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Development and Clinical Evaluation of a Rapid Diagnostic Test for Yellow Fever Non-Structural Protein 1

  • Kim, Yeong Hoon;Kim, Tae-Yun;Park, Ji-Seon;Park, Jin Suk;Lee, Jihoo;Moon, Joungdae;Chong, Chom-Kyu;Neves, Ivan Junior;Ferry, Fernando Raphael;Ahn, Hye-Jin;Bhatt, Lokraj;Nam, Ho-Woo
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.57 no.3
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    • pp.283-290
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    • 2019
  • A rapid diagnostic test (RDT) kit was developed to detect non-structural protein 1 (NS1) of yellow fever virus (YFV) using monoclonal antibody. NS1 protein was purified from the cultured YFV and used to immunize mice. Monoclonal antibody to NS1 was selected and conjugated with colloidal gold to produce the YFV NS1 RDT kit. The YFV RDTs were evaluated for sensitivity and specificity using positive and negative samples of monkeys from Brazil and negative human blood samples from Korea. Among monoclonal antibodies, clones 3A11 and 3B7 proved most sensitive, and used for YFV RDT kit. Diagnostic accuracy of YFV RDT was fairly high; Sensitivity was 0.0% and specificity was 100% against Dengue viruses type 2 and 3, Zika, Chikungunya and Mayaro viruses. This YFV RDT kit could be employed as a test of choice for point-of-care diagnosis and large scale surveys of YFV infection under clinical or field conditions in endemic areas and on the globe.

Comparison of effectiveness of growth hormone therapy according to disease-causing genes in children with Noonan syndrome

  • Jo, Kyo Jin;Kim, Yoo Mi;Yoon, Ju Young;Lee, Yeoun Joo;Han, Young Mi;Yoo, Han-Wook;Kim, Hyang-Sook;Cheon, Chong Kun
    • Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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    • v.62 no.7
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    • pp.274-280
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: To analyze the growth response to growth hormone (GH) therapy in prepubertal patients with Noonan syndrome (NS) harboring different genetic mutations. Methods: Twenty-three patients with prepubertal NS treated at Pusan National University Children's Hospital between March 2009 and July 2017 were enrolled. According to the disease-causing genes identified, the patients with NS were divided into 4 groups. Three groups were positive for mutations of the PTPN11, RAF1, and SOS1 genes. The five genes undetected (FGU) group was negative for PTPN11, RAF1, SOS1, KRAS, and BRAF gene mutations. The influence of genotype was retrospectively analyzed by comparing the growth parameters after GH therapy. Results: The mean chronological age at the start of GH treatment was $5.85{\pm}2.67years$. At the beginning of the GH treatment, the height standard deviation score (SDS), growth velocity (GV), and lower levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF)-1 levels were not statistically different among the groups. All the 23 NS patients had significantly increased height SDS and serum IGF-1 level during the 3 years of treatment. GV was highest during the first year of treatment. During the 3 years of GH therapy, the PTPN11, RAF1, and SOS1 groups showed less improvement in height SDS, IGF-1 SDS, and GV, and less increase in bone age-to-chronological age ratio than the FGU group. Conclusion: The 3-year GH therapy in the 23 prepubertal patients with NS was effective in improving height SDS, GV, and serum IGF-1 levels. The FGU group showed a better response to recombinant human GH therapy than the PTPN11, RAF1, and SOS1 groups.

A Study on the Switching and Retention Characteristics of PLT(5) Thin Films (PLT(5) 박막의 Switching 및 Retention 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Choi Joon Young;Chang Dong Hoon;Kang Seong Jun;Yoon Yung Sup
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2004.06b
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    • pp.367-370
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    • 2004
  • We fabricated PLT(5) thin film on $Pt/TiO_x/SiO_2/Si$ substrate by using sol-gel method and investigated leakage current, switching and retention properties. The leakage current density of PLT(5) thin film was $3.56{\times}10^{-7}A/cm^2$ at 4V. In the examination of switching properties, pulse voltage and load resistance were $2V{\~}5V$ and $50{\Omega}{\~}3.3k{\Omega}$, respectively. Switching time had a tendency to decrease from 520ns to 140ns with the increase of pulse voltage, and also the time was increased from 140ns to $13.7{\mu}s$ with the increase of load resistance. The activation energy obtained from the relation of applied pulse voltage and switching time was about 143kV/cm. The error of switched charge density between hysteresis loop and experiment of polarization switching was about $10\%$. Also, polarization in retention was decreased as much as about $8\%$ after $10^5$s.

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Low Power MAC Protocol Design of an Efficient Preamble Exploiting Virtual Synchronization Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks (무선 센서 네트워크를 위한 효율적인 프리앰블 가상 동기화 기법을 사용하는 저전력 MAC 프로토콜 설계)

  • Lee, Sung-Hun;Hwang, Se-Wook;Lee, Hyuk-Joon;Lee, Hyung-Geun
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.35 no.5B
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    • pp.762-770
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    • 2010
  • The researches about energy efficieny of wireless sensor MAC protocol is an issue in present days. Therefore, MAC and routing protocols for reducing energy consumption at sensor nodes is needed. In this study, a low-power MAC protocol for sensor network is proposed, which in based on X-MAC by exploiting virtual synchronization. The virtual synchronization technique lets senders postpone packet transmission until receivers' wake-up time, so that senders transmit only one or two short preambles. Using NS-2, a proposed MAC protocol improve the energy efficiency by 10% compared with the X-MAC protocol.

A study on the Design and Implementation of Simulator adapted in AMI Network environment (AMI 네트워크 환경에 적합한 시뮬레이터 설계 및 구현에 관한 연구)

  • Yang, Il-Kwon;Jung, Nam-Joon;Lee, Sang-Ho
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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    • v.18A no.6
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    • pp.281-292
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, a simulator adapted in AMI network environment with NS-2 was designed and implemented. The limited AMI operation environment such as processing times of data, network protocol and system performance can be simulated to find out the optimal AMI formations. Consequently, it is simulated under conditions that are closely analogous to the actual networks and each device. In future, the result of simulation would be applied to AMI network, mitigated the waste of resources and much contributed towards the real optimal AMI deployments in utilities.

Investigation on the characteristics of a cavity-dumped Nd:glass laser (Cavity-dumping형 Nd:glass laser의 제작 및 특성 조사)

  • 차용호;강응철;남창희
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.130-134
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    • 1995
  • A small signal gain coefficient of Nd:glass was measured and a cavity-dumped laser was constructed. To measure the small signal gain coefficient, we constructed a resonator consisting of Nd:glass, Pockels cell, polarizing beam splitter. The measured small signal gain coefficient was $0.088 cm_{-1}$ when the input energy was 100 J and the round-trip internal loss of the resonator was 56%. The cavity-dumped laser was constructed using Nd:glass. 2 m radius of curvature HR-mirrors, Pockels cell, polarizinig beam splitter and $\lambda/4$ plate. The output energy of cavity-dumped laser was 0.85 J at 140 J input energy and the laser pulse width was 8 ns.s 8 ns.

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Transmission Performance of Large Scale MANETs with IDS (IDS가 있는 대규모 MANET의 전송성능)

  • Kim, Young-Dong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2012.10a
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    • pp.642-645
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    • 2012
  • MANET has disadvantage for information intrusion caused from non-infra structure. That is based on mixed problems caused from terminal devices has no capability of various resources using abilities to run intrusion prevention function, and also from difficulty of no easy using infra structural server like as firewall. In this paper, transmission performances, be effected from information intrusion and IDS(Intrusion Detection System), are analyzed for large scale MANET, and weakness from information intrusion of MANET are studied. This study is for large scale MANET which has some large communication area and lots of nodes, voice traffic, based on VoIP protocols, is considered as application services be transmitted over MANETs. Computer simulation using NS-2 is used to measure and show MOS and call connection ratios.

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Lactobacillus acidophilus NS1 Reduces Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase Expression by Regulating HNF4α Transcriptional Activity

  • Park, Sung-Soo;Yang, Garam;Kim, Eungseok
    • Food Science of Animal Resources
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.529-534
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    • 2017
  • Probiotics have been known to reduce high-fat diet (HFD)-induced metabolic diseases, such as obesity, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes. We recently observed that Lactobacillus acidophilus NS1 (LNS1), distinctly suppresses increase of blood glucose levels and insulin resistance in HFD-fed mice. In the present study, we demonstrated that oral administration of LNS1 with HFD feeding to mice significantly reduces hepatic expression of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK), a key enzyme in gluconeogenesis which is highly increased by HFD feeding. This suppressive effect of LNS1 on hepatic expression of PEPCK was further confirmed in HepG2 cells by treatment of LNS1 conditioned media (LNS1-CM). LNS1-CM strongly and specifically inhibited $HNF4{\alpha}-induced$ PEPCK promoter activity in HepG2 cells without change of $HNF4{\alpha}$ mRNA levels. Together, these data demonstrate that LNS1 suppresses PEPCK expression in the liver by regulating $HNF4{\alpha}$ transcriptional activity, implicating its role as a preventive or therapeutic approach for metabolic diseases.

Implementation and performance evaluation of the ONU&OLT supporting VPN in the ATM-PON (ATM-PON 환경에서 VPN지원을 위한 ONU와 OLT 기능 구현 및 성능 분석)

  • 박미리;장성호;이대봉;장종옥
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.306-310
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    • 2002
  • Today, corporations are approach to inside information using public network such as Internet groping economical way to utilize public network to corporation information network without buying equipment. But, special quality of internet, Virtual Private Net (VPN) that it uses net that is observed as technology that can be guaranteed public safety division transmission and data securitybecause of can not secure data transmission. In this paper. add VPN function ONU&OLT of ATM-PON system and propose SCB (Single Copy Broadcasting). When there is VPN function to ATM network, the speed can be fast, and reduce rain track pick quantity during time more. Performance analysis network simulation that use NS-2.

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Transmission Performance of MANET under Multiple Blackhole Attacks (다중 블랙홀 공격이 있는 MANET의 전송성능)

  • Kim, Young-Dong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.783-786
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    • 2015
  • Hole attack, which is disturbed transmission function through change of routing information, can cause critical results for MANET as non-infrastructure network. Backhole attack, as a typical hole attack, is one malicious attack which is disabled network transmission function by assumption of transmission data through modification of routing information. It is very important to evaluate transmission performance caused by blackhole attack, because transmission performance of MANET is affective with blackhole attack. In this paper, transmission performance is analyzed with MANET under multiple blackhole attacks caused multiple blackhole nodes. Computer simulation based on NS-2 is used as analysis tool and voice traffic is considered ad application service on MANET.

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