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How to identify fake images? : Multiscale methods vs. Sherlock Holmes

  • Park, Minsu;Park, Minjeong;Kim, Donghoh;Lee, Hajeong;Oh, Hee-Seok
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.583-594
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    • 2021
  • In this paper, we propose wavelet-based procedures to identify the difference between images, including portraits and handwriting. The proposed methods are based on a novel combination of multiscale methods with a regularization technique. The multiscale method extracts the local characteristics of an image, and the distinct features are obtained through the regularized regression of the local characteristics. The regularized regression approach copes with the high-dimensional problem to build the relation between the local characteristics. Lytle and Yang (2006) introduced the detection method of forged handwriting via wavelets and summary statistics. We expand the scope of their method to the general image and significantly improve the results. We demonstrate the promising empirical evidence of the proposed method through various experiments.

Occurrence of crown gall of chrysanthemum caused by Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

  • Lee, Young-Kee;Lee, Jong-Hyoung;Kim, Jin-Young;Cho, Weon-Dae;Cha, Jae-Soon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Plant Pathology Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.126-126
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    • 2003
  • Incidence of crown gall on lower stem of chrysanthemum, Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat., was first observed at Hwasung, Gyeonggi, Korea in 2001, Tumors on the stem were 1.5-2 cm in size and semi-round with rough surface texture of dark brown color. Four strains of bacteria isolated from the tumor tissues were characterized. Their colonies were convex, glistening, circular with an entire edge, and white to tannish-cream in color on PDA plus CaCO$_3$. They were gram negative, oxidase positive, and growing on DIM agar. The bacterial isolates inducing gall formation in chrysanthemum were identified as Agrobacterium tumefaciens based on biochemical and physiological characteristics, fatty acid profile using Sherlock Microbial Identification System, and substrate utilization patterns using Biolog Identification System. Young chrysanthemum plants inoculated with the bacteria developed typical galls within two to three weeks. Seedlings of tomato and slices of carrot roots also produced typical galls two to three weeks after inoculation. This is the first report on crown gall of chrysanthemum in Korea.

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Screening of Fibrinolytic Enzyme Producing from Microorganisms and Optimum Conditions of Enzyme Production (혈전 분해효소 생산균의 탐색 및 효소생산 최적조건의 조사)

  • 최무영
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.32 no.7
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    • pp.976-980
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    • 2003
  • A strain of potential producer of fibrinolytic enzyme was isolated from Korean fermented food. The isolated bacterium was identified and named as Bacillus brevis KJ-23. The optimal condition of the medium for the production of fibrinolytic enzyme from Bacillus brevis KJ-23 was nutrient broth with 0.5% D-ribose, 0.5% malt extract and 0.3% $K_2$HPO$_4$. The optimum pH, temperature and fermentation time for the enzyme production were pH 7.0, 3$0^{\circ}C$ and 24 hr, respectively.

Physiological and Molecular Characterization of a Newly Identified Entomopathogenic Bacteria, Photorhabdus temperata M1021

  • Jang, Eun-Kyung;Ullah, Ihsan;Lim, Jong-Hui;Lee, In-Jung;Kim, Jong-Guk;Shin, Jae-Ho
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.22 no.12
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    • pp.1605-1612
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    • 2012
  • The present study concerned the identification and characterization of a novel bacterial strain isolated from entomopathogenic nematodes collected from different regions in Korea. The bacterial isolate M1021 was Gramnegative, bioluminescent, and produced red colonies on MacConkey agar medium. A rod-shaped structure was confirmed by the electron micrograph. Fatty acid composition was analyzed by using the Sherlock MIDI system. The identification was further supported by 16S rDNA sequence analysis, which revealed 96-99% sequence homology with strains of Photorhabdus temperata. The location of the isolated strain of P. temperata in the phylogenetic tree was confirmed and it was named P. temperata M1021. P. temperata M1021 exhibited catalase, protease, and lipase activities when grown on appropriate media supplemented with respective substrates. The culture of P. temperata M1021 exhibited insecticidal activity against the larvae of Galleria mellonella and the activity was the highest after 3-4 days of cultivation with agitating at $28^{\circ}C$ under 220 rpm. Antibacterial activity was also observed against Salmonella Typhimurium KCTC 1926 and Micrococcus luteus KACC 10488.

Monitoring $CO_2$ injection with cross-hole electrical resistivity tomography (시추공간 전기비저항 토모그래피를 이용한 $CO_2$ 주입 모니터링)

  • Christensen, N.B.;Sherlock, D.;Dodds, K.
    • Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.44-49
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    • 2006
  • In this study, the resolution capabilities of electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) in the monitoring of $CO_2$ injection are investigated. The pole-pole and bipole-bipole electrode configuration types are used between two uncased boreholes straddling the $CO_2$ plume. Forward responses for an initial pre-injection model and three models for subsequent stages of $CO_2$ injection are calculated for the two different electrode configuration types, noise is added and the theoretical data are inverted with both L1- and L2-norm optimisation. The results show that $CO_2$ volumes over a certain threshold can be detected with confidence. The L1-norm proved superior to the L2-norm in most instances. Normalisation of the inverted models with the pre-injection inverse model gives good images of the regions of changing resistivity, and an integrated measure of the total change in resistivity proves to be a valid measure of the total injected volume.

Isolation and Characterization of Lactobacillus fermentum YL-3 as a poultry probiotic. (가금류 생균제 개발을 위한 Lactobacillus fermentum YL-3의 분리 및 생리 특성)

  • Cho, Mun-Kyoung;Kim, Kyong;Kim, Chung-Ho;Lee, Tae-Keun;Kim, Kwang-Yup
    • Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.279-284
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    • 2000
  • This study was per-formed to screen lactic acid bacteria poultry for the probiotic use. Among the previously obtained acid tolerant, 139 strains, 111 strains were selected with MRS medium containing 0.3% oxgall. 34 strains of 111 was re-selected by Gram-staining and acid producing ability. These strains was identified by MIDI Sherlock Microbial Identification System. Among the identified 34 strains Lactobacillus fermenum YL-3 was selected for the final pro-biotic use because of the good growth and high survival rate at pH 2.0. 60%, 50% and 40% cells of Lactobacillus fermentum YL-3 survived at pH 3.0, 2.5 and 2.0, respectively. More than $10^{7}$ / CFU/ml survived when exposed with the number of $10^{8}$ CFU/ml at pH 2.0 after 12 hr. L.fermenum YL-3 maintained growth in MRS broth containing 0.3, 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0% oxgall for 24 hr. L.fermenum YL-3 showed an inhibitory effect against pathogenic strains of Sal. enteritidis and E. coli O157:H7. In mixed culture with L.fermenum YL-3 Sal. enteritidis lost ability com-pletely in 15 hrs and E. coil O157:H7 in 16 hrs.

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Gravity monitoring of $CO_2$ storage in a depleted gas filed: A sensitivity study (채굴후 가스전내 $CO_2$ 저장소의 중력 모너터링: 감도 연구)

  • Sherlock, Don;Toomey, Aoife;Hoversten, Mike;Gasperikova, Erika;Dodds, Kevin
    • Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.37-43
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    • 2006
  • In 2006, the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) plans to undertake (subject to receiving the necessary approvals) a Pilot program for $CO_2$ storage within a depleted gas reservoir. The Otway Basin Pilot Program (OBPP) aims to demonstrate that subsurface $CO_2$ storage is both economically and environmentally sustainable in Australia. This will be the first $CO_2$ storage program in the world to utilise a depleted gas reservoir and, hence, the experience gained will be a valuable addition to the range of international $CO_2$ storage programs that are underway or being planned. A key component of the OBPP is the design of an appropriate geophysical monitoring strategy that will allow the subsurface migration of the $CO_2$ plume to be tracked and to verify that containment has been successful. This paper presents the results from modelling the predicted gravity response to $CO_2$ injection into the Otway Basin reservoir, where the goal was to determine minimum volumes of $CO_2$ that may be detectable using non-seismic geophysical techniques. Modelling results indicate that gravity measurements at 10 m spacing within the existing observation well and the planned $CO_2$ injection well would provide excellent vertical resolution, even for the smallest $CO_2$ volume modelled (10000 tonnes), but resolving the lateral extent of the plume would not be possible without additional wells at closer spacing.

A Study on Design for Reliability for the PBA of Warship based on Reliability Physics Analysis (신뢰성 물리학 분석 기반 함정탑재 PBA 신뢰성 설계에 대한 연구)

  • Cha, Jong-Han;Park, Kyoung-Deok;Lee, Ki-Won;Bak, Byeong-Ho;Kim, Hee-Earn;Kwon, Hyeong-Ahn
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.20 no.12
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    • pp.535-545
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    • 2019
  • The PBA of ship weapon system should be installed and operated under harsh environmental conditions and so it should be highly reliable to endure the mission profiles during its entire lifetime. In the case of PBA failure during operation, rapid maintenance is highly likely to be difficult due to problems such as supply of parts, which can have a devastating effect on the mission. In order to validate the reliability of PBA, a series of tests are performed with PBA samples, but they require time, testing facilities, samples, expenses and failure analysis if failed. The reliability of PBA is predicted on the basis of specifications such as MIL-HDBK-217F, but this specification does not take into account failure mechanisms for specific design details, environment and usage, interconnects and its characteristics that drive many failures of PBA in the field. Therefore, this study predicts the reliability of PBA using an RPA tool and proposes the RPA methodology as a validation process at the design stage. With RPA, it is now possible to achieve design validation including inherent failure mechanism, identification of weakest link, alternative design options, and test plan development.

First Report of Bacterial Root Rot Caused by Serratia plymuthica on Panax ginseng (Serratia plymuthica에 의한 인삼 세균뿌리썩음병 발생)

  • Jung, Won Kwon;Kim, Young Soo;Choi, Jin Kook;Kim, Seung-Han;Jang, Myeong-Hwan;Kwon, Tae Lyong;Jeon, Yongho
    • Research in Plant Disease
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.332-338
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    • 2018
  • In August of 2011, a wilting disease of ginseng was observed at Bongwha, Gyeongbuk province, Korea. Affected plants initially show withering symptoms on leaves of ginseng. As the disease progresses, withering leaves spread downward, eventually encompassing the whole plant. Leaves lose vigor but remain pale green. Symptoms of roots were brown, and soft rots characterized by moist and watery decay of the whole ginseng root, which initiated as small brown, water-soaked lesions of hairy roots and enlarged to the entire roots. The causal organism isolated from the infected roots was identified as Serratia plymuthica based on its physiological and biochemical characteristics, by cellular fatty acid composition (GC-FAME), the utilization of carbon sources (BioLog System), and 16S rRNA sequence of the isolated bacterium were 99% homologous to those of Serratia plymuthica strains. Artificial inoculation of the bacterium produced the same brown or soft rot symptoms on the ginseng roots, from which the same bacterium was isolated. This is the first report of bacterial root rot caused by the Serratia plymuthica in ginseng in Korea. Serratia plymuthica has been used as antagonistic microorganism for biological control on several crop plants. But it was proved pathogen of ginseng at humid condition in this study.