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Physicochemical Properties of the Durian Seed Starch (Durian 종자 전분의 이화학적 특성)

  • Lee, Seong-Gap;Kim, Hyeong-Su;Son, Jong-Youn
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.1410-1414
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    • 1999
  • The granular size and shape of durian seed starch were $2.0-10.0\;{\mu}m$ and oval and polygonal. Amylose contents of durian seed, corn, sweet potato and potato starch were 28.3%, 27.5%, 20.3% and 21.7%, respectively. Blue value of durian seed (0.370) higher than that of corn (0.368), sweet potato (0.332), and potato starch (0.338). Alkali numbers of durian seed, corn, sweet potato and potato starch were 7.39, 9.02, 7.08 and 5.43, respectively. Swelling power of durian seed starch was similar to that of sweet potato starch. X-ray diffraction patterns of durian seed starch showed an A-type crystalline structure. According to pasting properties by Rapid Visco-Analyzer, the gelatinization temperature of durian seed starch $(76.6^{circ}C)$ was higher than that of corn $(73.0^{circ}C)$, sweet potato $(72.3^{circ}C)$ and potato starch $(70.2^{circ}C)$. The breakdown of durian seed starch were lower than that of corn, sweet potato and potato starch.

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Technical Treatment on Foreign Invasive Marine Species of Living-things in ship′s Ballast-water (선박안정수의 해양외래침입생물체 처리 기술)

  • 소대화;장지도
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.7 no.7
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    • pp.1563-1568
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    • 2003
  • The introduction of invasive marine species of living things into new environments by ship's ballast water, attached to ships' hulls and via other vectors has been identified as one of the four greatest threats to the world's oceans by Global Environment Facility(GEF). Making use of the new technology of alpha-AL$_2$O$_3$ dielectric barrier layer, the strong electric-field gas discharge was introduced and obtained between micro-gap electrodes at high pressure (∼105㎩) of $O_2$ in air and $H_2O$ in seawater. The mixed air with $H_2O$ could be ionized and dissociated into large numbers of activated particles of OH, $O_2$+, O(1D), HO$_2$ and so on, and then dissolved into the ballast water to form dissolved hydroxyl radical with the concentration of ∼20mg/L. Therefore, the invasive marine species was treated effectively through the hydroxyl radical dissolved pipeline of ballast water by strong electric -field discharge.

Microarray Analysis of Oxygen-Glucose-Deprivation Induced Gene Expression in Cultured Astrocytes

  • Joo, Dae-Hyun;Han, Hyung-Soo;Park, Jae-Sik
    • The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.263-271
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    • 2006
  • Since astrocytes were shown to play a central role in maintaining neuronal viability both under normal conditions and during stress such as ischemia, studies of the astrocytic response to stress are essential to understand many types of brain pathology. The micro array system permitted screening of large numbers of genes in biological or pathological processes. Therefore, the gene expression patterns in the in vitro model of astrocytes following exposure to oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD) were evaluated by using the micro array analysis. Primary astrocytic cultures were prepared from postnatal Swiss Webster mice. The cells were exposed to OGD for 4 hrs at $37^{\circ}C$ prior to cell harvesting. From the cultured cells, we isolated mRNA, synthesized cDNA, converted to biotinylated cRNA and then reacted with GeneChips. The data were normalized and analyzed using dChip and GenMAPP tools. After 4 hrs exposure to OGD, 4 genes were increased more than 2 folds and 51 genes were decreased more than 2 folds compared with the control condition. The data suggest that the OGD has general suppressive effect on the gene expression with the exception of some genes which are related with ischemic cell death directly or indirectly. These genes are mainly involved in apoptotic and protein translation pathways and gap junction component. These results suggest that microarray analysis of gene expression may be useful for screening novel molecular mediators of astrocyte response to ischemic injury and making profound understanding of the cellular mechanisms as a whole. Such a screening technique should provide insights into the molecular basis of brain disorders and help to identify potential targets for therapy.

Investigation of Labeling Status and Toxicity Data of Environmentally Hazardous Substances in Children's Products (어린이용품의 환경유해인자 표시 현황과 독성자료에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Jiyun;Kim, Jihyo;Moon, Myunghee;Lee, Kiyoung;Ji, Kyunghee
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.45 no.5
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    • pp.443-456
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    • 2019
  • Objectives: Children are exposed to various environmental pollutants through contact with children's products. We investigated the KC mark, certification number, and contained substances labeled on children's products through market research and collected the toxicological data on these substances. Methods: The environmentally hazardous substances labeled on children's products (n=6576), including toys (n=2812), personal care products (n=2212), stationary/books (n=1333), and playground equipment (n=219) were examined. For the components that could be identified by CAS number, toxicological data on oral, inhalation, and dermal routes, cancer slope factor, and reference dose were collected. Results: Among the investigated products, KC marks or certification numbers were found for 4557 products (69.3%). Except for cosmetics and cleansers, the material information was labeled on most of the products. The frequency of labeling substance information in toys and stationary/books was low since this information could be omitted if KC certification was obtained. In the target products, 617 substances were identified by CAS number, and polypropylene, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, and polyester were the most frequently displayed. Chronic toxicity data was found for only 32.4% of individual components, and information on toxicity through the dermal route was also highly limited. Conclusion: Our study suggested that labeling guidelines should be required to identify the environmentally hazardous substances contained in children's products. In addition, the toxicological data on many ingredients in children's products were insufficient. The data gap for toxicity data should be filled for future risk assessment.

A Study on the Analysis of Electromagnetic Characteristics and Design of a Cylindrical Photonic Crystal Waveguide with a Low-Index Core (중심-동공을 갖는 원통형태 광결정 도파로의 전자장 특성 분석 및 설계 연구)

  • Kim, Jeong I.
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.29-34
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    • 2021
  • In this paper, a cylindrical photonic crystal waveguide with a low-index core is first proposed. The core can be filled with air, liquid, or arbitrary dielectric materials. Exact analyses for the electromagnetic field characteristics of guided modes, by using appropriate Bessel functions and applying the boundary conditions, are performed to find out the guiding characteristics of the proposed waveguide. For verification and usage in design and manufacturing process, the computer-calculation of the waveguide transmission characteristics is also performed by applying the rigorous full-vectorial finite difference method. Providing variations of the effective area for the fundamental mode of the designed waveguide with different numbers of cladding layers, ranging from 2.6056 ㎛2 to 5.9673 ㎛2 over the operation wavelength, generally as the core refractive index n1 is higher, the mode area becomes smaller and the result leads to more optimistic effect for nonlinear device applications.

Comparison of resource allocation criteria and status of 119 emergency medical services in South Korea and Japan: exploring optimal resource allocation strategies for regional EMS (한국과 일본의 119구급자원 배치 기준 및 현황 비교: 지역별 119구급자원의 적정 배치 방안 모색을 중심으로)

  • Hyeji Kwon;Hyungsub Kim;Youngjeon Shin
    • The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.91-111
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    • 2023
  • Purpose: This study aims to compare 119 emergency medical services (EMS) in South Korea and Japan to provide essential data for EMS improvement in South Korea. Methods: Recent data and regulations on firefighting and EMS in South Korea and Japan were analyzed and compared. Results: South Korea follows a centralized approach to EMS, whereas Japan operates with autonomous bodies that establish their own criteria. Japan considers more regional variables than South Korea. In South Korea, there are shortages in fire station deployment among the 119 emergency medical resources in certain regions, leading to significant regional disparities. South Korea has a larger population served by its 119 emergency medical resources with a higher workload and dispatch numbers than Japan. The percentage of non-transported patients among the total number of dispatches was higher in South Korea. Conclusion: Increasing the number of medical professionals and ambulances per population to the level of Japan to reflect local conditions and include various underlying variables such as daytime population, aging, and emergency dispatch conditions in the deployment of 119 emergency resources, and to reduce the deployment gap between regions, will contribute to improving the performance of the South Korea EMS system.

Residual Characteristics of Lufenuron in Crown Daisy and Chamnamul for Establishing Pre-Harvest Residue Limit (쑥갓 및 참나물 중 Lufenuron의 생산단계 잔류허용기준 설정을 위한 잔류 특성 연구)

  • A-Yeon Oh;Sun-Woo Ban;Hee-Ra Chang
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.21-27
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    • 2023
  • Pre-harvest residue limits (PHRLs) have been proposed as criteria for a proactive role to exceed the maximum residue limit (MRL) of pesticides in agricultural products at harvest. However, PHRL numbers are significantly less than those of established MRLs. This study was performed to determine the dissipation constants and residual concentrations of lufenuron after application on crown daisy and chamnamul under green house conditions. Two residue field trials for each crown daisy and chamnamul were selected to consider a different geographical site at least 20 km far from one another. The pesticide was treated according to critical GAP. After samples were sprayed with lufenuron, they were collected at 0, 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, and 14 days and analyzed using HPLC-DAD. The mean recoveries of crown daisy and chamnamul were within the range of 70-120% with below 20% coefficient variation, which is within the acceptable limits specified by the manual of pre-harvest residue study for pesticides (MFDS, 2014). The biological half-lives in field I and field II were 7.0 and 4.6 days for crown daisy and 2.7 and 2.8 days for chamnamul, respectively. The lower bounds of 95% confidence intervals of dissipation rate constants of lufenuron in crown daisy were determined to be 0.0692 and 0.1298 for field I and field II, respectively, and in chamnamul were 0.2067 for both field I and field II. After applying lufenuron 5% EC, the lufenuron residues on crown daisy and chamnamul at the pre-harvest intervals (14 days for crown daisy and 7 days for chamnamul) were below the safe levels. The dissipation rates of lufenuron in crown daisy and chamnamul were evaluated for similarities with leafy vegetables based on a 95% confidence interval.

Galaxies in different dynamical halo state; GAMA observation

  • Raouf, Mojtaba;Smith, Rory;Khosroshahi, Habib G.;Dariush, Ali A.;Driver, Simon;Ko, Jongwan;Hwang, Ho Seong
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.37.3-37.3
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    • 2019
  • We study the stellar populations of the brightest group galaxies (BGGs) in groups whose halos have different dynamical states, using observational data from the GAMA survey. The two independent indicators to probe the dynamical state of the halo are the magnitude gap between two most luminous galaxies (∆M12) and offset between BGG and the luminosity center (Doffset) of the group. Such indicators complement each other in identifying relaxed and unrelaxed galaxy groups in our samples. We find that the BGGs of unrelaxed groups have significantly bluer NUV-r colours than in relaxed groups. This is also true at fixed sersic index. We find the bluer colours cannot be explained away by differing dust fraction, suggesting there are real differences in their stellar populations. SFRs derived from SED-fitting tend to be higher in unrelaxed systems. This could be partly because there is a greater fraction of BGGs with non-elliptical morphology, but also because unrelaxed systems are expected to have larger numbers of mergers, some of which may bring fuel for star formation. The SED-fitted stellar metallicities of BGGs in unrelaxed systems also tend to be higher, perhaps because the building blocks of the unrelaxed systems were more massive and had more time to enrich themselves. We find that the ∆M12 parameter is the most important parameter behind the observed differences in the relaxed/unrelaxed groups. We also find that groups selected to be unrelaxed using our criteria tend to have higher velocity offsets between the BGG and their group.

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On the Role of Intuitive Model for Teaching Operations of Integers in the Middle School Mathematics Class (중학교 수학 수업에서 정수의 사칙계산 지도를 위한 직관적 모델의 역할에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Ik-Pyo
    • Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.97-115
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    • 2008
  • In high school mathematics class, to subtract a number b from a, we add the additive inverse of b to a and to divide a number a by a non-zero number b, we multiply a by the multiplicative inverse of b, which is the formal approach for operations of real numbers. This article aims to give a connection between the intuitive models in middle school mathematics class and the formal approach in high school for teaching operations of negative integers. First, we highlight the teaching methods(Hwang et al, 2008), by which subtraction of integers is denoted by addition of integers. From this methods and activities applying the counting model, we give new teaching methods for the rule that the product of negative integers is positive. The teaching methods with horizontal mathematization(Treffers, 1986; Freudenthal, 1991) of operations of integers, which is based on consistently applying the intuitive model(number line model, counting model), will remove the gap, which is exist in both teachers and students of middle and high school mathematics class. The above discussion is based on students' cognition that the number system in middle and high school and abstracted number system in abstract algebra course is formed by a conceptual structure.

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Establishment of Disposing Method for Dairy Cow Manure by Vermiculture (지렁이를 이용한 젖소분뇨 처리에 관한 연구)

  • 나영은;한민수;이상범;김세근;박형만
    • The Korean Journal of Soil Zoology
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.125-131
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    • 2000
  • Disposing technique for dairy cattle manure using earthworms and the possibility of utilizing earthworms in poultry feed were investigated. In addition, chemical properties of manure and cast of earthworms were investigated. Temperature in the vinyl-house for earthworm nursery was able to be maintained above 0$\^{C}$ in winter and 25-28$\^{C}$ in summer. In closed-covering method, the number of escaped earthworms was the highest among three covering methods. The time was longer after manure excretion, the numbers of escaped earthworm were higher. There were some incidences of mortality of earthworm in closed-covering site. The amount of manure ingested by earthworm was increased in order of non-covering, closed-covering and gap-covering method. Fresh manure was more ingested than old one by earthworm. Earthworms reduced manure about 50% on the dry weight base and reduced total amounts of N, P$_2$O$\_$5/ and K$_2$O of manure by 41, 50 and 60%, respectively. Earthworm could be utilized by adult poultry (>60 g) for feeding. However, adverse effect of live earthworm was observed with young poultry (<450 g).

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