This study measured dyeing properties under different dyeing conditions and levels of antimicrobial activity when man-made fibers are dyed with gallnut, including rayon, tencel, tencel blended fabric, soybean fiber, and nylon non-mordanted. The dye up-take (K/S), color (L*a*b*), and color differences (△E) were measured with a colorimeter, and the number of bacteria present in the dyed fabrics were determined using Staphylococcus aureus and Klebsiella pneumonia as strains. The results are as follows: First, the optimal dyeing conditions for man-made fibers dyed with gallnut are 60 minutes of dyeing time and a 80℃ dyeing temperature. Second, gallnut dye is most effective on soybean fiber and then, in descending order of effectiveness, on nylon, rayon, tencel, and tencel blended fabric. This means that dyeing properties of nitrogen containing fibers are excellent when using gallnut. Third, all man-made fibers are dyed brown with gallnut. This implies dyeing possibility of man-made fibers about gallnut dye, so development and supply of natural dyed goods of man-made fibers can be increased. Fourth, in all man-made fibers dyed with gallnut extract, both Staphylococcus aureus and Klebsiella pneumonia show 99.9% reduction ratios of fungistasis, which indicate antimicrobial activity. Therefore, safe, functional, man-made materials can be developed to relieve symptoms from and treat patients with skin ailments.

It is necessary to understand of temporal and spatial dynamics by establishing a periodical monitoring system for theproper management in small brown planthopper (SBPH). A dataset is including the number of SBPHs by location, collectionmethod [aerial collection net (AeCN) or light trap (LT)] and period (May~Aug.) for five years (2011~2015), and missingvalues were imputed using multiple imputation methods. Of the 15,848 individuals collected, approximately 47% and 52.9%were collected using the AeCN and LT methods, respectively. A high incidence of migratory SBPHs was observed duringJulian days 144-166 using the AeCN method. Generally, the migratory SBPHs from China composed 39.4% of the totalpopulations of SBPHs. These results would provide valuable information to predict the incidence period of migratory SBPHsand establish a proactive management system against SBPH.

We compared the genetic structures of overwintered indigenous Korean and Chinese populations. The eight Koreanpopulations consisted of 33 haplotypes, and 16 haplotypes were newly identified. The genetic diversity of the Koreanpopulation revealed high haplotype diversity and low nucleotide diversity of 0.86 and 0.0024 on average, respectively,due to the high dispersal ability, which is similar to that of the Chinese population (Sun et al., 2015). Comparison with30 Chinese populations using a population tree showed that the Korean populations grouped with 12 Chinese populationsand that 67% were located near Jiangsu province. Moreover, the three frequent migration regions by migratory SBPH,including the Buan, Shinan and Taean counties, were grouped together with high supporting values. These results mightsupport the presence of gene flow between the Korean and Chinese populations by migratory SBPHs.

Although Agaricus bisporus mushroom is a popular mushroom consumed world-widely, the application of common bio-elements to verify its geographical origin remains highly limited. Therefore, this study aimed to verify whether the six cultivation regions in Korea of A. bisporus could be determined by the stable isotope composition analysis of bio-elements, which are unique and abundant in most living creatures. δ13C, δ15N, δ18O, and δ34S in A. bisporus were influenced by the region, cultivar, and the interactions between these two factors (P < 0.05). In particular, the effect of cultivation region was more significant to the isotope ratio profiles as compared to the mushroom cultivar effect. During the cultivation period of A. bisporus, the C, N, O, and S isotopic fractionation was observed between the mushroom and cultivation medium, note higher in the mushroom (P < 0.05). Two dimensional plot of δ15N, δ18O, or δ34S effectively distinguished the cultivation regions, Nonsan, Buyeo, Boryung, Daegu, and/or Gyeongju examined in this study. Further, these isotope ratio profiles measured in this study would be statistically analyzed with various chemometrics to provide isotope markers for the authenticity of geographical origin. Our preliminary case study improves our understanding of how the isotope composition of A. bisporus varies with respect to cultivation regions and cultivars. In conclusion, the analysis of stable isotope ratios is a suitable potential tool for discrimination between the cultivation origins of A. bisporus collected from Korea, with potential application to other countries after certain validation steps required.

To increase the productivity of in vitro development, the antioxidants have been used for culture system of bovine oocytes and embryos. However, comparative studies on these molecules are rare and direct beneficial effects on blastocyst production cannot be discriminated for best results. The study was conducted to determine the influence of N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC), N-acetyl-L-cysteine amide (NACA), glutathione (GSH) and cysteamime (CYS) on maturation competence of COCs from GV to MII stage and productivity of blastocyst formation during in vitro fertilization and culture. There was no difference among maturation rates of oocytes to metaphase II with polar body with antioxidants for any of the treatment groups (p>0.05). However, the significant improvement on the rate of blastocysts (32.3±5.0%) was found in 0.1 mM CYS treatment than 0.3 mM NAC, 0.2 mM NACA or 0.5mM GSH (p<0.05). The addition of NAC (18.8±3.7%) or NACA (21.2±3.9%) did not improve development competence to morula and blastocysts than control (24.4±4.1%) and GSH (26.5±5.0%) (p>0.05). Our study showed that medium supplementation with CYS during IVM and IVC improved the rate of bovine embryo development but not with NAC, NACA and GSH addition.

In order to compare greenhouse gases emission from different animal manures and to explore how different animal manures effect on soil mineralization, three kinds of materials, cattle, goat and chicken manure were amended to soil for 14 days incubation as CtS (cattle manure-amended soil), GS (goat manure-amended soil) and ChS (chicken manure-amended soil). Cumulative NH3 emissions in all treatments were rapidly increased until day 7 and then it was slightly increased in three manure-amended soils but maintained in control until day 14. GS had the highest NH3 emission at 0.14 mg kg-1 during the entire experimental period. Emissions of CO2 were highly increased by 7.8-, 9.0- and 12.4-fold in CtS, GS and ChS, respectively, compared to control at day 14. A significant increase of N2O emission in all treatments occurred within 5 days and then it was slightly increased until day 14. N2O emission was 2-fold higher in all manure-amended soils than that of control. Compared to day 1, inorganic N (NH4 + plus NO3 --N) content was highly increased in all four treatments at day 14. The increase rate was the highest in CtS treatment. Net N mineralization was increased by 4.0-, 2.4- and 2.9-fold in CtS, GS and ChS, respectively, compared to control. These results indicate that increase of NH3, CO2 and N2O gas emissions was positively related to high N mineralization.

Recently, N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NTproBNP) has been widely used in the areas of diagnosis, monitoring treatment efficiency, and prognosis for various heart diseases, especially heart failure (HF). In this paper, we try to estimate the prognostic significance of NT-proBNP as a risk evaluation marker in Non-ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (NSTEMI) patients. We selected NSTEMI patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) primarily using a drug-eluting stent within 24 h after the onset of chest pain. We compared incidences of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) including death, myocardial infarction (MI), stent thrombosis (ST), and target vessel revascularization (TVR) in two patient groups according to a high or low serum concentration of NT-proBNP, which was measured in the emergency room (ER). We intend to minimize selection bias selecting comparing groups, considering covariate of observed variables together using propensity score matching (PSM) and propensity score weighting (PSW) based on propensity score (PS) to control the difference in baseline characteristics between high- and low NT-proBNP groups. We found that as the log NT-proBNP value increases by 1 through a hazard function of COX’s analysis, the risk of MACE increases by 1.312 times. This result indicated that the NT-proBNP level on ER admission can be used as a significant prognostic indicator to estimate 1 year of MACE in NSTEMI patients who were treated with PCI within 24 h after the onset of chest pain.

Priority disciplines are an important scheme for service systems to differentiate their services for different classes of customers. (N, n)-preemptive priority disciplines enable system engineers to fine-tune the performances of different classes of customers arriving to the system. Due to this virtue of controllability, (N, n)-preemptive priority queueing models can be applied to various types of systems in which the service performances of different classes of customers need to be adjusted for a complex objective. In this paper, we extend the existing (N, n)-preemptive resume and (N, n)-preemptive repeat-identical priority queueing models to the (N, n)-preemptive repeat-different priority queueing model. We derive the queue-length distributions in the M/G/1 queueing model with two classes of customers, under the (N, n)-preemptive repeat-different priority discipline. In order to derive the queue-length distributions, we employ an analysis of the effective service time of a low-priority customer, a delay cycle analysis, and a joint transformation method. We then derive the first and second moments of the queue lengths of high- and low-priority customers. We also present a numerical example for the first and second moments of the queue length of high- and low-priority customers. Through doing this, we show that, under the (N, n)-preemptive repeat-different priority discipline, the first and second moments of customers with high priority are bounded by some upper bounds, regardless of the service characteristics of customers with low priority. This property may help system engineers design such service systems that guarantee the mean and variance of delay for primary users under a certain bounds, when preempted services have to be restarted with another service time resampled from the same service time distribution.

연구에서는 북부 터키에서 Paranemastoma속의 통거미 1신종을 기재하였다. 본 종Paranemastoma karolianus의 다리, 등면 표피 및 생식 기의 미세구조를 제시하였다. 본 신종과 유사종과의 구별점에 대하여 고찰하였다.

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Acetate, propionate, butyrate are the major soluble volatile fatty acids metabolites of fermented food waste leachates. This work investigate the effects of volatile fatty acid on the growth rate and NH4-N, PO4-P removal efficiency of mixotrophic microalgae Chlorella vulgaris to treat digested food waste leachates. The results showed that acetate, propionate and butyrate were efficiently utilized by Chlorella vulgaris and microalgae growth was higher than control condition. Similar trends were observed upon NH4-N and PO4-P consumption. Volatile fatty acids promoted Chlorella vulgaris growth, and nutrient removal efficiencies were highest when acetate was used, and butyrate and propionate showed second and third. From this work it could be said that using mixotrophic microalgae, in this work Chlorella vulgaris, fermented food waste leachates can be treated with high efficiencies.

Among the Vietnamese customs of early 20th century, besides the documentation written in Sino, there were also not a small number of documentation written in Nôm. To use Nôm script was with a clear purpose for “the ease of the people’s reading and understanding”. Nevertheless, there was a fact that in these documentation written by Nôm, Sinowas also appeared quite a lot. Sino script was used in many levels: word, Phrase, Sentence,Paragraph. Why Sino still appeared in Nôm documentation, while the editors themselves wanted to use Nôm for the readers’ easy understanding, and furthermore in the history context of Vietnamese society, it was the period of Sino declining? In addition to the too great impact of Sino language in Vietnamese language, were there any other reasons for that? Through the studying, the writer has found that the 4 said above levels were not used randomly, instead each level was used in one or some specified cases. The use of Sino in here was formed by 2 reasons: Habit; The fact that Sino was still psychologically more respected than Nôm, this was not erased in the conception of the editors.

The discovery of new luminescent materials for use in light-emitting diodes(LEDs) has been of great interest, since LED-based solid state lighting applications are attracting a lot of attention in the energy saving and environmental fields. Recent research trends have centered on the discovery of new luminescent materials rather than on fine changes in well-known luminescent materials. In a sense, the novelty of our study beyond simple modification or improvement of existing phosphors. A good strategy for the discovery of new fluorescent materials is to introduce activators that are appropriate for conventional inorganic compounds, that have well-defined structures in the crystal structure database, but have not been considered as phosphor hosts. Another strategy is to discover new host compounds with structures that cannot be found in any existing databases. We have pursued these two strategies at the same time using composite search technology with particle swarm optimization(PSO). In this study, using PSO, we have tracked down a search space composed of Sr-Al-Si-O-N and have discovered a new phosphor structure with yellow luminescence; this material is a potential candidate for UV-LED applications

Hyaluronan은 난포액, 나팔관과 자궁에 존재하는 물질로 돼지의 다정자 수정을 억제하고 체외배 양액에 첨가시 배 발육을 향상시키는 것으로 알려져 있다. Glucuronic acid와 N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc)은 이중결합하여 hyaluronan을 구성하는 물질이다. 본 연구에서는 체외성숙 배양액 내 Glucuronic acid 및 GlcNAc 첨가가 돼지 난자의 성숙 및 단위발생 난자의 배 발육에 미치는 영향 을 조사하였다. 난자의 체외성숙 배양액으로는 0.1% PVA (polyvinyl alcohol)가 첨가된 Medium-199 을 기본배양액으로 이용하였고, 여기에 cysteine, pyruvate, epidermal growth factor, kanamycin, insulin 및 호르몬을 추가하여 44시간 동안 난자를 배양하여 체외성숙을 유도하였다. 실험설계에 따라 glucuronic acid 및 GlcNAc를 각각 0, 0.005, 0.01, 0.05, 0.1 mM의 농도로 체외성숙 배양액에 첨가 하였다. 체외성숙된 난자는 전기자극을 통해 단위발생을 유도하였고 porcine zygote medium-3에서 7일간 체외 배양하였다. 실험 결과 난자의 체외성숙 배양액 내 glucuronic acid 첨가는 난자의 핵 성숙률(91.3-94.4%), 단위발생 후 분할률(85.5-93.6%) 및 배반포 발달율(42.0-51.0%)에 영향을 미치지 않았으나 배반포 세포수는 0.05 mM glucuronic acid 첨가 군에서 38.0개로 대조군의 31.5개에 비해 유의적으로(P<0.05) 증가하였다. 난자의 체외 성숙 배양액에 GlcNAc를 첨가하였을 때 난자의 핵 성숙률(94.3-97.2%) 및 단위발생 후 배반포 세포수(40.0-43.1)는 대조군 및 첨가 농도의 차이에 따라 유의적인 차이를 보이지 않았으나 분할률은 0.05 mM 처리군에서 91.8%로 대조군(85.0%) 및 0.005 mM 처리군(84.6%)에 비해 유의적(P<0.05)으로 증가하였다. 또한 0.05 mM 처리군의 배반포 발달 율은 59.6%로 대조군(46.3%), 0.005 mM 처리군(44.3%) 및 0.1 mM 처리군(45.2%)에 비해 유의적으 로 높았다. 이상 결과로 보아 체외성숙 배야액 내 0.05 mM glucuronic acid 및 GlcNAc 첨가는 돼 지 난자의 단위발생 후 배 발육을 증가시키는 것으로 사료된다.