• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2019

Bee's population is declining and disappearing at alarming rate. There are many factors responsible for declining the population of bees including diseases, natural enemies, environmental conditions and pesticides. Insecticides play its role dramatically for their population decline and neonicotinoid insecticides are critically important due to their wide application for pest control. Keeping in view of above problem, effect of neonicotinoid insecticides on olfactory learning behavior in Apis mellifera was observed using Proboscis Extension Reflex (PER) method. In this method, bees were harnessed in centrifuges tubes and feed on insecticides mixed sugar solution after three hours hunger. Bees were checked by feeding on non-treated sugar solution to observe PER response. Minimum proboscis extension was observed for acetamiprid and imidacloprid with 26% and 20% respectively at their recommend field doses while it was maximum for dinotefuran and thiamethoxam with 73% and 60% respectively. Only 40% bees showed response when exposed at 1/10 concentration of field dose for imidacloprid and the least at 1/100 of field dose. At control (Sugar solution) about 90% bees showed PER response. Among these neonicotinoid insecticides tested, imidacloprid and acetamiprid were the most damaging which impaired the olfactory learning performance in Apis mellifera.

• 대한인간공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한인간공학회 1997년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.17-25
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• 1997

The evoked potentials for concentrations of solutions of the four qualities of tastes(i.e., sweet, salty, sour, and bitter tastes) were measured. The solution was applied to the chorda tympani nerve located on the left side of the tongue at 20mm from the tip and 15mm left from the center line. The evoked potentials were detected from Cz referred to A1(left lobe) with the ground at the Fpz position. The Maximum potential level and its latency were evaluated. The individual threshold level of concentration of the solutions of four tastes were measured. Artificial saliva was used as a control solution. The evoked positive potentials for four qualities of tastes (i.e., gustatory evokde potentials) were found to be around 150ms by averaging eight responses. The arbitrary concentration of the solutions were presented by the relative concentration, which was the ratio of the arbitrary concentration to the individual threshold level. The characteristic relations between the latency and the relative concentration ;and those between the potential level and the relative concentration were evaluated. These evalutions showed that (1) the latencies for salty and bitter tastes denoted the minimum values due to for the change of relative concentration, and that (2) the latency for sour taste decreased as the relative concentrations increased, while the latency for sweet taste denoted the inverse tendency, Sinificant differences between any two maximum potential levels were not recognized. A response latencies to sucrose were abolished after treatment of tongue by a sweet-suppressing agent.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.116-120
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• 2009

포도즙의 알코올 발효 시 당 농도와 교반속도, 발효시간이 알코올함량과 총산도에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위해 반응 표면분석을 이용하여 알코올발효 조건을 최적화하였다. 알코올함량은 10%, 총산도는 최소화되는 것을 목적으로 하여 알코올 발효조건을 최적화한 결과 $19.98^{\circ}Bx$로 농축한 국내산 Campbell early 포도즙에 효모를 접종시킨 후 교반속도 104.1 rpm으로 89.67시간 동안 발효시켰을 때 목적값에 가장 근접한 결과를 나타내었다. 알코올 발효 시 포도즙의 당도가 증가할수록 알코올함량과 총산도는 증가하는 경향을 나타내었고, 교반속도는 알코올함량과 총산도에 큰 영향을 주지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 발효시간이 길어질수록 알코올 함량과 총산도가 증가하는 경향을 나타내었다.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.395-403
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• 2013

Plant factory has drawn attention in many countries in the world due to capability of environmental control not only for better yield and quality, but also for increase in functional and medicinal components of the products. In this paper, an experimental plant factory was constructed for various tests under different environmental conditions, and the operations were evaluated. A production room was constructed with adiabatic materials with dimensions of $6,900{\times}3,000{\times}2,500$ mm ($L{\times}W{\times}H$). Four sets of $2,890{\times}600{\times}2,320$ mm ($L{\times}W{\times}H$) production frame unit, each with 9 light-installed beds and an aeroponic fertigation system, resulting in 36 beds, were prepared. Accuracy and response were evaluated for each environmental control component with and without crops. Air temperature, humidity, $CO_2$ concentration, light intensity, frequency, and duty ratio, fertigation rate and scheduling were controllable from a main control computer through wireless communication devices. When the plant factory was operated without crop condition, the response times were 8 minutes for change in temperature from 20 to $15^{\circ}C$ and 20 minutes from 15 to $20^{\circ}C$; 7 minutes for change in humidity from 40 to 65%; and 4 minutes for change in $CO_2$ concentration from 450 to 1000 ppm. When operated for 24 hours with crop cultivation; average, maximum, and minimum values of temperatures were 20.06, 20.8, and $18.8^{\circ}C$; humidity were 66.72, 69.37, and 63.73%; $CO_2$ concentrations were 1017, 1168, and 911 ppm, respectively. Photosynthetic Photon Flux Density was increased as the distance from the light source decreased, but variability was greater at shorter distances. Results of the study would provide useful information for efficient application of the plant factory and to investigate the optimum environment for crop growth through various experiments.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.395-403
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 자료수집과 적용에 상당한 시간과 노력이 요구되는 기존의 수치모형들 대신에 최소한의 유역정보를 이용해 오염물질의 이동시간과 확산을 예측할 수 있는 방법을 제시하고자 하였다. 즉, 하천에서 오염물질의 이동속도, 시간에 따른 오염물질의 첨두농도, 오염물질이 하천의 한 점을 통과하는데 소요되는 시간장경 등의 요소들을 이용한 단위오염도의 개념을 도입하였으며, 이들 요소들의 추정을 위해서는 미국 내의 수많은 하천을 대상으로 개발된 회귀방정식을 이용하였다. 본 연구에서는 낙동강 본류 성서공단에서 1994년 6월 30일에 발생한 디클로로메탄 누출사고에 대해 회귀방정식으로 단위오염도의 요소들을 추정하고, 이를 적용하여 오염물질의 이동시간과 확산을 예측하였으며, QUAL2E모형을 이용해 얻은 결과와 비교분석하였다. 회귀방정식과 QUAL2E 모형으로 모의한 결과, 두 모형 모두 모의치가 관측치와 비교적 잘 일치하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 간편하게 오염물질의 이동시간과 농도를 예측할 수 있는 회귀방정식에 의한 단위오염도는 유역정보가 부족한 유역에서 적용성이 뛰어날 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.679-683
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• 2003

저장성이 낮은 딸기의 효율적인 이용 및 고부가가치 가공제품 개발을 위해 딸기식초 발효의 1단계인 딸기 과즙의 알콜 발효조건을 모니터링하였다. 딸기를 이용한 알콜발효에서 알콜함량이 가장 높게 나타나는 조건은 초기당도가 16.32$^{\circ}$Brix, 발효시간이 53.03 hr 및 발효온도가 28.83$^{\circ}C$일 때 가장 높은 9.22%를 나타내었으며, 산도가 가장 낮게 나타난 조건은 초기당도가 13.18$^{\circ}$Brix, 발효시간이 50.99 hr 및 발효온도가 24.69$^{\circ}C$일 때 가장 낮은 0.49%를 나타내었으며, 잔당함량이 가장 낮게 나타난 조건은 초기당도가 15.00$^{\circ}$Brix, 발효시간이 52.00 hr 및 발효온도가 26.0$0^{\circ}C$일 때 가장 높은 3.97$^{\circ}$Brix를 나타내었다. 알콜 발효조건에 따른 품질검사 결과 딸기식초 발효용 딸기 wine제조를 위한 최적 알콜 발효조건은 초기당도가 14$^{\circ}$Brix, 발효온도가 28$^{\circ}C$ 및 발효시간이 50 hr 일 때였다.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.78-90
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• 2012

Soybean hull is an attractive feedstock for glucose production. To increase the glucose conversion in acid hydrolysis, a pretreatment method combined steam explosion with alkali pretreatment for soybean hull was studied. For first step pretreatment, steam explosion conditions (log Ro 2.45) were optimized to obtain maximum solid recovery and cellulose content. In the second step pretreatment, the conditions for potassium hydroxide pretreatment of steam exploded soybean hull were optimized by using RSM (response surface methodology). The optimum conditions for minimum lignin content were determined to be 0.6% potassium hydroxide concentration, $70^{\circ}C$ reaction temperature and 198 min reaction time. The predicted lignin content was 2.2% at the optimum conditions. Experimental verification of the optimum conditions gave the lignin content in similar value with the estimated value of the model. Finally, glucose conversion of pretreated soybean hull using acid hydrolysis resulted in $97.1{\pm}0.4%$. This research of two-step pretreatment was a promising method for increasing the glucose conversion in the cellulose-to-glucose process.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.119-126
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• 2009

An efficient in vitro plant regeneration system was developed through shoot proliferation from axillary buds of Tectona grandis (L.f), APNBV-1 (Andhra Pradesh North Badrachalam Venkatapuram-1) clone. Multiple shoots of high quality were produced in vitro from axillary bud explants. An average of 4.39 shoots/explant were obtained on Murashige and Skoog's (MS) medium supplemented with plant growth regulators (PGRs) benzyl amino purine (BA), kinetin (KN), indole acetic acid (IAA), gibberillic acid ($GA_3$), growth adjuvants casein hydrolysate (CH), adenine sulphate (Ads) and antioxidants ascorbic acid, polyvinyl pyrrollidine (PVP). Eighty five percent of rooting was observed in ex vitro rooting media containing IBA and vermiculite. In ex vitro rooting, single shoots with 2 to 3 nodes were subjected to IBA of different concentrations at different periods of time intervals. Direct rooting in vermiculite at 500 ppm concentration of IBA resulted in 4.3 number of roots with 2 cm length. Minimum response of rooting and length of roots were recorded at 100 ppm concentration of IBA. Planlets were transferred to plastic bags for short acclimatization stage in green house where they survived at 95%.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.45-51
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• 2000

Photobacterium phosphoreum was used for the study of bioluminescence response to toxic substances including phenol, As2O3, SoO2, and CrO3 in view of developing monitoring system. measurement of inhibition of bioluminescence in P. phosphoreum has been proposed as a sensitive and raped procedure to monitor toxic substances. The concentration of toxic substance causing 50% light reduction(EC50) in bioluminescence intensity was determined with free and immobilized P. phosphoreum, The minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) for bioluminescence emission were found to be 400ppm for As2O3, 800ppm for phenol, 60ppm for SeO2 and 60ppm for CrO3 , respectively. The linear correlation between Gamma value and the concentration of toxic substances was obtained and EC50 wa calculated from the linear correlation. The free cells were shown to be more sensitive to toxic substances than cells immobilized on Sr-alginate and Ca-alginate. However, the linear regression curves were derived from the Sr-alginate immobilized cells indicating the immobilization method in s useful tool for monitoring of toxic substances under the more stable condition of bioluminescence.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제53권3호
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• pp.253-259
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• 2011

The aim of this work was to determine the method and predict the optimum conditions for egg quality stored for 7 days when combination treatments of irradiation and chitosan coating were applied using response surface methodology (RSM). A central composite design was chosen for the RSM in this study and the factors were irradiation dose (0~2 kGy) and concentration of chitosan coating material (0~2%). Performance of the irradiation and chitosan coating were evaluated by analyzing the egg quality and functional property factors. The predicted maximum level of Haugh units and foaming ability calculated by a developed model were 74.19 at 0 kGy of irradiation with coating by 0.96% chitosan solution and 50.83 mm at 2.0 kGy with 1.01%, respectively. The predicted minimum value of foam stability and 2-thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) value were 2.97 mm at 0.39 kGy with 0.21% and 0.54 mg malonaldehyde/kg egg yolk at 0 kGy with 0.90% of chitosan solution, respectively. Results clearly showed that gamma irradiation negatively affected the Haugh unit and TBARS but positively affected the foaming capacity. The estimated value from the developed model by RSM was verified by no statistical difference with observed value. Therefore, RSM can be a good tool for optimization and prediction of egg quality when 2 or more treatments are combined. However, one should decide the target quality first to achieve a successful implementation of this technology.