• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.353-358
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• 2006

Alpha track analysis for the determination of the trace amount of alpha emitting nuclides in a very small particle was performed as an efficient and powerful technique during safeguard inspection. Metal particles with well-defined spherical shape, size and isotopic compositions as a reference material were used to correlate the number of tracks or track diameter with an isotopic composition eventually to identify the uranium enrichment in the environmental swipe samples. Slopes in the number of tracks versus the exposure time curve provide a simple insight into the uranium enrichment of an unknown particle. Low enriched uranium metal particles result in slopes still steeper than the depleted or natural uranium metal particles. In addition, a linear relationship between track diameter and particle size Is thought to be a useful first stage analytical tool as an efficient and convenient inspection guide. The significance of the simple linear model was also judged using the usual statistical tests.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제47권5호
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• pp.596-607
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• 2015

In this paper, we describe a computer program, iBEST (inverse Burnup ESTimator), that we developed to accurately estimate the burnup histories of spent nuclear fuels based on sample measurement data. The burnup history parameters include initial uranium enrichment, burnup, cooling time after discharge from reactor, and reactor type. The program uses algebraic equations derived using the simplified burnup chains of major actinides for initial estimations of burnup and uranium enrichment, and it uses the ORIGEN-S code to correct its initial estimations for improved accuracy. In addition, we newly developed a stable bisection method coupled with ORIGEN-S to correct burnup and enrichment values and implemented it in iBEST in order to fully take advantage of the new capabilities of ORIGEN-S for improving accuracy. The iBEST program was tested using several problems for verification and well-known realistic problems with measurement data from spent fuel samples from the Mihama-3 reactor for validation. The test results show that iBEST accurately estimates the burnup history parameters for the test problems and gives an acceptable level of accuracy for the realistic Mihama-3 problems.

• 천문학회보
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.29.2-29.2
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• 2010

We present elemental abundances of 412 blue compact dwarf galaxies (BCDs) at z=0.2~0.5 using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR7. The gas-phase nitrogen to oxygen abundance ratios (N/O) of sample galaxies increase as the oxygen to hydrogen abundance ratios (O/H) decrease. This indicates that the nitrogen is more enriched than the oxygen. We found that there is a noticeable distinction between the merger candidates and the isolated galaxies. Merging candidates show more enrichment of nitrogen abundance compared to isolated galaxies. On the other hand, neon and oxygen abundances for merging candidates are slightly lower than the isolated systems. We discuss the main cause of these trends with internal mixing and mass loss by fast rotation of young massive stars. We also discuss the environmental effect to the relation between specific star formation rate and galaxy mass.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.644-650
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• 1999

본연구에서 유기 침전제를 사용하여 수용액중의 코발트를 on-line으로 연속 침전시켜 선농축하는 방법을 연구하였다. 침전제로 1-nitroso-2-naphthol을 사용하여 라인내에서 직접 침전시킨 뒤 MlBK(Methyl lsobutyl Ketone)로 용해시켜 불꽃 원자흡수 분광기로 보내어 분석하였다. 최적조건을 구하고 농축배율을 연구한 결과 대개 0.5 ppm의 코발트 시료 1.0 mL를 사용하였을 때 13배의 농축율을 얻었으며 시료 처리 속도는 시간당 I0개 정도 이었다. 부피를 10.0 mL로 증가시키면 시료의 처리속도는 늦어지지만 농축비를 68배로 높일 수 있었다. 본 연구의 정확성을 알기 위해 합성된 준 표준 생체시료를 분석한 결과 4%의 상대 표준편차를 가지고 예상치에 근접하는 좋은 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 해양환경안전학회:학술대회논문집
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• 해양환경안전학회 2007년도 추계학술발표회
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• pp.185-185
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• 2007

20세기에 들어 산업, 군사 및 다양한 목적으로 비인화성 용매인 PCE와 TCE의 사용량이 증대하였다. 주의를 필요로 하는 물질임에도 불구하고 부주의한 사용과 보관으로 인해 토양, 퇴적토, 지하수에 심각하게 오염되었다. High-chlorinated ethenes은 호기성 박테리아의 oxygenation에 의해 분해되지 않는다. PEC및 TCE의 완전한 탈염소화는 혐기성조건에서만 관찰되어지며, 지난 10연년간의 연구에 의해서 탈염소화 혐기성 미생물의 수의 보고는 증가되었다. 혐기성 조건에서 탈염소화 미생물에 의해 PCE와 TCE는 less-chlorinated ethenes 또는 무해한 ethene으로 전환이 가능하다. 본 연구는 lactate를 electron donor로 이용해 PCE에서 ethene까지 완전히 탈염소화하는 혐기성 배양을 수행했다. PCE로 오염된 퇴적토 시료로부터 혐기성 미생물 배양을 성공했다. PCE가 ethene까지 완전히 분해되는 것이 관찰되었다. 추가적으로 혐기성 미생물 배양액에서 1,2-cis-dichloroethene (cis-DCE)와 vinyl chloride (VC)의 축적이 일어남을 관찰하였다. 혐기성 미생물 배양액에서 Dehalococcoides 16S rRNA gene sequences에 특이적으로 반응하는 primer를 이용한 DGGE를 통해 미생물 군집을 분석하였다. 결론적으로, 우리의 연구에서 PCE를 감소시키는 배양액을 배양했으며, 이 배양엑에는 Dehalococcoides sp. 존재하는 것을 확인하였다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.231-236
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• 2006

A novel sample pretreatment technique, headspace hanging drop liquid phase microextraction (HS-LPME) was studied and applied to the determination of flavors from solid clove buds by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Several parameters affecting on HS-LPME such as organic solvent drop volume, extraction time, extraction temperature and phase ratio were investigated. 1-Octanol was selected as the extracting solvent, drop size was fixed to 0.6 $\mu$L. 60 min extraction time at 25 ${^{\circ}C}$ was chosen. HS-LPME has the good efficiency demonstrated by the higher partition equilibrium constant ($K_{lh}$) values and concentration factor (CF) values. The limits of detection (LOD) were 1.5-3.2 ng. The amounts of eugenol, $\beta$-caryophyllene and eugenol acetate from the clove bud sample were 1.90 mg/g, 1.47 mg/g and 7.0 mg/g, respectively. This hanging drop based method is a simple, fast and easy sample enrichment technique using minimal solvent. HSLPME is an alternative sample preparation method for the analysis of volatile aroma compounds by GC-MS.

• 분석과학
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.427-434
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• 1995

Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry combined with the isotope dilution method is used for the determination of lithium. The isotope dilution method is based on the addition of a known amount of enriched isotope (spike) to a sample. The analyte concentration is obtained by measuring the altered isotope ratio. The spike solution is calibrated through so called reverse isotope dilution with a primary standard. The spike calibration is an important step to minimize error in the determined concentration. It has been found essential to add spike to a sample and the primary standard so that the two isotope ratios should be as dose as possible. Since lithium is neither corrosive nor toxic, lithium is used as a chemical tracer in the nuclear power plants to measure feedwater flow rate. 99.9% $^7Li$ was injected into a feedwater line of an experimental system and sample were taken downstream to be spiked with 95% $^6Li$ for the isotope dilution measurements. Effects of uncertainties in the spike enrichment and isotope ratio measurement error at various spike-to-sample ratios are presented together with the flow rate measurement results in comparison with a vortex flow meter.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.50-57
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• 2014

We present a new next-generation sequencing-based method to identify somatic mutations of lung cancer. It is a comprehensive mutation profiling protocol to detect somatic mutations in 30 genes found frequently in lung adenocarcinoma. The total length of the target regions is 107 kb, and a capture assay was designed to cover 99% of it. This method exhibited about 97% mean coverage at $30{\times}$ sequencing depth and 42% average specificity when sequencing of more than 3.25 Gb was carried out for the normal sample. We discovered 513 variations from targeted exome sequencing of lung cancer cells, which is 3.9-fold higher than in the normal sample. The variations in cancer cells included previously reported somatic mutations in the COSMIC database, such as variations in TP53, KRAS, and STK11 of sample H-23 and in EGFR of sample H-1650, especially with more than $1,000{\times}$ coverage. Among the somatic mutations, up to 91% of single nucleotide polymorphisms from the two cancer samples were validated by DNA microarray-based genotyping. Our results demonstrated the feasibility of high-throughput mutation profiling with lung adenocarcinoma samples, and the profiling method can be used as a robust and effective protocol for somatic variant screening.

• BioChip Journal
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.317-325
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• 2018

This paper investigated the effects of ionic strength in the medium on a preconcentrator for a protein sample with low concentration. The preconcentration chip was designed and fabricated using a polydimethylsiloxane replica through standard lithophotography. A glass substrate is silanized prior to functionalizing the nanoparticles for self-assembly at a designed region. Due to the overlap of electrical double layers in a nanofluidic channel, a concentration polarization effect can be achieved using an electric field. A nonlinear electrokinetic flow is induced, resulting in the fast accumulation of proteins in front of the induced ionic depletion zone, so called exclusion-enrichment effect. Thus, the protein sample can be driven by electroosmotic flow and accumulated at a specific location. The chip is used to collect fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled bovine serum albumin (FITC-BSA) diluted in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) buffer solution. Different concentrations of the buffer media were studied herein. Fluorescence intensity images show that the buffer concentration of 4 mM is more appropriate than all the other ones. The sample of FITC-BSA with an initial concentration of $10{\mu}M$ in the 4 mM PBS solution increases its concentration at the desired region by up to 50 times within 30 min, demonstrating the results in this investigation.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.390-399
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• 2003

본 연구는 경남지역의 해수와 해산물에서 Listeria 속을 분리하여 증균배양방법에 따른 균의 분리율, 선택배지에 따른 균의 분리율, 검체에 따른 균종 별 분리율, 생화학 시험과 분리된 L. monocytogenes에 대하여는 혈청형 시험을 실시하였다. 총 100건의 검체에서 증균배양에 따른 Listeria 속의 분리율은 1일 증균배양에서 L. monocytogenes가 4% (4건), L. innocua가 35%(35건), L. ivanovii가 4%(4건), L. welshimeri가 1%(1건)였고, 7일간 증균배양에서는 L. monocytogenes가 1%(7건), L. innocua가 38%(38건), L. ivanovii가 5%(5건), L. welshimeri가 1%(1건)로 동정되어 1일 증균배양 보다 7일간의 증균배양이 Listeria속의 분리에 휠씬 효과적이었다. 이와 함께 Oxford 선택배지나 LPM 선택 배지를 사용하였을 경우 증균배양과 비교하여 검출율이 조금 낮았다. 검체에 따른 Listeria 속의 분리율은 새우와 가재에서 80%(16/20)로 분리율이 가장 높았으며, 바지락에서 50% (10/20), 해수에서 25%(5/20), 홍합에서 20%(4/20)의 순으로 나타났다. 그리고 Listeria 속의 균종 별 분리율은 L. irnnocua가 38%(38건), L. monocytogenes가 7%(7건), L. ivanovii가 5%(5건), L. welshimeri가 1%(1건)순으로 분리되었다. 각 검체에서 Listeria 속의 균종 별 분리율은 새우에서 L. innocua가 65%(13건), L. monocytogenes가 15%(3건), 가재에서 L. innocua가 70%(14건), L. monocytogenes가 10%(2건), 바지락에서 L. innocua가 45%(9건), L. monocytogenes가 5%(1건), 홍합에서 L. innocua가 10%(2건), L. monocytogenes가 5%(1건), L. welshimeri가 5%(1건), 해수에서 L. ivanovii가 25%(5건)분리되었다. L. monocytogenes로 분리 동정된 7주에 대한 혈청형 분류는 type I이 2주, type IV가 5주로 나타났다.