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Effect of Crosslinking Agents on the Morphology of Polymer Particles Produced by One-Step Seeded Polymerization

  • Kim, Dong-Hee;Lee, Do-Yang;Lee, Kang-Seok;Choe, Soon-Ja
    • Macromolecular Research
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.250-258
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    • 2009
  • One-step seeded polymerization was used to prepare $7{\sim}10{\mu}m$ of crosslinked monodisperse spheres with four crosslinking agents using $4.68{\mu}m$ poly(methyl methacrylate)(PMMA) seed particles in aqueous-alcoholic media in the absence of the swelling process. The crosslinking agents used were ethylene glycol dimethacrylate(EGDMA), allyl methacrylate(AMA), 1,6-hexanediol diacrylate(HDDA) and trimethylolpropane trimethacrylate(TMPTMA). The effects of the type and concentration of the crosslinking agents on the swelling, pore size, thermal property of the networks and morphology of the particles were studied. The chemical structures and concentrations of the crosslinking agents affected both the swelling ratio and the porosity of the networks. In addition, the chemistry of the reactive vinyl group and chain length of the crosslinking agents affected the stability of the monodisperse particles of the ultimate morphology.

Comparison of Eye Irritation Potency with Skin Irritation and Cytotoxicity Potency of Anti-wrinkle Agents (주름방지용 화장품원료의 안점막 자극성과 피부자극성 및 세포독성과의 비교)

  • 이은희;이종권;김주환;정경미;정해관;이선희;정수연;홍진태
    • Toxicological Research
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.143-149
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    • 2001
  • In the present study, we examined eye irritation oj six anti-wrinkle agents (ascorbic acid, glycolic acid, all trans-retinoic acid, ginseng extract, retinol, EB). We also compared eye irritation with skin irritation and cytotoxicity in HaCaT cells by these agents. The highest eye irritation was found in glycolic acid, but all trans-retinoic acid showed the highest skin irritation. The rank of eye irritation was not correlated with the cytotoxicity of agents. This result shows that eye irritation potency by these agents were not correlated with skin irritation potency, and cytotoxicity in HaCaT cells.

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Utilization of the Bulking Agents for Environment-friendly Toilet in Rural Village (농촌마을에서 자연발효형 화장실의 통기성 매질 이용에 관한 연구)

  • Kang Bang-Hun;Cho Soon-Jae
    • The Korean Journal of Community Living Science
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.105-112
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    • 2006
  • The biodegradability test of bulking agents in feces composting process is conducted to increase the management efficiency for environment-friendly rural toilet developed by National Rural Resource Institute in 2001. In the case study through references and field study, ash, fallen leaves, and wood chips are commonly used in the ecological toilet. Extension officers and farmers prefer rice straw, fallen leaves, and chaff among the rural resources as a bulking agents in the aspect of getting and storage as the result of questionnaire survey. As the result of biodegradability test including the temperature change, $CO_2$ gas production, and C/N ratio change of composting pile under the condition of aerobic composting apparatus, rice straw and chaff are good bulking agents for environment-friendly rural toilet. It is recommended that easy getting materials among the above mentioned materials are used for bulking agents as the region and season in environment-friendly rural toilet.

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Durable Water and Oil Repellent Finish of Wool Fabric(I) (양모직물의 내구성 발수 및 발유가공(I))

  • 나도춘;정순량;박병기;정경락
    • Textile Coloration and Finishing
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.33-37
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    • 1998
  • It is rather important in the water and oil repellent finishing for wool fabric what kind of water-repellent agents will be used. In many cases, Fluorocarbon-based water-repellent agents(eg.Oleophobol-S), the surface tensions of which very low, were recom-mended on account of good water and oil repellencies. In repellent finishing, fabrics were padded in a bath which contained aqueous solution of water-repellent agents, and wetting agents, followed by drying and curing. The most suitable treating condition for excellent repellency was as follows Fabrics were padded at liquor pick-up ratio of 50%, with aqueous solution which contained $30g/\ell$ of water-repellent agents, and $40g/\ell$ of wetting agents. And the padded fabrics were dried at $110^\circ{C}$ for 1 minute, and cured at $160^\circ{C}$ for 2 minutes. For the fabrics, water and oil repellencies and durability to repeated dry-cleanings are observed.

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Dye-resist Properties of Hetero-multifunctional Dye-resist Agents in Acid Dyeing of Wool

  • Oh Myung-Joon;Koh Joon-Seok;Kim Jae-Pil
    • Fibers and Polymers
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.117-122
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    • 2006
  • The dye-resist effect and leveling properties of hetero-mulifunctional dye-resist agents in acid dyeing of wool were investigated. The dye-resist agent with dichlorotriazinyl group achieved better resist effectiveness than those with monochlo-rotriazinyl group. The resist effectiveness was improved by increasing the number of sulfonate group in dye-resist agents. Also, the resist agents with more sulfonate groups showed better dye-assist effectivness, attributable to the increased electrostatic attraction between dye-resist agents and the cationic dye. However, the leveling properties of dye-resist agents decreased with the number of sulfonate groups in the molecule.

Cooperative Task Processing by Separating and Fusing Multi-Mobile-agents

  • Tsuchida, Yasuhiro;Yamamoto, Masahito;Kawamura, Hidenori;Ohuchi, Azuma
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2000.07b
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    • pp.965-968
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    • 2000
  • We develop the Multi-Mobile-agents system for realizing effective cooperative task processing in the network environment. In this system, agents are separated / fused by the Place and migrated to another computer. A Place can assign agents to other places by agents migration to be flat the time to execute agents’ action. In this paper, the effectiveness of this system is shown by experimental results applying an agent given simple task.

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The Trend of Foreign Sunscreen Products and Study of UV Protecting Effects (외국 자외선제품의 동향과 UV차단 효과 연구)

  • 우건희
    • Proceedings of the SCSK Conference
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    • 1992.09a
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    • pp.97-114
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    • 1992
  • In these days sun products are developed and produced by the cosmetic scientists in the world. Peoples need strongly to protect themselves from the hazardous UV rays dued to the destruction of ozone layer. Therfore, we, cosmetic scientists must have an effort to produce the more effective goods. In this article the market survey of sun-products as well as the currency of sunscreen agents was investigated. It was found that Benzophenone - 3 and Ocytyl methoxy cinnamate were widely used. The lotions, using Benzophenone - 3 as the chemical agents, and TiO$_2$and micro TiO$_2$ as the physical agents, were measured the UV-Spectrum in the Dilution and Application method. Photoprotective activity of chemical agents can usually be measured in solution state. However, that of the insoluble physical agents such as TiO$_2$is hardly measured in this state. Photoprotective ability of the insoluble physical agents was able to be measured by application of lotions to the surface of UV cells. It was found by this method that micro TiO$_2$showd stronger UV scattering effect than TiO$_2$in this method.

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New Antimicrobial Agents for Children (소아청소년 영역에서의 새로운 항미생물제)

  • Eun, Byung Wook
    • Pediatric Infection and Vaccine
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.6-12
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    • 2009
  • There are relatively few novel antimicrobial agents despite the dramatic increase in antimicrobial resistance and multiple drug resistance of clinical isolates worldwide. Vancomycin is still the most widely used antibiotic for treating resistant Gram-positive coccal infections in children, especially for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. For children with Gram-positive coccal infections where vancomycin is not effective or older therapeutic agents cannot be tolerated, linezolid, quinupristin-dalfopristin or daptomycin may be useful in the appropriate clinical setting. For Gram-negative bacterial infections, new carbapenems await clinical application. Tebipenem pivoxil is a novel oral carbapenem undergoing clinical trials for acute otitis media in pediatric patients. Antiviral drug development is now progressing at the pace of antibiotic development 30 years ago. Newer antiviral agents used for the treatment of herpes viruses and hepatitis C virus infections in children are included in this review.

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Diagnostic Significance of pH-Responsive Gd3+-Based T1 MR Contrast Agents

  • Bhuniya, Sankarprasad;Hong, Kwan Soo
    • Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.17-25
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    • 2019
  • We discuss recent advances in Gd-based $T_1$-weighted MR contrast agents for the mapping of cellular pH. The pH plays a critical role in various biological processes. During the past two decades, several MR contrast agents of strategic importance for pH-mapping have been developed. Some of these agents shed light on the pH fluctuation in the tumor microenvironment. A pH-responsive self-assembled contrast agent facilitates the visualization of tumor size as small as $3mm^3$. Optimization of various parameters is crucial for the development of pH-responsive contrast agents. In due course, the new contrast agents may provide significant insight into pH fluctuations in the human body.

U-complaints call center agents organization fairness impact on job performance through organizational commitment and job satisfaction (U-민원 콜센터 상담원 조직 공정성이 조직몰입과 직무만족을 통해 직무성과에 미치는 영향)

  • Nam, Sangmin;Hwang, Changyu;Kwon, Dosoon;Hong, Soongeun
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.125-143
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    • 2015
  • As improving the life quality of citizen because of development of Urbanization and Information, civil application service of public institutions has been changed. The government provides a 24-hour civil service of e-government, public institutions operate U-complaints call center to pursue a personalized service to customers. As customer service are diversified, the inconvenience of service is increased. Therefore, public institutions instituted U-complaints call center to solve increased complaints. In early days, public institutions operated simple call center. However, it became intelligent U-complaints call center by SNS. The more increase the importance of agents' contact customer service, the more increase Job Performance considered by Organizational Commitment & Job Satisfaction of call center agents. This study analyzed that applied to Fairness Theory with Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction and analyze U-complaints call center agents' role and job performance of public institutions. Proposed a research model applied to job satisfaction with key variables, organizational commitments, job satisfaction. It's expected to impact on job performance of U-complaints call center agents in public institutions. For empirical study of research model, conducted a survey of the U-complaints call center agents of public institutions. 170 samples were collected from the survey and analyze relationship between the factors. Procedural justice, distribution fairness, fairness interaction are significant influence on organizational commitment of parameters by analysis U-complaints call center agents. Procedural justice and fairness of interaction was found not to effect on parameters of job satisfaction. Also, parameter, organizational commitment have significant influence on job satisfaction. However, have no influence on job performance. Therefore, the parameters of job satisfaction have significant influence on job performance. Public institutions should adopt to improve the quality of citizen services through U-complaints call center agents.