• Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.118-126
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• 2012

To investigate the effect of aircraft traffic emissions on soil pollution, metal levels were analyzed for 8 metals (Fe, Cr, Pb, Zn, Cu, Ni, Mn and Cd) from the vicinity of the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport in Delhi, India. The texture of the airport soil was observed to be sandy. Among the metals, Cd showed minimum concentration ($2.07{\mu}g\;g^{-1}$), while Fe showed maximum concentration ($4379{\mu}g\;g^{-1}$). The highest metal accumulation was observed at the landing site. Significant correlations were observed between metals and different textures (sand, silt, and clay) as well as with organic carbon (OC). The results indicate that grain size play a major role in OC retention in soil and subsequently helps in adsorption of metals in soil. M$\ddot{u}$ller's geoaccumulation index (I-geo) showed that airport soil was contaminated due to Cd and Pb with the pollution class 2 and 1, respectively. Pollution load index of the airport site was 1.34-3 times higher than the background site. The results of factor analysis suggested that source of the soil metal is mainly from natural weathering of soil, aircraft exhaust, and automobile exhaust from near by area. With respect to Dutch target values, the airport soils showed ~3 times higher Cd concentration. The study highlighted the future risk of enhanced metal pollution with respect to Cd and Pb due to aircraft trafficking.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2014년도 제46회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.432.2-432.2
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• 2014

Recently, colloidal core/shell type quantum dots lighting-emitting diodes (QDLEDs) have been extensively studied and developed for the future of optoelectronic applications. In the work, we fabricate an inverted CdSe/ZnS quantum dot (QD) based light-emitting diodes (QDLED)[1]. In order to reduce work function of indium tin oxide (ITO) electrode for inverted structure, a very thin (<10 nm) polyethylenimine ethoxylated (PEIE) is used as surface modifier[2] instead of conventional metal oxide electron injection layer. The PEIE layer substantially reduces the work function of ITO electrodes which is estimated to be 3.08 eV by ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy (UPS). From transmission electron microscopy (TEM) study, CdSe/ZnS QDs are uniformly distributed and formed by a monolayer on PEIE layer. In this inverted QD LED, two kinds of hybrid organic materials, [poly (9,9-di-n-octyl-fluorene-alt-benzothiadiazolo)(F8BT) + poly(N,N'-bis (4-butylphenyl)-N,N'-bis(phenyl)benzidine (poly-TPD)] and [4,4'-N,N'-dicarbazole-biphenyl (CBP) + poly-TPD], were adopted as hole transport layer having high highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) level for improving hole transport ability. At a low-operating voltage of 8 V, the device emits orange and red spectral radiation with high brightness up to 2450 and 1420 cd/m2, and luminance efficacy of 1.4 cd/A and 0.89 cd/A, respectively, at 7 V applied bias. Also, the carrier transport mechanisms for the QD LEDs are described by using several models to fit the experimental I-V data.

• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.197-206
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• 2021

Purpose: Celiac disease (CD) is a common autoimmune disease with extra-intestinal manifestations, including neurological disorders. There are few reports to assess various factors in increasing the chances of developing neurological disorders in CD, so we designed this study. Methods: All patients with CD at any age who had been referred to the Celiac Clinic were evaluated for neurological problems. CD was defined as IgA anti-transglutaminase antibodies (anti-tTG) of 18 IU/mL or higher in serology and Marsh type I or more severe in histopathological evaluation. Logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate the impact of various independent variables on the neurological manifestations. Results: A total of 540 patients enrolled in this study. A 360 (66.7%) of patients were children. A 64.8% and 35.2% were female and male, respectively. Overall, 34.1% of patients had neurological manifestation, including headache, neuropathy, epilepsy, and ataxia. The odds of developing neurological manifestations in children were significantly lower than in adults (odds ratio [OR], 0.66; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.45-0.96; p=0.03) and in patients with gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms significantly higher than in the group without GI manifestations (OR, 1.77; 95% CI, 1.18-2.63; p=0.005). Other variables, including Marsh classification (OR, 0.44; 95% CI, 0.18-1.11; p=0.08) and anti-tTG levels (OR, 1.00; 95% CI, 0.999-1.001; p=0.59) did not significantly increase the chances of developing neurological disorders. Conclusion: Our study showed that increasing age and the presence of GI symptoms, but not serological and histological findings, could increase the chances of developing neurological diseases in CD patients.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.247-256
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• 1999

A disease of young Holstein calves characterized by recurrent pneumonia, ulcerative and granulomatous stomatitis, enteritis with bacterial overgrowth, periodontitis, delayed wound healing, persistent neutrophilia and death at an early age had been originally described in 1983 and again in 1987. Most of these calves had stunted growth and a persistent, progressive neutrophilia (often exceeding 100,000/ml). By investigation of pedigrees, all of the affected calves have now been traced to a common sire and confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) diagnostic DNA testing to be homozygous carriers of a defective allele for bovine CD18. Neutrophils from these calves have several functional deficits and, most importantly, fail to adhere in a ${\beta}_2$-integrin dependent manner. The ${\beta}_2$-integrins represent a family of glycoproteins which participate in various leukocyte adhesion reactions during host defense. The presence or absence of ${\beta}_2$-integrin molecules can be demonstrated on the surface of neutrophils, monocytes and lymphocytes from normal or affected calves using specific monoclonal antibodies and flow cytometry, or by colloidal gold immunolabeling and scanning electron microscopy in backscatter mode. Deficiency of the ${\beta}_2$-integrins on all leukocyte types in Holstein calves is analogous to leukocyte adhesion deficiency (LAD) seen in humans. Neutrophils in bovine (BLAD) and human LAD patients are unable to adhere to the endothelial lining of the cardiovascular system thus interrupting egression of neutrophils into infected tissues. Other leukocytes, while still deficient in expression of the ${\beta}_2$-integrins, are still able to efficiently egress from the blood stream due to interactions of other adhesion molecules that are not as highly expressed on neutrophils. Both BLAD cattle and LAD children (who do not receive bone marrow transplants) often die at an early age as a result of the failure of neutrophils to extravasate into infected tissues. In 1991, Shuster, et $al^{27}$, identified two point mutations within the alleles encoding bovine CD18 in a Holstein calf afflicted with leukocyte adhesion deficiency. One mutation causes an aspartic acid to glycine substitution at amino acid 128 (D128G) in an extracellular region of this adhesion glycoprotein that is highly conserved (> 95% identity) between humans, cattle and mice. The other mutation is silent. Numerous calves with clinical symptoms of leukocyte adhesion deficiency have since been tested and all have been found homozygous for the D128G allele. In addition, calves homozygous far the D128G allele have been identified during widespread DNA testing in the United States. All cattle with the mutant allele are related to one bull, who through artificial insemination (A.I.), sired many calves in the 1950's and 1960's. The carrier frequency of the D128G CD18 allele among U.S. Holstein cattle had reached approximately 15% among active A.I. bulls and 8% among cows. By 1993, the organization of the dairy industry and the diagnostic test developed to genotype cattle, enabled virtually complete eradication of bovine leukocyte adhesion deficiency among current and future A.I. bulls.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.27-30
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• 2010

방사선 광변조기는 방사선량에 비례하여 액정셀의 광투과율의 변화를 이용하여 선량을 측정하는 소자이다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 방사선 광변조기 적용을 위해 광도전체 필름을 제작하여 전기적 특성을 비교하였다. 필름제조는 침전법과 인쇄법을 이용하여 ITO 유리기판 위에 $200{\mu}m$의 두께로 형성하였다. 전기적 특성을 분석하기 위해 I-V측정을 하였으며, 측정된 누설전류와 민감도 값을 이용하여 신호대잡음비(SNR)를 얻었다. 측정결과, 인쇄법에 비해 침전법에 의해 제조된 $HgI_2$ 필름이 약 40%의 누설전류 저감효과를 보였으며, 민감도는 $1V/{\mu}m$의 전기장에서 2배 높은 값을 얻었다. 또한, 침전법에 의해 제조된 $PbI_2$, PbO, CdTe 필름에 비해 $HgI_2$ $1V/{\mu}m$에서 10~25배 높은 신호대잡음비를 가짐을 알 수 있었다. 이러한 결과로부터 침전법에 의해 제조된 $HgI_2$ 광도전체를 방사선 광변조기에 적용함으로써 방사선량 검출기의 우수한 특성을 가질 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제13권1_2호
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• pp.103-110
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• 1997

This study was performed to investigate the effects of cadmium chloride on the acute and chronic toxicity on rats. Several toxic effects of cadmium has been shown following short-term and longterm pretreatment with cadmium and zinc. Four groups of rats (A, B, C, D), each consisting of 16 rats, were studied and each group was divided into four subgroups (1, 2, 3, 4), 4 rats for each subgroup. Rats were subcutaneously pretreated with $CdCl_2$ (0.5 mg/kg, A & C), and $ZnCl_2$ (13.0 mg/kg, B & D) during time periods of 1 weeks (group A & B) and 6 weeks (group C & D). At the end of the period, rats were challenged with $CdCl_2$ (3.0, 6.0 and 9.0 mg/kg, i.p.). After giving the challenge dose, cadmium and metallothionein(MT) concentrations were determined. The concentrations of cadmium were higher in the liver than the kidney irrelevantly to cadmium and zinc pretreatment and increased dose-dependently to the challenge dosage. The metallothioneins showed higher concentrations in the liver than the kidney following cadmium pretreatment and were higher in the long-term pretreatment groups than the short-term pretreatment groups in the liver and the kidney of rats. These data suggest that metallothioneins are induced preferentially in the liver by pretreatment of cadmium and then, formed in the form of Cd-MT, may play an important role in the nephrotoxicity.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.354-362
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• 2011

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic inflammatory autoimmune disease characterized by abnormalities in T cell immunoregulation and hyperreactivity of B cells, leading to autoantibody production and multiorgan injuries. We investigated the effect of baicalin on aberrant immunoregulation in pristane-induced lupus mice. Mice received i.p. a single injection of 0.5 ml of pristane or PBS, and approximately 3 months later, were used as a pristane-induced lupus model or healthy controls. The pristane-induced lupus mice and healthy mice were randomly divided into three groups: healthy mouse group (healthy control), pristane-primed lupus control group (lupus control), and baicalin (BAC)-treated pristane-primed lupus mouse group (BAC-treated lupus). The pristane-induced lupus mice and healthy mice were administrated orally with BAC 50 mg/kg or PBS once in a day for 10 ds. These results demonstrated that levels of serum IL-6, LPS-induced production of IL-6, $PGE_2$ and NO by macrophages, $PGE_2$-stimulated production of IL-6 by macrophages and IFN-${\gamma}$ by thymocytes, and an overexpression of splenic NKT cells and CD69+CD4+ T cells were downregulated in BAC-treated lupus compared to lupus control, while reduced apoptosis of splenic CD4+ T cells were upregulated. Therefore, these findings suggest that BAC may attenuate autoimmunity and disease activity in lupus via downregulation of aberrant activation of T cells and inhibition of overproduction of IL-6 and $PGE_2$ in pristane-induced lupus mice.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2009년도 9th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.418-420
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• 2009

The Authors have demonstrated high efficiency hybrid white organic light-emitting diodes (HWOLED) for reduced efficiency roll-off and color stability. It was shown that HWOLED fabricated in this study have the maximum luminance of 46 420 cd/$m^2$ at 8 V (turn-on voltage of 2.7 V), external quantum efficiency of 13.18%, power efficiency of 28.75 lm/W at 1 000 cd/$m^2$, and reduced efficiency roll-off of 2.7 times than control white device. The HWOLED also showed the stable color shift with $\Delta$Commission Internationale de I'Eclairage coordinates coordinates of ${\pm}$ (0.00, 0.00) from 100 to 10000 cd/$m^2$.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2003년도 International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.944-947
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• 2003

We report efficient white organic electroluminescent devices consisting of a blue-emitting layer of 9,10-bis[(2",7"-di-t-butyl)-9',9"-spirobifluorenyl]anthracene (TBSA) and a red-emitting layer of 4-dicyanomethylene-2-methyl-6-[2-(2,3,6,7-tetrahydro-1H,5H-benzo[i,j]quinolizin-8-yl)vinyl]-4H-pyran) (DCM2) doped into 4,4'bis[N-(1-napthyl)-N-phenyl-amino]-biphenyl (${\alpha}-NPD$). The device shows the CIE coordinates of (0.32, 0.37). The external quantum efficiency is about 3.4 % and the luminous efficiency is about 3.9 lm/W at luminance of 100 $cd/m^{2}$. The maximum luminance is about 45,400 $cd/m^{2}$ at 11.5 V.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.23-36
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• 2006

이번 연구는 광미시료를 대상으로 반응시간(1, 2, 4, 7, 14, 21 및 30일)과 반응용액의 pH(1, 3 및 5)를 달리하여 실내 용출실험을 실시하였다. pH 5와 pH 3의 반응용액과의 용출실험에서는 반응 2일 후 최종 pH가 4.6-6.1 혹은 2.8-3.5로 안정화되었으며, 반응시간이 지남에 따라 점진적으로 낮아졌다. 황산염 농도와 산도는 7일 이후 증가하는 것이 관찰되었는데, 이는 황화광물의 산화작용때문인 것으로 판단된다 pH 5와 pH 3에서 용출된 Pb 함량은 반응기 간(1-30일) 동안 뚜렷한 변화가 보이지 않은 반면에 Zn, Cd 및 Cu는 시간이 지남에 따라 용출함량이 증가하는 경향을 보였다. 반응용액 pH 1에서의 용출특성은 Zn 형태(Zn, Cd, 및 Cu)와 Pb 형태(Pb)로 구분되었다. Zn 형태는 시간에 따라 용출함량이 증가되었고, 이는 지속적인 용해작용에 의한 것이다. Pb 형태는 시간에 따라 용출농도가 감소하였으며, 이는 황산염의 용출함량이 높아짐에 따라 용해된 Pb가 앵글레사이트(anglesit)로 침전됨을 지시한다. 높은 황산염 농도는 Fe, Zn, 및 Cd의 높은 용출함량과 밀접한 관련이 있다. 이들 용출실험 결과 Zn과 Cd의 용출과 산도는 광산주변 환경의 지표수와 지하수 수질에 악영향을 주는 요인이 될 수 있다. 용출반응에서 kinetics 문제는 광미가 빗물과 반응하여 유출수에서의 중금속 농도를 증가시킬 수 있는 중요한 요인이 된다.