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Effect of reduced energy density of close-up diets on metabolites, lipolysis and gluconeogenesis in Holstein cows

  • Huang, Wenming;Wang, Libin;Li, Shengli;Cao, Zhijun
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.648-656
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    • 2019
  • Objective: An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of reduced energy density of close-up diets on metabolites, lipolysis and gluconeogenesis in cows during the transition period. Methods: Thirty-nine Holstein dry cows were blocked and assigned randomly to three groups, fed a high energy density diet (HD, 1.62 Mcal of net energy for lactation $[NE_L]/kg$ dry matter [DM]), a medium energy density diet (MD, $1.47Mcal\;NE_L/kg\;DM$), or a low energy density diet (LD, $1.30Mcal\;NE_L/kg\;DM$) prepartum; they were fed the same lactation diet to 28 days in milk (DIM). All the cows were housed in a free-stall barn and fed ad libitum. Results: The reduced energy density diets decreased the blood insulin concentration and increased nonesterified fatty acids (NEFA) concentration in the prepartum period (p<0.05). They also increased the concentrations of glucose, insulin and glucagon, and decreased the concentrations of NEFA and ${\beta}-hydroxybutyrate$ during the first 2 weeks of lactation (p<0.05). The plasma urea nitrogen concentration of both prepartum and postpartum was not affected by dietary energy density (p>0.05). The dietary energy density had no effect on mRNA abundance of insulin receptors, leptin and peroxisome proliferator-activated $receptor-{\gamma}$ in adipose tissue, and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, carnitine palmitoyltransferase-1 and peroxisome proliferator-activated $receptor-{\alpha}$ in liver during the transition period (p>0.05). The HD cows had higher mRNA abundance of hormone-sensitive lipase at 3 DIM compared with the MD cows and LD cows (p = 0.001). The mRNA abundance of hepatic pyruvate carboxy-kinase at 3 DIM tended to be increased by the reduced energy density of the close-up diets (p = 0.08). Conclusion: The reduced energy density diet prepartum was effective in controlling adipose tissue mobilization and improving the capacity of hepatic gluconeogenesis postpartum.

The History of Korean Economic Geography Framework during Fifty Years($1956{\sim}2005$) (한국경제지리학 반세기의 연구 틀 조류(潮流))

  • Han, Ju-Seong
    • Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.355-376
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    • 2007
  • The aim of this study is to examine the changes of approach methods of research framework in the history of Korean economic geography during the last fifty years($1956{\sim}2005$). The five factors that have influenced Korean economic geography are Korean geography, European, American, and Japanese geography, fundamental theories of economics and business administration, regional problems, and culture. The study of Korean economic geography can be divided into four periods: 'period of cradle of economic geography($1956{\sim}1962$)', 'period of establishment of economic geography(1963$\sim$later 1970s)', 'period of leap of economic geography(the former half of 1980s$\sim$the former half of 1990s)', and 'period of transition of economic geography (since later 1990s)'. And research framework of Korean economic geography has changed from the regional structure theory in 'period of leap' to the spatial system of economies and network theory in 'period of transition'. Spatial system of economies and network theory consists of spatial system of world economies, spatial system of national economies, spatial system of regional economies, spatial network of enterprise economies, and spatial network of information economies.

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Education in an Academy of Chinese Medicine L$\"{u}$shantang(侶山堂) and the Qiantang Medical School(錢塘醫派) (중의서원(中醫書院) '여산당(侶山堂)' 강학(講學)과 '전당의파(錢塘醫派)')

  • Lee, Min-Ho
    • Korean Journal of Oriental Medicine
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.45-52
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    • 2010
  • This study aims to discuss the establishment and development of the Qiantang Medical School(錢塘醫派) represented by Zhang Zhicong(張志聰) via focusing on an academy of Chinese medicine named L$\"{u}$shantang(侶山堂). The teaching method in L$\"{u}$shantang(侶山堂) displays a representative feature of the Qiantang Medical School(錢塘醫派), but the foundation of the method consisting of lectures and discussions had already been laid by Lu Zhiyi(盧之頤) during the Ming-Qing transition period. The tradition was succeeded by Zhong Xuelu(仲學輅) in the Hangyuan Medical Board(杭垣醫局) even after L$\"{u}$shantang(侶山堂) was burnt down during a war taken place under the Qianlong(乾隆) period. That the function and the role of the local Confucian academies, which had been focused on the discussion of Confucian classics and local issues, were changed to adopt the education of medicine which had been treated as a lesser subject may be interpreted as a gradual change in the social perception of medicine. The change in the function of the Confucian academies combined with the tendency in which the literati elites of the period left the Confucian philosophy for medicine presents one of many examples showing the changes occurred during the Ming-Qing transition period. The education of medicine provided by the Confucian academies is regarded historically significant in that it was offered by ordinary civilians rather than the government before the formal school education system was established in the modern period. This educational tradition played an important role in bridging the Chinese medicine in the medieval times with that in the modern period.

A Study on the Characteristics of Science and Technology Policy in Korea (한국 과학기술정책의 특성에 관한 시론적 고찰)

  • Song Sung-Soo
    • Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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    • v.2 no.1 s.3
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    • pp.63-83
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    • 2002
  • This article examines the historical and general characteristics of science and technology policy in Korea. Historical characteristics are analyzed through formation period, growth period, and transition period. Korea institutional sis for the promotion of science and technology was made from the initial stage of industrialization. As national R&D programs were launched, technological activities in the private sector were rapidly increased from the 1980s. Korea pursued new directions of science and technology policy with the formation of related laws and Plans from the late 1990s. General characteristics are analyzed by the concept of 'policy regime'. The prime policy goal of science and technology policy in Korea has been related to industrial development so far. In the policy means, input element has been increased focusing on the external aspects. Bureaucratic policy culture has dominated other cultures including economic culture, academic culture, and civic culture.

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Study of the Factors Related to the Labor Market Transition of Job Injured Workers (산업재해 근로자의 노동시장이행 관련 요인 연구)

  • Bae, Hwa-Sook
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.15 no.12
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    • pp.7093-7100
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    • 2014
  • This study analyzed the factors related to labor market transition of job injured workers. The Workers' Compensation Insurance Panel data ver.1, which that was surveyed by the Korean Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service in 2013, was used. Four key findings were made: first, the economically inactive populations are 7.2% and unemployed is 22.3% of occupational accident workers who finished the treatment period; second, 31.5% of laborers who returned to a new workplace went into another type of occupation; third, the results showed that socio-demographic factors, such as gender, age and education years, injury-related factors, such as the treatment period and work limitation, and workplace factors, such as company size and employment status, were associated with the return to work; and fourth, a relatively higher proportion of people who has received occupational training could not return to work and the disability grade was not associated with the return to work. These results suggest that policy makers need to understand the characteristics of labor market transition of job injured workers and develop efficient intervention programs based on the transitional labor market.

Redox Property of Transition Metal Oxides in Catalytic Oxidation (TPR/TPO 실험기법을 이용한 전이금속산화물의 산화-환원 특성 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Ho;Lee, Ho-In
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.10 no.8
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    • pp.1161-1168
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    • 1999
  • The redox property of oxide materials of the 3rd period transition metals(Cr~Zn), V, Mo, and W was studied with temperature-programmed reduction/temperature-programmed oxidation(TPR/TPO) experiment. The peak temperatures of TPO spectra were equal to or lower than those of TPR spectra. And the peak shapes of TPO spectra were broader than those of TPR ones. The activation energies of TPR/TPO for the oxides of the 3rd period transition metals showed in the range of 33~149 kJ/mol, while for the oxides of V, Mo, and W, they showed relatively higher values. The change of activation energies of TPR/TPO with various metal oxides showed a similar trend to the change of their metal-oxygen bond strengths. The change of activation energies of o-xylene oxidation for various metal oxides was proportional to the difference (${\Delta}E_a$) between the activation energy of TPR and that of TPO. From these results, we concluded that the oxidation of o-xylene over various metal oxide catalysts follows the Mars-van Krevelen mechanism including the surface reduction-oxidation of the metal oxide itself.

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Grid Connected Photovoltaic Inverter System Using a New Zero-Current- Transition Scheme (새로운 Zero-Current-Transition 기법을 이용한 계통 연계형 태양광 발전 인버터 시스템)

  • Choi, Young-Deok;Lee, Dong-Yun;Hyun, Dong-Seok
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2002.04a
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    • pp.213-215
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    • 2002
  • This paper presents grid connected photovoltaic inverter system using a new Zero-Current-Transition(ZCT) technique. The main switches of the proposed grid connected inverter are turned off under the zero current condition by operating the auxiliary circuit and also all semiconductor devices, switches and diodes, are applied to low rated voltage regardless of the load condition. In additionally, the proposed ZCT scheme has advantages, which are without the additional current stresses and the conduction losses on the main switches during the resonance period of the auxiliary circuit. The simulation was performed to verify the validity of the proposed grid connected photovoltaic ZCT inverter system.

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Core Analysis during Transition from 37-Element Fuel to CANFLEX-NU Fuel in CANDU 6

  • Jeong, Chan-Joon;Suk, Ho-Chun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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    • 1998.05a
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    • pp.169-174
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    • 1998
  • An 1200-day time-dependent fuel-management for the transition from 37-element fuel to CANFLEX-NU fuel in a CANDU 6 reactor has been simulated to show the compatibility of the CANFLEX-NU fuel with the reactor operation. The simulation calculation were carried out with the RFSP code, provided by cell averaged hel properties obtained from the POWDERPUFS-V code. The refueling scheme for both fuels was an eight bundle shift art a time. The simulation results show that the maximum channel and bundle powers were maintained below the licence limit of the CANDU 6. This indicates that the CANFLEX-NU fuel bundle is compatible with the CANDU 6 reactor operation during the transition period.

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Flattening Techniques for Pitch Detection (피치 검출을 위한 스펙트럼 평탄화 기법)

  • 김종국;조왕래;배명진
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2002.06d
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    • pp.381-384
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    • 2002
  • In speech signal processing, it Is very important to detect the pitch exactly in speech recognition, synthesis and analysis. but, it is very difficult to pitch detection from speech signal because of formant and transition amplitude affect. therefore, in this paper, we proposed a pitch detection using the spectrum flattening techniques. Spectrum flattening is to eliminate the formant and transition amplitude affect. In time domain, positive center clipping is process in order to emphasize pitch period with a glottal component of removed vocal tract characteristic. And rough formant envelope is computed through peak-fitting spectrum of original speech signal in frequency domain. As a results, well get the flattened harmonics waveform with the algebra difference between spectrum of original speech signal and smoothed formant envelope. After all, we obtain residual signal which is removed vocal tract element The performance was compared with LPC and Cepstrum, ACF 0wing to this algorithm, we have obtained the pitch information improved the accuracy of pitch detection and gross error rate is reduced in voice speech region and in transition region of changing the phoneme.

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Effect of Light on Development of Microbody Functions in the Cotyledons of Rape (Brassica napus L.) Seedlings (유채 종자의 Microbody 기능 발달에 미치는 빛의 영향)

  • 피문자
    • Journal of Plant Biology
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.73-81
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    • 1982
  • The changes in activities of glyoxysomal and peroxisomal enzymes during the transition from fat degradation to photosynthesis were investigated with the cotyledns of rape (Brassica napus L.) seedlings. The development and disappearance of glyoxysomal enzyme (isocitrate lyase, EC 4.1.3.1; malate dehydrogenase, EC 1.1.1.37; catalase, EC 1.11.1.6) activities took place independently of light. It is concluded that the mobilization of storage fat is independent of photomorphogenesis. During early periods of development in the dark of light (days 1 through 3), the glyoxysomal enzyme activities were relatively high and the enzyme activities rose to a peak at 3rd day after sowing. Thereafter, the activities decreased gradually. While glyoxysomal enzyme activities were dropping, the peroxisomal enzyme (glycolate oxidase, EC 1.1.3.1) activities were increasing rapidly during the transition period in the light. Moreover, the changes of enzyme activities of the common microbody marker, catalase, indicated both functional patterns. The enzyme patterns in rape cotyledons indicate that the glyoxysomal function of microbodies is replaced by the peroxisomal function of these organelles during the transition from fat degradation to photosynthesis.

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