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The Study on Cap Design for Developing Tourist Souvenir: Applying Traditional Bat Motifs (관광상품개발을 위한 cap 디자인 연구 -전통박쥐문양의 응용을 중심으로-)

  • 김혜경;정성일
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.24 no.8
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    • pp.1209-1219
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    • 2000
  • The importance of souvenirs are increasing immensely these days owing to the increase of foreign visitors to our country, which forces us to turn our eyes to this field. Upon these reflections, this study aims at aims at developing cap designs that satisfy the foreign tourists needs and let them recognize the outstanding beauty of Korean traditional patterns by applying traditional motifs. The Korean traditional patterns and their symbolic meanings were researched as well as the previous studies on the designing of goods for foreign visitors which had traditional patterns applied. Furthermore, the overall tendencies of the purchase of souvenirs and goods by foreign tourists in Korea as well as in foreign countries were investigated. Next, the present state of apparel goods and caps for sightseers in Korea was analyzed according to their shapes, colors, and patterns. Finally, by using CAD system, new cap designs were developed applying traditional bat motifs in order to capture the traditional images for a modern sense of beauty.

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HBV Polymerase Residues $Asp^{429}$ and $Asp^{551}$, Invariant at Motifs A and C are Essential to DNA Binding

  • Kim, Youn-Hee;Hong, Young-Bin;Jung, Gu-Hung
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.498-502
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    • 1998
  • HBV polymerase shares several regions of amino acid homology with other DNA-directed and RNA-directed polymerases. The amino acid residues $Asp^{429}$, $Gly^{518}$, $Asp^{551}$, $Lys^{585}$, and $Gly^{641}$ in the conserved motifs A, B', C, D, and E in the polymerase domain of HBV polymerase were mutated to alanine or histidine by in vitro site-directed mutagenesis. Those mutants were overexpressed, purified, and analyzed against DNA-dependent DNA polymerase activity and affinity for DNA binding. All those mutants did not show DNA-dependent DNA polymerase activities indicating that those five amino acid residues are all critical in DNA polymerase activity. South-Western analysis shows that amino acid residues $ASp^{429}$ and $ASp^{551}$ are essential to DNA binding, and $Gly^{318}$ and $Gly^{585}$ also affect DNA binding to a certain extent.

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The 52 kD Protein Gene of Odontoglossum Ringspot Virus Containing RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase Motifs and Comparisons with Other Tobamoviruses

  • Park, Won-Mok
    • Journal of Plant Biology
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.129-136
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    • 1995
  • Complementary DNA of the genomic RNA of odontoglossum ringspot virus Cymbidium strain (ORSV-Cy) was synthesized from polyadenylated viral RNA and cloned. Selected clones containing the viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase gene of the virus has been sequenced by automated sequencing system. The complete nucleotide sequence of an open reading frame is 1377 base pairs in length, and encodes a protein of 458 amino acids about 52, 334 D. The 52 kD protein of ORSV shares four sequence motifs characteristic of viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. Comparison of the ORSV 52 kD protein sequence with that of other five viruses in tobamovirus group showed 76.0 to 60.7% homologies at the amino acid level and the conservation of the four motifs betwen the viruses.

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The Grammatical Structure of Protein Sequences

  • Bystroff, Chris
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Bioinformatics Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.28-31
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    • 2000
  • We describe a hidden Markov model, HMMTIR, for general protein sequence based on the I-sites library of sequence-structure motifs. Unlike the linear HMMs used to model individual protein families, HMMSTR has a highly branched topology and captures recurrent local features of protein sequences and structures that transcend protein family boundaries. The model extends the I-sites library by describing the adjacencies of different sequence-structure motifs as observed in the database, and achieves a great reduction in parameters by representing overlapping motifs in a much more compact form. The HMM attributes a considerably higher probability to coding sequence than does an equivalent dipeptide model, predicts secondary structure with an accuracy of 74.6% and backbone torsion angles better than any previously reported method, and predicts the structural context of beta strands and turns with an accuracy that should be useful for tertiary structure prediction. HMMSTR has been incorporated into a public, fully-automated protein structure prediction server.

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Cultural Diffusion, Adoption and Adaptation - Motifs and Patterns in Indonesian Textiles -

  • Hann, Michael A.
    • The International Journal of Costume Culture
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.85-92
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    • 2009
  • The objectives of the research are to explain the nature of cultural diffusion and its associated theoretical concepts, to review the nature of traditional Indonesian textiles and to focus particular attention on the origin, evolution and diffusion of motifs and patterns associated with the decoration of two important categories of Indonesian textiles: batiks and ikats. Cultural diffusion refers to the process by which cultural traits, material objects, ideas, inventions, innovations or patterns of behaviour are spread from one social or geographical context to another. Examining the decoration on traditional textiles produced across the Indonesian archipelago, certain motifs and patterns are shown to have been retained from ancient times, and others have been adopted from elsewhere. There is great cultural diversity across the archipelago and ample evidence of cultural diffusion.

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Characterization for calmodulin binding activity of IQ motifs on the IQGAP3 (IQGAP3에 존재하는 IQ 부위의 칼모듈린 결합 특성)

  • Jang, Deok-Jin
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.333-338
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    • 2012
  • IQ motif-containing GTPase-activating proteins (IQGAPs), which are well-known $Ca^{2+}$-independent calmodulin (CaM) binding proteins, are involved in various cellular functions such as cell proliferation, carcinogenesis and cell migration. The IQGAP3 similar to IQGAP1 has four repeated IQ motifs, which are crucial for CaM binding. It has been recently shown that all four IQ motifs of the IQGAP1 could bind to CaM, while not clear the binding of four IQ motifs of the IQGAP3. In this study, we examined the binding between CaM and each IQ motif of IQGAP3. As a result, we found that IQ2 and IQ3, but not IQ1 and IQ4, have a $Ca^{2+}$-independent CaM binding activity. We also found that IQ(3.5-4.4) on the IQGAP3 has $Ca^{2+}$-dependent CaM binding activity as similar with that of IQGAP1. This finding indicates that IQ motifs of the IQGAP3 plays a dynamic role via different interaction of IQ motifs with $Ca^{2+}$/CaM or apoCaM.

A Study of Cultural Symbol on Safavid Lampas (사파피 람파(Safavid lampas)에 나타난 문화적 상징)

  • 남윤숙
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.34
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    • pp.121-134
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    • 1997
  • The purpose of this study is to research of cultural symbol on Safavid lampas in Persia. The results are as follows. A significant feature of continuous pat-terns in lampas is the use of the human figure and a signature of designer's name in the Islamic world. Motifs can be identi-fied as Safavid lampas by the style of motifs such as birds leaves trees flowers on a gold or silver namely metal back-groud. the result shows that cultural symbol on Safavid lampas is connected with islamic culture.

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Discovery of Novel RNA Targets Using Chemical Genomics

  • Yu, Jae-Hoon
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.93-93
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    • 2003
  • RNA plays an important role in numerous biological processes but little is known about the interactions between small organic molecules and RNA. Our previous work has shown that the heterodimeric compound designed by conjugation with neomycin and loop-specific chemical bind to the stem-loop structured RNA motifs. In the present study, heterodimer was used, in a reverse way, as a probe to identify structured RNA motifs. (omitted)

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A Study on Costume in Pak Tong Sa Eun Hae (朴通事 諺解의 服食硏究)

  • 김진구
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.493-511
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    • 2000
  • The objective of this study was to trace and to examine costume terminologies recorded in Pak Tong Sa Eun Hae. Names of costumes and costume related terms were collected from P마 Tong Sa Eun Hae. Books and various references from China and Korea were used for this study. Costume terms were examined from the Chinese and Korean. Classifications of costume terminologies from the data were made for the analysis : man and woman's costume, accessories, names of fabrics, colors, and decorative motifs used, professional costume, special occasion dresses and so on. Conclusions and summary of results and findings can be summerized as follows : It revealed that manes of man's costume and other costume related words were a large in number compared with those of woman. Only one name of woman's costume appeared in the text : It was kind of long vests. However, names of accessories such as a hat, a hat decorated with jewels and phoenix design, a hair pin, earings, bracelets, finger rings, a soft belt were shown in the text. While many costume names of man included in the text were of garments such as a kind of long vest, a short vest, an outer robe, a kind of long coat with pleated skirt, leg coverings, outer jacket and so on. Also names of undergarments such as an under skirt, a belly covering, and drawers were found in the text. Fabric names were mostly silks such as brocade, twill, sarcenet, damasks and plain silks. Blue was the most widely appeared fabric color in the text and red was the second. Design motifs of fabric design were of dragon, flowers, eight precious things, clouds which were characteristic design motifs of the Chinese. It was found that some of the Chinese costume terminologies were translated into the Korean although many Chinese costume terms were used as the original Chinese.

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Design Development of Fashion Cultural Products based on Convergence of International Exposition Yeosu and Regional Culture (여수세계박람회와 지역문화의 융합을 기반으로 한 패션문화상품 디자인개발)

  • Kim, Sun-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.61 no.1
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    • pp.58-68
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    • 2011
  • With Expo 2012 Yeosu to be held in 2012, this study intends to propose designs for fashion cultural products into which the characteristics of local cultures of Yeosu are fused. Using symbols of Expo 2012 Yeosu and cultural symbols of Yeosu City as motifs, this study will develop patterns and then, apply them to neckties, handkerchiefs, and T-shirts. Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe Photoshop CS2 will be used. This study developed basic motifs so that cultural resources using camellia, Odong Island, and the Turtle Ship, which represent Yeosu City, could be well harmonized with the topic of Expo 2012 Yeosu. This paper set three basic motifs of new formative images, using graphic images that were made by omission of forms, simplification, overlap, repetition, and calligraphy of the name of Yeosu holding the event. Each set motif was expanded to three motifs again through change, conversion, and mixture of colors, and three types of repetitive applied patterns were developed through revolution, symmetry, repetition, and reversal of each motif. The modern and refined image for neckties, to which the developed motif was applied, was made by directly applying the repetitive pattern of each motif or by making $45^{\circ}$ revolution. For handkerchiefs, revolution, enlargement, reduction, and gradation were applied to the motif so the pattern could be highlighted to the maximum and finally, a colorful image was developed. For T-shirts, three designs-a half-sleeved box type, a sleeveless round neckline type, and a sleeveless V-neckline tight type-were developed, through which availability of the design was increased. Through enlargement, reduction, revolution, and repetition of each motif, this paper layout the pattern on the whole part of a T-shirt, pursuing a decorative and casual image.