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Characterizing the Effects of Microclimate on the Growth of Ginseng Seedlings using Multi-layer Bed Production Facilities (다층베드시설을 이용한 묘삼 생산 시 미기상 환경과 생육특성)

  • Jang, Myeong Hwan;Kim, Seung Han;Choi, Yangae;Won, Do Yeon;Kim, Im Soo
    • Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.490-497
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    • 2018
  • Background: The growth process of ginseng seedlings is very important in producing good quality ginseng. This study was carried out to investigate the effects of different microclimates on the growth characteristics of ginseng seedlings in a multi-layer bed facility. Methods and Results: Ginseng seedlings were cultivated in a three-layer bed facility. The air temperatures on the first and second floors were similar, while that on the third floor was about $1-4^{\circ}C$ higher than that on the other floors. The vapor pressure deficit (VPD) was higher inside than on the outside of the facility, and that on third floor was the highest in the multi-layer bed system. The photosynthetic rate, chlorophyll fluorescence, and growth characteristics of ginseng seedlings did not significantly differ among the three floors. The yield of ginseng seedlings was the highest at $721g/1.62m^2$ on the first floor. Conclusions: It was found that microclimate plays an important role in growing ginseng seedlings in multi-layer bed facilities, and therefore proper environmental control is important. In addition, producing ginseng seedlings using multi-layer bed facilities is a technology that is expected to provide a way to overcome climate change and stabilize ginseng production.

Design and Fabrication of Tool Change Multi-nozzle FDM 3D Printer (툴 체인지 방식 멀티 노즐 3D프린터의 설계 및 제작)

  • Suk, Ik-hyun;Park, Jong-kyu
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.38-44
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    • 2021
  • To cater to the transition from single-color to multicolor/multi-material printing, this paper proposes a cartridge-replacing type multi-nozzle Fused Depositon Modeling(FDM) three-dimensional (3D) printer. In the test printing run, tool change failure/wobble/layer shift occurred. It was confirmed that improper support was the cause of this tool change failure. As a solution, spline and electromagnetic cartridges were designed. Wobble was caused by machine vibration and the motor stepping out. To minimize wobble, an additional Z-axis was installed, and the four-point bed leveling method was used instead of the three-point bed leveling method. The occurrence of layer shift was ascribed to the eccentricity of the Z-axis lead screw. Therefore, slit coupler was replaced with an Oldham type. In addition to the mechanical supplementation, the control environment was integrated to prevent accidents and signal errors due to wire connections. Before the final test printing run, a rectifier circuit was added to the motor to secure precise control stability. The final test printing run confirmed that the wobble/layer shift phenomenon was minimized, and the maximum error between layers was reduced to 0.05.

Wave Damping Rate Over Multi-layer Permeable Bed of Finite Depth (깊이가 유한한 다중 투수층 위에서의 파의 감쇠율)

  • Suh, Kyung-Duck;Do, Ki-Deok
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.127-135
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    • 2009
  • Reid and Kajiura(1957) has studied on the wave damping rate over a permeable bed of infinite depth. In this study, wave damping rate over a permeable bed of finite depth is derived by linear wave theory. It is then extended to derive wave damping rates over a double or triple layer, each of which consist of different material. Applying the wave damping rate to the mild slope equation, the wave transmission coefficient over a permeable bed has been calculated. The model has been certificated by comparing with the result of Flaten and Rygg(1991)'s integral equation method in the case of a single-layer bed.

Controlled Release of Nifedipine in Multi-layered Granule System (다중층 과립 시스템에서 니페디핀의 방출 제어)

  • Lee, Soo-Young;Youn, Ju-Yong;Kim, Byung-Soo;Kim, Moon-Suk;Lee, Bong;Khang, Gil-Son;Lee, Hai-Bang
    • Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.229-235
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    • 2007
  • Multi-layered granules were prepared by a fluidized-bed coater and uniformed granules were obtained with a size range between $950{\sim}1000{\mu}m$ in diameter. The granule system was composed of three layers, i.e. seed layer with sugar sphere bead and a water-swellable polymer, middle layer with a drug, solubilizer and polymer, and the top layer of porous membrane with a polymeric binder. The aim of this work is to find out the dependence of a drug dissolution rate on the amount of a water-soluble binder and a solubilizer in the granule system. The results showed that the higher amount of hydrophilic binder in the porous membrane, gave the bigger pore size and porosity and made faster dissolution rate and also the higher amount of solubilizer in drug layer enhanced the dissolution rate of drug.

A Study on Purification of Water Works by Multi-filter Bed Method with Aeration(Appliction of Biological Oxidation by Aerobic Microorganism) (상수 정화법에 관한 연구 (폭기식 다단여과에 의한 호기성균의 생물화학적 산화작용을 응용))

  • Chung, Yo-Han;Moon, Jae-Kyu;Jhoo, Heung-Kyu;Seo, Hwa-Jung
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.43-48
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    • 1972
  • 5 bed sand filter, applying biological oxidation, was designed and studied on the treatment of water works. Never using any coagulant agent (drugs), which may cause water pollution in pre-treatment of head water, the auther attempt a high rate filtration by the microorganism (nitrofication bacteria) end plant which populate in multi layer sand beds. The result are as follows : In order to evaluate the oxygen effect on filtration, oxygen was injected in aeration tank attached to each filter tank while filtration, and $NH_3$ was tested as a representaiive ingredient. It was found out that the aeration method was more effective, with over 33% of $NH_3$ removal capacity, than the anerobic and this 5 bed filter showed double removal capacity of $NH_3$ by comparing with conventional sand bed (2 stage bed). According to the examination of two kind of head water, pre-treated with coagulant agent and activated carton, the filtration capacity was affected by the polluted condition of head water, resulting that lower value of pollution and slower velocity of filtration showed more efficiency of $NH_3$ removal. In this experiment $NH_3$ content tested in treated water had a fairly good correlation with others.

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Microstructure and Nano-hardness of SiC/C Multi-coated Layers on a Particulate Nuclear Fuel (입자 핵연료의 SiC/C 다층 도포층의 미세조직 및 극미세 경도 평가)

  • Choi, Young
    • Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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    • v.52 no.6
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    • pp.321-325
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    • 2019
  • Triso-type coating layers of silicon carbide and graphite on UO2 paticulate nuclear fuel were prepared by using fluidized bed type chemical vapor deposition and self-propagating high temperature synthesis methods to make a coated nuclear fuel of a power plant for hydrogen mass-production. The source and carrier gases were the mixture of methyltrichlorosilane and propane, and inert argon. Chemical analysis and microstructure observation showed that the coated layers were inner graphite, middle silicon carbide and outer graphite. The elastic modulus and nano-hardness of the silicon carbide layer were 503 [GPa] and 36 [GPa], respectively.

Controlled Release of Doxazosin in Multi-layered Pellet Using Polymer Blending (고분자 블렌딩을 이용하여 제조된 독사조신 다중층 펠렛의 약물방출제어)

  • Youn, Ju-Yong;Park, Sang-Wook;Lee, Soo-Young;Kim, Moon-Suk;Lee, Bong;Khang, Gil-Son;Lee, Hai-Bang
    • Polymer(Korea)
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.322-327
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    • 2008
  • In this study, a multi-layered pellet was composed of a seed layer including a water-swellable agent and a drug layer containing doxazosin as a model drug, a porous membrane and a castor oil layer to control drug release. The pellet is prepared by a fluidized bed coating method. To confirm drug release from polymer blending in multi-layered pellet system, it is prepared by containing different ratio such as hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (HPMC) : ethyl cellulose (EC) in drug layer and cellulose acetate(CA) : Eudragit RS in membrane. Also, to confirm the effect of oil in drug release, castor oil is coated. As a result, we observed regularly spherical pellet with diameter of $1500{\mu}m$. Release pattern of drug is confirmed by dissolution tester in aqueous media. The more the ratio of EC in drug layer, CA in membrane, and castor oil layer in pellet, the less the drug release is observed. Formation and the amount of pores in membrane is observed by SEM.

Evaluation of existing bridges using neural networks

  • Molina, Augusto V.;Chou, Karen C.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.187-209
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    • 2002
  • The infrastructure system in the United States has been aging faster than the resource available to restore them. Therefore decision for allocating the resources is based in part on the condition of the structural system. This paper proposes to use neural network to predict the overall rating of the structural system because of the successful applications of neural network to other fields which require a "symptom-diagnostic" type relationship. The goal of this paper is to illustrate the potential of using neural network in civil engineering applications and, particularly, in bridge evaluations. Data collected by the Tennessee Department of Transportation were used as "test bed" for the study. Multi-layer feed forward networks were developed using the Levenberg-Marquardt training algorithm. All the neural networks consisted of at least one hidden layer of neurons. Hyperbolic tangent transfer functions were used in the first hidden layer and log-sigmoid transfer functions were used in the subsequent hidden and output layers. The best performing neural network consisted of three hidden layers. This network contained three neurons in the first hidden layer, two neurons in the second hidden layer and one neuron in the third hidden layer. The neural network performed well based on a target error of 10%. The results of this study indicate that the potential for using neural networks for the evaluation of infrastructure systems is very good.

Formulation and Preparation of Sustained Release Pellet for Alfuzosin HCI Using Fluid-bed coater (유동층 코팅기를 이용한 염산알푸조신의 서방형 과립 설계 및 제조)

  • Na, Jin-Sang;Yoon, Yang-No;Seo, Hui;Jeong, Sang-Young;Park, Eun-Seok;Hwan, Sung-Joo;Shin, Byung-Cheol;Kim, Sung-Hoon;Cho, Sun-Hang
    • Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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    • v.38 no.6
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    • pp.387-392
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    • 2008
  • Alfuzosin, an Alphal-adrenoceptor antagonist is used for the treatment of patients with voiding and in a lesser extent storage lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) associated to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The objective of this study was to formulate sustained release alfuzosin HCl granules and assess their formulation variables. The $Eudragit^{(R)}$ as a polymer, sustained release membrane, and dibutyl sebacate (DBS) as a plasticizer were used. Multi-coated alfuzosin HCl delivery systems composed of sugar sphere, various excipients, $Eudragit^{(R)}$ and HPMC (hydroxy propyl methyl cellulose), Cellulose Acetate were prepared by fluid-bed coater. Membrane layer were used $Eudragit^{(R)}$ RS PO and NE 30D. And the alfuzosin HCl coated beads were coated immediate release drug layer for initial burst. Its dissolution test was carried out compared to conventional products ($XATRAL^{(R)}$ XL). The release rate of drug from coated beads was higher than that from $XATRAL^{(R)}$ XL in pH 6.8.