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Effect of Superovulation and Synchronization on Ovarian Response, Pregnancy Rate and Number of Newborn in Rabbit (다배란처리와 발정동기화가 난소반응, 수태율 및 산자수에 미치는 영향)

  • 최화식;임경순;이용빈
    • Korean Journal of Animal Reproduction
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.223-229
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    • 1987
  • This study was carried out to investigate effects of superovulation and time of embryo recovery on ovarian response, recovery rate and developmental stage of embryo in donor and effects of methods of synchronization, number of corpus luteum (CL), stage of embryo and time of embryo transfer on ovarian response, conception rate and number of newborn in recipients which were transferred on 2.5, 3.5 and 4.5 days after synchronization. The results obtained are as follows; 1. The ovulation point of superovulated donor on 2.5, 3.5 and 4.5 days after copulation was 23.3, 35.3 and 23.3, respectively. The number of embryos recovered from the donors on 2.5, 3.5 and 4.5 days after copulation was 23.3, 25.8 and 19.8, respectively. The ovulation point and number of embryos recovered on 3.5 days were greater than those of 2.5 and 4.5 days. Among 232 embryos recovered on 3.5 days after copulation, 84 were blastocyst and 62 were hatching blastocyst. 2. The number of CL in recipients on 2.5, 3.5 and 4.5 days after synchronization was 3.2, 2.9 and 3.8 and showed no difference among the days. 3. When the number of CL was 0, 2-3, 4-6 and more than 7 the pregnancy raet of recipients was 0, 37.5, 66.7 and 75%, respectively. The pregnancy rate of recipients increased as the number of CL increased. 4. The pregnancy rate of transferred morula, blastocyst and hatching blastocyst was 32.0, 37.2 and 24.7%, respectively. The blastocyst nhowed highest pregnancy rate. 5. When the recipients were synchronized by HCG, the number of CL, unruptured follicle, hemorrhage, pregnancy rate and number of young were 5.5, 6.4, 3.3, 72.7% and 3.3, whereas that of GnRH were 2.3, 4.4, 2.8, 25.0% and 1.2, respectively. Recipients synchronized by HCG showed better results than GnRH. 6. When the embryos were collected on 2.5 days after copulation and transferred to the synchromized recipients, the pregnancy rate and the number of young born was 62.58% and 3.1, respectively. Those of 3.5 and 4.5 days after copulation was 57.1% and 1.3, and 37.5% and 1.6. The 2.5 days showed higher pregnancy rate and number of young born than 3.5 and 4.5 days.

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An Approach of Ecological Niche to Analysis of Recognition of 5th Grade Elementary students for Conception of Photosynthesis (생태 지위적 접근을 통한 5학년의 광합성 개념 분석)

  • Jeong, Jae-Hoon;Kim, Young-Shin
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.513-527
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    • 2011
  • There have been studies about conceptual ecology making a profound study of conceptual changes in learners' cognitive structure. Because learners' cognitive structure have been compared to ecology, it is natural to think that conception in learner's cognitive structure have a niche as species in ecology have niches. Therefore, it is necessary to study niche approach about conception that learners recognize in their cognitive structure. The purposes of this study were to identify relationships among conceptions that 5th grade elementary school students recognize about photosynthesis and to identify how these relationships among conceptions about photosynthesis change before and after a class of photosynthesis in curriculum in terms of an approach of ecological niche which are composed of 3 domains - diversity of conceptions, relevance and frequency rate of conceptions, and competition among conceptions. Open ended questionnaire was developed by 4 fields: photosynthetic place, photosynthetic products, photosynthetic materials needed and environment factors of photosynthesis. The subjects sampled in this study were 310 5th grade elementary students in 5 cites. Before and after classes in photosynthesis in science curriculum, students were asked to write down conceptions that they knew about the 4 fields of photosynthesis of questionnaire and to write down scales of relevance from 1 to 30 about how they think the conceptions are related to the field of photosynthesis. The results of this study showed the following: First, most students have had a variety of conceptions and commonly recognized 'light' and 'water' as concepts in photosynthesis. Second, students still recognized their preconceptions like 'soil' and 'root,' etc. that were far from scientific conceptions of photosynthesis although they took classes in photosynthesis. Third, students needed to take the various strategies of teachers because they did not recognized scientific conceptions appropriately about photosynthetic fields. Fourth, it appeared that photosynthetic conceptions recognized by students had status in terms of relevance and frequency rate of conceptions, and competition among conceptions, and that they looked like the niche of conceptions in their conceptual ecologies.

Oral Health and Related Factors for the Elderly (Structural Equation Modeling을 통한 노인(老人)의 구강건강(口腔健康) 관련요인(關聯要因) 분석(分析))

  • Seung, Jeung-Hee
    • Journal of dental hygiene science
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.91-95
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    • 2004
  • This study aims to analyze realities of oral health and related factors, and establish Structural Equation Modeling. The subjects of study were 9,340 elderly over age 65 who took the health examination(the first) for the local insured which National Health Insurance Corporation carried out in the survey area mentioned below from January 2002 to December 2002. The areas surveyed were 4 big cities including Seongbuk-ku, Seoul, 5 medium cities including Wonjusi, Gangwon-do, and 5 Counties including Yeong deok County, Kyeongbuk. Considering location and the scale of population, firstly, big unit areas(metropolitan city, province) were selected according to convenience, secondly, low unit areas(city, county, district) were selected randomly. The subjects were the elderly who took all tests including an oral examination and filled in the questionnaire. Major results from analysis are as follows: 1. Review of Composition Conception Validity As a result of analyzing composition conception validity of SEM including posture test, urine test, blood test, habits of eating, drinking and smoking, oral symptoms, and oral health status, using fit index such as GFI, CFI, TLI, and RMSEA, all were within fit range and composition conception validity was recognized. 2. As a result of analyzing SEM to find the relationship between each factor and oral health status, it was confirmed that all factors except urine test affected oral health status and the synthetic SEM to explain it could be established. In result, we could verify that the elderly of rural areas who had lesser experience of visiting a clinic and oral prophylaxis had a higher rate of caries, missing teeth, and denture need, and drinking and smoking negatively affected the rate of caries, periodontal, and missing teeth. Also, periodontal diseases were observed from 43.2% of the total elderly and much from the lower age. Most of oral disease can be prevented by right oral health behavior. Therefore through oral health professionals from each district public health center of the nation, oral health education for the elderly about right eating habits and oral health care should be carried out systematically and policy change to increase access to dental service is required lest that visiting a dental clinic should be impossible or oral health behaviors such as oral prophylaxis and denture wearing should be neglected by economic, geographical barriers. Also, to establish SEM to explain the relationship between oral health status and systemic health, more accurate test methods and effective index development should be preceded. Because items developed by National Health Insurance Corporation applied to this study without alteration, structuring a model had the uppermost limit. Continual study seems to be needed.

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The Pregnancy Rate following Myomectomy in Infertile Women (불임여성에서 자궁근종절제술 후 임신율에 관한 연구)

  • Won, J.G.;Bai, S.W.;Kim, J.Y.;Yi, J.W.;Lee, B.S.;Kim, J.S.;Lee, K.S.;Park, K.H.;Cho, D.J.;Song, C.H.
    • Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.193-198
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    • 1997
  • To evaluate the efficacy of transabdominal myomectomy in the management of infertile patients, and to analyze on the results of abdominal myomectomy in 38 infertile patients with no other detectable cause except myomas were undertaken at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Yonsei University Hospital from 1990 to 1996. The results are as follows; 1. Average age of patients was 31.1 years. The infertility duration ranged 12 months to 144 months, and average infertility period of patients was 29.4 months. 2. Fourteen of the 38 patients (8 of 23 patients with primary infertility, 6 of 15 patients with secondary infertility) conceived following myomectomy, with a pregnancy rate of 36.8%. 3. Patients with less than 4 years of infertility showed a higher pregnancy rate after myomectomy than those with more than 4 years of infertility (42.4% vs 0%, p<0.05). 4. Patients younger than 35 years showed significantly higher pregnancy rate than those older than 35 years (46.4% vs 9.0%, p<0.05). 5. The removal of a solitary myoma produced a significantly higher pregnancy rate than that of multiple myomas (47.8% vs 20.0%, p<0.05), and the size of the myomas did not influenced the pregnancy rate after myomectomy (p>0.1). 6. The average time period from operation to conception was 12.1 months. Eight of the 14 patients (57.1%) conceived in the first year after operation and 12 patients (85.7%) condeived within two years. In conclusion myomas are a possible cause of infertility and myomectomy can be strongly recommended with good success expectation for the infertile women if uterine myoma be considered as the main cause of infertility. And factors affecting the pregnancy rate after myomectomy in these patients are the age of the patient, the duration of infertiluty, and the number of myoma.

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A SES Alarmed Link Encryption Synchronization Method Having Optimized Threshold Value for High-Speed Video Data Encryption

  • Kim, Hyeong-Rag;Lee, Hoon-Jae;Kim, Ki-Hwan;Jung, Ju-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.22 no.9
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    • pp.57-64
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    • 2017
  • CCSDS Standard is widely used in the international space telecommunication area. But standard recommendation of CCSDS is not restrictive, so, we can select an appropriate encryption protocol among the layer. For synchronization, encryption sync is attached in the beginning of the encrypted data. In the exceptional environmental condition, although the receiver can not decrypt the normal data, the sender have no conception of that situation. In this paper, we propose a two-stage SES alarmed link encryption synchronization method having optimized threshold value necessary to decide whether the receiver has a correct decryption or not. first, through the experiment of mutual relations between error rate and encryption synchronization detection error, we can predict worst communication environment for the selected encryption synchronization pattern. second, through the experiment for finding what number of consecutive frame synchronization error is an appropriate reference value and analysis of that experiment, we suggest an optimized threshold value for resynchronization request. lastly, through the output images we can predict the probability error that should be guaranteed by channel coder.

A Study of Two Pre service Teachers' Development of Covariational Reasoning (모의실험을 통한 두 예비교사의 공변추론 이해에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Jae-Hong;Lee, Joong-Kweon
    • Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.453-472
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    • 2009
  • This article describes the interview data with two preservice teachers where they dealt with five water-filling problems for the investigation of their covariational thinking. The study's results revealed that two students developed their covariation levels from Direction level to Instantaneous Rate with an aid of the pre-constructed GSP simulations for the problem situations. However, this study also points out that there is a missing important feature for a function notion, 'causality' in the covariation framework and suggests that future research should combine students' conception of causality with their covariational thinking for the investigation of their development of a function concept.

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Genetics of heifer reproductive traits in Japanese Black cattle

  • Setiaji, Asep;Oikawa, Takuro
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.197-202
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    • 2020
  • Objective: The objective of this study was to identify environmental factors strongly associated with and to estimate genetic parameters of reproductive traits in Japanese Black heifers. Methods: Data included reproduction records of Japanese Black heifers born between 2004 and 2014. First service non-return rate (NRR) to 56 days from first to successful insemination (FS), number of services per conception (IN), age at first calving (AFC) and gestation length were analyzed with the use of the general linear model. Genetic parameters were estimated with the use of the univariate animal model of the residual maximum likelihood. Results: Averages of reproductive traits over eleven years were assessed, and the effects of farm, year, month, artificial insemination technician and interaction of farm×year on the traits were determined. Estimated heritability of FS was very low and that of AFC was higher than that of the other traits. A close genetic relation was observed among NRR, IN, and FS; however, their heritabilities were very low. AFC shows favorable genetic correlation with IN and FS. Conclusion: Low heritabilities of most reproductive traits in Japanese Black heifers are strongly influenced by farm management practices, and that large residual variances make genetic evaluation difficult. Among the reproductive traits, AFC is potentially more useful for genetic improvement of heifer reproductive traits because it has high heritability and favorable genetic correlations with IN and FS.

Effect of Time of Initiating Dietary Fat Supplementation on Performance and Reproduction of Early Lactation Dairy Cows

  • Son, J.;Larson, L.L.;Grant, R.J.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.182-187
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    • 2000
  • Forty-two Holstein cows (21 multiparous) were assigned by calving date and parity to three dietary sequences to evaluate the effect of time of initiating fat supplementation to diets on lactation and reproductive performance. The dietary sequences were: 1) control, no supplemental fat from 1 to 98 days in milk (DIM) ; 2) control diet from 1 to 28 DIM then 3% supplemental fat (calcium salts of long-chain fatty acids) from 29 to 98 DIM; or 3) 3% supplemental fat from 1 to 98 DIM. Feeding supplemental fat did not enhance mean milk and 4% fat corrected milk (FCM) yields, but efficiency of FCM production was higher for cows fed supplemental fat. Milk fat percentage was unchanged whereas milk protein percentage was depressed with fat supplementation. Feeding supplemental fat reduced DMI and energy balance but there were no differences among treatments on time to resumption of ovarian cyclicity or conception rate to first service. Concentrations of progesterone during the first two ovulatory cycles tended to be greater in the fat-supplemented groups. Feeding supplemental fat starting at either parturition or 29 DIM increased efficiency of FCM production, but did not greatly enhance reproductive performance.

A Review on the legal aspects of Airport Operation and Privatization in korea (한국의 공항운영 현황과 민영화에 대한 법적 고찰)

  • Hong, Sun-Gil;Lee, Gang-Seok
    • The Journal of Aerospace Industry
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    • s.49
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    • pp.3-40
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    • 1999
  • In this paper, the types of airport operation are categorized four groups in context of ownership and operational management; full government ownership and operation; government ownership with privatization of selected service; government ownership and private management; private ownership and operation. The term,"Privatization" has a different definition when it is used in different contexts and cultures. In this paper, the definition of"Privatization" in the context of airport, is that the movement of an entity from the government sector to the private sector. To keep pace with the remarkable growth in the air traffic volume of passengers and cargo, more and more mega-international airports have been built or are under construction. As the air transport demand is expected to increase at an even greater rate in the 21st century, the need for new conception airport is merging to solve the current problems such as airport congestions and flight delays which will be essential factors to decide whether the competitive airports or not. Presently, we researched the type of the operational management to strengthen the competitiveness for Korea's airports. Specifically, It is focused on the government ownership with privatization of selected services. It seems to be evaluated as government ownership and private management when it is actively utilized within Korea Airport Authority's law or Inchon International Airport's public corporation law. To make more competitive airport in 21st Century, however, it is desirable to seek for the method to gradually evaluate to private ownership and operation.

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Effect of Prostaglandin $F_2\alpha$ on Infertility Cows (Prostaglandin $F_2\alpha$에 의한 불임우 치료)

  • 고광두
    • Korean Journal of Animal Reproduction
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.3-14
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    • 1983
  • Estrus was induced and the therapeutic effect was examined with 25mg of PGF2$\alpha$ intramuscular injection and 3mg of PGF2$\alpha$ intraovarian injection to Holstein and Simmental cows which were raised in the large size stockfarms and the dairy farms, and were diagnosed to anestrus. The results obtained were summarized as follows: 1. The estrus inducing effect observed in the cows treated by PGF2$\alpha$ was 83.3% with 25/30 heads in the intramuscular injection group, and 86.7% with 26/30 heads in the intraovarian injection group. 2. Average duration from PGF2$\alpha$ administration to the onest of estrus was 2.7 day in the intramuscular injection group, and 2.6 days in the intraovarian injection group. 3. In status of estrus in the cows treated by PGF2$\alpha$, vigorous estrus was 12.0%, normal estrus 60.0% and silent estrus was 28.0% in the intramuscular injection group, and vigorous estrus was 15.4%, normal estrus 61.5%, and silent estrus 23.1% in the intraovarian injection group. 4. Conception rate in the cows induced to estrus was 64.0% in the intramuscular injection group and 65.4% in the intraovarian injection group.

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