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A Study on Indicator Bacteria for Water Quality Management of Urban Artificial Lakes (도심지역 인공호의 수질관리를 위한 지표세균에 관한 연구)

  • Chu, Duk-Sung;Kwon, Hyuk-Ku;Lee, Sang-Eun;Lee, Jang-Hoon
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.299-305
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    • 2007
  • Distribution of fecal pollution indicator bacteria and environmental parameter were investigated of urban artificial lakes. An average concentration of temperature, pH, SS, DO, $COD_{Mn}$, T-P, T-N, Turbidity, Chl-a were $21.5^{\circ}C$, 8.07, 116.70 mg/l, 8.66 mg/l, 2.24 mg/1, 0.52 mg/l, 1.71mg/l, 80.54 NTU, and 52.12 mg/l respectively. From the results of bivariate correlation analysis, fecal contamination indicator bacteria were found to be mutually correlated. And turbidity and suspended solid were correlated. From the results of principal component analysis, four factors were extracted. And four factors of variance explained up to 81.5 percentage. Factor 1 was pollution pattern by fecal contamination, factor 2 was physical pollution pattern by pollution source, factor 3 was natural pollution by precipitation, and factor 4 was artificial pollution pattern by organism.

Effects of the Heat-Treatment on the Nutritional Quality of Milk - I. Historical Development of the Heat-Treatment Technology in Milk - (우유의 열처리가 우유품질과 영양가에 미치는 영향 - I. 우유 열처리 기술의 발달사 -)

  • Jung, Anna;Oh, Sejong
    • Journal of Dairy Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.271-278
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    • 2016
  • The main purpose of milk heat-treatment is to improve milk safety for consumer by destroying foodborne pathogens. Secondly, heat-treatment of milk is to increase maintaining milk quality by inactivating spoilage microorganisms and enzymes. Pasteurization is defined by the International Dairy Federation (IDF, 1986) as a process applied with the aim of avoiding public health hazards arising from pathogens associated with milk, by heat treatment which is consistent with minimal chemical, physical and organoleptic changes in the product. Milk pasteurization were adjusted to $63{\sim}65^{\circ}C$ for 30 minutes (Low temperature long time, LTLT) or $72{\sim}75^{\circ}C$ for 15 seconds (High temperature short time, HTST) to inactivate the pathogens such as Mycobacterium bovis, the organism responsible for tuberculosis. Ultra-high temperature processing (UHT) sterilizes food by heating it above $135^{\circ}C$ ($275^{\circ}F$) - the temperature required to destroy the all microorganisms and spores in milk - for few seconds. The first LTLT system (batch pasteurization) was introduced in Germany in 1895 and in the USA in 1907. Then, HTST continuous processes were developed between 1920 and 1927. UHT milk was first developed in the 1960s and became generally available for consumption in the 1970s. At present, UHT is most commonly used in milk production.

Bacillus subtilis Fermentation for Enhancement of Feed Nutritive Value of Soybean Meal

  • Kook, Moo-Chang;Cho, Seok-Cheol;Hong, Young-Ho;Park, Hoon
    • Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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    • v.57 no.2
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    • pp.183-188
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    • 2014
  • In order to increase the nutritional quality of soybean meal (SBM) as an animal feed, Bacillus subtilis TP6, a previously isolated strain from an Indonesian traditional fermented soybean food, Tempeh, was used as a starter organism for solid-state fermentation. In the pre-treated SBM with water content of 60% (v/w), B. subtilis TP6 was grown to a maximum viable cell number of $3.5{\times}10^9CFU/g$. Compared to control, crude protein in Bacillus fermented SBM was increased by 16%, while raffinose, stachyose, and trypsin inhibitors were reduced by 31, 37, and 90%, respectively. The Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis showed that proteins in the fermented SBM were remarkably hydrolyzed into smaller molecular masses, resulting in a decrease in large sized proteins. Our data suggested that B. subtilis fermentation could increase the nutritive value of SBM through reduction of anti-nutritive factors and improvement of protein quality by hydrolysis of soy protein. In addition, B. subtilis TP6 produced a functional ingredient, poly-${\gamma}$-glutamic acid which has various health benefits.

Impact of Water Quality Parameters on the Disinfection of Total Coliform with Chlorine Dioxide

  • Lee Yoon-Jin
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.215-221
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    • 2006
  • This study investigated the inactivation of the total coliform, an indicator organism in chlorine dioxide, in order to assess the optimal disinfection procedure for drinking water treatment and distribution systems. This research focus on a number of factors, including the dosage of disinfectant, contact time, pH, temperature and DOC. Water samples were taken from the outlet of a settling basin at a conventional surface water treatment system. As the pH increased in the range of pH 6-9, the bactericidal effects of disinfectants decreased. Changes in levels of pH did not significantly after the disinfection effect of chlorine dioxide for total coliform. With an increase in temperature, there was a subsequent increase in the bactericidal effects of disinfectants. Thus, it is evident that a decrease in temperature will higher the CT values required to inactivate coliform for during the winter. DOC addition can also reduce total coliform inactivation. DOC is the most significant variable in total coliform inactivation with chlorine dioxide.

A Unified Object Database for Biochemical Pathways

  • Jung, T.S.;Oh, J.S.;Jang, H.K.;Ahn, M.S.;Roh, D.H.;Cho, W.S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Bioinformatics Conference
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    • 2005.09a
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    • pp.383-387
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    • 2005
  • One of the most important issues in post-genome era is identifying functions of genes and understanding the interaction among them. Such interactions from complex biochemical pathways, which are very useful to understand the organism system. We present an integrated biochemical pathway database system with a set of software tools for reconstruction, visualization, and simulation of the pathways from the database. The novel features of the presented system include: (a) automatic integration of the heterogeneous biochemical pathway databases, (b) gene ontology for high quality of database in the integration and query (c) various biochemical simulations on the pathway database, (d) dynamic pathway reconstruction for the gene list or sequence data, (e) graphical tools which enable users to view the reconstructed pathways in a dynamic form, (f) importing/exporting SBML documents, a data exchange standard for systems biology.

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A Study of Stress-Control by Qigong Program (기공프로그램이 스트레스완화에 미치는 영향)

  • Shin, Yong-Cheol
    • Journal of Society of Preventive Korean Medicine
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.133-139
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    • 2007
  • In the study of Stress-Control by Qigong Program, the results were as follows : In modern society, many stress factors affect the human organism, altering and chipping away at our nervous, endocrine, locomotor, reproductive, digestive, respiratory, circulatory and immune systems. The beneficial effects of Qigong can help us to restore our equilibrium and enhance our quality of life. This study was performed to investigate the effect of Qigong on stress and psychological symptoms. Twenty-two subjects were trained Qigong Program a week for 8 weeks. The stress index of subjects and psychosomatic symptoms was compared before and after Qigong Program and was significantly decreased after Qigong training. It means that the stress index and psychosomatic symptoms were improved by Qigong training.

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A study on Asterocaelum sp., a grazer of filamentous cyanobacteria in the Lake Daecheong (대청호에서 사상 남조류 포식성 Asterocaelum sp.(Protozoan)의 발생에 관한 연구)

  • 천세억;박혜경;한홍의
    • Journal of environmental and Sanitary engineering
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2000
  • A milky gray scum was observed at some water area of the lake Daecheong in the summer of 1997 and 1998. To identify a causing organism of scum and affecting factors, we observed the scum material by a phase contrast microscope and surveyed the phsico-chemical water quality during the outbreak of scum. The scum was found out to be clogging cysts of amoeboid protozoan, Asterocaelum sp.(Protozoea Sarcodina Aconchulinida), grazer of filamentous cyanobacteria, Anabaena genus. The protozoan scum appeared during Anabaena bloom period, which continued for a while. This protozoan was presumed acting as a regulator of Anabaena bloom in the lake Daecheong during the summer season. Moreover this is the first report on Asterocaelum sp. a grazing filamentous cyanobacteria occurred in Korean freshwater.

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The Evaluation of Geomagnetic Field of Detached Houses and It's effect on Residence (단독주택의 지자기장평가와 거주자에 미치는 건강에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Jong-Koo;Lee, Kyung-Hoi
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.27-33
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    • 2001
  • There are many research Papers and experiments indicating that the geomagnetic field affects the people and living organism. People grow up and build up most of their character through living in dwelling space and have relax and refresh at home. Creating healthy dwelling space is being considered very important in architectural planning and design for providing comfortable living environment and improving quality of life. Therefore. it is necessary to investigate the geomagnetic field and people's response in living space. In this study the vertical component(Z value) of geomagnetic field in detached houses was measured, evaluated by related evaluation criteria, compared with interview survey.

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The Importance and Effect of Geomagnetic Field in Dwelling Space (주공간에서 지자기장 중요성과 그 영향)

  • 한종구;장동민
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.79-86
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    • 2003
  • People grow up and build up most of their character through living in dwelling space and have relax and refresh at home. Creating healthy dwelling space is being considered very important in architectural planning and design for providing comfortable living environment and improving quality of life. Many research papers and experiments indicates that the geomagnetic field affects the people and living organism. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the geomagnetic field and people's response in dwelling space. In this study the Importance and Effect of Geomagnetic Field in dwelling space are studied through literature survey of related science field.

Notochord opacity in fry ayu, Plecoglossus altivelis

  • Huh, Min Do;Lee, Hyo Eun;Lee, Mu Kun;Kim, Bo Sung
    • Journal of fish pathology
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.117-121
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    • 2021
  • An ayu (Plecoglossus altivelis) farm in Korea recently experienced an epidemic of vertebral column deformities where about 90% of fry displayed a vertebral column that was grossly opaque along either the cranial part of the column or its entire length. Abnormal fish were lordotic, scoliotic and/or kyphotic about midway down the spine. Examination of serial sections of whole fish showed only histological lesions in the vertebral column and suggested some disturbance in the early development of the vertebral centrum. Such abnormalities included a frayed spinal or notochord sheaths with irregular thickening and compression, mal-absorbed notochord cells, thickening of around cell layer and hypercellularity on both facets of the notochord sheath. No parasites, fungi, or bacteria were detected. While this lesion has only been reported once in the past, this is the first report of histopathological findings.