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Investigation of the 19th~20th century Hat String Materials at the National Folk Museum of Korea: Amber, Tortoise Shell, Plastics, Glass (국립민속박물관 소장 19~20세기 갓끈 재질 조사: 호박, 대모, 플라스틱, 유리를 중심으로)

  • Oh, Joon-Suk;Lee, Sae-Rom;Hwang, Min-Young;Noh, Soo-Jung;Lee, Young-Min;Park, Sung-Hee;Lim, Sung-Hee
    • Korean Journal of Heritage: History & Science
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    • v.51 no.4
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    • pp.66-83
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    • 2018
  • This article focuses how the materials of hatstrings of the 19th to 20th century gat, the Korean top hat for men among the collections of National Folk Museum of Korea, was transformed after port opening treaties with overseas since 1876. As a result of analyzing the materials of the hatstrings, amber, tortoiseshell, wood and bamboo as the traditional materials were used, and ivory, glass (soda glass, lead glass, alkali mixed glass) and plastics (cellulose nitrate, phenol-formaldehyde, polystyrene, acryl) were newly used for the hatstrings. Bamboo, wood and amber were the most frequently used materials. Bamboo was mainly used for the pipe of hatstring and were combined with beads and central decorations of other materials. This shows the trend of bamboo hatstring according to the simplification of the clothing and the culture by Regent Heungseon Daewongun. Ambers were used in the central decorations and beads and the origin of ambers was baltic amber just like the amber relics found in Korea. Compositions of glass were soda glass and alkali mixed glass which were excavated or handed down in Korea from ancient times to Joseon dynasty. But in the case of lead glass, Na2O was detected and it is considered to be a new type lead glass for crafts which came from overseas after port opening since 1876 because it showed the characteristic that it deviates from the lead glass component found in Korea. Plastics such as cellulose nitrate and phenol-formaldehyde were used as new synthetic materials to replace traditional materials such as tortoiseshell, amber, and coral as in the West. Cracks, crazing, crumbly and yellowing of cellulose nitrate of hatstrings were observed by deterioration. The survey of the materials of the 19th to 20th century hatstrings among the collections of National Folk Museum of Korea showed that the introduction of new materials such as glass and plastics were used to replace natural materials such as tortoiseshell and amber along with the use of traditional materials after port opening since 1876.

Evaluation of Biomass and Nitrogen Status in Paddy Rice Using Ground-Based Remote Sensors (지상원격측정 센서를 이용한 벼의 생체량 및 질소 영양 평가)

  • Kang, Seong-Soo;Gong, Hyo-Young;Jung, Hyun-Cheol;Kim, Yi-Hyun;Hong, Suk-Young;Hong, Soon-Dal
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.43 no.6
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    • pp.954-961
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    • 2010
  • Ground-based remote sensing can be used as one of the non-destructive, fast, and real-time diagnostic tools for quantifying yield, biomass, and nitrogen (N) stress during growing season. This study was conducted to assess biomass and nitrogen (N) status of paddy rice (Oryza sativa L.) plants under N stress using passive and active ground-based remote sensors. Nitrogen application rates were 0, 70, 100, and 130 kg N $ha^{-1}$. At each growth stage, reflectance indices measured with active sensor showed higher correlation with DW, N uptake and N concentration than those with the passive sensor. NIR/Red and NIR/Amber indices measured with Crop Circle active sensors generally had a better correlation with dry weight (DW), N uptake and N content than vegetation indices from Crop Circle passive sensor and NDVIs from active sensors. Especially NIR/Red and NIR/amber ratios at the panicle initiation stage were most closely correlated with DW, N content, and N uptake. Rice grain yield, DW, N content and N uptake at harvest were highly positively correlated with canopy reflectance indices measured with active sensors at all sampling dates. N application rate explains about 91~92% of the variability in the SI calculated from NIR/Red or NIR/Amber indices measured with Crop Circle active sensors on 12 July. Therefore, the in-season sufficiency index (SI) by NIR/Red or NIR/Amber index from Crop Circle active sensors can be used for determination of N application rate.

Probing α/β Balances in Modified Amber Force Fields from a Molecular Dynamics Study on a ββα Model Protein (1FSD)

  • Yang, Changwon;Kim, Eunae;Pak, Youngshang
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.1713-1719
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    • 2014
  • 1FSD is a 28-residue designed protein with a ${\beta}{\beta}{\alpha}$ motif. Since this protein displays most essential features of protein structures in such a small size, this model protein can be an outstanding system for evaluating the balance in the propensity of the secondary structures and the quality of all-atom protein force fields. Particularly, this protein would be difficult to fold to its correct native structure without establishing proper balances between the secondary structure elements in all-atom energy functions. In this work, a series of the recently optimized five amber protein force fields [$ff03^*$, $f99sb^*$-ildn, ff99sb-${\phi}^{\prime}$-ildn, ff99sb-nmr1-ildn, ff99sb-${\Phi}{\Psi}$(G24, CS)-ildn] were investigated for the simulations of 1FSD using a conventional molecular dynamics (MD) and a biased-exchange meta-dynamics (BEMD) methods. Among those tested force fields, we found that ff99sb-nmr1-ildn and ff99sb-${\Phi}{\Psi}$(G24, CS)-ildn are promising in that both force fields can locate the native state of 1FSD with a high accuracy (backbone rmsd ${\leq}1.7{\AA}$) in the global free energy minimum basin with a reasonable energetics conforming to a previous circular dichroism (CD) experiment. Furthermore, both force fields led to a common set of two distinct folding pathways with a heterogeneous nature of the transition state to the folding. We anticipate that these force fields are reasonably well balanced, thereby transferable to many other protein folds.

Biosphere Modeling for Dose Assessment of HLW Repository: Development of ACBIO (고준위 방사성패기물 처분장 생태계 모델링을 위한 ACBIO개발)

  • Lee, Youn-Myoung;Hwang, Yong-Soo
    • Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.73-100
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    • 2008
  • For the purpose of evaluating dose rate to individual due to long-term release of nuclides from the HLW repository, a biosphere assessment model and the implemented code, ACBIO, based on BIOMASS methodology have been developed by utilizing AMBER, a general compartment modeling tool. To show its practicability and usability as well as to see the sensitivity of compartment scheme or parametric variation to concentration and activity in compartments as well as annual flux between compartments at their peak values, some calculations are made and investigated: For each case when changing the structure of compartments and GBIs as well as varying selected input Kd values, all of which seem very important among others, dose rate per nuclide release rate is separately calculated and analyzed. From the maximum dose rates (Bq/y), flux-to-dose conversion factors (Sv/Bq) for each nuclide were derived, which are to be used for converting the nuclide release rate appearing from the geosphere through various GBIs to dose rate (Sv/y) for individual in critical group. It has been also observed that compartment scheme, identification of possible exposure group and GBIs could be all highly sensitive to the final consequences in biosphere modeling.

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Amber Information Design for Supporting Safe-Driving Under Local Road in Small-scale Area (국지지역에서의 안전운전 지원을 위한 경보정보 설계)

  • Moon, Hak-Yong;Ryu, Seung-Ki
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.38-48
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    • 2010
  • Adverse weather (e.g. strong winds, snow and ice) will probably appear as a more serious and frequent threat to road traffic than in clear climate. Another consequence of climate change with a natural disastrous on road traffic is respond to traffic accident more the large and high-rise bridge zone, tunnel zone, inclined plane zone and de-icing zone than any other zone, which in turn calls for continuous adaption of monitoring procedures. Accident mitigating measures against this accident category may consist of intense winter maintenance, the use of road weather information systems for data collection and early warnings, road surveillance and traffic control. While hazard from reduced road friction due to snow and ice may be eliminated by snow removal and de-icing measures, the effect of strong winds on road traffic are not easily avoided. The purpose of the study described here, was to design of amber information the relationship between traffic safety, weather, user information on road weather and driving conditions in local-scale Geographic. The most applications are the optimization of the amber information definition, improvements to road surveillance, road weather monitoring and improved accuracy of user information delivery. Also, statistics on wind gust, surface condition, vehicle category and other relevant parameters for wind induced accidents provide basis for traffic control, early warning policies and driver education for improved road safety at bad weather-exposed locations.

A Study on Algorithm and Operation Technique for Dynamic Hard Shoulder Running System on Freeway (고속도로 동적 갓길차로제 알고리즘과 운영기법 연구)

  • Nam Sik Moon;Eon kyo Shin;Ju hyun Kim
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.16-36
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    • 2024
  • This study, developed a dynamic hard shoulder running(HSR) algorithm that includes ending speed and minimum operation time in addition to the starting speed for HSR, and presented an operation plan. The first stage of the algorithm was red, which means vehicles are prohibited from HSR. The second stage is red/amber, in which drivers are notified of HSR, and operators are given time to check whether there is any obstacle to HSR. Stage 3 is green, which vehicles are permitted for HSR. Stage 4 is amber, in which a signal is given to drivers that the end of HSR is imminent. In addition, a minimum time is applied to green and red, but if congestion is severe, red is terminated early to prevent congestion from worsening. The upstream and downstream traffic flow is managed stably through main line ramp metering and lane number matching. The operating standard speed reflects the characteristics of vehicles and drivers, and based on simulation results, 7090 was selected as the optimal operating standard speed considering traffic flow and safety aspects. Therefore it is desirable to apply the travel time divided by the minimum speed of the HSR link as the minimum operating time in order to ensure continuity of traffic flow

Effects of force fields for refining protein NMR structures with atomistic force fields and generalized-Born implicit solvent model

  • Jee, Jun-Goo
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.24-29
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    • 2014
  • Atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulation has become mature enabling close approximation of the real behaviors of biomolecules. In biomolecular NMR field, atomistic MD simulation coupled with generalized implicit solvent model (GBIS) has contributed to improving the qualities of NMR structures in the refinement stage with experimental restraints. Here all-atom force fields play important roles in defining the optimal positions between atoms and angles, resulting in more precise and accurate structures. Despite successful applications in refining NMR structure, however, the research that has studied the influence of force fields in GBIS is limited. In this study, we compared the qualities of NMR structures of two model proteins, ubiquitin and GB1, under a series of AMBER force fields-ff99SB, ff99SB-ILDN, ff99SB-NMR, ff12SB, and ff13-with experimental restraints. The root mean square deviations of backbone atoms and packing scores that reflect the apparent structural qualities were almost indistinguishable except ff13. Qualitative comparison of parameters, however, indicates that ff99SB-ILDN is more recommendable, at least in the cases of ubiquitin and GB1.

Response of Amber Fish, Seriola aureovitta to Electric Stimuli (부시리의 전기자극에 대한 반응)

  • Chang, Ho-Young;Lee , Byoung-Gee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.19-27
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    • 1985
  • It is important to minimize the electric power consumption to stimulate the marine fish, for the much electric power consumption is required to induce the response. The experiment was made to find out the threshold value for the electrotaxis or electronarcosis on amber fish, Seriola aureovitta(TEMMINCK et SCHLEGEL). The impulse rate and width which minimize the electric power consumption were examined. The experiment was carried out in the acryl tank(49W$\times$175L$\times$50Hcm) which is equipped with the two electrodes. The results obtained are as follows: 1) The electric power consumption which is required to induce the electorates and electronarcosis is tended to decrease as the lower impulse rate. 2) The mean electric power consumption for the electronarcosis is about 4.5~10 times of the electrotaxis. 3) The impulse width which minimize the electric power consumption is 0.5msec.

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Computational Studies of the β-D Glucopyranose Structure (계산화학적 방법을 통한 β-D-glucopyranose 구조 연구)

  • Yang, Ji-Hyun;Kim, Jinah;Lee, Sangmin;Ahn, Ik-Sung;Mhin, ByungJin
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.57 no.5
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    • pp.554-559
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    • 2013
  • In this study, we have investigated potential energy of ${\beta}$-D-glucopyranose in vacuum and implicit water condition. By Comparing two conditions we find that how solvation energy influence ${\beta}$-D-glucopyranose structure. We use AMBER package program and GLYCAM_06 force field. Solvation model was used for the generalized Born model with Hawkins, Cramer, Truhlar has been proposed. We conclude that difference of contour map of two conditions is caused by solvation effect by reducing hydrogen bonding interaction.