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Rate of Oxygen Uptake in Antheraea mylitta in Various Stages of Development and during Diapause

  • Rath S. S.;Negi B. B. S.;Singh B. M. K.;Thangavelu K.
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.45-49
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    • 2005
  • Respiration in Antheraea mylitta was studied using constant pressure respirometer. Oxygen uptake in different stages of life showed that moth has highest rate of oxygen uptake as compared to larva and pupa. At each stage significant sexual differentiation was observed. Depression in the rate of oxygen uptake in diapausing pupa was found to be higher in male ($65.75\%$) than female ($60.65\%$) as compared to non-diapausing counterparts. During diapause lowest oxygen uptake was recorded in the month of February, and were in the order of February < January < December < March < November < April < May < June in male, and, February < January < December < March < April < November < May < June in female. Significant sexual differentiation in oxygen uptake was recorded throughout the period of diapause (November to June) where female pupae registered lower rate of oxygen uptake than that of male. Oxygen uptake in female pupae declined upto $28.89\%$ in non-diapausing and $18.29\%$ in diapausing broods over male. Highest respiratory quotient value was recorded in the moth of November (0.68 in male and 0.70 in female) and, the lowest in the month of March in male (0.54) and May in female (0.55). Percentage loss in pupa weight always remained at a significantly higher level in male (except in February and March). The lowest oxygen uptake rate and weight loss in the month of February shows that the pupae were at peak of their dormancy during this month.

An fMRI Study of Cognitive Function during Hyperoxia

  • Chung Soon-Cheol;Kim Ik-Hyeon;Tack Gye-Rae;Lee Soo Yeol;Sohn Jin-Hun
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2005
  • This study aimed to investigate the hypothesis that administration of the air with 30% oxygen compared with normal air (21% oxygen) enhances cognitive functioning through increased activation in the brain. Seventeen college students (right­handed, average age of 24.3) were selected as subjects for this study. An oxygen supply equipment that provides 21% and 30% oxygen at a constant rate of 8L/min was developed. In order to measure the performance level of visuospatial and verbal cognition, two psychological tests were developed. The experiment consisted of two runs, one for cognition task with normal air (21% oxygen) and the other for cognition task with hyperoxic air (30% oxygen). Visuospatial and verbal tasks were presented while brain images were scanned by a 3T fMRI system using the single-shot EPI method. The results showed that there was an improvement in performance and also increased activation in several brain areas in the higher oxygen condition. These results suggest that while performing cognitive tasks, high concentrations of oxygen administration make oxygen administration sufficient, thus making neural network activate more, and the ability to perform cognitive tasks increase.

Impact of Oxygen Annealing on Deep-level Traps in Ga2O3/SiC Photodetectors (산소 후열처리에 따른 Ga2O3/SiC photodetector의 전기 광학적 특성)

  • Seung-Hwan Chung;Tae-Hee Lee;Soo-Young Moon;Se-Rim Park;Hyung-Jin Lee;Geon-Hee Lee;Sang-Mo Koo
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.288-295
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    • 2023
  • In this work, we investigated the role of oxygen annealing on the performance of Metal-Semiconductor-Metal (MSM) UV photodetector (PD) fabricated by radio frequency (RF)-sputtered Ga2O3 films on SiC substrates. Oxygen-nnealed Ga2O3 films displayed a notable increase in photocurrent and a faster decay time, indicating a decrease in persistent photoconductivity. This improvement is attributed to the reduction of oxygen vacancies and variation of defects by oxygen post-annealing. Our findings provide valuable insights into enhancing PD performance through oxygen annealing.

Development of a Field Oxygenation Device and Its Practice in the Oxygen Depleted Water Mass (빈산소 수괴해역 용존산소 환경개선장치 개발과 현장 적용)

  • Lee, Yong-Hwa;Kim, Young-Suk;Shim, Jeong-Min;Kwon, Kee-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.339-344
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    • 2010
  • Oxygen depleted water mass can damage aquatic animals not only in direct way but also in indirect way by generating toxic substances including occurrence of hydrogen sulfide and ammonia which are also highly detrimental to animal life in the water mass. An oxygen dissolution device was developed, which makes turnover of the oxygen rich (over 20 mg/L) surface water down to the bottom where hypoxia is evident and tested the device in terms of oxygen recovery in the oxygen depleted bottom water. the device with turnover rates of $3.6\;m^2$/min at the liquid oxygen injection rate of 48~26.3 L/min could recover dissolved oxygen level to 7~25 mg/L at depth 7 m to lead to the dissolution level of over 90% by the supply of liquid oxygen. The running advantage of the device is that it does not require any auxiliary tank and higher energy for operation. Therefore, it can be highly useful device to relieve damages to the farmed animals in the oxygen depleted waters.

3 Types of Set Point Controllers for Biological Wastewater Treatment Process

  • Kim, D.;Lee, I.B.
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.97.1-97
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    • 2001
  • One of the main problems to constitute control method on biologically oriented wastewater purification processes, e.g. activated sludge process, sequential batch reactor, rotating bio-disk contactor, etc. is that it is hard to control the target component directly. For instance, while biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, and chemical oxygen demand are the key components to check the process performance, one may not control them directly since they are the results of microbial activities related to numerous physiochemical factors. Therefore controllers for bioprocess should be designed to make favorable condition for microorganisms´ living, e.g. dissolved oxygen level favorable, mixed liquor suspended solids concentration suitable ...

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PD184352 Releases the Regular Hypoxic Reversible DNA Replication Arrest in T24 Cells

  • Martin, Leenus
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.40 no.6
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    • pp.895-898
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    • 2007
  • The oxygen dependent regulation of DNA replication is an essential property of proliferating mammalian cells. In human T24 bladder cancer cells, several hours of hypoxia leads to reversible DNA replication arrest and re-entry of oxygen induces a burst of replication initiation. This short communication provides strong evidence that PD184352 initiates DNA replication in living hypoxic cells without elevating the oxygen level. PD184352 releases the regular hypoxic replicon arrest, however, at a low intensity compared to the effect of reoxygenation. Moreover, PD184352 shows no effect on normoxically incubated as well as reoxygenated T24 cells.

Effects of denudation anneals on the electrical properties of ULSI devices. (Denudation 열처리가 ULSI device의 전기적 특성에 미치는 영향의 평가)

  • 조원주;이교성송영민
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 1998.10a
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    • pp.565-568
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    • 1998
  • The effects of denudation anneals on the properties of 256Mega-bit level devices were investigated. Based on the three-step anneal model, the redistribution of oxygen atom and the defect free zone depth were calculated. A significant outdiffusion of oxygen atoms is occurred during the denudation anneals at high temperature. Junction leakage current of P+/N-Well and N+/P-Well junctions, as a function of denudation anneal temperature, was decreased with increase of anneal temperature and is closely related with the behaviors of oxygen atoms. Also it is found that the denudation anneal at high temperature very effective for the fabrication of reliable 256Mega-bit level devices.

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The Effect of Metallothionein on the Activity of Enzymes Invelved in Remival of Reactive Oxygen Species

  • Go, Mun Ju;Kim, Hui Jeong
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.362-366
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    • 2001
  • To show the effects of metallothionein (MT) on the activity of enzymes involved in the removal of reactive oxygen species, MT has been added to the assay systems of superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase and peroxidase. We have used assay systems of SOD based on NADPH oxidation and nitrite formation from hydroxylammonium chloride as an assay of superoxide breakdown rate. The two assay systems showed different results at the high concentration of MT. MT showed the scavenging of superoxide in the SOD assay system in the presence and absence of SOD. MT added to the SOD assay system behaved as an activator of SOD, but apo-MT behaved as an inhibitor. When MT was added to the assay system in the presence of a fixed amount of SOD, the breakdown rate of superoxide increased. The effects of MT on the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide and the activity of catalase and peroxidase decomposing hydrogen peroxide were evaluated. MT decreased the activities of catalase and peroxidase. We have concluded that the function of MT as an antioxidant might effect the level of superoxide scavenging and not the level of hydrogen peroxide.

Cerebral blood flow enhancement device using Blood Oxygen Level Sensor (Blood Oxygen Level Sensor를 이용한 대뇌혈류증가 장치)

  • Lim, Jung-hyun;Joh, In-Hee;Kim, Young-kil
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.22 no.8
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    • pp.1083-1089
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    • 2018
  • Surgery to increase cerebral blood flow is one of the treatment methods of cerebral infarction. In order to supplement this invasive method, non-invasive devices have been introduced that use human blood pressure to pressurize the extremities to increase cerebral blood flow. However, the problem of poor speed and accuracy was raised. In this paper, the perfusion index of each arm is measured by applying pressure to both arms using Blood Oxygen Level Sensor to improve the accuracy of measurement and measurement time. The pressure applied to the arm is calculated by using the pressure value obtained from the arm. Like the existing blood pressure measuring cerebral blood flow increasing device, the blood flow can be increased by more than 20% and the measurement time can be shortened, so that it can be selectively used for the patient with cerebral infarction.

A Study on an Oxygen Vacancy and Conductivity of Oxide Thin Films Deposited by RF Magnetron Sputtering and Annealed in a Vacuum

  • Oh, Teresa
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.21-24
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    • 2017
  • Usually, the oxygen vacancy is an important factor in an oxide semiconductor device because the conductivity is related to the oxygen vacancy, which is formed at the interface between oxide semiconductors and electrodes with an annealing processes. ZTO is made by mixing n-type ZnO and p-type $SnO_2$. Zink tin oxide (ZTO), zink oxide (ZnO) and tin oxide ($SnO_2$) thin films deposited by RF magnetron sputtering and annealed, to generate the oxygen vacancy, were analyzed by XPS spectra. The contents of oxygen vacancy were the highest in ZTO annealed at $150^{\circ}C$, ZnO annealed at $200^{\circ}C$ and $SnO_2$ annealed at $100^{\circ}C$. The current was also increased with increasing the oxygen vacancy ions. The highest content of ZTO oxygen vacancies was obtained when annealed at 150. This is the middle level in compared with those of ZnO annealed at $200^{\circ}C$ and $SnO_2$ annealed at $100^{\circ}C$. The electrical properties of ZTO followed those of $SnO_2$, which acts a an enhancer in the oxide semiconductor.