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Enhancement of Antioxidant Quality of Green Leafy Vegetables upon Different Cooking Method

  • Hossain, Afzal;Khatun, Mst. Afifa;Islam, Mahfuza;Huque, Roksana
    • Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.216-222
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    • 2017
  • Antioxidant rich green leafy vegetables including garden spinach leaf, water spinach leaf, Indian spinach leaf, and green leaved amaranth were selected to evaluate the effects of water boiling and oil frying on their total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoid content (TFC), reducing power (RP), and antioxidant capacity. The results revealed that there was a significant increase in TPC, TFC, and RP in all the selected vegetables indicating the effectiveness of the cooking process on the antioxidant potential of leafy vegetables. Both cooking processes enhanced significantly (P<0.05) the radical scavenging ability, especially the oil fried samples showed the highest values. There is a significant reduction in the vitamin C content in all the vegetables due to boiling and frying except in the Indian spinach leaf. However, the present findings suggest that boiling and frying can be used to enhance the antioxidant ability, by increasing the bioaccessibility of health-promoting constituents from the four vegetables investigated in this study.

Toxicogenomic Study to Identify Potential New Mechanistic Markers on Direct-Acting Mutagens in Human Hepatocytes (THLE-3)

  • Kim, Youn-Jung;Song, Mi-Kyung;Song, Mee;Ryu, Jae-Chun
    • Molecular & Cellular Toxicology
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.231-237
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    • 2007
  • Exposure to DNA-damaging agents can elicit a variety of stress-related responses that may alter the expression of genes associated with numerous biological pathways. We used 19 k whole human genome chip to detect gene expression profiles and potential signature genes in human normal hepatocytes (THLE-3) by treatment of five direct acting mutagens, furylfuramide (AF-2), N-nitroso-N-methylurea (MNU), methylmethanesulfonate (MMS), 4-nitroquinoline-N-oxide (4-NQO) and 2-nitrofluorene (2NF) of the $IC_{20}$ concentration for 3 h. Fifty one up-regulated common genes and 45 down-regulated common genes above 1.5-fold by five direct-acting mutagens were identified by clustering analysis. Many of these changed genes have some association with apoptosis, control of cell cycle, regulation of transcription and signal transduction. Genes related to these functions, as TP73L, E2F5, MST016, SOX5, MAFB, LIF, SII3, TFIIS, EMR1, CYTL1, CX3CR1 and RHOH are up-regulated. Down-regulated genes are ALOX15B, xs155, IFITM1, BATF, VAV2, CD79A, DCDC2, TNFSF8 and KOX8. We suggest that gene expression profiling on mutagens by toxicogenomic analysis affords promising opportunities to reveal potential new mechanistic markers of genotoxicity.

Effect of Cooling Hands in the Cold Water for the Physiological Responses and Clothing Comfort -Focused on Vascular Hunting Reaction, Thermal Sensation and Pain Sensation- (손의 한랭자극이 인체생리반응과 의복의 쾌적성에 미치는 영향 -한랭혈관반응, 온랭감각, 한랭통증을 중심으로-)

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    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.279-289
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    • 2004
  • This study was conducted to compare the hunting reaction of finger in the cold water. Finger skin temperature is measured the left middle finger tip immersion in cold water of 5℃ for 30 minutes and measurements were made on finger skin temperature(Ts), thermal comfort, and cold pain sensations during the experiment at the spring (March) and Winter(December). Results were follows. Is before immersion was at the highest in spring and at the lowest in winter and was closely related to the indoor temperature Ts during immersion and recovery. Mean of finger skin temperature(MST), the skin temperature at the first rise(TTR) and amplitude of finger skin temperature reaction during immersion(AT) were significant higher in spring than that in winter(P<.01). The lowest skin temperature(LST) during the cold water immersion were significantly higher in spring than that in winter (P<.05). The frequency of the appearance of cold-Induced vase dilation(CIVD) was higher in spring than that in winter. However, time for the first temperature(TTR) and recovery time(RT) had no seasonal variation. In addition, cold pains during immersion were felt more strongly in spring than in winter. Local thermal sensation, finger thermal sensation in dynamic state during hand immersion was different from that in the Winter. Spring was slowly cold in cold water immersion.

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Evaluation of Thermal Comfort during Sleeping in Summer - Part II : About mean Skin Temperatures and Physiological Signals - (여름철 수면시 온열쾌적감 평가 -제 2보 : 평균 피부온도 및 생리신호에 관하여 -)

  • Kim Dong-Gyu;Kum Jong-Soo;Park Jong-Il
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2006
  • This study was performed to evaluate sleep efficiencies and conditions for comfortable sleep based on the analysis of EEGs and MST under four thermals conditions. Five female subjects who have similar life cycle and sleep patterns were participated for the sleep experiment. Their age was from 20 to 22 years old. They were healthy, and had regular sleep with consistent bed and wakeup time. It was checked whether they had a good sleep before the night of experiment. Experiments were performed in an environmental chamber of $4.1\times4.9\times2.7m$ size. EEGs were obtained from C3-A2 and C4-Al electrode sites. Sleep stages were classified, then TST, SWS latency and SWS/TST were calculated for the evaluation for sleep efficiencies on thermal conditions. As results, it was concluded that indoor thermal environments of $24\~26^{\circ}C$ was the best for comfortable and deep sleep.

Survey on Nucleotide Encoding Techniques and SVM Kernel Design for Human Splice Site Prediction

  • Bari, A.T.M. Golam;Reaz, Mst. Rokeya;Choi, Ho-Jin;Jeong, Byeong-Soo
    • Interdisciplinary Bio Central
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.14.1-14.6
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    • 2012
  • Splice site prediction in DNA sequence is a basic search problem for finding exon/intron and intron/exon boundaries. Removing introns and then joining the exons together forms the mRNA sequence. These sequences are the input of the translation process. It is a necessary step in the central dogma of molecular biology. The main task of splice site prediction is to find out the exact GT and AG ended sequences. Then it identifies the true and false GT and AG ended sequences among those candidate sequences. In this paper, we survey research works on splice site prediction based on support vector machine (SVM). The basic difference between these research works is nucleotide encoding technique and SVM kernel selection. Some methods encode the DNA sequence in a sparse way whereas others encode in a probabilistic manner. The encoded sequences serve as input of SVM. The task of SVM is to classify them using its learning model. The accuracy of classification largely depends on the proper kernel selection for sequence data as well as a selection of kernel parameter. We observe each encoding technique and classify them according to their similarity. Then we discuss about kernel and their parameter selection. Our survey paper provides a basic understanding of encoding approaches and proper kernel selection of SVM for splice site prediction.

Efficient Flooding Methods for Link-state Routing Protocols (Link-state 라우팅 프로토콜을 위한 효율적인 플러딩 방법)

  • Kim, Jeong-Ho;Lee, Seung-Hwan;Rhee, Seung-Hyong
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.37B no.9
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    • pp.760-766
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we propose an efficient flooding process on link-state routing protocol. It is possible to exchange information using typical link-state routing protocol; for example, OSPF(Open Short Path First) or IS-IS(Intermediate system routing protocol) that floods LSA between nodes when the network topology change occurs. However, while the scale of network is getting bigger, it affects the network extensibility because of the unnecessary LSA that causes the increasing utilization of CPU, memory and bandwidth. An existing algorithm based on the Minimum spanning tree has both network instability and inefficient flooding problem. So, we propose algorithm for efficient flooding while maintaining network stability. The simulation results show that the flooding of proposed algorithm is more efficient than existing algorithm.

Evaluation of Thermal Comfort during Sleeping in Summer - Part IV : Study on Indoor Temperature Conditions for Comfort Sleep - (여름철 수면시 온열쾌적감 평가 - 제4보 : 쾌적수면을 위한 실내온도 설정에 관한 연구 -)

  • Kum, Jong-Soo;Kim, Dong-Gyu;Park, Jong-Il
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.307-312
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    • 2007
  • This study was performed to evaluate sleep efficiencies and conditions for comfortable sleep based on the analysis of sleep efficiency and MST under four thermals conditions ($22^{\circ}C,\;24^{\circ}C,\;26^{\circ}C,\;30^{\circ}C$). Five female subjects who have similar life cycle and sleep patterns were participated for the sleep experiment. Their age was from 20 to 22 years old. They were healthy, and had regular sleep with consistent bed and wakeup time. It was checked whether they had a good sleep before the night of experiment. Experiments were performed in an environmental chamber using thermo-hygrostat. The physiological signal (EEG) for sleep stage were obtained from C3-A2 and C4-Al electrode sites. Sleep stages were classified, then SWS latency and SWS/TST were calculated for the evaluation for sleep efficiencies on thermal conditions. As results, mean skin temperature for comfort sleeping was $34.5{\sim}35.4^{\circ}C$. Considering sleep efficiency and mean skin temperature, indoor room temperature of upper limit was $28.1^{\circ}C$.

Effect of PEO Process Conditions on Oxidized Surface Properties of Mg alloy, AZ31 and AZ91. I. Applied Voltage and Time (PEO 처리조건에 따른 마그네슘 합금 AZ31과 AZ91의 산화표면피막특성에 대한 연구. I. 전압과 시간의 영향)

  • Ham, Jae-Ho;Jeon, Min-Seok;Kim, Yong-Nam;Shin, Min Chul;Kim, Kwang Youp;Kim, Bae-Yeon
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.218-224
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    • 2016
  • The surface of Mg alloy, AZ31 and AZ91, were treated by PEO (plasma electrolytic oxidation) in Na-P system electrolyte, with different applied voltage and time. Thickness, roughness and X-ray crystallographic analysis revealed several results. The more applied time and voltage of PEO treated, the thicker oxidized surface coating layer were covered. And surface roughness increased with the thickness of oxidized layer. It was thought that when oxide layer grew, resistivity and breakdown voltage increased with the thickness of layer, and then, the energy of micro plasma need to be higher then before. So, it made craters and pores of surface become greater, which were responsible for the coarse surface.

Effect of PEO Process Conditions on Oxidized Surface Properties of Mg alloy, AZ31 and AZ91. II. Electrolyte (PEO 처리조건에 따른 마그네슘 합금 AZ31과 AZ91의 산화표면피막특성에 대한 연구. II. 전해질의 영향)

  • Ham, Jae-Ho;Jeon, Min-Seok;Kim, Yong-Nam;Shin, Hyun-Gyoo;Kim, Sung Youp;Kim, Bae-Yeon
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.225-230
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    • 2016
  • Effect of electrolyte composition and concentration on PEO coating layer were investigated. Mg alloy, Surface of AZ31 and AZ91 were oxidized using PEO with different electrolyte system, Na-P and Na-Si. and applied voltage and concentration. We measured thickness, roughness, X-ray crystallographic analysis and breakdown voltage of the oxidized layer. When increasing concentration of electrolyte, the thickness of oxide layer also increased too. And roughness also increased as concentration of electrolyte increasing. Breakdown voltage of coated layer showed same behavior, the voltage goes high as increasing thickness of coating layer, as increasing concentration of electrolyte, and increasing applied voltage of PEO. $Mg_2SiO_4$ phase were observed as well as MgO.

A Algorithm on Optimizing Traffic Network by the Control of Traffic Signal Timing (교통신호등 제어를 통한 교통망 최적화 알고리즘)

  • An, Yeong-Pil;Kim, Dong-Choon;Na, Seung-kwon
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.472-478
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, we deals with optimizing traffic signal timing in grid networks by using a network topology design method. Optimizing traffic signal timing includes minimizing delay time delay between departure and destination by interlocking straight traffic signal in the minimum spanning tree(MST). On the assumption that users of network abide by the paths provided in this paper, this paper shows optimizing traffic signal timing in grid networks. the paths provided in this paper is gathered by using Dijkstra algorithm used in computer networks. The results indicate minimizing delay time of passing through the grid network and interlocking traffic signal in the grid network.