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Biological Infectious Watermarking Model for Video Copyright Protection

  • Jang, Bong-Joo;Lee, Suk-Hwan;Lim, SangHun;Kwon, Ki-Ryong
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.280-294
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    • 2015
  • This paper presents the infectious watermarking model (IWM) for the protection of video contents that are based on biological virus modeling by the infectious route and procedure. Our infectious watermarking is designed as a new paradigm protection for video contents, regarding the hidden watermark for video protection as an infectious virus, video content as host, and codec as contagion medium. We used pathogen, mutant, and contagion as the infectious watermark and defined the techniques of infectious watermark generation and authentication, kernel-based infectious watermarking, and content-based infectious watermarking. We experimented with our watermarking model by using existing watermarking methods as kernel-based infectious watermarking and content-based infectious watermarking medium, and verified the practical applications of our model based on these experiments.

A Computer-aided Design Tool with Semiautomatic Image-Processing Features for Visualizing Biological Pathways

  • Ham, Sung-Il;Yang, San-Duk;Thong, Chin-Ting;Park, Hyun-Seok
    • Genomics & Informatics
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.168-170
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    • 2009
  • The explosion in biological data resulting from high-throughput experiments requires new software tools to manipulate and display pathways in a way that can integrate disparate sources of information. A visual Java-based CAD tool for drawing and annotating biological pathways with semiautomatic image-processing features is described in this paper. The result of the image-editing process is an XML file for the appropriate links. This tool integrates the pathway images and XML file sources. The system has facilities for linking graphical objects to external databases and is capable of reproducing existing visual representations of pathway maps.

Isolation and indentification of soil bacteria for biocontrol the Cockroach(Blattella germanica L.) (바퀴(Blattella germanica L.)의 생물학적 제어를 위한 토양세균의 분리 및 동정)

  • 이광배;몽룡곤
    • Journal of environmental and Sanitary engineering
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.129-138
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    • 1993
  • The marked spread of the cockraches of recent years has raised a great social problem in urban areas. The cockroach have to remove1 because transmit a disease to human as pest insect, but particulars are not yet reported on biological control agent for the cockroach removal. This study was tried for the first time on biological control for the cockroach removal. The obtained results were as follows : 1. The isolated were spore-forming bacillus 1098 strain in soil. The No. 109(TH 109) strain of the among spore-forming bacillus was showed the poisonous against Cockroach. 2. The biological characteristics and flagella antigenicity of the strain is similar to Bacillus thur-ingiensis subsp. indiana. 3. TH 109 strain have the delta-endotoxin of cuboid shap. 4. This delta-endotoxin of product by TH 109 strain was toxic to the cockroach(Blattella gemzanica. L).

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Microbial Biosensors for Environmental and Food industrial Applications (환경오염과 식품공업 측정용 미생물 바이오센서)

  • 김의락
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.213-227
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    • 2002
  • To date, the majority of biosensor technologies use binding components such as enzymes antibodies, nucleic acids and protein ligands. In contrast, the goal underlying the use of cells and tissues of animals and plants for a sensor system is to obtain systems capable of extracting information based on the biological activity, mechanisms of action and consequences of exposure to a chemical or biological agent of interest. These systems enable the interrogation of more complex biological response and offer the potential to gather higher information content from measuring physiologic and metabolic response. In these articles, same of the recent trends and applications of microbial biosensors in environmental monitoring and for use in food and fermentations have been reviewed. This endeavor presents many technological challenges to fabricate new microbial biosensors for other scientific field.

OPTIMIZATION OF PARAMETERS IN MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

  • Choo, S.M.;Kim, Y.H.
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.26 no.1_2
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    • pp.355-364
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    • 2008
  • Under pathological stress stimuli, dynamics of a biological system can be changed by alteration of several components such as functional proteins, ultimately leading to disease state. These dynamics in disease state can be modeled using differential equations in which kinetic or system parameters can be obtained from experimental data. One of the most effective ways to restore a particular disease state of biology system (i.e., cell, organ and organism) into the normal state makes optimization of the altered components usually represented by system parameters in the differential equations. There has been no such approach as far as we know. Here we show this approach with a cardiac hypertrophy model in which we obtain the existence of the optimal parameters and construct an optimal system which can be used to find the optimal parameters.

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OPTIMIZATION OF PARAMETERS IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS OF DELAY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

  • Choo, S.M.
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.26 no.3_4
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    • pp.811-818
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    • 2008
  • Biological systems with both protein-protein and protein-gene interactions can be modeled by differential equations for concentrations of the proteins with time-delay terms because of the time needed for DNA transcription to mRNA and translation of mRNA to protein. Values of some parameters in the mathematical model can not be measured owing to the difficulty of experiments. Also values of some parameters obtained in a normal stress condition can be changed under pathological stress stimuli. Thus it is important to find the effective way of determining parameters values. One approach is to use optimization algorithms. Here we construct an optimal system used to find optimal parameters in the equations with nonnegative time delays and apply this optimization result to the Nuclear factor-${\kappa}B$ pathway.

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Biological Activities of Ursi Fel's Component Ursodeoxycholic Acid and Its Derivatives (웅담 성분 Ursodeoxycholic Acid 유도체들의 생물활성)

  • Cha, Bae Cheon
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.48 no.1
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    • pp.10-17
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    • 2017
  • Ursi Fel's component ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA), a traditional medicine, is used for the treatment of hepatic diseases. UDCA derivatives prepared by conjugation with antioxidant moiety such as maltol, sesamol, eugenol, mesitol and 3,4-(methylenedeoxy)aniline were expected to have various biological activity caused by synergistic effect of UDCA. Therefore, in this study, it was conducted the study of the manufacture of the UDCA derivatives and their biological activity. As a result, UDCA derivatives showed weak antioxidant activity in TBA method in vitro compared to original agents. SJ-505, SJ-502 and SJ-504 showed the effect of reducing ALT, AST, sorbitol dehydrogenase and ${\gamma}-glutamyltransferase$ in $CCl_4-induced$ liver injury experiment in vivo, even if the effects are weaker than UDCA and silymarin of the control group.

Invasive and non-invasive methods for estimating the optical properties of tissue at laser wavelengths (레이저 파장에서의 생체 침습적 및 비침습적 광학계수 측정 방법)

  • Yoon, Gil-Won
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1994 no.12
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    • pp.147-150
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    • 1994
  • To predict light propagation in biological tissues irradiated by laser, the optical properties such as absorption and scattering coefficients are required. There have been various techniques for measuring these coefficients. One method requires tissue samples, often a slab of thin tissue, is invasive. On the other hand, non-invasive method usually measures back-scattered light from a subject with no physical intervent ions. Advantages and disvantages of using different methods are investigated. A careful attention should be made in order to select the best method for a given experimental condition since, even either for invasive or non-invasive method, accuracy is subject to governing models and sample preparations.

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