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Antioxidant activity of aqua-acupuncture of Polygoni Radix rubra in rats treated with AAPH (적하수오(赤何首烏) 약침(藥針)의 AAPH처리된 흰쥐에 대한 항산화작용)

  • Lim, Nak-Chul
    • Journal of Haehwa Medicine
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.361-374
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    • 2000
  • This study was done to elucidate the antioxidant activities of Polygoni Radix rubra(赤何首烏) by way of aqua-acupuncture methods. After 10% & 20% concentrations of liquid extract of Polygoni Radix rubra(PRR) were acupunctured on Joksamri(足三里) of rats with acute and chronic experimental oxidation by AAPH(2, 2' -azobis (aminoidinopropane), hydrochloride), various kinds of experiments were performed. The results were obtained as follows: 1. In acute oxidant experiment, the amount of TBARS was significantly increased from 0.5 hr to 1.5 hr after AAPH treatment 2. In acute oxidant experiment by AAPH, uric acid as significantly increased while the others didn't show any difference such as total protein, albumin, bilirubin. 3. In chronic oxidant experiment by AAPH, PRR significantly increased the body weight in comparison with control group, whereas liver and spleen tended to increase, lung and kidneys tended to decrease. 4. In chronic oxidant experiment by AAPH, PRR significantly decreased the GPT, hemolysis of erythrocytes, TBA and BUN, where GOT was significantly reduced in 20% PRR treated group, and TG was significantly in 10% PRR treated group. These results suggest that PRR has potent antioxidant activity and needs more studies on microsomal fraction of liver and kidney.

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Immunostimulatory Activity of Paeonia lactiflora in Mouse Macrophages, RAW264.7 Cells

  • Ju-Hyeong Yu;So Jeong Park;Jin Hee Woo;Na Rae Shin;Jin Boo Jeong
    • Proceedings of the Plant Resources Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2022.09a
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    • pp.89-89
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    • 2022
  • Paeonia lactiflora (P. lactiflora) is a medicinal plant widely used for treating inflammatory diseases. However, P. lactiflora has been recently reported to increase the production of proinflammatory mediators and activates phagocytosis in macrophages. Thus, in this study, we tried to verify the macrophage activation of Paeoniae Radix Alba (PRR, also known as red peony root) and elucidate its mechanism of action. PRR upregulated the production of proinflammatory mediators and activated phagocytosis in RAW264.7 cells. However, these effects were reversed by inhibition of TLR2/4. In addition, the inhibition of p38, JNK, and ERK1/2 reduced the PRR-mediated production of proinflammatory mediators, and the SPL-mediated activation of p38, JNK, and ERK1/2 was blocked by the TLR4 inhibition. These findings indicate that PRR may activate macrophages through TLR4-dependent activation of p38, JNK, and ERK1/2. These indicate that PRR has immunostimulatory activity. Thus, it is believed that PRR can be used as a functional food agent that enhances the immune system.

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Allelic Distribution of OsPRR37, a Major Heading Date Gene in Korean Rice Cultivars

  • Hayeong Lee;Yurim Kim;Jiheon Han;Sieun Choi;Yeeun Jun;Hosun Chun;Soonhwa Kwak;Youngjun Mo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Crop Science Conference
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    • 2022.10a
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    • pp.225-225
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    • 2022
  • Rice is a major food crop consumed by approximately half of the world's population. Heading date is one of the major agronomic traits and has a wide impact on the productivity and quality of rice. Recently, shortening the growth period of rice through modulating heading date has been emphasized as one of the most effective strategies for reducing methane emissions from paddy fields. OsPRR37, a major heading date gene in rice, represses flowering under both short-day and long-day conditions. Plants carrying the loss-of-function alleles of OsPRR37 have been reported to flower approximately seven days and 20 days earlier than those carrying the functional alleles in short day and long day conditions, respectively. In this study, we investigated the nucleotide sequence variation existing in the exonic regions of OsPRR37 and catalogued the allelic distribution in 208 Korean rice cultivars. We used four sets of primers for amplifying and sequencing the eight exons of OsPRR37. As a result, two types of loss-of-function alleles and four types of functional alleles were found in 208 Korean rice cultivars. Interestingly, only three cultivars (Jinbuolbyeo, Jinseolchal, and Mimyeon) carried loss-of-function alleles while 205 carried functional alleles, indicating that OsPRR37 loss-of-function alleles have been used very rarely in Korean rice breeding programs. To generate useful information for the development of early-maturing rice cultivars, our future work will focus on analyzing the effect of different OsPRR37 alleles on heading date and other major agronomic traits.

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The Role of NifA and PrrA on the Expression of nif Gene in Rhodobacter sphaeroides (Rhodobacter sphaeroides의 nif 유전자의 발현에 대한 NifA와 PrrA의 작용)

  • Son, Myung-Hwa;Kim, Min-Ju;Lee, Sang-Joon
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.21 no.9
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    • pp.1139-1147
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    • 2012
  • To find out the growth conditions for the maximum activity of nitrogenase which catalyzes nitrogen fixation in Rhodobacter sphaeroides, the promoter activities of nifA and nifH were analyzed and the results indicated that expression of both nifA and nifH was increased in response to deprivation of both O2 concentration and nitrogen source. The nifA mutant was constructed by deleting the gene to investigate the effect of NifA, the transcriptional regulator, on the nifH and nifA expression in R. sphaeroides. Analysis of expression of nif genes using the nifA::lacZ and nifH::lacZ fusions in the nifA mutant revealed that NifA acts as a positive activator for nifH and an autoregulator in its own expression. The promoter activities of nifA and nifH in the prrA mutant grown under anaerobic and ${NH_4}^+$-free conditions were derepressed, comparing with those of the wild-type grown under the same conditions, indicating that the prrA product acts as a positive regulator in expression of nifA and nifH.

An Inter-piconet Scheduling for Bluetooth Personal Area Network (블루투스 개인 영역망을 위한 피코넷 간의 스케줄링)

  • 이우신;이혁준
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2002.04a
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    • pp.187-189
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    • 2002
  • 본 논문에서는 효율적인 인터 피코넷 스케줄링 방식과 현재까지 연구된 인트라 피코넷 스케줄링을 인터 퍼코넷 스케줄링으로 적용할 때의 성능을 분석한다. 스캐터넷에서 피코넷 간의 통신이 가능한 블루투스 시뮬레이터를 구현하여 실험하며, 이때 평균 패킷의 전송 지연 시간을 측정하여 각 인터 피코넷 스케줄링의 성능을 분석한다. 비교 분석을 위해 PRR, ERR, LWRR 스케줄링 방범을 블루투스 시뮬레이터에 구현만다. 인트라 피코넷 스케줄링을 PRR, ERR, LWPR 방식으로 동작시킬 때 각각 인터 피코넷 스케줄링으로 PRR, ERR, LWRR을 적용한다. 실험결과는 스니프 모드 사용방식의 PRR을 인터 피코넷 스케줄링으로 적용 할 때 인트라 피코넷 스케줄링에 독립적으로 제일 낮은 평균 패킷 전송지연 시간을 가짐을 보인다.

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Technique for Placing Continuous Media on a Disk Array under Fault-Tolerance and Arbitrary-Rate Search (결함허용과 임의 속도 탐색을 고려한 연속 매체 디스크 배치 기법)

  • O, Yu-Yeong;Kim, Seong-Su;Kim, Jae-Hun
    • Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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    • v.26 no.9
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    • pp.1166-1176
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    • 1999
  • 연속 매체, 특히 비디오 데이타에 대한 일반 사용자 연산에는 재생뿐만 아니라 임의 속도 탐색 연산, 정지 연산, 그리고 그 외 다양한 연산이 있다. 이 연산 중에서 원하는 화면을 빨리 찾는 데에 유용한 고속 전진(FF: fast-forward)과 고속 후진(FB: fast-backward)은 재생 연산과는 달리 비순차적인 디스크 접근을 요구한다. 이러한 경우에 디스크 부하가 균등하지 않으면 일부 디스크에 접근이 편중되어 서비스 품질이 떨어진다. 본 논문에서는 디스크 배열을 이용한 저장 시스템에서 디스크 접근을 고르게 분산시키기 위하여 '소수 라운드 로빈(PRR: Prime Round Robin)' 방식으로 연속 매체를 디스크에 배치하는 기법에서 문제가 됐던 낭비된 디스크 저장 공간을 신뢰도 향상을 위해서 사용하는 '그룹화된 패리티를 갖는 소수 라운드 로빈(PRRgp: PRR with Grouped Parities)' 방식을 제안한다. 이 기법은 PRR 기법처럼 임의 속도 검색 연산에 있어서 디스크 배열을 구성하는 모든 디스크의 부하를 균등하게 할뿐만 아니라 낭비됐던 디스크 저장 공간에 신뢰도를 높이기 위한 패리티 정보를 저장함으로서 신뢰도를 향상시킬 수 있다. 신뢰도 모델링 방법으로 조합 모델과 마르코프 모델을 이용해서 결함발생율과 결함복구율을 고려한 신뢰도를 산출하고 비교.분석한다. PRR 기법으로 연속 매체를 저장하고 낭비되는 공간에 패리티 정보를 저장할 경우에 동시에 두 개 이상의 결함 발생 시에 그 결함으로부터 복구가 불가능하지만 PRRgp 기법에서는 약 30% 이상의경우에 대해서 동시에 두 개의 결함 발생 시에 저장한 패리티 정보를 이용한 복구가 가능할 뿐만 아니라 패리티 그룹의 수가 두 개 이상인 경우에는 두 개 이상의 결함에 대해서도 복구가 가능하다.Abstract End-user operations on continuous media (say video data) consist of arbitrary-rate search, pause, and others as well as normal-rate play. FF(fast-forward) / FB(fast-backward) among those operations are desirable to find out the scene of interest but they require non-sequential access of disks. When accesses are clustered to several disks without considering load balance, high quality services in playback may not be available. In this paper, we propose a new disk placement scheme, called PRRgp(Prime Round Robin with Grouped Parities), with enhanced reliability by using the wasted disk storage space in an old one(PRR: Prime Round Robin), in which continuous media are placed on a disk array based storage systems to distribute disk accesses uniformly. The PRRgp can not only achieve load balance of disks consisting of a disk array under arbitrary-rate search like PRR, but also improve reliability by storing parity information on the wasted disk space appropriately. We use combinatorial and Markov models to evaluate the reliability for a disk array and to analyze the results. When continuous media like PRR are placed and parity information on the wasted disk space is stored, we cannot tolerate more than two simultaneous faults. But they can be recovered by using stored parity information for about 30 percent as a whole in case of PRRgp presented in this paper. In addition, more than two faults can be tolerated in case there are more than two parity groups.

Design And Performance Evaluation of Fault-Tolerant Continuous Media Storage System Based on $PRR_gp$ ($PRR_gp$ 기반 결함허용 연속 매체 저장시스템의 설계와 성능평가)

  • O, Yu-Yeong;Kim, Seong-Su
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.1290-1298
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    • 2000
  • Multimedia Systems such as VOD(Video On Demand) and MOD (Multimedia On Demand) need to support continuous media operations which are randomly called by concurrent users and require that stored media be accessed in real-tim. To satisfy such a requirements, disk arrays consisting of multiple disks are generally used as storage systems. Under the real-time environments to provide users with accessing continuous media in the parallel and concurrent manner, storage systems should be able to deal with user requests independently. In this paper, we present a new fault-tolerant continuous media storage system called PADA(PRR\ulcorner bAsed Disk Array), which is based on a PRR\ulcorner (Prime Round Robin with Grouped Parties) disk placement scheme with enhanced reliability nd load-balancing. We have compared and evaluated the storage space overhead for fault-tolerance, the reliability of diks array systems, the degree of disk load0-balancing, the demanded buffer space, the maximum number of users being capable of supporting and the fault recovery overhead for PADA, RAID 5 and Declustered storage systems. According to the results, PADA is the best among them in that PADA satisfies load-balancing more effectively and servces more user in case of arbitrary-rate retrievals.

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Intelligent Deployment Method of Sensor Networks using SOFM (SOFM을 이용한 센서 네트워크의 지능적인 배치 방식)

  • Jung, Kyung-Kwon;Eom, Ki-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.430-435
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, we propose an intelligent deployment of sensor network for reliable communication. The proposed method determines optimal transmission range based on the wireless channel characteristics, and searches the optimal number of sensor nodes, and optimal locations with SOFM. We calculate PRR against a distance uses the log-normal path loss model, and decide the communication range of sensor node from PRR. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, we performed simulations on the searching for intelligent deployment and checking for link condition of sensor network.

Designs and Performance Analysis of Adaptive Transmission Scheme for Vehicle Communication System (차량 통신 시스템을 위한 적응적 전송 기법 설계 및 성능 분석)

  • Moon, Sangmi;Chu, Myeonghun;Lee, Jihye;Kwon, Soonho;Kim, Hanjong;Kim, Cheolsung;Hwang, Intae
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.53 no.9
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    • pp.3-11
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    • 2016
  • Vehicle to Everything (V2X) communication has been growing to enhance traffic safety by employing advanced wireless communication systems. V2X communication is one core solution for governing and advancing future traffic safety and mobility. In this paper, we design the system level simulator (SLS) of Long Term Evolution (LTE)-based V2X and propose the adaptive transmission scheme for vehicle communication. The proposed scheme allocates the resource randomly in time and frequency domain, and transmit the message according to probability of transmission. The performance analysis is based on freeway case in periodic message transmission. Simulation results show that proposed scheme can improve the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of packet reception ratio (PRR) and average PRR.

A Study about the Effects of EGR Stratification on Reducing the Pressure RIse Rate of DME HCCI Combustion (EGR 성층화급기에 의한 DME HCCI 연소시의 압력 상승률 저감에 관한 연구)

  • Lim, Ock-Taeck
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.895-904
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    • 2011
  • Stratified charge has been thought as one of the ways to avoid a sharp pressure rise on HCCI combustion. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential of stratified charge for reducing PRR on HCCI combustion. The pre-mixture with thermal, mixing and EGR stratifications is charged in Rapid Compression Machine. After that, the pre-mixture is compressed and in that process, in-cylinder gas pressure and temperature are analyzed. Additionally numerical calculation with multi-zones modeling is run to know the potential of stratified charge for reducing PRR.