• 한국동물생명공학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.40-49
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• 2019

Chronic and unpredictable stress can disrupt the female reproductive system by suppression for secretion of gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and gonadotrophin, resulted in ovarian malfunction and infertility. In the recent days, kisspeptin has been highly highlighted as a hypothalamic peptide which directly stimulates synthesis and release for GnRH. However, in spite of the key role of kisspeptin in the female reproductive system, little information is still available on the changes of its expression during ovarian cycle under stressed condition. Therefore, we induced chronic and unpredictable stress series to the female mice to analyze kisspeptin expression in the brain and ovary. Stressed mice exhibited changes of behavior and body weight gain during the stress assessment, which suggested that the present stress model in mice was successfully established. In the brain level, kisspeptin expression was attenuated than control. In the ovary level, the stressed mice displayed irregularly shrunk oocytes with broken zona pellucida throughout the follicle stages, pyknotic granulosa cells, decreased number of developing follicles and increased number of atretic follicles than the control. In case of kisspeptin expression in the whole ovary tissue, the expression level was decreased in the stressed mice. In detail, the less intensity of kisspeptin expression in the antral follicles phase was observed in the stressed mice than control mice, indicating that local function of kisspeptin during ovary cycle is highly associated with development of ovarian follicles. We expect that the present study has important implications for the fields of reproductive biology.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.264-270
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• 2019

As a case study on aspect ratio behavior, Kaolin, zeolite, $TiO_2$, pozzolan and diatomaceous earth minerals are investigated using wet milling with 0.3 pai media. The grinding process using small media of 0.3 pai is suitable for current work processing applications. Primary particles with average particle size distribution D50, ${\sim}6{\mu}m$ are shifted to submicron size, D50 ${\sim}0.6{\mu}m$, after grinding. Grinding of particles is characterized by various size parameters such as sphericity as geometric shape, equivalent diameter, and average particle size distribution. Herein, we systematically provide an overview of factors affecting the primary particle size reduction. Energy consumption for grinding is determined using classical grinding laws, including Rittinger's and Kick's laws. Submicron size is obtained at maximum frictional shear stress. Alterations in properties of wettability, heat resistance, thermal conductivity, and adhesion increase with increasing particle surface area. In the comparison of the aspect ratio of the submicron powder, the air heat conductivity and the total heat release amount increase 68 % and 2 times, respectively.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.503-512
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• 2020

Mining activities focus on the production of mineral resources for energy generation and raw material requirements worldwide and it is a known fact that shallow reserves become scarce. For this reason, exploration of new resources proceeds consistently to meet the increasing energy and raw material demand of industrial activities. Rock mechanics has a vital role in underground mining and surface mining. Devices and instruments used in laboratory testing to determine rock mechanics related parameters might have limited sensing capability of the failure behavior. However, methodologies such as, thermal cameras, digital speckle correlation method and acoustic emission might enable to investigate the initial crack formation in detail. Regarding this, in this study, thermographic analysis was performed to analyze the failure behaviors of different types of rock specimens during uniaxial compressive strength experiments. The energy dissipation profiles of different types of rocks were characterized by the temperature difference recorded with an infrared thermal camera during experiments. The temperature increase at the failure moment was detected as 4.45℃ and 9.58℃ for andesite and gneiss-schist specimens, respectively. Higher temperature increase was observed with respect to higher UCS value. Besides, a temperature decreases of about 0.5-0.6℃ was recorded during the experiments of the marble specimens. The temperature change on the specimen is related to release of radiation energy. As a result of the porosity tests, it was observed that increase in the porosity rate from 5.65% to 20.97% can be associated to higher radiation energy released, from 12.68 kJ to 297.18 kJ.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권7호
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• pp.2702-2713
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• 2022

A steam generator tube rupture accompanying a core damage may cause the fission product to be released to environment bypassing the containment. In such an accident, the steam generator is the major path of the radioactive aerosol release. AEOLUS facility, the scaled-down model of Korean type steam generator, was built to examine the aerosol removal in the steam generator during the steam generator tube rupture accident. Integral and separate effect tests were performed with the facility for the dry and flooded conditions, and the decontamination factors were presented for different tube configurations and submergences. The dry test results were compared with the existing test results and with the analyses to investigate the aerosol retention physics by the tube bundle, with respect to the particle size and the bundle geometry. In the flooded tests, the effect of submergence were shown and the retention in the jet injection region were presented with respect to the Stokes number. The test results are planned to be used to constitute the aerosol retention model, specifically applicable for the analysis of the steam generator tube rupture accident in Korean nuclear power plants to evaluate realistic fission product behavior.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.541-550
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• 2023

The escalating growth of industrial sectors has led to a pervasive global problem—oil pollution, particularly in industrial areas. The release of substantial volumes of oil and its by-products into the environment has resulted in extensive contamination. Multiple factors contribute to the entry of these substances into water bodies and soils, thereby inflicting irreparable consequences on ecosystems, natural resources, and human health. Consequently, it becomes imperative to comprehend the characteristics and behavior of oil pollution, anticipate its impacts, and develop effective mitigation strategies. Understanding this intricate issue requires considering the physicochemical properties of the environment, the interactions between oil and sediments, and biological factors such as evaporation and dissolution. Although the oil industry has brought about remarkable advancements, its activities have raised significant concerns regarding pollution from extraction and production processes. Oil-rich nations face a particularly challenging predicament of soil pollution caused by petroleum compounds. The areas surrounding oil exploration mines and refineries often endure contamination due to oil leakages from storage tanks and transmission lines resulting from deterioration and damage. Investigating the dispersion of such pollutants and devising methods to remediate petroleum-contaminated soil represent crucial and intricate issues within the realm of environmental geotechnics.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권2호
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• pp.536-545
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• 2024

Radioactive iodine is a representative fission product to be quantified for the safety assessment of nuclear facilities. In integral severe accident analysis codes, the iodine behavior is usually described by a multi-physical model of iodine chemistry in aqueous phase under radiation field and mass transfer through gas-liquid interface. The focus of studies on iodine source term evaluations using the combination approach is usually put on the chemical aspect, but each contribution to the iodine amount released to the environment has not been decomposed so far. In this study, we attempted the decomposition by revising the two-film theory of molecular-iodine mass transfer. The model involves an effective overall mass transfer coefficient to consider the iodine chemistry. The decomposition was performed by regarding the coefficient as a product of two functions of pH and the overall mass transfer coefficient for molecular iodine. The procedure was applied to the EPICUR experiment and suppression chamber in BWR.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권4호
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• pp.1145-1152
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• 2024

To realize an initial objective of the negative ion-based neutral beam injection (N-NBI) at the Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology (CRAFT) test facility, which targets an H⁰ beam power of 2 MW at an energy of 200-400 keV and a pulse duration of 100 s, it is crucial to study the cesium dynamics of the negative ion source. Here a numerical simulation program CSFC3D is developed and applied to simulate the distribution and time dynamics of cesium during short pulses. The calculations show that most of the cesium on the plasma grid (PG) area originates from the release of cesium that is accumulated within the ion source in the plasma phase. Increasing the wall temperature reduces the loss of cesium on the wall of the ion source. Furthermore, the thickness of the cesium monolayer is directly influenced by the PG temperature. Both simulated and experimental results demonstrate that maintaining the PG temperature between 180 ℃ and 200 ℃ is essential for enhancing the performance of the ion source and optimizing the cesium behavior.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.349-359
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• 2024

This study aims to investigate the effect of restraint configuration on crack formation due to shrinkage-and-creep-induced volumetric change in unbonded post-tensioned slabs. The first part of this study focuses on the comparison of existing shrinkage and creep calculation models that are used to predict the volume-changing behavior of concrete. The second part of this study presents the finite element analysis of a series of architectural configuration prototypes subjected to shrinkage and creep, which comprise unbonded post-tensioned slabs with various restraint configurations. The shrinkage and creep effects were simulated in the analysis by imposing strains obtained from one selected calculation model. The results suggest that a slab up to 300 ft. (90 m) in length does not require a closure strip if it is unrestrained by perimeter walls, and that the most effective restraint crack mitigation strategy for a slab restrained by perimeter walls is a partial wall release.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제46권12호
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• pp.1235-1247
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 충주댐($2750{\times}10^6m^3$) 및 조정지댐($30{\times}10^6m^3$)을 포함한 유역을 대상으로 미래 기후변화가 댐 저수량에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위해 SWAT(Soil and Water Assessment Tool) 모형을 활용하였다. 3지점의 9개년(2002~2010)동안의 자료를 이용하여 검보정을 실시한 결과 유출량에 대해서는 Nash-Sutcliffe 모델 효율(NSE)이 0.73으로, 두 댐의 저수위에 대해서는 0.86으로 나타났다. 미래 기후변화 시나리오자료는 IPCC(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)에서 제공하는 GCMs (General Circulation Models) 중 HadCM3 모델의 SRES(Special Report on Emission Scenarios)에 의한 B1과 A2 시나리오를 구축하였다. 미래 월별 기온과 강수자료는 과거 30개년(1977~2006, baseline period) 자료는 편의보정(bias-correction) 기법을 이용하여 오차보정 후, Change Factor (CF) method를 이용하여 상세화 하였다. 미래 연평균 기온은 2040s (2031~2050)에 $0.9^{\circ}C$, 2080s (2071~2099)에는 $4.0^{\circ}C$까지 증가할 것으로 예측되었고, 연평균 강수량은 2040s에 9.6%, 2080s에 20.7% 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 과거 대비 미래 증발산량은 15.3%까지 증가하고, 토양수분은 최대 2.8% 감소하였다. 과거 9개년 평균 댐 방류스케줄에 따른 미래 댐 연평균 유입량은 가을철을 제외한 대부분 기간에 최대 21.1%까지 증가하는 경향을 보였다. 미래 가을철 댐 유입의 감소로 인해 현재 방류 패턴으로는 연말까지 결국 저수량을 회복하지 못하는 것으로 나타났다. 미래 풍수년과 갈수년에는 댐 저수량의 시간적 변동이 더욱 불안정해지므로 각각 저수량의 상향 및 하향 조정에 주의를 기울여야 한다. 따라서 기후변화 적응을 위한 댐 방류 패턴 조절이 필요하다고 판단된다.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.138-144
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• 1997

토양으로부터 분리한 Metarrhizium anisopliae (Metschn.) Sorok이 생산하는 biopolymer YU-122의 물리, 화학적 특성을 알아보고, 그의 식품 및 생물산업에의 응용 가능성을 검토하여보았다. Biopolymer YU-l22의 flow behavior index (n)는 0.173으로서 pseudoplastic한 non-Newtonian용액 특성을 보였으며, 농도, 온도 및 pH의 변화에 따른 점도의 변화를 검토한 결과 0.3% 이상의 농도에서부터 농도의 증가에 따라 급격한 점도의 증가를 나타냈으며, $60^{\circ}C$, pH 11.0까지 점도의 변화 없이 안정한 성질을 갖는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 기존에 보고된 다른 polymer와는 달리 $NaCl,\;CaCl_2$ 등의 무기염의 첨가에 대하여서도 점도의 변화를 나타내지 않았다. Metarrhizium anisopliae (Metschn.) Sorok이 생산하는 biopolymer YU-122의 산업적 응용성을 검토하기 위하여 유화안정제로서의 성질 및 film 형성능, 해빙시간에 미치는 영향 등을 검토한 결과 옥수수유를 사용한 경우 xanthan gum보다 4배인 120시간동안 유화효과를 나타내었다. 또한 xanthan gum보다 우수한 film 향성능을 나타내었으며, 1% biopolymer YU-122용액에서 해빙시간이 3배까지 연장되어 해빙에 미치는 영향도 매우 우수한 것으로 나타났다.