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Genetic Variability of Antigen B among Echinococcus granulosus Egyptian Isolates

  • Tawfeek, Gihan M.;Elwakil, Hala S.;Awad, Nabil S.;EI-Hoseiny, Laila;Thabet, Hala S.;Sarhan, Rania M.;Darweesh, Samar K.;Anwar, Wagida A.
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.47 no.3
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    • pp.259-264
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    • 2009
  • Genetic polymorphisms of encoding antigen B2 gene (AgB2) in Echinococcus granulosus were studied using PCR-RFLP and DNA sequencing among 20 Egyptian isolates. Five isolates from different host origins (humans, camels, pigs, and sheep) were collected and used. All examined isolates of each host group gave very similar patterns of PCR-RFLP after restriction enzyme digestion with Alul, with the gene size of approximately 140 bp and 240 bp for sheep and human isolates, and approximately 150 bp and 250 bp for pig and camel isolates. No digestion pattern was obtained after incubation of all studied isolates with EcoRI. These results reveal high intra-group homogeneity. DNA sequence analysis highlighted that human infecting strain showed 100% identity with respect to sheep infecting isolate, 96% and 99% with pig and camel infecting isolates, respectively.

A Balanced and Unbalanced Analysis of the DNA Matrix Code of The Taegeuk Pattern (태극 패턴 DNA 행렬 코드의 평형과 불평형 해석)

  • Kim, Jeong Su;Lee, Moon Ho
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.77-89
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    • 2018
  • The chromosomes of all the world are the same in all 24 pairs, but the key, skin color and appearance are different. Also, it is the resistance of adult disease, diabetes, cancer. In 1953, Watson, Crick of Cambridge University experimentally discovered a DNA double helix structure, and in 1962, They laureates the Nobel Prize. In 1964, Temin, University of Wisconsin, USA, experimentally identified the ability to copy gene information from RNA to DNA and received the Nobel Prize in 1975. In this paper, we analyzed 24 pairs of DNA chromosomes using mathematical matrices based on the combination order sequence of four groups, and designed the Taegeuk pattern genetic code for the first time in the world. In the case of normal persons, the middle Yin-Yang taegeuk is designed as a block circulant Jacket matrix in DNA, and the left-right and upper-lower pairs of east-west and north-south rulings are designed as pair complementary matrices. If (C U: A G) chromosomes are unbalanced, that is, people with disease or inheritance become squashed squirming patterns. In 2017, Professor Michel Young was awarded a Nobel by presenting a biological clock and experimentally explained the bio-imbalance through a yellow fruit fly experiment.This study proved mathematical matrices for balanced and unbalanced RNA.

HSA-based HMM Optimization Method for Analyzing EEG Pattern of Motor Imagery (운동심상 EEG 패턴분석을 위한 HSA 기반의 HMM 최적화 방법)

  • Ko, Kwang-Eun;Sim, Kwee-Bo
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.17 no.8
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    • pp.747-752
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    • 2011
  • HMMs (Hidden Markov Models) are widely used for biological signal, such as EEG (electroencephalogram) sequence, analysis because of their ability to incorporate sequential information in their structure. A recent trends of research are going after the biological interpretable HMMs, and we need to control the complexity of the HMM so that it has good generalization performance. So, an automatic means of optimizing the structure of HMMs would be highly desirable. In this paper, we described a procedure of classification of motor imagery EEG signals using HMM. The motor imagery related EEG signals recorded from subjects performing left, right hand and foots motor imagery. And the proposed a method that was focus on the validation of the HSA (Harmony Search Algorithm) based optimization for HMM. Harmony search algorithm is sufficiently adaptable to allow incorporation of other techniques. A HMM training strategy using HSA is proposed, and it is tested on finding optimized structure for the pattern recognition of EEG sequence. The proposed HSA-HMM can performs global searching without initial parameter setting, local optima, and solution divergence.

Change of transmission characteristics of FSSs in hybrid composites due to residual stresses

  • Hwang, In-Han;Chun, Heoung-Jae;Hong, Ik-Pyo;Park, Yong-Bae;Kim, Yoon-Jae
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.1501-1510
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    • 2015
  • The frequency selective surface (FSS) embedded hybrid composite materials have been developed to provide excellent mechanical and specific electromagnetic properties. Radar absorbing structures (RASs) are an example material that provides both radar absorbing properties and structural characteristics. The absorbing efficiency of an RAS can be improved using selected materials having special absorptive properties and structural characteristics and can be in the form of multi-layers or have a certain stacking sequence. However, residual stresses occur in FSS embedded composite structures after co-curing due to a mismatch between the coefficients of thermal expansion of the FSS and the composite material. In this study, to develop an RAS, the thermal residual stresses of FSS embedded composite structures were analyzed using finite element analysis, considering the effect of stacking sequence of composite laminates with square loop (SL) and double square loop (DSL) FSS patterns. The FSS radar absorbing efficiency was measured in the K-band frequency range of 21.6 GHz. Residual stress leads to a change in the deformation of the FSS pattern. Using these results, the effect of transmission characteristics with respect to the deformation on FSS pattern was analyzed using an FSS Simulator.

Molecular Cloning of ATPase $\alpha$-Subunit Gene from Mitochondria of Korean Ginseng (Panu ginseng C.A. Meyer) (고려인삼(Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer) ATPase $\alpha$-subunit 유전자의 Cloning)

  • Park, Ui-Sun;Choi, Kwan-Sam;Kim, Kab-Sig;Kim, Nam-Won;Choi, Kwang-Tae
    • Journal of Ginseng Research
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.56-61
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    • 1995
  • Molecular cloning and restriction mapping on ATPase $\alpha$-subunit gene (atpA) were carried out to obtain genomic information concerned with the gene structure and organization in Korean ginseng mitochondria. Two different clones containing the homologous sequence of atpA gene were selected from SalI and PstI libraries of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of Korean ginseng. The sizes of mtDNA fragments inserted in SalI and PstI clones were 3.4 kb and 13 kb, respectively. Southern blot analysis with [$^{32}P$] labelled Oenothera atPA gene probe showed that atpA gene sequence was located in 2.0 kb XkaI fragment in PstI clone and in 1.7 kb XbaI fragment in SalI clone. A partial sequening ascertained that the SalI clone included about 1.2 kb fragment from SalI restriction site to C-terminal sequence of this gene but about 0.3 kb N-terminal sequence of open reading frame was abscent. The PstI fragment was enough large to cover the full sequence of atpA gene. The same restriction pattern of the overlapped region suggests that both clones include the same fragment of atiA locus. Data of Southern blot analysis and partial nucleotide sequencing suggested that mtDNA of Korean ginseng has a single copy of atpA gene. Key words ATPase a-subunit, mitochondrial DNA, Panax ginseng.

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Object Modeling of Campus Intranet Structure using Design Pattern (설계패턴을 이용한 캠퍼스 인트라넷 구조의 객체모델링)

  • Lim, Keun
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.113-119
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    • 1999
  • Recently, design patterns have been known to be highly effective and practical. Design pattern is a collection of collaborating classes that captures the application independent behavior of system in a particular domain. By using design pattern, the development time and software quality can be greatly increased. However, systematic development process and detailed instructions of building design patterns have not been studied enough. In this paper. we propose practical intranet structure modeling technique that are based on design pattern. The proposed process consists of the four typical software development phases; analysis, navigation, interface, behavior domain design, and each phase is defined as a logical sequence of development tasks. Since the proposed process is based on design pattern foundation, and can be efficiently produced by applying this process.

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Phylogenetic Analysis of Phenanthrene-Degrading Sphingomonas

  • Han, Kyu-Dong;Jung, Yong-Tae;Son, Seung-Yeol
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.942-948
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    • 2003
  • Soil samples were obtained from 5 sites contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). These soil samples were cultured in using phenanthrene as a sole carbon and energy source, and 36 strains of phenanthrene-degrading bacteria were isolated from 3 sites. Most of them degraded 500 ppm of phenanthrene within 8 to 10 days, and these isolates could degrade a few other PAHs other than phenanthrene. Their genotypes were determined by restriction digests of the l6S rRNA genes [amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis (ARDRA)]. It was found that all the phenanthrene degrading isolates were included in 4 ARDRA types, and they showed a strict site endemism. l6S rDNAs of 12 strains selected from different sites were sequenced, and they were all confirmed as Sphingomonas strains. Their l6S rDNA sequences were compared for phylogenetic analysis; their sequence showed a similar result to ARDRA typing, thus indicating that these heterotrophic soil bacteria are not regionally mixed. In addition, it was found that the microbial diversity among sampling sites could be monitored by l6S rDNA PCR-RFLP pattern alone, which is simpler and easier to perform, without l6S rDNA sequence analysis.

Evaluation of Alignment Methods for Genomic Analysis in HPC Environment (HPC 환경의 대용량 유전체 분석을 위한 염기서열정렬 성능평가)

  • Lim, Myungeun;Jung, Ho-Youl;Kim, Minho;Choi, Jae-Hun;Park, Soojun;Choi, Wan;Lee, Kyu-Chul
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.107-112
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    • 2013
  • With the progress of NGS technologies, large genome data have been exploded recently. To analyze such data effectively, the assistance of HPC technique is necessary. In this paper, we organized a genome analysis pipeline to call SNP from NGS data. To organize the pipeline efficiently under HPC environment, we analyzed the CPU utilization pattern of each pipeline steps. We found that sequence alignment is computing centric and suitable for parallelization. We also analyzed the performance of parallel open source alignment tools and found that alignment method utilizing many-core processor can improve the performance of genome analysis pipeline.

Comparison of Terminal-restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-RFLP) Analysis and Sequencing of 16S rDNA Clones in marine sediments

  • Lee Jung-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the Microbiological Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.15-21
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    • 2002
  • Terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis has been optimized by using in vitro model community composed of genomic DNAs of known bacterial strains and has been applied to assess the bacterial community structure in marine sediments. The specific fluorescence-labeled terminal restriction fragments (T-RFs) between 39 and 839 base long specifying each strain were precisely measured for known bacterial strains. The addition of a co-solvent (dimethylsulfoxide or glycerol) into PCR reactions has reduced differential PCR amplification. Comparative bacterial community structure was investigated for pristine and polluted sediments. A complex T-RFLP pattern showing complex bacterial community structure was obtained in the pristine sediment, whereas simple T-RFLP pattern (low bacterial diversity) was shown in polluted sediments where caged aquaculture has been conducted for several years. The results of T-RFLP analysis were compared with that of cloning and sequencing 16S rDNA clones from the same sediments. Sequence analysis of 16S rDNA clones (72) of the pristine sediment revealed a diverse collection of lineages, largely of the class Proteobacteria ($6\%$ alpha subdivision, $46\%$ gamma subdivision, $13\%$ delta subdivision, and $3\%$ epsilon subdivision), Nitrospina $(8\%)$, high G+C gram positive $(8\%)$, Verrucomicrobia $(7\%)$, and Planctomycetes $(6\%)$. In the contaminated sediments, 17 $(59\%)$ of the 16S rDNA clones (29) were related to Campylobacter and symbiont of Rimicaris exoculata belonging to epsilon subdivision of Proteobacteria. The results obtained indicated that T-RFLP analysis is a rapid and precise technique for comparative bacterial community analysis.

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A Comparison of Head-Hand Coordination Patterns during Squash Forehand Strokes in Expert and Less-Skilled Squash Players

  • Roh, Miyoung
    • Korean Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.109-117
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    • 2018
  • Objective: To compare head and hand movement patterns during squash forehand motions between experts and less-skilled squash players. Method: Four experts and four less-skilled squash players participated in this study. They performed squash forehand swings and a VICON motion analysis system was used to obtain displacement and velocity data of the head and right hand during the movement. Mann-Whitney U-tests were performed to compare head and hand range of motion and peak velocity, and cross-correlation was performed to analyze the head-hand coordination pattern between groups in three movement directions. Results: In terms of head and hand kinematic data, experts had greater head range of motion during down swings than less-skilled squash players. Experts seemed to reach peak hand velocity at impact by reaching peak head velocity followed by hand peak velocity within a given temporal sequence. In terms of head-hand coordination patterns, both groups revealed high positive correlations in the medial-lateral direction, indicating a dominant allocentric coordination pattern. However, experts had uncoupled coordination patterns in the vertical direction and less-skilled squash players had high positive correlations. These results indicate that the head-hand movement pattern likely an important factor squash forehand movement. Conclusion: Analysis of head and hand movement patterns could be a key variable in squash training to reach expert-level performance.