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Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) Dosage Based on Body Weight Enhances Ovulatory Responses and Subsequent Embryo Production in Goats

  • Rahman, M.R.;Rahman, M.M.;Khadijah, W.E. Wan;Abdullah, R.B.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.27 no.9
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    • pp.1270-1275
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    • 2014
  • An experiment was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of porcine follicle stimulating hormone (pFSH) dosage based on body weight (BW) on ovarian responses of crossbred does. Thirty donor does were divided into 3 groups getting pFSH dosages of 3, 5, and 8 mg pFSH per kg BW, respectively, and were named as pFSH-3, pFSH-5 and pFSH-8, respectively. Estrus was synchronized by inserting a controlled internal drug release (CIDR) device and a single injection of prostaglandin $F2{\alpha}$ ($PGF2{\alpha}$). The pFSH treatments were administered twice a day through 6 decreasing dosages (25, 25, 15, 15, 10, and 10% of total pFSH amount; decreasing daily). Ovarian responses were evaluated on Day 7 after CIDR removal. After CIDR removal, estrus was observed 3 times in a day and pFSH treatments were initiated at 2 days before the CIDR removal. All does in pFSH-5 and pFSH-8 showed estrus signs while half of the does in pFSH-3 showed estrus signs. No differences (p>0.05) were observed on the corpus luteum and total ovarian stimulation among the treatment groups, while total and transferable embryos were higher (p<0.05) in pFSH-5 (7.00 and 6.71) than pFSH-3 (3.00 and 2.80) and pFSH-8 (2.00 and 1.50), respectively. In conclusion, 5 mg pFSH per kg BW dosage gave a higher number of embryos than 3 and 8 mg pFSH per kg BW dosages. The results indicated that the dosage of pFSH based on BW is an important consideration for superovulation in goats.

Mitigation of Ammonia Dispersion with Mesh Barrier under Various Atmospheric Stability Conditions

  • Gerdroodbary, M. Barzegar;Mokhtari, Mojtaba;Bishehsari, Shervin;Fallah, Keivan
    • Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.125-136
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    • 2016
  • In this study, the effects of the mesh barrier on the free dispersion of ammonia were numerically investigated under different atmospheric conditions. This study presents the detail and flow feature of the dispersion of ammonia through the mesh barrier on various free stream conditions to decline and limit the toxic danger of the ammonia. It is assumed that the dispersion of the ammonia occurred through the leakage in the pipeline. Parametric studies were conducted on the performance of the mesh barrier by using the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations with realizable k-${\varepsilon}$ turbulence model. Numerical simulations of ammonia dispersion in the presence of mesh barrier revealed significant results in a fully turbulent free stream condition. The results clearly show that the flow behavior was found to be a direct result of mesh size and ammonia dispersion is highly influenced by these changes in flow patterns in downstream. In fact, the flow regime becomes laminar as flow passes through mesh barrier. According to the results, the mesh barrier decreased the maximum concentration of the ammonia gas and limited the risk zone (more than 500 ppm) lower than 2 m height. Furthermore, a significant reduction occurs in the slope of the upper boundary of $NH_3$ risk zone distribution at downstream when a mesh barrier is presented. Thus, this device highly restricts the leak distribution of ammonia in the industrial plan.

A Study on the Ortho-para Hydrogen Conversion Characteristics of Liquefied Hydrogen by Perovskite Catalysts (페로브스카이트 촉매에 의한 액화수소의 올소-파라 수소변환특성에 관한 연구)

  • Nah, In Wook;Kim, Jung Hyun;Das, Taraknath;Kwon, Soon-Cheol;Oh, In-Hwan
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.15-20
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    • 2015
  • During the liquefaction of hydrogen, the ortho hydrogen is converted into the para form with heat release that evaporates the liquefied hydrogen into the gaseous one backwards. The ortho-para conversion catalysts are usually used during liquefaction to avoid such boil-off. In order to compare and analyze the performance of the ortho-para hydrogen conversion catalysts, in-situ FT-IR device was designed and manufactured to measure the para hydrogen conversion rate in real-time. $LaFeO_3$ and $La_{0.7}Sr_{0.3}Cu_{0.3}Fe_{0.7}O_3$ perovskite catalysts were prepared by the citrate sol-gel method and their spin conversion characteristics from ortho to para hydrogen were investigated by in-situ FTIR spectroscopy at 17K. It was found that the spin conversion was affected by surface area, particle size, and crystallite size of the catalysts. Thus, the $La_{0.7}Sr_{0.3}Cu_{0.3}Fe_{0.7}O_3$ perovskite catalyst that had higher surface area, higher crystallite size, and smaller particle size than $LaFeO_3$ showed the better spin conversion property of 32.3% at 17K in 120min interaction with the perovskite catalysts.

Ga-doped ZnO nanorod arrays grown by thermal evaporation and their electrical behavior (수직 배향된 Ga-doped ZnO nanorods의 합성과 전기적 특성)

  • Ahn, C.H.;Han, W.S.;Kong, B.H.;Kim, Y.Y.;Cho, H.K.;Kim, J.J.;Kim, H.S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.414-414
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    • 2008
  • Vertically well-aligned Ga-doped ZnO nanorods with different Ga contents were grown by thermal evaporation on a ZnO template. The Ga-doped ZnO nanorods synthesized with 50 wt % Ga with respect to the Zn content showed maximum compressive stress relative to the ZnO template, which led to a rapid growth rate along the c-axis due to the rapid release of stored strain energy. A further increase in the Ga content improved the conductivity of the nanorods due to the substitutional incorporation of Ga atoms in the Zn sites based on a decrease in lattice spacing. The p-n diode structure with Ga-doped ZnO nanorods, as a n-type, displayed a distinct white light luminescence from the side-view of the device, showing weak ultraviolet and various deep-level emissions.

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A Preliminary Study for Developing an Authoring Tool for Field-Experience Learning using Mobile Device (모바일 현장체험학습 저작도구 개발을 위한 기초연구)

  • Kang, Young Ok;Cho, Na Hye
    • Spatial Information Research
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.123-132
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    • 2015
  • Recently both the importance and the interests of field-experience learning have kept increasing since the Education of Ministry encourages students to take a field-experience learning with the self-driven and creative education as the main issue in the 7th revised education curriculum in 2009. As the importance of field-experience learning goes up continuously, not only the release of its related mobile applications is increasing, but also a variety of researches for supporting the field-experience learning are ongoing. In this research we perform two things. First, we define the basic concept of authoring tool for which support the field-experience learning based on its characteristics and user requirements analysis. We confirmed that the authoring tool for the field-experience learning has to 1) support all activities that happen in pre-field, field-experience and post-field phases, 2) be possible to write the location-based field work, 3) have the authoring function which reflects the characteristics of curriculum such as history, science and geography, etc. that the field learning can be realized, 4) be designed as the structure that the results of inquiring activity after the field experience activity can be reused. Second, we create a conceptual design after confirming the authoring tool.

Implementation of IMS Core SIP Gateway based on Embedded (임베디드 기반의 IMS 코아 SIP 게이트웨이 구현)

  • Yoo, Seung-Sun;Kim, Sam-Taek
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.209-214
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    • 2014
  • IMS(IP Multi-Media Subsystem) is in the limelight as the Integrated wire and wireless Systems because of a sudden increase of smart mobile devices and growth of multimedia additional services such as IPTV. The structure of IMS is designed as a session control layer to provide various multimedia summative service using SIP based on IP communication network in order to carry out set-up, change and release by NGN of course, the existing voice services. But now It is broadly substituting in the IPTV, wire phone company and it is substituted in internet platform base on the soft-switch in currently. Especially, in currently, 4G LTE in a mobile communication company is rapidly growing in market. Therefore, in this study, we had designed and developed to the main prosser that can admit to 1000 user over and SIP gateway which can link the IMS Core that can link SIP Device which adopt the standard protocol on the SIP and to provide variable multimedia services.

The effect of wet-etching process on the gate insulator for fabrication of metal tip FEA (Metal tip FEA 의 제조시 식각 용액이 게이트 산화막에 미치는 영향)

  • Jung, Yu-Ho;Jung, Jae-Hoon;Park, Heung-Woo;Song, Man-Ho;Lee, Yun-Hi;Ju, Byeong-Kwon;Oh, Myung-Hwan;Kim, Chul-Ju
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1996.07c
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    • pp.1450-1452
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    • 1996
  • In order to optimize the characteristics of gate insulator for FED(field emission device), we investigated the effect of wet-etching process on the gate insulator for fabrication of FED. We used the general three types of etchants for fabrication of the metal tip FEA(field emitter array), they are MO and oxide etchants to form the gate hole, and Al etchant to remove the release layer. In the result of the breakdown field of the insulator by the measure of the current-voltage characteristics, the breakdown field of insulator for immersing in oxide etchant was rapidly lowering with increasing etching time, but that for immersing in Al etchant was slow lowering. Also, in comparing cleaning with non-cleaning samples, the breakdown field of the cleaning samples was higher than that of non-cleaning samples.

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Effect of Center Pin in Free Fall Test for a Cylindrical Li-ion Cell (원형 리튬 전지의 센터 핀이 낙하 충격에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Simon;Lee, Young Shin
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.39 no.6
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    • pp.639-644
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    • 2015
  • A cylindrical secondary Li-ion cell is a device in which stored chemical energy is converted to electrical energy via an electrochemical reaction. These cells are widely used for applications that require high capacity and rate power, such as notebooks, power tools, and electric vehicles. The role of a center pin is to retain the channel for gas release, preventing blockage of the hollow of the jelly roll during a charge-discharge cycle, and to prevent an internal short circuit for tearing of separator under mechanical free fall. In this paper, two experiments are conducted with and without the center pin to experimentally verify the importance of the role of the center pin. The first experiment is a 50-cycle charge-discharge cycle test, and the second is a free fall test conducted according to the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) standards. Based on these experiments, we demonstrate that the center pin in a cylindrical cell is a very important component in terms of safety.

Mild stimulation of stomach 36 acupuncture point by organic nanoscale SP6 patch improves cellular physiologic functional status of different organs

  • Nazeran, Homer;Blake-Greenberg, Sherry;Haltiwanger, Emily
    • CELLMED
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.10.1-10.6
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    • 2012
  • Acupuncture works by stimulating peripheral sensory nerves and their endings causing an increase in cutaneous blood flow and microcirculation, as well as release of neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, and hormones. SP6 Patch is a nanoscale nontransdermal device that mildly stimulates Stomach 36 (zusanli) and other acupuncture points. As stimulation of these points has been indicated to have an effect on hypothalamic function, it is of great research interest to investigate the effect of SP6 Patch on the physiology of organs that are affected by hypothalamic regulation. Bioelectrical tissue impedance data indicative of cellular physiologic organ function, using an Electro Interstitial Scan (EIS) system, were acquired from hypothalamus, pancreas, liver, intestines, kidneys, thyroid and adrenal glands in 10 (1 male, 9 females) volunteers while wearing the SP6 Patch daily for 1 week. EIS testing was performed at baseline with no patch, 30 min after wearing the patch, and after wearing the patch 12 h/day for 1 week. Subjects were instructed to keep well hydrated during the study period. All subjects served as their own control. The hypothesis was: The SP6 Patch worn 12 h/day on the Stomach 36 acupuncture point for 1 week, may significantly improve cellular physiologic functional status of different organs measured by EIS. All tested organs achieved significant improvement in their functional physiologic status after wearing the SP6 Pach 12 h/day for 1 week compared to baseline with an overall average statistical power > 89%. Based upon these results the hypothesis was accepted as true.

Development of Thermal Image Processing Module Using Common Image Processor (상용 이미지 처리 프로세서를 이용한 열화상 이미지 처리 모듈 개발)

  • Han, Joon Hwan;Cha, Jeong Woo;Kim, Bo Mee;Lim, Jae Sung
    • KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2020
  • The thermal image device support image to detect infrared light from the object without light. It can use not only defence-related industry, but also civilian industry. This paper presents a new thermal image processing module using common image processor. The proposed module shows 10~20% performance improvement with normal mode and 50% performance improvement with sleep mode compared with the previously thermal image module based FPGA. and it guarantees high scalability according to modular system. In addition, the proposed module improves modulation and reuse, so it expect to have reduction of development period, low development cost. various application. In addition, it expect to have satisfaction of customer requirements, development design, development period, release date of product.