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Morphological characteristics of major airborne pollen in Korea peninsula

  • Moon, Hye-Kyoung;Kong, Min-Jung;Song, Jun-Ho;Kim, Sun-Yu;Kim, Jin-Suk;Jung, Eun-Hee;Park, Chan-Ho;Lee, Byoung-Yoon;Hong, Suk-Pyo
    • Journal of Species Research
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.159-168
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    • 2015
  • Although airborne pollen is invisible to the eye, it has been known as a major source to respiratory allergic reactions. For this reason, airborne pollen is monitoring in many countries to predict pollen concentration based on locality and season. However, the morphological characteristics of airborne pollen and their potential tendency as an allergen are still obscure. In the present study, we selected 52 airborne pollen samples based on previously reported data and investigated their detail pollen characteristics using LM and SEM. Major airborne pollen in Korea has sorted in 19 families (most angiosperms except four gymnosperm families), and all pollen grains are small to medium in size ($P=17.34-49.86{\mu}m$) apart from the bisaccate pollen grains of Pinaceae ($P=46.49-106.20{\mu}m$). The aperture number and shape vary from sulcate to polyporate. While the inaperture pollen has found only in gymnosperm (Cupressaceae and Taxaceae), triporate or polyporate is common pollen type in angiosperm. The sexine ornamentations could divide into several types, but the most sculpturing types are inconspicuous like psilate, rugulate and granulate. Reticulate pollen grains as a semitectum have occurred the species of genera Platanus and Fraxinus only. To estimate the possible relationships between pollen features and allergen, the results are discussed in botanical context.

Identification keys of Jeonho(Qianhu) and Asam(Eshen) (백화전호(白花前胡)와 자화전호(紫花前胡), 아삼(峨參)의 감별기준(鑑別基準))

  • Lee, Guem-San;Doh, Eui-Jeong;Jeong, Seung-Il;Kim, Hong-Jun;Lee, Jang-Chun;Oh, Seung-Eun;Ju, Young-Sung;Cho, Su-In
    • The Korea Journal of Herbology
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.57-63
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    • 2011
  • Objectives : Peucedani Radix ('Jeonho' in Korean) is the root of Peucedanum praeruptorum or Angelica decursiva. However, the root of Anthriscus sylvestris has usually been distributed as Jeonho. This study was performed to determine the discriminative criteria of Jeonho, focused on distribution in Korean markets. Methods : We have determined identification keys to discriminate each Jeonho samples, through observation of external morphology of original plants, and the research of external and internal morphological features of dried Jeonho herbs. Results : Because of identical to the Korean plant name 'Jeonho', Anthrisci Radix had been came into use as a substitute of Jeonho in Korea during the time of Japanese colonial rule. The original plants of Jeonho and its substitute are discriminated with shape of leaf, leaf margin and color of stem. External morphological features of the medicinal herbs of Jeonho are different in the color of cross-sections, pellucid dot, white powder. Internal morphological points, such as fiber bundle of xylem, seconadary mudullary ray and ray of xylem were also used as discriminative criteria for Jeonho. Further details(e.g. identificaion keys) are in the article. Conclusions : We think that these discriminative criteria will be meaningful in identifying the substitutes and adulterants of Jeonho.

Protein Named Entity Identification Based on Probabilistic Features Derived from GENIA Corpus and Medical Text on the Web

  • Sumathipala, Sagara;Yamada, Koichi;Unehara, Muneyuki;Suzuki, Izumi
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.111-120
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    • 2015
  • Protein named entity identification is one of the most essential and fundamental predecessor for extracting information about protein-protein interactions from biomedical literature. In this paper, we explore the use of abstracts of biomedical literature in MEDLINE for protein name identification and present the results of the conducted experiments. We present a robust and effective approach to classify biomedical named entities into protein and non-protein classes, based on a rich set of features: orthographic, keyword, morphological and newly introduced Protein-Score features. Our procedure shows significant performance in the experiments on GENIA corpus using Random Forest, achieving the highest values of precision 92.7%, recall 91.7%, and F-measure 92.2% for protein identification, while reducing the training and testing time significantly.

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON (PAH) MOLECULES IN THE DISKS AROUND LOW MASS STARS

  • Kim, Kyoung Hee
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.36.1-36.1
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    • 2015
  • We present $5-14{\mu}m$ Infrared Spectrograph spectra of 14 T Tauri stars which show Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) features and reside in 0.7 pc from ${\Theta}_1$ Ori C. The spectral types of nine out of 11 stars have spectral type information, with types ranging from K7-M5. These stars do not supply strong enough UV photons to excite PAH emission in their disks. Therefore, we consider the detection of PAH emission in disks around low mass stars illuminated by an external source of UV photons, namely, from Trapezium OB association, including ${\Theta}_1$ Ori C. The morphological features of PAH emission from most disks around K-M type host stars are unique, not belonging to any known classes of PAH features. We found that the PAH emission strengths decrease as the projected distance of the objects from ${\Theta}_1$ Ori C increase. We suggest future far-IR and submm/mm observations for better understanding of the characteristics and distribution of PAHs in these disks.

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Bark Morphology of Some Korean Gymnosperms (수종 한국산 나자식물 수피의 형태학적 연구)

  • 김경식
    • Journal of Plant Biology
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.339-358
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    • 1992
  • The bark morphology and anatomy of six species in Korean gymnosperms were examined with light and scanning electron microscopes. The species were Thuja orientalis (Cupressaceae), Ginkgo biloba (Ginkgoaceae), Cyeas revoluta (Cycadaceae), Pinus koraiensis (pinaceae), Taxus cuspidata (Taxaceae), Cryptomeria japoniea (Taxodiaceae). We described the bark features such as surface colour, thickness, depth of inner and outer bark. presense or absence and features of expansion tissue of ray, composition of periderm, and component cells of secondary phloem. The comparison with these features showed significant differences among all six species. Furthermore. it was suggested that sclereids types and sieve area shapes in sieve cells might be useful to the comparative morphological studies of gymnosperms.sperms.

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Luminosity Distribution of Dwarf Elliptical-like Galaxies

  • Seo, Mira;Ann, Hong Bae
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.32.2-32.2
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    • 2018
  • We present the structural parameters of ~ 910 dwarf elliptical-like galaxies in the local universe ($z{\lesssim}0.01$) derived from the r-band images of the Sloan Digital SKy Survey (SDSS). We examine the dependence of structural parameters on the morphological types (dS0, dE, dEbc, dSph, and dEblue) and the environment. There is not much difference in the structural parameters among the five subtypes but the mean surface brightness within the effective radius (<${\mu}e$>) of dSph galaxies is clearly different from that of other subtypes. The frequency of disk features such as spiral arm, bar, lens, and rings strongly depends on the morphology of dwarf elliptical-like galaxies with no disk features in dSph galaxies. The absence of disk features and the low surface brightness of dSph galaxies are thought to be closely related to their low mass which leads to different evolution from other subtypes of dwarf elliptical-like galaxies. Density Environments Using IMSNG.

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Development of Electrocardiogram Identification Algorithm using SVM classifier (SVM분류기를 이용한 심전도 개인인식 알고리즘 개발)

  • Lee, Sang-Joon;Lee, Myoung-Ho
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.60 no.3
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    • pp.654-661
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    • 2011
  • This paper is about a personal identification algorithm using an ECG that has been studied by a few researchers recently. Previously published algorithm can be classified as two methods. One is the method that analyzes of ECG features and the other is the morphological analysis of ECG. The main characteristic of proposed algorithm can be classified the method of analysis ECG features. Proposed algorithm adopts DSTW(Down Slope Trace Wave) for extracting ECG features, and applies SVM(Support Vector Machine) to training and testing as a classifier algorithm. We choose 18 ECG files from MIT-BIH Normal Sinus Rhythm Database for estimating of algorithm performance. The algorithm extracts 100 heartbeats from each ECG file, and use 40 heartbeats for training and 60 heartbeats for testing. The proposed algorithm shows clearly superior performance in all ECG data, amounting to 93.89% heartbeat recognition rate and 100% ECG recognition rate.

Fine Needle Aspiration Cytological Findings of Burkitt lymphoma -A Brief Case Report- (버킷 림프종의 세침흡인 세포소견 -짧은 증례 보고-)

  • Jo, Hyang-Jeong;Oh, Jung-Taek;Kim, Gang-Deuk;Kim, Hun-Soo
    • The Korean Journal of Cytopathology
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.175-177
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    • 2007
  • A case of Burkitt lymphoma diagnosed through fine needle aspiration cytology is described, A 66-year-old man presented with lymphadenopathy on the right cervical neck and axillary area. An ultrasonogram and CT scan for the cervical neck showed a multiple variable sized lymphadenopathy with pericapsular invasion and necrotic foci, Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of the cervical lymph nodes revealed very cellular and necrotic smears consisting of diffusely scattered intermediate monotonous round cells, tingible body macrophages and many mitotic figures. Histological features of the excised lymph nodes showed the classic morphological features of Burkitt lymphoma. Recognition of the characteristic cytological features can suggest the possibility of Burkitt lymphoma.

Classification of Arrhythmia Based on Discrete Wavelet Transform and Rough Set Theory

  • Kim, M.J.;J.-S. Han;Park, K.H.;W.C. Bang;Z. Zenn Bien
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.28.5-28
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    • 2001
  • This paper investigates a classification method of the electrocardiogram (ECG) into different disease categories. The features for the classification of the ECG are the coefficients of the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) of ECG signals. The coefficients are calculated with Haar wavelet, and after DWT we can get 64 coefficients. Each coefficient has morphological information and they may be good features when conventional time-domain features are not available. Since all of them are not meaningful, it is needed to reduce the size of meaningful coefficients set. The distributions of each coefficient can be the rules to classify ECG signal. The optimally reduced feature set is obtained by fuzzy c-means algorithm and rough set theory. First, the each coefficient is clustered by fuzzy c-means algorithm and the clustered ...

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[Fe II] $1.64{\mu}m$ Outflow Features around Ultracompact H II Regions in the First Galactic Quadrant

  • Shinn, Jong-Ho;Kim, Kee-Tae;Lee, Jae-Joon;Lee, Yong-Hyun;Kim, Hyun-Jeong;Pyo, Tae-Soo;Koo, Bon-Chul;Kyeong, Jaemann;Hwang, Narae;Park, Byeong-Gon
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.40 no.1
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    • pp.68.2-69
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    • 2015
  • We present [Fe II] $1.644{\mu}m$ features around ultracompact H II regions (UCHIIs) found on a quest for the "footprint" outflow features of UCHIIs -the features produced by outflowing materials ejected during an earlier, active accretion phase of massive young stellar objects (MYSOs). We surveyed 237 UCHIIs in the first Galactic quadrant, employing the CORNISH UCHII catalog and UWIFE data, which is an imaging survey in [Fe II] $1.644{\mu}m$ performed with UKIRT-WFCAM under ~0.''8 seeing conditions. The [Fe II] features were found around five UCHIIs. We interpret the [Fe II] features to be shock-excited by outflows from YSOs and estimate the outflow mass-loss rates from the [Fe II] flux which are ${\sim}1{\times}10^{-6}-4{\times}10^{-5}M{\odot}yr^{-1}$. We propose that the [Fe II] features might be the "footprint" outflow features, but more studies are required to clarify whether or not this is the case. This is based on the morphological relation between the [Fe II] and 5 GHz radio features, the outflow mass-loss rate, the travel time of the [Fe II] features, and the existence of several YSO candidates near the UCHIIs.

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