• Anatomy and Cell Biology
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• 제56권1호
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• pp.69-85
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• 2023

Depression is one of the most common neuropsychiatric disorders and is associated with dysfunction of the neuroendocrine system and alterations in specific brain proteins. Boophone disticha (BD) is an indigenous psychoactive bulb that belongs to the Amaryllidacae family, which is widely used in Southern Africa to treat depression, with scientific evidence of potent antidepressant-like effects. The present study examined the antidepressant effects of BD and its mechanisms of action by measuring some behavioural parameters in the elevated plus maze, brain content of corticosterone, brain derived neurotropic factor (BDNF), and neuroblast differentiation in the hippocampus of Balb/c mice exposed to the five day repeated forced swim stress (5d-RFSS). Male Balb/c mice were subjected to the 5d-RFSS protocol to induce depressive-like behaviour (decreased swimming, increased floating, decreased open arm entry, decreased time spent in the open arms and decreased head dips in the elevated plus maze test) and treated with distilled water, fluoxetine and BD. BD treatment (10 mg/kg/p.o for 3 weeks) significantly attenuated the 5d-RFSS-induced behavioural abnormalities and the elevated serum corticosterone levels observed in stressed mice. Additionally, 5d-RFSS exposure significantly decreased the number of neuroblasts in the hippocampus and BDNF levels in the brain of Balb/c mice, while fluoxetine and BD treatment attenuated these changes. The antidepressant effects of BD were comparable to those of fluoxetine, but unlike fluoxetine, BD did not show any anxiogenic effects, suggesting better pharmacological functions. In conclusion, our study shows that BD exerted antidepressant-like effects in 5d-RFSS mice, mediated in part by normalizing brain corticosterone and BDNF levels.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.169-184
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• 1991

The purpose of this study is to analyze urban housewives' home management behavioral patterns focusing on the morphostatic and morphogenic in continuum, to estimate the level of their family life satisfaction and to determine the variables affecting family life satisfaction. The major findings of this study can be summarized as follows: 1. The tendency is that the wives have controlled in value orientation, and home management behavioral patterns are neutral, and they are somewhat satisfied in terms of family life satisfaction. 2. As for the causal variables, marriage duration, the number of children education, employment status of wives, and value orientation influence on home management behavioural patterns. 3. The variables which affect family life satisfaction significantly are number of children, wives' education level, family income, employment status of wives and value orientation. 4. In analyzing relation between wives' home management behavioual patterns and their family life satisfaction, those who prefer morphostatic patterns have higer level of life satisfaction. 5. From the path analysis, it was found that monthly family income, employment status of wives, wives' educationn level, and value orientation had positive effects on family life satisfaction, and home management behavioral patterns had negative effects on family life satisfaction.

• 생물정신의학
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.31-39
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• 1994

Anxiety and anxiety disorders are one of the most common and most serious psychiatric problems. Anti-anxiety drugs are one of the most effective treatment method for these problems. Benzodiazepines have various side-effects and the risk of overuse and abuse. Therefore, physicians should prescribe benzodiazepines carefully. However, they should not be discouraged from prescribing benzodiazepines when they have a knowledge of the pharmacological characteristics of these drugs and there is a clear indication for their use. Generally speaking, problems of benzodiazepine use such as dependence withdrawal symptoms, and cognitive impairment are more likely to occur with high dose, long-term use(more than 4 months), in geriatric patients and patients with a history of alcohol or other sustance abuse. But long-term or high-dose use can be jusified for patients with panic disorder of agoraphobia, and medically-ill patients with persistent anxiety that cannot be otherwise treated. In summary, there cannot be a general prescribing formulation for benzodiazepine use. Physician should always make their decision based on the individual patient's risk/benefit factors.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.87-94
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• 2005

Mating is an essential behavioural social event in the life cycle of silkworm, Bombyx mori (L.) for the perpetuation of population. A number of intrinsic and extrinsic factors and events of significant importance are involved in successful mating and egg deposition by an adult silk moth which besides biochemical, physiological and environmental factors also includes attraction of reproductively competent male and female moth for mating, duration and frequency of mating, age of moth at the time of mating, reuse of male moth in the production of eggs etc. An attempt has been made in this review article to elucidate briefly the behaviour of male towards female moth after eclosion, impact of duration and frequency of mating on egg deposition and oviposition, reuse of mated male moth in the production of quality and quantity eggs etc. in the silk-worm, B. mori and its significance in silkworm seed production.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한산업공학회/한국경영과학회 1996년도 춘계공동학술대회논문집; 공군사관학교, 청주; 26-27 Apr. 1996
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• pp.623-626
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• 1996

Models from different perspectives including functinal view, behavioural view and information view are necessary to implement complex systems such as CIM. It is difficult to integrate those models into a unified framework since they describe different aspects of the system for different purposes. However, modeling from different perspectives is often the case, and many workers are involved in developing a system. Thus, the transformation or interconnection mechanism is required to cope with the consistency problem between them and to save the efforts during development. In this study, a methodology to thansform the IDEFO model into a process flow model is proposed.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.607-617
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• 1993

Three experiments were carried out in which lactating Hereford ${\times}$ Friesian cattle walked up to ten kilometers a day for three periods of five days with two non-walking days between each walking period and in which the animals were fed different diets. Measurements were made of milk yield, milk constituent yields and concentrations and blood metabolite concentrations. Exercise caused significant reductions in milk yield and in the yields of lactose and milk protein. Milk fat yield was not reduced when animals were exercised. During exercise the concentrations of ${\beta}-OH$ butyrate and free fatty acids increased, whereas the concentrations of glucose, magnesium and inorganic phosphorus decreased. Diet influenced the effect of exercise on some blood metabolite concentrations.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제13권11호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2015

Purpose - This study is an effort to assess the role of behavioral biases in investment decision making, specifically for mutual funds, and the moderating role of the investor. Individual investment behavior is concerned with choices about purchasing various securities. However, behavioral finance disputes the concept of perfect rationality and identifies psychological factors and their impact on decision-making. Research design, data, and methodology - A survey questionnaire was designed and used to collect responses using a judgmental sampling technique from 290 investors in the Gwalior Region. Cronbach's Alpha, factor analysis, and linear regression were all used to test the influence of behavioral biases on investment decision. Results - We found that the behavioral biases have a positive impact on investment decisions. Conclusions - This study's results identified three factors influencing investor behavior(rationale, investment skills, and profit making) and four factors influencing investor decisions (profit maker, market analysis, investment plan, seller). The overall results of the study also show that there is no significant relationship between investor behavior and investment decisions by gender in the market.

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2005

Avian vocalization has been main topics in studying animal communication. The structure and usage as well as development and function of vocalization vary enormously among species and even among populations, and thus we reviewed the general patterns of song learning and the consequences of song communication in birds at the behavioural level: first, we compared the different learning phenomena between non-songbird and songbird, and we investigated the learning process of songbird both in the field and in the lab, which are needed to fully understand vocal communication. Second, we discussed a recent trend of sexual selection hypothesis explaining the structural and functional diversity of song in songbirds with repertoire and presented how the repertoire is actually used between neighbours based on individual recognition.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.89-102
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• 1990

본 연구에서는 개별모형(disaggregate model)을 이용한 도시권의 교통수요예측 모형체계의 구축을 최종목적으로 하며, 그때 개인이 1일 중에 행하는 복수의 트립에 관한 의사결정간의 상호관계를 적절히 고려함에 의해, 되도록 개인의 교통행동을 논리적으로 설명함과 동시에 모형의 취급이 용이하도록 논리성과 실용성이 잘 조화된 모형의 구축을 시도하였다. 모형의 체계는 비취업자와 취업자 각각의 1일의 통행행태유형의 선택에 관한 2개의 Sub-model로 구성되어져 있다. 본 논문은 그 Sub-model중의 하나인 비취업자의 1일의 통행행태유형(트립발생, 각 트립의 목적지와 교통수단)의 선택에 관한 개별모형의 개발을 행한 것이다. 본 모형의 특징은 tour별 효용최대화행동가설에 기초를 두어 개인이 1일 중에 행하는 각 트립의 선택행동은 해당트립의 전후에 행해지는 트립들의 선택행동의 영향을 고려하여 의사결정을 하는 것으로 가설을 설정하여 트립간의 상호관련성을 표현하였다. 모형의 구조로서는, 모형의 취급이 보다 용이하도록 tour별 효과최대화를 트립단위의 단계형 모형으로 표현하는 nested logit model형의 수차동시효과최대화 모형을 구축하였다 실제의 도시권에 대한 실증적 검토를 행한 결과, 본 연구에서 개발한 별개모형의 유효성이 확인되었다.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.239-251
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• 1994

본 연구는 주부의 라이프스타일을 유형화하여 구분하고, 유형화된 라이프스타일에 따라 가정관리행동유형 및 가정생활만족에 차이가 있는지를 파악하여 주부의 가정생활의 질적 향상을 증진시킬수 있는 방안을 모색하고자 하였다. 라이프스타일을 알아보기 위해 주부의 태도, 관심, 의견(A.I.O)에 관해 요인분석과 클러스터 분석을 한 결과 우리나라 도시주부의 라이프스타일은 현대적향유형(28.1%), 보수전통주의형(26.3%), 건전활동형(21.5%), 소극적침체형(24%)으로 분류되었다. 주부의 관리행동유형은 대체로 변화지향적으로 나타났으며 학력이 높을수록 자녀수가 적을수록 변화지향적인 관리행동을 하는 것으로 나타났다. 주부의 가정생활만족도는 약간높게 나타났으며 라이프스타일에 따라 전반적인 가정관리행동유형은 의사소통과 계획의 융통성에 있어서는 변화지향적인 관리행동을 보이고 자원활용에서는 안정지향적이고 자원인식에서는 안정, 변화의 중립적인 관리행동을 하는 것으로나타났다. 라이 프스타일에 따라 가정생활만족도는 건전활동형이 높았으며 소극적 침체형이 가장 낮았다가 정관리행동유형이 가정생활만족도에 영향을 미치는데 의사소통, 자원활용 자원인식 등의 하위영역에서 변화지향적일수록 만족도가 높았다.