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Cataloguing of Anther Expressed Genes through Differential Slot Blot in Oriental Lily (Lilium Oriental Hybrid 'Acapulco') (아카풀코나리에서 Differential Slot Blot을 이용한 약발현 유전자 목록작성)

  • Suh, Eun-Jung;Yu, Hee Ju;Han, Bong Hee;Lim, Yong Pyo;Jeong, Mi-Jeong;Lee, Seong-Kon;Kim, Dong-Hern;Chang, An-Cheol;Yae, Byeong Woo
    • Horticultural Science & Technology
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.598-606
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    • 2013
  • Anther is the major organ of flower in responsible to reproduction and outward appearance. From anther-specific cDNA library of Lilium Oriental Hybrid 'Acapulco', 2000 expressed sequence tags were selected randomly. Differential slot blot analysis with cDNA probes from the anther and leaf was used to get anther-expressed clone and 570 non-redundant ESTs were obtained and sequenced. Compared to the GenBank database using BLASTX algorithm, 191 clones showed significant similarity but others (66.5%) did not measured to known sequence. Functional categories according to gene ontology (GO) annotation included sequence representing a significant portion of protein in cell and cell part respectively. A transcriptional analysis at 7 different organs and developmental stage was performed using northern blot with thirty ESTs as putative anther specific gene. This report suggest that selection of anther expressed clone using differential slot blot was considered as very effective tool and our current study can provide fundamental information on the lily anther including pollen furthermore.

A Narrative Review of Home Modification Using Virtual Reality (가상현실 기반 가정환경 수정에 관한 내러티브 문헌 고찰)

  • Hwang, Na-Kyoung;Shim, Sun-Hwa
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.19 no.12
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    • pp.495-504
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    • 2021
  • This review aims to identify the virtual reality (VR)-based home modification programs and provide basic data for the future development and application of domestic VR-based home modification programs. We collected the studies of academic publication or conference, symposium addressed VR-based home modification from January 2011 to June 2021 using hand searching and databases such as Medline, Embase, and Scopus. A total of 7 studies were selected through selection criteria, and the studies were quantitative and qualitative studies on the development of VR prototype for home modification and the acceptability and usability of the programs. VR-based home modification have been developed and applied for various purposes for stakeholders involved in home modification. It can be used as the tools for fostering experts in home modification, evaluating the home environment remotely, and facilitating communication and collaboration with the stakeholders in the modification process. In the future, studies on development and feasibility of VR-based home modification program reflecting the characteristics of domestic housing should be conducted, and it is expected to be utilized as a tool to support the home modification process.

A Study on the Efficiency of Container Ports in the Mediterranean Sea (지중해 컨테이너항만의 효율성 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Ibrahim, Ousama Ibrahim Hassan;Kim, Hyun Deok
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.91-105
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    • 2021
  • The current increasing size of container vessels affects the container port's situation. The containerization has changed the inter-modal handling process, which brought more flexibility and comfortableness in the shipping industry sector. Thus, it is very crucial to analyze the efficiency of container ports in the regional sphere. Such kind of efficiency analysis provide a powerful management tool for port operators and shipping managers in the Mediterranean market, and it also helps to form an information for planning new regional and national port operations. This paper aims to analyze the ports' technical efficiency of Mediterranean major container ports. It is conducted to establish the model of port performance and efficiency through the empirical test of the various factors. Regarding to the panel data collected from the 48 DMUs (decision making units), this study attempts to provide the empirical basis of the port efficiency relative to another factors in the total port performance. Due to the complexity of the various activities carried out at container ports, the study focuses only on the technical efficiency at the level of the Mediterranean container port. Unlike the practice of cross-sectional data analysis, originally established by Charnes et al. (1985), the panel data in DEA window analysis applications are used. The main focus of this study is the relative technical efficiency of 12 container ports from 7 countries in the Mediterranean market. The selection of ports under study is based on their high handling capability and rankings in World Top 100 (Containerization International, 2018).

A Study on Operation Method of Protection Device for LVDC Distribution Feeder in Light Rail System (경전철용 LVDC 배전계통의 보호기기 운용 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Min-Kwan;Choi, Sung Sik;Lee, Hu-Dong;Kim, Gi-Yung;Rho, Dae-Seok
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.25-34
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    • 2019
  • Recently, when a fault occurs at a long-distance point in a LVDC (low voltage direct current) distribution feeder in a light rail system, the magnitude of the current can decrease to less than that of the load current of a light rail system. Therefore, proper protection coordination method to distinguish a fault current from a load current is required. To overcome these problems, this paper proposes an optimal algorithm of protection devices for a LVDC distribution feeder in a light rail system. In other words, based on the characteristics of the fault current for ground resistance and fault location, this paper proposes an optimal operation algorithm of a selective relay to properly identify the fault current compared to the load current in a light rail system. In addition, this paper modelled the distribution system including AC/DC converter using a PSCAD/EMTDC S/W and from the simulation results for a real light rail system, the proposed algorithm was found to be a useful and practical tool to correctly identify the fault current and load current.

A Systematic Review of the Application Nonpharmacological Cognitive Interventions in Patients With Dementia (치매 환자에게 적용된 비약물적 인지중재방법에 대한 체계적 고찰)

  • Kwak, Ho-Soung;Park, Ji-Hyuk
    • Korean Journal of Occupational Therapy
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.13-26
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    • 2018
  • Objective : The aim of the study was to investigate the application of nonpharmacological cognitive interventions in patients with dementia. Methods : We searched published studies in KISS, PubMed, and Sciencedirect databases from January 2013 to December 2017. The main keywords used were "Dementia" AND "Cognitive stimulation OR Cognitive rehabilitation OR Cognitive training" and a total of ten studies were selected for analysis from 753 searched articles. Results : Seven of the ten selected studies showed significant improvements in cognitive function after intervention, whereas three studies showed no improvement in cognitive function; however, activation of brain waves, improvement in the relationship between care givers and patients, improvement in the quality of life of care givers, and improvements in visual motor skills were shown. Mini-Mental State Examination(MMSE) was used as the assessment tool for identifying the effects of the cognitive function improvement, and in four studies the quality of life of dementia patients was measured as an intervention effect. The main subject of the cognitive intervention is patients with mild to moderate dementia. Conclusion : The results of this study can be used as a basis for the selection of intervention methods, as well as their duration and assessment, according to the characteristics of dementia patients.

Analysis of Red Coverage in Red- and White-koi Carp (Cyprinus carpio) and Red- and White-koi Carp (C. carpio)×Red Common Carp (C. carpio) Cross Progenies (홍백 비단잉어와 홍백 비단잉어×홍잉어 교배종의 적색소 분석)

  • Hwang, Ju-ae;Kim, Jung Eun;Lee, Jeong-Ho;Kim, Dae-Hee;Kim, Hyeong Su
    • Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.238-241
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate color pattern and growth in cross progenies between kois and red common carp (Cyprinus carpio). Coverage of red color patches in skin was investigated in $koi{\times}koi$ (KK), $koi{\times}red$ common carp (KR) and red common $carp{\times}koi$ (RK) progenies in 170 days post-hatching (DPH) by analysis of digital photographs. KR cross group had higher length (P<0.05) and the mean weight than in the KK but there were no significant difference between KR and RK. All groups consisted of three color pattern white, white-red and red. The percentage of red-area coverage in skin was 64% in KK progenies, 56% in KR and 36% in RK. The red coverage (30~50%) was highly in KR (15%) than in KK (10%) and RK (12%). The application of red-area body coverage analysis may suggest potentially useful tool for ornamental fish selection.

Development and Usability of a Cognitive Rehabilitation System Based on a Tangible Object for the Elderly (고령자를 위한 실감객체기반 인지재활 시스템의 개발과 사용성 연구)

  • Park, Sangmi;Won, Kyung-A;Shin, Yun-Chan;Park, Ji-Hyuk
    • Therapeutic Science for Rehabilitation
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.51-62
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    • 2019
  • Objective: To develop and verify the usability of a cognitive rehabilitation system with diverse cognitive functional levels based on tangible objects for the elderly population. Methods: A study was conducted to investigate the system's strengths and weaknesses by upgrading it with responses from two groups of 15 patients and 4 occupational therapists. After undergoing three forms of training - regarding executive function, memory, and concentration for a total of 20-30 min, the participants were asked to answer a structured questionnaire about contents of the three forms of training, hardware including the tablet PC functioning as a CPU and display media and tangible objects, and satisfaction of experiential usage of the system. Results: Both groups responded that the most interesting training area was executive function while the least interesting was concentration. Six participants reported that the size of the screen of the tablet PC was inappropriate, and five responded that the size of the tool was inappropriate. All therapists and 40% of the patients responded that they were satisfied with this system. Conclusion: This system's features include easy manipulation of tangible tools for performing training tasks, easy selection of and training in cognitive areas based on users' needs, and automatic adjustment of difficulty level based on users' performance. The training environment was designed to be similar to the natural environment by using tangible objects in both hands as input devices for the system, and the system was considered as an alternative to the lack of community cognitive rehabilitation specialists.

Augmented Multiple Regression Algorithm for Accurate Estimation of Localized Solar Irradiance (국지적 일사량 산출 정확도 향상을 위한 다중회귀 증강 알고리즘)

  • Choi, Ji Nyeong;Lee, Sanghee;Ahn, Ki-Beom;Kim, Sug-Whan;Kim, Jinho
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.36 no.6_1
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    • pp.1435-1447
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    • 2020
  • The seasonal variations in weather parameters can significantly affect the atmospheric transmission characteristics. Herein, we propose a novel augmented multiple regression algorithm for the accurate estimation of atmospheric transmittance and solar irradiance over highly localized areas. The algorithm employs 1) adaptive atmospheric model selection using measured meteorological data and 2) multiple linear regression computation augmented with the conventional application of MODerate resolution atmospheric TRANsmission (MODTRAN). In this study, the proposed algorithm was employed to estimate the solar irradiance over Taean coastal area using the 2018 clear days' meteorological data of the area, and the results were compared with the measurement data. The difference between the measured and computed solar irradiance significantly improved from 89.27 ± 48.08σ W/㎡ (with standard MODTRAN) to 21.35 ± 16.54σ W/㎡ (with augmented multiple regression algorithm). The novel method proposed herein can be a useful tool for the accurate estimation of solar irradiance and atmospheric transmission characteristics of highly localized areas with various weather conditions; it can also be used to correct remotely sensed atmospheric data of such areas.

Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Using Review Data and Product Information (리뷰 데이터와 제품 정보를 이용한 멀티모달 감성분석)

  • Hwang, Hohyun;Lee, Kyeongchan;Yu, Jinyi;Lee, Younghoon
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.15-28
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    • 2022
  • Due to recent expansion of online market such as clothing, utilizing customer review has become a major marketing measure. User review has been used as a tool of analyzing sentiment of customers. Sentiment analysis can be largely classified with machine learning-based and lexicon-based method. Machine learning-based method is a learning classification model referring review and labels. As research of sentiment analysis has been developed, multi-modal models learned by images and video data in reviews has been studied. Characteristics of words in reviews are differentiated depending on products' and customers' categories. In this paper, sentiment is analyzed via considering review data and metadata of products and users. Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Self Attention-based Multi-head Attention models and Bidirectional Encoder Representation from Transformer (BERT) are used in this study. Same Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) model is used upon every products information. This paper suggests a multi-modal sentiment analysis model that simultaneously considers user reviews and product meta-information.

Exploring Learning Effects of Elementary Students in a Geological Field Trip Activity concerning 'Minerals and Rocks' - Focus on Novelty Space - ('광물과 암석' 관련 야외지질학습에서 초등학생들의 학습 효과에 대한 탐색 - 생소한 경험 공간을 중심으로 -)

  • Choi, Yoon-Sung;Kim, Jong-Uk
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.43 no.3
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    • pp.430-445
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of this study was to explore the learning effects in elementary school students who participated in a geological field trip conducted under the theme 'minerals and rocks', focusing on novelty space. A total of 10 sixth-grade students participated in this program held at a public elementary school in Seoul as part of after-school club activities. Students observed mineral and rock samples in a classroom and outdoor learning environment. The authors collected activity papers (texts, drawing), researchers' participation notes, video and audio recordings containing the study participants' activities, and post-interview data To analyze the learning effects in the cognitive domain of students, the observation analysis framework for rock classification of Remmen and Frøyland (2020) and the rock description analysis framework of Oh (2020) were used. Additionally, to explore the learning effects of psychological and geographic areas, students' drawings, texts, discourses, and interview data were inductively analyzed. The results showed that the students demonstrated 'everyday' and 'transitional' observations in the classroom learning environment, while in the outdoor learning environment (school playground, community-based activities), they demonstrated 'transitional' and 'scientific' observations. Moreover, as the scientific observation stage progressed, more types of descriptive words for rocks were used. In terms of psychological and geographic aspects, students showed their selection of places to explore familiar outdoor learning environments, positive perceptions of outdoor learning, and aesthetic appreciation. Finally, this study not only discussed novelty space as a tool for analyzing students' learning effects but also suggested the need for an academic approach considering new learning environments, such as learning through virtual field trips.