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Applied limit for Biotechnology (바이오산업의 응용범위)

  • 진수웅
    • Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.10-15
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    • 2001
  • The biotechnology is the study of biochemical and biological processes in living things. Since 1990's biotechnology has developed more repidly than all of the life technical industries, through the use of extremly sensitive analytical instruments, computers, and radioactive tracers. The biotechnician has been able to gain an understanding of the mechanisms and information on biotechnology, enables the biologist and biochemist to fine farther information about DNA techniques and human beings.

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The Biometry-Mendelian Controversy in the History of Statistics (생물측정학-멘델주의 논쟁에 대한 통계학사적 고찰)

  • Jo, Jae-Keun
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.303-324
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    • 2008
  • From mid-1890's, biometricians and Mendelians debated over Darwin's evolutionary theory. Biologist W. Weldon and Mathematician K. Pearson were leaders of the biometric school and biologist W. Bateson led Mendelian school. In this paper topics of the controversy such as causation vs. correlation, frequency distribution are considered. And in relation to the tradition of British statistics, we consider the philosophy of Karl Pearson revealed in this debate. Besides many statistical methods and concepts by Karl Pearson, the newly born mathematical statistics got a new journal Biometrika, a department in university, and a school of researchers from this controversy.

New molecular biomarkers at post-genomics era

  • Song, Chang-Woo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Toxicology Conference
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    • 2003.10b
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    • pp.31-31
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    • 2003
  • Magic technologies and smart biomarkers at the Omics Age! This slogan is not only for the pharmaceutical companies as the speedy and cost-reduced development of global drug, but for all of the toxicologists and biologist. Biomarker refers to a variety of physiologic, pathologic, or anatomic measurements that are thought to relate to some aspect of normal or pathological processes (Temple 1995; Lesko and Atkinson 2001).(omitted)

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Upavasa (fasting) for health & longevity: an overview

  • Gangele, Pragya;Paliwal, Murlidhar
    • CELLMED
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.10.1-10.5
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    • 2020
  • Ayurveda is the science of life. It guides about the protection of health of the healthy and alleviation of ailments of diseased person. In Ayurveda Upavasa (fasting) is one among all Daivavyapashraya (spiritual) therapies and one among ten Langhana (that which produces lightness of the body) therapies. It is also stated in Ayurveda that fasting increases digestive fire and causes digestion of Ama-dosha (metabolic toxins). On religious grounds, Upavasa is a way to get closer to the almighty. Scientists have found fasting activates autophagy. Yoshinori Ohsumi, a Japanese cell biologist won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2016 for his research on how cell recycle and renew their content, a process called autophagy. Many published studies indicate positive effects of fasting on neuroprotection and longevity.

Visualization of RNA Pseudoknot Structures

  • 한경숙
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Bioinformatics Conference
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    • 2002.06a
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    • pp.63-63
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    • 2002
  • RNA pseudoknots are not only important structural elements for forming the tertiary structure, but also responsible for several functions of RNA molecules such as frameshifting, read-through, and the initiation of translation. There exists no automatic method for drawing RNA pseudoknot structures, and thus representing RNA pseudoknots currently relies on significant amount of manual work. In this talk, I will introduce the first algorithm for automatically generating a drawing of RNA pseudoknot structures. Two basic criteria were adopted when designing the algorithm: (1) Overlapping of structural elements should be minimized to increase the readability of the drawing, and (2) The whole RNA structure as well as the pseudoknots themselves should be recognized quickly and clearly. The algorithm has been implemented in a JAVA program, which can be executed on any computing systems. Experimental results show that this program generates a clear and compact drawing of RNA pseudoknots and allows a biologist to gain insights into RNA pseudoknot structures. The program can also be used as useful aids in designing biochemical experiments to elucidate more precise mechanism of RNA functions associated with pseudoknots.

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Reconceptualization of Histo-Genetic Principle (역사발생적 원리의 재개념화)

  • Yoo, Yoon Jae
    • Journal for History of Mathematics
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    • v.26 no.5_6
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    • pp.389-400
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    • 2013
  • The article makes a discussion to conceptualize a histo-genetic principle in the real historical view point. The classical histo-genetic principle appeared in 19th century was founded by the recapitulation law suggested by biologist Haeckel, but recently it was shown that the theory on it is no longer true. To establish the alternative rationale, several metaphoric characterizations from the history of mathematics are suggested: among them, problem solving, transition of conceptual knowledge to procedural knowledge, generalization, abstraction, circulation from phenomenon to substance, encapsulation to algebraic representation, change of epistemological view, formation of algorithm, conjecture-proof-refutation, swing between theory and application, and so on.

Perspectives on the new National Ecological Institute in South Korea

  • Crane, Peter R.;Choe, Jae-C.
    • Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.271-274
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    • 2010
  • The Ministry of Environment of South Korea has launched its plan to establish the National Ecological Institute. An International Symposium and Workshop was held at Ewha Womans University in Seoul on Thursday, 30 September 2010, to strengthen international cooperation, networking and partnerships for the conservation of biodiversity. This symposium was attended by experts of many major institutions for biodiversity conservation from South Korea and overseas. At the symposium and workshop preceded by a keynote speech by the renowned primatologist and conservation biologist Jane Goodall the participants discussed a wide range of topics including "biodiversity conservation: in situ and ex situ approaches", "conservation of species diversity and ecosystem management", and "international cooperation for biodiversity conservation and research". As a basis for future discussions, this article summarizes how the National Ecological Institute might contribute most effectively to public life and environmental management in South Korea and worldwide. It addresses the following issues: governance and funding, synergies within Korea, participation in international networks, external advice, a broad view of ecological issues, research agenda, building on identity, public outreach, and training the next generation of scientists.

Research about design and manufacture of Crossing High-Amplitude Magneto-Therapy own nerve system for Muscuoskeltal tissue rehalibitation treatment (근조직 재활치료를 위한 자계신경 자극시스템의 설계 및 구현)

  • Kim, Whi-Young
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.855-856
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    • 2006
  • Magnetic nerve stimulation treatment is much backward real condition than other field. Specially, successful medical treatment introduction of magnetic field (MF) can was refered long ago in Avicenna's work, and is thought as age of medicine magnetology development recently. These development is achieved through biologist and biophysicist and clinician's joint effort, but, new mountings and relationship air tassel are developed steadily. Magnetic nerve stimulation treatment field designs treatment system by each function during long wave high-amplitude (traditional magneto therapy of greatly great that strong that) short time that CMF, VMF, PMF field etc. are representative but are HPMT technology in this research and manufacture and special quality did comparative analysis.

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Development of a Mechanistic Reasoning Model Based on Biologist's Inquiries (생물학자의 탐구에 기반한 메커니즘 추론 모델 개발)

  • Jeong, Sunhee;Yang, Ilho
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.38 no.5
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    • pp.599-610
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze mechanistic reasoning in Fabre's inquires and to develop mechanistic reasoning model. To analyze the order of the process elements in mechanistic reasoning, 30 chapters were selected in book. Inquiries were analyzed through a framework which is based on Russ et al. (2008). The nine process elements of mechanistic reasoning that was presented in Fabre's inquires were as follows: Describing the Target Phenomenon, Identifying prior Knowledge, Identifying Properties of Objects, Identifying Setup Conditions, Identifying Activities, Conjecturing Entities, Identifying Properties of Entities, Identifying Entities, and Organization of Entities. The order of process elements of mechanistic reasoning was affected by inquiry's subject, types of question, prior knowledge and situation. Three mechanistic reasoning models based on the process elements of mechanistic reasoning were developed: Mechanistic reasoning model for Identifying Entities(MIE), Mechanistic reasoning model for Identifying Activities(MIA), and Mechanistic reasoning model for Identifying Properties of entities (MIP). Science teacher can help students to use the questions of not only "why" but also "How", "If", "What", when students identify entities or generate hypotheses. Also science teacher should be required to understand mechanistic reasoning to give students opportunities to generate diverse hypotheses. If students can't conjecture entities easily, MIA and MIP would be helpful for students.

Microfluidic Control for Biological Cell Orientation

  • Namkung, Young-Woo;Park, Jung-Yul;Kim, Byung-Kyu;Park, Jong-Oh;Kim, Jin-Oh
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.2457-2460
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    • 2003
  • There is a great demand to manipulate biological cell autonomously since biologist should spend much time to obtain skillful manipulation techniques. For this purpose, we propose a cell chip to control, carry, fix and locate the cell. In this paper, we focus on the cell rotator to rotate individual biological cell based on a micro fluidics technology. The cell rotator consists of injection hole and rotation well to rotate a biological cell properly. Under the variation of flow rate in injection hole, the angular velocity of a biological cell is evaluated to find the feasibility of the proposed rotation method. As a practical experiment, Zebrafish egg is employed. Based on this research, we find the possibility of non-contact rotation way that can highly reduce the damage of the biological cell during manipulation. To realize an autonomous biological cell manipulation, a cell chip with manipulation well and micro channel in this research will be utilized effectively in near future.

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