• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.387-397
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• 2003

During the first half of twentieth century, even though the importance of non-calorie essential micronutrients of 13 vitamins and 17 minerals has been known to alleviate nutritional disorder; the primary objective of agriculture and plant breeding programs has been to increase the productivity and seed yields, and macronutrients of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates made up the bulk of foodstuff which were used primarily as an energy source. In the last decade it has been found that non-essential micronutrients encompass a vast group of phytochemicals including antioxidants that are not strictly required in the diet but when present at sufficient levels work as health-promoting chemicals. Nowadays agricultural crops are grown for health rather than for food or fiber, and modifying the nutritional compositions of plant foods has become an urgent health issue. To ensure an adequate intake of essential vitamins and minerals, and to increase the consumption of health-promoting phytochemicals, the researches on plant secondary metabolism have been made. The attempt to improve nutritional quality of crops has been blocked by a lack of basic knowledge of plant metabolism. The advent of genomics era enabled new approaches to make crossing regardless of species, family, or phylum barriers, and the accumulation in our basic knowledge on plant secondary metabolism during the coming decade would be tremendous. As the major staple crops contain insufficient amount of many micronutrients, fortification strategy will be a necessary practice. Elevated intake of specific vitamins, C, E, and $\beta$-carotene, mineral selenium, antioxidants, and phytochemicals significantly reduces the risk of chronic disease such as cancer, cardiovascular disorder, diabetis, and other degenerative disease associated with aging. As the attempt to improve the nutritional quality of crops requires the basic knowledges on plant metabolism, plant biochemistry, human physiology, and food chemistry, strong interdisplinary collaboration among plant biotechnologists, human nutritionists, and food scientists will be needed. Inhibition of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and other degenerative disorder may be the biggest goal facing nutritional plant breeders. But the assumption that simply increasing dietary level of any compound will necessarily improve human health is a dangerous idea because many plant secondary products and dietary contaminants have paradoxical (hermetic) effects. Before biotechnical manipulation is undertaken to elevate or reduce any individual constituent of crops, the contribution of the micronutrient to human health must first be investigated.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.199-208
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• 2011

세계적으로 물의 부족, 온실가스 배출증가, 에너지 소비 증가 등으로 인하여 지구가 위협받고 있다. 기존의 도시 계획 및 개발 과정에서 산림, 하천 등 자연 생태계가 파괴되어 왔으며 이는 불투수면의 증가를 초래하였다. 불투수면의 증가로 인하여 자연적인 물순환 체계가 파괴됨에 따라 도시내 물의 저류, 침투, 증발 등이 감소되고 있으며, 강우시 불투수면에서 발생하는 비점오염원이 하천 및 호소로 직접 유입되어 수계에 악영향을 끼치고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 강우시 불투수면에서 발생하는 비점오염물질을 저감하고 불투수면의 증가로 인한 도시지역의 온도증가, 열섬현상 등을 해결하는 소규모 HSSF 인공습지 기술을 개발하고자 한다. HSSF 인공습지는 표면에 물이 존재하지 않고 유체의 흐름이 표면 아래 수평으로 흐르는 습지이며 침전, 여과, 흡착, 식생에 의한 흡수 등의 기작을 포함한다. 이러한 HSSF 인공습지를 도시지역의 협소한 공간에도 적용이 가능한 소규모 형태로 개발하고자 pilot-scale test를 실시하였으며, 이러한 연구결과는 향후 국내 도시 열섬현상 저감 및 자연적 물순환 복원을 위한 시설 개발에 기초자료로 활용 될 것이다.

• Journal of Community Nutrition
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.48-54
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• 2004

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of dietary protein and exercise on bone mineral density and bone mineral content of growing male rats. Forty male, Sprague-Dawley rats(age 21 days) were assigned to four groups that underwent 9 weeks of experimental treatment. Animals were assigned to one of two exercise treatments (treadmill running or sedentary). The exercise and nonexercise group were fed a diet containing casein or soy with rich isoflavones (3.4mg/g protein). The exercise group ran on a rodent treadmill(speed of 15m/min for 30min) three days per week during the 9-week study period. All rats were fed an experimental diet and deionized water ad libitum for 9 weeks. Total bone mineral density (BMD), total bone mineral content (BMC), total body calcium, spine BMD and BMC, and femur BMD and BMC were determined by using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (FIXI-mus, GE Lunar Radiation Cooperation, Madison, WI, USA). The soy diet group appears to have a significantly higher total BMD/weight and total BMC/ weight, spine BMD/weight, spine BMC/weight, femur BMD/weight and femur BMC/weight compared to the casein group in nonexercise and exercise. The exercise group had significantly greater total BMD/weight and BMC/ weight, spine BMD/weight and BMC/weight, femur BMD/weight and BMC/weight compared to the nonexercise group when the protein source was casein. The exercise combined soy group had significantly greater total BMD/weight and BMC/weight, spine BMD/weight and BMC/weight, femur BMD/weight and BMC/weight, compared to the exercise combined casein group. The results indicate that exercise had a positive influence on bone mineral density and bone mineral content and soy significantly affect on bone mineral density and bone mineral content for the 9 weeks experimental period. It can be concluded that exercise combined with a soy diet is most beneficial for acquisition of spine bone mineral density in young growing male rats. This convincing evidence suggests that a change in life style such as increasing exercise and consumption of soy protein is a practical strategy for significantly reducing the incidence of osteoporosis.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.1057-1069
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• 2017

The applications of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are progressively adopting for various smart home services such as home automation, controlling smart home household appliances, constrained application services in a smart home, etc. However, enabling a seamless and ubiquitous WSN communication between the smart home appliances is still a challenging job. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a smart home control system using an Actuator based ZigBee networking (AZNET). The working of the proposed system is further divided into three phases, 1) an interference avoidance system is adopted to mitigate the effect of interference caused due to the co-existence of IEEE 802.11x based wireless local area networks (WLAN) and WSN, 2) a sensor-based smart light control system is used to fulfill the light requirement in the smart home using the sunlight with light source, and 3) an autonomous home management system is used to regulate the usage time of the electronic appliances in the smart home. The smart is tested in real time environment to use the sunlight with light sources in a various time of the day. Similarly, the performance of the proposed smart home is verified through simulation using C# programming language. The results and analysis revealed that the proposed smart home is less affected by the interference and efficient in reducing the energy consumption of the appliances available in the smart home scenario.

• 공업화학
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.333-338
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 비성형 RDF의 에너지 활용성을 확인하기 위하여 실험실 연소로를 이용한 온도 변화에 의한 연소특성연구를 하였다. 비성형 RDF 연소시 배출가스의 특성과 분진 및 잔류물을 분석하였으며 또한 그 결과를 성형 RDF의 연소실험 결과와 비교분석하였다. 본 연구로부터 비성형 RDF가 성형 RDF에 비교하여 연소속도가 빨라져서 급격히 산소량이 감소되어 불완전연소율이 증가함을 확인하였다. 또한 연소온도가 높아질수록 연소속도가 향상되었으며 산소 소모량이 급격히 증가하였고, 이에 따른 불완전연소율이 증가하여 CO의 농도가 높아짐을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 비성형 RDF의 완전연소를 위한 운전조건의 설정에 매우 신중을 기해야 할 것으로 판단되었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.1770-1785
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• 2013

In this paper, a multi-hop transmission protocol based on parallel communication of secondary users (SUs) is proposed. The primary multi-hop network coexists with a set of SUs by cooperative spectrum sharing. The main optimization target of our protocol is the overall performance of the secondary system with the guarantee of the primary outage performance. The energy consumption of the primary system is reduced by the cooperation of SUs. The aim of the primary source is to communicate with the primary destination via a number of primary relays. SUs may serve as extra decode-and-forward relays for the primary network. When an SU acts as a relay for a primary user (PU), some other SUs that satisfy the condition for parallel communication are selected to simultaneously access the primary spectrum for secondary transmissions. For the proposed protocol, two opportunistic routing strategies are proposed, and a search algorithm to select the SUs for parallel communication is described. The throughput of the SUs and the PU is illustrated. Numerical results demonstrate that the average throughput of the SUs is greatly improved, and the end-to-end throughput of the PU is slightly increased in the proposed protocol when there are more than seven SUs.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2018년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.571-573
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• 2018

무선 센서 네트워크는 싱크 노드로 데이터가 집중되는 수렴적인 구조로 인해 네트워크 내 불균형적인 에너지 소모가 발생한다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 기존 연구에서는 소스 노드 및 싱크 노드 사이에 중계 노드를 배치하여 싱크 노드로 집중되기 전 데이터를 병합 및 처리하였다. 하지만 링크 품질을 고려하지 않은 중계 노드의 배치는 재구성된 라우팅 경로의 링크 품질에 따른 패킷 손실을 야기한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 중계 노드 선정을 위한 라우팅 경로 재구성 시 데이터 신뢰성을 고려한 링크 비용 산출 방법을 제안한다. 라우팅 메트릭 값으로 홉 수 및 RSSI를 고려한 링크 비용 산출 수식을 제안하며 센서 모듈 간 패킷 전송 실험을 통해 RSSI 임계값을 선정한다.

• KIEAE Journal
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.75-82
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• 2011

In Korea, the ratio of population in urban areas used to be only 50.1% in 1970, but with the value risen to 90.8% in 2009, urbanization is going on rapidly. Urbanization, which occurs by the rampantly planted buildings, has become major source of raising building density, changing wind direction and reducing wind amount, and such reductions are affecting even inside the building. In each year, among the total energy consumption in Korea, residential portion takes up significant ratio, and specifically the ratio of apartment house is shown to be highest. In order to solve such problem, many studies are being conducted for the improvement of natural ventilation performance. The natural ventilation performance of apartment house are significantly determined by the characteristics of external and internal structure, but in macroscopic perspective, the performance is established fundamentally by the layout characteristics of the main building of the apartment house in preparation for wind conditions. So far researches on raising the thermal comfort through elevation of ventilation performance have been conducted actively, but many of them propose only theoretical concepts deduced through wind path analysis, and do not include any indicator to measure ventilation performance simply only with area data from layout planning stage. Therefore, in this study, gap ratio a wind field measuring indicator was developed, and after the ventilation characteristics by layout types and main building uniformity were identified, the scope of gap ratio efficient for ventilation and that of uniformity were clarified, followed by verification through simulation.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.580-585
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• 2009

RTLS 태그는 추적 대상이 되는 사람이나 물체에 부착되어 리더에게 주기적인 블링크를 전송하는 역할을 하며, 배터리 등의 제한된 전원에 의해 동작한다. 특히, 블링크 전송 주기는 태그의 에너지 효율에 직접적인 영향을 미치며, 태그의 이동성은 RTLS 시스템의 위치 측위 정밀도에 영향을 준다. 블링크 주기와 RTLS 시스템의 위치 측위 정밀도는 서로 상충 관계에 있으며, 본 논문에서는 태그의 에너지 효율과 RTLS 시스템의 위치 측위 정밀도를 동시에 향상시키기 위해 모션 센서를 이용하여 태그의 이동 정도를 측정하고, 이에 따라 블링크 주기를 조절하는 기법을 제안한다. 결과적으로 기존 연구 대비 40% 가량 송신 횟수를 줄이면서도 비슷한 수준의 위치 측위 정밀도를 보였다.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.27-31
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• 2007

한약에서 사용하는 유황은 인체에서 열을 발생하는 물질로서 분류되어 있다. 차전자(車前子), 창출(蒼朮), 백복령, 천궁(川芎) 등은 비만을 치료하는 한약재로 이용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 유황을 주성분으로 하고 차전자(車前子), 창출(蒼朮), 백복령, 천궁 등의 한약재를 혼합한 항비산을 제조하였다. 항비산을 10%(w/w) 함유한 식이를 C57BL/6J ob/ob mice에 12주 동안 투여하고 체중, 간 조직 및 혈액 지질 조성에 미치는 효과를 조사하였다. 유황이 주로 함유된 항비산을 섭취하는 동안 실험동물의 건강상태는 양호하였다. 항비산을 일반 식이와 병행 공급시 cellulose가 갖는 정도의 체중 감소 효과를 나타냈고, 혈중 총 콜레스테롤이 감소하여 혈중 지질 조성을 개선시키는 작용이 있었다. 또한 실험동물의 간 기능에는 독성을 나타내지 않았다. 따라서 항비산의 임상실험 및 지질 조성 개선 효과에 대한 기전연구가 필요하지만 항비산은 비만인의 체중감량 및 지질 조성 개선에 이용될 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.