• Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.59-71
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• 2018

Lake Enriquillo, the largest lake in the Dominican Republic, recently has undergone unusual water area changes since 2001 thus it has been affected seriously by local community's livelihood. Earthquakes and seismic activities of Hispaniola plate tectonic coupled with human activities and climate change are addressed as factors causing the increasing. Thus, a thorough study on relationship between lake area changing, and those factors is needed urgently. To do so, this study applied MESMA on MODIS data to extract water area of Lake Enriquillo during 2001 and 2012 bimonthly, with six issues 12-year. MODIS provides high temporal resolution, and its coarse spatial resolution is compensated by MESMA fraction map. The increase in water area was $142.2km^2$, and the maximum lake area was $338.0km^2$ (in 2012). Water areas extracted by two Landsat scenes at two different times with three image classification approaches (ISODATA, MNDWI, and TCW) were used to assess accuracy of MODIS and MESMA results; it indicated that MESMA water areas are same as ISODATA's, less than 0.4%, while the highest difference is between MESMA and TCW, 2.4%. A number of previously formulated hypotheses of lake area change were investigated based on the outcomes of the present study, though none of them could fully explain the changes.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.3-9
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• 1988

Infrared (IR) spectroscopic techniques for the analysis of wood samples and the absorbance spectra of solid woods were presented. KBr pellets were prepared by throughly mixing approximately 300 mg of dried KBr and 1 mg of finely milled wood powder extracted with ethanol-cyclohexane previously. This mixture was made into a transparent disc by means of a pellet-making die (10 ton/$cm^2$ for 10 min). This IR techniques were applied for the analysis of archaeological wood samples. The most notable difference in the IR spectra between the recent and the archaeological waterlogged woods is that the absorption band centered at $1,730cm^{-1}$ was significantly diminished in the waterlogged ones. Total loss of absorption in $1,730cm^{-1}$ might be mainly due to the result of hemicellulose degradation. Another feature indicated by IR spectral comparision are that the degraded waterlogged wood samples showed 1) the increased intensity of the 1,600, 1,500 and $1,270cm^{-1}$ due to the residual lignin and the increased intensity at 1,470 and $1,425cm^{-1}$ due to the degradation of hemicellulose and 2) to the emergence of single band around $1,050cm^{-1}$ instead of three bands at 1,110, 1,060 and $1,040cm^{-1}$ in recent wood due to the degradation of cellulose crystalline. It was revealed from the IR examinations that the first change of wood in the waterlogged situation was the lysis of hemicellulose and the second the lysis of cellulose. It was also suggested that IR spectroscopy could serve a fast method for the investigation on the chemical characteristics of archaeological wood samples.

• Mass Spectrometry Letters
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.49-52
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• 2011

Competitive binding of $C_{60}$ and $C_{70}$ to meso-substituted porphyrins was studied by mass spectrometry (MS). Electrospray ionization MS was employed to acquire the mass spectra of 1 : 1 porphyrin-fullerene complexes formed in a mixture of mesosubstituted porphyrin and fullerite to determine the ratio of complexes between $C_{60}$ and $C_{70}$. Matrix-free laser desorption ionization MS was used to obtain the mass spectra of fullerite to measure the mole fraction of $C_{60}$ and $C_{70}$. The binding constant ratio ($K_{70}$/$K_{60}$) was determined from the mass spectral data. The difference in standard Gibbs free energy change, ${\Delta}({\Delta}G^o)_{70-60}$, for the competitive binding of $C_{60}$ and $C_{70}$ was calculated from $K_{70}$/$K_{60}$. Of the five porphyrins, tetraphenyl, tetra(4-pyridyl), tetra(4-carboxyphenyl), tetra(3,5-di-tert-butylphenyl), and tetra(pentafluorophenyl) porphyrins, the first three non-bulky porphyrins yield negative values of ${\Delta}({\Delta}G^o)_{70-60}$, whereas the other two bulky porphyrins result in positive values of ${\Delta}({\Delta}G^o)_{70-60}$. This result indicates that $C_{70}$ binding to porphyrin is thermodynamically favored over $C_{60}$ binding in non-bulky porphyrins, but disfavored in bulky ones. It also suggests that the binding mode of $C_{70}$is different between non-bulky and bulky porphyrins, which is in line with previous experimental findings of the "side-on" binding to non-bulky porphyrins and the $C_{60}$-like "end-on" binding to bulky porphyrins.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.150-159
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 임의의 음성을 특정 화자가 발성한 것처럼 들리도록 변환하는 음성 개성 변환 알고리즘에 대해 연구하였다. 제안된 기법은 화자의 음성을 LPC 켑스트럼, 피치, 발성 속도를 사용하여 표현하였으며 각각에 대한 변환 규칙을 생성하여 변환을 수행하였다. LPC 켑스트럼은 혼합 가우시안 모델을 이용한 확률적으로 모델링하고, 두 화자간의 대응관계를 조건 확률로 나타내었다. 확률적인 모델링에 필요한 각종 파라메터들을 얻기 위해 최대 가능도 기법이 사용되었으며, 변환 LPC 켑스트럼은 최소 자승 오차 방법에 근거하여 얻어지도록 하였다. 운율 변환을 위한 변수로 본 논문에서는 피치와 발성 속도를 사용하였으며, 두 음성간의 평균값 비율을 사용하여 운율 변환을 수행하였다. 제안된 기법은 기존 벡터 양자화 기반의 기법과 비교에서, 객관적인 척도로 사용한 평균 켑스트럼 거리 감소율, 가능도 증가율 면에서 우수한 성능을 나타내었다. 주관적인 테스트에서도 기존의 방법과 유사한 인식율을 얻었으며 특히 완만하게 변화하는 스펙트럼 궤적에 따른 고음질이 얻어짐을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.474-499
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• 2010

This paper presents the mostortant developments implemented in the APOLLO2 spectral code since its last general presentation at the 1999 M&C conference in Madrid. APOLLO2 has been provided with new capabilities in the domain of cross section self-shielding, including mixture effects and transfer matrix self-shielding, new or improved flux solvers (CPM for RZ geometry, heterogeneous cells for short MOC and the linear-surface scheme for long MOC), improved acceleration techniques ($DP_1$), that are also applied to thermal and external iterations, and a number of sophisticated modules and tools to help user calculations. The method of characteristics, which took over the collision probability method as the main flux solver of the code, allows for whole core two-dimensional heterogeneous calculations. A flux reconstruction technique leads to fast albeit accurate solutions used for industrial applications. The APOLLO2 code has been integrated (APOLLO2-A) within the $ARCADIA^{(R)}$ reactor code system of AREVA as cross section generator for PWR and BWR fuel assemblies. APOLLO2 is also extensively used by Electricite de France within its reactor calculation chain. A number of numerical examples are presented to illustrate APOLLO2 accuracy by comparison to Monte Carlo reference calculations. Results of the validation program are compared to the measured values on power plants and critical experiments.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제46권4호
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• pp.309-317
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• 2002

형광분광법에 의하여 주성분 회귀분석(principal component regression, PCR)과 부분 최소자승법(Partial least squares, PLS)을 이용하여 아미노산(Tryptophan and Tyrosine)을 동시에 정량하는 방법에 대하여 연구하였다. 아미노산 혼합물의 형광 스펙트럼은 들뜸파장을257nm로 고정하여 측정하였다. 두 가지 아미노산이 서로 다른 농도로 혼합되어 있는 32개의 시료용액을 280nm∼500nm 범위에서 스펙트럼들을 얻었고 이를 이용하여 PCR과 PLS회귀모델을 얻었다. 두 가지 아미노산이 서로 다른 농도로 포함된 6개의 외부검정용 시료들의 스펙트럼들을 이용해서 회귀모델의 적합성을 검정하기 위하여 외부검정용 시료의 농도를 계산하였다. 계산된 농도를 이용하여 relative standard error of prediction($RSEP_a$)를 얻었고 같은 방법으로 overall relative standard error of prediction($RSEP_m$) 도 구하였다

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.34-39
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• 2003

The traditional Asian medicinal herb, roots of Astragalus (A.) membranaceus (Leguminosae), is used for many purposes, some of which are purported to stimulate the release of growth hormone in vivo. Extracts of A. membranaceus were tested to determine whether they stimulate the release of growth hormone in rat pituitary cell culture. A. membranaceus was extracted sequentially with 80% ethanol (fraction A), n-hexane (fraction B); the test compound from the herbal extraction was isolated using silica gel column chromatography and was identified with spectral data. Test compound was also extracted by traditional boiling water methods. Induction of growth hormone in pituitary cell culture was conducted with isolated compounds and extracted fractions of A. Radix (dried roots of A. membranaceus). The fraction A was not active in the rat pituitary cell culture, but the fraction B derived from the ethanol fraction stimulated the release of growth hormone in culture. Six compounds from fraction B (1-6) were isolated and identified previously. The compounds 1,2-benzendicarboxylic acid diisononylester (1), $\beta$-sitosterol (2), and 3-Ο-$\beta$-D-galactopyranosyl-$\beta$-sitosterol (5) did not induce growth hormone release in the culture. Formononetin (3), 9Z, 12Z-octadecadienoic acid (4), stigmast-4-en-6$\beta$-o1-3-one (6) and 98-E, a mixture of 1'-9, 12-octadecadienoic acid (Z,Z)-2',3'-dihydroxy-propylester (7) and 1'-hexadecanoic acid-2',3'-dihydroxy-propylester (8) stimulated the release of growth hormone in the rat pituitary cell culture significantly compared to the control. In conclusions, four compounds isolated from extracts of A. Radix induced growth hormone release in the rat pituitary cell culture. The 98-E isolate was the most active inducer of growth hormone release.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.143-152
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• 2022

In our study, sixteen known phenolic compounds, including quercetin (1), methyl gallate (2), caesalpiniaphenol C (3), 8S,8'S,7'R-(-)-lyoniresinol (4), 7,3',5'-trihydroxyflavanone (5), sappanchalcone (6), sappanone A (7), taxifolin (8), fisetin (9), fustin (10), (+)-catechin (11), brazilin (12), 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl β-ᴅ-glucopyranoside (13), 1-(2-methylbutyryl)phloroglucinol-glucopyranoside (14), (+)-epi-catechin (15), and astragalin (16) and one mixture of two conformers of protosappanin B (17/18) were isolated from the stems of Caesalpinia decapetala var. japonica. Their structures were elucidated based on a comparison of their physicochemical and spectral data with those of literature. To the best of our knowledge, this represents the first isolation of compounds 3, 4, 8, 9, and 10 from C. decapetala and compounds 13 and 14 from the Caesalpinia genus. All the isolated compounds were evaluated for their inhibitory effect against the α-glucosidase enzyme. Among them, two flavonols (1 and 9), one chalcone (6), and one homoisoflavanone (7) exhibited an inhibitory effect on α-glucosidase action with an IC₅₀ range value of 5.08-15.01 μM, stronger than that of the positive control (acarbose, IC₅₀ = 152.22 μM). Kinetic analysis revealed that compounds 1 and 9 showed non-competitive α-glucosidase inhibition, while the inhibition type was mixed for compounds 6 and 7.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.307-314
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• 1986

Sewage Sludge 를 시용하지 않은 토양(W), 6년간 시용한 토양($WS_6$), Sludge와 토양의 혼합물을 1주일동안 incubation한 토양($WS_1$), 그리고 Sewage Sludge(SS)로 부터 추출한 수용성 유기물(WSOF)이 구리(II) 이온과 어떻게 착화합물을 형성하는지를 전자스핀공명분광법(ESR)과 전위차적정법을 이용하여 규명하였다. Cu(II)-WSOF 착화합물은 ESR spectra 상에서 $g_{\perp}$ 값보다 큰 $g_{\amalg}$ 값을 가짐으로서 늘어난 팔면체(elongated octahedron) 배위결합을 하고 있음을 나타내었다. $77^{\circ}K$에서 Cu(II)-SS착물은 anisotropic ESR spectrum을 보인 반면 Cu(II)-W착물은 anisotropic spectrum을 나타내었다. 이러한 결과는 결국 W의 산소공여 리간드가 Cu(II)와 강한 착화합물을 이루는 반면에 SS의 리간드는 Cu(II)와 거의 Chelate를 이루지 않고 있음을 의미한다. 또한 Cu(II)-SS 착화합물의 ESR spectra는 평면상의 네개의 모서리 리간드(예, $COO^-$, $H_2O$, $Cl^-$ 등등)의 각각이 한자리 리간드로서 독립적으로 행동하고 있음을 암시한다. W에서는 방향족 카복실기 같은 산소공여 리간드가 주로 Cu(II)와 결합하고 있는것 같고 SS에서는 Sulfonate, 지방족 카복실기 그리고 질소를 함유하는 리간드가 주요한 결합 site인 것 같다. Cu(II)-SS착화합물과 비교할때 Cu(II)-W로 부터 Cu(II)를 치환하는데 6배정도의 Pyridine 농도가 요구되었다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제49권5호
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• pp.577-581
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• 2011

가시광 영역에서 강한 광루미네선스(photoluminescence, PL) 특성이 있는 실리콘 나노입자는, 생물학적 형광 이미징, RGB(red, green, blue) 디스플레이, 포토닉스, 광전소자 등의 응용소재로 개발될 수 있어 많은 연구가 수행되고 있다. 실리콘 나노입자의 광학적 및 물리화학적 특성을 이용한 실용적인 응용 및 개발을 위해서는 그 특성의 조절이 용이한 제조법 개발이 필수적이다. 본 연구에서는 Na(naphthalide)를 환원제로 사용한 용액환원법을 이용하여 한 단계로 입자표면이 알킬기로 안정화된 평균 <10 nm 크기의 실리콘 나노입자를 합성할 수 있는 방안을 시도하였다. 이를 위하여 실리콘 전구체로 알킬기를 포함하고 있는 (Octyl)$SiCl_3$ 단독 또는 (Octyl)$SiCl_3$와 $SiCl_4$의 혼합물을 사용하여 Si-Cl 결합의 환원을 통한 입자의 형성과 동시에 반응물에 포함된 Octyl 기에 의한 표면 안정화를 한번에 달성할 수 있었다. 합성한 실리콘 입자의 TEM/EDS, FTIR 분석결과 입자의 크기는 <10 nm이며, 표면이 알킬기로 덮여있어 소수성 용제인 헥산에 쉽게 용해되었으며 입자표면은 소량의 산화된 Si-O-Si 그룹을 포함하고 있었다. UV-vis 및 PL 분석결과 표면 알킬기를 포함하는 실리콘 나노입자의 전형적인 광 특성을 보여 간단한 반응단계를 통하여 표면이 Octyl기로 덮인 실리콘 나노입자를 합성할 수 있음을 보였다. 본 연구에서 시도한 합성법을 응용할 경우, 향 후 실리콘 나노입자의 표면에 다양한 기능기를 one-pot으로 도입할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.