• 대한한의학방제학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.269-284
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• 2019

This study was to investigate whether cultivated ginseng (CG), cultivated wild simulated ginseng (CWG) and cultivated red ginseng (CRG) extracts influences on the obesity. The saponin contents of 3 kinds of ginsengs were analysed by HPLC-ESI-TOF-MS. Total saponin contents were determined in CG on the most contents and since red ginseng has the highest PD (protopanaxadiol type) / PT (protopanaxatriol type) ratio, there may be differences between ginseng, wild ginseng, and red ginseng with respect to their pharmacological effects. Male C57BL/6J mice were fed a normal diet(N), HFD (60% Kcal fat, C), HFD with CG, CWG and CRG extracts (800 mg/kg) for 5 weeks. We observed change of total body weight, degree of hepatic lipid accumulation and immunohistochemical change of GLP-1 and insulin-secreting cells. Also this study attempts to use the physiological analysis method to analyze the changes of blood lipids, insulin and leptin concentration. The change of body weight and size of accumulated lipid droplets in liver lobules decreased in all of the experimental groups than the control(C) group. In the pancreas, the immunohistochemical density of insulin-secreting cells were significantly stronger in the CWG and CRG than C group. The levels of serum insulin and leptin significantly decreased 55.6%, 54.3% respectively in CWG and CRG. The changes of triglyceride, total cholesterol in serum decreased in CRG than the C group. Obesity related CG, CWG and CRG extracts might have contribute to improvement of obesity by regulating the levels of blood lipids and biochemical indicator of fat accumulation.

• Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.11-19
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• 2015

This paper presents optimized artificial neural networks (ANNs) claims prediction and decision awareness framework that guides owner organizations in their pre-bid construction project decisions to minimize claims. The framework is composed of two genetic optimization ANNs models: a Claims Impact Prediction Model (CIPM), and a Decision Awareness Model (DAM). The CIPM is composed of three separate ANNs that predict the cost and time impacts of the possible claims that may arise in a project. The models also predict the expected types of relationship between the owner and the contractor based on their behavioral and technical decisions during the bidding phase of the project. The framework is implemented using actual data from international projects in the Middle East and Egypt (projects owned by either public or private local organizations who hired international prime contractors to deliver the projects). Literature review, interviews with pertinent experts in the Middle East, and lessons learned from several international construction projects in Egypt determined the input decision variables of the CIPM. The ANNs training, which has been implemented in a spreadsheet environment, was optimized using genetic algorithm (GA). Different weights were assigned as variables to the different layers of each ANN and the total square error was used as the objective function to be minimized. Data was collected from thirty-two international construction projects in order to train and test the ANNs of the CIPM, which predicted cost overruns, schedule delays, and relationships between contracting parties. A genetic optimization backward analysis technique was then applied to develop the Decision Awareness Model (DAM). The DAM combined the three artificial neural networks of the CIPM to assist project owners in setting optimum values for their behavioral and technical decision variables. It implements an intelligent user-friendly input interface which helps project owners in visualizing the impact of their decisions on the project's total cost, original duration, and expected owner-contractor relationship. The framework presents a unique and transparent hybrid genetic algorithm-ANNs training and testing method. It has been implemented in a spreadsheet environment using MS Excel$^{(R)}$ and EVOLVERTM V.5.5. It provides projects' owners of a decision-support tool that raises their awareness regarding their pre-bid decisions for a construction project.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.582-589
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• 2010

As a part of the back-end fuel cycle, transportation of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from nuclear power plants (NPPs) to a fuel storage facility is very important in establishing a nuclear fuel cycle. In Korea, the accumulated amount of SNF in the NPP pools is troublesome since the temporary storage facilities at these NPP pools are expected to be full of SNF within ten years. Therefore, Korea cannot help but plan for the construction of an interim storage facility to solve this problem in the near future. Especially, a decision on several factors, such as where the interim storage facility should be located, how many casks a transport ship can carry at a time and how many casks are initially required, affect the configuration of the transportation system. In order to analyze the various possible candidate scenarios, we assumed four cases for the interim storage facility location, three cases for the load capacity that a transport ship can carry and two cases for the total amount of casks used for transportation. First, this study considered the currently accumulated amount of SNF in Korea, and the amount of SNF generated from NPPs until all NPPs are shut down. Then, how much SNF per year must be transported from the NPPs to an interim storage facility was calculated during an assumed transportation period. Second, 24 candidate transportation scenarios were constructed by a combination of the decision factors. To construct viable yearly transportation schedules for the selected 24 scenarios, we created a spreadsheet program named TranScenario, which was developed by using MS EXCEL. TranScenario can help schedulers input shipping routes and allocate transportation casks. Also, TranScenario provides information on the cask distribution in the NPPs and in the interim storage facility automatically, by displaying it in real time according to the shipping routes, cask types and cask numbers that the user generates. Once a yearly transportation schedule is established, TranScenario provides some statistical information, such as the voyage time, the availability of the interim storage facility, the number of transported casks sent from the NPPs, and the number of transported casks received at the interim storage facility. By using this information, users can verify and validate a yearly transportation schedule. In this way, the 24 candidate scenarios could be constructed easily. Finally, these 24 scenarios were compared in terms of their operation cost.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.451-458
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• 2008

After more than 10 years construction, KSTAR (Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) had finally completed its assembly in June 2007, and then achieved the goal of first-plasma in July 2008 through the four month's commissioning. KSTAR was constructed with fully superconducting magnets with material of $Nb_3Sn$ and NbTi, and their operation temperatures are maintained below 4.5K by the help of Helium Refrigerator System. During the first-plasma operation, plasmas of maximum current of 133kA and maximum pulse width of 865ms were obtained. The KSTAR Integrated Control System (KICS) has successfully fulfilled its missions of surveillance, device operation, machine protection interlock, and data acquisition and management. These and more were all KSTAR commissioning requirements. For reliable and safe operation of KSTAR, 17 local control systems were developed. Those systems must be integrated into the logically single control system, and operate regardless of their platforms and location installed. In order to meet these requirements, KICS was developed as a network-based distributed system and adopted a new framework, named as EPICS (Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System). Also, KICS has some features in KSTAR operation. It performs not only 24 hour continuous plant operation, but the shot-based real-time feedback control by exchanging the initiatives of operation between a central controller and a plasma control system in accordance with the operation sequence. For the diagnosis and analysis of plasma, 11 types of diagnostic system were implemented in KSTAR, and the acquired data from them were archived using MDSpius (Model Driven System), which is widely used in data management of fusion control systems. This paper will cover the design and implementation of the KSTAR integrated control system and the data management and visualization systems. Commissioning results will be introduced in brief.

• 한국자원식물학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.271-276
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• 2012

식품의 원료로 사용가능한 안전한 생약자원 유래의 항비만 소재 개발을 위하여 추출물 단계에서 3T3-L1 전지방세포의 지방세포로의 분화 억제 활성 효과를 나타낸 육의감비탕의 생리활성 성분을 규명하고자 하였다. 70% EtOH로 가열추출 후 계통학적인 용매분획법에 의해 분획한 분획물을 대상으로 3T3-L1 세포의 지방분해 억제시험을 실시한 결과 $CH_2Cl_2$ 분획물에서 가장 우수한 활성이 나타났으며, n-Hexane 분획물과 EtOAc 분획물에서도 약한 지방세포 분화억제 효능이 관찰되었다. 이중 $CH_2Cl_2$ 분획물로부터 각종 chromatography 기법을 통하여 분석한 결과 3종의 phenol류 화합물을 GC-mass 화합물사전 검색을 통해 동정 할 수 있었으며 이 중 1종의 화합물을 HPLC를 이용하여 단리하였다. 단리된 화합물은 육의감비탕을 열추출하는 과정에서 구성하고 있는 생약 중 육계로부터 유래된 유도체인 것으로 추측되며 따라서, 육의감비탕에 포함되어 있는 육계로부터 육의감비탕 조제시 생성되는 물질로 판단된다. 육의감비탕은 선행연구에서 처음으로 개발된 처방으로 본 연구를 통해 단리된 화합물외에도 항비만 효과를 지닌 유사한 화합물들이 존재할 것으로 사료되어 향후 기능성식품의 소재로서 안전하게 사용할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제53권3호
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• pp.432-436
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• 2010

일과성 신생아 당뇨병은 6번 염색체의 부친 이체성, 부친으로부터 유래한 염색체 6q24의 중복, ZAC 또는 HYMAI 유전자의 CpG 섬의 메틸화 결함에 의해 야기된다. 저자들은 고혈당, 거설증, 자궁내성장지연으로 발현되어 부친으로부터 유래된 HYMA1 유전자만을 보인 일과성 신생아 당뇨병 1례를 경험하였다. 생후 18일된 여아가 거설증과 반복되는 고혈당으로 입원하였다. 거설증과 함께 큰 대천문, 작은 턱, 두드러진 눈을 보였으며 혈중 포도당 농도는 200-300 mg/dL로 유지되다가 입원 2일 후부터 인슐린 투여 없이도 정상 범위로 유지되었다. 모체로부터 유래된 메틸화된 대립유전자 유무를 확인하기 위하여 말초 혈액으로부터 genomic DNA를 추출하여 bisulfite를 처리한 후, 메틸화 특이 중합 효소 연쇄 반응으로 HYMAI 유전자의 일부분을 증폭시키고, 제한 효소 BssHII를 이용한 제한 효소 절편 길이 다형성 (restriction fragment length polymorphism, RFLP) 분석을 이용하여 HYMAI 유전자의 메틸화 여부를 확인한 결과, HYMAI 유전자의 메틸화 결함을 보여 부친에서 유래된 HYMAI 유전자만을 갖고 있음을 확인하였다. HYMAI 유전자의 메틸화 검사를 통해 6번 염색체의 각인된 유전자가 증명되었으며 메틸화 결함으로 인해 일과성 신생아 당뇨병이 발생하였다.

• 농약과학회지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.8-18
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• 1999

살균제 $^{14}C$-propiconazole의 토심별 분해를 멸균 및 비멸균 조건의 토양에서 조사하였다. Propiconazole을 토양에 7.55 mg/kg의 수준으로 처리한 후 배양기간 동안 발생된 $^{14}CO_{}2$ 양, 유기용매 추출 및 추출불가 잔류량, 그리고 분해산물을 등을 조사하였다. 배양기간 20주 동안 방출된 약제의 $^{14}CO_{2}$는 멸균 토양의 경우 토심에 따라 $0.7{\sim}1.3%$ 수준이었으며 비멸균 토양의 경우 $4.8{\sim}7.6%$이었다. 토양중 유기용매 추출불가 방사능은 멸균 토양의 경우 토심에 따라 $11.2{\sim}22.12%$ 수준이었으며 비멸균 토양의 경우 $22.1{\sim}41.9%$로서 비멸균 토양에서 더 높았다. 토양중 추출불가 잔류량은 주로 humin에 분포하였으며 배양시간에 따라 증가하였다. 토양중 propiconazole의 주요 분해산물은 수산화 치환된 형태 및 ketone성 화합물이었으며 멸균 토양에서는 모화합물만이 검출되었다. Propiconazole의 토양중 휘발성 물질 및 $CO_{2}$ 생성량과 잔류 및 분해특성은 이 화합물이 화학적 및 생물학적 분해에 안정함을 시사하였다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.893-902
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• 2011

Endophytic fungi are little known for their role in gibberellins (GAs) synthesis and abiotic stress resistance in crop plants. We isolated 10 endophytes from the roots of field-grown soybean and screened their culture filtrates (CF) on the GAs biosynthesis mutant rice line - Waito-C. CF bioassay showed that endophyte GMH-1B significantly promoted the growth of Waito-C compared with controls. GMH-1B was identified as Penicillium minioluteum LHL09 on the basis of ITS regions rDNA sequence homology and phylogenetic analyses. GC/MS-SIM analysis of CF of P. minioluteum revealed the presence of bioactive $GA_4$ and $GA_7$. In endophyte-soybean plant interaction, P. minioluteum association significantly promoted growth characteristics (shoot length, shoot fresh and dry biomasses, chlorophyll content, and leaf area) and nitrogen assimilation, with and without sodium chloride (NaCl)-induced salinity (70 and 140 mM) stress, as compared with control. Field-emission scanning electron microcopy showed active colonization of endophyte with host plants before and after stress treatments. In response to salinity stress, low endogenous abscisic acid and high salicylic acid accumulation in endophyte-associated plants elucidated the stress mitigation by P. minioluteum. The endophytic fungal symbiosis of P. minioluteum also increased the daidzein and genistein contents in the soybean as compared with control plants, under salt stress. Thus, P. minioluteum ameliorated the adverse effects of abiotic salinity stress and rescued soybean plant growth by influencing biosynthesis of the plant's hormones and flavonoids.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.23-29
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• 2005

국내산 점토광물들의 식품 잠재적 가치를 알아보고, 그 활용 특성에 대해 알아보기 위해 점토광물에 대한 항산화성, 항균성, 물성에 대한 영향, 고미취 흡착능력 등을 측정하였다. 전자 공여능에 의한 항산화력 측정 결과 bentonite가 20.6%로 가장 우수하였다. 과산화물가에 의한 항산화력 측정결과 저장 7일째의 POV가는 control 310 meq/kg이었으며, vermiculite가 100 meq/kg로 가장 우수한 산패 지연 효과를 나타내었고, TBA가에 의한 항산화력은 zeolite가 가장 우수하였다. 향균활성 측정결과 illite, vermiculite, zeolite를 첨가한 배지에서 E. coli, .S. aureus의 균주에 대해 증식 지연 효과를 나타내었으며, 농도가 높아질수록 증식 속도가 지연되었다. 응력완화와 파손강도 측정으로부터 각 점토광물은 무의 조직과 물성에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 쌀의 취반시 kaolin, vermiculite를 첨가하였을 때 pentanol, hexanal, nonanal, linoleate, stearic acid, oleic acid 등 고미취의 원인이 되는 대부분 화합물의 peak area는 감소하였다. 이러한 결과로부터 국내산 여러 점토광물은 항산화력 및 유지 산패 지연능력을 가지고 있으며, 향균활성 및 물성 변화 억제 그리고 고미취의 원인이 되는 여러 화합물들을 흡착하는 등 여러 가지 각종 부수적인 효과가 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.562-570
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• 2018

Background: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. In this study, we used a bioactivity-guided isolation technique to identify constituents of Korean Red Ginseng (KRG) with antiproliferative activity against human lung adenocarcinoma cells. Methods: Bioactivity-guided fractionation and preparative/semipreparative HPLC purification were used with LC/MS analysis to separate the bioactive constituents. Cell viability and apoptosis in human lung cancer cell lines (A549, H1264, H1299, and Calu-6) after treatment with KRG extract fractions and constituents thereof were assessed using the water-soluble tetrazolium salt (WST-1) assay and terminal deoxyribonucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) staining, respectively. Caspase activation was assessed by detecting its surrogate marker, cleaved poly adenosine diphosphate (ADP-ribose) polymerase, using an immunoblot assay. The expression and subcellular localization of apoptosis-inducing factor were assessed using immunoblotting and immunofluorescence, respectively. Results and conclusion: Bioactivity-guided fractionation of the KRG extract revealed that its ethyl acetate-soluble fraction exerts significant cytotoxic activity against all human lung cancer cell lines tested by inducing apoptosis. Chemical investigation of the ethyl acetatesoluble fraction led to the isolation of six ginsenosides, including ginsenoside Rb1 (1), ginsenoside Rb2 (2), ginsenoside Rc (3), ginsenoside Rd (4), ginsenoside Rg1 (5), and ginsenoside Rg3 (6). Among the isolated ginsenosides, ginsenoside Rg3 exhibited the most cytotoxic activity against all human lung cancer cell lines examined, with $IC_{50}$ values ranging from $161.1{\mu}M$ to $264.6{\mu}M$. The cytotoxicity of ginsenoside Rg3 was found to be mediated by induction of apoptosis in a caspase-independent manner. These findings provide experimental evidence for a novel biological activity of ginsenoside Rg3 against human lung cancer cells.