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Phytoremediation potential of indigenous Ghanaian grass and grass-like species grown on used motor oil contaminated soils

  • Akutam, Abednego;Pappoe, Alexander Nii Moi;Armah, Frederick Ato;Enu-Kwesi, Lewis
    • Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • 제37권2호
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    • pp.41-51
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    • 2014
  • This study investigated the ability of Bothriochloa bladhii (Retz.) S.T. Blake (Poaceae), Cyperus ligularis L. (Cyperaceae), Commelina erecta L. (Commelinaceae), Mariscus umbellatus (Rottb.) Vahl (Cyperaceae), Fimbistylis miliacea L. (Cyperaceae) and Torulinium odoratum L. (Cyperaceae) to clean up various levels of used motor oil (UMO) contaminated soils. The plants were grown in 2 kg garden soils treated to 0%, 1%, 5% and 10% levels of UMO contamination. The plant growth parameters, chlorophyll contents and dry weight of test plants were measured. The phytoremediation ability of these test plants were assessed by measuring the uptake of hydrocarbons in terms of total hydrocarbon content (THC) as well as their percentage degradation values. There was significant (P < 0.05) reduction in leaf chlorophyll contents and dry weights of the test plant species planted in UMO contaminated soils. THC as well as the percentage uptake (or degradation) of hydrocarbons were both lowest in C. ligularis but highest in T. odoratum in all cases. The phytoremediation potential of test plants was highest in soils contaminated with 5% UMO. Based on the results of this study, all test plants with the exception of C. ligularis were potentially capable of undertaking phytoremediation. However, B. bladhii and T. odoratum proved most effective in the uptake and degradation of UMO.

Assessment of Baried-Parker Agar as Screening Test for Determination of Staphylococcus aureus in Poultry Meat

  • Rosa Capita;Calleja, Carlos-Alnoso;Benito Moreno
    • Journal of Microbiology
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    • 제39권4호
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    • pp.321-325
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    • 2001
  • Baird-Parker agar with egg yolk/tellurite emulsion (BPA) is widely accepted as a medium for the enu-meration of Staphylococcus aureus in foods. Howerver, it is not vompletely selective and colonies of other genera of species could be similar to those of Staphylococcus aureus. Moreover, the strains of Staphylococcus aureus that are lecithinase negatrive could go unnoticed. Both facts could affect the counts. The aim of this study was to dtermine whether the enumeration of the colonies with the typical morphol-ogy of Staphylococcus aureus on BPA is sufficien to quantity this species in poultry meat. Forty chiken carcasses were tested for Staphylococcus aureus by surface plating using BPA, Results indicate that the predictiv value of the morphoogy of the colonies of BPA is 85.71% and 68.42% for typical and atypical colonies of Staphylococcus aureus, respectively. However, Staphylococcus aureus counts (after identification) and counts of typical colonies did not show any significant differences(P>0.05) and are significantly(P<0.001) correlated (r=0.996).These results suggest that , for screening purposes. enumeration of Staphylococcus aureus from poultry meat does not require any identification of stains. resulting in a saving of time and money.

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요통환자의 체간근 활성도 및 통증과 Bodyblade 훈련의 융합관계에 관한 연구 (A Study on Bodyblade Training of Convergency Relation of Trunk Muscles Activity and Pain in Patients with Low Back Pain)

  • 박치복;정은호;이호식
    • 한국융합학회논문지
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    • 제8권11호
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    • pp.123-131
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    • 2017
  • 본 연구의 목적은 만성 요통 환자의 근육 활성도 및 몸통 통증 에 대한 bodyblade 훈련의 영향을 알아보았다. 연구를 위해 30 명의 피험자 샘플을 모집하여 실시하였다. Bodyblade 훈련 그룹 (n = 10)은 6주 동안 주 3 회 bodyblade 훈련을 실시하였고, 요추 안정화 훈련 그룹 (n = 10)은 6 주 동안 주 3 회 요추 안정화 훈련을 실시하였다. 대조군 그룹 (n = 10)은 다른 어떤 훈련도 실시하지 않았다. 몸통 근육 활성도의 평가를 위해 표면 근전도를 사용하였고 통증 평가를 위해 VAS를 측정 하였다. 결과는 다음과 같았다 : 몸통 근육의 활성도와 통증변화에 있어 측정 시점과 상호작용에서 통계학적으로 유의한 차이를 나타내었다. 그 결과, bodyblade 훈련은 만성요통환자의 효과적인 중재 방법이 될 수 있을 거라 기대된다.

스마트폰 과다사용이 사이버불링에 미치는 영향에 대한 융합 연구 : 공격성의 매개효과를 중심으로 (The convergence study of smartphone overuse on cyberbullying : Focusing on mediating effects of aggression)

  • 우진주;곽은미;이혜진
    • 한국융합학회논문지
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    • 제9권5호
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    • pp.61-67
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    • 2018
  • 본 연구는 고등학생의 스마트폰 과다사용과 사이버불링의 관계에서 공격성의 매개효과를 확인하기 위해 진행되었다. K시에 거주하는 고등학생 328명을 대상으로 자가보고식 설문지를 이용하여 자료를 수집하였으며, 수집된 자료는 SPSS 22.0과 AMOS 22.0을 이용하여 분석하였다. 분석결과 사이버불링은 스마트폰 과다사용(r=.321, p<.001), 공격성(r=.397, p<.001)과 정적 상관관계가 있는 것으로 확인되었다. 스마트폰 과다사용은 공격성(${\beta}=.195$, p=.014)에 직접적인 영향을 미치고, 공격성은 사이버불링(${\beta}=.260$, p=.007)에 직접적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 스마트폰 과다사용은 공격성(${\beta}=.051$, p=.007)을 매개로 하여 사이버불링에 간접적인 영향을 미쳤다. 고등학생의 사이버불링을 감소시키기 위해 스마트폰 과다사용에 대한 규제와 함께 공격성 감소를 위한 사이버 윤리의식 교육 프로그램 개발 등이 필요할 것이라 생각된다.

Next-generation gene targeting in the mouse for functional genomics

  • Gondo, Yoichi;Fukumura, Ryutaro;Murata, Takuya;Makino, Shigeru
    • BMB Reports
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    • 제42권6호
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    • pp.315-323
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    • 2009
  • In order to elucidate ultimate biological function of the genome, the model animal system carrying mutations is indispensable. Recently, large-scale mutagenesis projects have been launched in various species. Especially, the mouse is considered to be an ideal model to human because it is a mammalian species accompanied with well-established genetic as well as embryonic technologies. In 1990', large-scale mouse mutagenesis projects firstly initiated with a potent chemical mutagen, N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) by the phenotype-driven approach or forward genetics. The knockout mouse mutagenesis projects with trapping/conditional mutagenesis have then followed as Phase II since 2006 by the gene-driven approach or reverse genetics. Recently, the next-generation gene targeting system has also become available to the research community, which allows us to establish and analyze mutant mice carrying an allelic series of base substitutions in target genes as another reverse genetics. Overall trends in the large-scale mouse mutagenesis will be reviewed in this article particularly focusing on the new advancement of the next-generation gene targeting system. The drastic expansion of the mutant mouse resources altogether will enhance the systematic understanding of the life. The construction of the mutant mouse resources developed by the forward and reverse genetic mutagenesis is just the beginning of the annotation of mammalian genome. They provide basic infrastructure to understand the molecular mechanism of the gene and genome and will contribute to not only basic researches but also applied sciences such as human disease modelling, genomic medicine and personalized medicine.

상황 정보 기반 사용자 요구 서비스 추론 모델 (Context based User Required Services Reasoning Model)

  • 고광은;심귀보
    • 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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    • 제14권1호
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    • pp.21-26
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    • 2008
  • It was already realized at a current technological level of home network systems that the systems recognizes a user's simple order and carry out the order in the ubiquitous computing environment. However home is not a simple environment consisting into a large number of family members, so various order and situation would be needed accordingly. From now on we need to reach the technological level to infer that how is the user's behavior patterns and what kinds of service is the fittest to user who belong to the ubiquitous computing environment by using the result of the context interpreter. In this regards, active inferred-model needs to be suggested upgrading user's command into one step more higher level than the simple one adapting diversified feature. This study would like to suggest this active model recognizing context, which is user's environmental information applying basic network and inferring Context-based Service that user wants through the recognized result This study proposes a new method that can infer the user's desire in ubiquitous computing environment. First of all, we define a context as user's information of ubiquitous computing environment situation that user belongs to and we classify the context into 4W1H(Where, Who, When, What) formats. We construct Bayesian network and put the factor of context use as Bayesian network nodes. As a result, we can infer the user's behavior pattern and most proper service for user in the intelligent space from the probabilistic result of Bayesian network.

Fine localization of a new cataract locus, Kec, on mouse chromosome 14 and exclusion of candidate genes as the gene that causes cataract in the Kec mouse

  • Kang, Min-Ji;Cho, Jae-Woo;Kim, Jeong-Ki;Kim, Eun-Min;Kim, Jae-Young;Cho, Kyu-Hyuk;Song, Chang-Woo;KimYoon, Sun-Joo
    • BMB Reports
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    • 제41권9호
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    • pp.651-656
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    • 2008
  • A mouse with cataract, Kec, was generated from N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) mutagenesis. Cataract in the Kec mouse was observable at about 5 weeks after birth and this gradually progressed to become completely opaque by 12 weeks. Dissection microscopy revealed that vacuoles with a radial or irregular shape were located primarily in the cortex of the posterior and equatorial regions of the lens. At the late stage, the lens structure was distorted, but not ruptured. This cataract phenotype was inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. We performed a genetic linkage analysis using 133 mutant and 67 normal mice produced by mating Kec mutant (BALB/c) and F1 (C57BL/6 $\times$ Kec) mice. The Kec locus was mapped to the 3 cM region encompassed by D14Mit34 and D14Mit69. In addition we excluded coding sequences of 9 genes including Rcbtb2, P2ry5, Itm2b, Med4, Nudt15, Esd, Lcp1, Slc25a30, and 2810032E02Rik as the candidate gene that causes cataract in the Kec mouse.

Mirror Neuron System 계산 모델을 이용한 모방학습 기반 인간-로봇 인터페이스에 관한 연구 (A Study on Human-Robot Interface based on Imitative Learning using Computational Model of Mirror Neuron System)

  • 고광은;심귀보
    • 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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    • 제23권6호
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    • pp.565-570
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    • 2013
  • 영장류 대뇌 피질 영역 중 거울 뉴런들이 분포한 것으로 추정되는 몇몇 영역은 목적성 행위에 대한 시각 정보를 기반으로 모방학습을 수행함으로써 관측 행동의 의도 인식 기능을 담당한다고 알려졌다. 본 논문은 이러한 거울 뉴런 영역을 모델링 하여 인간-로봇 상호작용 시스템에 적용함으로써, 자동화 된 의도인식 시스템을 개발하고자 한다. 거울 뉴런 시스템 계산 모델은 동적 신경망을 기반으로 구축하였으며, 모델의 입력은 객체와 행위자 동작에 대한 연속된 특징 벡터 집합이고 모델의 모방학습 및 추론과정을 통해 관측자가 수행할 수 있는 움직임 정보를 출력한다. 이를 위해 제한된 실험 공간 내에서 특정 객체와 그에 대한 행위자의 목적성 행동, 즉 의도에 대한 시나리오를 전제로 키넥트 센서를 통해 모델 입력 데이터를 수집하고 가상 로봇 시뮬레이션 환경에서 대응하는 움직임 정보를 계산하여 동작을 수행하는 프레임워크를 개발하였다.

한의학 분야 연구윤리 교육에 대한 전국 한의과대학 및 한의학전문대학원 교수들의 인식 (Awareness and attitudes of professors regarding research ethics education in the colleges and the school of Korean Medicine)

  • 유지은;천목은;임병묵;권영규;김병주
    • 대한한의학회지
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    • 제36권3호
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2015
  • Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the experiences and awareness of Korean Medicine professors towards research ethics issues and curriculum development. Methods: Electronic mails for requesting the survey participation were sent to 531 professors who were listed in the DB of Association of Korean Medicine. Professors who agreed to participate in the survey were connected to the self-administered questionnaire site, and the responses were stored in real time. Professors were asked the experience of research misconduct cases, the necessity, contents and evaluation method of research ethics education, etc. ANOVA was performed to test the differences of ethics education effects among sub-groups of respondents. Results: Of 137 professors who opened the e-mail, 127 completed the questionnaire. Most professors (87.4%) reported to witness the research misconduct cases, and felt the necessity of research ethics education for professors as well as students. 31.4% of respondents preferred the practice-focused course, and 43.3% preferred the PASS/FAIL basis evaluation system. Professors with shorter education career and professors majoring basic Korean Medicine expected higher effect of ethics education than others. For detailed items of research ethics education, 'ethical writing' and 'ensuring research integrity' were prioritized in the aspects of both personal ethics and social demand. Conclusions: In this study, detailed matters of research ethics education in Korean Medicine area were drawn. Further study and policy development are needed to facilitate the introduction of formal education of research ethics.

사료 및 보조사료로서의 생균제 급여에 따른 돈사 환경개선과 돼지 생산성에 미치는 영향 (Effects of the Feed and Probiotic Feeding on the Improvement of Hoggery Environment and the Productivity of Swine)

  • 이은영;임정수
    • 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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    • 제39권3호
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    • pp.200-209
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    • 2011
  • 동물은 고기, 우유, 및 달걀과 같은 중요한 산물을 생산한다. 현대사회의 도시화과정 및 고도 성장은 보다 많은 동물성 산물을 요구하고 작은 농장에서 밀집화된 사육이 이루어지게 되는 원인이 되었다. 결과적으로 가축 분뇨생산량이 증가되었으며, 그에 따른 악취문제도 필연적인 결과로 나타났다. 분뇨로 인한 악취문제를 해결하지 못할 경우 축산업의 지속적인 발전과 환경개선을 이루는 큰 장애가 될 것이다. 축산환경으로 생산되는 악취는 휘발성지방산, 암모니아와 휘발성아민, 인돌과 페놀, 그리고 황화합물 네 종류로 분류된다. 질소성분의 절반이상은 뇨로 배설되기 때문에 동물을 사육하는 과정에서 저단백 사료와 합성아미노산을 급여시키고, 소화효소나 미생물제제 혹은 생균제를 사료에 첨가시켜줄 경우 질소원의 배출량을 감소시켜줄 수 있는 중요한 방법이 될 것이다. 따라서, 축산환경의 개선과 축산분야의 생산성을 향상시켜주기 위하여 사료 및 보조사료를 급여하는 다양한 시도가 진행되고 있다.