoter or the 35S promoter. The primary hIL-11 transgenic rice plants exhibited stunted growth and a sterile phenotype, whereas the hIL-11 transgenic tobacco plants did not. This suggests that hIL-11 expression in rice disrupts the normal growth and development of the plant. The regeneration efficiency of rice calli transformed with hGM-CSF was found to be approximately a quarter of that seen with the hIL-11, suggesting that hGM-CSF expression is more deleterious to the regeneration of rice calli than is hIL-11. However, the surviving hGM-CSF transgenic rice plants exhibited a normal phenotype of growth. Therefore, it appears that only those transgenic rice lines that expressed the human cytokines in small quantities were able to survive the selection process.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.1041-1046
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• 2010

Phytoextraction is a technique which uses plants to clean up metal-contaminated soils. Recently, various chelating agents were introduced into this technique to increase the bioavailability of metals in soils. Even though the technique is an economic and environment-friendly method, this cannot be applied in highly metal-contaminated areas because plants will not normally grow in such conditions. Therefore, this research focuses on identifying chelating agents which are biodegradable and applicable to highly metal-contaminated areas. Alunimum (Al) as a target metal and cysteine (Cys), histidine (His), citrate, malate, oxalate, succinate, and ethylenediamine (EDA) as biodegradable chelating agents were selected. Ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) was used as a comparative standard. Plants were grown on agar media containing various chelating agents with Al to analyze the effect on plant growth. His slightly diminished the inhibitory effect of Al on root growth of plants, whereas, Cys, citrate, malate, oxalate, and succinate did not show significant effects. Both EDTA and EDA strongly diminished the inhibitory effect of Al on root growth. The effect of EDA is correlated with decreased Al uptake into the plants. In conclusion, as a biodegradable chelating agent, EDA is a good candidate for highly Al-contaminated areas.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.8-13
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• 1999

The article 49-2 of Industrial Safety Law requires that all the owners of industrial plants which contains dangerous facilities perform the process safety management. That is, this law requires the owners of industrial plants to take necessary measures to prevent fire, harmful gas leaking, explosion, and other serious accidents that could cause demage and injuries to the employees. So far, domestic chemical plants have tried to invest money and time in safety management. But, such efforts have been made only in chemical plants that were subsidiaries of large business groups. Moreover, since the economic crisis of Korea which is symbolized by the IMF bailout, small and medium size companies could not afford to invest in safety management. Their major concern is to increase productivity and thereby, survive in this crisis. The goal of this research is to develop the process safety management system that can help small and medium size companies to positively secure the process safety management. So, in developing the process safety management system, the financial and practical difficulties of such companies are fully taken into consideration.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.356-358
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• 2007

There are some kinds of greenfield in city. Greenfield is very important about cleaning air pollution. A green field is consist of street-trees, parks, river etc. Plants of greenfield normally take in carbon dioxide and exchange it for oxygen and water vapor; it now appears that plants can also take in other, more dangerous gases, through the tiny openings, or stomates, on their leaves. It is calculated the quantity of taking $CO_{2}$, and emission of $O_{2}$ and We analyse the economic effect about that in this paper.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.1385-1394
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• 2014

Metcalfa pruinosa was considered to be a very harmful invasive species, due to its high species density in nature and wide range of its host plants. M. pruinosa was distributed in 28 sites among 143 sites. M. pruinosa has wide range and diverse host plants of 52 families 110 species including crop, fruits and forest trees. At present, the identified host plant of M. pruinosa are composed of 62 families and 145 species in total since their first appearance was reported. M. pruinosa was found in roadside 46.7%, followed by forests 33.3% and orchard 20%. Nymphs and adults cause damage to crop and orchard by sucking juice, outbreak of fungi through secretion of wax, and reduction of plant assimilation due to the nectar of nymphs. Also, it reduces the merchantable quality of fruits and thus causes economic damage. It is judged that M. pruinosa has been moved along major road via the traffic vehicles.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.11b
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• pp.237-239
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• 2007

This paper focuses on maintenance scheduling using PSO algorithm for power plants from an economic (operating cost) and reliable(variance of operating reserve margin) point of view. We also apply regional reserve margin and transfer capability to maintenance scheduling problem. The proposed method has been applied to IEEE-RTS(1996) with 32-generators and a real -world large scale power system with 291 generators.

• Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.273-276
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• 2002

Rehmannia glutinosa is one of the most important medicinal crops in Korea. However, various plant pathogens including Fusarium sp. cause great damages and cause enormous economic losses. Therefore, this study was conducted to select Fusarium resistant plants by using mutagen-treated Rehmannia glutinosa. The plant material used was a native accession of Rehmannia glutinosa. As a result, among the Rehmannia glutinosa treated with various concentrations of EMS, R. glutinosa treated with 0. 03M EMS showed higher resistance against infection of F. oxysporum in pot tests, and Rehmannia glutinosa plants treated with 0.12M EMS showed higher resistance against infection of F. oxysporum in field tests.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.6-16
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• 1992

Since world-wide oil shock on 1970s, many large size-low speed diesel engines, instead of steam turbines, are used for the industrial electric power generating plants due to their economic advantage of low specific fuel consumption. But it is very important to control their electric power fluctuation problems for the purpose of smooth parallel operation with existing power plants. In this paper the fluctuation problem of KEPCO Nam-cheju No.1 generator driven by diesel ngine(B & W 7K 60MC, 13931x138.5RPM) is investigated with analysis of torsional vibration of which 4th harmonic component is related to its power fluctuation. The problem can be improved by modification of cylinder arrangement and flywheel position in reverse sequence, equalizing the combustion gas pressure of all cylinder and installation of torsional vibration damper enlarged 30%(Je=7287Kg.m$^{2}$) and high quality balancing of generator rotor.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.430-433
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• 2003

Air-operated valve is one of principal valves that are using to control fluid flow. A period diagnosis for safety of power plants is necessary. But there are many difficulties such as economic loss caused by intone of high cost devices and a matter hard to deal with users. In this study we developed the diagnosis system that usersofpower plants are easy to handle. The diagnosis system is composed of database module, reliability analysis module, design safety nodule and diagnosis test and evaluation module.

• Korean Journal Plant Pathology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.120-131
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• 1995

이 연구는 우리나라의 유용 자원식물에 발생하는 진균성 미기록 병해에 대한 두 번째 보고이다. 10가지 병해에 대한 각각의 병징, 병 발생환경, 병원균, 그리고 몇 가지 병리학적 소견을 기록하였다. 동자꽃 갈색 무늬병은 장마철부터 발생하여 심한 잎마름을 일으켰으며, 병원균은 Septoria lychnidis로 동정되었다. 산박하 모무늬병은 장마철에 심하게 발생하고 작은 모무늬가 합쳐져 잎의 한쪽이 검게 고사하였는데, 병원균은 Septoria plectranthi로 동정되었다. 좀명아주 갈색 무늬병은 여름부터 가을까지 흔히 발생하여 조기낙엽을 일으켰으며, 병원균은 Cercospora dubia로 동정되었다. 나팔꽃 점무늬병은 장마철부터 가을까지 흔히 발생하여 관상가치를 떨어뜨렸는데, 병원균은 Cercospora ipomoeae로 동정되었다. 돌콩 점무늬병은 장마철부터 가을까지 계속 발생하여 생육을 크게 저해하였는데, 병원균은 Pseudocercospora ligustri로 동정되었다. 박주가리 뒷면곰팡이병은 여름부터 가을까지 흔히 발생하여 조기낙엽과 황화를 일으켰는데, 병원균은 Passalora miurae로 동정되었다. 고려엉겅퀴 흰가루병은 여름부터 발생하여 묵나물의 수향과 품질에 피해를 주었는데, 병원균은 Sphaerotheca fusca로 동정되었다. 왜당나귀흰가루병은 국지적으로 발생하여 생육을 저해하고 어린 묘는 고사시켰는데, 병원균은 Erysiphe heraclei로 동정되었다. 가래나무 점무늬병은 장마철에서 가을까지 발생하여 잎마름을 유발하였는데, 병원균은 Sphaerulina juglandis로 동정되었다.