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Iron deficiency increases blood concentrations of neurotoxic metals in children

  • Kim, Yangho;Park, Sangkyu
    • Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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    • 제57권8호
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    • pp.345-350
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    • 2014
  • Iron deficiency affects approximately one-third of the world's population, occurring most frequently in children aged 6 months to 3 years. Mechanisms of iron absorption are similar to those of other divalent metals, particularly manganese, lead, and cadmium, and a diet deficient in iron can lead to excess absorption of manganese, lead, and cadmium. Iron deficiency may lead to cognitive impairments resulting from the deficiency itself or from increased metal concentrations caused by the deficiency. Iron deficiency combined with increased manganese or lead concentrations may further affect neurodevelopment. We recently showed that blood manganese and lead concentrations are elevated among iron-deficient infants. Increased blood manganese and lead levels are likely associated with prolonged breast-feeding, which is also a risk factor for iron deficiency. Thus, babies who are breast-fed for prolonged periods should be given plain, iron-fortified cereals or other good sources of dietary iron.

폐유리를 활용한 강섬유보강 콘크리트의 내구성에 관한 실험적 연구 (An experimental study on the durability of steel fiber reinforced concrete containing waste glass)

  • 정명일;조광연;이봉춘;김경훈;박승범
    • 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국콘크리트학회 2002년도 가을 학술발표회 논문집
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    • pp.841-846
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    • 2002
  • As growing of industrialization and increasing of population. the quantities of waste are rapidly growing in the earth. It cause some problems such as the waste of natural resources and environmental pollution. In this context, recycling waste glass as a material of concrete has a great advantage environmentally and economically. On that score, other contries have start recycling waste glass widely and accoumulatig the technology of manufacturing equipment and construction. However, few studies have been done in this country. Therefore, this study was conducted freeze-thaw resistance test and neutralization reaction test to analyze the durability properties of steel fiber reinforced concrete containing waste glass as fine aggregate and containing industrial by-products(Fly ash).

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Establishment and Identification of a Debao Pony Ear Marginal Tissue Fibroblast Cell Line

  • Zhou, X.M.;Ma, Y.H.;Guan, W.J.;Zhao, D.M.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • 제17권10호
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    • pp.1338-1343
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    • 2004
  • The Debao pony ear marginal tissue fibroblast cell line (NDPEM 2/2) was uccessfully established using either primary explant technique or collagenase technique. The characterizations of the cell line were identified as following: the cells were adherent and of density limitation; population doubling time (PDT) of cells made with the two techniques were 35.9 h and 48 h, respectively; chromosome analysis showed that the frequency of cell chromosome number to be 2n=64 was 91.3%-92.8%. Confirmed by isoenzyme analysis, this cell line had no cross- contamination. Tests for microbial contamination from bacteria, fungi, virus or mycoplasma were negative. This newly established cell line meets all the standard quality controls of ATCC. It will provide a precious genetic resource for the conservation of the Debao pony breed, as well as effective experimental material for genetic studies on Debao ponies.

A Fuzzy Logic Controller for Speed Control of a DC Series Motor Using an Adaptive Evolutionary Computation

  • Hwang, Gi-Hyun;Hwang, Hyun-Joon;Kim, Dong-Wan;Park, June-Ho
    • Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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    • 제2권1호
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    • pp.13-18
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    • 2000
  • In this paper, an Adaptive Evolutionary Computation(AEC) is proposed. AEC uses a genetic algorithm(GA) and an evolution strategy (ES) in an adaptive manner is order to take merits of two different evolutionary computations: global search capability of GA and local search capability of ES. In the reproduction procedure, proportions of the population by GA and ES are adaptively modulated according to the fitness. AEC is used to design the membership functions and the scaling factors of fuzzy logic controller (FLC). To evaluate the performances of the proposed FLC, we make an experiment on FLC for the speed control of an actual DC series motor system with nonlinear characteristics. Experimental results show that the proposed controller has better performance than that of PD controller.

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PSO의 특징과 차원성에 관한 비교연구 (Comparative Study on Dimensionality and Characteristic of PSO)

  • 박병준;오성권;김용수;안태천
    • 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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    • 제12권4호
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    • pp.328-338
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    • 2006
  • A new evolutionary computation technique, called particle swarm optimization(PSO), has been proposed and introduced recently. PSO has been inspired by the social behavior of flocking organisms, such as swarms of birds and fish schools and PSO is an algorithm that follows a collaborative population-based search model. Each particle of swarm flies around in a multidimensional search space looking for the optimal solution. Then, Particles adjust their position according to their own and their neighboring-particles experience. In this paper, characteristics of PSO such as mentioned are reviewed and compared with GA which is based on the evolutionary mechanism in natural selection. Also dimensionalities of PSO and GA are compared throughout numeric experimental studies. The comparative studies demonstrate that PSO is characterized as simple in concept, easy to implement, and computationally efficient and can generate a high-quality solution and stable convergence characteristic than GA.

Dynamics of Resonant Energy Transfer in OH Vibrations of Liquid Water

  • Yang, Mi-No
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제33권3호
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    • pp.885-892
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    • 2012
  • Energy transfer dynamics of excited vibrational energy of OH stretching bonds in liquid water is theoretically studied. With time-dependent vibrational Hamiltonian obtained from a mixed quantum/classical calculation, we construct a master equation describing the energy transfer dynamics. Survival probability predicted by the master equation is compared with numerically exact one and we found that incoherent picture of energy transfer is reasonably valid for long-time population dynamics. Within the incoherent picture, we assess the validity of independent pair approximation (IPA) often introduced in the theoretical models utilized in the analysis of experimental data. Our results support that the IPA is almost perfectly valid as applied for the vibrational energy transfer in liquid water. However, proper incorporation of radial and orientational correlations between two OH bonds is found to be critical for a theory to be quantitatively valid. Consequently, it is suggested that the Forster model should be generalized by including the effects of the pair correlations in order to be applied for vibrational energy transfer in liquid water.

Information Extraction and Sentence Classification applied to Clinical Trial MEDLINE Abstracts

  • Hara, Kazuo;Matsumoto, Yuji
    • 한국생물정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국생물정보시스템생물학회 2005년도 BIOINFO 2005
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    • pp.85-90
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, firstly we report experimental results on applying information extraction (IE) methodology to the task of summarizing clinical trial design information in focus on ‘Compared Treatment’, ‘Endpoint’ and ‘Patient Population’ from clinical trial MEDLINE abstracts. From these results, we have come to see this problem as one that can be decomposed into a sentence classification subtask and an IE subtask. By classifying sentences from clinical trial abstracts and only performing IE on sentences that are most likely to contain relevant information, we hypothesize that the accuracy of information extracted from the abstracts can be increased. As preparation for testing this theory in the next stage, we conducted an experiment applying state-of-the-art sentence classification techniques to the clinical trial abstracts and evaluated its potential in the original task of the summarization of clinical trial design information.

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On Modification and Application of the Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

  • Ye, Zhanxiang;Zhu, Min;Wang, Jin
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • 제14권2호
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    • pp.448-454
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    • 2018
  • Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm has attracted significant interests recently for solving the multivariate optimization problem. However, it still faces insufficiency of slow convergence speed and poor local search ability. Therefore, in this paper, a modified ABC algorithm with bees' number reallocation and new search equation is proposed to tackle this drawback. In particular, to enhance solution accuracy, more bees in the population are assigned to execute local searches around food sources. Moreover, elite vectors are adopted to guide the bees, with which the algorithm could converge to the potential global optimal position rapidly. A series of classical benchmark functions for frequency-modulated sound waves are adopted to validate the performance of the modified ABC algorithm. Experimental results are provided to show the significant performance improvement of our proposed algorithm over the traditional version.

퍼지 논리를 이용한 병렬 유전 알고리즘 (Parallel Genetic Algorithm using Fuzzy Logic)

  • 안영화;권기호
    • 정보처리학회논문지A
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    • 제13A권1호
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    • pp.53-56
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    • 2006
  • 유전 알고리즘은 자연 선택과 유전적 성질에 기반을 둔 알고리즘으로 기존 방법으로는 쉽게 해결할 수 없는 어려운 문제에서도 성공적으로 적용되었다. 기존의 유전 알고리즘은 해 집단이 큰 경우 시간이 많이 걸리는 문제점이 있다. 병렬 유전 알고리즘은 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 제안된 기존의 유전 알고리즘의 확장이라 할 수 있다. 병렬 유전 알고리즘에서 중요한 요소는 이주와 유전 연산으로 이를 적절하게 설계함으로서 좋은 결과를 얻을 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 퍼지 논리를 이용하여 기존의 병렬 유전 알고리즘을 개선하고자 한다.

소아청소년에서의 대사증후군 역학 (Epidemiology of the metabolic syndrome among Korean children and adolescents)

  • 박미정
    • Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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    • 제51권6호
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    • pp.564-568
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    • 2008
  • The prevalence of obesity in Korean children is estimated to be around 10%, and has increased significantly over the past 20 years. Metabolic syndrome, which includes central obesity, glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and hypertension, is a well documented risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, but there is no general consensus concerning its definition for children. In this study, ablut 30-40% of overweight or obese children had metabolic syndrome compared to less than 10% in the general population. Dyslipidemia was the most common component and hyperglycemia was the least common component of metabolic syndrome. If the prevalence of childhood obesity continues to increase, it is highly likely that the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome will also increase. These findings emphasize the importance of preventing obesity in addition to the diagnosis and management of metabolic syndrome in Korean adolescents.