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Applicability of non-invasive, digital palpation device to detection of woody breast conditions in chicken breast muscle

  • Sang-Hyon OH;Euyeon Noh;Byungrok Min
    • Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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    • v.66 no.5
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    • pp.1069-1078
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    • 2024
  • Woody breast (WB) is one of muscle myopathy found in chicken breast, characterized with enlarged size and extremely stiff texture. The WB condition is one of the most prevalent quality issues in the modern poultry industry. WB has been shown to be heritable, but no effective detection method of WB severity in live birds exists for the selection purpose. The objective of this study was to determine potential of a non-invasive, portable digital palpation device as WB detection method that can be used for the selection to estimate the heritability of WB. The physical and functional properties of WB was also investigated in comparison with normal breast (NB). Two hundred ten breast muscles were obtained from a local processing plant one day after harvest and sorted based on WB scoring (1 for NB and 2 and 3 for WB). The samples were subjected to physical and physicochemical analyses, determining biomechanical properties (muscle tone, stiffness, elasticity, relaxation, and creep), pH, color, cooking yield, and texture (firmness and compression energy were used for raw meat and shear force and energy for cooked meat). The least squares means of the following variables were significantly different between WB and NB (p < 0.01): stiffness (603.4 vs 565.8; N/m), and elasticity (1.40 vs 1.55). However, relaxation and creep were not significantly different (p > 0.05). These results collectively showed that biomechanical properties of WB differ from NB. The degree of muscle stiffness in WB can be considered as a trait to be selected. The WB score showed strong negative correlations with cooking yield (-0.77) and cooked L*(-0.74), which means that as the breast becomes harder, the cooking yield decreases, and the color becomes darker after cooking. The WB score showed high correlations with physical and functional characteristics and exhibited strong correlations with the biomechanical properties measured by the device. Therefore, the results indicated that the digital palpation device has potential to detect the WB severity (degree of stiffness) of breast muscle.

A STUDY ON STRESS DISTRIBUTION OF ENDODONTICALLY TREATED TOOTH ACCORDING TO THE VARIOUS POST LENGTH USINGTHREE-DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT METHOD (포스트 길이가 치근내 응력분산에 미치는 영향에 관한 삼차원 유한요소법적 연구)

  • Choi, Soo-Yong;Lee, Sun-Hyung;Yang, Jae-Ho;Chung, Hun-Young
    • The Journal of Korean Academy of Prosthodontics
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.177-197
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    • 1995
  • The endodontically treated tooth is generally restored with post & core, owing to the brittleness and the loss of large amount of tooth structure. Although there have been lots of studies about the endodontically treated teeth, the three-dimensional quantitative studies about the strees distribution of them are in rare cases. In this study, it was assumed that the coronal portion of the upper incisou had severely damaged. After the root canal therapy it was post cored, and restored with PFM crown, for this experiment nine types of model were constructed : 1); long, 2); medium, 3); short gold post for the roots supported with a narmal alveolar bone, 4); long, 5); medium, 6); short gold post for the roots supported with an alveolar bone resorbed to its 1/3 of root length, 7); long, 8); medium, 9); short base metal post for the roots supported with an alveolar bone resorbed to its 1/3 of root length. Force was applied from two directions. One was functional maximum bite force(300N) applied to the spot just lingual to the incisal edge with the angle of 45 degrees to the long axis of the tooth, and the other one was horizontal force(300N) applied to the labial surface. The results analyzed with three-dimensional finite element method were as follows : 1. Stress was concentrated on the middle portion of the labial side dentin of the root and the lingual portion of the apical dentin of the root. Stress in the post showed maximum value at 2 mm above the post apex. 2. In case of the long post and base metal post, strees was concentrated on the apex of the root and the post. 3. In case of the longer post, the displacement on the post-cement interface was lessened. The gold post was more displaceable than the base metal post. 4. In case of the alveolar bone resorption, stress concentrated on the root and the post and displacement on the post-cement interface were increased.

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A Study on the Functional Requirement of Subject Authority Data for Subject Authority Control (서지레코드의 주제전거를 위한 FRSAD 모형 연구)

  • Park, Zi-Young
    • Journal of Information Management
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.113-135
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    • 2011
  • The final report of the Functional Requirement of Subject Authority Data(FRSAD), the 3rd report of the FRBR family model, is announced by IFLA in June, 2010. This model represents the international trends of subject authority control and suggests a direction to the future subject authority record suitable for the FRBR system. Therefore aims of this study are to analysis the FRSAD model in context of the FRBR family and apply the model to the subject headings and bibliographic records of Korean National Library. For these aims, we analyse the model focused on the entities, attributes, and relationships between entities. From this analysis, we have found the openness of the FRSAD, which does not force a certain entity types and has focus on the conceptual aspects of the entity not only the form of the headings. Moreover, we suggest examples by applying the FRSAD frame and facets of the FAST to the Headings of the NLSH and related KORMARC fields. The scope of this study is the additional entities of the FRBR groups, so personal names, corporate names, family names and titles are not included. As a result, it is necessary to determine the criteria for the types of thema and to apply the types consistently in bibliographic records. A follow up research will be needed to suggest more detailed examples.

A Convergence Study on the Oral Myofunction and Oral Bacteria in the Elderly with Systemic Disease (전신질환 노인의 구강근기능과 구강 세균에 관한 융복합 연구)

  • Kim, Seol-Hee
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.315-322
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the correlations of oral myofunction and oral environment for the elderly with systemic diseases and to suggest need to improve oral health for the elderly. Data were collected from 64 elderly over the age of 65, from April to June 2019. Data were surveyed on general characteristics, oral myofunction, oral health-related quality of life, oral bacteria. Analysis was performed using PASW Statistics ver 18.0. The subjects were 43.8% systemic diseases, among them 40.6 percent of the people with more than two. The number of functional teeth was 18.6. Age was negatively correlated with functional teeth(r=-.384, p<.01) and tongue pressure (r=-).104, p<.001). Tongue pressure was a positive correlation with lip force(r=.279, p<.05). Age and total number of bacteria was negative correlation(r=-.336, p<.01). The functional teeth and total number of bacteria was positive correlation(r=.551, p<.001). The number of systemic diseases and total number of bacteria was positive correlation(r=.327, p<.01) the analysis of oral myofunction and oral bacteria in older patients with systemic diseases It was meaningful in suggesting a plan to improve oral health for the elderly. A practical policy plan was required to improve the quality of oral health life in a super-aged society.

Study for Semi-Steering system for Urban Maglev (도시형자기부상차량의 반능동 조향장치에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Nam-Jin;Kang, Kwang-Ho;Lee, Won-Sang
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.1080-1084
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    • 2011
  • Urban maglev should have such characteristics as not only environmentally friendliness and excellent driving capability but also curve negotiation performance because its routes have many sharp curves. Due to normal mechanism of urban maglev its relative displacements of secondary spring are bigger than conventional railway vehicle and the centering force of levitation magnet is smaller than wheel-on-rail system. These features of maglev affect the curving negotiation and so the additional steering device is to be required on Urban maglev to improve the running performance at sharp curve of less than about R50m. Some developed urban maglev had the passive steering device which consists of mechanical linkage or hydraulic cylinder and closed-route piping. But it has drawback as complexity of layout of understructure of vehicle and functional limitation of passive mechanism regarding transient curve. These demerits could be solved by using active steering system. But it has a weak point that an active device should have actuators and additional inverter or hydraulic power source. In this paper, the semi-active steering system for urban maglev is to be introduced.

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Development of an Aircraft Hydraulic Brake Assembly with a Self-gap-adjuster (자동 간극 조절기를 갖는 항공기용 유압식 브레이크 조립체 개발)

  • Yi, Miseon;Song, Won-Jong;Kwon, Jun-Yong
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.444-451
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    • 2020
  • This study was conducted to develop the hydraulic brake assembly for MUAV(Medium-altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). The brake assembly has the self-gap adjuster which performs to maintain a constant gap between the piston and the disk, even if the friction pad wore down. The function of adjuster helps to keep the brake-reaction speed constant and prevent the unnecessary abrasion of the wear pad during the life of the brake assembly. The development of the aircraft hydraulic brake assembly with the self-gap-adjuster in this paper is the first ever in South Korea. The concept of the mechanism was defined and the formula which is necessary to calculate the friction force was set up in the paper. The tester was invented for the functional test and the proper operation of the self-gap-adjuster was confirmed through the test. Dynamo tests and flight tests were also carried out to verify the braking performance of the brake assembly.

Performance Analysis Model for Flap Actuation System using MATLAB/Simulink

  • Cho, Hyunjun;Joo, Choonshik;Kim, Kilyeong;Park, Sangjoon
    • International Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.13-21
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, we present some results on performance analysis for flap actuation system of aircraft. For this, by utilizing MATLAB/Simulink solution, which is widely used physical model-based design tool, we particularly construct the architecture of the analysis model consisting of the main three phases: 1)commanding and outer-controlling the flap angle through flight control computer; 2)generating hydraulic/mechanical power through control module and power drive unit; 3)transmitting torque and actuating the flap through torque tube and rotary geared actuators. For mimicking the motion of the actual flap, we apply each mechanical component, which is already being used in actual aircraft, to our performance analysis model so that it guarantees the congruency of the simulation results. That is, we reflect the actual specifications of flap hardware and software as parameters of the model. Finally, simulation results are presented to illustrate the model.

Behavior of the Edge Flame on Flame Extinction in Buoyancy minimized Methane-Air Non-premixed Counter Triple Co-flow Flames (부력을 최소화한 대향류 삼축 메탄-공기 비예혼합 화염 소화에서 에지화염의 거동)

  • Park, Jin Wook;Park, Jeong;Yun, Jin-Han;Keel, Sang-In
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2014.11a
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    • pp.81-84
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    • 2014
  • A Experimental study on flame extinction behavior was investigated using He curtain flow with counter triple co-flow burner. Buoyancy force was suppressed up to a microgravity level of $10^{-2}-10^{-3}g$ by using He curtain flow. The stability maps were provided with a functional dependency of diluent mole fraction and global strain rate to clarify the differences in flame extinction behavior. The flame extinction curves had C-shapes at various global strain rates. The oscillation and extinction modes were different each other in terms of the global strain rate, and the flames extinction modes could be classified into five modes such as (I) and (II): an extinction through the shrinkage of the outmost edge flame forward the flame center after self-excitation and without self-excitation, respectively, (III): an extinction through rapid advancement of a flame hole while the outmost edge flame is stationary, (IV): self-excitation occurs in the outermost edge flame and the center edge flame and then a donut shaped flame is formed and/or the flame is entirely extinguished, (V): shrinkage of the outermost edge flame without self-excitation followed by shrinkage or survival of the center flame. These oscillation and extinction modes could be identified well to the behavior of edge flame. The result also showed that the edge flame was influenced significantly by the conductive heat losses to the flame center or ambient He curtain flow.

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Fabrication and characterization of photocurable inorganic-organic hybrid materials using organically modified colloidal-silica nanoparticles and acryl resin

  • Kang, Dong-Jun;Han, Dong-Hee;Kang, Young-Taec;Kang, Dong-Pil
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.422-422
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    • 2009
  • Photocurable inorganic-organic hybrid materials were prepared from colloidal-silica nanoparticles synthesized through the solgel process and using acryl resin. The synthesized colloidal-silica nanoparticles had uniform diameters of around 20 nm, and they were organically modified, using methyl and methacryl functional silanes, for efficient hybridization with acryl resin. The organically modified and stabilized colloidal-silica nanoparticles could be homogeneously hybridized with aeryl resin without phase separation. The successfully fabricated hybrid materials exhibit efficient photocurability and simple film formation due to the photopolymerization of the organically modified colloidal-silica nanoparticles and acryl resin upon UV exposure. The fabricated hybrid films exhibit an excellent optical transmission of above 90% in the visible region as well as an enhanced surface smoothness of around 1 nm RMS roughness. In addition, the hybrid films exhibit improved thermal and mechanical characteristics, much better than those of acryl resin. More importantly, these photocurable hybrid materials fabricated through the synergistic combination of colloidal-silica nanoparticles with acryl resin are candidates for optical and electrical applications.

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Fabrication of a Parallel Polymer Cantilever to Measure the Contractile Force of Drug-treated Cardiac Cells (약물처리된 심장세포의 세포 수축력 측정을 위한 병렬 폴리머 캔틸레버 제작)

  • Kim, Dong-Su;Lee, Dong-Weon
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.100-104
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    • 2020
  • Thus far, several in vivo biosensing platforms have been proposed to measure the mechanical contractility of cultured cardiomyocytes. However, the low sensitivity and screening rate of the developed sensors severely limit their practical applications. In addition, intensive research and development in cardiovascular disease demand a high-throughput drug-screening platform based on biomimetic engineering. To overcome the drawbacks of the current state-of-the-art methods, we propose a high-throughput drug-screening platform based on 16 functional high-sensitivity well plates. The proposed system simulates the physiological accuracy of the heart function in an in vitro environment. We fabricated 64 cantilevers using highly flexible and optically transparent silicone rubber and placed in 16 independent wells. Nanogrooves were imprinted on the surface of the cantilever to promote cell alignment and maturation. The adverse effects of the cardiovascular drugs on the cultured cardiomyocytes were systematically investigated. The 64 cantilevers demonstrated a highly reliable and reproducible mechanical contractility of the drug-treated cardiomyocytes. Real-time high-throughput screening and simultaneous evaluation of the cardiomyocyte mechanical contractility under multiple drugs verified that the proposed system could be used as an efficient drugtoxicity test platform.