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A Study on the Formative Characteristics of Lucy Orta's Fashion Design - Focusing on the Relevance with Architectural Design - (루시 오르타 작품 디자인 특성 연구 - 건축적 디자인과의 관련성을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, So-Young;Yang, Hee-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.41-54
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    • 2010
  • This paper aims at studying about spatial structures and formative characteristics of Lucy Orta's fashion design. Her works utilizes the thought related on the architectural space that has been revealed sharp change of the paradigm since the late of 20th century. Lucy Orta against individualism of the urban life, and manufactures portable and moving housing and multi-functional fashion that is paved with individual rest unit and give a sense of security through simple combination among the units. Besides, she has development multiple portable clothing and equipments for the rescuethrough exploiting pioneering high technology. The results of this study can be summarized as the following: 1) refuge habitant creates individual space for physical and mental protection from the urban surrounding, 2) nomadic dwelling shows multi-functional fashion space fit for digital nomads' life style aims at continuous movement, 3) connective nexus and urban life guard are comprise of detachable individual unit in public space for remaking of the bonds, affinity, and relationship, and the complex of rescue clothing and equipments for meeting a challenge of the threat about human existence from uncertain environmental change in the future.

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A Fully Synthesizable Bluetooth Baseband Module for a System-on-a-Chip

  • Chun, Ik-Jae;Kim, Bo-Gwan;Park, In-Cheol
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.328-336
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    • 2003
  • Bluetooth is a specification for short-range wireless communication using the 2.4 GHz ISM band. It emphasizes low complexity, low power, and low cost. This paper describes an area-efficient digital baseband module for wireless technology. For area-efficiency, we carefully consider hardware and software partitioning. We implement complex control tasks of the Bluetooth baseband layer protocols in software running on an embedded microcontroller. Hardware-efficient functions, such as low-level bitstream link control; host controller interfaces (HCIs), such as universal asynchronous receiver transmitter (UART) and universal serial bus (USB)interfaces; and audio Codec are performed by dedicated hardware blocks. Furthermore, we eliminate FIFOs for data buffering between hardware functional units. The design is done using fully synthesizable Verilog HDL to enhance the portability between process technologies so that our module can be easily integrated as an intellectual property core no system-on-a-chip (SoC) ASICs. A field programmable gate array (FPGA) prototype of this module was tested for functional verification and realtime operation of file and bitstream transfers between PCs. The module was fabricated in a $0.25-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology, the core size of which was only 2.79 $mm{\times}2.80mm$.

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Task-Oriented Approach for Improving Motor Function of the Affected Arm in Chronic Hemiparetic Stroke Patients

  • Song, Chiang-Soon;Hwang, Su-Jin
    • Physical Therapy Korea
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.86-93
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of task-oriented arm training for chronic hemiparetic stroke patients. The experimental design in this study was the pre-test and post-test with control group for 4-week intervention. Thirty patients with chronic hemiparetic stroke were recruited from 2 rehabilitation units. The subjects were divided randomly into experimental and control groups. The experimental group conducted task-oriented approach, involving 3 subparts of upper extremity activities, and the control group involved in the general upper extremity exercises. Functional movements of the upper extremities were assessed using clinical measures, including the Fugl-Meyer Assessment-Upper Extremity Section, Box and Block Test, and Action Research Arm Test. The score of Fugl-Meyer Assessment showed greater increases in the experimental group than in the control group after training. The improvement in Box and Block Test between pre-test and post-test measurements was significantly greater after task-oriented arm training compared to general upper extremity exercises. Action Research Arm Test scores also improved after task-oriented arm training compared to exercises in the control group. The task-oriented arm training improves the gross and fine motor activities and encouraging the use of the paretic arm through activity dependent intervention expedites the recovery of functional activities in the upper extremities for chronic hemiparetic stroke.

Subacute Oral Toxicity of Chitosan Oligosaccharides on Sprague Dawley Rats

  • Kim, Se-Kwon;Jeon, You-Jin;Park, Pyo-Jam
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Fisheries Technology Conference
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    • 2000.05a
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    • pp.88-89
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    • 2000
  • Chitosan is derived from chitin by deacetylation in the presence of alkali, which is a copolymer consisting of $\beta$-(1longrightarrow4)-2-acetamido-D-glucose and $\beta$-(1longrightarrow4)-2-amino-D-glucose units with the latter usually exceeding 80% (Arvanitoyannis et al., 1998). Chitosan has been developed as new physiological material since it possesses antibacterial activity, hypocholesterolemic activity and antihypertensive action. However, even though chitosan has very strong functional properties in many areas, its high molecular weight and high viscosity may restrict the use in vivo. In addition, there is little doubt that such properties will influence absorption in the human intestine. Recently, studies on chitosan have attracted interest for converted chitosan to oligosaccharide, because the oligosaccharide possesses not only water-soluble property but also versatile functional properties such as antitumor activity, immune-enhancing effects, enhancement of protective effects against infection with some pathogens in mice, antifungal activity, calcium absorption accelerating effect (Jeon et al., 1999) and antimicrobial activity. There is, however, little information on the toxicity of chitosan oligosaccharide. (omitted)

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Synthesis and Polymerization of Methacryloyl-PEG-Sulfonic Acid as a Functional Macromer for Biocompatible Polymeric Surfaces

  • Kim, Jun-Guk;Sim, Sang-Jun;Kim, Ji-Heung;Kim, Soo-Hyun;Kim, Young-Ha
    • Macromolecular Research
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.379-383
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    • 2004
  • Poly(ethylene glycol)s (PEGs) are unique in their material properties, such as biocompatibility, non-toxicity, and water-solublizing ability, which are extremely useful for a variety of biomedical applications. In addition, a variety of functional PEGs with specific functionality at one or both chain ends have been synthesized for many specialized applications. Surface modifications using PEG have been demonstrated to decrease protein adsorption and platelet or cell adhesion on biomaterials. Furthermore, PEGs having anionic sulfonate terminal units have been proven to enhance the blood compatibility of materials, which has been demonstrated by the negative cilia concept. The preparation of telechelic PEGs having a sulfonic acid group at one end and a polymerizable methacryloyl group at the other is an interesting undertaking for providing macromers that can be used in various vinyl copolymerization and gel systems. In this paper, preliminary results on the synthesis and polymerization behavior of a novel PEG macromer is described with the aim of identifying a biocompatible material for applications in various blood-contacting devices.

Change of Functional Properties and Extraction of Protein from Abolished Protein Resource by Phytase (Phytase 처리에 의한 폐단백자원의 단백질 용출 및 기능성 변화)

  • 천성숙;천성숙;조영제;김영활;우희섭
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.46-50
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    • 1998
  • This study was peformed to improve extraction of insoluble proteins and to evaluate funtional properties of abolished proteins by the phytase produced by Asporgillus sp. The optimum pH, temperature, treatment time and unit of the enzyme for extraction of protein were pH 4.0~5.0, $50^{\circ}C$, 8~10 hrs and 120 units. The foaming capacity and foaming stability of sesame meal protein after enzyme treatment were virtually unchanged as compared to control. The emulsion capacity and emulsion stability of sesame meal protein was higher than control. Oil absorption as well as water absorption capacities of sesame meal protein were higher than control.

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Novel Fabrication of CdS Hollow Spheres Induced by Self-assembled Process

  • Choi, Kyoung-Hoon;Chae, Weon-Sik;Jung, Jin-Seung;Kim, Yong-Rok
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.1118-1120
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    • 2009
  • Micro-size CdS spheres of hollow shape were fabricated through the self-assembly of high density arrow-like nanorods. The synthesis of the CdS hollow spheres were accomplished in an aqueous solution of cadmium nitrate and triblock copolymer (Pluronic P123) at low temperature (80 ${^{\circ}C}$) through the slow release of S2- ions from thioacetamide. Morphology of the fabricated CdS hollow spheres was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The results indicate that the arrow-like CdS nanorods are simultaneously grown and attached each other to form the building units that become the spheres with hollow inside as a self-assembled process. The CdS spheres have a diameter of $2{\sim}3 {\mu}m$ and consist of the nanorods with a length of$\sim$800 nm. The nanocrystal building blocks have a hexagonal CdS structure.

A View of Contemporary Issues of Housing Architecture in the European Housing Exhibition -Focused on the Floorplan Concepts of Werkbund Housing in the 20's-30's- (유럽의 주택전시회를 통해 본 주거건축 계획의 시대적 쟁점 - 1920-30년대 공작연맹주최 주택전시회에서 제시된 새로운 평면개념을 중심으로 -)

  • Jung, Nam-Il
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.106-115
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    • 2007
  • The Werkbund housing exhibitions in Europe in the 20's and 30's presented various planning concepts and played a important roll for modernization of housing Architecture. This study, therefore, aims to understand the contemporary issues of housing in this period, which showed the meaningful momentum for housing plans today. In order to grasp the general characteristics of exhibition housing the representative cases -Weissenhofsiedlung, Dammerstock, Breslausiedlung, Werkbund Siedlung in $Z\"{u}rich-Neub\"{u}hl$, Werkbundsiedlung Wien und BaBa- were throught documents analyzed. The architects offered an innovative building typology such as row housing and new prototype of housing units accordingly social needs. Especially, In this study housing unitplans were in 6 groups such as flexible type, cabin type, free open plan, Raumplan, functional 2-story type and corridor type categorized. And they were analyzed how deeply technological development, architectural design perceptions as well as functional aspects had on the planning of floorplans reflected. As a result, in the housing exhibitions various architectural ideas presented the "Zeitgeist" not only such as improvement of physical environment of housing, but also such as rationalization, standardization, functionalization, normalization of housing architecture. Also their unitplans corresponded to newly developed building typology and modern household type. As well as they represented notable spatial concepts. Moreover it contributed to create a new paradigm of housing for the new epoch.

A Functional Unit Dynamic API Birthmark for Windows Programs Code Theft Detection (Windows 프로그램 도용 탐지를 위한 기능 단위 동적 API 버스마크)

  • Choi, Seok-Woo;Cho, Woo-Young;Han, Tai-Sook
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.36 no.9
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    • pp.767-776
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    • 2009
  • A software birthmark is a set of characteristics that are extracted from a program itself to detect code theft. A dynamic API birthmark is extracted from the run-time API call sequences of a program. The dynamic Windows API birthmarks of Tamada et al. are extracted from API call sequences during the startup period of a program. Therefore. the dynamic birthmarks cannot reflect characteristics of main functions of the program. In this paper. we propose a functional unit birthmark(FDAPI) that is defined as API call sequences recorded during the execution of essential functions of a program. To find out that some functional units of a program are copied from an original program. two FDAPIs are extracted by executing the programs with the same input. The FDAPIs are compared using the semi-global alignment algorithm to compute a similarity between two programs. Programs with the same functionality are compared to show credibility of our birthmark. Binary executables that are compiled differently from the same source code are compared to prove resilience of our birthmark. The experimental result shows that our birthmark can detect module theft of software. to which the existing birthmarks of Tamada et al. cannot be applied.

Spatial Physicochemical and Metagenomic Analysis of Desert Environment

  • Sivakala, Kunjukrishnan Kamalakshi;Jose, Polpass Arul;Anandham, Rangasamy;Thinesh, Thangathurai;Jebakumar, Solomon Robinson David;Samaddar, Sandipan;Chatterjee, Poulami;Sivakumar, Natesan;Sa, Tongmin
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.28 no.9
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    • pp.1517-1526
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    • 2018
  • Investigating bacterial diversity and its metabolic capabilities is crucial for interpreting the ecological patterns in a desert environment and assessing the presence of exploitable microbial resources. In this study, we evaluated the spatial heterogeneity of physicochemical parameters, soil bacterial diversity and metabolic adaptation at meter scale. Soil samples were collected from two quadrats of a desert (Thar Desert, India) with a hot, arid climate, very little rainfall and extreme temperatures. Analysis of physico-chemical parameters and subsequent variance analysis (p-values < 0.05) revealed that sulfate, potassium and magnesium ions were the most variable between the quadrats. Microbial diversity of the two quadrats was studied using Illumina bar-coded sequencing by targeting V3-V4 regions of 16S rDNA. As for the results, 702504 high-quality sequence reads, assigned to 173 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) at species level, were examined. The most abundant phyla in both quadrats were Actinobacteria (38.72%), Proteobacteria (32.94%), and Acidobacteria (9.24%). At genus level, Gaiella represented highest prevalence, followed by Streptomyces, Solirubrobacter, Aciditerrimonas, Geminicoccus, Geodermatophilus, Microvirga, and Rubrobacter. Between the quadrats, significant difference (p-values < 0.05) was found in the abundance of Aciditerrimonas, Geodermatophilus, Geminicoccus, Ilumatobacter, Marmoricola, Nakamurella, and Solirubrobacter. Metabolic functional mapping revealed diverse biological activities, and was significantly correlated with physicochemical parameters. The results revealed spatial variation of ions, microbial abundance and functional attributes in the studied quadrats, and patchy nature in local scale. Interestingly, abundance of the biotechnologically important phylum Actinobacteria, with large proposition of unclassified species in the desert, suggested that this arid environment is a promising site for bioprospection.