A multipath peroxymonosulfate activation process over supported by magnetic CuO-Fe3O4 nanoparticles for efficient degradation of 4-chlorophenol

Wei Peng,Jie Liu,Wei Peng,Chenxu Li,Fuxing Zong,Wensi Xu,Xing Zhang 한국화학공학회 2018 Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol.35 No.8

Heterogeneous catalysts with low cost, environmentally friendly, highly effective and ready separation from aqueous solution are highly desirable. Magnetic CuO-Fe3O4 nanoparticles, a type of non-toxic bimetallic transition metal oxide, is a promising heterogeneous catalyst for activation of peroxymonosulfate (PMS) to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) that has not been previously investigated. In this study, the activation of PMS by CuO-Fe3O4 nanoparticles was evaluated using the degradation of 4-chlorophenol as a model reaction. Several critical factors such as pH, catalyst dosage and PMS concentration were investigated. CuO-Fe3O4/PMS system demonstrated a wide effective pH range to degrade 4-chlorophenol, namely 5.5 to 9.5. With the increase of the catalyst dosage, the degradation efficiency of 4-chlorophenol appeared to increase first and then decrease, that the inflection point was 0.5 g/L. Elevated PMS concentration obviously improved the decomposition of 4-chlorophenol; however, the plateau was reached when the PMS concentration was 8mM. Further increase in PMS concentration would not significantly improve the removal efficiency. Through examining the effects of scavengers and electron spin resonance (ESR) analyses, CuO-Fe3O4 nanoparticles were proven to activate PMS through a non-radical and radical pathway to generate singlet oxygen, sulfate radicals and hydroxyl radicals. Based on results, CuO-Fe3O4 nanoparticles were effective, environmentally friendly and low cost catalysts for efficient activation of PMS. These features make CuO-Fe3O4 nanoparticles a readily available heterogeneous catalyst to activate PMS for refractory organic pollutants degradation in advanced oxidation processes (AOPs).

회사법상 내부통제제도의 법적 개선방안

이흥붕(LI XING PENG) 중앙대학교 법학연구원 2014 法學論文集 Vol.38 No.2

After a unified concept was formed in the report of COSO, the USA, the most developed country in internal control system throughout the world, based on an independent act which is similar to Model Business Corporation Act (MBCA) and SOX Act, expressly stipulated the basic conditions with regard to internal control amid it, thus strengthening internal control. In contrast, there are not perfect legal provisions on internal control for Korean companies. Korean internal control system is only aimed at financial companies; while general companies have the provisions on internal control in External Audit Act and the contents related to financial reports; law-abiding control criterion and compliance officer system were only listed in the amendment of Commercial Law in April 2011. That is to say, internal control system only exists in Commercial Law, Financial Regulation Law, External Audit Act as well as the provisions of financial supervision organ and the laws and regulations of self-discipline supervision organ dispersedly. The laws related to finance have included internal control criterion and compliance officer system. In the amended Commercial Law, compared with compliance officer system, compliance officer system has been strengthened at the level of internal control in accordance with the laws related to finance. Therefore, different from financial enterprises, general enterprises don't have all-round control system. The internal control system in listed companies hasn't been introduced uniformly; while the law-abiding control, financial report (accounting) control and publicity control related to law-abiding volunteers are listed in the provisions of Commercial Law, External Audit Act and exchange respectively and have been implemented; as a result, many problems on low efficiency have been caused. So the internal control system which is contained in various laws including law-abiding control system dispersedly must be stipulated uniformly. However, in the short run, current systems shall be maintained for law-abiding supervisors system for financial enterprises as well as internal accounting control system and compliance officer system in External Audit Act. Nevertheless, in the long run, just as internal control system is not implemented additionally for financial enterprises in Japan and the USA, in view of the provisions of Commercial Law in Korea, a unified form is the best for internal control system. But what is more important is that even if internal control system is improved, it can't be definitely guaranteed, either. We must realize the important fact that we need to provide reasonable guarantee for internal control system. Therefore, even if we have established internal control system, we still need to make long-term efforts to improve internal control while supervising internal control organ.

Generation of Buffalo Mammary Epithelial Cells with Targeted Knockout of 18s rDNA by a CRISPR/Cas9 Adenovirus System

Peng Zhu,An-Qin Duan,Ting-Xian Deng,Xing-Rong Lu,Xiao-Ya Ma,Sha-Sha Liang,Chun-Ying Pang,Xian-Wei Liang 한국생물공학회 2017 Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering Vol.22 No.5

In recent years, CRISPR/Cas9 has rapidly become one of the most promising genome editing tools because it is simple and easy to use and cost effective. However, the large size of Cas9 sequences limits its application in clinically promising vectors and it also impacts non-viral transfection. In this study, CRISPR/Cas9 adenovirus vectors that target the buffalo 18s rDNA gene were constructed, transfected into 293 cells for adenovirus packaging, and the adenovirus was used to knockout the 18s rDNA gene in buffalo mammary epithelial cells. The results demonstrated that the CRISPR/Cas9 adenovirus vectors for the buffalo 18s rDNA gene could efficiently target the sites as revealed by the fluorescence reporter system. After amplification, the adenovirus titer of Sn458- 18s1 and Sn458-18s2 reached 1.03 × 109PFU/mL and 1.05 × 109 PFU/mL, respectively. For buffalo mammary epithelial cell infection, the efficiency was 100% when the multiplicity of infection (MOI) 100 PFU/mL. There were 9 mutational clones found in the 20 clones, and the gene mutagenesis rate reached 45%. Of these, 2 clones were 35-bp deleted and 7 clones were 12-bp deleted. These results suggested that the adenovirus system overcame the low transfection efficiency of the buffalo mammary epithelial cells associated with using lipid-based methods or electroporation. Moreover, we preliminary developed an efficient technique for multiple-locus gene targeting at repeated sequences of the buffalo genome.

Nanotwinned Microstructure Engineering of Electroplated Copper for Enhanced Anti-corrosion in Alkaline Medium

Xing‑Quan Liu,Zhe Li,Zhen‑Jia Peng,Rui‑Xun Wang,Zhi‑Quan Liu 대한금속·재료학회 2024 METALS AND MATERIALS International Vol.30 No.1

Electroplated copper is a key electronic interconnect material in integrated circuits and printed circuits and inevitablyexposed to corrosive media in manufacturing processes. The present work reports, for the first time, that corrosion resistanceof electroplated copper in 4 wt% NaOH is enhanced via nanotwinned microstructure engineering. Nucleation and growthof oxide/hydroxide on nanotwinned copper are inhibited, attributed to existence of highly (111)-preferred grain orientationand high-density parallelly-aligned coherent twin boundaries at surface. This study unveils a novel anti-corrosion strategyof nantowinned microstructure engineering against alkaline etchant, and exhibits great application values in industrial electroplatingof copper, silver, or their alloys.

Effects of Turbulent Dispersion on Water Droplet Impingement Based on Statistics Method

Peng, Ke,Xing, Tang,Yi, Lu,Yun, Yang Hui The Korean Society for Aeronautical Space Sciences 2018 International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sc Vol.19 No.2

Research on the water droplet motion and impact on surface is the basis of aircraft icing prediction and design of ice protection system. First, a new computational method based on statistical theory was developed in the Euler-Lagrange framework to calculate the local water impingement coefficient on the surface, which could be used to study the effect of turbulent dispersion on the water droplet motion and impingement characteristics. Second, based on the RANS model for the air flow field, taking engine cone surface with or without slot as examples, the influence of turbulent dispersion on the water impingement coefficient on the surface was comparatively analyzed with the discrete random walk model. For the cone without film slot, turbulence causes a little impact on water droplet impingement. However, for the slotted cone, water droplet collection calculation must consider the effect of turbulence due to the stronger turbulence induced by the jet air. Further studies show that the effect is enhanced with the decrease of water droplet diameter. Finally, discussion about turbulent effects was proposed. This research about the influence of turbulent dispersion will be helpful to improve the accuracy of the water droplet impingement calculation for some complex geometries.

Low Complexity Discrete Hartley Transform Precoded OFDM System over Frequency-Selective Fading Channel

Xing Ouyang,Jiyu Jin,Guiyue Jin,Peng Li 한국전자통신연구원 2015 ETRI Journal Vol.37 No.1

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) suffers from spectral nulls of frequency-selective fading channels. Linear precoded (LP-) OFDM is an effective method that guarantees symbol detectability by spreading the frequency-domain symbols over the whole spectrum. This paper proposes a computationally efficient and low-cost implementation for discrete Hartley transform (DHT) precoded OFDM systems. Compared to conventional DHT-OFDM systems, at the transmitter, both the DHT and the inverse discrete Fourier transform are replaced by a one-level butterfly structure that involves only one addition per symbol to generate the time-domain DHT-OFDM signal. At the receiver, only the DHT is required to recover the distorted signal with a single-tap equalizer in contrast to both the DHT and the DFT in the conventional DHT-OFDM. Theoretical analysis of DHT-OFDM with linear equalizers is presented and confirmed by numerical simulation. It is shown that the proposed DHT-OFDM system achieves similar performance when compared to other LP-OFDMs but exhibits a lower implementation complexity and peak-to-average power ratio.

Crosstalk evaluation in multiview autostereoscopic three-dimensional displays with an optimized diaphragm applied

Peng, Yi-Fan,Li, Hai-Feng,Zheng, Zhen-Rong,Xia, Xin-Xing,Yao, Zhi,Liu, Xu The Korean Infomation Display Society 2012 Journal of information display Vol.13 No.2

The crosstalk evaluation of multiview autostereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) displays is discussed, with both the human and technical factors investigated via image quality assessment. In the imaging performance measurements and analysis for a multiview autostereoscopic display prototype equipment, it was inferred that crosstalk would have both a positive and a negative effect on the imaging performance of the equipment. The importance of the attached diaphragm in the crosstalk evaluation was proposed and then experimentally verified, using the developed prototype equipment. The luminance distribution and crosstalk situation were given, with two different diaphragm arrays applied. The analysis results showed that the imaging performance of this 3D display system can be improved with minimum changes to the system structure.

Effect of Low-fat Diet on Breast Cancer Survival: a Meta-analysis

Xing, Mei-Yuan,Xu, Su-Zhen,Shen, Peng Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2014 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.15 No.3

Background: Even though many studies have examined the possible effect of low-fat diet on breast cancer survival, the relationship remains unclear. Objectives: To summarize the current evidence about the effect of post-diagnostic low-fat diet on recurrence and all-cause mortality of breast cancer. Methods: We conducted a search of Pubmed, Embase, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library and as a result two randomized controlled trials (RCT) and one large multi-center prospective cohort study with 9,966 breast cancer patients were included in this report. Results: Post-diagnostic low-fat diet reduced risk of recurrence of breast cancer by 23% (HR=0.77, 95%CI 0.63 to 0.94, P=0.009) and all cause mortality of breast cancer by 17% (HR=0.83, 95%CI 0.69 to 1.00, P=0.05). Conclusions: This meta-analysis suggested the post-diagnostic low-fat diet can improve breast cancer survival by reducing risk of recurrence. However, more trials of the relationship between low-fat diet and allcause mortality of breast cancer are still needed.

Effect of Trichokonins on the Growth Characteristics of Paeonia ostii ``Fengdan Seedling Roots

( Peng-fei Chu ),( Xing Cao ),( Zhen-jing Yang ),( Xiu-sheng Zhang ),( Yong-ji Piao ),( Hyun-ju Jo ) 한국환경과학회 2016 한국환경과학회지 Vol.25 No.8

The growth characteristics of Paeonia ostii ``Fengdan`` seedlings roots in response to trichokonins-spray treatment were investigated in this study. One-year-old seedlings of P. ostii ``Fengdan`` were potted in plastic cups containing garden mold and grown under field conditions. The results showed that application of trichokonins significantly promoted root growth in P. ostii ``Fengdan`` seedlings. The total root projection area, total root surface area, total root volume, total root length, root number and root diameter of seedlings treated with 0.25 mg/L trichokonins were higher by 141.70, 116.59, 119.44, 55.97, 348.88 and 127.78%, respectively, than that of the control. Thus, the results supported the hypothesis that good growth condition for roots could directly improve their nutrient absorption and utilization efficiency, promoting plant growth and development.

Multi-modal Medical Image Fusion Based on the Multiwavelet and Nonsubsampled Direction Filter Bank

Peng Geng,Xing Su,Tan Xu,Jianshu Liu 보안공학연구지원센터 2015 International Journal of Signal Processing, Image Vol.8 No.11

Aiming at solving the fusion problem of multimodal medical images, a novel medical image fusion algorithm is present in this paper. The multiwavelet is combined with the NSDFB to construct the proposed Multi-NSDFB transform. The source images can be decomposed into several lowpass coefficient and highpass coefficient. And all coefficients can be decomposed into four direction subbands. The modified spatial frequency is adopted to motivate the pulse coupled neural network to select the every direction subbands coefficients. Experiment results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can not only extract more important visual information from source images, but also effectively avoid the introduction of artificial information. The present scheme outperforms the redundant discrete wavelet transform-based, and the Ripplet transform-based in terms of both visual quality and objective evaluation.