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Zygosaccharomyces rouxii Combats Salt Stress by Maintaining Cell Membrane Structure and Functionality

  • Wang, Dingkang;Zhang, Min;Huang, Jun;Zhou, Rongqing;Jin, Yao;Wu, Chongde
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.62-70
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    • 2020
  • Zygosaccharomyces rouxii is an important yeast that is required in the food fermentation process due to its high salt tolerance. In this study, the responses and resistance strategies of Z. rouxii against salt stress were investigated by performing physiological analysis at membrane level. The results showed that under salt stress, cell integrity was destroyed, and the cell wall was ruptured, which was accompanied by intracellular substance spillover. With an increase of salt concentrations, intracellular Na+ content increased slightly, whereas intracellular K+ content decreased significantly, which caused the increase of the intracellular Na+/K+ ratio. In addition, in response to salt stress, the activity of Na+/K+-ATPase increased from 0.54 to 2.14 μmol/mg protein, and the ergosterol content increased to 2.42-fold to maintain membrane stability. Analysis of cell membrane fluidity and fatty acid composition showed that cell membrane fluidity decreased and unsaturated fatty acid proportions increased, leading to a 101.21% rise in the unsaturated/saturated fatty acid ratio. The results presented in this study offer guidance in understanding the salt tolerance mechanism of Z. rouxii, and in developing new strategies to increase the industrial utilization of this species under salt stress.

Replication of concave and convex microlens array of light guide plate for liquid crystal display in injection molding (음각, 양각 광학패턴 적용 휴대폰용 도광판 금형 제작 및 광특성 연구)

  • Hwang, Chul Jin;Kim, Jong Sun;Kang, Jeong Jin;Hong, Seokkwan;Yoon, Kyung Hwan
    • Design & Manufacturing
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.29-32
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    • 2008
  • A back light unit (BLU) is a key module of a thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD), frequently utilized in various mobile displays. In this study, we experimentally characterize transcription and optical properties of concave and convex microlens arrays (MLAs) of light guide plate (LGP) fabricated by injection molding with polycarbonate as a LGP substrate material. Nickel mold inserts were manufactured by electroforming on the MLA which was fabricated by the thermal reflow of photoresist microstructures patterned by UV-photolithography. For the case of convex microlens, the height of replicated microlens was less than that of the mold insert while maintaining almost the same microlens diameter of the mold insert as the location of the microlens is far from the gate. In contrast, for the concave microlens, the diameter of replicated microlens was larger than that of mold insert, while showing almost the same microlens height as the mold insert. From the optical examination of replicated convex and concave MLAs, it was found that a higher luminance of the LGP was achieved by the concave MLAs compared to the convex MLAs (about 30% enhancement in this case)due to the utilization of a larger amount of light provided by the light sources.

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Photosynthetic Responses of four Oak Species to Changes in Light Environment (광환경 변화에 대한 네 참나무 수종의 광합성 반응)

  • Kim, Sun-Hee;Saung, Ju-Han;Kim, Young-Kul;Kim, Pan-Gi
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.141-148
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    • 2008
  • This study was conducted to investigate the photosynthetic responses of four Oak species (Quercus mongolica, Q. serrata, Q. acutissima and Q. variabilis) by shading treatment. We investigated light response curve, photosynthesis (A)-intercellular $CO_2$ concentration (Ci) curve, leaf growth and chlorophyll content at the level of 35, 55 and 75% shading treatments and under the full sunlight. In our results, Q. variabilis and Q. acutissima showed increased leaf growth, chlorophyll content and net apparent quantum yield but reduced chlorophyll a/b and carboxylation efficiency under the low light intensity. Therefore, light absorption and light utilization efficiency were improved under the low light intensity. Q. mongolica showed the similar responses that Q. variabilis and Q. acutissima showed, but net apparent quantum yield was reduced. The effects of shading treatment on Q. serrata were lower than those of other three species.

Artificial Radical Generating and Scavenging Systems: Synthesis and Utilization of Photo-Fenton Regent in Biological Systems

  • Matsugo, Seiichi
    • Journal of Photoscience
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.138-141
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    • 2002
  • A photo-labile compound which is bioinactive but, upon irradiation with light, yields bioactive species is called as "caged compound". Photolysis of caged compounds generating bioactive species, has become a general method to produce a desired amounts of bioactive species in the specific time interval at the desired place or area of the target biological systems. For this purpose, we designed and synthesized caged hydroxyl radical., "Photo-Fenton Reagent" NP-IIl. NP-IIl has a strong absorption maximum at 377 nm and yields hydroxyl radicals upon UV light irradiation. The antioxidant activity of the ${\alpha}$ -lipoic acid and other naturally occurring compounds has been examined by using NP-IIl as a molecular probe. For example, upon photoirradiation of NP-lII with BSA or apolipoprotein of human low density (LDL), the significant oxidative modifications were observed in both cases. The oxidation was completely suppressed in the presence of ${\alpha}$-lipoic acid, which clearly demonstrates the strong hydroxyl radical scavenging activity of ${\alpha}$-lipoic acid. Other applications of NP-lII will also be described

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A Study of Characteristics of Heat Dissipation Carbon Magnesium New Materials of LED Lighting (LED 조명용 카본 마그네슘 신소재 방열 특성 연구)

  • Son, Il-Soo;Shin, Sung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.26 no.12
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    • pp.915-919
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    • 2013
  • This is the study on the development of fusion heat dissipation of carbon magnesium materials. The purpose of this study is for effective utilization of heat emission which is the core of LED lighting. The result of study enabled the derivation of side satisfying result of making the surface temperature of lighting to be below $70^{\circ}C$ (actual measurement: $58^{\circ}C$) using magnesium. The lighting products that use magnesium was made possible based on the result of this study. Also from the performance aspect such as light distribution, the measurement of light efficiency demonstrated the level of 90 lm/W. Therefore the commercialization of lighting was made possible and the efficiency could be further enhanced by supplementation of LED performance.

On Finding the Multicast Protection Tree Considering SRLG in WDM Optical Networks

  • Li, Yonggang;Jin, Yaohui;Li, Lemin;Li, Longjiang
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.517-520
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    • 2006
  • In this letter, a new sharing mechanism, SRLG sharing, is proposed, which allows the links of the same shared risk link group (SRLG) in a primary light tree to share protections in WDM optical networks. In previous studies, how to share spare resources with SRLG constraints has not been studied in multicast optical networks. In this letter, considering SRLG sharing, we propose a novel algorithm -multicast with SRLG sharing (MSS)- to establish a protection light tree. Finally, the algorithm MSS and the algorithm multicast with no SRLG sharing (MNSS) are compared through a simulation to show that our new sharing scheme of SRLG sharing is more efficient than that of no SRLG sharing in terms of spare resource utilization and blocking probability.

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Utilization of Parylene Thin Film for Passivation of Organic Light Emitting Diodes

  • Lee, Jun-Ho;Kim, Jeong-Moon;Lee, Jong-Seung;Park, Moo-Ryoung;Park, Chin-Ho
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.750-753
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    • 2002
  • The chemical vapor condensation process of Parylene-N thin films was investigated and applied to the passivation of the organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). The effects of process variables on the deposition rate were studied, and it was found that the deposition rate of Parylene increases with increasing precursor sublimation temperature but decreases with increasing substrate temperature. The Parylene film was used as a passivation layer for OLEDs, and as a result, the lifetime of the passivated OLEDs was increased by a factor of about 2.3 compared with that of non-passivated OLEDs.

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Position of Light Buoy Using Method of Intersection (교회법을 이용한 해양 등부표 위치결정)

  • 이종출;김차겸;장호식;박종민;김세준
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry, and Cartography Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.491-495
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    • 2004
  • Harbor and bay is essential social overhead capital to our country economy national security. This harbor and bay is ever-present danger of marine accident by massed sea traffic discharge. A nautical mark in sea maintains safety of sea traffic and establishes in sea for increase of efficiency of ship service to prevent this sea accident. In this study, position of light buoy that establish for safety of harbor and bay that decided adjacent district along the coast base point by utilization method of intersection and evaluated and compares with DGPS measurement techniques.

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A Dynamic Accuracy Estimation for GPU-based Monte Carlo Simulation in Tissue Optics

  • Cai, Fuhong;Lu, Wen
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.1 no.5
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    • pp.551-555
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    • 2017
  • Tissue optics is a well-established and extensively studied area. In the last decades, Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) has been one of the standard tools for simulation of light propagation in turbid media. The utilization of parallel processing exhibits dramatic increase in the speed of MCS's of photon migration. Some calculations based on MCS can be completed within a few seconds. Since the MCS's have the potential to become a real time calculation method, a dynamic accuracy estimation, which is also known as history by history statistical estimators, is required in the simulation code to automatically terminate the MCS as the results' accuracy achieves a high enough level. In this work, spatial and time-domain GPU-based MCS, adopting the dynamic accuracy estimation, are performed to calculate the light dose/reflectance in homogeneous and heterogeneous tissue media. This dynamic accuracy estimation can effectively derive the statistical error of optical dose/reflectance during the parallel Monte Carlo process.

Trends in Wavelength-Tunable Laser Development and Applications (파장가변 광원 개발 동향 및 응용)

  • O.K. Kwon;K.S. Kim;Y.-H. Kwon
    • Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.48-61
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    • 2024
  • The integration of high-capacity terrestrial networks with non-terrestrial communication using satellites has become essential to support seamless low-latency services based on artificial intelligence and big data. Tunable light sources have been instrumental in resolving the complexity of channel management in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) systems, contributing to increased network flexibility and serving as optical sources for long-distance coherent systems. Recently, these light sources have been applied to beam-steering devices in laser communication and sensing applications across ground, aerial, and satellite transport. We examine the utilization and requirements of tunable lasers in WDM networks and describe the relevant development status. In addition, performance requirements and development directions for tunable lasers used in optical interference systems and beam-steering devices are reviewed.