• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.48 no.3
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• pp.275-283
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• 2015

This study compared the sensory and nutritional characteristics of mottled skate Beringraja pulchra caught off Ulleung Island (U-MS), Korea, with those caught off Daecheong Island (D-MS). Based on their trichloroacetic acid-soluble nitrogen content, free amino acid content, and taste value, the taste of intermediate weight female U-MS was superior to that of both other U-MS and D-MS. The urea content of U-MS was higher in females than males and increased in the order heavy>intermediate>light individuals. There was, however, no difference in urea content between U-MS and D-MS. The taste and flavor characterization results suggest that the level of ammonia, which was converted from urea, influenced the quality of fermented U-DS. With the exception of the light U-DS, the other U-MS exhibited no difference in terms of hardness. The total amino acid content of U-MS was higher in females than males and increased in the order intermediate > heavy > light individuals. The total amino acid content of U-MS was also higher than that of D-MS. The major amino acids of all MSs were aspartic acid, glutamic acid, leucine, and lysine.

• Journal of Aquaculture
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.236-244
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• 2005

Experiments were performed to investigate the effects of the different anesthetic MS-222 and lidocaine-HCl doses on the blood physiological responses, on the time required for anesthesia and recovery, and on the survival rates of black rockfish (Sebastes schlegeli). Plasma cortisol was its highest levels (96.1$\pm$12.1 ng/ml) at 6 hours after the administration of 300 ppm of MS-222, and in all groups, plasma cortisol levels were higher than the initial levels during the anesthetic experiment. Fish receiving lidocaine-HCl also exhibited higher than initial plasma cortisol levels at almost experimental intervals. The middle size fish exhibited the highest glucose level (143.3$\pm$14.5 mg/dl) at 50 ppm of anesthesia after 1 hour, and every level was significantly higher than the initial level for at least 12 hours. Glucose levels in fish to which lidocaine-HCl was administered were comparable to the levels seen in conjunction with MS-222 treatment. In fish anesthetized with MS-222, K+ levels in the small size fish were significantly elevated after 1 hour, while Na+ levels did not change in any of the groups throughout the experiment. Anesthetic time was significantly attenuated with increases in the concentrations of MS-222 and lidocaine-HCl. We also noted a correlation between anesthetic time and fish size, in that larger fish took a longer time, followed by the middle size and then the small size fish. The all fish size groups showed above $95\%$ survival rates at every experimental concentration in MS-222 and 300-400 ppm in lidocaine-HCl. The results may indicate that 100-200 ppm MS-222 and 400 ppm lidocaine-HCl are the most effective doses as sedatives for the black rockfish and these doses could be used as the suitable anesthetics doses.

• Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.52-60
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• 2010

High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC/MS) have been widely used to quantify aflatoxins in food, but these methods are expensive, time-consuming, unsuitable for analysis of the routine screening of large sample numbers and require derivatization and high level techniques to perform. The objective of this study is to detect aflatoxins in a large number of foods by a high efficient analytical system of combined enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for screening and LC/MS/MS for confirmation. The samples spiked individually with aflatoxin $B_1$ (0.5 and 1.0 ng/g) and total aflatoxins (10 ng/g) were analyzed by ELISA and LC/MS/ MS, and the recoveries for ELISA and LC/MS/MS were 71.8~119.2% and 70.8~135.3%, respectively. A total of 378 samples (grains, nuts, soybean and fermented soybean foods, pepper and fermented pepper foods) were purchased from the six major cities in Korea and analyzed by ELISA-LC/MS/MS system. Twenty two (5.8%; peanut: 11, pistachio: 2, walnut: 6, almond: 1, pepper powder: 1, pepper paste: 1) out of 378 samples were screened as aflatoxin B1 positive by ELISA, but, 4 (1.1%; peanut: 2, pistachio:1, pepper powder: 1) out of the 22 samples screened were confirmed as aflatoxins positive at levels of 1.02~52.79 ng/g by LC/MS/MS. ELISA-LC/MS/MS system provides a more rapid, accurate and cost-effective method for the detection of aflatoxins in large number of samples.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.111-116
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• 2008

This study was carried out to induce plant regeneration via multiple shoot formation from sucker explants of Rubus fruticosus L. ${\times}$ R. parvifolius L. To induce adventitious shoots, the sucker explants were sterilized in 1.2% sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) solution, and then were cultured on the full and 1/2 MS solid medium supplemented with BA (0.1, 0.5, 1.0, $2.0mg{\cdot}L^{-1}$). After 4 weeks of culture, the highest frequency (83.3%) of shoot formation from sucker explants was obtained from the full MS medium with $1.0mg{\cdot}L^{-1}$ BA. The highest shoot number (3.7) per explant was obtained from the full MS medium with $0.5mg{\cdot}L^{-1}$ BA. After 12 weeks of culture, the number of shoots (15.4) per explant was increased. The highest frequency (95%) of root formation was obtained from the 1/2 MS medium, when the explant with shoot were cultured on the full, 1/2 and 1/4 MS medium. The survival rate of the plantlets after transfer to plastic pots containing sand, soil, and vermiculite (1.1:1, vol.) was 95%. The results indicate that multiple shoot procedure can be applied for an efficient mass propagation of Rubus fruticosus L. ${\times}$ R. parvifolius L.

• The Korean Journal of Pesticide Science
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.141-147
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• 2014

Fenpyroximate is acaricide of pyrazole group. This acaricide have already been permitted for herb cultivation. This experiment was conducted to establish a determination method for fenpyroximate residue in herbal medicines using HPLC-PDA and HPLC-MS/MS. Fenpyroximate residue was extracted with acetone from samples of herbal which Liquorice Root (Glycyrrhiza uralensis) and Safflower Seed (Carthamus tinctorius Linne). The extract was diluted with saturated saline water and dichloromethane liquid-liquid partition (extraction) was followed to recover fenpyroximate from the aqueous phase. Amino propyl ($NH_2$) and florisil column chromatography was additionally employed for final clean up of the extract. The fenpyroximate was quantitated by HPLC-PDA and HPLC-MS/MS. The herbals were fortified with fenpyroximate at 2 or 3 levels per crop. Mean recovery ratio were ranged from 72.0 to 106.4%. The coefficients of variation were ranged from 0.2 to 4.4. Therefore, this analytical method was reproducible and sensitive enough to determine the residue of fenpyroximate in herbal medicines.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.77-85
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• 2008

This work proposes a 12b 130MS/s 108mW $1.8mm^2$ 0.18um CMOS ADC for high-quality video systems such as TFT-LCD displays and digital TVs requiring simultaneously high resolution, low power, and small size at high speed. The proposed ADC optimizes power consumption and chip area at the target resolution and sampling rate based on a three-step pipeline architecture. The input SHA with gate-bootstrapped sampling switches and a properly controlled trans-conductance ratio of two amplifier stages achieves a high gain and phase margin for 12b input accuracy at the Nyquist frequency. A signal-insensitive 3D-fully symmetric layout reduces a capacitor and device mismatch of two MDACs. The proposed supply- and temperature- insensitive current and voltage references are implemented on chip with a small number of transistors. The prototype ADC in a 0.18um 1P6M CMOS technology demonstrates a measured DNL and INL within 0.69LSB and 2.12LSB, respectively. The ADC shows a maximum SNDR of 53dB and 51dB and a maximum SFDR of 68dB and 66dB at 120MS/s and 130MS/s, respectively. The ADC with an active die area of $1.8mm^2$ consumes 108mW at 130MS/s and 1.8V.

• Journal of fish pathology
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.311-321
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• 2023

The efficacy of the alginate microsphere (Alginate MS) oral vaccine against Miamiensis avidus in olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) was confirmed through challenge infections by both immersion and injection routes. In trial 1, the formalin-inactivated M. avidus coated with alginate, designated as 'IMa+Alginate MS' group, and the IMa group were administered with vaccines mixed with feed, with a total antigen dose of 3.75 × 10⁶ cells/fish. When challenged with immersion infection at five weeks post vaccination, the relative percent survival (RPS) in the IMa+Alginate MS group was 50% (immersed in 50% seawater) and 37.5% (immersed in 100% seawater). The group that received only IMa showed a low survival rate. In trial 2, the antigen was fed mixed with feed at a total dose of 2.38 × 10⁶ cells/fish for 5 days. Two weeks after oral vaccination, fish were intraperitoneally injected for infection. The RPS in the IMa+Alginate MS group was 30.8%, while the IMa-only group showed no vaccine efficacy. At five weeks post vaccination, when subjected to challenge infection by immersion in 50% seawater, the IMa+Alginate MS group recorded a RPS of 42.9%, whereas the IMa group had a RPS of 14.3%. The results of this study indicate that coating M. avidus antigen with alginate can provide higher protection in olive flounder compared to administering the antigen alone.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.1192-1198
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• 2010

Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are emerging contaminants in the aquatic environment. Many pharmaceuticals are not completely removed during wastewater treatment, leading to their presence in wastewater treatment effluents, rivers, lakes, and ground water. Here, we developed analytical methods for monitoring ten pharmaceuticals from surface water by LC/ESI-MS/MS. For sample clean-up and extraction, MCX (mixed cation exchange) and HLB (hydrophilic-lipophilic balance) solid-phase extraction (SPE) cartridges were used. The limits of detection (LOD) in distilled water and the blank surface water were in the range of 0.006 - 0.65 and 1.66 - 45.05 pg/mL, respectively. The limits of quantitation (LOQ) for the distilled water and the blank surface water were in the range of 0.02 - 2.17 and 5.52 - 150.15 pg/mL, respectively. The absolute recoveries for fortified water samples were between 62.1% and 125.4%. Intra-day precision and accuracy for the blank surface water were 2.9% - 24.1% (R.S.D.) and -16.3% - 16.3% (bias), respectively. In surface wastewater near rivers, chlortetracycline and acetylsalicylic acid were detected frequently in the range of 0.017 - 5.404 and 0.029 - 0.269 ng/mL, respectively. Surface water near rivers had higher levels than surface water of domestic treatment plants.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.123-128
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose the improved noise power estimation in speech enhancement under various noise environments. The previous MS algorithm tracking the minimum value of finite search window uses the optimal power spectrum of signal for smoothing and adopts minimum probability. From the investigation of the previous MS-based methods it can be seen that a fixed size of the minimum search window is assumed regardless of the various environment. To achieve the different search window size, we use the noise classification algorithm based on the Gaussian mixture model (GMM). Performance of the proposed enhancement algorithm is evaluated by ITU-T P.862 perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) under various noise environments. Based on this, we show that the proposed algorithm yields better result compared to the conventional MS method.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.35-46
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• 2018

This study investigated the quality characteristics of makpyeon made of dry milled rice powder according to soaking time. Makpyeon samples made of dry milled rice powder were analyzied with various soacking time, the moisture content, pH, Hunter's color value texture characteristics, attribute difference test and acceptance test. The moisture content of makpyeon did not indicate difference among samples. pH resulted in MS90 showed the lowest moisture content. The L-value (lightness) and a-value (greenness) result in that MS0 showed the highest and decreased according to soaking time. The b-value (yellowness) increased according to soaking time, MS90 showed the highest. TPA resulted in that MS90 indicated the highest hardness, chewiness, gumminess and the lowest adhesiveness. Hardness of makpyeon samples was higher than sulgitteok samples, adhesiveness was lower than those of sulgitteok in each soaking time. Based on attribute difference test, the score of brightness, moistness, glossy, particle size were decreased and firmness were increased according to soaking times. Flavor, taste and mouth feel attribute was stronger in makpyeon samples with the longer soaking time. Acceptance results showed that MS0 and MS30 (soaking for 30 min) were preferred the most. Also limitations and future research directions of this study were discussed.