• 한국광물학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.407-415
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• 2009

전자빔 조사를 조사량에 따라 단계별로 수행하면서 전자빔을 조사하는 동안 다이아몬드 내에서 일어나는 질소관련 결함의 변화와 색상의 변화를 분광학적 방법으로 측정 분석하였다. 일반적으로 질소의 양이 적을수록 공공이 쉽게 생성되며 A집합체보다 B집합체가 많은 시료에서 공공이 빠르게 생성된다는 결과를 보였다. 그 이유로 공공의 생성 정도가 전자빔에 의해 파괴될 수 있는 크기를 가진 결함의 양 즉, platelets에 비례한다는 결론을 추론할 수 있었다. 그리고 조사량이 증가할수록 옅은 녹색을 지닌 청색에서 짙은 청색으로 변화한다. 이러한 청색의 발현은 GR1센터의 점진적인 증가로 GR1센터 흡수포논에 의한 흡수띠의 영역은 더욱 확장되어 가시광선이 투과하는 최고 파장대가 530 nm에서 500 nm로 이동하면서 나타나는 현상이다.

• 대한건축학회논문집:구조계
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• 제35권12호
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• pp.165-172
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• 2019

본 연구는 물결합재비 40 %인 일반강도 영역에서 FA, BS 및 FA+BS인 광물질 혼화재의 0~30 %의 치환율 변화가 분체계 고유동 콘크리트의 재료분리 저항성 등 제반 특성에 미치는 영향에 대하여 분석하였다. 특히 고유동 콘크리트에서 밀도가 작은 분체의 치환율을 증가시킬 경우 액상 콘크리트의 점성저하로 재료분리가 증대될 수 있지 않은지, 또한 J-ring시험으로 철근 장애부에 의한 재료분리 정도에는 영향을 미치지 않을지 등 제반특성을 검토 분석하였다. 실험연구 결과 Normal 시험의 경우는 기존의 이론과 같이 광물질 혼화재의 치환율이 증가할수록 레올로지적 측면의 점성증가로 재료분리가 방지되었다. 단, J-ring를 이용한 시험의 경우는 액상중 밀도저하로 양호하게 골재를 끌고 철근사이를 통과하지 못해 재료분리 방지에 큰 역할을 하지 못함을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.34-40
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• 2011

무기성 폐기물인 준설토를 원료로 인공골재를 제조함에 있어, 직화소성법을 이용하여 소성온도(1100 및 $1200^{\circ}C$)와 시간(10~60 min)을 변수로 하여 인공골재의 부피비중, 흡수율 그리고 미세구조를 제어하였다. 또한 직화소성과 기존에 발표된 승온소성의 방법 차이에 따른 인공골재의 물성을 비교 분석하였다. 직화소성 시, 소성온도가 $1100^{\circ}C$에서 $1200^{\circ}C$로 증가하면, 껍질의 두께가 증가함과 동시에 블랙 코어 부분의 기공크기가 증가하면서 골재의 부피비중이 1.0 이하를 나타내었다. 또한 같은 소성온도에서 소성시간이 증가할수록 블랙코어의 단면적이 감소하고, 껍질의 두께가 증가하면서 흡수율이 감소하였다. 부피비중 1.0 이하의 인공골재는 직화소성이나 승온소성으로 제조된 경우 모두 블랙 코어부분의 미세구조가 서로 비슷한 경향을 나타내었다. 반면, 껍질(shell)의 미세구조는 승온소성된 경우에 더 치밀한 구조를 나타냈으며, 따라서 직화소성된 골재의 흡수율이 상대적으로 높았다. 이로서 직화소성법은 세라믹 담체 또는 흡착제등에 적용될 인공골재 제조에 적합한 방법임을 알 수 있었다.

• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.215-221
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• 2022

Considering their similar mass densities, an attempt was made to optimize the mix design of micro-concrete that used barite sand as an aggregate by substituting marble powder (5%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 70%), clay brick powder (30%, 50%, 70%), and fly ash (30%, 50%, 70%) for the concrete (by mass) to form specimens for shaking table tests. The test results showed that for these three groups of materials, the substitutions had little effect on the density. The barite sand played a decisive role in the density, and the overall density of the specimens reached approximately 2.9 g/cm³. The compressive strength and elastic modulus decreased with an increase in the substitution rates for the three types of materials. Among them, the 28 day compressive strength values of the 40% and 50% marble powder groups were 11.73 MPa and 8.33 MPa, respectively, which were 58.7% and 70.7% lower than the control group, respectively. Their elastic modulus values were 1.33×10⁴ MPa and 1.42×10⁴ MPa, respectively, which were 39.1% and 35% lower than those of the control group, respectively. The 28 day compressive strength values of the 50% and 70% clay brick powder groups were 13.13 MPa and 5.8 MPa, respectively, which were 53.8% and 79.6% lower than the control group, respectively. Their elastic modulus values were 1.54×10⁴ MPa and 1.19×10⁴ MPa, respectively, which were 29.7% and 45.4% lower than those of the control group, respectively. The 28 day compressive strength values of the 50% and 70% fly ash groups were 13.5 MPa and 7.1 MPa, respectively, which were 52.5% and 75% lower than those of the control group, respectively. Their elastic modulus values were 1.36×10⁴ MPa and 0.95×10⁴ MPa, respectively, which were 37.9% and 56.6% lower than those of the control group, respectively. There was a linear relationship between the 28 day compressive strength and elastic modulus, with the correlation coefficient reaching a value higher than 0.88. The test results showed that the model materials met the high density, low compressive strength, and low elastic modulus requirements for shaking table tests, and the test data of the three groups of different alternative materials were compared and analyzed to provide references and assistance for relevant model testers.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제48권2호
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• pp.173-181
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• 2024

Background: Pollination is an ecosystem service of utmost importance for agriculture. In this context, the study aimed to evaluate the pollination service of naturally occurring bees and after densification with colonies of stingless bees (Nannotrigona testceicornis and Tetragonisca angustula) in commercial strawberry plantation. The study was carried out in the four seasons of the year and under two experimental conditions: natural pollination (NP) and pollination under bee densification. The supply of flowers and bee density were estimated. For bee densification, four boxes of colonies of Iraí bees and four of Jataí bees were placed near the strawberry plantation. Five treatments were established for each condition, considering NP and pollination with bee densification on different days from flower anthesis, ranging from the 1st to the 5th day. Fruits were harvested, quantified, and submitted to evaluations to determine biometry, degree of deformity, and percentage of fertilized achenes. Results: There was a higher density in summer compared to other seasons in both conditions evaluated. The weight was greater (20.19 g) when fruits were pollinated on the first day after floral anthesis under pollination conditions with bee densification. It was observed that free pollination provided fruits with greater a greater of deformation of flowers on the fourth and fifth day after anthesis. However, when bee density became higher, the greatest degree of deformity was observed only in fifth-day fruits. The densification with stingless bees provided a 50% increase in the number of bees present on strawberry plants in summer and also a 15% increase in fruit weight and the occurrence of a lower degree of fruit deformity. Conclusions: Density with stingless bees provided a 50% increase in the number of bees present on strawberry plant in the summer, with an improvement in fruit quality and aggregate commercial value, providing a 15% increase in fruit weight and a lower degree of deformity under the conditions of densification of Iraí (N. testceicornis) and Jataí (T. angustula) bees. Under the evaluated conditions, the introduction of stingless bee boxes in the summer is recommended.

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.145-152
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• 1998

The spinning apparatus and production of secretory silk from silk gland of the black widow spider, Latrodectus mactans were studied with scanning and transmission electron microscopes. The silk glands were located in seven groups on the spinnerets including each pair of major and minor ampullate, 3 pairs of tubuliform, 1 pair of flagelliform, 2 pairs of aggregate, about 50 pairs of pyriform and over 250 pairs of aciniform glands, respect- ively. Each group of silk gland feeds silk into one of the three spinneret pairs. Secretory silk is synthesized from rough endoplasmic reticulum (rER) of glandular epithelial cells. The secretory silk is transported from toe rER into the secretory vacuoles which are grown up by fusion with the surrounding small vesicles including the secretory silk. The secretory vacuoles, which show a gradual increase in electron density with the process of maturity, are formed without involvement of the Golgi complex, suggesting that they do not play an important role in the processing of the secretory silk. The secretory silk products are released by the mechanism of apocrine secretion, losing part of their cytoplasm. Moreover, another type of silk precursor, possibly protein, appears as granular material, and is also discharged to the luminal cavity.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.319-335
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• 2013

In this paper, the properties of the cement mortar modified with styrene acrylic ester copolymer were investigated. Expanded vermiculite as lightweight aggregate was used for making the polymer modified mortar test specimens. To study the effect of polymer-cement ratio and vermiculite-cement ratio on various properties, specimens were prepared by varying the polymer-cement and vermiculite-cement ratios. Tests of physical properties such as density, water absorption, thermal conductivity, three-point flexure and compressive tests were made on the specimens. Furthermore, a coupled thermal-structural finite element model of an entire corner wall was modelled in order to study the best material configuration. The wall is composed by a total of 132 bricks of $120{\times}242{\times}54$ size, joined by means of a contact-bonded model. The use of advanced numerical methods allows us to obtain the optimum material properties. Finally, comparisons of polymer-cement and vermiculite-cement ratios on physical properties are given and the most important conclusions are exposed.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권7호
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• pp.3112-3127
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• 2018

Since time series clustering is performed without prior information, it is used for exploratory data analysis. In particular, clusters of time series with similar shapes can be used in various fields, such as business, medicine, finance, and communications. However, existing time series clustering algorithms have a problem in that time series with different shapes are included in the clusters. The reason for such a problem is that the existing algorithms do not consider the limitations on the size of the generated clusters, and use a dimension reduction method in which the information loss is large. In this paper, we propose a method to alleviate the disadvantages of existing methods and to find a better quality of cluster containing similarly shaped time series. In the data preprocessing step, we normalize the time series using z-transformation. Then, we use piecewise aggregate approximation (PAA) to reduce the dimension of the time series. In the clustering step, we use density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) to create a precluster. We then use a modified K-means algorithm to refine the preclusters containing differently shaped time series into subclusters containing only similarly shaped time series. In our experiments, our method showed better results than the existing method.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제67권1호
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• pp.87-91
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• 2018

Concrete is the most widely used building material all over the world, because of its many technical and economic qualities. This pressure on the concrete resource causes an intensive exploitation of the quarries of aggregates, which results in a exhaustion of these and environmental problems. That is why recycling and valorization of materials are considered as future solutions, to fill the deficit between production and consumption and to protect the environment. This study is part of the valorization process of local materials, which aims to reuse marble waste as fine aggregate (excess loads of marble waste exposed to bad weather conditions) available in the marble quarry of Fil-fila (Skikda, East of Algeria) in the manufacture of self-compacting concretes. It consists of introducing the marble waste as sand into the self-compacting concrete formulation, with variable percentages (25%, 50%, 75% and 100%) and to study the development of its properties both in fresh state (air content, density, slump flow, V-funnel, L-box and sieve stability) as well as the hardened one (compressive strength and flexural strength). The results obtained showed us that marble wastes can be used as sand in the manufacture of self compacting concretes.

• BMB Reports
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.329-333
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• 2001

Active lipoprotein lipase (LPL) is known as a noncovalent homodimer of identical subunits, and dissociation of the dimer to a monomeric form renders the lipase inactive. In this study, the oligomerization status of LPL in human and rat plasma was investigated. The LPL activity was barely detectable in the control rat and human plasma. After the injection of heparin, the total lipolytic activity of plasma was rapidly increased, and reached its maximum in 30 min. Changes of the LPL protein correlated well with those of lipolytic activity. The LPL protein that is released by heparin into both human and rat plasma was active and dimeric in the sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation. In control rat plasma, LPL was inactive, and a great fraction was present as an aggregate. However, the inactive LPL protein in the control human plasma retained the dimeric state, indicating that dimerization can be an entity independent of the catalytic activity of LPL. The released LPL is transported as a complex with lipoproteins in plasma. Lipoprotein profiles, determined by NaBr ultracentrifugation, exhibited typical LDL- and HDL-mammal patterns in humans and rats, respectively, with a smaller amount of the LDL fraction observed in rats. The difference in the lipoprotein profiles might influence the fate of the released LPL in plasma.