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Quality Characteristics and Anti-Oral microbial Activity of Jelly Using Bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis) Leaves Extract (죽엽 추출액을 이용한 젤리 품질평가 및 구강세균에 대한 항균효과)

  • Park, Kyung-Lan;Kang, Sung-Tae;Kim, Min-Ju;Oh, Hee-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.283-290
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    • 2018
  • This study examined the quality characteristics and anti-oral microbial activity of bamboo leaf jelly prepared with different 5 levels (0, 10, 20, 30, and 40%) of bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis) leaf extract. The sugar contents of bamboo leaf jelly were increased significantly by increasing the level of bamboo leaf extract. The luminance and Hunter's a values of the jelly samples increased with increasing bamboo leaf extract, but the 40% bamboo leaf jelly had the lowest Hunter's b values. The hardness, adhesiveness, gumminess, and chewiness increased significantly with increasing bamboo leaf extract. Among the mechanical properties, only the flavor of the jelly with 30 and 40% bamboo leaf extract were increased significantly. The extract of bamboo leaves had strong antimicrobial activity against S. mutans, S. sobriuns, P. gingivalis, and P. intermedia at a concentration of 40%. These results suggest that bamboo leaf extract can be useful in the production of high quality jelly.

Evaluation of Antioxidant Activity of the Extracts from the Aerial parts of Cnidium officinale Makino (천궁(Cnidium officinale Makino) 지상부 추출물의 항산화 활성 평가)

  • Oh, Yeong-Ji;Seo, Ha-Rim;Choi, Yoo-Mi;Jung, Dong-Sun
    • Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.373-378
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    • 2010
  • In order to obtain basic data for utilization of the aerial parts of Cnidium officinale Makino (APCO), the antioxidant properties of the aerial parts and rhizomes of C. officinale were measured using DPPH and ABTS radicals, and nitrite scavenging assays. The ethyl acetate (EA) fraction prepared from the aerial parts of APCO showed the strongest antioxidant activities, and contained high level of total phenolic compounds (325.81 mgTE/g) and flavonoids (259.16 mgRE/g). The concentrations for 50% reductions ($RC_{50}$) values of the DPPH and ABTS radicals, and nitrite by the EA fraction of APCO were $11.27\;{\mu}g/m{\ell}$, $14.34\;{\mu}g/m{\ell}$, and $10.26\;{\mu}g/m{\ell}$, respectively. APCO exhibited approximately 3-9 times higher antioxidant activity than rhizomes of C. officinale. The antioxidant capacities of APCO were positively correlated with its total phenolic contents. Therefore, it was concluded that the aerial parts of C. officinale can be a useful and cost-effective source of natural antioxidant for food or cosmetics.

Failure Evaluation Plan of a Reactor Internal Components of a Decommissioned Plant

  • Hwang, Seong Sik;Kim, Sung Woo;Choi, Min Jae;Cho, Sung Hwan;Kim, Dong Jin
    • Corrosion Science and Technology
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.189-195
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    • 2021
  • A technology for designing and licensing a dedicated radiation shielding facility needs to be developed for safe and efficient operation an R&D center. Technology development is important for smooth operation of such facilities. Causes of damage to internal structures (such as baffle former bolt (BFB) of pressurized water reactor) of a nuclear power reactor should be analyzed along with prevention and countermeasures for similar cases of other plants. It is important to develop technologies that can comprehensively analyze various characteristics of internal structures of long term operated reactors. In high-temperature, high-pressure operating environment of nuclear power plants, cases of BFB cracks caused by irradiated assisted stress corrosion cracks (IASCC) have been reported overseas. The integrity of a reactor's internal structure has emerged as an important issue. Identifying the cause of the defect is requested by the Korean regulatory agency. It is also important to secure a foundation for testing technology to demonstrate the operating environment for medium-level irradiated testing materials. The demonstration testing facility can be used for research on material utilization of the plant, which might have highest fluence on the internal structure of a reactor globally.

Mechanical properties of demountable shear connectors under different confined conditions for reusable hybrid decks

  • Kavour, Florentia;Christoforidou, Angeliki;Pavlovic, Marko;Veljkovic, Milan
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.43 no.4
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    • pp.419-429
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    • 2022
  • In response to the sustainability requirements set in the EU Commission's "Green Deal" towards reduction of the greenhouse gas emissions, it is estimated that the structural design for deconstruction is going to contribute considerably to the sustainable development of the built environment. The demountability of multi-material structural systems basically depends on the shear connectors used in the structural system. This paper focuses on a type of demountable injected shear connector with an injected steel-reinforced resin (iSRR) which consists of spherical steel particles embedded in a resin. Its application to steel-to-concrete and steel-to-Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) decks is presented along with its benefits. In parallel, an overview of the experimental and numerical research on the evaluation of the mechanical properties of the demountable bolted connectors with iSRR is discussed. Last, detailed finite element (FE) models and a parametric study are performed to quantify the confinement level of the SRR material influenced by the oversized hole diameter.

A multi-criteria decision-making process for selecting decontamination methods for radioactively contaminated metal components

  • Inhye Hahm ;Daehyun Kim;Ho jin Ryu;Sungyeol Choi
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.55 no.1
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    • pp.52-62
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    • 2023
  • Various decontamination technologies have been developed for removing contaminated areas in industries. Although it is important to consider parameters such as safety, cost, and time when selecting the decontamination technology, till date their comparative study is missing. Furthermore, different decontamination technologies influence the decontamination effects in different ways. Therefore, this study compares different decontamination techniques for the steam generator using a multicriteria decision-making method. A steam generator is a large device comprising both low- and very low-level waste (LLW, VLLW) and reflects the difference in weights of the standards according to the classification of the waste. For LLW and VLLW decontaminations, chemical oxidizing reduction decontamination (CORD) and decontamination grit blasting were used as the preferred techniques, respectively, considering the purpose of decontamination differs based on the initial state of waste. An expert survey revealed that safety in LLW and waste minimization in VLLW exhibited high preference. This evaluation method can be applied not only to the comparison between each process, but also to the creation of process scenarios. Therefore, determining the decontamination approach using logical decision-making methods may improve the safety and economic feasibility of each step in the decommissioning process and ensure a public acceptance.

Efficiency Measurement of Container Terminals with DEA using an Input Variable of Information Level (정보화 수준을 고려한 컨테이너터미널의 효율성 평가)

  • Choi, Bong-Hwan;Shin, Jae-Young;Yang, Yun-Ok;Shin, Chang-Hoon
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.33 no.8
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    • pp.573-581
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    • 2009
  • Today, overall industry has been operated on the basis of information technology and has increased the investment on it. In the logistics industry, the integrated material handling information network has become important more and more and the investment on the informatization has been increased to operate efficiently. In the previous literature, most of the measures for the efficiency of container terminals were the variables such as fixed assets of equipments. There has not been any research effort toward examining the effect of informatization level on the efficiency. This work describes the importance on the efficiency evaluation considering the informatization level to in a container terminal and the relative efficiency level is measured using data envelopment analysis and bootstrap.

A study on the acoustic performance evaluation of heat recovery ventilator with a sound absorbing duct (흡음덕트 부착 열회수형 환기장치의 음향성능 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Bae, Myung-Whan;Song, Jun-Young;Park, Hui-Seong
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.40 no.6
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    • pp.468-475
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the acoustic problems of the conventional heat recovery ventilator and to suggest the methods of noise reduction from a heat recovery ventilator according to the installed location. The noise level, in this study, was measured and discussed as the parameters of size, wind volume and sound absorbing duct length for a heat recovery ventilator based on domestic and international related standards. It is found, as a result, that almost all of noise levels from the small and medium heat recovery ventilators without the sound absorbing duct in the anechoic chamber were higher than the noise standard value of 50 dB(A) regardless of the wind volume, and the noise levels went down when a sound absorbing duct was installed. In addition, the sound pressure level relative to frequency bands according to the length of sound absorbing duct was generally decreased, as the length of sound absorbing duct in the small and medium heat recovery ventilators was big, and the sound pressure level was generally increased, as the wind volume was great.

Cross-cultural Consumer Acceptance of Cooked Spinach ($Sigeumchi-namul$) according to Blanching Time (데치는 시간에 따른 시금치나물의 교차 문화적 소비자 기호도)

  • Yang, Jeong-Eun;Chung, Seo-Jin;Kim, Hang-Ran;Kim, Kwang-Ok;Chung, La-Na
    • Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.190-198
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    • 2012
  • This research evaluated and analyzed the level of acceptability of spinach according to blanching time by testing consumer taste of corresponding countries for the purpose of globalizing Korean food. General taste, appearance, flavor, and texture of spinach blanched for 20 seconds were highly evaluated by Koreans and Japanese ($p$<0.05), who are used to the method of slightly blanching, mixing, and eating spinach. On the other hand, general taste, appearance, flavor, and texture of spinach blanched for 5 minutes was highly evaluated by the French ($p$<0.05), who are used to eating boiled spinach. Concerning the result of JAR, there were clear differences in hardness and boiling level according to country among spinach samples, even though they were blanched for the same time and mixed with the same spices. Koreans and Japanese evaluated that hardness and boiling level of spinach blanched for 20 seconds were proper, whereas the French evaluated that spinach scalded for 20 seconds was too raw and crispy. Under the same context, French consumers evaluated that hardness and boiling level of spinach blanched for 5 minutes was proper, whereas Koreans and Japanese evaluated that spinach blanched for 5 minutes was boiled too much. These results show that familiarity level is an important driver of affecting the preference levels for three kinds of spinach according to country.

A Research on the Classification of Intelligence Level of Unmanned Grain Harvester (무인 곡물 수확기 지능수준 등급구분에 관한 연구)

  • Na, Zhao;Pan, Young-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.165-173
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    • 2020
  • The emergence of unmanned agricultural machinery has brought new research content to the development of precision agriculture. In order to speed up the research on key technologies of unmanned agricultural machinery, classification of intelligence level of unmanned agricultural machinery has become a primary task. In this study, the researchers take the complex interactive system consisting of unmanned grain harvester, task and driving environment as the research object, and carry out a research on the grading and classification of intelligent level of unmanned grain harvester. The researchers of this study also establish an evaluation model of unmanned grain harvester vehicle, which consists of human intervention degree, environmental complexity, and task complexity. Besides, the grading and classification of intelligence level of the unmanned grain harvester is carried out according to the human intervention degree, environmental complexity and the task complexity of the unmanned grain harvester. It provides a direction for the future development of unmanned agricultural machinery.

On an Enhanced Model of System Readiness Level by Incorporating Safety for the Development of Live Fire Test Systems (실사격 시험시스템의 효율적인 개발을 위해 안전도 반영을 통해 개선된 시스템 성숙도 모델에 관한 연구)

  • Ye, Sung Hyuck;Lee, Jae-Chon
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.195-204
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    • 2015
  • The live fire test has been playing a critical role in evaluating the goals-to-meet of the weapon systems which utilize the power of explosives. As such, the successful development of the test systems therein is quite important. The test systems development covers that of ranges and facilities including system-level key components such as mission control, instrumentation or observation, safety control, electric power, launch pad, and so on. In addition, proper operational guidelines are needed with well-trained test and operation personnel. The emerging weapon systems to be deployed in future battle field would thus have to be more precise and dynamic, smarter, thereby requiring more elaboration. Furthermore, the safety consideration is becoming more serious due to the ever-increasing power of explosives. In such a situation, development of live fire test systems seems to be challenging. The objective of the paper is on how to incorporate the safety and other requirements in the development. To achieve the goal, an architectural approach is adopted by utilizing both the system components relationship and safety requirement when advanced instrumentation technology needs to be developed and deteriorated components of the range are replaced. As an evaluation method, it is studied how the level of maturity of the test systems development can be assessed particularly with the safety requirement considered. Based on the concepts of both systems engineering and SoS (System-of-Systems) engineering process, an enhanced model for the system readiness level is proposed by incorporating safety. The maturity model proposed would be helpful in assessing the maturity of safety-critical systems development whereas the costing model would provide a guide on how the reasonable test resource allocation plan can be made, which is based on the live fire test scenario of future complex weapon systems such as SoS.