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Change in composition of gut microbiota by exposure of natural medicines including Glycyrrhizae Radix in mice

  • Jeon, Yong-Deok;Song, Young-Jae;Jin, Jong-Sik
    • 한국자원식물학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국자원식물학회 2018년도 추계학술대회
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    • pp.126-126
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    • 2018
  • Many of researches have revealed that human intestinal microbiota is related to health. Several diseases like obesity, diabetes, and hypertension are affected by the microbiota directly and indirectly. So, interventions with food and drug have been tried to change a composition of the microbiota to better condition. However, few natural medicines have elucidated to date. To understand an influence on microbiota by plant materials including Glycyrrhizae Radix, the extract of medicines were administered to mice and the feces were collected before and after the administration. The feces were analyzed by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP). The changes in composition of mice gut microbiota were detected and analyzed. The data could be utilized to further study about biological activities of the plant medicines.

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철도 무도상판형교의 고유진동특성에 대한 연구 (A Study on the Characteristic of Natural Frequencies of Railway Open Deck Plate Girder Bridges)

  • 오지택;최진유;김현민
    • 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국철도학회 2002년도 추계학술대회 논문집(II)
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    • pp.1041-1046
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    • 2002
  • A railway open deck plate girder bridge without ballast should support relatively heavier vehicle loads compared with its self-weight. For such a reason, actual dynamic response of the bridge is considerably differing with normal prediction because additional masses added from vehicle to a bridge have an effect on the dynamic characteristics of the bridge. These differences affect to the estimation of a natural frequency change that adopted for one of the evaluation technique of strength decrease, and these make trouble to the analysis of a natural frequency from the field test data that measured at the bridge subjected to a running vehicle. In this study, classification of mass participation ratio for each component of open deck plate girder bridge without ballast and the comparison according to the change of vibration characteristics for the case of subjected to a running vehicle were accomplished.

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유기농업의 온실가스 감축효과 (Effects of Organic Farming on Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction)

  • 김창길;정학균;김용규
    • 한국기후변화학회지
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    • 제7권3호
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    • pp.335-339
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze effects of greenhouse gas reduction in organic agriculture. To accomplish the objective of the study, a field survey was conducted. Based on the field survey results, LCA method was used to estimate the greenhouse gas emission. The farmer survey and LCA estimation data were provided by The Foundation of Agricultural Technology Commercialization and Transfer. The GHG estimation results showed that GHG emission of organic farming is less by 10.6~89.3% when compared with the conventional farming. In addition, the economic value of greenhouse gas reduction in organic farming amounts to 1,097 million won. Based on major findings, in response to national greenhouse gas reduction target, it is needed to expand organic farming, supporting organic farmers' income.

경사진 원통형 용기내에서 상변화 물질의 내향 용융에 관한 실험적 연구 (Experimental Study on Inward Melting of Phase Change Material in Inclined Circular Tube)

  • 임장순;송하진
    • 태양에너지
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    • 제12권1호
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    • pp.48-58
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    • 1992
  • 온도가 일정한 외벽을 열원으로 하는 수직 원통형 용기내에 채워진 물질(PCM)의 내향용융 과정에서 용기의 경사각의 변화에 따른 상변화 물질 내의 온도 분포, 용융율, 용융 에너지 등을 실험적으로 연구, 분석하였다. 상변화 물질로는 용융점 온도가 $42.5^{\circ}C$인 n-docosane paraffin($C_{22}H_{46}$)을 사용하였다. 수직 원통형 용기내에서 PCM 용융의 열전달 기구는 자연 대류에 의한 용융이 지배적인 반면 경사진 용기 내에서 용융은 자연 대류 및 고상 PCM과 용기 벽면의 직접 접촉에 의한 조합된 열전달 현상으로 나타났으며, 경사진 용기 내에서 파라핀의 용융율 및 용융에너지는 동일 온도 조건에서 수직 원통형 용기에서 보다 높은 값을 나타내었다.

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Role of Agroforestry Trees in Sustaining Livelihood: A Case of Communities in Western Himalayas

  • Nagar, Bhuvnesh;Rawat, Sushma;Kumar, Munesh
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • 제33권2호
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    • pp.91-96
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    • 2017
  • Trees at farm are considered as one of the option to reduce poverty of smallholders by contributing to livelihood security and resilience to climate change. A perception based study was conducted to assess the cultural importance of tree species suitable for practicing agroforestry in randomly selected agroforestry-dominated villages in Alaknanda valley of Western Himalayas during 2015-16. Semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect primary data on the provisioning services of major agroforestry tree species in randomly surveyed 87 households. Based on cultural importance (CI) index value, the most suitable agroforestry tree species was Morus alba (3.32) followed by Celtis australis (3.22), Mangifera indica (3.01), Grewia optiva (2.79), Toona ciliata (2.22), Bauhinia variegata (2.08), Leucaena leucocephala (1.76) and Emblica officinalis (1.74). The preference of use has also been governed based on their indigenous knowledge. This study will also facilitate in evaluating the importance of provisioning services of agroforestry tree species in improving livelihood as well as facilitates smallholder's resilience to climate change in Western Himalayas.

Structural Basis of Functional Conversion of a Floral Repressor to an Activator: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study

  • Kang, Suk-Ki;Lee, Ju-Yong;Lee, Myeong-Sup;Seok, Cha-Ok
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제29권2호
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    • pp.408-412
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    • 2008
  • FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) and TERMINAL FLOWER 1 (TFL1) in Arabidopsis are homologous proteins that perform opposite functions: FT is an activator of flowering, and TFL1 is a repressor. It was shown before that change of a single amino acid (His88) of TFL1 to the corresponding amino acid (Tyr) of FT is enough to convert the floral repressor to an activator. However, structural basis of the functional conversion has not been understood. In our molecular dynamics simulations on modified TFL1 proteins, a hydrogen bond present in native TFL1 between the His88 residue and a residue (Asp144) in a neighboring external loop became broken by change of His88 to Tyr. This breakage induced conformational change of the external loop whose structure was previously reported to be another key functional determinant. These findings reveal that the two important factors determining the functional specificities of the floral regulators, the key amino acid (His88) and the external loop, are correlated, and the key amino acid determines the functional specificity indirectly by affecting the conformation of the external loop.

Study of screw loosening in cementation type implant abutment

  • Hwang, Bo-Yeon;Kim, Yung-Soo;Kim, Chang-Whe
    • 대한치과보철학회지
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    • 제38권6호
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    • pp.765-781
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this study was to compare the screw loosening characteristics of three avail-able cementation type abutments: one-piece cementation type abutment; two-piece cementation type abutment using titanium abutment screw; two-piece cementation type abutment using gold abutment screw. Two implant supported three-unit superstructures were fabricated using a pair of 3 kinds of abutments for each experimental model. Cyclic loading was applied on the specimen, and made to stop when the superstructure showed movement over threshold range. The loaded cycle was counted until the machine stopped. Frequency analysis was done to measure the change of natural frequency before and after the application of cyclic load and to find the effect of screw loosening on the change of natural frequency. The specimen assembly was modeled to perform the finite element analysis to see the distribution of the stress induced by the application of preload over the screw joint and to compare the pattern of the distribution of stress induced by the external force with the change of the preload condition. The following results were obtained: 1. The failure loading cycle of two-piece cementation type abutment using gold screw was significantly greater than those of the other groups. 2. One-piece cementation type abutment applied to multi-unit restoration case did not show greater resistance to screw loosening compared to two-piece cementation type abutments. 3. Frequency analysis showed decrease in natural frequency when screw loosening occured.

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편복도형 아파트의 복도 외벽체 개구부 형태에 따른 환기성능 및 화재특성에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Ventilation Performance and Fire Characteristics with Different Types of Openings in External Wall of One Side Corridor Type Apartment)

  • 고명진;최두성;도진석
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • 제10권5호
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    • pp.87-93
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    • 2010
  • The objective of this study is to verify the safety in case of fire and change of residential environment for different wall construction approaches in a stairways apartment house. In order to confirm that case_1, which is current case that most of wall is opened and the case 2, which upper part of wall is limitedly opened are compared and analyzed based on simulations of fire, escape and natural ventilation performance. The analysis reveals that possible escape time for case 1 was more than 600 seconds and for case 2 was 195 seconds. Since the escape times for both cases were over 128 seconds, it would be reasonable to assume that every resident would escape. The simulation results on natural ventilation performance shows the air change per hour of case 1 and case 2 were .19n/h and .16n/h and there was 1.2 times difference. However, the difference was too insignificant and it could be seen as that different approaches on wall construction would not significantly influence on natural ventilation performance.

수치모델을 이용한 인공 연안 사주가 있는 해빈 단면 변화 연구 (Study of Beach Profile Change with a Fixed Artificial Bar Using a Numerical Model)

  • 김태림
    • 한국해안해양공학회지
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    • 제15권1호
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    • pp.59-65
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    • 2003
  • 자연 연안 사주와 고정된 인공 연안 사주가 있는 해안에서의 해양 물리 환경 변화에 따른 해빈 단면변화를 수치모델을 통하여 연구하였다. 수치 모델은 준3차원 파랑-흐름-퇴적물 이동모델에 인공 구조물 위에서의 퇴적물 이동에 대한 경계조건을 제안하여 적용하였다. 수치실험 결과 자연 사주의 경우 해수면이나 파고의 변화에 따라 위치를 이동하며 적을 하였으나 고정된 인공 사주의 경우 사주 후면에 새로운 자연 사주를 형성시키거나 혹은 사주 후면에서 세굴 현상이 발생하기도 하였다. 본 연구는 잠제 설치에 따른 해안 지형 변화를 연구하는데 응용될 수 있다.

Assessment of Vegetation Recovery after Forest Fire

  • Yu, Xinfang;Zhuang, Dafang;Hou, Xiyong
    • 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한원격탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of ACRS 2003 ISRS
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    • pp.328-330
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    • 2003
  • The land cover of burned area has changed dramatically since Daxinganling forest fire in Northeastern China during May 6 ? June 4, 1987. This research focused on determining the burn severity and assessment of forest recovery. Burned severity was classified into three levels from June 1987 Landsat TM data acquired just after the fire. A regression model was established between the forest canopy closure from 1999 forest stand map and the NDVI values from June 2000 Landsat ETM+ data. The map of canopy closure was got according to the regression model. And vegetation cover was classified into four types according to forest closure density. The change matrix was built using the classified map of burn severity and vegetation recovery. Then the change conversions of every forest type were analyzed. Results from this research indicate: forest recovery status is well in most of burned scars; and vegetation change detection can be accomplished using postclassification comparison method.

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