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Fragmentation Behavior Studies of Chalcones Employing Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART)

  • Motiur Rahman, A.F.M.;Attwa, Mohamed W.;Ahmad, Pervez;Baseeruddin, Mohammad;Kadi, Adnan A.
    • Mass Spectrometry Letters
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.30-33
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    • 2013
  • Chalcones are naturally occurring, biologically active molecules generating interest from a wide range of research applications including synthetic methodology development, biological activity investigation and studying fragmentation patterns. In this article, a series of chalcones has been synthesized and their fragmentation behavior was studied using modern ambient ionization technique Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART). DART ion source connected with an ion trap mass spectrometer was used for the fragmentation of various substituted chalcones. The chalcones were introduced to the DART source using a glass capillary without sample preparation step. All the chalcones showed prominent molecular ion peaks $[M]^{{\cdot}+}$ corresponding to the structures. Multistage mass spectral data $MS^n$ ($MS^2$ and $MS^3$) were collected for all the chalcones studied. The chalcones with substitutions at 3, 4 or 5 positions gave product ion peaks with the loss of a phenyl radical ($Ph^{\cdot}$) by radical initiated ${\alpha}$-cleavage, while substitution at 2 position of chalcone in the A-ring gave a product ion peak with the loss of substituted styryl radical (PhCH = $CH^{\cdot}$). In case of the chalcones with the substituent at 4 positions in A and B rings gave both types of fragmentation patterns. In conclusion, chalcones can be easily characterized using modern DART interface in very short time and efficiently without any cumbersome sample pretreatment.

Development and Performance Evaluation of Education Program to increase Children's Preference for Vegetables through Five Senses (유아 대상의 오감을 활용한 채소 선호도 증진 프로그램의 개발 및 효과 평가)

  • Moon, Hye-Kyung;Her, Eun-Sil
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.41-50
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    • 2017
  • This study developed a vegetable preference increase program that can be applied at the Center for Children's Foodservice Management (CCFM) for children in child-care facilities and kindergarten and the training performance was evaluated by 192 5-year old children. Teachers considered 'disliked food' ($3.23{\pm}0.85/out$ of 5) as the most serious nutritional problem and typical disliked food was 'vegetables' (54.2%). Based on this finding, to increase the preference for vegetables, a five-phase education program was developed. In this program, each phase was composed of activities to increase children's interest in vegetables by using each sense out of the five senses. Center dieticians had visited and conducted the program in 12 facilities. By using an illustration assessment tool, the training performance was evaluated by comparing the children's knowledge level and their preference changes in vegetables. Consequently, as examined by 10 questions on the knowledge of vegetables, trained children's (in total 192) knowledge of vegetables had considerably increased (p<0.01, p<0.001), and their preference for 15 out of the 16 vegetables, except for carrots, also showed a considerable preference increase after the training (p<0.01, p<0.001). Therefore, this program is considered to have contributed to reducing disliked vegetable eating behaviors.

Quality Evaluation of Soybean soup by Adding Gwackhyang in Foodservice Operations (단체급식을 위한 콩국의 곽향 첨가에 따른 품질평가)

  • Ko, Seong Hee;Lee, Kyung Yeoun
    • Korean journal of food and cookery science
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.841-846
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    • 2013
  • Developing a menu for foodservice operations utilizing a Yaksun meets with the desire of customers who have keen interest in health food. In addition, it is possible to expect the additional advantage of decreasing hygiene risk, which can be caused by large quantity cooking, by the efficacy of medicinal herbs used in Yaksun. Accordingly, this study provides with basic information for the development of a Yaksun menu for foodservice operations utilizing Gwackhyang by evaluating the sensory quality and microbiological quality of bean soup added of Gwackhyang. The standard plate counting significantly decreased as the addition quantity of Gwackhyang increased (p<0.001). All bean soups, which were kept at room temperature and refrigerator for 3 hours after cooking, met the safety standard 5.00 CFU/g. The number of coliforms also significantly decreased as the addition quantity of Gwackhyang increased. The bean soups in control group exceeded the safety standard of 2.00 CFU/g after 1 hour at room temperature and in refrigerator. On the other hand, all Gwackhyang bean soups met safety standard, only excluding G1 with 1% Gwackhyang kept at room temperature. Accordingly, it has been confirmed that the addition of Gwackhyang during bean soup production decreases the microorganism level of bean soup. Both standard plate counting and the number of coliforms significantly increased after 3 days in refrigerator; however, the increasing extent of Gwackhyang bean soups were less than the control group bean soups. The control group received scored highest in 3 sensory characteristics out of 5 sensory characteristics. However, G1 with 1% Gwackhyang also scored highest in 2 sensory characteristics, which were taste and overall preference. G2 also scored 4.45 in color and 4.15 in fragrance, which were lower than the control group but were above average.

A Study on Development of Libraries' Information Literacy Program based on Integrated Tasks to Support the Free Semester System (자유학기제 지원을 위한 통합 주제 중심의 도서관 정보활용교육 프로그램 개발에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Kyeong-Hwa;Song, Gi-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.85-104
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study is to suggest the developmental strategies of information literacy program based on the integrated topics to promote inquiry abilities of middle school students who take part in the free semester system. To that end, the content of the 2015 revised curriculum on a national level was analyzed to develop 6 inquiry themes that incorporate Korean, Social Studies, Music and Art. The instruction and learning guide were consisted of three stages of forming a background knowledge, researching and creating and evaluating the conclusion of the research. The detailed activities for research step were consisted of the four steps of recognition of the problem, information analysis and interpretation, compilation of information and evaluation for each activity. Among the themes "environment" and "appreciation" were applied to a public library and a middle school library as a trial. The trial application saw that students took an interest in programs that subject themes are link with various topics. They were also very satisfied with such programs.

Design and Development of a Constructionist Based Field-Trip Support System (구성주의 기반의 현장학습 지원 시스템의 설계 및 구현)

  • Ahn, Seong Hun;Son, Chan Hee
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.33-45
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    • 2008
  • Field study improves students' capacity for studying and thinking about their surrounding environments. It also develops further interest academic study by allowing them to learn curriculum related materials from actual experience. Moreover, students acquire the capacity for independent and self regulated learning in the course of making efforts to solve problems they face in the environment. Our efforts arc directed at designing and developing a RFID based support system-based on the constructionist's learning theory to help students perform field study more efficiently. The field study support system can be implemented not only in museums but also in botanical gardens, zoos, art galleries, and science centers. Based on the results of the verification at the sample museum we will expand the target locations to implement the field trip support system. We expect that our field study support system will be a catalyst for improving learning in the fields.

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Development of On-line Judge System based on Block Programming Environment (블록 프로그래밍 환경 기반 온라인 평가 시스템 개발)

  • Shim, Jaekwoun;Chae, Jeong Min
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2018
  • Block programming environment, which is represented by Scratch in elementary and middle school programming education, is suitable for learner's characteristics and cognitive level, and is recommended not only for beginners. Transference to the text programming environment after the block programming is essential for understanding the data processing process, understanding the accuracy and efficiency aspects of algorithms, and creating SW activity. In addition, it is presented step by step in the programming curriculum. In this study, developed WithBlock the online evaluation system for the purpose of transference from a block programming to a text programming environment. The developed system can solve the same algorithm problem in both block and text programming environment, and it can be used for elementary and secondary programming education by automatically scoring the written code and providing immediate feedback. In order to applicable to programming education in elementary and secondary surveyed the usability, learning possibility, interest and satisfaction of WithBlock. The results of the survey showed that it can be used for programming education.

CURRENT STATUS OF SPECIAL CARE DENTISTRY EDUCATION OF DENTAL SCHOOLS IN KOREA (한국 치과대학 및 치의학 전문대학원의 장애인치과학 교육 현황)

  • Oh, Yea Rang;Nam, Ok Hyung;Kim, Mi Sun;Choi, Sung Chul;Kim, Kwang Chul;Lee, Hyo-Seol
    • The Journal of Korea Assosiation for Disability and Oral Health
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.7-10
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    • 2018
  • Special care dentistry, also known as special needs dentistry, is concerned with the oral health of people who have intellectual disability, or who are affected by other medical, physical, or psychiatric issues. Dental schools must educate dental students for the competency in managing and treating individuals with special health care needs. The purpose of this study is to identify the current status of special care dentistry education in Korean dental schools. A questionnaire relating to the education of special care dentistry was sent to eleven dental schools in Korea via email. The result turned out that eight out of eleven schools had classroom teaching of special care dentistry, while only four had practical teaching programs. Nine schools had dental clinics for the disabled, in which two of them had special care clinics within the Pediatric dentistry clinic, and other seven in separate clinical sites. Despite the increased interest in special care dentistry, education including classroom teaching and practical teaching was still insufficient and needed more development. This study implicated a small but valuable understanding of special needs dentistry education in Korea.

Vowel Classification of Imagined Speech in an Electroencephalogram using the Deep Belief Network (Deep Belief Network를 이용한 뇌파의 음성 상상 모음 분류)

  • Lee, Tae-Ju;Sim, Kwee-Bo
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.59-64
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, we found the usefulness of the deep belief network (DBN) in the fields of brain-computer interface (BCI), especially in relation to imagined speech. In recent years, the growth of interest in the BCI field has led to the development of a number of useful applications, such as robot control, game interfaces, exoskeleton limbs, and so on. However, while imagined speech, which could be used for communication or military purpose devices, is one of the most exciting BCI applications, there are some problems in implementing the system. In the previous paper, we already handled some of the issues of imagined speech when using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), although it required complementation for multi class classification problems. In view of this point, this paper could provide a suitable solution for vowel classification for imagined speech. We used the DBN algorithm, which is known as a deep learning algorithm for multi-class vowel classification, and selected four vowel pronunciations:, /a/, /i/, /o/, /u/ from IPA. For the experiment, we obtained the required 32 channel raw electroencephalogram (EEG) data from three male subjects, and electrodes were placed on the scalp of the frontal lobe and both temporal lobes which are related to thinking and verbal function. Eigenvalues of the covariance matrix of the EEG data were used as the feature vector of each vowel. In the analysis, we provided the classification results of the back propagation artificial neural network (BP-ANN) for making a comparison with DBN. As a result, the classification results from the BP-ANN were 52.04%, and the DBN was 87.96%. This means the DBN showed 35.92% better classification results in multi class imagined speech classification. In addition, the DBN spent much less time in whole computation time. In conclusion, the DBN algorithm is efficient in BCI system implementation.

A Study on DOA Estimation Using Dipole Array Antenna Based on MoM (MoM 기법에 의한 다이폴 배열 안테나의 신호 방향 추정 방법 연구)

  • Moon, Sang-Kon;Lee, Kang-In;Yang, Hoon-Gee;Bae, Kyung-Bin;Chung, Young-Seek
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.22 no.7
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    • pp.661-668
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    • 2011
  • Direction estimation of signal of interest has been an important issue in radar and communication system. Generally, DOA(Direction Of Arrival) methods have been researched in the field of signal processing with ideal array sensors. However, there are some problems in array antennas such as the input signal distortions in amplitude and phase, due to the mutual coupling between array elements. In this paper, we propose a new method of DOA estimation in the dipole array antenna by using the method of moment(MoM) to compensate the mutual coupling effects between array antenna elements. Also, the proposed method is applied to the estimation of azimuth(${\phi}$ ) and elevation(${\theta}$) angles using uniformly linear dipole array under noisy environments.

DOD/DOA Estimation for Bistatic MIMO Radar Using 2-D Matrix Pencil Method (2차원 Matrix Pencil Method 기반의 바이스태틱 MIMO 레이더 표적 도래각 추정)

  • Lee, Kang-In;Kang, Wonjune;Yang, Hoon-Gee;Chung, Wonzoo;Kim, Jong Mann;Chung, Young-Seek
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.25 no.7
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    • pp.782-790
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, we apply the 2-D Matrix Pencil Method(MPM) to the estimation of the direction of arrival(DOA) of multiple signals of interest(SOIs) in bistatic MIMO radar. The 2-D MPM shows remarkable performance under a low SNR environment and low computational complexity to estimate the DOA of multiple SOIs. Also, it is possible to estimate the direction of departure(DOD) which is an angle from transmitter to target. To verify the proposed algorithm, we applied the proposed algorithm to a uniformly spaced linear array(ULA) and compared the RMSE(Root Mean Square Error) of DOA and DOD under the various SNR with those of the 2-D Capon algorithm.