The potential use of cost-effective carbon anodes, as an alternative to expensive platinum, in the reduction of oxides within LiCl-Li2O molten salt at elevated cell potentials presents a promising avenue. However, this elevated potential gives rise to the generation of a complex mixture of anodic gases, including hazardous and corrosive species such as chlorine (Cl2), oxygen (O2), carbon monoxide (CO), and carbon dioxide (CO2). In this study, we investigate the influence of applied potential and salt composition on the composition of the generated gas mixture. Real-time gas analysis was conducted during the TiO reduction reaction in the molten salt at 650°C using a MAX-300-LG gas analyzer. Simultaneously, electronic signals, including current, potential, and salt composition, were monitored throughout the oxide reduction process. Additionally, XRD investigations were performed to verify the crystal structure of the resulting products. This research provides valuable insights into optimizing carbon anode-based reduction processes for improved efficiency and safety.

The carbon-based nanostructures are in limelight due to their widespread applications in nano-to-micro-scale technologies. The carbon dots are known for their unique physical, electrical, optical, chemical and biological properties. The carbon dots (CDs) are being produced through several well-developed synthesis methods, one of which is the green sonochemical. This method is preferred over others because it is a green source of energy, facile, fast, low-temperature process, non-toxic and less expensive. Despite the fact of using 90% less energy than other methods, this method has been overlooked in the published literature. It is possible to prepare pure and doped CDs of low toxicity and controlled physicochemical properties through sonochemical method. In recent years, sonochemically produced CDs have been tuned and characterized for a variety of applications. This review has explored the merits and demerits of sonochemical method in comparison to the other methods for the synthesis of pure CDs and their nanocomposites. The role of multiple factors in tailoring the specific parameters of CDs for their application in antibacterial, polymerization, tissue engineering, catalysis, bio-imagining, supercapacitors, drug delivery and electric devices is also elaborated in this review. This review also concludes on future directions in the applications of sonochemically produced CDs.

점차 치열해지고 있는 경쟁환경은 기업들에게 생존을 위해 끊임없이 혁신적인 제품과 서비스를 창출하도록 요구하고 있다. 이러한 경쟁환경에 대응하기 위하여 기업들은 R&D 투자를 통하여 지속적인 혁신을 달성하고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 경쟁과 기업의 R&D 투자의 관계를 고찰하였다. 이를 위하여 경쟁을 실질적 경쟁과 잠재적 경쟁으로 이원화하여 각각이 기업의 R&D 투자에 미치는 영향을 관찰하였다. 또한 이 관계가 기업의 목표대비 성 과 수준에 따라 어떻게 달라지는지 관찰하였다. 미국 Compustat 데이터로 실증분석을 수행 한 결과, 실질적 경쟁은 기업의 R&D 투자를 감소시키는 경향이 있었던 반면 잠재적 경쟁은 R&D 투자를 증가시키는 경향이 있었다. 이에 대하여 목표대비 성과 수준의 조절효과는 기 업의 성과가 목표보다 낮았을 때는 실질적 경쟁의 음(-)의 효과를 강화시키고, 잠재적 경쟁 의 양(+)의 효과를 약화시켰고, 목표보다 높았을 때에도 실질적 경쟁의 음(-)의 효과를 강화 시키고, 잠재적 경쟁의 양(+)의 효과를 약화시켰으나 그 조절효과는 기업의 성과가 목표보다 낮았을 때보다 더욱 강하게 나타났다. 본 연구를 통하여 실질적 경쟁 및 잠재적 경쟁과 기업 의 R&D 투자의사결정의 관계 그리고 목표대비 성과 수준의 역할을 이해하는데 도움이 될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

Due to fierce competition, many domestic fashion businesses are suffering difficulty in securing and maintaining customers. Accordingly, fashion companies are devoting all their energy to secure customers by using high quality and diverse strategies for distribution and promotion, and to secure loyalty by satisfying customers with the offer of excellent service. Thus, it is very important to provide systematic service recovery strategy available for handling service failure effectively. Therefore, the purpose of this study is comprehensively analyzing influences of expectation dis-confirmation and perceived justice for service recovery upon consumers' satisfaction and loyalty. The findings are as follows. First, as for the service failure that customers experienced, the more consumers who expect it to be recovered led to the higher formation of expectation-compensation dis-confirmation. Second, it was indicated that the higher seriousness in service failure that customers experienced led to the lower satisfaction and loyalty to service recovery. Third, as a result of examining influence of expectation-compensation dis-confirmation for servicefailure recovery upon consumer satisfaction and loyalty, the customers who showed more positive dis-confirmation to expectation-compensation were indicated to form the more satisfaction and loyalty. Fourth, as a result of examining the influence of the perceived justice in the process of service-failure recovery upon customer satisfaction, all in 3 dimensions of justice had effect on customer satisfaction.

It is well known that a rotating bar potential can transport angular momentum to the disk and hence cause the evolution of the disk. Such a process is particularly important in disk galaxies since it can result in fuelling AGNs and starburst ring activities. In this paper, we will present the numerical simulations to show how this mechanism works. The problem, however, is quite complicated. We classify our simulations according to the type of Lindbald resonances and try to single out the individual roles they play in the disk evolution. Among many interesting results, we emphasize the identification of the origin of the starburst rings and the dense circumnuclear molecular disks to the instability of the disk. Unlike most of the other simulations, the self-gravitation of the disk is emphasized in this study.

Construction of tunnels in a deep crystalline host rock for a potential High-Level Radioactive Waste(HLW) repository inevitably generates an excavation disturbed zone (EDZ). There have been a series of debates on whether a permeability in an EDZ increases or not and what would be the maximum depth of an EDZ. Recent studies show mixed opinions on permeability. However, there has been an international consensus on the thickness of an EDZ; 30 cm for TBM and 1 meter for controlled blast. One of the impacts of an EDZ is on determining the distance between adjacent deposition holes. The void gap by the excavation hinders relaxation of temperature profiles so that the current Korean reference designing distance between holes should be stretched out more to keep the maximum temperature in a buffer region below 100 degrees Celsius. The other impact of an EDZ is on the long-term post closure radiological safety. To estimate the impact, the reference scenario, the well scenario, is chosen. Released nuclides diffuse through a bentonite buffer region experiencing strong sorption and reach a fracture surrounded by a porous medium. Inside a fractured porous region, radionuclides migrate by advection and dispersion with matrix diffusion into a porous medium. Finally, they reach a well assumed to be a source of potable water for local residents. The annual individual dose is assessed on this well scenario to find out the significance of an EDZ. A profound sensitivity study was performed, but all results show that the impact is negligible. Even though the role of an EDZ turns out to be limited on overall safety assessment, still it is worthwhile to study the chemical role of an EDZ, such as a potential source for natural colloids, potential sealing of an open fracture by fine clay particles generated by the process of an EDZ, and alteration of a sorption mechanism by an EDZ in the future.

감자 괴경에 타박상을 입혔거나 세균현탁액을 주입했을 때 낮은 water potential(-6.46 bar) 보다 높은 water potential (-6.06 bar)에서 더 쉽게 부패를 초래하였으며, 높은 water potential을 가진 괴경과 낮은 water potential을 가진 괴경 사이에 있어서의 부패의 진전에는 큰 차이를 발견할 수 있었으며, 현탁액의 농도의 종류에 따른 괴경의 연부병의 이병정도는 높은 water potential에서 높았으며, 세균 현탁액 농도의 은 높은 water potential에서 이며 낮은 water potential에 서는 이었으며, 높은 water potential과 낮은 water potential 에서는 작은 차이를 인정할 수 있었다. 이 시험에서 감자는 상처나 타박상이 나지 않도록 다루어야 하며 수확후 충분히 건조하여야 오랜 운반과 저장중에 연부병 발생을 크게 줄일 수 있다는 것을 나타낸다.

본 실험은 담배의 최대생장 후반기에 수분제한처리를 하여, 한발이 엽위에 따라 생장과 발달에 미치는 영향을 분석하고, 엽영에 따른 엽내 수분상태가 기공컨덕턴스, 잎수분포텐셜과 토양수분관계에 영향을 미치는 생리적 반응을 구명하고져 실시하였다. 담배의 최대생장기 한발영향은 지상부의 제형질을 감소시켰고, 엽위에 따른 생장반응은 중ㆍ하위엽에서 작았고 상위엽에서 컸다. 처리 5일째에 잎의 상대수분함량은 토양수분함량이 4.3%로 감소될 때 상위엽 74%, 중위엽 64%, 하위엽 59%로 담배잎의 위주점은 상대수분함량이 약 75%이었다. 한발에 따른 잎수분포텐셜은 대조구의 -0.58 MPa에서 처리구의 처리5일째에 -1.20 MPa로 떨어졌고, 대조구와 비교하여 약 20%의 수분포텐셜차이가 위주점이 되었다. 기공컨덕턴스는 중ㆍ상위엽에서 12 mol /m2 sec1에서 0.8 mol /m2 sec1로 떨어져, 한발처리에 따른 담배의 최대생장후반기의 엽위에 따른 생장반응은 중ㆍ상위엽까지 영향을 미쳤다.