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Mast Cell Increase and Stem Cell Factor Receptor (c-kit) Expression in Helicobacter pylori-infected Gastritis (Helicobacter pylori 감염 위염에서의 비만세포 증가와 Stem Cell Factor Receptor (c-kit)의 발현)

  • Jekal, Seung-Joo
    • Korean Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.41-46
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    • 2005
  • It is known that mast cells (MCs) are increased in H. pylori-infected gastritis and its increase is mediated by stem cell factor (c-kit ligand). To determine the mechanism of mast cell recruitment and activation by stem cell factor, weinvestigated the expression of stem cell factor receptor (c-kit) in H. pylori-positive and -negative gastric mucosa. Biopsy specimens from 16 H. pylori-negative and 20 positive subjects were examined. H. pylori infection in gastric mucosa was examined by the Warthin-Starry method. MC and c-kit were identified by immunohistochemisty, using a monoclonal antihuman MC tryptase antibody and a polyclonal anti-human c-kit antibody. Densities of MC and c-kit positive cell were measured by a computerized image analysis system. MCs were detected in the lamina propria of both H. pylori-positive and -negative gastric mucosa. Densities of MC and c-kit positive cell were significantly greater in H. pylori-positive than -negative subjects. c-kit was located on the surface of MCs. These results indicate that stem cell factors may be one of the factors involved in mast cell increase and that they activate mast cells by binding with c-kit.

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Study on K-factor for temperature variation of working fluid in spray nozzle with orifice (오리피스형 분사노즐에서 작동유체의 온도변화에 따른 K-factor에 관한 연구)

  • Bae, K.Y.;Chung, H.T.;Kim, C.H.;Kim, H.B.
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.12-18
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    • 2008
  • In the present study, the numerical simulation has been performed to investigate K-factor for temperature variation of working fluid in spray nozzle with orifice. The commercial CFD software, Fluent with the proper modeling was applied for analyzing the internal of the spray nozzle. Numerical result for K-factor at $20^{\circ}C$ agrees with the experimental result that it applied n=0.5 within about 7% error. The pressure drop inside nozzle is showed 20% passing swirler, 70% in the region between the outlet of swirler and the orifice and 10% at the outlet of orifice. As the operating pressure is increased, K-factor is decreased by effect of flow resistance at it's inlet before pass swirler. The temperature increase of working fluid reduced the flow rate according to reducing of density, and average 1.23% decrease is showed in the present research.

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Power Factor improvement of Power Conversion Equipment for High Pressure Sodium Lamps (고압 나트륨 램프 구동용 전력변환장치의 역률 개선)

  • Lee, S.H.;Suh, K.Y.;Lee, H.W.;Lee, S.H.;Mun, S.P.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2002.04a
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    • pp.147-150
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    • 2002
  • HPSL(High Pressure Sodium lamp)have attracted much attention in recent years, because they offer high luminous efficiency and very long life. Recently, AC-DC converters have been widely as power factor improvement circuits in the power conversion equipment An application of the ZVT-PWM(Zero Voltage Transition Pulse Width Modulation) boost converter, which has great advantage on miniaturization and high power density, to the power factor improvement circuit of the HPSL inverter are described to identify the power factor correction characteristics of the inverter. In this paper the series-parallel resonant inverter(electronic ballast) for driving a HPS lamp is discussed. Finally, a power factor corrector is cascaded in front of the electronic ballast. Consequently, a high power factor above 0.99 and low THD on the line current can be achieved.

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Separation of $H_2$/$N_2$ Gas Mixture by SiO$_2$-B$_2$O$_3$ Membrane (SiO$_2$-B$_2$O$_3$ 막에 의한 수소/질소 혼합기체 분리)

  • Kang Tae-Bum;Park Jin-Ho
    • Membrane Journal
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.312-319
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    • 2004
  • The porous SiO$_2$-B$_2$O$_3$ membrane was prepared from Si(OC$_2$$H_5$)$_4$-($CH_3$O)$_3$B-C$_2$$H_5$OH-$H_2O$ system by sol-gel method. In order to investigate the characteristics of this membrane, we examined that using BET, IR spectrophotometer, X-ray diffractometer, SEM and TEM. At $700^{\circ}C$, the surface area of SiO$_2$-B$_2$O$_3$ membrane was 354.398 $m^2$/, the median pore diameter was 0.0048 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$, and the particle size of SiO$_2$-B$_2$O$_3$ membrane was 7 nm. The separation properties of the gas mixture ($H_2$/$N_2$) through the SiO$_2$-B$_2$O$_3$ membrane was studied as a function of pressure. The real separation factor($\alpha$) of SiO$_2$-B$_2$O$_3$ membrane for $H_2$/$N_2$ gas mixture was 4.68 at 155.15 cmHg and $25^{\circ}C$. The real separation factor($\alpha$), head separation factor($\beta$) and tail separation factor((equation omitted)) were increased as the pressure of permeation cell increased.

The Characteristics of Curvature Ductility Factor of Reinforced Concrete Hollow Section Beams (철근콘크리트 속빈 단면 보의 곡률연성지수 특성)

  • Lee, Hyung-Joon
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.14 no.12
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    • pp.6542-6549
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    • 2013
  • In highly elevated piers and long span beams, a hollow section is often used to reduce the self-weight and increase the flexural rigidity of members. Numerical analysis was conducted to obtain the moment-curvature curves and curvature ductility factor for the RC hollow section beams under a range of hollow portion sizes and reinforcement conditions in the upper flange and web. The curvature ductility factor was constantly maintained until the hollow portion size($b_i/b_o/h_i/h_o$) was less than or equal to 0.5. The curvature ductility factor decreased sharply if ($b_i/b_o/h_i/h_o$) was 0.7 or more. The curvature ductility factor of the beam decreased if reinforcement was provided in the web of the RC hollow section beam. To obtain the same level of the ductility factor as the singly reinforced section, the reinforcement should be provided in the upper flange as much as the web reinforcement.

A Study on Influence of Smartphones Business Factors on Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty (스마트폰 비즈니스의 구성요인이 고객만족과 고객충성도에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Joong-Bae;Baek, Dong-Hyun
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.19-38
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    • 2017
  • The core of the smartphone business environment is changing from H/W to S/W and with it the paradigm of an enterprise's base of competition is changing from H/W to service. In accordance with this paradigm, in this study we have determined H/W, S/W and telecommunication service as smartphone business factors. The purpose of this study is to first analyze the influence business factors has on consumer satisfaction and customer loyalty. Secondly, to analyze the influence switching cost has on customer loyalty. As a result, the factor that has a notable influence on customer satisfaction turned out to be the H/W factor. On the other hand S/W factor and communication service turned out to have very little influence. In addition, the factors influencing customer loyalty turned out to be H/W factor and S/W factor. Telecommunication service did not have much of an influence. Customer satisfaction turned out to act as mediation effect between H/W factor and customer loyalty. Like the result of other preceding researches, switching cost turned out to have a significant influence on customer loyalty. This study differs from other studies in that while other existing studies analyzed H/W, S/W and communication service separately, this study analyzed the influence H/W, S/W and communication service as a whole has on customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. We speculate that the results of this study would provide some insight both in an academic and practical level for stagnant smartphone industry.

The Computation of Reinforcement Length of Afforestation Slope (사면녹화 보강토공법의 보강재길이 산정에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Sik-Choon;Nam, Kwang-On;Kim, Jong-Hwan;Lee, Soo-Yang
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2010.03a
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    • pp.1302-1308
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    • 2010
  • This study the change of the safety factor before and after the reinforcement were compared by performing the parameter research based on the limit equilibrium analysis regarding the same cross section after carrying out the safety factor before the reinforcement on the virtual section in order to observe the change of the safety factor of the slop reinforced with the slope planting reinforced earth, and the variation of the safety factor according to the increase of the length of the reinforcement materials and the change of the slope height was analyzed. As the result, the reinforcement effect was insignificant at no more than 0.6 of L/H, the reinforcement length ratio when the reinforcement length was increased, as the increase of the safety factor was slow comparing with the non-reinforced slope. At 3.0m of the slope height, reinforcement on the slope is not necessary, and at 3.0m to 5.0m of the slope height, the inclination was not influencing at no less than 0.6 of L/H. At 5.0m to 9.0m of the slope height, the safety factor was mostly secured on the slope at 0.8 of L/H and the over-reinforced slope appeared at no less than 1.0 of L/H. Also, the safety factor increased as the slope height increases and the slope gets steeper till 0.8 of L/H, but the slope steepness affects more on the increase of the safety factor than the reinforcement material, as the reinforcing force by the reinforcement material became steady.

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형질전환 식물세포배양을 이용한 Human Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor의 생산

  • Hong, Sin-Yeong;Gwon, Tae-Ho;Jang, Yong-Seok;Yang, Mun-Sik
    • 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.11a
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    • pp.447-448
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    • 2001
  • Human garnulocyte-colony stimulating factor(hG-CSF), a hematopoietic growth factor$^{1)}$, was produced and secreted from tobacco cell suspension. hG-CSF produced from tobacco cell suspension culture is biologically active form. The produced amount of hG-CSF is about 100${\mu}g/L$ in 9 days after inoculation.

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Identifying and Sequencing of the Elementary Minor Concepts of the Highest Common Factor (H.C.F.) and the Lowest Common Multiple (L.C.M.) of Numbers

  • Alam, S. K. Samsul
    • Research in Mathematical Education
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.49-61
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    • 2009
  • In this paper some attempts have been made: (a) To identify all the elementary minor concepts of the Highest Common Factor (H.C.F.) and the Lowest Common Multiple (L.C.M.), and (b) To find the sequential order of these elementary concepts. Total 385 elementary minor concepts have been identified and sequenced.

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Characteristics, Mass Transfer Coefficient and Effectiveness Factor of $\beta$-glucosidase Immobilized on the Diazotized Chitin in Bioreactors (Diazotized Chitin에 고정된 $\beta$-glucosidase의 생물반응기에서의 특성, 물질전달계수 및 효율인자에 관한 연구)

  • 김종덕;이경희;서석수
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.494-502
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    • 1991
  • Diazotized chitin(CHITN) as supports of immobilized enzyme, which was obtained by alkaline hydrolysed chitin with NaN3 and HCI was employed to produce CHITN-Gase with glutaraldehyde as bifunctional reagent. Activities of CHITN-Gase were determined with reaction of p-nitro-pheol-$\beta$-D-glucopyranoside(PNG) in plug flow reactor as a reference of CHITA-Gase. Their optimum temperature, pH, Km and Vmax, mass transfer coefficient (h), effctiveness factor(η)were plotted with variation of flow rate and H/D. Mass transfer coefficient(h) of those enzymes increased because of their flux, as flow rates were increased and controlled by reaction rate. Effectiveness factor(η) of both enzymes were nearly 1.0.

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