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Adhesion and Proliferation Behavior of Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells on Hesperidin/PLGA Films (헤스페리딘/PLGA 필름에서 망막색소상피세포의 부착과 증식거동)

  • Lee, So Jin;Kang, Su Ji;Kim, Hye Yun;Lee, Jung Hwan;Kim, Eun Young;Kwon, Soon Yong;Chung, Jin Wha;Joo, Choun-Ki;Khang, Gilson
    • Polymer(Korea)
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.24-30
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    • 2014
  • Retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) plays an important role in maintaining the visual function and the degeneration of the RPE causes several retinal degeneration disease. In order to fabricate the suitable carrier for RPE transplantation, the hybrid poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) film with hesperidin was prepared. Hesperidin has an anti-inflammatory and antioxidant characteristics. ARPE-19 was seeded on hesperidin/PLGA film and then, cell proliferation was determined by the MTT assay, and cell adhesion and cell morphology were confirmed by SEM. Also, RT-PCR was performed to confirm the expression of the specific genes, and AEC immunohistochemical staining was performed to determine the expression of RPE65. As a result, we confirmed that attachment, proliferation and phenotype maintenance of RPE cells were more excellent on hesperidin/PLGA film than PLGA film, thereby we were able to confirm the potential applications of hesperidin/PLGA film as tissue engineering carrier for regeneration of retina.

Identification of genes involved in inbreeding depression of reproduction in Langshan chickens

  • Xue, Qian;Li, Guohui;Cao, Yuxia;Yin, Jianmei;Zhu, Yunfen;Zhang, Huiyong;Zhou, Chenghao;Shen, Haiyu;Dou, Xinhong;Su, Yijun;Wang, Kehua;Zou, Jianmin;Han, Wei
    • Animal Bioscience
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    • v.34 no.6
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    • pp.975-984
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    • 2021
  • Objective: Inbreeding depression of reproduction is a major concern in the conservation of native chicken genetic resources. Here, based on the successful development of strongly inbred (Sinb) and weakly inbred (Winb) Langshan chickens, we aimed to evaluate inbreeding effects on reproductive traits and identify candidate genes involved in inbreeding depression of reproduction in Langshan chickens. Methods: A two-sample t-test was performed to estimate the differences in phenotypic values of reproductive traits between Sinb and Winb chicken groups. Three healthy chickens with reproductive trait values around the group mean values were selected from each of the groups. Differences in ovarian and hypothalamus transcriptomes between the two groups of chickens were analyzed by RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq). Results: The Sinb chicken group showed an obvious inbreeding depression in reproduction, especially for traits of age at the first egg and egg number at 300 days (p<0.01). Furthermore, 68 and 618 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were obtained in the hypothalamus and ovary between the two chicken groups, respectively. In the hypothalamus, DEGs were mainly enriched in the pathways related to vitamin metabolism, signal transduction and development of the reproductive system, such as the riboflavin metabolism, Wnt signaling pathway, extracellular matrix-receptor interaction and focal adhesion pathways, including stimulated by retinoic acid 6, serpin family F member 1, secreted frizzled related protein 2, Wnt family member 6, and frizzled class receptor 4 genes. In the ovary, DEGs were significantly enriched in pathways associated with basic metabolism, including amino acid metabolism, oxidative phosphorylation, and glycosaminoglycan degradation. A series of key DEGs involved in folate biosynthesis (gamma-glutamyl hydrolase, guanosine triphosphate cyclohydrolase 1), oocyte meiosis and ovarian function (cytoplasmic polyadenylation element binding protein 1, structural maintenance of chromosomes 1B, and speedy/RINGO cell cycle regulator family member A), spermatogenesis and male fertility (prostaglandin D2 synthase 21 kDa), Mov10 RISC complex RNA helicase like 1, and deuterosome assembly protein 1) were identified, and these may play important roles in inbreeding depression in reproduction. Conclusion: The results improve our understanding of the regulatory mechanisms underlying inbreeding depression in chicken reproduction and provide a theoretical basis for the conservation of species resources.

Character of constructed group for Wooden chamber tomb of the Three kingdoms in Yaksa-dong Bukdong archaeological site, Ulsan (울산 약사동 북동유적 삼국시대 목곽묘 축조집단의 성격)

  • Choi, Soo-Hyeong
    • Korean Journal of Heritage: History & Science
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    • v.48 no.2
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    • pp.4-29
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    • 2015
  • This article considered generally gradational change aspect, character of community for the tombs of the Three kingdoms prepared by some certain homogenous groups. It was completed by tracing the transfering process to grasp character of social structure and organizing System in the community. For this reason, it's analyzed that Wooden chamber tomb was formed in some certain Time-Space of the Yaksadong Buk-dong archaeological site in the Three Kingdom Period. Constructed group was distinguished by the five classes. So perhaps scale of Wooden chamber and sort, material of burial relics, the top layer and the upper layer were established two status those are active the ruling class led the Wooden chamber tomb's society, the general public hold a large majority from the middle class to the lowest class. And it depends on age(nonage-adult) that differed in relation of arrangement, character. It's changed with function or roles, property, purpose etc. of social community in accordance with these individual position, age. Received signification, value of social status were considered with social worth, faith. Members in a community had been conducted under premeditated, organised system for common target, relatedness. Also it seems to attempt organization's own maintenance, persistiveness in norms that given at common law. To do that, relation for combination between members who consisted systems had to be organic. The relation for combination was considered to form relation for the much larger community in based on blood relationship that most vital part. One social structure had established family(house, household) community in based on individual blood relationship, family communities gather up to develop into relative(blood relative, same race) community gradually. Furthermore, relative(blood relative, same race) communities, that focus on the public good gather up to develop into social community in based on regionalism. It's considered to go through the Development Process of family(house, household) community - relative(blood relative, same race) community - social community.

Analysis of Water Quality Variation by Lowering of Water Level in Gangjeong-Goryong Weirin Nakdong River (낙동강 강정고령보 수위저하 운영에 따른 수질 변동특성 분석)

  • Park, Dae-Yeon;Park, Hyung-Seok;Kim, Sung-Jin;Chung, Se-Woong
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.245-262
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    • 2019
  • The objectives of this study were to construct a three-dimensional water quality model (EFDC) for the river reach between Chilgok Weir and Gangjeong-Goryong Weir (GGW) located in Nakdong River, and evaluate the effect of hydraulic changes, such as water level and flow velocity, on the control of water quality and algae biomass. After calibration, the model accurately simulated the temporal changes of the upper and lower water temperatures that collected every 10 minutes, and appropriately reproduced changes in organic matter, nitrogen, phosphorus, and cyanobacteria. However, the simulated values were overestimated for the diatoms and green algae cell density, possibly due to the uncertainties of the parameters associated with algae metabolism and the lack of zooplankton predation function in the simulations. As a result of scenario simulation of running the water level of GGW from EL. 19.44 m to EL. 14.90 m (4.54 m drop), Chl-a and algae cell density decreased significantly.In particular,the cyanobacteria on the surface layer, which causes algal bloom, declined by 56.1% in the low water level scenario compared to the existing management level. The results of this study are in agreement with the previous studies that maintenance of critical flow velocity is effective for controlling cyanobacteria, and imply that hydraulic control such as decrease of water level and residence time in GGW is an alternative to limit the overgrowth of algae.

The Characteristics and Maintenance of Assemblypersons' Activity Records (국회의원 활동기록의 특성과 관리방향)

  • Han, Eun-Jeong;Yim, Jin-Hee
    • The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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    • no.21
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    • pp.117-167
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    • 2009
  • Assemblypersons' activities have organizational and individual nature. The activities of assemblypersons and their assistant staffs become a motive for major work performance of Korean legislature, and are also critical public services affecting contemporary political history, history of political parties and history of assemblyperson's hometown. Moreover, their activities are also characterized by work performance in favor of assemblyperson's personal interests to effectively communicate his or her achievements during term of office to electors with a view to winning reelection after the end of 4-year term of office. Assemblyperson's organization produces various types of record in the performance of these works. From the viewpoint of public archive as a product of assemblypersons' public service performance and from their own personal viewpoints, they can create their own identity by arranging their personal records that can demonstrate their own political philosophy, policy orientation, achievements during term of office, and personal features. In addition, their personal records can have much more values and significance in the sense that those records are available to electors to make it possible to highlight their own images in objective and reliable manner. Conclusively, this study underlined that the efforts for assemblypersons and their assistant staffs to keep their records well could be helpful to streamline their internal works and be also helpful for personal interests of assemblypersons. And this study proposed procedures and methods for deducing and screening a list of production archives to meet a viewpoint of streamlined internal works and needs for keeping personal records, ultimately with a view to giving practical helps for these works.

Economic analysis of integrated data analysis at variety marine protocols (다양한 해양 프로토콜의 분류 및 통합 데이터를 분석한 독립서버에 대한 경제적 분석)

  • Jang, Hyun-Young;Jang, Jong-Wook
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2016.10a
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    • pp.243-246
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    • 2016
  • Data transfer technique is one of the key elements of the IT infrastructure, in accordance with each environment and function, using some kind of protocol. Using the three protocols such as WCDMA, AIS, and TRS at sea IT industry. so It uses three protocols saw has a problem that the operation of each protocol-specific server. so server maintenance costs increase and sea Device Manager has been placed in a situation which operates to develop each of the protocol-specific analysis program. The reason of the protocol is divided into three, marine equipment (lighthouses, buoys, light buoy) manufacturing companies and the date of manufacture, such as, communication environment (distance, communication speed) because such is wrong all, trying to unify this and enormous cost and time is a situation that can not be the exchange occurred when. So in the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, the number of frequency of use is low, communication performance is seeking to refrain from Kure each local organizations and companies the use of low TRS protocol. his paper is intended to conduct research on the basis of the actual data to analyze whether the method is how economical to store a single DB by analyzing other types of protocols. This reduces the shortage of marine IT industry, even a little, shall helps reduce administrative costs.

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Complications of implants confronting the extruded posterior teeth (정출된 구치와 대합되는 임플란트의 합병증)

  • Jung, Yeon-Wook;Lee, Su-Yeon;Kim, Hee-Jung
    • Journal of Dental Rehabilitation and Applied Science
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.232-241
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: This study investigated the complications and patterns of implants that confronted with the extruded natural teeth. Materials and Methods: Among patients who received implant treatment between 2006 and 2018 at Chosun University Dental Hospital, only implants that had a maintenance period of at least 5 years and that both implants and confronting natural teeth could be measured and compared on a radiograph were selected. They were divided into two groups. Group 1, experimental group consisted of Implants confronting the extruded natural posterior teeth (n = 167: maxilla (Group 1max) = 92, mandible (Group 1man) = 75) and Group 2, control group consisted of Implants confronting the normal natural posterior teeth (n = 656: maxilla (Group 2max) = 272, mandible (Group 2man) = 384). Results: The incidence of complications between Group 1 and Group 2 was statistically significant. In particular, there was a statistically significant difference between the frequency of marginal bone loss and the amount of marginal bone loss. Conclusion: The extruded natural tooth may cause more frequent complications including bone resorption in the opposing implant.

A Study on Development of Portable Concrete Crack Measurement Device Using Image Processing Technique and Laser Sensors (이미지 처리기법 및 레이저 센서를 이용한 휴대용 콘크리트 균열 측정 장치 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Seo, Seunghwan;Ohn, Syng-Yup;Kim, Dong-Hyun;Kwak, Kiseok;Chung, Moonkyung
    • Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.41-50
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    • 2020
  • Since cracks in concrete structures expedite corrosion of reinforced concrete over a long period of time, regular on-site inspections are essential to ensure structural usability and prevent degradation. Most of the safety inspections of facilities rely on visual inspection with naked eye, so cost and time consuming are severe, and the reliability of results differs depending on the inspector. In this study, a portable measuring device that can be used for safety diagnosis and maintenance was developed as a device that measures the width and length of concrete cracks through image analysis of cracks photographed with a camera. This device captures the cracks found within a close distance (3 m), and accurately calculates the unit pixel size by laser distance measurement, and automatically calculates the crack length and width with the image processing algorithm developed in this study. In measurement results using the crack image applied to the experiment, the measurement of the length of a 0.3 mm crack within a distance of 3 m was possible with a range of about 10% error. The crack width showed a tendency to be overestimated by detecting surrounding pixels due to vibration and blurring effect during the binarization process, but it could be effectively corrected by applying the crack width reduction function.

Orthodontic intrusion treatment of mandibular anterior teeth in a periodontal patient with hyperdivergent skeletal pattern: 8-year follow-up (장안모를 보이는 치주 질환자에서 하악 전치의 압하를 통한 과개 교합 치료: 8년 경과 관찰)

  • Kwon, Eun-Young;Jung, Kyung-Hwa;Park, Soo-Byung;Kim, Seong-sik;Kim, Yong-il;Choi, Youn-kyung
    • Journal of Dental Rehabilitation and Applied Science
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.48-60
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    • 2021
  • Patients who have extruded anterior teeth and deep bite with pathologic tooth migration, it is necessary not only periodontal treatment for reduce inflammation, but also orthodontic treatment for intrusion of anterior teeth. However, it is difficult to place the orthodontic brackets due to the deep bite, and there is a problem that the extrusion of the posterior teeth occurs more easily than the intrusion of the anterior teeth biomechanically. In particular, in patients with long face, relative intrusion of the anterior teeth by extrusion of the posterior teeth causes the clockwise rotation of the mandible and makes the facial profile worse. Therefore the biomechanical consideration and appliance design that can block these problems are required from the treatment plan. This is a patient who had a deep overbite with extruded anterior teeth, treated by periodontal treatment and intrusion of mandibular anterior teeth using cute brackes and miniscrews, and resulted in favorable maintenance during 8-year retention.

Design and Development of Modular Replaceable AI Server for Image Deep Learning in Social Robots on Edge Devices (엣지 디바이스인 소셜 로봇에서의 영상 딥러닝을 위한 모듈 교체형 인공지능 서버 설계 및 개발)

  • Kang, A-Reum;Oh, Hyun-Jeong;Kim, Do-Yun;Jeong, Gu-Min
    • The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.470-476
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    • 2020
  • In this paper, we present the design of modular replaceable AI server for image deep learning that separates the server from the Edge Device so as to drive the AI block and the method of data transmission and reception. The modular replaceable AI server for image deep learning can reduce the dependency between social robots and edge devices where the robot's platform will be operated to improve drive stability. When a user requests a function from an AI server for interaction with a social robot, modular functions can be used to return only the results. Modular functions in AI servers can be easily maintained and changed by each module by the server manager. Compared to existing server systems, modular replaceable AI servers produce more efficient performance in terms of server maintenance and scale differences in the programs performed. Through this, more diverse image deep learning can be included in robot scenarios that allow human-robot interaction, and more efficient performance can be achieved when applied to AI servers for image deep learning in addition to robot platforms.