• BMB Reports
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• 제52권12호
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• pp.671-678
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• 2019

The random V(D)J recombination process ensures the diversity of the primary immunoglobulin (Ig) repertoire. In two thirds of cases, imprecise recombination between variable (V), diversity (D), and joining (J) segments induces a frameshift in the open reading frame that leads to the appearance of premature termination codons (PTCs). Thus, many B lineage cells harbour biallelic V(D)J-rearrangements of Ig heavy or light chain genes, with a productively-recombined allele encoding the functional Ig chain and a nonproductive allele potentially encoding truncated Ig polypeptides. Since the pattern of Ig gene expression is mostly biallelic, transcription initiated from nonproductive Ig alleles generates considerable amounts of primary transcripts with out-of-frame V(D)J junctions. How RNA surveillance pathways cooperate to control the noise from nonproductive Ig genes will be discussed in this review, focusing on the benefits of nonsense- mediated mRNA decay (NMD) activation during B-cell development and detrimental effects of nonsense-associated altered splicing (NAS) in terminally differentiated plasma cells.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.287-312
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• 2023

The global performance of a 15 MW floating offshore wind turbine, a newly designed semisubmersible floating foundation with multiple heave plates by CNOOC, is investigated with two independent turbine-floater-mooring coupled dynamic analysis programs CHARM3D-FAST and OrcaFlex. The semisubmersible platform hosts IEA 15 MW reference wind turbine modulated for VolturnUS-S and hybrid type (chain-wire-chain with clumps) 3×2 mooring lines targeting the water depth of 100 m. The numerical free-decay simulation results are compared with physical experiments with 1:64 scaled model in 3D wave basin, from which appropriate drag coefficients for heave plates were estimated. The tuned numerical simulation tools were then used for the feasibility and global performance analysis of the FOWT considering the 50-yr-storm condition and maximum operational condition. The effect of tower flexibility was investigated by comparing tower-base fore-aft bending moment and nacelle translational accelerations. It is found that the tower-base bending moment and nacelle accelerations can be appreciably increased due to the tower flexibility.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제49권5호
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• pp.510-515
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• 2011

염화탄화수소의 고온열분해 반응에서 생성물 반응경로 특성을 파악하기 위해 $H_2$ 반응분위기에서 1,1-dichloroethylene($CH_2CCl_2$) 열분해반응 실험을 수행하였다. 열분해반응 실험은 등온관형반응기를 이용하여 반응온도 $650{\sim}900^{\circ}C$, 반응시간 0.3~2.0초에서 진행하였으며, 반응물 mole 분율은 전체 실험에서 $CH_2CCl_2:H_2$ = 4:96 일정하게 유지하였다. 반응물 $CH_2CCl_2$가 완전분해온도는(분해율 99% 이상) $825^{\circ}C$(반응시간 1초 기준)였으며, $H_2$ 반응분위기에서 $CH_2CCl_2$ 주요 분해반응경로는 H원자 추출 및 첨가교체치환 연쇄반응으로 파악되었다. $CH_2CCl_2$가 46% 분해되는 $700^{\circ}C$에서 1차 생성물로 $CH_2CHCl$가 28%로 가장 높은 농도로 검출되었다. $775^{\circ}C$ 이상에서는 탈염소화된 $C_2H_4$가 2차 생성물로 가장 많이 생성되었으며, 반응온도가 증가할수록 염소 원자수가 작은 화합물이 생성되었으며 이들 화합물은 열화학적으로 안정된 물질이다. $825^{\circ}C$ 이상의 고온반응영역에서 탈염소반응의 부산물인 HCl과 $C_2H_4$, $C_2H_6$, $CH_4$ $C_2H_2$ 등과 같은 열화학적으로 안정된 탄화수소가 주요생성물로 검출되었다. 본 연구에서 고찰된 반응계에서 분해와 생성물분포 특성을 고려하고 열화학이론 및 반응속도론을 기초로 주요 반응경로를 제시하였다.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2012

Rapid loss of grape berry quality after harvest occurs due to poor postharvest management. Understanding physiological properties between cultivars is required to develop practical technologies to control fast quality deterioration of tables grapes. Physiological characteristics of whole cluster, rachis and berries were examined to find their effects on postharvest behaviour of table grapes. 'Tamnara' showed high respiration rate and browning of rachis compared to 'Campbell Early'. Weight loss of rachis of 'Cheongsoo' was highest of three cultivars. Berry decay in 'Cheongsoo' begins at the connection portion between peduncle and berry, and berry decay of 'Cheongsoo' was the most severe among three cultivars. Precooling at $0^{\circ}C$ showed better results than cooling at $10^{\circ}C$ regardless of cultivars but cooling effect decreased when simulated marketing period increased up to 10 days. Plastic film wrapping was effective on reducing decay in general but not at higher marketing temperature. For successful commercialization of newly developed grapes, the inhibition technology of rachis browning in 'Tamnara' is required and decay control in 'Cheongsoo' through establishment of cold chain system is recommended.

• BMB Reports
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.453-458
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• 2007

Bacterial luciferase is a heterodimeric enzyme, which catalyzes the light emission reaction, utilizing reduced FMN (FMNH2), a long chain aliphatic aldehyde and $O_2$, to produce green-blue light. This enzyme can be readily classed as slow or fast decay based on their rate of luminescence decay in a single turnover. Mutation of Glu175 in $\alpha$ subunit to Gly converted slow decay Xenorhabdus Luminescence luciferase to fast decay one. The following studies revealed that changing the luciferase flexibility and lake of Glu-flavin interactions are responsible for the unusual kinetic properties of mutant enzyme. Optical and thermodynamics studies have caused a decrease in free energy and anisotropy of mutant enzyme. Moreover, the role of Glu175 in transition state of folding pathway by use of stopped-flow fluorescence technique has been studied which suggesting that Glu175 is not involved in transition state of folding and appears as surface residue of the nucleus or as a member of one of a few alternative folding nuclei. These results suggest that mutation of Glu175 to Gly extended the structure of Xenorhabdus Luminescence luciferase, locally.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제20권10호
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• pp.1186-1194
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• 1999

Photoresponsive side chain polymers containing aminonitro azobenzene were synthesized for studying optically induced birefringence. Four different copolymers were prepared using methacrylate, a-methylstyrene, and itaconate monomer. Two copolymers are totally amorphous and the other two are liquid crystalline in nature. Trans-to-cis photoisomerization was observed under the exposure of UV light with UV-VIS absorption spectroscopy. Reorientation of polar azobenzene molecules induced optical anisotropy under a linearly polarized light at 532 nm. The dynamic parameters of optically induced birefringence let us compare the effect of polymeric structure on the rate of growth and decay of the birefringence. Besides the effect of glass transition temperature on the dynamics of photoinduced birefringence, we focused our interests on the geometrical hindrance of polar azobenzene molecules and cooperative motion of environmental mesogenic molecules in the vicinity of polar azobenzene moiety.

• 접착 및 계면
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.129-134
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• 2020

공액분자반도체와 고분자절연체 계면에서 전하트래핑을 이해하는 것은 장시간 구동가능한 안정성 높은 유기전계효과 트랜지스터(이하 유기트랜지스터) 개발을 위해 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 다양한 분자량의 고분자절연체를 이용한 유기트랜지스터의 전하이동 특성을 평가하였다. Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) 표면 위에 적층된 펜타센 공액반도체의 모폴로지와 결정성은 PMMA 분자량에 무관함이 나타났다. 그 결과 트랜지스터 소자의 초기 트랜스퍼 곡선과 전하이동도는 분자량에 상관없었다. 하지만, 적정한 상대습도 환경에서 소자에 바이어스가 인가되었을 경우, 바이어스 스트레스 효과로 불리는 드레인전류 감소와 트랜스퍼 곡선 이동은 PMMA 분자량이 감소할수록 증대됨이 관찰되었다(분자량 효과). 분자량 효과에 의한 전하트래핑은 회복이 매우 어려운 비가역적인 과정임을 밝혀 내었다. 이러한 분자량 효과는 PMMA 존재하는 고분자사슬 말단의 밀도 변화에 의한 것으로 판단된다. 즉, PMMA 고분자사슬 말단이 가지는 자유부피가 전하트랩으로 작용하여 분자량에 민감한 바이어스 스트레스 효과를 일으킨 것으로 판단된다.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.151-162
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• 2018

In deriving the economic order quantity (EOQ) formula, it is tacitly assumed that the buyer has to pay product price while receiving the product from the supplier. However, as a marketing policy, some suppliers permit a delay in payments to the buyers to increase demand for the product they made. Credit transactions would have a positive effect on both suppliers and buyers. For a supplier who offers trade credit, it is an effective means of price differentiation to increase the demand for the product. Availability of opportunity to delay the payment in buyer effectively reduces the cost of holding stocks and therefore, the buyer has a lot of price options to choose his sales price for a customer. Since the buyer's order is affected by the customer's demand, the problems of determining the sales price and EOQ are interdependent and must be solved simultaneously. From this perspective, this paper evaluates the problem of determining the optimal sales price and EOQ for the buyer at the same time when the supplier allows a delay in payments for the product whose demand is represented as a function that decreases linearly with the sales price. For the analysis, it is also assumed that inventory is exhausted not only by customer's but also by decay.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.367-371
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• 1986

Dynamic and equilibrium properties of n-alkane chains immersed in solvent molecules have been investigated by a molecular dynamics method. The n-alkane chain is assumed to be a chain of elements (CH$_2$) interconnected by bonds having a fixed bond length and bond angle, but each bond of the chain is allowed to execute hindered internal rotation. We studied the effect of the number of the chain elements (N$_c$ = 10, 15 and 20) on the equilibrium properties of the system, e.g., the pair correlation functions between a chain element and solvent molecules, g$_{cs}$(r), and between the chain elements, g$_{cc}$(r), and the configurational properties such as the mean-square end-to-end distance < R$^2$ >, the mean-square radius of gyration < S$^2$ >, and the eigenvalues of the moment-of-inertia tensor < S$_i^2$ > / < S$^2$ > (i = 1, 2 and 3). We also studied the dynamic properties of the system, e.g., the autocorrelation function C(A;t) where A = R$^2$(t), = S$^2$(t), or = ${\vec{V}}(t)({\vec{V}}$ = velocity of the center of mass), and the diffusion coefficient D. The g$_{cs}$(r)'s are almost equal irrespective of the change of Nc while g$_{cc}$(r) becomes larger as N$_c$ increases; The MD computed configurational properties < R$^2$2 > and < S$^2$ > were found to be a little different from the values calculated from the statistical equations of < R$^2$ > and < S$^2$ >, it may be due to the fact that our model for the MD simulations includes a long-range volume effect. From the < S$_i^2$ > / < S$^2$ >, it is found that the chain molecule has a nearly spherical shape irrespective of the variation of N$_c$. For the dynamic properties we found that the C(R$^2$;t) and C(S$^2$;t) of lower N$_c$ decay faster than those of higher N$_c$, while the C($\vec V$;t) of the center of mass in the chain is weakly dependent on the N$_c$. The center of mass diffusion coefficient D$_c$ decreases as N$_c$ increases while the end point diffusion coefficient D$_e$ is nearly equal irrespective of the change of N$_c$.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.270-276
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• 2020

In this paper, we analyze the buyer's joint pricing and lot-sizing model in a two-stage supply chain consisting of the supplier, the buyer and the customer. It is assumed that the supplier will permit a certain fixed period for settling the amount the buyer owes to him for the items supplied in order to stimulate the demand for the product. Generally, credit transactions would have a positive effect to the buyer. The availability of credit transactions from the supplier effectively reduces the cost of holding stocks for the buyer and therefore, the buyer has a lot of price options to choose his sales price for a customer in anticipation of increased the customer's demand and, as a result, it will appear to increase the buyer's inventory levels. On the other hand, in the case of decaying products in which their utility decay over time, the decaying rate with time may be expected to reduce inventory levels. In this regard, we need to analyze how much the length of credit period and the decaying rate affect the buyer's pricing and lot-sizing policy. For the analysis, we consider the situation where the customer's demand is represented as a linearly decreasing function of the buyer's sales price. From this perspective, we formulate the buyer's annual net profit and analyze the effect of the length of credit period and decaying rate of the product on the buyer's inventory policy numerically.