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Effects of Butanol extract from Rhois Vernicifluae Cortex (RVC) in lipopolysaccharides-induced macrophage RAW 264.7 cells (칠피(漆皮) 부탄올 분획물이 LPS로 유도된 RAW 264.7 대식세포에 미치는 영향)

  • Song, Saeng-Yeop;Sim, Sung-Yong;Kim, Kyung-Jun
    • The Journal of Korean Medicine Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology and Dermatology
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    • v.20 no.1 s.32
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2007
  • Objectives : RVC has long been used for a useful natural agent ameliorating inflammation related symptoms in the folk medicine recipe. This study was performed to investigate effects of RVC on the inflammation and oxidation in RAW 264.7 cells. Methods : The RVC was extracted with 80% ethanol and sequentially partitioned with solvents in order to increase polarity. With the various fractions, we determined the activities on the inflammation and oxidation in RAW 264.7 cells. Results : 1. Among the various solvent extracts of RVC, the butanol fraction showed the most powerful inhibitory ability against nitric oxide (NO) production in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced RAW 264.7 cells without affecting cell viability. 2. Butanol fraction showed a oxidation inhibition effect by decreasing the DPPH and OH radicals. 3. Butanol fraction exhibited the inhibitory avilities against iNOS and COX-2. 4. Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and Westem blotting analysis revealed that the BuOH fraction provided a primary inhibitor of the iNOS protein and mRNA expression in LPS-induced RAW 264.7 cells. Among the up-regulater molecules of iNOS and COX-2, the BuOh fraction of RVC was shown the inhibitory activity of phoshporylation of c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) 1/2 and threonine protein kinase (AKT), the one of the MAPKs pathway. Conclusion : Thus, the present study suggests that the response of a component of the BuOH fraction to NO generation via iNOS expression provide a important clue to elucidate anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidation mechanism of RVC.

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The Effect of Nurse Social Support and Job Satisfaction on Job Embeddedness in the Small and Medium Sized Hospital Nurses (중소병원 간호사의 사회적 지지와 직무만족이 직무배태성에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Eun-A
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.22-30
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of social support and job satisfaction on job embeddedness in the small and medium size hospital nurses. The subjects were small and medium hospital nurses in G city, and 197 data were analyzed. Data were analyzed descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation analysis, and hierarchical regression analysis. As a result, supervisor support, peer support of social support, job satisfaction were reported positively correlated with job embeddedness. The study model accounted for 28.0% of job embeddedness. The most powerful variable affecting job embeddedness was job satisfaction(β=.33 p<.001). In order to promote job embeddedness of small and medium hospital nurses, it is suggested that measures for improving job satisfaction and supervisors support of social support.

Design of Effective Intrusion Detection System for Wireless Local Area Network (무선랜을 위한 효율적인 침입탐지시스템 설계)

  • Woo, Sung-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.185-191
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    • 2008
  • Most threats of WLAN are easily caused by attackers who access to the radio link between STA and AP, which involves some Problems to intercept network communications or inject additional messages into them. In comparison with wired LAN, severity of wireless LAN against threats is bigger than the other networks. To make up for the vulnerability of wireless LAN, it needs to use the Intrusion Detection System using a powerful intrusion detection method as SVM. However, due to classification based on calculating values after having expressed input data in vector space by SVM, continuous data type can not be used as any input data. In this paper, therefore, we design the IDS system for WLAN by tuning with SVM and data-mining mechanism to defend the vulnerability on certain WLAN and then we demonstrate the superiority of our method.

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A study on the Symbol Mark Design in Fashion Accessory Brands - Focused on Jewelry brand -

  • Shin, Hae-Kyung
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.163-175
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    • 2011
  • This study tried to improve the design of the symbol mark for the fashion industry and effectively publicize the brand image of a small fashion accessory company through a powerful visual communication strategy. For this purpose, this study performed research and an analysis of the features of existing fashion accessory companies as well as the current status and features of their utilization of symbol marks for the enhancement of the brand's image. Total 48 fashion accessory brands focued on jewerly were selected from the Dictionary of Fashion Brand and the types of symbol analyzed the concepts and formative aesthetics of the symbol mark design in each brand. Based on the data, this study designed the fashion accessory company's logo and a new symbol mark design. It makes full use of the characteristics of the logos and the symbol mark that reflect the most critical issues of fashion accessory design so as to promote the consumers' level of product recognition as well as the product symbol characteristics. In the case of combining characters with concrete objects, they were found generally to use objects that give elegance, cute and feminine images, such as rings, hearts and small pets. Moreover, colors in the series of black/grey seemed to be used to convey the concept of accessory brands that pursue modern, sophisticate, and practical images. As these design plans, enhancement of the consumers' level of recognition of the brand is attempted as well as the execution of an effective publicity of the feature of the product through the use of the logo and symbol marks reflecting the features of the fashion accessory, instead of simply introducing the brand or product. The result of this study indicates that methods to design brand symbol marks for clothing should be incessantly sought in a way to build brand power as an important component to represent concepts and reinforce brand image.

Protein Production from Cellulosic Wastes by Mixed Culture of A. phoenices and C. utilis (Aspergillus phoenicis 및 candida utilis의 혼합배양에 의한 섬유소로부터의 단백질 생산)

  • 이영녹;박경량;이주실;배광성;백대홍
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.14-22
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    • 1981
  • Protein content of cellulosic wastes, such as spent grain, hop bark, spent rye, rice straw, rice hull, saw dust and used newspaper, was increased by a mixed culture of C. utilis wastes having 66-75% moisture. Among the fungal strains tested. A.phoenicis KU175 was the most powerful to increase the protein content of A. phoenicis during the mixed culture with C. utilis in the CMC medium reached at the peak for one day culture after inoculation of the both strains at the same time, while it reached at peark from the beginning of the mixed culture, when A. phoenicis was inocultated for 12-24hours prior to the inoculation of C.utilis. To increase the protein content of the cellulosic wastes by the mixed culture of C.utilis and A.phoenicis, the inoculation of both strains at the same time was more effective than the preinoculation of A. phoenicis for 6-24 hours. Content of crude cellulose in the used newspaper, saw dust and spent grain was high relatively, and the lignin content of spent grain, spent rye, and rice strew was reduced more than half by the treatment of 2% NaOH. However, effect of alkali treatment of increase the protein content of the cellulosic wastes was not prominent in the case of mixed culture. Protein content of the cellulosic wastes was increased prominently by the mixed culture of C.utilis and A.phoenicis in semi-solid substrate, compared with the single culture of C. utilis, although the latter increased the protein content of cellulosic wastes considerably. The effect of mixed culture of C. utilis and A. phoenicis increased 4-fold the protein content of spent grain, and more than doubled crude protein in hop bark and rice straw.

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Predictors of health promoting lifestyles in Korean undergraduate students (대학생의 건강증진 생활양식과 관련된 요인 분석)

  • 전미영;김명희;조정민
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors influencing health promoting lifestyles in undergraduate students thus providing the basic data necessary to establish a health promoting program. The subjects of this study were 392 undergraduate students, living in Seoul, Chung-Buk, and Kangwon, during the period from May 10 to July 15, 2000. The instruments for this study were the health promoting lifestyles scale developed by Bak, Insuk(l995), the hardiness scale by Suh, Yeonok(1995), the social support scale by Su, Moonja(l988), and the perceived health status scale by Lawton et al.(l982). The results of this study are as follows; 1. The average score for health promoting lifestyles was 2.47 on 4 point scale. The health promoting lifestyles categories ‘harmony relationships’(3.08) and ‘sanitary life’(2.97) revealed higher scores, whereas scores for ‘healthy diet’(2.31), ‘exercise & activity’(2.20) and ‘professional health management’(1.48) were lower. 2. The mean score for hardiness, social support and perceived health status was 4.43(on 6 point scale), 2.91(on 4 point scale) and 3.11(on 5 point scale) respectively. 3. There was a statistically significant difference in degree of health promoting lifestyle according to religion(t=2.05, p=0.04) and spending money per month(F=2.98, p=0.03). 4. Health promoting lifestyles showed significant positive correlation with hardiness, social support, and perceived health status. 5. Stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed that the most powerful predictor of health promoting lifestyle was hardiness. Social support and perceived health status have significant effects on health promoting lifestyles. These predictive variables of health promoting lifestyles explained 24% of variance. Finally, the result of this study will provide important factors for the development of a nursing intervention program for the promotion of healthy lifestyles in Korean undergraduate students.

Web Page Evaluation based on Implicit User Reactions and Neural Networks

  • Lee, Dong-Hoon;Kim, Jae-Kwang;Lee, Jee-Hyong
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.181-186
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    • 2012
  • This paper proposes a method for evaluating web pages by considering implicit user reaction on web pages. Usually users spend more time and make more reactions, such as clicking, dragging and scrolling, while reading interesting pages. Based on this observation, a web page evaluation method by observing implicit user reaction is proposed. The system is designed with Ajax for observing user reactions, and neural networks for learning correlation between user reactions and usefulness of pages. The amounts of each type of user reactions are inputted to neural networks. Also the numbers of characters and images of pages are used as inputs because the amount of users' behaviors has a tendency to increase as the length of pages increase. The experiment is conducted with 113 people and 74 pages. Each page is ranked by users with a questionnaire. The proposed method shows more close ranking results to the user ranks than Google. That is, our system evaluates web pages more closely to users' viewpoint than Google. Although our experiment is limited, our result shows powerful potential of new element for web page evaluation. Some approaches evaluate web pages with their contents and some evaluate web pages with structural attributes, particularly links, of pages. Web page evaluation is for users, so the best evaluation can be done by users themselves. So, user feedback is one of the most important factors for web page evaluation. This paper proposes a new method which reflects user feedbacks on web pages.

A Case Study on the Comparison and Assessment between Environmental Impact Assessment and Post-Environmental Investigation Using Principal Component Analysis (주성분분석을 이용한 환경영향평가와 사후환경조사의 비교 및 평가에 관한 사례연구)

  • Cho Il-Hyoung;Kim Yong-Sup;Zoh Kyung-Duk
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.31 no.2 s.83
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    • pp.134-146
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    • 2005
  • Environmental monitoring system has been adopted and supplemented as inspection measures for the quantitative and qualitative changes of environmental impact assessment (EIA). This study compares the results of environmental impact assessment with the results of post-environmental investigation using a correction and principal component analysis (PCA) in the housing development project. Correlation analysis showed that most of air quality variables including TSP, $PM_{10},\;NO_2$, CO were linearly correlated with each other in the environmental impact assessment and the post-environmental investigation. In the water quality, pH and BOD were well correlated with the DO and SS, respectively. As a result of correlation analysis in the noise and vibration, noise in day and night and vibration in day and night were related to each other between EIA and the post-environmental investigation. From the results of analysis of soil, Cu with Cd, Cu with Pb, and Cd with Pb were related to each other in EIA. Principal component analysis (PCA) showed a powerful pattern recognition that had attempted to explain the variance of a large dataset of inter-correlated variable with a smaller set of independent variables (principal components). Principal component (PC1) and principal component (PC2) were obtained with eigenvalues> 1 summing almost $90\%$ of the total variance in the all of the items(air, water, noise, vibration and soil) in EIA and post-environmental investigation.

SNS planning through analysis of office workers SNS use (직장인의 SNS 사용 분석을 통한 SNS 기획)

  • Kim, Eun-Ju;Hong, Soon-Geun;Hwang, Chan-Gyu
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.8 no.9
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    • pp.1359-1364
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    • 2013
  • After platform changed from PC-based internet to mobile, SNS became new interactive media which relaces face-to-face interaction. the SNS users have already begun to recognize SNS as daily necessity. SNS market has been subdivided. In other words, SNS has entered into a period of vertical SNS that focus on contents and specific target. Therefore, It is necessary to analyze users for SNS planners. For this reason, analyzing why office workers who have the most powerful purchasing power use SNS is meaningful for SNS planners. Therefore, in this study, we analyzed the reasons for using SNS of office workers by studying relationship among office workers' stress, social support, self-expression and the use of SNS. As a result, the use of SNS has a significantly positive correlation with social support and self-expression. The self-expression in the SNS is not associated with stress, but rather it is the characteristics of the office workers. However the social support in the SNS affects to stress.

A brief review of the bilayer electrolyte strategy to achieve high performance solid oxide fuel cells (고성능 고체산화물 연료전지를 위한 이중층 전해질 전략)

  • Park, Jeong Hwa;Kim, Doyeub;Kim, Kyeong Joon;Bae, Kyung Taek;Lee, Kang Taek
    • Ceramist
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.184-199
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    • 2020
  • The solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are the one of the most promising energy conversion devices which can directly convert chemical energy into electric power with high efficiency and low emission. The lowering operating temperature below 800 ℃ has been considered as the mostly considerable research and development for commercialization. The major issue is to maintain reasonably high performance of SOFCs at reduced temperatures due to increment of polarization resistance of electrodes and electrolyte. Thus, the alternative materials with high catalytic activities and fast oxygen ion conductivity are required. For recent advances in electrolyte materials and technology, newly designed, highly conductive electrolyte materials and structural engineering of them provide a new path for further reduction in ohmic polarization resistance from electrolytes. Here, a powerful strategy of the bilayer concept with various oxide electrolytes of SOFCs are briefly reviewed. These recent developments also highlight the need for electrolytes with greater conductivity to achieve a high performance, thus providing a useful guidance for the rational design of cell structures for SOFCs. Moreover, cell design, materials compatibility, processing methods, are discussed, along with their role in determining cell performance. Results from state-of-the-art SOFCs are presented, and future prospects are discussed.