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Sulfur Isotopic Ratios in Precipitation around Chonju-city, Korea and Its Availability as a Tracer of the Source of Atmospheric Pollutants (전주지역 강수의 황동위원소비와 대기오염원의 추적자로서 그 유용성)

  • Na, Choon-Ki;Kim, Seon-Young;Jeon, Sir-Ryeong;Lee, Mu-Seong;Chung, Jae-Il
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.243-249
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    • 1995
  • In order to investigate the origin of sulfate in rain waters and to evaluate the feasibility of using sulfur isotope method as a tracer of atmospheric pollutants, the sulfur isotopic ratio of sulfate in rain waters collected in Chonju city from October 1994 to March 1995 was monitored and was compared with those of possible sources proposed by previous works. The pH of rain waters shows an intermediate acidic range from 4.45 to 6.88 and their daily variation appears to be well correlated with to the amount of precipitation. The sulfur isotopic ratios of sulfate in rain waters show a highly restricted range from 0.0 to + 1.8‰. The ${\delta}^{34}S$ values are similar to those of soil and pine tree surrounding Chonju city, but largely deviate from those of China. D-parameter($d={\delta}D-8{\delta}^{18}O$) of rain waters varies from 9.4 to 28.8. The values indicate that the rain waters in Chonju city are originated from the rainy front of China continent. All data obtained from this study suggested that sulfate in the rain waters collected in Chonju city was mainly derived from the sulfur dioxide gas emitted by the petroleum combustion. Therefore, sulfur isotopic study for the precipitation provided an excellent tool for environmental assessment in this region and for tracing the source of atmospheric pollutants.

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Variation of Effective Constituents Contents, Physical Properties and Color Intensities of Extracts from White Ginseng Roots of Different Cultivating Years. (년근별 인삼추출물의 사포닌함량, 물리성 및 색도의 변화)

  • Kim, Dong-Cheol;Chang, Sang-Moon;Choi, Jyung
    • Applied Biological Chemistry
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.67-71
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    • 1995
  • For the quality management of ginseng root extracts and their products, the effective constituents contents, physical properties (pH, turbidity, viscosity, optical density) and color intenties of the extracts from white ginseng roots of different cultivating years. The sugar contents, lightness and yellow intensity of extracts from white ginseng roots increased with increased their cultivating years. The crude ash contents turbidity and optical density of extracts from white ginseng roots decreased with increased their cultivating years. Therefore, the extracts from white ginseng root of 5 or 6 cultivated years showed higher quality than the extracts from ginseng root of 4 cultivated years.

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Analysis of Seasonal, Distance Variation of Heavy Metals for Geopung Mine Basin (거풍광산 유역의 계절별.거리별 중금속 거동특성 분석)

  • Pak, Gi-Jung;Jung, Min-Jae;Hong, Ui-Jeon;Kim, Young;Yoon, Jae-Yong
    • Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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    • 2012.05a
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    • pp.352-355
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    • 2012
  • 산성광산배수(Acid Mine Drainage)는 낮은 pH, 높은 Sulfate, 상대적으로 높은 Fe, Al, Mn 등의 중금속 농도가 특징으로 다양한 오염인자를 가지고 있으며, 각각의 오염인자가 오염에 미치는 영향이 매우 다양하게 나타난다. 특히 산성광산배수는 유역 내 시각적, 생태학적 문제를 일으켜 많은 환경오염을 야기하고 있으며, 많은 중금속을 용출시켜 주변 하천의 생태계를 파괴하게 된다. 이러한 산성광산 배수에 의한 환경피해의 심각성은 이미 국 내외에서 널리 인식되고 있으며, 이를 효과적으로 관리하기 위해서 산성광산배수의 거동 매커니즘 조사에 대한 연구가 필요하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 금강수계 거풍광산 유역 장연천을 대상으로 하여 광산주변 표토, 계절별 거리별 하천수 및 저질토에서의 오염특성을 조사하고 그 영향을 평가하고자 하였다. 연구결과 하천수의 경우 대부분의 중금속 농도가 오염물질의 축적이 가장 많을 것으로 예상되는 5월에 높은 농도를 보였으며, 강우가 시작되는 6월, 7월까지 건기에 비해 높은 농도를 유지하다가, 강우가 지속됨에 따라 희석되어 농도가 감소되는 현상을 나타냈다. 저질토의 경우도 비슷한 양상을 타나냈다. 거리별 영향의 경우 하천수는 산성광산배수가 유입되는 상류에서 지속적으로 높은 농도를 나타냈으나, 저질토의 경우 건기에는 비슷한 양상을 나타내다가 우기에 강우의 영향으로 하천 하류에서 전체적으로 농도가 높아지는 경향을 나타냈다.

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ENZYME ACTIVITY AND ACIDITY IN VINEGAR PICKLING OF ANCHOVY (멸치 Vinegar 절임시의 산도와 효소 활성)

  • HA Bong-Suk
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.207-212
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    • 1970
  • The fellowing results are obtained by experiment on the variation of enzyme activity during pickling anchovy (Engraulis japenicus) in vinegar. 1) Protease activity increased during brine-salting. It decreased for a short time by tile addition of acetic acid and gradually changed at an invariable ratio during pickling. 2) Lipase activity decreased during brine salting but increased temporarily by the addition of vinegar, after this no fixed tendency could he observed during pickling whereas acid value abviously increased. 3) VBN (Volatile basic nitrogen) and NaCl content quickly increased during brine salting. During pickling VBN increased slowly while NaCl content scarcely varied. 4) The bacterial plate count decreased suddenly when the anchovy were placed in brine but it increased during brine salting and decreased again when anchovy were pickled and the number of count remained the same thereafter. 5) To maintain preservation effects, the acidity of the vinegar must be maintained more than $2\%$ in the muscle. 6) Based on this experimental condition, it transpires that 8 days of immersion In brine produces sufficient salt concentration in the muscles. From the results of VBN, acidity, amino nitrogen, lipase activity, and organoleptic tests, the quality of pickle was still preserved after 47 days and taste of the pickle seemed best on the thirty second day of the storage.

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Dyeability and functionality of Catechu(Part I) -Characteristics of Catechu and Dyeing properties of Cotton- (아선약의 염색성과 기능성(제1보) -아선약 색소의 특성과 면섬유에 대한 염색성-)

  • Nam, Ki-Yeon;Lee, Jung-Soon
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.699-707
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    • 2010
  • Catechu is widely used as in natural dyeing as well as in various medicines and tannage. This study investigated the dyeing properties and functionality of Catechu through a series of dyeing experiments using cotton fabric. It was shown that the absorbance of Catechu solution has two peaks at 220nm and 280nm. Thus, it can be concluded that the color constituent of Catechu is a catechol tannin and color tone is YR. The dyeability of Catechu increases as the concentration of the dye is increased. Its variation was shown to be similar to the isothermal absorption curve of the Freundlich. As dyeing time was increases, the dyeability did not change significantly after the 30 minute mark was passed. At high temperatures the dyeability was shown to increase. As the dyeing temperature was increased the color of dyeing fabrics changes from Y and YR to R. Experiments with pre-mordanting method showed that various colors can be obtained using Catechu. Cotton is effective in using K, Cu, Fe mordants, and the dyeability was shown to be improved with low pH. Both washing fastness and light fastness were shown to be low. However, the fabric color gradually changed to red was due to mailard reaction of catechol tannin causing by repeated washing and sunlight. The ultraviolet-cut ability was improved for cotton fabric dyed with Catechu. Also, dyed fabric with Catechu showed very good antimicrobial abilities at 99.9%.

Ecological Studies of Plants for Control of Environmental Pollution, III -The Studies on the Content and Contamination of Heavy Metals and Vegetation of Roadside- (환경오염 방지를 위한 식물의 생태학적 연구(III) -도로변 식생과 중금속 함량 및 오염에 관한 연구)

  • 차종환
    • Journal of Plant Biology
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.158-162
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    • 1974
  • Some ecological attributes of perennial plants and Pb contamination were analyzed for study plots near an entrance of Nevade Test Site at Mercury Valley, Nye County, Nevada. The surface of the desert pavement soil was composed of stones (1 to 4cm diameter). The underside of each stone was coated with coarse and fine sand (about 90%). The profiles of soil were constituted with the A-horizon and C-horizon only. The soil pH at the plots ranges from 7.6 to 8.5, C/N was 13 and cation exchange capacity showed 15me/100g. Nine species and 42 number of individuals were found in all plots. Franseria dumosa and Larrea divaricata were dominant species. The discrete clumps of vegetation were consisted of 9 species of common perennials and these were covered about 25% on desert pavement, on the other words, bare area without vegetation was about 75%. The size and spacing of the plants was irregular. Community coefficient as comparison between shrub species in these study area and those in near the low elevation desert indicated a low degree of similarity. Density, cover and productivity in the study plots as compared with those in the nearest study areas in Mercury Valley showed a higher value. The soils in the studied area involved high heavy metal contents in the plant tissue was higher than those of its soil. The leavds of Lycium andersonii tended to accumulate more Zn and Mo than those of the other species. Larrea divaricata leaves accumulated very high leaves of Fe and Ephedra nevadensis were generally high in Mn. Lead contamination was apparent in foliage of desert vegetation collected alongside the roadway, reflecting the variation in traffic volume. Lead contents greater than fifteen-fold of normal (low traffic) were found in plant foliage alongside the heavily traveled roadway. Lead content of old foliage by the heavily traveled roadway was as much as 129 ppm but that of new foliage 17 ppm only.

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Comparison of Surface Passivation Layers on InGaN/GaN MQW LEDs

  • Yang, Hyuck-Soo;Han, Sang-Youn;Hlad, M.;Gila, B.P.;Baik, K.H.;Pearton, S.J.;Jang, Soo-Hwan;Kang, B.S.;Ren, F.
    • JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.131-135
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    • 2005
  • The effect of different surface passivation films on blue or green (465-505 nm) InGaN/GaN multi-quantum well light-emitting diodes (LEDs) die were examined. $SiO_2$ or $SiN_x$ deposited by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, or $Sc_2O_3$ or MgO deposited by rf plasma enhanced molecular beam epitaxy all show excellent passivation qualities. The forward current-voltage (I-V) characteristics were all independent of the passivation film used, even though the MBE-deposited films have lower interface state densities ($3-5{\times}10^{12}\;eV^{-1}\;cm^{-2}$) compared to the PECVD films (${\sim}10^{12}\;eV^{-1}\;cm^{-2}$), The reverse I-V characteristics showed more variation, hut there was no systematic difference for any of the passivation films, The results suggest that simple PECVD processes are effective for providing robust surface protection for InGaN/GaN LEDs.

Influence of lateral motion of cable stays on cable-stayed bridges

  • Wang, P.H.;Liu, M.Y.;Huang, Y.T.;Lin, L.C.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.34 no.6
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    • pp.719-738
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    • 2010
  • The aim of this paper concerns with the nonlinear analysis of cable-stayed bridges including the vibration effect of cable stays. Two models for the cable stay system are built up in the study. One is the OECS (one element cable system) model in which one single element per cable stay is used and the other is MECS (multi-elements cable system) model, where multi-elements per cable stay are used. A finite element computation procedure has been set up for the nonlinear analysis of such kind of structures. For shape finding of the cable-stayed bridge with MECS model, an efficient computation procedure is presented by using the two-loop iteration method (equilibrium iteration and shape iteration) with help of the catenary function method to discretize each single cable stay. After the convergent initial shape of the bridge is found, further analysis can then be performed. The structural behaviors of cable-stayed bridges influenced by the cable lateral motion will be examined here detailedly, such as the static deflection, the natural frequencies and modes, and the dynamic responses induced by seismic loading. The results show that the MECS model offers the real shape of cable stays in the initial shape, and all the natural frequencies and modes of the bridge including global modes and local modes. The global mode of the bridge consists of coupled girder, tower and cable stays motion and is a coupled mode, while the local mode exhibits only the motion of cable stays and is uncoupled with girder and tower. The OECS model can only offers global mode of tower and girder without any motion of cable stays, because each cable stay is represented by a single straight cable (or truss) element. In the nonlinear seismic analysis, only the MECS model can offer the lateral displacement response of cable stays and the axial force variation in cable stays. The responses of towers and girders of the bridge determined by both OECS- and MECS-models have no great difference.

Characterization of a QTL associated with chlorophyll content using progeny from an interspecific cross in rice (Oryza Sativa L.)

  • Shim, Kyu-Chan;Luong, Ngoc Ha;Kim, Sun Ha;Jeon, Yun-A;Lu, Xin;Ahn, Sang-Nag
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Crop Science Conference
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    • 2017.06a
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    • pp.23-23
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    • 2017
  • Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the world's most important cereal crop. In crop plant, chlorophyll content and leaf senescence could affect grain filling and yield. We analyzed a QTL associated with chlorophyll content and delayed leaf senescence using high chlorophyll near isogenic line (HC-NIL). HC-NIL derived from a cross between Oryza sativa cv. Hwaseong as a recurrent parent and wild species O. grandiglumis as a donor parent showed higher chlorophyll content than Hwaseong. To identify QTL associated with chlorophyll content, 58 $F_3$ and 38 $F_4$ lines were developed from a cross between HC-NIL and Hwaseong. For QTL analysis, simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers were used for genotyping and one-way ANOVA was conducted. A QTL for chlorophyll content (qCC2) was detected in chromosome 2 and explained 24.63% of phenotypic variation. The senescence effect of the qCC2 was examined in dark-induced incubation (DII). Detached leaves from Hwaseong and HC-NIL were incubated on 3mM MES buffer (pH 5.8) at $27^{\circ}C$ under complete dark condition. After 3 days of incubation, the Hwaseong leaves turned yellow, but the HC-NIL leaves were green. HC-NIL has higher chlorophyll content with delayed senescence than Hwaseong. These results indicated that qCC2 is associated with stay-green phenotype. To know whether the qCC2 is responsible for leaf functionality, ion leakage test and Fv/Fm measurement were performed. Both experiment results showed that differences were observed between Hwaseong and HC-NIL but it was not statistically significant. These results might suggest that the qCC2 is possibly related to chlorophyll content and non-functional stay-green phenotype.

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Treatment of Acid dye Using Microbial Immobilization (미생물 고정화를 이용한 산성염료의 처리)

  • 김정목;조무환;양용운
    • Textile Coloration and Finishing
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 1999
  • Strains degrading and decolorizing acid dyes, Nylosan red E-BL 150%. were isolated from natural system, was named as ARK3. The optimal culture conditions of temperature and pH were $35^\circ{C}$, 7.0, respectively. Growth rate of cells in conditions of aerobic shaking more than standing culture conspicuously increased, and optical density of those to strain ARK3 were found as 1.38 and 0.25 after 42 hrs. Decolorization efficiency in batch culture which used as immobilization media to natural zeolite was 15% after 6 hrs, while suspension culture was 5%, also its of immobilization and suspension culture were 90% and 85% after 48 hrs, respectively. Decolorization efficiency of air-lift bioreactor was more than 90% to a dilution rate of $0.038hr^{-1}$, but that was decreased as 70%, when the dilution rate was $0.05hr^{-1}$. Even though at maximum dilution rate of this study, there was not appeared "wash out" phenomienon of biomass. Decolorization efficiency was 97.7% at a dilution rate of $0.025hr^{-1}$, when influent dye concentration was $100mg/\ell$. But if influent dye concentration increased as $150mg/\ell$, even though MLVSS increased, that of treatment water decreased as 93%. Also, when influent dye concentration increased as $200mg/\ell$ and $300mg/\ell$, decolorization efficiencies of treatment water abruptly decreased as 85% and 63%, respectively. Decolorization efficiency was more than 92% to the limit volumetric loading rate of $3.75mg/\ell\cdot{hr}$hr, without regard to variation of influent dye concentration or hydraulic retention time. if volumetric loading rate was more than $3.80mg/\ell\cdot{hr}$, at same condition, decolorization efficiency was lower decrease of retention time than increase of influent dye concentration.entration.

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