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Research Trend about the Development of White Biotech-Based Aromatic Compounds (화이트바이오텍기반 방향족화합물 개발에 관한 연구동향)

  • Lee, Jin-Ho
    • Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.306-315
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    • 2009
  • Due to the depleting petroleum reserve, recurring energy crisis, and global warming, it is necessary to study the development of white biotech-based aromatic chemical feedstock from renewable biomass for replacing petroleum-based one. In particular, the production of aromatic intermediates and derivatives in biosynthetic pathway of aromatic amino acids from glucose might be replaced by the production of petrochemical-based aromatic chemical feedstock including benzene-derived aromatic compounds. In this review, I briefly described the production technology for hydroquinone, catechol, adipic acid, shikimic acid, gallic acid, pyrogallol, vanillin, p-hydroxycinnamic acid, p-hydroxystyrene, p-hydroxybenzoic acid, indigo, and indole 3-acetic acid using metabolic engineering, bioconversion, and chemical process. The problems and possible solutions regarding development of production technology for competitive white biotech-based aromatic compounds were also discussed.

Pre-service Elementary Teachers' Understanding of Ocean Acidification (해양 산성화(Ocean Acidification)에 대한 초등 예비교사들의 이해)

  • Kim, Sung-Kyu
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.661-674
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    • 2017
  • This study used questionnaires to investigate how pre-service elementary teachers understand ocean acidification. As a result of gender, female teachers were more aware of ocean acidification than male teachers, but male teachers had a higher average rate of correct answers, with a lower standard deviation. Teachers from the natural sciences knew more about ocean acidification than did teachers the liberal arts. Teachers ranked environmental crisis in order of most dangerous to least dangerous as follow: global warming and the greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, ocean acidification, and acid rain. About 46.7% of teachers learn about ocean acidification through education, followed by broadcasts, school lectures and the internet. The educational materials most desired for teachers were videos related to ocean acidification. Pre-service elementary teachers have two broad perspectives on ocean acidification. Firstly, they refer to economic loss and food shortages, and secondly, they note that there is a need for improved awareness and publicity about ocean acidification. The role of elementary school teachers is important because their awareness of environmental issues has a considerable effect on teachers perception of the environment. Revitalizing education on ocean acidification and government support are necessary to effectively communicate the seriousness of ocean acidification. Lastly, we need to study ocean acidification in detail so as to be able to persevere toward protecting our ocean ecosystem.

The Concept of the Future and the New Paradigm of the Fifth Spiral: State, Business, Science, Society and Informatization

  • Sabden, Orazaly
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.173-185
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    • 2018
  • At a turn of the third millennium the world storms and quickly changes. It became difficult to expect what expects us tomorrow. The most important are questions of recovery from the crisis and rescue of mankind from forthcoming global changes: warming of climate, water and food problems, social, economic and political conflicts that are shaking the world and other various cataclysms, accidents, negative processes. It puts before mankind the problem which never solved by our civilization. All this is caused by ignoring of objective economic laws, laws of wildlife and also by violation of cyclic development management's laws. In article the concept of strategy of mankind's survival in XXI and next centuries, the principles of creation of planetary house of universal civilization for post-industrial world based on spirituality scientific and technological revolutions, ecology, space exploration, economy and world safety are considered. Introduction of uniform universal measurement of currency for the whole world in the form of "power" is offered. Important aspect of a research is theoretical postulate on integrated innovative society. The author puts forward a new paradigm of government on a basis of 5 spirals. The basic model of forced development of small and medium business, including 9 projects, is developed.

The measured field survey for the improvement of the working environment of workers in the plant factory (식물공장 근로자의 작업 환경개선을 위한 현장실측 연구)

  • Kwo, Hyuk-Min;Jeong, Seok-Hwan;Kang, Joo-Won;Yang, Jeong-Hoo
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.43-52
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    • 2014
  • A plant factory system is getting the spotlight as alternatives to cope with the weather anomaly and food crisis because of the global warming. A study on 'Plant Processing Factory System' has been proceeded to develope 'low-carbon green growth' since our government selected it as the green technologies in 2010. The plant factory has played a major role in growth industries connected to many other fields like low-carbon as well as lighting and automated system. This study is aimed to solve the problems on low productivity and health problem of plant workers caused by highly concentrated carbon dioxide and low temperature in each process in the plant factory. It is aimed to research data to understand the actual conditions of plant workers and improve the thermal environment.

The Financial Crisis Effects on the Family Life -A Comparison bewteen Before and After IMF- (경제적 위기가 가정생활에 미친영향 -IMF관리체계 전후의 비교-)

  • 송유숙
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.121-138
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of this study were to identify the factors related to the changes of family total income total expenditures housing maintenance costs food expenditures and clothing expenditure, The data used for these purposes was collected from housewives living in jeonbuk area by questionaire in May 1998. Sample size of this data was 341 households. Statistics performed for the analysis were frequencies percentage means and multiple regression analysis. The results of this study were as follows; First monthly income decreased by 370,000 won than last year. The variables contributing to decreasing income were job type of household head and educational attainment of housewives the amount of total family current income total household expenditure and the perception of economic status. Second monthly expenditure decreased by 24,000 won than last year. The variables related to decreasing expenditure were educational attainment of housewives and the perception of economic stats. Third the variables related to their total household change were job type of household head number of family current household expenditure and the perception of economic status. finally the variables associated with total satisfaciotn of family life were the amount of leisure time the perception of economic attainment the confirmity of family and the amount of current household expenditure.

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Improved High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic Method for the Determination of N-vanillyl-n-nonivamide(nonivamide) in Korean Hot Peppers (HPLC 법에 의한 국산 고추에 함유되어 있는 Nonivamide의 신규 분석법 개발)

  • Choi, Suk-Hyun
    • Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.585-591
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    • 2006
  • We report a novel HPLC method for analyzing the capsaicinoids and nonivamide. The following conditions were used: a total column and column temperature of $3^{\circ}C$, a detection wavelength of 280 nm, an eluent containing acetonitrile : 0.5% formic acid(31:69, v/v). The experimental data was compared with standard nonivamide and capsaicin. The results showed that nonivamide was eluted in 96.7 minutes with a recovery ratio of 96.5% after adding known nonivamide. In addition, the detection limit for nonivamide was 18.6 ng. The capsaicinoids from Korean pepper were extracted (after blooming 60th) from 3 breeds cultivated in Korea, Buchon, Chungyang and Hanbando. and crisis it analyzed sympathizes the nonivamide in the result nonivamide from the Buchon and the Chungyang which are not detected from the Hanbando $0.16{\sim}0.24{\mu}g/g$ it detects with very small amount it contains it confirmed the each capsaicinoid with the HPLC and the LC-MS. These results are expected contribute to the quality control of various product processes, which includes product delivery inspection as well as examining the capsaicinoids present in the product for possible medicine manufacture and various foodstuff, and the nonivamide content, which may be a feed for various manufacturing processes involving chemical synthesis.

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Metagenomic Analysis of the Fecal Microbiomes of Wild Asian Elephants Reveals Microflora and Enzymes that Mainly Digest Hemicellulose

  • Zhang, Chengbo;Xu, Bo;Lu, Tao;Huang, Zunxi
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.29 no.8
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    • pp.1255-1265
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    • 2019
  • To investigate the diversity of gastrointestinal microflora and lignocellulose-degrading enzymes in wild Asian elephants, three of these animals living in the same group were selected for study from the Wild Elephant Valley in the Xishuangbanna Nature Reserve of Yunnan Province, China. Fresh fecal samples from the three wild Asian elephants were analyzed by metagenomic sequencing to study the diversity of their gastrointestinal microbes and cellulolytic enzymes. There were a high abundance of Firmicutes and a higher abundance of hemicellulose-degrading hydrolases than cellulose-degrading hydrolases in the wild Asian elephants. Furthermore, there were a high abundance and a rich diversity of carbohydrate active enzymes (CAZymes) obtained from the gene set annotation of the three samples, with the majority of them showing low identity with the CAZy database entry. About half of the CAZymes had no species source at the phylum or genus level. These indicated that the wild Asian elephants might possess greater ability to digest hemicellulose than cellulose to provide energy, and moreover, the gastrointestinal tracts of these pachyderms might be a potential source of novel efficient lignocellulose-degrading enzymes. Therefore, the exploitation and utilization of these enzyme resources could help us to alleviate the current energy crisis and ensure food security.

Peasant Societies in Colonial East Asia: The Universality and Particularity of Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia (식민시대 동아시아의 소농사회: 동남아와 동북아의 보편성과 특수성)

  • Park, Sa-Myung
    • The Southeast Asian review
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.1-41
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    • 2012
  • The peasant societies of East Asia had been challenged by capitalist plantation since colonization and by socialist collectivization since decolonization. The former was decisively weakened due to the crisis of the capitalist system in the 1930s and the collapse of the colonial order in the 1940s; The latter was thoroughly discredited due to the reform of the socialist system in the 1980s and the end of the Cold War in the 1990s. The failure of the two epochal challenges demonstrates the historical sustainability of peasant societies in East Asia. Their survival represents the universality of Northeast and Southeast Asia, which can be ascribed to the ecological environment and production process of wet-rice agriculture for their common staple food. In spite of their diverse differences, indeed, peasant societies in colonial East Asia shared profound similarities in their basic motivations (morality-rationality), central tendencies (involution - polarization), structural outcomes (dualism - pluralism), and future prospects (survival-extinction).

Long-chain Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders and Therapeutic Approach (장쇄 지방산 산화 장애와 치료적 접근법)

  • Lee, Jung Hyun
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Inherited Metabolic disease
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2022
  • Long-chain fatty acid oxidation disorders (LC-FAOD) are an autosomal recessive inherited rare disease group that result in an acute metabolic crisis and chronic energy deficiency owing to the deficiency in an enzyme that converts long-chain fatty acids into energy. LC-FAOD includes carnitine palmitoyltransferase type 1 (CPT1), carnitine-acylcarnitine translocase (CACT), carnitine palmitoyltransferase type 2 (CPT2), very long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (VLCAD), long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (LCHAD), and trifunctional protein (TFP) deficiencies. Common symptoms of LC-FAOD are hypoketotic hypoglycemia, cardiomyopathy, and myopathy. Depending on symptom onset, the disease can be divided as neonatal period, late infancy and early childhood, adolescence, or adult onset, but symptoms can appear at any time. The neonatal screening test (NBS) can be used to identify the characteristic plasma acylcarnitine profiles for each disease and confirmed by deficient enzyme analysis or molecular testing. Before introduction of NBS, the mortality rate of LC-FAOD was very high. With NBS implementation as routine neonatal care, the mortality rate was dramatically decreased, but severe symptoms such as rhabdomyolysis recur frequently and affect the quality of life. Triheptanoin (Dojolvi®), the first drug for pediatric and adult patients with molecularly confirmed LC-FAOD, has recently been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2020. In this review, the diagnosis of LC-FAOD and treatment including triheptanoin are summarized.

Present and Future Agricultural Extension System of Malawi (말라위 농촌지도사업의 현재와 미래)

  • Magomero, Siliro Nkhukuzalira;Park, Duk-Byeong
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.211-254
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    • 2014
  • Malawi's agricultural extension system has been subjected to a number of criticisms in recent times for failing to contribute significantly to agricultural development and for not responding to the needs of the smallholder farmers. Despite this, extension is still seen as key to improving poverty and rural livelihoods.There is a number of challenges facing extension that require a response from the public sector and other stakeholders. A clear and positive response to these challenges will help shape the future of agricultural extension in Malawi for the benefit of all farmers and the attainment of the broad policy objectives of government: democratization, market liberalization, decentralization, HIV/AIDS crisis, shrinking public sector resources, public sector reform, and co-ordination, etc. The mission is to provide pluralistic demand driven extensions services and promote equalisation and co-ordination in service provision in order to achieve food security at household level, there-by reducing poverty. On the other hand the vision is that 'All farmers' demand and access high quality extension services from those best able to provide them'. DAES implements its extension policy through the District Agricultural Extension Services System (DAESS), based on Model Village Approach.