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Phospholipid Analysis by Nanoflow Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry

  • Moon, Myeong Hee
    • Mass Spectrometry Letters
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2014
  • Lipids play important roles in biological systems; they store energy, play a structural role in the cell membrane, and are involved in cell growth, signal transduction, and apoptosis. Phospholipids (PLs) in particular have received attention in the medical and lipidomics research fields because of their involvement in human diseases such as diabetes, obesity, atherosclerosis, and many cancers associated with lipid metabolic disorders. Here I review experimental strategies for PL analysis based on nanoflow liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry (nLC-ESI-MSn). In particular, discussed are lipid extraction methods, nanoflow LC separation of PLs, effect of ionization modifiers on the ESI of PLs, influence of chain lengths and unsaturation degree of acyl chains of PLs on MS intensity, structural determination of the molecular structure of PLs and their oxidized products, and quantitative profiling of PLs from biological samples such as tissue, urine, and plasma in relation to cancer and coronary artery disease.

Study of Retention in Micellar Liquid Chromatography on a C18 Column on the Basis of Linear Solvation Energy Relationships

  • Tian, Minglei;Row, Kyung-Ho
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.979-984
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    • 2008
  • In this study, 8 solutes (aniline, caffeine, p-cresol, ethyl benzene, methylparaben, phenol, pyridine, and toluene) have been tested in terms of linear solvation energy relationships (LSER). Several micellar liquid chromatography (MLC) systems using cationic surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and a mixture of water with (methanol, n-propanol, and n-butanol) modifiers were characterized using the LSER solvation parameter model. The effects of the surfactant and modifier concentration on the retention in MLC were discussed. LSER model had demonstrated high potential to predict retention factors with high squared correlation coefficients ($r^2$ > 0.99). A comparison of predicted and experimental retention factors suggests that LSER formalism is able to reproduce adequately the experimental retention factors of the solutes studied in the different experimental conditions investigated. This model is a helpful tool to understand the solute-surfactant interactions and evaluate the retention characteristic of micellar liquid chromatography.

Nomenclature of Pyroxenes

  • Morimoto, N.;Fabries, J.;Ferguson, A.K.;Ginzburg, I.V.;Ross, M.;Seifert, F.A.;Zussman, J.;Aoki, A.;Gottardi, G.
    • Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.131-145
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    • 1988
  • This is the final report on the nomenclature of pyroxenes by the Subcommittee on Pyroxenes established by the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names of the International Mineralogical Association. The recommendations of the Subcommittee as put forward in this report have been formally accepted by the Commission. Accepted and widely used names have been chemically defined, by combining new and conventional methods, to agree as far as possible with the consensus of present use. Twenty names are formally accepted, among which thirteen are used to represent the end members of definite chemical compositions. In common binary solid-solution series, species names are given to the two end members by the "50% rule." Adjectival modifiers for pyroxene mineral names are defined to indicate unusual amounts of chemical constituents. This report includes a list of 105 previously used pyroxene names that have been formally discarded by the Commission.

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The Use of Downgraders by Korean English Speakers and American English Native Speakers in Requestive E-mail

  • Yang, Eun-Mi
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.51-66
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    • 2001
  • This paper compares different uses of downgraders by Korean English speakers (KES) with those by American English native speakers (AENS) in their requestive e-mail. Three different situations in which social power and distance were controlled were set up to examine and compare the participants' politeness strategies in requestive e-mail. It was found that the KESs' use of downgraders appeared differently from the AENSs' use qualitatively and quantitatively across three situations. The AENSs used downgraders almost three times as more, resulting in a much more mitigated and polite effect in requests. The AENSs' requests were mostly modified by syntactic modifiers, such as aspect, tense, conditional, and consultative devices. On the other hand, the KESs' requests were modified mostly by politeness markers and conditionals in a limited number of requests.

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The Effect Of Standard Limits And Fits On The Productivity Of Assembly Robots (표준 Limits 및 Fits가 조립 로보트의 생산성에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Sunn-Ho;Knott, Kenneth
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.75-86
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    • 1991
  • This paper presents a methodology to enable the tolerances on mating parts of an assembly to be specified and be compatible to the precision of an assembly robot so as to achieve maximum system performance. The measure of performance is defined as the Probability of Successful Assembly (PSA). A typical loose fastener assembly, usually called peg-in-a-hole is investigated. The Geometric Tolerancing System is adopted to represent position tolerances of mating parts. Two models are presented by considering modifiers on a position tolerance, Regardless of Feature Size (RFS) and Maximum Material Condition (MMC). Using these models, it is analyzed how the Standard Limits and Fits recommended by ANSI influence the performance of an assembly robot. For this analysis, the Standard Limits and Fits are transformed to the representation scheme of the Geometric Tolerancing System. Due to low PSAs when the Standard Limits and Fits are taken into account, the effect of chamfers around a hole is also analyzed.

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Resolution of Tocainide and Its Analogues on Liquid Chromatographic Chiral Stationary Phases Based on (+)-(18-Crown-6)-2,3,11,12-tetracarboxylic Acid

  • Hyun, Myung-Ho;Min, Hye-Jung;Cho, Yoon-Jae
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.24 no.7
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    • pp.911-915
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    • 2003
  • Two liquid chromatographic chiral stationary phases (CSPs) based on (+)-(18-crown-6)-2,3,11,12-tetracarboxylic acid were successfully applied in the resolution of racemic tocainide and its analogues. In the resolution of tocainide, especially, the CSP containing N-CH₃ amide tethering groups was quite effective, showing clear baseline resolution (RS: 2.66) with reasonable enantioselectivity ( a: 1.25). Consequently, the CSP containing N-CH₃ amide tethering groups is expected to be useful to monitor the enantiomeric composition of tocainide in clinical samples. In addition, the chromatographic behaviors for the resolution of tocainide and its analogues on the two CSPs were found controllable by varying the content and the type of organic and acidic modifiers in aqueous mobile phase.

Effect of Modifiers in Bioglass on the Glass Properties and the Formation of Apatite (Bioglass내의 수식체가 유리의 물성 및 아파타이트 형성에 미치는 영향)

  • 길철영;이호필
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.29 no.8
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    • pp.623-629
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    • 1992
  • The possible use of bioglass as implant materials is due to its biocompatibility to human body. Even if many animal studies for the bioglasses have been performed, their compositional dependences of structures and physical properties are not fully understood. In the present work, physical property measurements such as density and thermal expansion coefficient were carried out for the bioglasses, with substitution of CaO for Na2O in bioglass composition (46.1%SiO2, 24.4%Na2O, 26.9%CaO, 2.6%P2O5:mol%). Hydroxyapatite formation on the glass surface was also examined after reacted in Tris-buffer solution. As CaO was substituted for Na2O, the bond strength between nonbridging oxygen and modifier became stronger to make glass structure rigid, and resulted in increase in density and decrease in thermal expansion coefficient. When the bioglasses were reacted in Tris-buffer solution, hydroxyapatite was formed on the bioglass surface for all prepared glasses in 2 hours, independently on CaO content, and the thickness of hydroxyapatite layer was decreased a little, while the thickness of SiO2 rich layer was decreased sharply with CaO content.

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Tailoring Molecular Precursors for Multicomponent Oxides

  • Hubert-Pfalzgraf, Liliane G.
    • The Korean Journal of Ceramics
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.370-379
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    • 2000
  • Simple ways to build up mixed-metal molecules which can act as potential single-source precursors to multimetallic oxides are reviewed. Emphasis is given to Lewis acid-base reactions between metal alkoxides M(OR)/sub n/, and between metal alkoxides and more accessible oxide precursors, carboxylates M(O₂CR)/sub n/ and β-diketonates M(β-dik)/sub n/. Characterization of the precursors is achieved in the solid state (single crystal X-ray diffraction, FT-IR) and by multinuclear NMR in solution. The reactions proceed toward the formation of aggregates in which the different metals display their usual coordinations numbers, often six for transition metals, as shown. Strategies for fixing the stoichiometry between the metals are developed. The reactivity of the MM species (dissociation, effects of chemical modifiers, of other metallic species, hydrolytic or non-hydrolytic condensation, etc.) will be indicated. Transformations into oxides are illustrated on precursors for titanates or niobates.

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Measuring the Specificity of Korean Terms Using Modifiers (수식어구를 이용한 한국어 용어의 전문성 측정)

  • Koo Heekwan;Jung Hanmin;Lee Byeong-Hee;Sung Won-Kyung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2005.07b
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    • pp.439-441
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    • 2005
  • 용어의 전문성은 전문용어의 판넬 기준을 정하고 그 계층구조를 밝히는데 유용하다. 본 논문에서는 말뭉치로부터 추출한 한국어 용어의 전문성을 측정하는 효과적인 방법을 제안한다. 말뭉치에서 관형형 전성어미('ㄴ/은/는')가 부여된 전문용어와 함께 출현하는 수식어구는 일반명사의 수식어구보다 제한적인 형태로 나타난다. 이런 점에 착안하여 본 논문에서는 수식어구를 포함하는 문맥정보에 대해 엔트로피를 측정하여 용어의 전문성을 측정하였다. 이를 위해 한국어 수식어구를 분석하고 기존 전문성 측정 방법에서 간과되어진 수식어구 출현빈도를 고려하여 엔트로피를 상대적 비율로 계산함으로써 한국어에 적합한 전문성 측정을 하였다. 400만 어절의 신문 말뭉치에서 추출한 전문용어와 ETRI 시소러스를 이용하여 실험을 해 본 결과 본 논문에서 제안하는 한국어 용어 전문성 측정방법이 효과적임을 알 수 있었다.

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New Device for Addition of Modifier to Supercritical Fluid Carbon Dioxide Mobile Phase

  • 표동진;김호현
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.584-588
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    • 1997
  • A new device to accurately deliver small amount of modifier into supercritical carbon dioxide fluid is described. Carbon dioxide, the most widely used mobile phase in supercritical fluid chromatography, is a relatively non-polar fluid, and hence the addition of small amount of polar modifiers could be necessary to migrate polar solutes. In this work, supercritical CO₂and modifier are delivered from the pump to a 100 μL mixing chamber in which a small magnetic bar is rotating. After passing through the mixing chamber, supercritical CO₂is changed to a new mobile phase with different polarity. The amount of modifier added into supercritical CO₂is measured by an amperometric microsensor, which is prepared from a thin film of perfluorosulfonate ionomer.