• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.204-210
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• 2013

We present the motivation, design and implementation of a smart home system in Korea. Our system is open, extensible, integrated, intelligent, and usage-centric. We detail the challenges and key design requirements for the smart home system based on our past experiences, and show how convergence system design is a capable methodology for enabling an integrated and multi-faceted home management system that encompasses energy management, home appliance control, environment management, u-health, and living support functionalities under a single unified design. Using energy management as a specific case study, we demonstrate how convergence system design can encapsulate technology heterogeneity and hardware-software disparity without compromising simple yet powerful user interfaces.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.141-148
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• 2011

Annual epidemics of seasonal influenza occur during autumn and winter in temperate regions and have imposed substantial public health and economic burdens. At the global level, these epidemics cause about 3-5 million severe cases of illness and about 0.25-0.5 million deaths each year. Although annual vaccination is the most effective way to prevent the disease and its severe outcomes, influenza vaccination coverage rates have been at suboptimal levels in many countries. For instance, the coverage rates among the elderly in 20 developed nations in 2008 ranged from 21% to 78% (median 65%). In the U.S., influenza vaccination levels among elderly population appeared to reach a "plateau" of about 70% after the late 1990s, and levels among child populations have remained at less than 50%. In addition, disparities in the coverage rates across subpopulations within a country present another important public health issue. New approaches are needed for countries striving both to improve their overall coverage rates and to eliminate disparities. This review article aims to describe a broad conceptual framework of vaccination, and to illustrate four potential determinants of influenza vaccination based on empirical analyses of U.S. nationally representative populations. These determinants include the ongoing influenza epidemic level, mass media reporting on influenza-related topics, reimbursement rate for providers to administer influenza vaccination, and vaccine supply. It additionally proposes specific policy implications, derived from these empirical analyses, to improve the influenza vaccination coverage rate and associated disparities in the U.S., which could be generalizable to other countries.

• Cross-Cultural Studies
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• v.45
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• pp.145-166
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• 2016

The aim of this investigation was to determine the historical relationship between anti-communism in the United States and military dictatorship in Paraguay. Relations between the two countries have been of great importance since the U.S attempt to obtain hemispheric solidarity in World War II, the Cold War in Latin America, and the balance of power in the La Plata region. The Archives of Terror are official documents of police repression between Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship and the U.S. U.S provided support and aid to Paraguay dictator. Alfredo Stroessner spanned more than half a century. The course of Paraguay-U.S. relation during his regime is illustrative of the flow of real politics in both nations. Not only did Washington had definite diplomatic goals, so did $Asunci{\acute{o}}n$. The relative disparity in power and wealth between the two nations did not necessarily hinder Paraguay's pursuit of international advantage in its relations with the United States.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.353-361
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• 2001

A new stereoscopic codec. structure using MPEG-2 multiview profile is presented in this paper. In the suggested codec., the left image is coded with motion estimation in the base layer and the right image is coded with disparity estimation in the enhancement layer. Since it is possible to calculate rough motion of the right image sequence with disparity and motion of the left image sequence, motion compensation of the enhancement layer is performed without motion estimation. To apply this mathod to MVP codec., the prediction mode of base layer and enhancement layer is restricted, and B picture mode in the base layer is removed. Since the proposed codec. does not perform motion estimation in the enhancement layer encoding and prediction mode of base layer is restricted, it's structure is simple and reduces the encoding time. We compared the SNR of encoded image with three different structured codec., and the experimental results show suggested codec. have comparable result.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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• v.22
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• pp.78-85
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• 2004

Polyeyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were quantitatively determined in bivalves from Gwangyang Bay. Twenty-four kinds of target PAHs were detected in the entire samples. Total PAHs concentrations ranged 86.1∼1,210 ng g$\^$-1/ dry weight with a average concentration of 309 ng g$\^$-1/, which is much lower than those of other industrialized bays in Korea. Strong tidal currents and artificial interferences like reclamation and dredging activity were suggested as major reason for disparity between highly industrialization and low contamination status. There was no correlation between total PAHs and lipid contents, implying that lipid content is not the one major parameter for the accumulation of PAHs by bivalves. Input sources were inferred as petrogenic and pyrogenic PAHs. With help of PCA analysis, signals of seasonal variations, not only concentrations but also compositions were found.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07d
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• pp.2477-2479
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 차선관련 정보의 변이도함수(DLI, Disparity of Lane-related Information)를 기반으로 하는 선행차량 인식 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 알고리즘을 이용하여, 주행차선내에 있는 선행차량의 유무 검출과 위치 유추 및 선행차량 인식을 수행한다. DLI를 이용하는 방법은 특징점의 탐색공간을 현저히 줄여 실시간 처리문제를 해결한 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 제안된 선행차량 인식알고리즘의 성능을 검증하기 위하여 다양한 환경의 도로영상에 알고리즘을 적용하여, 제안된 선행차량 인식기법의 우수함을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nutrition Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.73-82
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• 2002

The low molecular weight zinc-binding protein metallothionein (U) contains 32% cysteine and has been shown to efficiently scavenge hydroxyl radicals in vitro. MT expression is induced by oxidative stress and an antioxidant role for this protein has therefore been proposed. This review mainly focuses on the evidence for this role arising from studies using genetically modified animals and cells which either over- or under-express MT. Despite some considerable disparity of results in the literature, reported studies do generally support an antioxidant role. Nevertheless, oxidant stress at non-physiological treatment levels has been the preferred experimental model and there is little information about the role of MT in physiological oxidative stress. Although it is presumed that the mechanism by which MT has an antioxidant effect involves oxidation of cysteinal thiols, it is possible that zinc release from MT is in itself an important signalling factor.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.07d
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• pp.2459-2461
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• 2003

본 논문은 차량 내에 설치된 두 대의 CCD 카메라를 이용하여 도로 영상으로부터 주행차선내에 있는 장애물을 인식하는 새로운 알고리즘을 제시한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 주행하는 차선과 관련이 있는 차선 정보만을 이용하여, 스테레오 영상에서 변이도를 추출할 수 있는 변이도 함수인 DLI(Disparity of lane-related information)를 정의하였다. DLI는 선행 차량과 같은 장애물은 주위보다 상대적으로 큰 에지값을 가진다는 특성을 이용하여, 주행차선 내에 있는 장애물의 유무를 검출하고 위치를 유추한다. 제안된 방법은 특징점의 탐색공간을 현저히 줄여 실시간 처리문제를 해결한 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 DLI를 이용한 선행차량 인식기법의 성능을 검증하기 위하여 다양한 환경의 도로영상에 알고리즘을 적용하여 제안한 방법의 우수함을 확인하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.8B no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 서식 문서를 짧은 처리 시간에 정확히 분류함으로써 실제 환경에서 응용할 수 있는 서식 분류 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 서식 문서 이미지 전체를 다루기보다는 처리하고자 하는 서식 문서에서 서식 구조가 많이 다른 곳을 찾아서 매칭 영역으로 결정하고, 그 영역들에 대해서만 비교를 수행함으로써 계산 시간을 줄이고 인식률을 높인다. 선분 추출 시 오류를 고려하기 위하여 기존 인쇄 문자와 채워진 데이터, 그리고 매칭 영역의 크기 정보를 페널티 함수로 반영하여 매칭 영역 선택 시 고려한다. 본 방법은 구조적으로 많이 다르고, 양질의 특징을 포함하는 적은 수의 매칭 영역을 선택함으로써 처리 시간을 줄일 수 있음은 물론 높은 서식 분류율을 얻을 수 있다.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.141-150
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• 2021

This short review on the chemistry, pharmacological properties and patents of obovatol and obovatal from Magnolia obovata is the first publication. Pharmacological properties are focused on anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, anti-platelet and neuroprotective activities. Obovatol and obovatal were first isolated from the leaves of M. obovata. Also reported in the bark and fruits of M. obovata, obovatol and obovatal are neolignans i.e., biphenolic compounds bearing a C-O coupling. Other classes of compounds isolated and identified from M. obovata include sesquiterpene-neolignans, dineolignans, trineolignan, lignans, dilignans, phenylpropanoids, phenylethanoid glycosides, flavonoids, phenolic acids, alkaloids, sesquiterpenes, ketone and sterols. The anti-cancer properties of obovatol and obovatal involve apoptosis, inhibition of the growth, migration and invasion of cancer cell lines. However, obovatol displays cytotoxicity against cancer cells but not obovatal. Similarly, anti-inflammatory, anti-platelet, neuroprotective, anxiolytic and other pharmacological activities were only observed in obovatol. The disparity in pharmacological properties of obovatol and obovatal may be attributed to the -CHO group present in obovatal but absent in obovatol. From 2007 to 2013, eight patents were published on obovatol with one mentioning obovatal. They were all published at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by scientists of the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) as inventors and assignee, respectively. Some future research and prospects are suggested.