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Effect of Prophylactic Supplementation of Vitamin E and Se on Antioxidant Enzymes during Endotoxic Shock in Buffalo Calves

  • Sandhu, T.S.;Singha, S.P.S
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.16 no.11
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    • pp.1577-1582
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    • 2003
  • This study was conducted to determine the effects of prophylactic supplementation of vitamin E and Se on oxidative damage and antioxidant status. Fifteen healthy male buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) calves between the age of 6 to12 months were divided into three groups of five animals each: Group I-control, group II-endotoxic shock group infused with lyophilized E coli endotoxin @ 5 ${\mu}g$/kg body wt, and group III-supplemented with vitamin E @ 250 mg and Se @ 7.5 mg, one month prior to induction of endotoxic shock. All the animals in group II and group III exhibited signs of endotoxic shock. When the endotoxic shock was induced, there was significant (p<0.05) increase in the circulating levels of malonyl dialdehyde MDA (an indicator of lipid peroxidation). In the supplemented group III the magnitude of formation of MDA was also less as compared to group II at every stage of study. There was significant (p<0.05) decrease in circulating levels of SOD, GSH-Px, Catalase and G-6-PD activity from the normal (0 h) value with passage of time. As a result of endotoxic shock, these values reached a lowest value, and then showed a tendency towards the 0 h value. Prophylactic supplementation with vitamin E and Se was successful in reducing the quantum of oxidative damage due to formation of free radicals because of endotoxic shock.

Highly Reliable White LEDs Using Nitride Phosphors

  • Xie, Rong-Jun;Hirosaki, Naoto;Takeda, Takashi
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.49 no.4
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    • pp.375-379
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    • 2012
  • Nitride phosphors are now attracting significant attention of material scientists and phosphor engineers, because they promise red-shifted photoluminescence spectra, small Stokes shift, high quantum efficiency and low thermal degradation. A number of interesting nitride phosphors have been developed and practiced for producing white light with LED chips. In this paper, the applications of nitride phosphors in highly reliable wLEDs will be overviewed.

Near-field photocurrent measurements on GaAs/AIGaAs multiple quantum wells

  • Shin, Jung-Gyu;Lee, Joo-In;Lee, Jae-Young m;Sungkyu Yu
    • Journal of Korean Vacuum Science & Technology
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.44-46
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    • 2000
  • Near-field photocurrent experiments were performed for GaAs/AIGaAs MQWs at room temperature. Heavy hole and light hole related peaks are clearly resolved even under extremely low power of near-field excitation. By scanning laterally 2 $\mu\textrm{m}$${\times}$2 $\mu\textrm{m}$ area on the surface, minority carrier diffusion process in the well region was qualitatively studied.

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The Mechanism : Hydrolysis of Formamide

  • Baek, Yong-Su;Choe, Cheol-Ho
    • Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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    • 2015.03a
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    • pp.91-98
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    • 2015
  • Formamide의 중성가수분해 mechanism은 QM/MM (quantum mecahnics/molecular mechanics) molecular dynamics simulations 및 CPMD과 같은 방법으로 연구되어왔다. 본 연구에서는. Umbrella sampling을 이용한 QM/MM-MD simulation을 사용하여 4가지 반응의 free energy surface를 도출해냈다. 전체적으로, 가장 선호되는 메커니즘은 two step으로 구성된 water assisted stepwise mechanism이었으며 모든 mechanism은 ab-initio calculation과 QM/MM-MD simulation이 수행되었다. water assisted stepwise mechanism을 살펴보면, 첫 번째 step에서 formamide의 carbonyl group이 hydrate되면서 gem-diol intermediate를 형성한다. 다음 step에서, intermediate의 hydroxyl group으로부터 amino group으로 water-assisted proton transfer이 일어난다. 두 반응 모두에서 물이 proton transfer를 직접적으로 도와주는 것을 관찰할 수 있었다. 특히, ab-initio calculation과는 다르게 QM/MM-MD에서는 gem-diol intermediate가 안정화되는 것으로 solvent effect를 잘 보여준다.

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Linear Temperature Dependence of Magnetic Penetration Depth Length at Low T in an Isotropic Superconductor

  • Nam, Sang-Boo
    • Progress in Superconductivity
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.11-14
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    • 2000
  • The notion of the finite pairing interaction energy range Td is shown to result in a linear temperature dependence of the London magnetic penetration depth length, ${\Delta}{\lambda}{/\lambda}(0)=(T/Td)2/\pi)ln2$ at low T in the case of the s-wave pairing state, accounting for data of high Tc superconductor by Hardy et al.

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Synthesis and Characterization of Non-Conjugated Polymers with Hole-Conductor and Red-Emitter in Side-Chain (정공 전달물질 및 적색발광 물질이 곁사슬에 포함된 비공액 고분자의 합성과 특성 분석)

  • Shim, Na-Young;Lee, Hoo-Sung
    • Polymer(Korea)
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.486-492
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    • 2005
  • Into a no-conjugated polymer chain we have introduced side chains with a styrene-linked triphenylamine segment as a $\pi-electron$ donor, styrene-]inked aminobenzaldehyde segment as a tunable reactive -CHO group, and PM (4-(dicyanomethylene)-2-(tert-butyl)-4H-pyran) moiety as a $\pi-electron$ acceptor for red emitting materials. The thermal stability and the optical properties of the statistical copolymers have been studied. All the polymers were electrochemically active and showed electroluminescent emission at around 700nm. The EL device of P5-PM based on the sturcture of $ITO/PPV/polymer/BCP/Alq_3/Al$ showed a maximum brightness of $120cd/m^2\;at\;50mA/cm^2$ with an external quantum efficiency of $0.67\%$. It was possible to enhance the external quantum efficiency by balancing the charge recombination. A red-emitting polymer with high external quantum efficiency was developed by incorporating bifunctionality.

A Case of Max Planck as a Model of Engineering Literacy Education (공학소양교육 모델로서의 막스 플랑크)

  • Nam, Young
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.67-78
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    • 2021
  • This study is an analysis of the life of Max Planck (1858-1947), the in view of engineering literacy education. Some expressions describing Planck include "the father of German science", "the namer of Quantum". Furthermore, he is the scientist who permanently engraved his name in a scientific invariant called the Planck Constant. Planck had already made remarkable scientific achievements in his mid-ages, which became the springboard of quantum mechanics, but he went on to achieve much more in his old age. Between 1910s and 1930s, he was the director of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft, the Berlin Academy, and the German Physics Society, which is the German core research group. In the 1910s, he endured the terrible personal suffering of losing his three children and then succeeded in rebuilding German science in the 1920s in his golden age of 70s. His achievement was great not only as a scientist but also as a science administrator. His life was contradictory in several ways. While fundamentally being a conservative, he initiated a great scientific revolution. While making efforts to preserve traditional values, he was in the center of great many upheavals and destruction. While being the incarnation of honesty, he was also given to extremely delicate political positions. In his long career, Planck lived with all his might as a leader of the German science organizations and permanently left his name on the institute representing Germany. Planck succeeded in his work for the institutional development of science, philosophical understanding of science, and as a role model of exemplary scientist. His long life was accompanied by both achievements and failures, intangible and difficult to judge. Today, as research and development management and scientific leadership have become increasingly important, Planck's life may be a good example of engineering literacy education.

Filamentation and α-factor of broad area laser diodes (대면적 레이저 다이오드의 필라멘테이션과 α-factor)

  • Han, Il-Ki;Her, Du-Chang;Lee, Jung-Il;Lee, Joo-In
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.319-323
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    • 2002
  • 1.55 ${\mu}m$multi-quantum well (MQW) broad area laser diodes with different linewidth enhancement factors ($\alpha{-factor}$) of 2 and 4 were fabricated. The far-fields of the laser diodes were measured. It was observed that the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the far-fields and the filamentations were reduced in the laser diodes for which the value of the $\alpha{-factor}$ was small. As injection current increased, the FWHM of the far-field also increased regardless of the a-factor. This phenomenon was explained by reduction of filament spacing as injection current increased.

Substituent Effects for the Menschutkin-Type Reaction of Substituted 2-Phenylethyl arenesulfonates with Substituted Pyridines (치환 2-Phenylethyl arenesulfonate 류와 치환 피리딘류의 Menschutkin 형 반응에 관한 치환기 효과)

  • Soo-Dong Yoh;Joong Hyup Kim
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.413-418
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    • 1989
  • The rates for the reaction of substituted 2-phenylethyl tosylates with substituted pyridines were measured in acetonitrile and that of 2-PNS with substituted pyridines were investigated in both acetonitrile and methanol. The substitutent effect was accelerated by an electron-donating substituent on both substrate and nucleophile. Results showed that More O'Ferrall and quantum mechanical model of predicting transition state structure suggest the reaction proceeds via an $S_N2$ mechanism, in which bond-breaking is more advanced than bond-formation. Transition state variation predicted with the quantum mechanical model is consistent with the experimental results, whereas the predictions provided by the More O'Ferrall plots is found to be inconsistent in leaving group. In the reaction of 2-PNS, the rate constants in acetonitrile were larger than that in methanol.

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QUANTUM EFFICIENCY OF PHOTOGENERATION OF SINGLET OXYGEN FROM THE CLUSTER TYPE OF BINUCLEAR IRON-SULFUR CENTER [2Fe-2S]

  • Choi, Jong-Keun;Kim, Chang-Sook
    • Journal of Photoscience
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.77-83
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    • 1996
  • Photosensitization via the singlet oxygen ($^1O_2$) mechanism by the binuclear iron-sulfur center, denoted as [2Fe-2S], was investigated, using a highly purified ferredoxin (Fd) preparation from spinach leaves. Since the apoprotein of Fd contains a good number of amino acid residues that are readily reactive with $^1O_2$ and thus interfere with the detection of $^1O_2$ generated from [2Fe-2S], we attempted to deprive the $^1O_2$-sensitive residues of their $^1O_2$-scavenging capacity as much as possible by treating Fd with rose bengal plus 550 nm monochromatic light and thereby photooxidatively degrading these residues. The photochemically modified Fd was found to keep the structural integrity of its Fe-S group virtually unaffected by the treatment. By employing chemical trap method for measurement and examining the kinetic effects of azide and deuterium oxide on the reactions of $^1O_2$ with various trap compounds, we were able to demonstrate that [2Fe-2S] indeed acts as a photosensitizer via $^1O_2$. Further, the minimum quantum yield of $^1O_2$ production by [2Fe-2S] was estimated to be 0.0047.

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