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Redescription of the First Zoea of Microcassiope orientalis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Xanthidae)

  • Lee, Seok Hyun
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.277-282
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    • 2020
  • The first zoea of Microcassiope orientalis is described and illustrated from laboratory hatched materials. Comparisons with previous studies of the first zoeal stages in the Xanthidae from Korean waters, revealed that some former studies were incorrected. The first zoea of M. orientalis described by Ko was identical to the first zoea of Macromedaeus distinguendus described by Terada. In addition, zoeal stages of Nanocassiope granullipes described by Ko & Clark was revealed the zoeal stages of M. cassiopes. So, the first zoea of M. orientalis is redescribed and illustrated in detailed with color photo herein, and compare its morphological characteristics with previous described zoea of N. granulipes by Ko & Clark.

Influence of Mixing Procedure on Properties of Carbon Black-filled Natural Rubber Compounds

  • Park, Sung-Seen
    • Macromolecular Research
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.192-198
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    • 2000
  • Cure characteristics and physical properties of carbon black-filled natural rubber (NR) compounds depending on the mixing procedure were studied using the compounds with different pre-final mixing (FM-1) stages. Carbon master batch (MB) and first and second remitting (1RM and 2RM) stages were employed as the FM-1 stage. Bound rubber content of the FM compound decreased with increasing the mixing steps. This was due to the decrease of the molecular weight distribution of the polymer by the rubber chain scission during the mixing. The Mooney viscosity decreased with increasing the mixing steps. Cure characteristics of the compounds were found to be different with the mixing procedures. The cure times of the compound became slower by increasing the number of the mixing steps. This was explained by the length of rubber chain, the carbon black network, distribution of the curatives in the compound, and immobilization of the polymeric segments. Modulus and tensile strength of the vulcanizate did not show a specific trend with the mixing procedure. Fatigue life of the vulcanizate increased by increasing the mixing stages.

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Proposal on the Leisure life Cycle Model by Approaching life Cycle of Leisure Activity (여가에 대한 생애주기 관점과 여가생활주기 단계별 모형 개발)

  • Yoon, So-Young
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.103-115
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    • 2010
  • This study approached the leisure with the step of life cycle, analyzing the process of leisure career and leisure development in individual life. The leisure life cycle leads the other related studies by examining the concepts of continuity, change, leisure socialization, and leisure career. It also analyzes the patterns and the structures of the use of life time, using '2004 Time Use Survey' from the Korea National Statistical Office. As a result, this study suggests new 3 steps of leisure life cycle: participating and expanding stages, selective and concentrating stage, and continuing and absorbed stage. These steps set up the goal of leisure program by the periods. They also can help setting the direction of leisure activities, and can be used as basic data that can make up the leisure activity program models step by step. Moreover, the development of model can be used as valuable information to draw up the plans that can prepare for aging society and demand the support of policy.

An Analytical Study on Quality of Life and family Support of Patients with Parkinson's Disease (파킨슨병 환자의 삶의 질과 가족지지 관련요인 분석)

  • Sohng Kyeong-Yae;Lee Kwang-Soo;Choi Dong-Won
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursing
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.231-239
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    • 2005
  • Purpose: Investigation of the quality of life (QoL), family support and associated variables in patients with Parkinson's disease. Methods: The data were collected from 102 patients registered in the neurology department of C University Hospital. QoL was assessed using the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39) and Family Support Scale. Modified Hoehn and Yahr (H & Y) stages were obtained from an interview and clinical examination by a neurologist. Collected data were analyzed using the SAS program. Results: The participants' PDQ-39 average score was 34.34. The scores were significantly higher for participants who were older, who had a job and who were over 2.5 on the H & Y stage. The average for Family support scores was 41.6. Participants who had a living spouse, religion and a job scored higher than those who did not. PDQ-39 score had a positive correlation with age, job, and H & Y stage. Family support and PDQ-39 score were also positively correlated. Conclusion: It is recommended a program involving family that improves family support and be developed and that it be varied according to different H & Y stages, in order to improve QoL.

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The Effect of Lifestyle Patterns on Decision Making Process for Foodservice Purchase (라이프스타일 유형이 외식 구매 의사 결정 과정에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Ki-Young;Bae, Hyun-Su;Heo, Jun
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.257-268
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study was to conduct factor analysis on Foodservice consumers' lifestyle patterns in dietary life, classify lifestyle patterns, and identify how lifestyle patterns influence the 5 stages of decision making process for purchase. Among 300 copies of the distributed questionnaire, 259 copies were collected for this study. It used a total of 283 copies as the effective samples for empirical analysis except 12 copies with false entries among them. For data analysis, it conducted frequency analysis, validity and reliability analysis, factor analysis, and multiple regression analysis using SPSS 12.0. As a result, Hypothesis 1 was significant while Hypothesis 2, 3, and 5 were partially significant. On the contrary, Hypothesis 4 was not significant. Therefore, lifestyle patterns had partially significant effects on decision making process for dining-out purchase. This study subdivided dining-out consumers' lifestyles which were limited to dietary life, and also subdivided decision making process for dining-out consumers' dining-out purchase into five stages. It is significant and very suggestive that this study identified what lifestyle patterns concretely had significant effects on the specific decision making stage. In the future, the researches on adolescent class and silver class should be executed continuously.

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Seasonal and Regional Variations of Agar Yield and Properties of Tetrasporophytes and Gametophytes in Korean Gracilaria verrucosa (한국산 꼬시래기 (Gracilaria verrucosa)의 사분포자체와 배우체의 한천 수율 및 특성의 계절적·지역적 변화)

  • KIM Young Sik;KOO Jae-Geun
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.36 no.5
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    • pp.474-479
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    • 2003
  • The effect of season, life stages and harvesting sites on the yield and properties of agars extracted from Gracilaria verrucosa were determined. G. verrucosa were collected seasonally from November 2001 to August 2002 at Cheongsapo and Boryong, Korea. The plants were sorted Into the different life stages (tetrasporophytes and gametophytes) and dried at $60^{\circ}C.$ The yield, sulfate, protein, uronic acid and 3,6-anhydrogalactose of the agar were determined, and standard parameters of physical quality were measured. No differences were found in yield and properties of agars from the two different harvesting sites and from lift history phases. The yield of agar was maximum in summer $(17.3-20.0\%)$ and minimum in winter $(11.9-13.1\%).$ Maximum gel strength occurred in winter when the agar yield and sulfate content were low. Gel strength was negatively correlated with agar yleld. Seasonal variations in agar yield and its quality were discussed in a view to managing the exploitation of this resource.

Changes in Habitat Use by Female Japanese Pipistrelles (Pipistrellus abramus) during Different Stages of Reproduction Revealed by Radio Telemetry

  • Chung, Chul Un;Kim, Sung Chul;Jeon, Young Shin;Han, Sang Hoon
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.26 no.7
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    • pp.817-826
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    • 2017
  • We analyzed how foraging area use changed in female Pipistrellus abramus during the breeding season. Radio tracking was used to follow 12 female P. abramus in Gyeongju City, from 2013 to 2015. We followed three bats in each of four stages of reproduction: early pregnancy, late pregnancy, lactation, and post-lactation. Our data showed that the usable area of a foraging site and the area that was actually used by bats in that site were different, and foraging site use also differed according to stage of reproduction. The bats used arable land the most, with use rates of 57%, 40.4%, and 73.2% during early pregnancy, late pregnancy, and lactation, respectively. Bats in a post-lactation state did not use arable areas at all and instead foraged over bodies of water 90% of the time. There was no difference in the use of each foraging environment between bats in early pregnancy and late pregnancy. However, bats in late pregnancy and those that were lactating did use arable land to different extents, and bats that were lactating and those that were post-lactation also used arable land and bodies of water to different extents.

The Investment Always Will Get Gains? Advertising Expenditure and Enterprise Performance Based on Corporate Life Cycle

  • Li, Liang;Amine, Bouirig;Pang, Yuxin;Jiang, Minxing
    • Asia Pacific Journal of Business Review
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.61-76
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    • 2022
  • Based on the concept of advertising expenditure, manufacturing firm performance, and enterprise life cycle, this research conducts the listed Chinese manufacturing listed in 2016-2018 as the research sampling and divides these listed companies into three periods: growth, maturity, and decline. Next, this paper conducts empirical research from three aspects: advertising expenditure or investment and manufacturing firm performance, lag effect of advertising expenditure, and outcome effect and lag effect of advertising investment. It is found that in different stages of manufacturing enterprises, different advertising expenditures will have different impacts on the performance of manufacturing enterprises. In the growth stage, the advertising investment of manufacturing enterprises will significantly affect the performance results of the current period, and there will be the long-term lag effect. In contrast, the mature stage of enterprises' advertising investment has a shorter period of lag effect, while in the recession stage, the mature stage of manufacturing enterprises' advertising investment will have a shorter period of lag effect. The empirical results are not significant. This study provides a reference for manufacturing enterprises in different stages in the decision-making of advertising investment.

Proteomic Analysis and Extensive Protein Identification from Dry, Germinating Arabidopsis Seeds and Young Seedlings

  • Fu, Qiang;Wang, Bai-Chen;Jin, Xiang;Li, Hong-Bing;Han, Pei;Wei, Kai-Hua;Zhang, Xue-Min;Zhu, Yu-Xian
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.38 no.6
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    • pp.650-660
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    • 2005
  • Proteins accumulated in dry, stratified Arabidopsis seeds or young seedlings, totaled 1100 to 1300 depending on the time of sampling, were analyzed by using immobilized pH gradient 2-DE gel electrophoresis. The molecular identities of 437 polypeptides, encoded by 355 independent genes, were determined by MALDI-TOF or TOF-TOF mass spectrometry. In the sum, 293 were present at all stages and 95 were accumulated during the time of radicle protrusion while another 18 appeared in later stages. Further analysis showed that 226 of the identified polypeptides could be located in different metabolic pathways. Proteins involved in carbohydrate, energy and amino acid metabolism constituted to about 1/4, and those involved in metabolism of vitamins and cofactors constituted for about 3% of the total signal intensity in gels prepared from 72 h seedlings. Enzymes related to genetic information processing increased very quickly during early imbibition and reached highest level around 30 h of germination.

Successional Changes in Seed Banks in Abandoned Rice Fields in Gwangneung, Central Korea

  • Lee, Seon-Mi;Cho, Yong-Chan;Shin, Hyun-Chul;Oh, Woo-Seok;Seol, Eun-Sil;Park, Sung-Ae;Lee, Chang-Seok
    • Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.269-276
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    • 2008
  • In order to understand the role of seed banks for restoration, seed banks in abandoned rice fields in the Gwangneung National Arboretum, central Korea were investigated using the seedling emergence method. The study sites represented three stages: an initial stage dominated by forbs such as Persicaria thunbergii and Juncus effuses var. decipiens, a middle stage dominated by Salix, and a late stage dominated by Quercus aliena and Prunus padus (in nearby riparian forest chosen as a reference stand). DCA ordination arranged the stands according to the number of years since abandonment. CCA ordination identified the dominant environmental variables correlated most closely with Axes 1 and 2 as $Mg^{2+}$ (intraset correlation was 0.827) and $K^+$ (intraset correlation was -0.677), respectively. Species richness and diversity decreased from the initial stage (H'=2.61) to the middle (H'=1.79) and late (H'=0.75) stages. A total of 49 species $(/m^2)$ and 18,620 seedlings $(/m^2)$ emerged out of the seed bank samples. The DCA ordination and similarity analysis detected a large discrepancy between the composition of the actual vegetation and the seed bank. We conclude that the contribution of seed bank to restoration is low. However, seed bank may help the recovery of forbs after disturbance. Some of our results are consistent with the tolerance model of succession whereas others follow the trajectory of the facilitation model. More research on succession will be required to understand the underlying mechanisms.