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Bale Location Effects on Nutritive Value and Fermentation Characteristics of Annual Ryegrass Bale Stored in In-line Wrapping Silage

  • Han, K.J.;McCormick, M.E.;Derouen, S.M.;Blouin, D.C.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.27 no.9
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    • pp.1276-1284
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    • 2014
  • In southeastern regions of the US, herbage systems are primarily based on grazing or hay feeding with low nutritive value warm-season perennial grasses. Nutritious herbage such as annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) may be more suitable for preserving as baleage for winter feeding even with more intensive production inputs. Emerging in-line wrapped baleage storage systems featuring rapid wrapping and low polyethylene film requirements need to be tested for consistency of storing nutritive value of a range of annual ryegrass herbage. A ryegrass storage trial was conducted with 24-h wilted 'Marshall' annual ryegrass harvested at booting, heading and anthesis stages using three replicated in-line wrapped tubes containing ten round bales per tube. After a six-month storage period, nutritive value changes and fermentation end products differed significantly by harvest stage but not by bale location. Although wilted annual ryegrass exhibited a restricted fermentation across harvest stages characterized by high pH and low fermentation end product concentrations, butyric acid concentrations were less than 1 g/kg dry matter, and lactic acid was the major organic acid in the bales. Mold coverage and bale aroma did not differ substantially with harvest stage or bale location. Booting and heading stage-harvested ryegrass baleage were superior in nutritive value to anthesis stage-harvested herbage. Based on the investigated nutritive value and fermentation characteristics, individual bale location within in-line tubes did not significantly affect preservation quality of ryegrass round bale silages.

Pichia pastoris: A Recombinant Microfactory for Antibodies and Human Membrane Proteins

  • Goncalves, A.M.;Pedro, A.Q.;Maia, C.;Sousa, F.;Queiroz, J.A.;Passarinha, L.A.
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.587-601
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    • 2013
  • During the last few decades, it has become evident that the compatibility of the yeast biochemical environment with the ability to process and translate the RNA transcript, along with its capacity to modify a translated protein, are relevant requirements for selecting this host cell for protein expression in several pharmaceutical and clinical applications. In particular, Pichia pastoris is used as an industrial host for recombinant protein and metabolite production, showing a powerful capacity to meet required biomolecular target production levels in high-throughput assays for functional genomics and drug screening. In addition, there is a great advantage to using P. pastoris for protein secretion, even at high molecular weights, since the recovery and purification steps are simplified owing to relatively low levels of endogenous proteins in the extracellular medium. Clearly, no single microexpression system can provide all of the desired properties for human protein production. Moreover, chemical and physical bioprocess parameters, including culture medium formulation, temperature, pH, agitation, aeration rates, induction, and feeding strategies, can highly influence product yield and quality. In order to benefit from the currently available wide range of biosynthesis strategies using P. pastoris, this mini review focuses on the developments and technological fermentation achievements, providing both a comparative and an overall integration analysis. The main aim is to highlight the relevance and versatility of the P. pastoris biosystem to the design of more cost-effective microfactories to meet the increasing demands for recombinant membrane proteins and clinical antibodies for several therapeutic applications.

Utilization of the Outflowing Groundwater Resources in an Underpass Structure

  • Jin, Kyu-Nam;Park, Jae-Hyeon;Lee, Jung-Min;Lee, Sang-Ho
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.117-121
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    • 2013
  • For underpasses in Yeongjong Sky City business district, the guided drainage system, as a buoyancy prevention system has been designed, and is under construction. This paper investigates the safety of the guided drainage system for underpass structures being constructed in Yeongjong Sky City business district. This paper also calculates the amount of outflowing groundwater generated by the guided drainage system, and proposes alternative usages of the water. In order to investigate safety and field applicability of the guided drainage system for underpasses, characteristics of the surface flow for the area of interest have been analyzed, and the flow change of groundwater following the underpass structure construction has been evaluated using the 3-dimensional groundwater program MODFLOW. The influence of ground water on safety of the underpass structures has been calculated by FLAC2D analysis. For alternative usages for the outflowing groundwater generated by the guided drainage system, utilization methods of the outflowing groundwater in national and international resources have been researched. The amount of an outflowing groundwater to be generated in the area of interest has been analyzed, and efficient potential usages of this groundwater have been researched. When guided drainage technique is applied, the change in flow of groundwater must be evaluated and considered as safety factor relating to the buoyancy of the structure. As a result, safety factor demonstrated more than 1.2, meaning that the underpass structure is safe. The amount of subsoil drain generated by the guided drainage system was also analyzed. The quality and amount of water satisfied the standards and volume requirements, so as to make it applicable for a number of uses, such as X, Y, and Z, and should prove to be a valuable resource as the circumstances of the neighboring area change over time. These resources can be used as basic data for future urban water circulation studies, as well as generating research of alternative water usages.

Characteristics of the yeast strains which isolated for improvement of Choungju quality (청주의 주질 개선을 위하여 분리된 효모의 균학적 성질)

  • Shin, Cheol-Seung;Park, Yoon-Joong;Lee, Suk-Kun
    • Applied Biological Chemistry
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.16-19
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    • 1996
  • The yeast strains isolated for Choungju brewing in the previous report were examined for their microbiological characteristics, together with some comparative tests with Japanese sake yeasts. The isolates KP-16, 21 and 54 were identified as the strains belong to Saccharomyces cerevisae according to the morphological and physiological properties described in Lodder's 'The Yeasts - A texanomic study'. The isolates were grouped into the pink-colored strains by 2,3,5-tripheny tetrazolium chloride over-lay method. The strains KP-16 and 21 were found to be distinguished from the strain KP-54 in aspects of fermentation of sugars, assimilation of carbon sources, and pellicle formation on malt extract broth. ${\alpha}-methyl-D-glucoside$ was not assimilated or fermented by the isolated yeast strains and this is one of the different characters from the Japanese sake yeasts. The isolated strains appeared to have the requirements for biotin and pantothenate, and to have higher tolerance to ethanol than the Japanese sake yeasts. The biotin requirement was not found in the sake yeasts.

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Study on the Priority of Defense R&D Project for Verifying Weapon Systems Requirement (전력소요 통합검증을 위한 국방 R&D사업 우선순위 선정에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Ho-Jin;Ahn, Nam-Su
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.153-159
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    • 2018
  • In recent years, the development of weapons systems in the field of defense research and development has become increasingly large, complex, and long-term, and so have budgets and the time spans involved. In order to improve this, the Weapon Systems Requirement Verification Committee, which benchmarked the preliminary feasibility of the private sector, was established to verify the appropriateness of requirements, and the necessity and priority of the projects. This research proposes a methodology for analyzing and prioritizing proposed weapons systems for effective and strategic allocation of defense budget funding. First, the evaluation factors that can be used in the defense sector were assessed by analyzing the related fields. We set the weighting of items by using the analytical hierarchy process for technical risk assessment and technical profitability evaluation. After that, we applied the methodology to 32 weapons systems and analyzed the results. In conclusion, through this study, it was possible to analyze profitability dimensions overlooked in the existing methodology.

The Evaluation of Day Care Center In-service Education Program Using the CIPP Evaluation Model (CIPP 평가모형을 적용한 어린이집 보수교육프로그램 평가)

  • Kim, Bo-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.270-278
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    • 2018
  • A CIPP model-based evaluation of day care centers in-service education was performed to improve the quality of infant teachers. This study covered 203 infant teachers of a day care center located in Chungnam and Daejeon city. The analysis results are summarized as follow. The education situation, such as a suggestion of a target and pre-analysis, was more positive than other evaluation areas, but the education course, which is a personal variable of infant teachers, was found to require modifications in day care center in-service education. Uniform education that does not reflect the characteristics of the individual teacher have limitations to education systematically and effectively. Therefore, it is essential to consider the education environment and to reflect the requirements of the infant teacher. Finally, this study provides basic data for a desirable in-service education and qualification improvement program to improve in-service education through an evaluation of day care center in-service education.

An Algorithm on Improving a Pitch Searching by Energy Compensation in a Frame for Vocoder (보코더에서 프레임별 에너지 보상에 의한 피치검색 성능 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Baek, Geum-Ran;Min, So-Yeon;Bae, Myung-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.13 no.7
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    • pp.3188-3193
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    • 2012
  • It is important to search a pitch for vocoder. The major drawback to vocoders is their large computational requirements in searching a pitch and a codebook. In this paper, a simple method is proposed to improve the pitch searching process in the pitch filter almost without degradation of quality. The period of speech signal is emphasized by using Dual Pulse technique, the same type of autocorrelation method, in pitch search. Sometimes the incorrect pitch can be obtained by halving, doubling and trifling, To solve it, before searching a pitch, we estimate energy rate in a frame and compensate envelop of signal with it. By using the proposed algorithm in pitch search, its required computation are reduced and searching pitch is improved.

Development of Roughness Estimation Model for Plunge Grinding of Valve Parts Using Neural Network (뉴럴 네트워크를 이용한 밸브 부품 생산용 플런지 연삭의 거칠기 예측모델 개발)

  • Choi, Jeong-Ju;Park, Joon-Hong
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.62-67
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    • 2011
  • Grinding process is executed in the final machining stage to meet the quality requirements. In generally the ground surface of workpiece is affected by dressing condition as well as grinding condition. In order to estimate the roughness of workpiece, the several roughness models have been researched. These models defined the specific parameters and considered the several parameters which affect to roughness as multiply relationship among them. However, the multiply relationship among parameters is not enough to show the complicated grinding mechanism. Therefore, the neural network algorithm is used in this paper to predict the ground roughness for the plunge grinding. The proposed structure is composed of the initial roughness as well as final roughness model. The input parameters of proposed neural network are referred with the existing roughness model's. The performance of the proposed model is verified through experiments.

A Study on the Counterplan for the Reinforcement of Port State Control - Primarily on the Korean Shipping Companies - (항만국통제 강화에 따른 우리나라 해운기업의 대응방안에 관한 연구)

  • Choi. U.;Shin, H.W.;Pyo, H.Y.;Choi, Y.R.
    • Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.41-58
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    • 2003
  • A recent trend of global shipping industry adopting Port State Control (PSC) system is recognized as a proficient mechanism in preventing costal traffic accident and protecting marine environment. Disadvantages of Korean shipping companies in PSC inspection are unavoidable as Tokyo MOU imposed priority listed flag to Korea. Having stated above, appropriate research and prompt preparation in compliance with current PSC requirements for the Korean shipping companies have become an immediate need. The objectives of this study are : First, to review in understanding of PSC in overall and foundation of enforcement. Second. to study interaction of international treaties regarding PSC. Third, to compare practical compliance among the countries and to open up a case study on Korean shipping companies in adopting PSC. Last, to suggest direction to the Korean shipping companies the most proficient way in compliance with the current Tokyo MOU requirement. Korean flagged vessels have become prioritized target in PSC inspection as Tokyo MOU imposed priority listed flag to Korea due to high detention rate of its fleet. Disadvantage of a priority listed flag is a burden in its proficient fleet operation. This study suggests solutions to the disadvantages as below. : 1) Change shore management system, and provide continuous & quality education to crew members 2) Form a network in sharing PSC information among the Korean shipping companies 3) Form a centralized function in which government, Korean Shipping register and shipowners can treat problems in a prompt manner.

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A Use-Case Based Object-Oriented Project Scheduling Technique (Use-Case 기반 객체지향 프로젝트 스케줄링 기법)

  • 허진선;최시원;김수동
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.30 no.3_4
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    • pp.293-307
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    • 2003
  • Object-oriented development has been generalized, but object-oriented project planning and scheduling techniques have not been studied enough. Furthermore, it is difficult to apply the conventional software management techniques to object-oriented projects. Especially, the large scaled projects are increasing, but the project planing techniques for these large scaled projects have not been proposed enough. In this paper, we propose systematic techniques for OO based project scheduling. We suggest a 7 step-process for deriving the OO project schedule from the use-case diagram which is describing the functional requirements of the system. The proposed process includes identifying use-cases, drawing preliminary chart through interdependency analysis, identifying characteristics of each use case, determining the number of iteration, assigning use-cases to iteration, considering available resource and constraints, drawing revised PERT chart. Each step has the explanation of the input, output, and the guidelines needed to perform the step. The project scheduling technique proposed in this paper ran be used effectively in the planning phase which the purpose is to plan a development schedule to yield the high quality software in minimum time.