• 한국수정란이식학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.91-97
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• 2015

Amphiregulin (AREG), a glycoprotein that is a member of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) family, is expressed by the porcine conceptus and endometrium. AREG genotypes were determined based on an SNP in the intron 3 of the gene. Contradictory effects of AREG genotypes on reproductive traits in different pig breeds were reported previously. G allele had undesirable effect on reproductive trait in Meishan breed, while it had favorable effects in Polish Landrace and Large White. We determined AREG genotypes of 179 pigs including the Duroc, Landrace, Yorkshire, Korean native pig (KNP), and Meishan breeds. Two new SNPs were identified near the previously reported SNP in the intron 3 of AREG. Frequencies of AREG alleles among the Duroc, Landrace, Yorkshire, and KNP sows were significantly different (p<0.001), indicating association between AREG genotypes and pig breeds. The first parity litter size was significantly affected by the breeds (p=0.014), but not by AREG genotypes (p=0.148). However, there were breed and AREG genotype associated trends in the first parity litter size. The first parity litter size appeared to be higher in Duroc and KNP sows with G allele, while it appeared to be lower in Landrace sows with G allele. Significant variability of AREG alleles among pig breeds, for the first time in Duroc and KNP sows, was identified. AREG genotypes may influence reproductive traits differentially for each breed and thus, AREG genotypes may need to be considered when sows are bred to increase litter size.

• 한국수정란이식학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.263-270
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• 2000

The ovaries of 178 Holstein heifers or cows (heifer; 41, 1 parity; 72, 2$\leq$ parity; 65) on Day 6 or 7 (Day 0=day of estrus) were examined by transrectal ultrasonography. Diameter of corpus luteum (CL) and large follicle ( $\geq$ 10 mm), and luteal tissue area were determined by ultrasound system with a 5 MHB rectal probe. Blood samples were taken to progesterone analysis. After selection of recipients, frozen Holstein embryos were thawed and directly transferred to recipients non-surgically. The diameter of CL and luteal tissue area was greater (P<0.01) on Day 7 than on Day 6 in heifers, 1 parity or 2 $\leq$ parity cows, respectively, although progesterone concentrations were not different. The presence of fluid-filled luteal cavitied or multiple CL (2 or more) did not affect serum progesterone concentration. A large follicles were observed in 67.4% of heifers or cows and the average diameter was 14.1 mm. Greater luteal tissue area attributed higher pregnancy in heifers, but not in cows, although there were no difference on pregnancy rate according to progesterone concentration in heifers or cows. The pregnancy rate of recipients contained a large follicle at embryo transfer was lower than that of recipients not contained. These results show ultrasonic assessment of ovaries in Holstein recipients is a reliable tool to determine the follicle and CL for recipient selection.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.832-841
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• 2007

Rectal Temperature;Thermoregulation;Sows;Breed;The effects of season (hot vs. warm) in a tropical humid climate, parity (primiparous vs. multiparous) and breed (Creole: CR, Large White: LW) on rectal temperature (RT) were studied for a total of 222 lactations obtained in 85 sows (43 CR and 42 LW; 56 primiparous and 166 multiparous) over a 28-d lactation, between June 2002 and April 2005. Mean daily ambient temperature was higher during the hot season than during the warm season (26.0 vs. $24.1^{\circ}C$) and relative humidity was high and similar in both seasons (89% on average). At farrowing, BW was lower (172 vs. 233 kg) and backfat thickness was higher (37 vs. 21 mm) in CR than in LW sows (p<0.01). During the hot season, the reduction of average daily feed intake (ADFI) was more pronounced in LW than in CR sows (-920 vs. -480 g/d, p<0.05). Rectal temperature was higher at 1200 than at 0700hr, which coincides with the maximum and the minimum values of daily ambient temperature. The daily RT increased ($+0.9^{\circ}C$; p<0.01) between d -3 and d 7 (d 0: farrowing day), remained constant between d 7 and d 25 and decreased (p<0.01) thereafter (i.e. $-0.6^{\circ}C$ between d 25 and d 32). The average daily RT was significantly higher during the hot than during the warm season (38.9 vs. $38.6^{\circ}C$; p<0.01). It was not affected by breed, but the difference in RT between the hot and warm seasons was more pronounced in LW than in CR sows (+0.4 vs. $+0.2^{\circ}C$; p<0.05). Parity influenced the RT response; it was greater in primiparous than in multiparous sows (38.9 vs. $38.7^{\circ}C$; p<0.01). This study suggests that thermoregulatory responses to heat stress can differ between breeds and between parities.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2010년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.722-725
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.16e layered LDPC(Low Density Parity Check) 복호기의 layer별 에러 수렴속도 및 비트오율 성능 분석을 통해 최적 설계사양을 도출하였다. Matlab으로 모델링된 layered LDPC 복호기를 QPSK 변조와 백색 가우시안 잡음 채널 하에 시뮬레이션 하였다. 표준에 제시된 블록길이 중 576, 1440, 2304에 대해 부호화율이 1/2, 2/3A, 2/3B, 3/4A, 3/4B, 5/6인 PCM(Parity Check Matrix)을 사용한 시뮬레이션 결과를 바탕으로 블록길이와 부호율이 복호기의 성능에 미치는 영향을 분석하였으며, 고정소수점 비트 폭이 8 비트 이상일 때 안정된 복호성능을 가진다.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.68-73
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• 2007

최근 무선센서 네트워크는 센서 영역 안에 수많은 센서 노드로 구성되어 있으며, 각각의 센서들은 강제적인 에너지 구속조건을 가지고 있으므로 효율적인 에너지 관리는 중요하다. WSN 응용 시스템에서 FEC(Forward error correction)는 데이터 전송의 에너지 효율성과 데이터 신뢰성을 증가시킨다. LDPC 코드는 FEC 코드중 하나로 코드워드의 길이가 커지면 다른 FEC 코드 보다 많은 부호화 작업을 필요로 하지만, 샤논의 용량 한계에 접근되어 있으며, 전송에너지의 감소와 데이터 신뢰도를 증가시키는데 사용되어진다. 본 논문에서는 WSN(Wireless Sensor Network)에서의 에너지 효율성 증가와 부호화의 복잡도를 줄이기 위하여 LDPC(Low-density parity-check) 코드의 패리티 체크 행렬의 생성에 Linear-Congruence 방법을 적용하였다. 결과적으로 본 논문에서 제안된 알고리즘은 부호화 에너지 효율성과 데이터의 신뢰도를 증가시켰다.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.752-759
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• 2010

이 논문에서는 DDR-SSD 기반의 소프트웨어 RAID에서 작은 쓰기 (Small Write) 요청에 대한 RAID5의 RMW (Read Modify Write) 성능 향상을 위한 차-로깅 (Differential Logging) 기법을 제안한다. 엔터프라이즈 웅용에서 빈번하게 발생하는 작은 쓰기 요청은 RAID5에서 주요한 성능 저하의 요인이다. RAID5 에서는 패리티 블록의 일관성을 유지하기 위해 변경이 발생하면 패리티 블록에 대한 변경을 같이 수행해야 한다. 작은 쓰기가 발생하면 기존 데이터에 대한 변경 뿐 아니라, 패리티 블록을 다시 계산하기 위한 추가 입출력연산 및 패리티 계산이 병행되어야 하며 이를 RMW 연산이라 한다. 기존의 하드 디스크 기반의 소프트웨어 RAID 에서는 이러한 작은 쓰기로 인한 성능저하 문제를 해결하기 위해 다양한 방법을 제안하였다. 이 논문에서는 하드 디스크와 전혀 다른 특성을 보이는 DDR-SSD를 고려하여 RAID5의 작은 쓰기 성능을 향상 시키는 차-로깅 기법 기반의 RAIDS를 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 시뮬레이션을 통해서 리녹스 기반의 MID와 비교하여 성능의 우수함을 보였다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.1516-1519
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• 2001

The data consisted of 369 lactation records for calvings over a sixteen-year period (1972-1987) and included only cows that had normal milk records. The data were analysed using a linear model containing the fixed effects of parity, year of calving and season of calving. The least squares means${\pm}$S.E. were $1,273{\pm}58.4kg$ for milk yield, and for post-partum body weight (kg) at 2, 3 and 4 months after calving were $343.40{\pm}3.96$, $346.10{\pm}4.10$ and $352.54{\pm}4.26$, respectively. With the exception of season of calving, the effects of parity and year of calving were significant (p<0.01) on the performance of the animals. Thus, the mean-milk yields 1162, 1351 and 1350, were similar for pre-, peak- and post rainy seasons, respectively. On the other hand, as parity increased from 1 to 3, milk yield also increased, but thereafter, there was a gradual decline in milk yield. Similarly, post-partum body weight also increased with parity. However, no consistent pattern for year effect was observed which probably was a reflection of the variation in climatic conditions, or forage quality and/or availability. The phenotypic correlations between milk yield and post-partum body weights were negative and small (ranging from -0.01 to -0.08). However, high milk production in cows was associated with longer calving interval. The implications from the phenotypic correlations are suggestive of one or two possibilities. Firstly, selection for increased body weight may actually result in decreased milk yield. Also, a substantial genetic antagonism may exist between milk yield and fertility in the crossbred cows. Therefore, it is important that selection to improve milk production should take into consideration the reproductive performance of the cows.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.351-361
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• 2015

In this paper, a new decoding scheme is proposed to improve the error correcting performance of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes in high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region by using post-processing. It behaves as follows: First, a conventional LDPC decoding is applied to received LDPC codewords one by one. Then, we count the number of word errors in a predetermined number of decoded codewords. If there is no word error, nothing needs to be done and we can move to the next group of codewords with no delay. Otherwise, we perform a proper post-processing which produces a new soft-valued codeword (this will be fully explained in the main body of this paper) and then apply the conventional LDPC decoding to it again to recover the unsuccessfully decoded codewords. For the proposed decoding scheme, we adopt a simple product code structure which contains LDPC codes and simple algebraic codes as its horizontal and vertical codes, respectively. The decoding capability of the proposed decoding scheme is defined and analyzed using the parity-check matrices of vertical codes and, especially, the combined-decodability is derived for the case of single parity-check (SPC) codes and Hamming codes used as vertical codes. It is also shown that the proposed decoding scheme achieves much better error correcting capability in high SNR region with little additional decoding complexity, compared with the conventional LDPC decoding scheme.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.479-484
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• 2004

The study was conducted to assess the effect of milk production, parity, stage of lactation, season and individual milk components themselves on milk urea nitrogen (MUN) concentration and other milk components of 3,219 Holstein dairy cows in Korean dairy farms. The MUN concentrations in Korean dairy cows were estimated to 16.68$\pm$5.87 mg/dl. Milk yield was negatively correlated with fat and protein contents and somatic cell counts (SCC) in milk (p<0.01). The increasing MUN concentration has positive correlation with yield and fat content. By increasing somatic cell, milk yield was reduced and MUN level was increased. Cows in spring and winter produced more milk over 1.43 and 0.93 kg/day, respectively, than cows in summer (p<0.01). Milk urea nitrogen concentrations of milk produced in summer and fall were significantly lower (p<0.01) than those in spring and winter. Both MUN concentration and somatic cell counts were highest in winter. Milk yield was lower (p<0.01) in the first calving than other calving time and was tended to increase until the fifth parity and then decrease. Milk urea nitrogen and SCC were not related to parity of cows in this study. Milk yield and SCC were positively related to lactation period while MUN concentrations and milk fat and protein contents were negatively influenced by stage of lactation. In the present study, the relationship between MUN and reproduction of dairy cows was also investigated. Cow produced milk in high MUN concentrations (greater than 18 mg/dl) had more open days than cows in MUN concentrations less than 18 mg/dl. However, no significant difference between MUN concentration levels and frequency of artificial insemination was found in this study. It is suggested that although MUN values for nutritional management and measures of production or reproduction are used, non-nutritional factors should be considered.

• 에너지공학
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.46-52
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• 2007

특정한 방향에 대해 방향중성자속(angular neutron flux)을 정의하는 방향차분 방정식(discrete-ordinates or $S_{N}$ equation)과 달리 방향변수를 구분된 방향영역에 대하여 적분한 값을 사용하고, 해당 방향영역 내에서 방향중성자속이 일정하다고 가정하는 영역상수법(piecewise-constant method)을 개발하였다. 기존 방향차분법과 본 연구에서 개발된 영역상수법을 1계 수송방정식(1'st-order Boltzmann transport equation)과 2계 우성 방정식(even-parity equation)에 적용하여 방향차분 방정식인 $S_{N}$ 방정식과 유사 방향차분방정식($S_{N}$-like equation)인 $PC_{N}$ 방정식을 유도하였다. 우성 방정식에 영역상수법을 적용한 경우 기존 방향차분법의 단점인 광첨두 현상(ray effect)이 현저히 감소함을 확인하였는데 이는 우성 방정식의 혼합 미분항의 기여도가 작아지기 때문인 것으로 판단된다. 이러한 이론은 우성 방정식에서 혼합 미분항이 제거된 단순우성 방정식(simplified even-parity equation)을 사용하는 경우 광첨두 현상이 완전 제거 또는 극단적으로 감소되었던 이전의 결과를 이론적으로 설명한다.