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The Convergence Effect of Phloretin Existent in Plants on Vascular Contractility (플로레틴(Phloretin)의 혈관내피수축 융합효과와 관련기전 연구)

  • Bang, Joon Seok;Je, Hyun Dong;Min, Young Sil
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.10 no.10
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    • pp.143-149
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    • 2020
  • This study tried to observe the ability to inhibit vasocontriction in phloretin - the primary ingredient of apple tree leaves and the Manchurian apricot - through ROCK(Rho-associdated, coiled-coil containing protein kinase) inactivation in rat aortae. A piece of artery that was separated from Sprague-Dawley male rats and retained or damaged the endothelium was suspended in myograph tank with two metal rings, the lower ring fixed to the bottom of the tank, and the upper ring connected to the isotonic force transducer. Interestingly, phloretin inhibited fluoride- or phorbol ester-provoked contraction implying that additional pathways dissimilar from endothelial nitric oxide synthesis such as ROCK or MEK (mitogen activated protein kinase kinase) inactivation might be involved in the vasorelaxation. Therefore, this study provides that phloretin participates in the reduction of ROCK or MEK activity in smooth muscle in addition to the endothelial-dependent action of the endotheliuim in complete blood vessels, and consequently inhibits actin-myosin interaction in smooth muscle. Furthermore, phloretin inhibited thromboxane A2-induced contraction suggesting the mechanism including inhibition of ROCK and MEK.

Design and Implementation of the Central Queue Based Loop Scheduling Method (중앙 큐 기반의 루프 스케쥴링 기법의 설계 및 구현)

  • Kim, Hyun-Chul;Kim, Hyo-Cheol;Yoo, Kee-Young
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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    • v.38 no.5
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    • pp.16-26
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    • 2001
  • In this paper, we present a new scheduling method called CDSS(Carried-Dependence Self-Scheduling) for efficiently execution of the loop with intra dependency between iterations based on the central queue. We also implemented it on shared memory system using Java language. Also, we study the modification that converts the existing self-scheduling method based on the central task queue for parallel loops onto the same form applied to loop with loop-carried dependences. The proposed method is self scheduling and assigns the loops in three-level considering the synchronization point according to the dependence distance of the loops. To adapt the proposed scheme and modified methods into various platforms, including a uni-processor system, we use threads for implementation. Compared to other assignment algorithms with various changes of application and system parameters, CDSS is found to be more efficient than other methods in overall execution time including scheduling overheads. CDSS shows improved performance over modified SS, Factoring, GSS and CSS by about 0.02, 40.5, 46.1 and 53.6%, respectively. In CDSS, we achieve the best performance on varying application programs using a few threads, which equal the dependence distance.

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Identifying Cost and Benefit Items of Investment Projects to Offer New Public Services By the Use of Food Waste Disposers and the Direct Input of Feces in Sewers (주방오물분쇄기 사용 및 수세분뇨의 직투입에 따른 「새로운 공공하수도 서비스」제공을 위한 투자사업의 비용과 편익 항목 식별)

  • Oh, Hyun-Taek;Park, Kyoo-Hong;Kim, Sung Tai;Lim, Byung In
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.117-125
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    • 2020
  • Our study identifies a cost and a benefit incurred in implementing an investment project to offer new public services by use of food waste disposers and direct input of feces in sewers. This is done with identifying costs of each processing division and benefits of the project by objective statistical data and engineering perspective. In summary, cost items identified are as follows: there are house laterals, removal of septic tanks, etc. for sewer pipes system. As to water quality conservation, cost incurs in storm water outfalls and divert chambers, sewage storage tanks, equipment to treat sewer overflows, and so on. With respect to sewage treatment plants(STPs), there are so many items as increase of contaminant loads in influent of STPs, and other items. There are benefit items in health improvement due to odor mitigation, increase of energy productivity, saving cost of food waste treatment and cleaning septic tanks, etc. These estimates will be used as a basic data for its economic effect.

Oral Health Beliefs According to Oral Health Education Experiences of Middle-aged People, Oral Efficacy, Use of Oral Hygiene Products, relationship with Quality of Life (중년층의 구강건강교육경험에 따른 구강건강신념, 구강효능감, 구강위생용품사용, 삶의 질과의 관련성)

  • Eom, Suk;Choi, Yu-Jin
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.156-163
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    • 2020
  • This study made a final analysis of 184 people in their 40s and 50s living in South Gyeongsang Province to identify their relevance to oral health education experiences, oral health beliefs, oral efficacy, oral hygiene product use practices, and quality of life. When there was educational experience in oral efficacy and practice of oral hygiene product use according to oral health education, oral efficacy, oral hygiene product use practice and quality of life was high.In the relationship between oral health belief and oral efficacy, oral hygiene product use practice and quality of life, we could see that oral efficacy and quality of life were low when sensitivity and severity were high among oral health belief, and that oral efficacy and quality of life were high when importance, disability, and benefits were high. Middle age based on oral health care the results over the continuing and developers to develop customized education programs for different target for a longer term recurrent training and future.A Study on the Application through the program will be needed.

Overexpression of an oligopeptide transporter gene enhances heat tolerance in transgenic rice (Oligopeptide transporter 관여 유전자 도입 형질전환벼의 고온스트레스 내성 증진)

  • Jeong, Eun-Ju;Song, Jae-Young;Yu, Dal-A;Kim, Me-Sun;Jung, Yu-Jin;Kang, Kwon Kyoo;Park, Soo-Chul;Cho, Yong-Gu
    • Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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    • v.44 no.3
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    • pp.296-302
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    • 2017
  • Rice (Oryza sativa) cultivars show an impairment of growth and development in response to abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, heat and cold at the early seedling stage. The tolerance to heat stress in plants has been genetically modulated by the overexpression of heat shock transcription factor genes or proteins. In addition to a high temperature-tolerance that has also been altered by elevating levels of osmolytes, increasing levels of cell detoxification enzymes and through altering membrane fluidity. To examine the heat tolerance in transgenic rice plants, three OsOPT10 overexpressing lines were characterized through a physiological analysis, which examined factors such as the electrolyte leakage (EL), soluble sugar and proline contents. We further functionally characterized the OsOPT10 gene and found that heat induced the expression of OsOPT10 and P5CS gene related proline biosynthesis. It has been suggested that the expression of OsOPT10 led to elevated heat tolerance in transgenic lines.

A Geochemical Study on Pyrophyllite Deposits and Andesitic Wall-Rocks in the Milyang Area, Kyeongnam Province (경남 밀양지역 납석광상과 안산암질 모암의 지구화학적 연구)

  • Oh, Dae-Gyun;Chon, Hyo-Taek;Min, Kyoung-Won
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.27-39
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    • 1992
  • Several pyrophyllite deposits occur around the Milyang area where Cretaceous andesitic rocks and spatially related granitic rocks are widely distributed. Pyrophyllite ores consist mainly of pyrophyllite, and quartz with small amount of sericite, pyrite, dumortierite, and diaspore. The andesitic rocks and spatially related granitic rocks in this area suggest that they could be formed from the same series of a calc-alkaline magma series. The contents of $SiO_2$, $Al_2O_3$, LOI(loss on ignition) are enriched, and $K_2O$, $Na_2O$, CaO, MgO, $Fe_2O_3$ are depleted in altered andesitic rocks and ores. Enrichment of As, Cr, Sr, V, Sb and depletion of Ba, Cs, Ni, Rb, U, Y, Co, Sc, Zn are characteristic during mineralization. The pyrophyllite ores can be discriminated from the altered-and unaltered wall-rocks by an increasing of $(La/Lu)_{cn}$ from 4.18~22.13 to 8.98~55.05. In R-mode cluster analysis, Yb-Lu-Y, La-Ce-Hf-Th-U-Zr, $TiO_2-V-Al_2O_3$, Sm-Eu, $CaO-Na_2O-MnO$, Cu-Zn-Ag, $K_2O-Rb$ are closely correlated. In the discriminant analysis of multi-element data, $P_2O_5$, As, Cr and $Fe_2O_3$, Sr are helpful to identify the ores from the unaltered-and altered wall-rocks. In the factor analysis, the factors of alteration of andesitic rocks and ore mineralization were extracted. In the change of ions per unit volume, $SiO_2$, $Al^{3+}$ and LOI are enriched and $Na^+$, $K^+$, $Ca^{2+}$, $Mg^{2+}$, $Mn^{2+}$ and $Fe^{3+}$ are depleted during the alteration processes. The Milyang and the Sungjin pyrophyllite deposits could be mineralized by hydrothermal alteration in a geochemical condition of low activity ratio of alkaline ions to hydrogen ion with reference to spatially related granitic rocks.

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A Study on Privatization of Traffic Policing (교통경찰업무의 민영화에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sang-Hun
    • Korean Security Journal
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    • no.15
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    • pp.265-283
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    • 2008
  • Modern society often faces 3Cs:change, competition, and customer. The main issue of today's police science study, therefore, circles around how public police effectively cope with the radically changed environment. As one of the workable and appealing policy tools to reform the police, the privatization has been not only strongly supported in terms of a theoretical study, but also widely used in practice all over the world. However, Policing has been widely regarded as an exclusively public-sector activity conducted by sworn officer, but a large and increasing share of the aggregate demand for public safety and security is being handled by the private sector. This study examines on the very practical one, how contracting out, most widely used as the privatization alternatives, is perceived and put into practiced in the field of traffic police services. This study is intended to examine recent shifts toward privatization of traffic policing. Although some people regard police services as inappropriate for privatization, most everyone else have persuasively considered that many police services are not public goods or, at least, not pure public goods. We can consider that there are three types of privatization with respect to traffic policing, that is, user-financed police services, contracting out, and some degree of service shedding. As society changes, so must traffic policing. And it is needed to enhance the ability of traffic police and private to accomplish their primary mission, to serve and protect the public.

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Characterization of Endoglucanase (F-I-III) Purified from Trichoderma sp. C-4 (새로운 섬유소분해 균주 Trichoderma sp. C-4에서 분리한 Endoglucanase (F-I-III)에 대한 연구)

  • Sul Ok Ju;Chung Dae Kyun;Han In Seob;Jeong Choon Soo
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.81-86
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    • 2005
  • One of the endoglucanases, F-I-III, was purified from the culture filtrate of T. sp. C-4 through procedures including chromatography on Sephacryl S-200, DEAE-Sepharose A-50, and Chromatofocusing on Mono-P (FPLC). The molecular weight of the enzyme was determined to be about 56,000 Da by SDS-PAGE, and pI of 4.9 by analytical isoelectric focusing. F-I-III showed the highest enzyme activity at $55^{\circ}C$, and the pH optimum of the enzyme was 5.0. There was no loss of activity when the enzyme was incubated at $50^{\circ}C$ for 24 hours. The specific activity of the enzyme F-I-III toward the CMC was 315.4 U/mg. The Km value for $PNPG_2$ of F-I-III was 2.69 mM. N-terminal sequence of F-I-III was analyzed to be QPGTSTPEVHPKKLTTYK. It showed $95\%$ of homology to that of EGI from T. reesei. The presence of some metal ions (1 mM) had only a little effect on CMCase activity. The treatment of the reducing agents resulted in the increase of endoglucanase activity.

Effects of Ego-Resilience, Family Function and Acculturative Stress on Mental Health of the Youth of Multicultural Families (다문화가정 청소년의 자아탄력성과 가족기능, 문화적응 스트레스가 정신건강에 미치는 영향)

  • Song, Soon-Taek;Choi, Hee-Chul
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.116-125
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    • 2020
  • This study examined the effect of ego-resilience, function of family, stress of adapting to a new culture perceived by youth from multi-cultural families at Gyeonggi-do on their mental health. In doing so, the study sought to suggest effective supportive visits to enhance their mental health. For this, the study carried out a descriptive analysis, t-test, one-way anova, hierarchical regression analysis among 304 middle schoolers from multi-cultural families living at Gyeonggi-do. The study found following results. The higher youth from multi-cultural family perceived the procedural stress, sub-variable of stress of adapting to a new culture and the lower they perceived emotional control, sub-variable of ego-resilience, the higher depression and anxiety they experienced, resulting in worsening of their mental health state. Based on these findings, the study, in order to enhance the mental health of youth from multi-cultural family and their ego-resilience, discussed and suggested development of psychological/emotional programs, preparation of supportive measures to overcome their stress in the course of their cultural adaptation as well as systematic supplementation of related laws in support of multi-cultural families.

The Effect of 16 week Walking exercise of college students Changes in Feeling, Mood state, and College student life stress (16주간의 걷기운동이 대학생의 감정상태, 기분상태 및 대학생 생활스트레스 변화에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Hyun;Choi, Jae-won;Kang, Sung-Goo;Yoo, Ha-Na;Lee, Kyung-Ha
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.10 no.7
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    • pp.185-193
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    • 2020
  • This purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of 16-week long-term walking exercise on the feeling, mood state, and life stress of college students. Participations in this study were 50 college students, and 24 Walking Group and 26 Control Group were random sampled to experiment the psychological effect of exercise walking. The experimental design was designed by factorial design by 2×3 repeated measurements. Data collection was conducted for 0week, 8week, 16week of feeling, mood state and life stress of college students. As a result, WG showed a positive increase in feeling status compared to CG. Negative mood state such as tension, anger, depression, fatigue, and confusion have been greatly reduced, vigor has increased, and stress on college student life such as friends, study, economy, future, and values has decreased statistically. The results of this study can be used as a way of coping with the stress of college students to improve their study motivation and quality of life.