• Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.11-28
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• 2024

This study aimed to establish the optimal amount of thickening agent for the appropriate viscosity in soups and beverages, which are part of the dysphagia diet. The soups were bean sprout soup and soybean paste soup; the beverages were orange juice, regular milk, and low-fat milk; the thickening agent was one type of xanthan gum product. After adding the thickening agents (from 1 g to 5 g per 200 mL of the test food), syringe tests were conducted over time (5, 10 and 15 minutes) to verify the effects of the amount of thickening agent added per sample and the time between addition and achieving the resulting viscosity, and to establish the optimal addition conditions to reach IDDSI levels 1, 2, and 3 of the dysphagia diet. Water (based on 200 mL) was used as the standard control. These results provide a useful basis for customized diets based on the patient's dysphagia severity. On the other hand, this study is limited by including only liquid foods in the dysphagia diet and one type of xanthan gum-based thickening agent. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct continuous research, based on the study results, to modify the viscosity of the dysphagia diet using various thickening agents and foods and prevent nutritional deficiencies by managing the diet according to the patient's swallowing ability.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.610-617
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• 2012

Trifoliate orange components consist of several kinds, such as monoterpenes, limonoids, flavonoids, and coumarins. Coumarin derivatives were shown to possess valuable pharmacological properties such as anti-inflammatory and dietary effect. Among them, 7-geranyloxycoumarin 6 is a promising chemopreventive agent againist skin, tongue, oesophaqus and colon carcinogenesis in rodents. Seven new coumarin derivatives structurally related to 7-geranyloxycoumarin were synthesised in good yields by $Cs_2CO_3$/acetonitrile condition. We investigated the effect of anti-inflammatory activity on interleukin-6 for synthesised geranyloxycoumarin derivatives. 6-Geranyoxycoumarin 9 (68.9% / $1{\mu}M$ ; 72.6% / $10{\mu}M$) of the anti-inflammatory activity is far higher than 7-Geranyloxycoumarin 5 (40.1% / $1{\mu}M$ ; 61.1% / $10{\mu}M$) and their other derivatives.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.182-189
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• 1990

Various crosslinked poly(4-vinylpyridines) having different degrees of crosslinking were prepared by radical copolymerizations of 4-vinylpyridine with N, N'-2, 6-pyridinebisacrylamide as a crosslinker. The abilities of these crosslinked polymers to bind methyl orange and butyl orange were investigated at various temperatures in a buffer solution of pH 7. The first binding constants were evaluated from the equilibrium binding amounts. The first binding constants against the temperatures showed bell-shaped curves. Also, the first binding constants against the degree of crosslinking showed bell-shaped curves. When the temperature and the degree of crosslinking of maximum binding in the curves of these binding systems were compared with those of previous systems containing crosslinked poly(4-vinylpyridines) prepared by using N, N'-methylenebisacrylamide, N, N'-tetramethy-lenebisacryamide and divinylbenzene as crosslinkers, respectively, they were varied with the crosslinked poly(4-vinyl pyridines) containing different crosslinkers. These results were discussed in terms of the properties of the crosslinkers.

• Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.141-145
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• 2000

Anodically Polymerized conducting Polypyrrole film electrode was employed to Pick up uranyl ion with the type of Gr/ppy, xylenol orange modified electrode. To have Porous and oriented ppy film, NBR was applied as precoating agent. The rate constant of polymerization was $3.22\times10^{-3}s^{-1}$ which was 1.6 times smaller value than bare graphite surface. The deposited amount of uranyl iou on $1.70Ccm^{-2}$ of ppy was $1.55\times10^{-4}g$. The matrix effect in artificial seawater was $6.8\%$. The polymer film electrode has a diffusion controlled process in conduction, but the modified Gr/ppy, $X.O^{4-}UO^+$ type was influenced on the ion doping and electronic conduction of film itself owing to increasing of impedance. The capacitance of electrical double layer was respectively enhanced to 56 and 130 times in Gr/ppy, $X.O.^{4-}$ and Gr/ppy, $X.O^{4-}UO^+$ than Grippy type electrode.

• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.54-64
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• 2021

The chemical warfare agents (CWAs) have been developed for offensive or defensive purposes and used as chemical weapons in war and terrorism. The CWAs are exposed to the natural environment, transported through the water system and then eventually contaminate soil and groundwater. Therefore, effective decontamination technology to remediate CWAs are needed. The CWAs are extremely dangerous and prodution is strictly prohibited, therefore, it is difficult to use CWAs even in experimental purpose. In this study, 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) was chosen as a model representative CWA because it is a simulant of anti-plant CWAs and one of the major component of agent orange. The optimum degradation conditions such as oxidant:activator ratio were determined. The effects of hydroxylamine and chelating agents such as citric acid (CA), oxalic acid (OA), malic acid (MA), and EDTA addition to increase Fe2+ activation were also investigated. Scavenger experiments using tert-butyl alcohol (TBA) and ethanol confirmed that although both sulfate (SO4•-) and hydroxyl radical (•OH) existed in Fe2+-persulfate system, sulfate radical was the predominant radical. To promote the Fe2+ activator effect, the effect of hydroxylamine as a reducing agent was investigated. In chelating agents assisted Fe2+-persulfate oxidation, the addition of 2 mM of CA and MA enhanced 2,4-D degradation. In contrast, EDTA and OA inhibited the 2,4-D removal due to steric hindrance effect.

• Journal of the Korean Graphic Arts Communication Society
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.1-17
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• 1995

Organic thin film electroluminescene devices were fabricated using by molecularly doped method with N,N`-diphenyl-N,N`-bis(3-methylphenyl)-1,1`-biphenyl-4,4`-diamine(TPD) as a hole transport material, tris(8-quinolinolate) aluminium(III)(Alq3) as an emitting and electron transport agent, fluorescent squarylium(SQ) dye as a dopant, and poly(methylmethacrylate) as polymer materials. A cell structure of ITO/TPD-PMMA/Alq3-dopant/Mg was employed. The EL spectrum covers a wide range of the visible region and orange emission os observed. Two peaks at 520 and 660nm correspond to the emissions 620nm Alq3 and SQ dye, respectively.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.815-818
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• 2002

Mn doped hexagonal phase of ZnS has been studied as a yellow-orange phosphor for the application to fluorescent displays operated at low voltages. It was found that luminescence from $Mn^{2+}$ was increased as the Mn concentration was increased up to1.2 mol% of host lattice. This study has been attempted by adding trivalent ions such as $Al^{3+}$ or $Bi^{3+}$ to ZnS:Mn as an agent to do the efficient incorporation of Mn ions into ZnS:Mn lattice, resulting in a significant improvement in the phosphor performance, especially at low voltages.

• 보존과학연구
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• s.17
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• pp.48-64
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• 1996

We compared the degree of color difference formed by environmental factor(temperature, relative humidity) with fungal growth in order to know how to change the color difference of cellulolutic cultural properties such as Korean papers, cotton, jute and hemp. We concluded, from the result, that the action of fungal growth on celluloytic cultural properties was more hamful than environmental factor. We considered the secretion produced by fungi as the causative agent for stained formation on cellulolytic cultural properties. Alternaria sp. colored allmaterials greyish black, Chaetomium sp. colored cotton and hemp orange, and Penicllium sp. colored cotton, jute and hemp yellowish green. But Trichoderma sp. and Aspergillus sp. didn't show a clear color against each material. It was observed that thymol(120g/$m^3$) was the most effective fungicide to prevent fungal growth.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.673-679
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• 1995

Pectinesterase(PE) has been definitively established as the causative agent for clarification of citrus juice and gelation of frozen concentrates. This enzyme is present in multiple forms in citrus fruit. Although representing a minor fraction of the total PE activity, thermostable pectinesterase(TSPE) accounts for the severe time/temperature processing treatment required to inactivate PE. This study was undertaken to separate and purify thermolabile pectinesterase(TLPE) and TSPE from the crude PE extracts of Valencia orange rag-pulp powder. The approach taken was to carry out the three kind of chromatographies of CM-Sephadex C-50, Phenyl Sepharose CL-4B and CM-Biogel A to the unheated crude PE or the heated crude PE. All of them used could increase the purity of PEs and, specially, Phenyl Sepharose CL-4B chromatography could separate crude PE as the mixture of PEs into two forms of TLPE and TSPE. The purified TLPE had specific activity of 1,005 units/mg, yield of 13.6% and purification of 35 fold, while the TSPE separated from the unheated crude PE showed specific activity of 3,115 units/mg, yield of 1.5% and purification of 100.5 fold, and another TSPE from the heated crude PE was found to be specific activity of 1,803 units/mg, yield of 15.4% and purification of 140 fold.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.330-335
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• 2014

Niobium pentoxide ($Nb_2O_5$) nanoparticles were synthesized using niobium (V) chloride and pluronic F108NF as the precursor and templating agent, respectively. The $Nb_2O_5$-graphene nanocomposites were placed in an electric furnace at $700^{\circ}C$ and calcined under Ar atmosphere for 2 h. The morphology, crystallinity, and photocatalytic degradation activity of the samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and UV-vis spectroscopy. The $Nb_2O_5$-graphene nanocomposites acted as a photocatalyst in the photocatalytic degradation of organic dyes under 254 nm UV light; the organic dyes used were methylene blue (MB), methyl orange (MO), rhodamine B (RhB), and brilliant green (BG). The photocatalytic degradation kinetics for the aforesaid dyes were determined in the presence of the $Nb_2O_5$-graphene nanocomposites.