• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.253-257
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• 2014

Background Although the utility of flaps for the treatment of sternal wound infections following median sternotomy has been reported for 30 years, there have been few reports on the risk factors for complications after reconstruction. The objective of this investigation was to identify factors related to complications after the reconstruction of sternal wound infections. Methods A retrospective analysis of 74 patients with reconstructive surgery after sternal wound infection over a 5-year period was performed. Clinical data including age, sex, body mass index (BMI), comorbidities, bacterial culture, previous cardiac surgery, wound depth, mortality rate, type of reconstructive procedure, and complication rate were collected. Results The patients' BMI ranged from 15.2 to $33.6kg/m^2$ (mean, $23.1{\pm}3.74kg/m^2$). Wound closure complications after reconstructive surgery were observed in 36.5% of the cases. The mortality rate was 2.7%. Diabetes mellitus significantly affected the rate of wound closure complications (P=0.041). A significant difference in the number of complications was seen between Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) and coagulase-negative Staphylococci (P=0.011). There was a correlation between harvesting of the internal thoracic artery and postoperative complications (P=0.048). The complication rates of the pectoralis major flap, rectus abdominis flap, omentum flap, a combination of pectoralis major flap and rectus abdominis flap, and direct closure were 23.3%, 33.3%, 100%, 37.5%, and 35.7%, respectively. Conclusions Diabetes mellitus, S. aureus, harvesting of the internal thoracic artery, and omentum flap were significant factors for complications after reconstruction. The omentum flap volume may be related to the complications associated with the omentum flap transfer in the present study.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.225-231
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• 2020

지구상 물의 총량 중 사람이 사용할 수 있는 담수는 지하수, 빙설 등을 제외하면 0.01 % 이하이기 때문에 물 관리 대응 필요성이 커지고 있다. 주요 국가들은 수자원을 보호하고 효율적으로 활용하기 위해서 자원의 채취단계에서 운영단계에 투입되는 물의 양을 정량적으로 추정할 수 있는 물 발자국 연구를 주로 농업 중심으로 진행하고 있다. 우리나라도 최근 물 부족에 대응하기 위하여 여러 정책을 진행 중에 있으며 건설산업에서도 정책개발은 물론 이를 뒷받침할 수 있는 기초연구의 필요성이 강조되고 있다. 본 연구는 도로의 배수공을 대상으로 공종에 투입되는 자원의 물 소모량을 산정하기 위하여 원료채취단계, 운반단계, 제작단계까지 분석 및 DB를 구축하였다. 물 사용량을 추정방법은 Water Footprint Manual과 환경성적표지 인증안내서에서 제시한 방법을 활용하였으며, 각 공정에 투입된 자재의 물소모계수, 취수원 수역에 따른 물 특성화 인자, 간접수 및 직접수를 고려한 물 발자국을 산정 후 배수공 주요 공법별 원단위 물 사용량을 산정하였다. 물발자국 산정 결과 배수공 자재 중 브라운 아스팔트, 철근, 레미콘이 전체 97 %를 차지하였다. 배수공법별은 암거공, 측구공, 암거날개벽, 철근콘크리트 개거가 전체 92.2 %를 차지하였다. 배수공 전체 단계별 산정된 물 소모량과 물발자국은 원료 채취단계, 운반단계, 제작단계 순으로 나타났다. 본 연구에서 산정된 배수공 전체 자재나 배수공법별의 물발자국은 농업 분야와 건설업 분야 기초 자료로써 활용될 수 있다. 분석의 신뢰도를 높이기 위해서는 추후 국외의 데이터베이스를 더 찾아서 지속적인 검토 및 연구가 필요할 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.90.1-90.1
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• 2010

Due to the rapidly diminishing energy sources and higher energy production cost, the interest in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) has been increasing dramatically in recent years. A typical DSSC is constructed of wide band gap semiconductor electrode such as $TiO_2$ or ZnO that are anchored by light-harvesting sensitizer dyes and surrounded by a liquid electrolyte with a iodide ion/triiodide ion redox couple. DSSCs based on one-dimensional nano-structures, such as ZnO nanorods, have been recently attracting increasing attention due to their excellent electrical conductivity, high optical transmittance, diverse and abundant configurations, direct band gap, absence of toxicity, large exiton binding energy, etc. However, solar-to-electrical conversion performances of DSSCs composed of ZnO n-type photo electrode compared with that of $TiO_2$ are not satisfactory. An important reason for the low photovoltaic performance is the dissolution of $Zn^{2+}$ by the adsorption of acidic dye followed by the formation of agglomerates with dye molecules which could block the I-diffusion pathway into the dye molecule on the ZnO surface. In this paper, we prepared the DSSC with the ZnO electrode using the chemical bath deposition (CBD) method under low temperature condition (< $100^{\circ}C$). It was demonstrated that the ZnO seed layers played an important role on the formation of the ZnO nanostructures using CBD. To achieve truly low-temperature growth of the ZnO nanostructures on the substrates, a two-step method was developed and optimized in the present work. Firstly, ZnO seed layer was prepared on the FTO substrate through the spin-coating method. Secondly, the deposited ZnO seed substrate was immersed into an aqueous solution of 0.25M zinc nitrate hexahydrate and 0.25M hexamethylenetetramine at $90^{\circ}C$ for hydrothermal reaction several times.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.240-247
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• 2019

This study quantified carbon reduction services through direct harvesting of Ilex rotunda and Machilus thunbergii, which are the typical urban landscape tree species in southern Korea. A total of 20 open-grown tree specimens (10 specimens for each species) were selected reflecting various sizes of stem diameter at breast height of 1.2 m (DBH) at a regular interval. The study measured biomass for each part of the tree specimens including roots to compute total carbon storage per tree. Annual carbon uptake per tree was also calculated analyzing the DBH growth rate of stem disk specimens. Quantitative models were developed using DBH as an independent variable to easily estimate storage and annual uptake of carbon by tree growth for each species. All the models had a high goodness-of-fit with R²=0.95-0.99. The difference in carbon reduction services between DBH sizes increased with increasing DBH. The storage and annual uptake of carbon from a tree with DBH of 10 cm were 13.5 kg and 2.4 kg/yr for I. rotunda, and 19.1 kg and 3.6 kg/yr for M. thunbergii, respectively. The tree of this size stored the amount of carbon equivalent to that emitted from a gasoline use of approximately 24 L for I. rotunda and 34 L for M. thunbergii, respectively. The study provides actual measurement data to quantify carbon reduction services of urban open-grown landscape trees for the warm-temperate species that have been little known until now.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제32권11호
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• pp.1009-1016
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• 1999

Background: Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass surgery(MIDCAB) has been increasing in interest along with the new techniques in myocardial immobilization for easier and safer procedures. Until the opening of the era of new techniques, adequate accuracy and good patency of grafts were debatable. Our experiences of MIDCAB were studied according to the stages of technical developments. Material and Methods: Since March 1996, 55 patients have undergone MIDCAB procedures. The patients of off-pump CABG(no cardiopulmonary bypass under full sternotomy) were excluded from the study. In the early experience(Stage I), a left anterior small thoracotomy through the left parasternal incision was performed(n=6); then an approach through the lower partial sternotomy was used(Stage II, n=33); and recently, a chest wall elevator for harvesting the internal thoracic artery and the foot plate for myocardial immobilization have been used(USSC, Norwalk, CT)(Stage III, n=16). Result: The surgical procedures of four patients in the Stage II group have been converted to conventional bypass because of the deeply seated left anterior descending coronary artery in two patients, fracture of the calcific lesion in the right coronary artery in one patient, and a cardiogenic shock during hypothermia in the other patient with ventricular dysfunction. Two patients in stage II experienced symptomatic recurrences after surgery and restenosis was verified on angiocardiography. They were managed by interventional procedures. All the other patients were doing well without symptoms, except one patients in Stage II who underwent PTCA procedure for a lesion in the circumflex artery during the follow up period. Conclusion: The new and specialized devices are essential to the development of MIDCAB surgery. MIDCAB and the hybrid procedures in multi-vessel disease are on the way to further development. So far, our experience is limited only to a single device among the many new devices for the purpose.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.81-95
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• 2003

Carotenoids are synthesized from the plastidic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (GAP)/pyruvate pathway in isoprenoids biosynthetic system of plants. They play a crucial role in light harvesting, work as photoprotective agents in photosynthesis of nature, and are also responsible for the red, orange and yellow colors of fruits and flowers in plants. In addition to biological actions of carotenoids as antioxidants and natural pigments, they are essential components of human diet as a source of vitamin A. It has been also suggested that some kinds of carotenoids might provide protection against cancer and heart disease as human medicines. In this article, we review the commercial applications on the basis of biological functions of carotenoids, summarize the studies of genes involved in the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway, and introduce recent results achieved in metabolic engineering of carotenoids. This effort for understanding the carotenoids metabolism will make us to increase the total carotenoid contents of crop plants, direct the carotenoid biosynthetic machinery towards other useful carotenoids, and produce a new array of carotenoids by further metabolizing the new precursors that are created when one or two key enzymes in carotenoid biosynthetic pathway are exchanged through gene manipulation in the near future.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제35권10호
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• pp.2895-2900
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• 2014

We fabricated quantum dot-sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs) using cadmium sulfide (CdS) and cadmium telluride (CdTe) quantum dots (QDs) as sensitizers. A spin coated $TiO_2$ nanoparticle (NP) film on tin-doped indium oxide glass and sputtered Au on fluorine-doped tin oxide glass were used as photo-anode and counter electrode, respectively. CdS QDs were deposited onto the mesoporous $TiO_2$ layer by a successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction method. Pre-synthesized CdTe QDs were deposited onto a layer of CdS QDs using a direct adsorption technique. CdS/CdTe QDSSCs had high light harvesting ability compared with CdS or CdTe QDSSCs. QDSSCs incorporating single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), sprayed onto the substrate before deposition of the next layer or mixed with $TiO_2$ NPs, mostly exhibited enhanced photo cell efficiency compared with the pristine cell. In particular, a maximum rate increase of 24% was obtained with the solar cell containing a $TiO_2$ layer mixed with SWNTs.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제63권2호
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• pp.339-353
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• 2021

This study aimed to assess the causality of different climate variables on the production of whole crop maize (Zea mays L.; WCM) in the central inland region of the Korea. Furthermore, the effect of these climate variables was also determined by looking at direct and indirect pathways during the stages before and after silking. The WCM metadata (n = 640) were collected from the Rural Development Administration's reports of new variety adaptability from 1985-2011 (27 years). The climate data was collected based on year and location from the Korean Meteorology Administration's weather information system. Causality, in this study, was defined by various cause-and-effect relationships between climatic factors, such as temperature, rainfall amount, sunshine duration, wind speed and relative humidity in the seeding to silking stage and the silking to harvesting stage. All climate variables except wind speed were different before and after the silking stage, which indicates the silking occurred during the period when the Korean season changed from spring to summer. Therefore, the structure of causality was constructed by taking account of the climate variables that were divided by the silking stage. In particular, the indirect effect of rainfall through the appropriate temperature range was different before and after the silking stage. The damage caused by heat-humidity was having effect before the silking stage while the damage caused by night-heat was not affecting WCM production. There was a large variation in soil surface temperature and rainfall before and after the silking stage. Over 350 mm of rainfall affected dry matter yield (DMY) when soil surface temperatures were less than 22℃ before the silking stage. Over 900 mm of rainfall also affected DMY when soil surface temperatures were over 27℃ after the silking stage. For the longitudinal effects of soil surface temperature and rainfall amount, less than 22℃ soil surface temperature and over 300 mm of rainfall before the silking stage affected yield through over 26℃ soil surface temperature and less than 900 mm rainfall after the silking stage, respectively.

• Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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• 제52권6호
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• pp.437-454
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• 2022

Embryonic stem cells have been a popular research topic in regenerative medicine owing to their pluripotency and applicability. However, due to the difficulty in harvesting them and their low yield efficiency, advanced cell reprogramming technology has been introduced as an alternative. Dental stem cells have entered the spotlight due to their regenerative potential and their ability to be obtained from biological waste generated after dental treatment. Cell reprogramming, a process of reverting mature somatic cells into stem cells, and transdifferentiation, a direct conversion between different cell types without induction of a pluripotent state, have helped overcome the shortcomings of stem cells and raised interest in their regenerative potential. Furthermore, the potential of these cells to return to their original cell types due to their epigenetic memory has reinforced the need to control the epigenetic background for successful management of cellular differentiation. Herein, we discuss all available sources of dental stem cells, the procedures used to obtain these cells, and their ability to differentiate into the desired cells. We also introduce the concepts of cell reprogramming and transdifferentiation in terms of genetics and epigenetics, including DNA methylation, histone modification, and non-coding RNA. Finally, we discuss a novel therapeutic avenue for using dental-derived cells as stem cells, and explain cell reprogramming and transdifferentiation, which are used in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering.

• 한국잡초학회지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.178-186
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• 1991

벼 건답직파재배지(乾畓直播栽培地)에 발생(發生)하는 벼와 잡초(雜草)의 경합(競合)이 벼의 수량(收量)에 미치는 영향(影響) 및 벼 건답직파재배(乾畓直播栽培)에 적합(適合)한 제초제(除草劑) 선발(選拔)을 위해 수행(遂行)하여 얻어진 연구(硏究) 결과(結果)를 요약(要約)하면 다음과 같다. 1. 벼 건답직파재배(乾畓直播栽培)에서 발생(發生)하는 주요(主要) 잡초(雜草)는 피(Echinochloa crusgalli), 방동사니(Cyperus amuricus), 속속이풀(Rorippa islandica) 등(等)이었으며 이 가운데 피는 전(全) 생육기간(生育期間)동안 가장 우점(優占)하는 초종(草種)이었다. 발생잡초(發生雜草)의 우점도(優占度)를 Simpson's dominance index로 산출(算出)해 낸 결과(結果)를 보면 개체수(個體數)의 경우는 파종(播種) 후(後) 30 일에 0.26으로 가장 높았으나 시간(時間)이 경과(經過)함에 따라 減少(減少)한 반면, 건물중(乾物重)의 경우는 15일의 0.09에서 60일의 0.28로 증가(增加)함을 특정(特定) 잡초(雜草)(피)가 우점(優占)한 것으로 나타났다. 2. 잡초(雜草)와의 경합(競合)에 의한 벼의 초장(草長) 및 분벽수(粉蘗數)는 는 경합(競合) 시기(時期)에 큰 영향(影響)을 받지 않았으나, 수량(收量)은 경합(競合) 시기(時期) 및 기간(期間)에 따라 다소(多少) 차이(差異)를 보였다. 수량(收量)의 감소(減少)는 잡초발생(雜草發生) 후(後) 20-40일 (6월 7일 - 6월 27일)부터 수확시(收穫時)까지 경합(競合)시킬 때 나타났다 3. 벼 건답직파재배(乾畓直播栽培)에 유효(有效)한 제초제(除草劑)로는 토양(土壤) 처리(處理)로 Dimepiperate/Bensulfuron-methyl 나, Butachlor를 토양처리(土壤處理)하고 30일째 Mefenacet/Bensulfuron-methyl/Dymron을 체계처리(體系處理)하거나, 파종(播種) 후(後)40 일째에 Bentazone/Quinchlorac을 경엽처리(莖葉處理)하면 효과적(效果的) 방제(防除)가 기대(期待)된다.