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Anticonvulsant Compounds from the Wood of Caesalpinia sappan L.

  • Baek, Nam-In;Jeon, Seong-Gyu;Ahn, Eun-Mi;Hahn, Jae-Taek;Bahn, Jae-Hoon;Jang, Joong-Sik;Cho, Sung-Woo;Park, Jin-Kyu;Choi, Soo-Young
    • Archives of Pharmacal Research
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.344-348
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    • 2000
  • 80% Aqueous MeOH extracts from the wood of Caesalpinia sappan, which showed remarkable anticonvulsant activity, were fractionated using EtOAc, n-BuOH, and $H_2$O. Among them, the EtOAc fraction significantly inhibited the activities of two GABA degradative enzymes, succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH) and succinic semialdehyde reductase (SSAR). Repeated column chromatographies for the fraction guided by activity test led to the isolation of the two active principal components. Their chemical structures were determined to be sappanchalcone and brazilin based on spectral data. The pure compounds, sappanchalcone (1) and brazilin (2), inactivated the SSAR activities in a dose dependent manner, whereas SSADH was inhibited partially by sappanchalcone and not by brazilin.

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An Empirical Study on Sunk-Cost Fallacy under the Two-Part Tarriff (이부요금제하에서의 매몰비용오류에 관한 실증연구)

  • Lee, Sang-Woo;Ko, Chang-Youl;Choi, Sun-Me;Park, Joon-Ho
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.36 no.10B
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    • pp.1192-1199
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this paper is to test empirically whether the sunk cost fallacy occurres or not under the two-part tarriff and to give the desirable rate-making for minimizing sunk cost fallacy. According to the results of analysis highly paid monthly fee makes more traffics over the level of optimal consumption because of sunk cost fallacy. Therefore monthly fee reduction will cause the optimal consumption that is near the solution of their own utility function.

Characteristics of Paper Seating Furniture by Decade from the 1960s (시대별 변천에 따른 종이 가구 디자인의 특성 연구 -1960년 이후 의자 디자인을 중심으로-)

  • Kim, Seong-Ah
    • Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.177-187
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    • 2007
  • Since the 1960s when paper began to use as a structural material in furniture, design, the way of using paper was dramatically changed. Before the 1960s, paper was used mostly in decorative purposes like paper $mach\acute{e}$. The development of consumer culture in the 1960s created a new trend for paper in design. Paper became a material for dresses and chairs. Also, the types of paper that adapted on furniture varies from cardboard, paper tubes, glassine paper, honeycomb, etc. The variation of the material results to make possible to create a new form. Moreover, paperboard was broadly used in current society in such area that mostly structural based as architecture. Paper gives great opportunity not only to consumers to buy furniture in inexpensive price also to manufacturers to produce furniture and to test market easily, Moreover, paper furniture is mostly fun. Therefore, the creation of paper furniture becomes diverse in terms of design concept. This study explored the characteristics of paper furniture responding to social backgrounds by decade. Relation between types of paper and the characteristics is one of main points in this research. This study covers furniture design from the 1960s to present and mostly focuses on seating furniture where paper used as structural material. Researching on patent records and contemporary periodicals gave me helpful information on details of design process and consumer culture.

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The Electrical and Microstructural Properties of ZnO:N Thin Films Grown in The Mixture of $N_2$ and $O_2$ by RF Magnetron Sputtering

  • Jin, Hu-Jie;Lee, Eun-Cheal;So, Soon-Jin;Park, Choon-Bae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.144-145
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    • 2006
  • ZnO is a promising material to make high efficiency violet or blue light emitting diodes (LEDs) for its large binding energy (60meV) and big bandgap. But the high quality p-type conduction of ZnO is a dilemma to achieve LEDs with it. In present study, we presented a reliable method to prepare ZnO thin films on (100)silicon substrates by RF magnetron sputtering in the mixture ambient of $N_2$ and $O_2$, accompanying with low pressure annealing in the sputtering chamber in $O_2$ at $600^{\circ}C$ and $800^{\circ}C$ respectively. X-ray diffraction and Hail effect with Van der Paul method were performed to test ZnO films. Seeback effect was also carried out to identify carrier types in ZnO films and showed the N-doped ZnO film annealed at $800^{\circ}C$ had achieved p-type conduction.

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Effect of Electron Beam Currents on Stabilization of Polyacrlonitrile Precursor Fiber (PAN 전구체 섬유의 안정화시 전자선 전류의 영향)

  • Shin, Hye Kyoung;Jeun, Joon Pyo;Kim, Hyun bin;Kang, Phil Hyun
    • Journal of Radiation Industry
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.41-46
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    • 2011
  • Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fibers are the most widely used precursor of the materials for carbon fibers. The conventional process of carbon fibers from PAN precursor fiber includes two step; stabilization at low temperature and carbonization at high temperature. Compared to thermal stabilization, the stabilization process by electron beam (E-beam) irradiation is a advanced and brief method. However, a stabilization by E-beam irradiation was required a high dose (over 5,000 kGy) and spend over 1.5 hr (1.14 MeV, 1 mA). In the present work the main goal is exploring a quick stabilization process by cotrolling E-beam currents. The effect of various E-beam currents on stabilization of PAN precursor fiber was studied by gel fraction test, thermo gravimertic analysis (TGA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), tensile strength, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images.

Comparison of Anti-Oxidative and Cox-2 Promoter Activities of Lepidoptera Extracts (Lepidoptera 추출물에 의한 항산화 및 Cox-2 프로모터 활성 비교)

  • Son, Hyeong-U;Heo, Jin-Chul;Lee, Sang-Han
    • Food Science and Preservation
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.752-756
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    • 2010
  • Lepidoptera (butterflies) extracts, traditionally employed as medicines, have various biological activities. Five species of Lepidoptera (Papilio maackii, Papilio xuthus, Pieris rapae, Eurema hecabe, and Sasakia charonda) were extracted with distilled water (DW), dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), ethanol (EtOH), and methanol (MeOH). Each extract was analyzed for anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory activities using the 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assay method, the ferric reducing ability of plasma (FRAP) test, and a cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) promoter assay. The results suggest that Lepidoptera extracts have valuable anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, supporting the idea that the extracts may serve as a food biomaterial(s) preventing oxidative processes and inflammatory damage.

Effects of dietary energy levels on growth performance in lactating sows and piglets

  • Huang, Shuai Qi;Kim, In Ho
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.45 no.4
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    • pp.645-653
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    • 2018
  • Twenty-five sows and 265 piglets (Landrace ${\times}$ Yorkshire) were used to evaluate the effects of dietary energy level on the pre-weaning and post-weaning performance of piglets and first parity sows. Sows with an average initial B.W. of $217.54{\pm}25.47kg$ were randomly assigned to 2 treatments. The treatments consisted of a T1 diet containing 3,100 kcal, and the T2 diet contained 3400 kcal of metabolizable energy (ME)/kg, respectively. Data were analyzed using Duncan statements to test the effect of the dietary energy levels on growth performance in lactating sows and piglets. In this study, Dietary T2 sows had a greater number of weaned piglets per litter (p < 0.05). Dietary T2 had a higher (p < 0.05) body weight than that of T1 in the weanlings, meanwhile it had a higher total average daily gain (p < 0.05) than that of T1. Dietary T1 had a higher average feed intake than that of T2 in gestation and lactation. There were no significant differences on the litter size or litter birth weight. No differences (p > 0.05) were noted in the survival of the piglets as well as in the backfat thickness and body weight loss in sows. In conclusion, these results show that high-energy diets had no effect on the body weight and backfat thickness of sows during gestation and lactation but influenced the body weight and average daily gain of weanling pigs during the lactation period.

A Study on the Local Particulate Matter Monitoring Technology using Shared-Use Mobilities for Metaverse Reality (메타버스 리얼리티를 위한 공유 모빌리티 기반 국부적 미세먼지 관측 기술 연구)

  • Jung, In Taek;Jang, Bong-Joo
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.24 no.8
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    • pp.1138-1148
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    • 2021
  • In this study, we developed a 'shared-use mobility'-mounted local particulate matter monitoring terminal technology to measure the actual particulate matter concentration around me. As a mobile terminal device in the form of an IoT sensor platform, it is designed to be separated into a control module and a sensor module to minimize interference between sensors and to consider the optimal observation position of each sensor. As a result of the field test, it was confirmed that particulate matter was locally different depending on time and space even within the same area. In addition, it was confirmed that the concentration of particulate matter in the relevant section differed by up to 100 times compared to the surrounding area due to specific sources of particulate matter such as unpaved roads. In addition, we positively reviewed the applicability of the service in the real-time metaverse environment using this result. Through technological advancement and application of multiple shared-use mobilities, we expect to be able to provide new services for practical smart city air environment monitoring, such as localized particulate matter information, air pollution event information, and identification of causes of particulate matter.

Multiscale simulations for estimating mechanical properties of ion irradiated 308 based on microstructural features

  • Dong-Hyeon Kwak ;Jae Min Sim;Yoon-Suk Chang ;Byeong Seo Kong ;Changheui Jang
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.55 no.8
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    • pp.2823-2834
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    • 2023
  • Austenitic stainless steel welds (ASSWs) of nuclear components undergo aging-related degradations caused by high temperature and neutron radiation. Since irradiation leads to the change of material characteristics, relevant quantification is important for long-term operation, but limitations exist. Although ion irradiation is utilized to emulate neutron irradiation, its penetration depth is too shallow to measure bulk properties. In this study, a systematic approach was suggested to estimate mechanical properties of ion irradiated 308 ASSW. First of all, weld specimens were irradiated by 2 MeV proton to 1 and 10 dpa. Microstructure evolutions due to irradiation in δ-ferrite and austenite phases were characterized and micropillar compression tests were performed. In succession, dislocation density based stress-strain (S-S) relationships and quantification models of irradiation defects were adopted to define phases in finite element analyses. Resultant microscopic S-S curves were compared to verify material parameters. Finally, macroscopic behaviors were calculated by multiscale simulations using real microstructure based representative volume element (RVE). Validity of the approach was verified for the unirradiated specimens such that the estimated S-S curves and 0.2% offset yield strengths (YSs) which was 363.14 MPa were in 10% agreement with test. For irradiated specimens, the estimated YS were 917.41 MPa in 9% agreement.

Transient Simulations of Concrete Ablation due to a Release of Molten Core Material (방출된 노심용융 물질에 의한 콘크리트 침식 천이 모의)

  • Kim, H.Y.;Park, J.H.;Kim, H.D.;Kim, S.W.
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05b
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    • pp.3491-3496
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    • 2007
  • If a molten core is released from a reactor vessel into a reactor cavity during a severe accident, an important safety issue of coolability of the molten core from top-flooding and concrete ablation due to a molten core concrete interaction (MCCI) is still unresolved. The released molten core debris would attack the concrete wall and basemat of the reactor cavity, which will lead to inevitable concrete decompositions and possible radiological releases. In a OECD/MCCI project scheduled for 4 years from 2002. 1 to 2005. 12, a series of tests were performed to secure the data for cooling the molten core spread out at the reactor cavity and for the 2-D long-term core concrete interaction (CCI). The tests included not only separate effect tests such as a melt eruption, water ingression, and crust failure tests with a prototypic material but also 2-D CCI tests with a prototypic material under dry and flooded cavity conditions. The paper deals with the transient simulations on the CCI-2 test by using a severe accident analysis code, CORQUENCH, which was developed at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). Similar simulations had been already per for me d by using MELCOR 1.8.5 code. Unlike the MELCOR 1.8.5, the CORQUENCH includes a melt eruption mode I and a newly developed water ingression model based on the water ingression tests under the OECD/MCCI project. In order to adjust the geometrical differences between the CCI-2 test (rectangular geometry) and the simulations (cylindrical geometry), the same scaling methodology as used in the MELCOR simulation was applied. For the direct comparison of the simulation results, the same inputs for the MELCOR simulation were used. The simulation results were compared with the previous results by using MELCOR 1.8.5.

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