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Effects of Water-misting Sprays with Forced Ventilation after Transport during Summer on Meat Quality, Stress Parameters, Glycolytic Potential and Microstructures of Muscle in Broilers

  • Jiang, N.N.;Xing, T.;Wang, P.;Xie, C.;Xu, X.L.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.28 no.12
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    • pp.1767-1773
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    • 2015
  • Effects of water-misting sprays with forced ventilation after transport during summer on meat quality, stress parameters, glycolytic potential and microstructures of muscle in broilers were investigated. A total of 105 mixed-sex Arbor Acres broilers were divided into three treatment groups: i) 45-min transport without rest (T group), ii) 45-min transport with 1-h rest (TR group), iii) 45-min transport with 15-min water-misting sprays with forced ventilation and 45-min rest (TWFR group). The results showed the TWFR group significantly increased (p<0.05) initial muscle pH ($pH_i$) and ultimate pH ($pH_u$) and significantly reduced $L^*$ (p<0.05), drip loss, cook loss, creatine kinase, lactate dehydrogenase activity, plasma glucose content, lactate and glycolytic potential when compared with other groups. Microstructure of the muscle from TWFR group broilers under light microscopy showed smaller intercellular spaces among muscle fibers and bundles compared with T group. In conclusion this study indicated water-misting sprays with forced ventilation after transport could relieve the stress caused by transport under high temperature, which was favorable for the broilers' welfare. Furthermore, water-misting sprays with forced ventilation after transport slowed down the postmortem glycolysis rate and inhibited the occurrence of PSE-like meat in broilers. Although rest after transport could also improve the meat quality, the effect was not as significant as water-misting sprays with forced ventilation after transport.

Charge Transport and Electroluminescence in Insulating Polymers (절연층 폴리머의 전하 전송 및 EL 특성)

  • Choi, Yong-Sung;Ahn, Seong-Soo;Kim, Byung-Chul;Lee, Kyung-Sup
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.04c
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    • pp.91-97
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    • 2008
  • Polymers submitted to thermo/electrical stress suffer from ageing that can drastically affect their functional behaviour. Understanding the physico/chemical processes at play during ageing and defining transport regimes in which these mechanisms start to be critical is therefore a prime goal to prevent degradation and to develop new formulation or new materials with improved properties. It is thought that a way to define these critical regimes is to investigate under which conditions (in terms of stress parameters) light is generated in the material by electroluminescence (EL). This can happen through impact excitation/ionization involving hot carriers or upon bi-polar charge recombination (a definition that excludes light from partial discharges, which would sign an advanced stage in the degradation process). After a brief review of the EL phenomenology under DC, we introduce a numerical model of charge transport postulating a recombination controlled electroluminescence. The model output is critically evaluated with special emphasize on the comparison between simulated and experimental light emission. Finally, we comment some open questions and perspectives.

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A NUMERICAL STUDY ON CHARACTERISTICS OF FLUID FLOW AND SOLUTE TRANSPORT IN A SELF-AFFINE VARIABLE-APERTURE FRACTURE UNDER NORMAL COMPLIANCE EFFECT

  • JEONG WOOCHANG;HWANG MANHA;KO ICKHWAN;SONG JAIWOO
    • Water Engineering Research
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.49-61
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    • 2005
  • This paper presents the numerical study to examine characteristics of fluid flow and solute transport in a rough fracture subject to effective normal stresses. The aperture distribution is generated by using the self-affine fractal model. In order to represent a nonlinear relationship between the supported normal stress and the fracture aperture, we combine a simple mechanical model with the local flow model. The solute transport is simulated using the random walk particle following algorithm. Results of numerical simulations show that the flow is significantly affected by the geometry of aperture distribution varying with the effective normal stress level while it is slightly affected by the fractal dimension that determines the degree of the fracture surface roughness. However, solute transport is influenced by the effective normal stress as well as the fracture surface roughness.

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An optimization strategy in wind-driven circulation with uncertain forcing problem off the southeastern coastal waters of Korea (한국 남동해역 취송순환문제에서 바람응력에 대한 최적화 연구)

  • Kim Jong-Kyu;Kim Heon-Tae
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.35-42
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    • 2001
  • We demonstrated the importance of initial estimates of model parameters and the utility of an optimization approach of the uncertain forcing of wind-driven circulation off the southeastern coastal waters of Korea. The wind stress represents the upper boundary condition in this model and enters in the model equation as a forcing term in the numerical formalism. The wind field contributes to maintain the almost time-independent distribution of the upper layer thickness feature in a north-south direction and negative wind stress curl to maintain the formation of warm eddy off the southeastern coastal waters of Korea. Elucidated is the variational characteristics of the East Korean Warm Current due to the variations of the zonally averaged wind stress (southward transport) from the seasonal variations of the meridional transport by the Ekman transport.

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ON TRANSPORTS DRIVEN BY TIME-VARYING WINDS IN HORIZONTALLY UNBOUNDED SHALLOW SEAS (시간변화적 바람에 따른 넓은 천해에서의 해수유랑)

  • Kang, Yong Q.
    • 한국해양학회지
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.41-50
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    • 1982
  • We present theoretical models for the unstedy transports driven by the time-varying wind stress in horizontally unbounded shallow seas of an uniform depth. We derive linearized transport equations that inchude the acceleration, the Coriolis firce, the wind stress and the bottom friction. The steady transport in a shallow sea is different from the classical Ekman transport because of a presence of non-negligible bottom fricttttion. The transient reansport and an inertial oscillation of which frequency of rotation is the same as the frequency of the wind stress forcing. The transprt associated with a wind stress of which direction changes linearlywith time is decribed by a superpoeition so a free inertial oscillation with a pweiod of one inertial day, The theoretical models of the transports are useful in understanding the time-varying currents and the transports of nutrients in shallow seas.

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Air Traffic Controllers' Fatigue and Stress based on Heart Rate Measurement (심장박동수 측정을 통한 항공교통 관제사의 피로와 스트레스)

  • Park, Jin-han;An, Deok-bae;Baik, Hojong
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.90-98
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    • 2017
  • This paper is concerned with air traffic controllers' fatigue and stress that they experience during their daily job particularly as being shift workers. Previous researches reveal that the controllers' fatigue and stress increase by several factors including time spent at work, traffic intensity, visibility, etc. The researches also indicate that air traffic controllers' fatigue and stress can be reasonably surrogated by their heart rate. We set three hypotheses relating the influencing factors and the fatigue and stress represented by the heart rates. Using wrist bands, air traffic controllers' heart rates at various situations are collected at Choongju airport. The hypothetical tests explicitly confirm that the heart rate is highly correlated with the traffic level and the time spent at work. In particular, it be shown that even when handling the same traffic level, air traffic controllers' stress level increases as the time they spent at work increases.

Incipient motion criteria of uniform gravel bed under falling spheres in open channel flow

  • Khe, Sok An;Park, Sang Deog;Jeon, Woo Sung
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2018.05a
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    • pp.149-149
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    • 2018
  • Prediction on initial motion of sediment is crucial to evaluate sediment transport and channel stability. The condition of incipient movement of sediment is characterized by bed shear stress, which is generated from force of moving water against the bed of the channel, and by critical shear stress, which depends on force resisting motion of sediment due to the submerged weight of the grains. When the bed shear stress exceeds the critical shear stress, sediment particles begin rolling and sliding at isolated and random locations. In Mountain River, debris flow frequently occurs due to heavy rainfall and can lead some natural stones from mountain slope into the bed river. This phenomenon could add additional forces to sediment transport system in the bed of river and also affect or change direction and magnitude of sediment movement. In this paper, evaluations on incipient motion of uniform coarse gravel under falling spheres impacts using small scale flume channel were conducted. The drag force of falling spheres due to water flow and length movement of falling spheres were investigated. The experiments were carried out in flume channel made by glass wall and steel floor with 12 m long, 0.6 m wide, and 0.6 m deep. The bed slopes were selected with the range from 0.7% to 1.5%. The thickness of granular layer was at least 3 times of diameter of granular particle to meet grain placement condition. The sphere diameters were chosen to be 4cm, 6 cm, 8 cm, 10 cm. The spheres were fallen in to the bed channel for critical condition and under critical condition of motion particle. Based on the experimental results, the Shields curve of particles Reynold number and dimensionless critical shear stress were plotted. The relationship between with drag force and the length movement of spheres were plotted. The pathways of the bed material Under the impact of spheres falling were analyzed.

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A Study on the Applicability of Shrinkage Reduction Effect of Light-weight Aggregate Concrete (경량골재 콘크리트의 수축 저감효과에 관한 적용성 연구)

  • Lim, Sang-Jun;Bang, Chang-Joon;Park, Jong-Hyok
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.175-176
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    • 2011
  • Applying previous studies performed in the moisture transportation characteristics and shrinkage of lightweight concrete application of shrinkage reduction is to discuss. Applicability of shrinkage reduction effect of lightweight concrete applies for the analysis of PSC girder bridge beam placed on the construction site. Stress of the concrete bridge deck, rebar quantity is calculated by effective elastic modulus method and crack risk is assessed by moisture transport and differential shrinkage analysis. After approximately 10 days maximum tensile stress occurs 6MPa, similar to the case of normal concrete, a maximum tensile stress occurs 3MPa in lightweight concrete and comparing to normal concrete stress was reduced to approximately 50%. Normal and lightweight concrete crack index, respectively, is reduced 1.6 to 1.2, 1.2 to 0.9 in surface and boundary region. Therefore, reduction in shrinkage of concrete were able to confirm reduction of crack risk.

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Sediment Transport Paths of the East China Sea (동지나해(東支那海)의 토사이동경로(土砂移動經路))

  • Choi, Byung Ho
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.83-93
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    • 1983
  • A non-linear numerical tidal model of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea is used to derive the mean and maximum bed stress the mean and maximum transport potential on the continental shelf. It has provided a preliminary assessment of relation between sediment transport paths and the mean and maximum bed stress distribution determined from the numerical model.

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