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Exchange anisotropy depending on Interfacial Structure of the NiO/NiFe bilayers

  • Suh, S.J.;Kwak, J.O.;J.C.Ro;Kim, Y.S.;Park, G.S.
    • 한국결정성장학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국결정성장학회 1998년도 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 14TH KACG TECHNICAL MEETING AND THE 5TH KOREA-JAPAN EMGS (ELECTRONIC MATERIALS GROWTH SYMPOSIUM)
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    • pp.87-90
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    • 1998
  • ABSTRACT- we have analyzed the effect of microstructure and interface conditions on the anisotropic exchange filelds of NiO/NiFe bilayers. The NiO films were deposited by R.F. magentron sputtering. By using different atgon pressure NiO Films, Grain Size And Surface Roughness Of NiO can be manipulated. The exchange field is enhanced in the small granined NiO And This Increment Is Based On The Formation Of Small Domains In NiO

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Full-length cDNA, Expression Pattern and Association Analysis of the Porcine FHL3 Gene

  • Zuo, Bo;Xiong, YuanZhu;Yang, Hua;Wang, Jun
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • 제20권10호
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    • pp.1473-1477
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    • 2007
  • Four-and-a-half LIM-only protein 3 (FHL3) is a member of the LIM protein superfamily and can participate in mediating protein-protein interaction by binding one another through their LIM domains. In this study, the 5'- and 3'- cDNA ends were characterized by RACE (Rapid Amplification of the cDNA Ends) methodology in combination with in silico cloning based on the partial cDNA sequence obtained. Bioinformatics analysis showed FHL3 protein contained four LIM domains and four LIM zinc-binding domains. In silico mapping assigned this gene to the gene cluster MTF1-INPP5B-SF3A3-FHL3-CGI-94 on pig chromosome 6 where several QTL affecting intramuscular fat and eye muscle area had previously been identified. Transcription of the FHL3 gene was detected in spleen, liver, kidney, small intestine, skeletal muscle, fat and stomach, with the greatest expression in skeletal muscle. The A/G polymorphism in exon II was significantly associated with birth weight, average daily gain before weaning, drip loss rate, water holding capacity and intramuscular fat in a Landrace-derived pig population. Together, the present study provided the useful information for further studies to determine the roles of FHL3 gene in the regulation of skeletal muscle cell growth and differentiation in pigs.

Structural Analyses of Zinc Finger Domains for Specific Interactions with DNA

  • Eom, Ki Seong;Cheong, Jin Sung;Lee, Seung Jae
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • 제26권12호
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    • pp.2019-2029
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    • 2016
  • Zinc finger proteins are among the most extensively applied metalloproteins in the field of biotechnology owing to their unique structural and functional aspects as transcriptional and translational regulators. The classical zinc fingers are the largest family of zinc proteins and they provide critical roles in physiological systems from prokaryotes to eukaryotes. Two cysteine and two histidine residues ($Cys_2His_2$) coordinate to the zinc ion for the structural functions to generate a ${\beta}{\beta}{\alpha}$ fold, and this secondary structure supports specific interactions with their binding partners, including DNA, RNA, lipids, proteins, and small molecules. In this account, the structural similarity and differences of well-known $Cys_2His_2$-type zinc fingers such as zinc interaction factor 268 (ZIF268), transcription factor IIIA (TFIIIA), GAGA, and Ros will be explained. These proteins perform their specific roles in species from archaea to eukaryotes and they show significant structural similarity; however, their aligned amino acids present low sequence homology. These zinc finger proteins have different numbers of domains for their structural roles to maintain biological progress through transcriptional regulations from exogenous stresses. The superimposed structures of these finger domains provide interesting details when these fingers are applied to specific gene binding and editing. The structural information in this study will aid in the selection of unique types of zinc finger applications in vivo and in vitro approaches, because biophysical backgrounds including complex structures and binding affinities aid in the protein design area.

Expression, Purification and Functional and structural relationship of pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphatase

  • Kim, Young-Mi;Jung, Ki-Hwa
    • 한국응용약물학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국응용약물학회 2002년도 창립10주년기념 및 국립독성연구원 의약품동등성평가부서 신설기념 국재학술대회:생물학적 동등성과 의약품 개발 전략을 위한 국제심포지움
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    • pp.236-236
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    • 2002
  • Pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphatase (PDP) is a mitochondrial protein serine/threonine phosphatase that catalyzes the dephosphorylation and concomitant reactivation of the pyruvate dehydrogenase componant of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC). PDP consists of a Mg$\^$+2/ -dependent and Ca$\^$+2)-stimulated catalytic subunit (PDPc) of Mr 52,600 and a FAD-containing regulatory subunit (PDPr) of Mr 95.600. Catalytic subunit of pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphatase (PDPc) has been suggested to have three major functional domains such as dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase(E$_2$)-binding domain, regulatory subunit of PDP(PDPr)-binding domain, and calcium-binding domain. In order to identify functional domains, recombinant catalytic subunit of pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphatase (rPDPc) was expressed in E. coli JM101 and purified to near homogeneity using the unique property of PDPc: PDPm binds to the inner lipoyl domain (L$_2$) of E$_2$ of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) in the presence of Ca$\^$+2/, not under EGTA. PDPc was limited-proteolysed by trypsin, chymotrypsin, Arg-C, and elastase at pH7.0 and 30$^{\circ}C$ and N-terminal analysis of the fragment was done. Chymotrypsin, trypsin, and elastase made two major framents: N-terminal large fragment, approx. 50kD and C-terminal small fragment, approx. 0 kDa. Arg-C made three major fragments: N-terminal fragment, approx. 35 kD, and central fragment, approx. 15 kD, and C-terminal fragment, approx. 10 kD. This study strongly suggest that PDPc consists of three major functional domains. However, further study should be necessary to identify the functional role.

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Discrete Optimization for Vibration Design of Composite Plates by Using Lamination Parameters

  • Honda, Shinya;Narita, Yoshihiro;Sasaki, Katsuhiko
    • Advanced Composite Materials
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    • 제18권4호
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    • pp.297-314
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    • 2009
  • A design method is proposed to optimize the stacking sequence of laminated composite plates for desired vibration characteristics. The objective functions are the natural frequencies of the laminated plates, and three types of optimization problems are studied where the fundamental frequency and the difference of two adjacent frequencies are maximized, and the difference between the target and actual frequencies is minimized. The design variables are a set of discrete values of fiber orientation angles with prescribed increment in the layers of the plates. The four lamination parameters are used to describe the bending property of a symmetrically laminated plate, and are optimized by a gradient method in the first stage. A new technique is introduced in the second stage to convert from the optimum four lamination parameters into the stacking sequence that is composed of the optimum fiber orientation angles of all the layers. Plates are divided into sub-domains composed of the small number of layers and designed sequentially from outer domains. For each domain, the optimum angles are determined by minimizing the errors between the optimum lamination parameters obtained in the first step and the parameters for all possible discrete stacking sequence designs. It is shown in numerical examples that this design method can provide with accurate optimum solutions for the stacking sequence of vibrating composite plates with various boundary conditions.

정보 검색 시스템 평가를 위한 균형 테스트 컬렉션 구축 (Construction of a Balanced Test Collection for Evaluation of Information Retrieval System)

  • 맹성현;이석훈;이준호;이응봉;송사광
    • 정보관리학회지
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    • 제16권2호
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    • pp.135-148
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    • 1999
  • 검색 시스템들의 평가를 위해 국내에서도 테스트 컬렉션에 관한 여러 연구가 진행되어왔다. 그러나 그 규모나 대상 분야가 편중되어 있고 질의 및 문헌 특성의 균형 등에 대한 고려가 반영되어 있지 않아 평가 결과를 객관화하기는 사실상 어려운 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 분야별, 사용자별 균형을 고려한 대규모 테스트 컬렉션인 HANTEC에 대해 기술한다. HANTEC 테스트 컬렉션은 총 12만 건의 문헌집합으로 구성되었는데 일반, 사회과학, 과학기술 각 분야별 4만 건씩으로 특정 분야에 편중되지 않도록 하였고 질의집합도 각 분야별 10개씩 30개로 구성하였다.

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Synthesis and Characterization of Nanocomposite Films Consisting of Vanadium Oxide and Microphase-separated Graft Copolymer

  • Choi, Jin-Kyu;Kim, Yong-Woo;Koh, Joo-Hwan;Kim, Jong-Hak;Mayes, Anne M.
    • Macromolecular Research
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    • 제15권6호
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    • pp.553-559
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    • 2007
  • Nanocomposite films were prepared by sol-gel synthesis from vanadium triisopropoxide with $poly((oxyethylene)_9$ methacrylate)-graft-poly(dimethyl siloxane), POEM-g-PDMS, producing in situ growth of vanadium oxide within the continuous ion-conducting POEM domains of micro phase-separated graft copolymer. The formation of vanadium oxide was confirmed by wide angle x-ray scattering (WAXS) and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. Small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) revealed the spatially-selective incorporation of vanadium oxide in the POEM domains. Upon the incorporation of vanadium oxide, the domain periodicity of the graft copolymer monotonously increased from 17.2 to 21.0 nm at a vanadium content 14 v%, above which it remained almost invariant. The selective interaction of vanadium oxide with POEM was further verified by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and FT-IR spectroscopy. The nanocomposite films exhibited excellent mechanical properties $(l0^{-5}-10^{-7}dyne/cm^2)$, mostly due to the confinement of vanadium oxide in the POEM chains as well as the interfaces created by the microphase separation of the graft copolymer.

유방암 환자에서 화학요법이 인지기능에 미치는 영향에 대한 메타분석 (A Meta-analysis of Chemotherapy related Cognitive Impairment in Patients with Breast Cancer)

  • 박진희;배선형
    • 대한간호학회지
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    • 제42권5호
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    • pp.644-658
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    • 2012
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the cognitive effects of chemotherapy in patients with breast cancer. Methods: Using several databases, prospective studies were collected up to August 2011. Of 2,106 publications identified, 12 met the inclusion criteria, and 8 studies were used to estimate the effect size of chemotherapy on cognitive impairment. Results: Twelve studies were done since 2005 and most of the research was performed in Europe or North America. Eight studies were used to generate effect size across the cognitive domains of attention/concentration, verbal and visual memory, executive function, visuospatial skill, language, and subjective cognitive function. Each of the cognitive domains showed small effect sizes (-0.02 ~ -0.26), indicating diminished cognitive function for the chemotherapy group compared with non-chemotherapy groups. Conclusion: Finding suggests that breast cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy may experience mild cognitive decline. Further study is needed to generate knowledge and guideline for interventions to address chemotherapy related cognitive impairment in these patients.

고혈압이 있는 근로자가 인식한 산업간호사 보건관리 활동 평가 - 보건관리 대행사업장을 대상으로 - (Evaluation of Occupational Health Services on Workers with Hypertension in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises -Subject to Enterprises taken the Occupational Health Management Agency-)

  • 조정민;전미영;김명희
    • 한국보건간호학회지
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    • 제16권2호
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    • pp.445-453
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    • 2002
  • Purpose: This study has been designed to evaluate occupational health services on workers with hypertension Method: Study participants were 108 workers having a diagnosed hypertension. The instrument used for this study was the questionnaire developed by Cho(1998). Analysis of the data was done with SPSS Win 10.0 for descriptive statistics, Correlation coefficient. Results: 1. The mean score of process domain was $3.77\pm.43$ The score of process domains were usefulness of health management$(3.98\pm.49)$, education or counselling$(3.87\pm.53)$, follow up in medical examination$(3.79\pm.58)$, usefulness of providing materials$(3.53\pm.62)$, perception of medical examination $(3.37\pm.80)$ 2. The mean score of outcome domain was $3.47 \pm.44$ The score of outcome domains were obstructiveness of social life$(3.90\pm.78)$, habits of living $(3.41\pm.76)$, blood pressure change $(3.25\pm.81)$, perception of seriousness$(3.02\pm.88)$. 3. Blood pressure change was significant correlated with education or counselling(r=.31) and usefulness of providing materials(r=.28).

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초음파 분무 열분해법에 의해 성장된 ZnO 박막의 특성에 미치는 Li 첨가의 영향 (Effect of Li-Incorporation on the Properties of ZnO Thin Films Deposited by Ultrasonic-Assisted Spray Pyrolysis Deposition Method)

  • 한인섭;박일규
    • 한국재료학회지
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    • 제28권2호
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    • pp.101-107
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    • 2018
  • Li-incorporated ZnO thin films were deposited by using ultrasonic-assisted spray pyrolysis deposition (SPD) system. To investigate the effect of Li-incorporation on the performance of ZnO thin films, the structural, electrical, and optical properites of the ZnO thin films were analyzed by means of X-ray diffraction (XRD), field-emssion scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), Hall effect measurement, and UV-Vis spectrophotometry with variation of the Li concentraion in the ZnO sources. Without incorporation of Li element, the ZnO surface showed large spiral domains. As the Li content increases, the size of spiral domains decreased gradually, and finally formed mixed small grain and one-dimensional nanorod-like structures on the surface. This morphological evolution was explained based on an anti-surfactant effect of Li atoms on the ZnO growth surface. In addition, the Li-incorporation changed the optical and electrical properties of the ZnO thin films by modifying the crystalline defect structures by doping effects.