• The Science & Technology
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• v.33 no.9 s.376
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• pp.88-89
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• 2000

모든 생물이 번식을 위해서 뿐만 아니라 성적활동을 통해 삶의 희열을 만끽할 수 있는 성. 그러나 우리는 빈번히 그 성의 중요성에 대해서 잘못 해석하는 경향이 있다. 이 책에서 저자는 번식과 쾌락에 따른 성의 생물학적 본질을 풀이하면서 성은 탄생은 물론 죽음과도 연관성이 있다고 본다. 그리고 성은 진화하며 앞으로 개인의 성정쾌락은 번식의 굴레에서 벗어나 새로운 단계로 접어들 것이라고 내다보고 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.389-395
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• 1999

최근 몇 년간 생물학적 발생에 대한 구조 및 둥작원리의 모델링에 대한 빠른 진전이 일어나고 있다. 세포자동자(cellular automata CA)와 린드마이어-시스템(L-system)은 다세포의 대표적인 발생/발달 모델이다. L-시스템은 식물의 그래픽 표현에 적용되어 오고 있으며 CA는 인고생명의 연구모델과 인공두뇌의 건축 등의 분야에 적용되어 오고 있다, 현재까지 CA와 L-시스템의 발생규칙은 설계자의 설계에 의존하고 있다. 그러나 진화연사방법을 도입하면 CA와 L-시스템을 자동으로 설계할수 있다. 발생규칙의 진화를 위해서는염색체의 코트화가 필요하다. DNA 코딩방법은 유전자의 중복과 여분을 가지고 있으며 규칙의 표현에 적합한 코딩방법이다. 본 논문에서는 CA와 L-시스템의 규칙을 진화시키기 위한 DNA 코딩 방법을 제안한다.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.48-54
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• 2008

Forest fires occur the world over, with large-scale fires constantly breaking out. A suppressant a type of forest fire chemical is widely used to respond to fires rapidly and effectively. In general, suppressants used for fires have been divided into dry powder, liquid, foam, and gel type, according to physical form and use. This study has conducted toxicity tests relating to phytotoxicity(Pinus densiflora seed germination rate and mortality of containerized seedling), and soil organism toxicity(earthworm acute toxicity tests), of these suppressants, with the loaded stream suppressant for direct forest fire extinguishing a Loaded Stream and foam concentrates generally being used in Korea. From the results of the tests, the loaded stream and the foam concentrate had an effect on the toxicity levels. In the case of the loaded stream type, it was observed that toxicity indicating a 100% lethality rate was found among all toxicity test methods. Therefore, it is determined that forest ecology environmental toxicity impact assessments related to the suppressant used to extinguish forest fires are necessary in the near future.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.394-400
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• 2006

When the papain, which is a sort of Cystein protease, is applied to the outer skin, it decomposes the protein which forms the peeled outer skin and speeds up metabolism. Therefore, it is one of the most important cosmetics compositic which keeps the function of skin normal. When the papain is used in cosmetics with surfactant, the activity of papain is reduced rapidly. In this study, the modified papain with extreme stability negative ionic environment was developed by directed evolution

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.980-984
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• 2010

Exploring microRNA (miRNA) and mRNA regulatory interactions may give new insights into diverse biological phenomena. Recently, miRNAs have been discovered as important regulators that play a major role in various cellular processes. Therefore, it is essential to identify functional interactions between miRNAs and mRNAs for understanding the context- dependent activities of miRNAs in complex biological systems. While elucidating complex miRNA-mRNA interactions has been studied with experimental and computational approaches, it is still difficult to infer miRNA-mRNA regulatory modules. Here we present a novel method, termed layered hypernetworks (LHNs), for identifying functional miRNA-mRNA interactions from heterogeneous expression data. In experiments, we apply the LHN model to miRNA and mRNA expression profiles on multiple cancers. The proposed method identifies cancer-specific miRNA-mRNA interactions. We show the biological significance of the discovered miRNA- mRNA interactions.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.303-324
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• 2008

From mid-1890's, biometricians and Mendelians debated over Darwin's evolutionary theory. Biologist W. Weldon and Mathematician K. Pearson were leaders of the biometric school and biologist W. Bateson led Mendelian school. In this paper topics of the controversy such as causation vs. correlation, frequency distribution are considered. And in relation to the tradition of British statistics, we consider the philosophy of Karl Pearson revealed in this debate. Besides many statistical methods and concepts by Karl Pearson, the newly born mathematical statistics got a new journal Biometrika, a department in university, and a school of researchers from this controversy.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.525-549
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• 2022

The process of biological invasion is led by the dynamics of a population as a demographic and evolutionary unit. Spatial structure can affect the population dynamics, and it is worth being considered in research on biological invasion which is always accompanied by dispersal. Metapopulation theory is a representative approach to spatially structured populations, which is chiefly applied in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology despite the controversy about its definition. In this study, metapopulation was considered as a spatially structured population that includes at least one subpopulation with significant extinction probability. The early phase of the invasion is suitable to be analyzed in aspects of the metapopulation concept because the introduced population usually has a high extinction probability, and their ecological·genetic traits determining the invasiveness can be affected by the metapopulation structure. Although it is important in the explanation of the prediction of the invasion probability, the metapopulation concept is rarely used in ecological research about biological invasion in Korea. It is expected that applying the metapopulation theory can supply a more detailed investigation of the invasion process at the population level, which is relatively inadequate in Korea. In this study, a framework dividing the invasive metapopulation into long- and middle-distance scales by the relative distance of movement to the natural dispersal range of species is proposed to easily analyze the effect of a metapopulation in real cases. Increased understanding of the mechanisms underlying invasions and improved prediction of future invasion risk are expected with the metapopulation concept and this framework.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.693-711
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• 2009

One of the most important objectives in science education is to develop students' science literacy. The purpose of this study is to analyze the relevance between biology instructional objectives in the 7th curriculum taught in elementary and secondary schools. For this study, 7 major parts in each grade were analyzed including cell, the form and function of plants, the form and function of animals, genetics, diversity, evolution, ecology, and environment. The strand map of instructional objectives is completed that represents the relation between the objectives. The summary of the results from this study is as follows. First, the concept about cells is not fully covered in lower grades including elementary schools. While the concept of energy metabolism is repeatedly covered, there is no concept of energy covered in learning the concept of energy metabolism in elementary schools. Second, the textbooks in elementary and middle schools have main concepts about the form and function of plants while those in high schools don't. The concept related to the part of the form and function of animals is repeatedly involved in the curriculum throughout the elementary, middle, and high schools. Third, the concepts such as genetics and evolution are involved in higher grades since these concepts are abstract ones. The part of genetics and evolution as well as diversity has no connection between grades in schools, so the development of "notion between" is necessary to relate these concepts with each other. Fourth, the 4 parts of diversity, ecology and environment, evolution, and the form and function of plants are covered in limited grade levels. The results of the relevance of gene in lesson goals will play an important rein as the primary material in developing the connection between textbooks in which lesson goals are closely related to each other throughout all grade levels in elementary, middle and high schools.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 1996.10a
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• pp.20-23
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• 1996

최근에 인공생명이나 진화적 계산론이라는 이름의 새로운 지능정보처리 방식이 미국과 일본을 중심으로 활발히 연구되고 있다. 이것은 지금까지 개별적으로 제안된 두뇌의 가소성이나 개체의 발생, 적응과 진화 등 생물의 특성으로부터 파생된 모형들을 총동원하여 정보처리의 새로운 가능성을 모색하고자 하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 인공생명의 연구가 어떻게 시작되었으며, 현재의 기술수준이 어느 정도인지에 대하여 소개하고자 한다. 아울러, 인공생명으로부터 가능한 새로운 형태의 정보처리 기능창출을 목표로 하는 연구동향을 살펴보고 앞으로의 방향을 전망해 본다.

• Korean Journal of Biological Psychiatry
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.83-94
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• 2017

Caregiving for the children seems to be one of the most challenging tasks for the parents who should devote themselves totally despite endangering them. From the evolutionary perspective, this human behavior must have been the advantage in the survival of the species and rooted in ethological origin. John Bowlby, a child psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and great developmental researcher, had formulated the attachment theory linking psychoanalysis and ethology through evolutionary biology. His and later following researchers' outcomes have provided enormous influence on viewing parental caregiving and the insight of human relationships and interventions. This article overviews the attachment theory in terms of the goal oriented cybernetic system to gain the survival advantage of the offspring and investigates the evolutionary origin of the caregiving and attachment from the retiles of the Mesozoic era to the mammalian revolution and finally to the human being. Deeper understanding of the nurturance and adult relationships from the standpoint of evolution can provide clinical utility of awareness of clients' lives.