• 환경생물
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2006

Abstract - Global decline in wildlife mammals has been accelerated during past decades. Especially the conservation the wild life mammals in polar areas, is urgent. In an effort to understand the reproduction of the seals dwelling in the polar area, spermatogenesis in the seals was reviewed. Seals breed seasonally and in most of the seal species, delayed implantation is frequently observed. To date, histological and endocrinological evaluation revealed highly cyclic nature in supermatogenesis and steroidogenesis in testis. Seasonal changes in blood testosterone level together with melatonin is closely related with changes in light cycle between summer and winter. In adult testis at breeding seasons, spermatogenesis is manifested by consecutive 18 stages of germ cell development. Three kinds of Leydig cells different in steroidogenic activity as well as cellular morphology appear during the testis development. During non-breeding season, spermatogenic arrest and Leydig cell hypoplasia are frequently found. Interestingly, blood circulation through the anastomoses of pelvic veins cooled the testes and thus guarantees spermatogenesis within the body trunk. Endocrine disruptors and heavy metals have been found in the body tissues of several seals species and alter steroidogenesis in seals, suggesting environmental pollutants together with decrease in habitats are potentially threatening the reproductive success in seal species.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.36-40
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• 2002

The polar anchoring strength and surface ordering in a NLC,4-n-pentyl-4'-cyanobiphenyl (5CB), on a rubbed polyimide (PI) surface containing trifluoromethyl moiety were studied. The large extrapolation length de of 5CB for washing process of water was measured at RS=114 mm. The polar anchoring energy of 5CB on the rubbed PI surface is decreased by the washing process. Also, the polar anchoring energy of 5CB increases with the rubbing strength on the PI surface. The surface ordering of 5CB for all washing processes is smaller than the non-washing process; it is attributed to the washing process.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.184-196
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• 2021

The research domain of underwater communication has garnered much interest among researchers exploring underwater activities. The underwater environment differs from the terrestrial setting. Some of the main challenges in underwater communication are limited bandwidth, low data rate, propagation delay, and high bit error rate (BER). As such, this study assessed the underwater acoustic (UWA) aspect and explored the expression of error performance based on t-distribution noise. Filter orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing refers to a new waveform candidate that has been adopted in UWA, along with turbo and polar codes. The empirical outcomes demonstrated that the noise did not adhere to Gaussian distribution, whereas the simulation results revealed that the filter applied in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing could significantly suppress out-of-band emission. Additionally, the performance of the turbo code was superior to that of the polar code by 2 dB at BER 10-3.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.557-565
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• 2014

We report the effect of basal-plane stacking faults (BSFs) on X-ray diffraction (XRD) of non-polar (11$\underline{2}$0) a-plane GaN films with different $SiN_x$ interlayers. Complete $SiN_x$ coverage and increased three-dimensional (3D) to two-dimensional (2D) transition stages substantially reduce BSF density. It was revealed that the Si-doping profile in the Si-doped GaN layer was unaffected by the introduction of a $SiN_x$ interlayer. The smallest in-plane anisotropy of the (11$\underline{2}$0) XRD ${\omega}$-scan widths was found in the sample with multiple $SiN_x$ layers, and this finding can be attributed to the relatively isotropic GaN mosaic resulting from the increase in the 3D-2D growth step. Williamson-Hall (WH) analysis of the (h0$\underline{h}$0) series of diffractions was employed to determine the c-axis lateral coherence length (LCL) and to estimate the mosaic tilt. The c-axis LCLs obtained from WH analyses of the present study's representative a-plane GaN samples were well correlated with the BSF-related results from both the off-axis XRD ${\omega}$-scan and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Based on WH and TEM analyses, the trends in BSF densities were very similar, even though the BSF densities extracted from LCLs indicated that the values were reduced by a factor of about twenty.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.401-414
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to investigate the elementary preservice teachers' conceptions about 'plastics' focusing on non-polar property from a National University of Education. For the study, the views about plastics, relative shapes of a water droplet on plastic or glass material, and relative shapes of water surface in the plastic or glass measuring cylinder were surveyed from the preservice teachers. And the responses were analyzed based on the patterns. The results from the study are as follows: First, most preservice teachers were well aware of the plastic products which are used in daily life. Second, the responses concerning the reason why plastics can be used commonly were divided into 2 categories with 14 sub-level groups. However relatively few preservice teachers mentioned regarding 'chemical stability' and 'conductivity', which are associated with the plastics' non-polar property. Third, it was found that 50 participants (30.1%) had 'Scientific conception (Sc)', 38 (22.9%) had 'Partial-scientific conception (Ps)', 66 (39.8%) had 'Misconception (Mc)', and 12 (7.2%) had 'No conception (Nc)' on the subject of the relative shapes of a water droplet. Fourth, the distribution patterns and the ratio of the preservice teachers' conception on the survey question 3 concerning the relative shapes of water surface were quite similar to those of the survey question 2. So it was concluded that overall understanding level of the preservice teachers was pretty low on the subjects of the relative polarities of the plastic, glass, and water as well as their interactions. Fifth, the distribution percentile of 'Sc'/'Ps'/'Mc'/'Nc' was not related with the gender but highly correlated with preservice teachers' academic field and their science subjects taken in high school. Based on the results from the study, some educational guidelines were suggested.

• 한국식품위생안전성학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.333-341
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• 2001

각 국가 권역별 이행실험방법에 따라 고온가열 식품 포장재와 용기의 simulants별 이행량을 측정하여 비교하였다. 고온가열 식품에 대한 총이행량을 비교해 본 결과 비지방성 simulant로 증류수와 10% ethanol수용액을 사용한 경우 일반적으로 121$^{\circ}C$의 2시간 조건에서의 CPA와 PA 6,6 필름을 제외하고는 2.5 mg/dm$^2$ 보다 낮았다. 지방성 simulant 에서 soybean oil로의 총이행량은 다른 simulan에 비해 높게 나타나는 경향을 보였다. 실험된 필름들 중 PVC wrap에서의 총이행량은 23.9~54.6 mg/dm$^2$로서 다른 필름들에 비해 높은 값을 나타내었다. 비지방성보다는 지방성 식품의 simulant에서 그리고 온도가 높은 조건하에서 이행량이 증가되는 경향을 보였다. 유사한 실험 온도와 시간 조건하에서는 PA계의 극성 필름은 극성 simulants에서, 그리고 PO계와 같은 비극성 필름은 비극성 simulants에서 이행량이 증가되는 경향을 보였다. 일부 필름에서 국가 권역별 이행실험 방법 및 조건의 상이함으로 인한 이행량의 차이가 확인되었다는 것은 주목할 만할 사실이다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.534-537
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• 2005

Free Vibration Analysis using Non-dimensional Dynamic Influence Function (NDIF) is extended to arbitrarily shaped plates including polygonal plates. Since the corners of polygonal plates have indefinite normal directions and additional boundary conditions related to a twisting moment at a corner along with moment and shear force zero conditions, it is not easy to apply the NDIF method to polygonal plates wi th the free boundary condition. Moreover, owing to the fact that the local polar coordinate system, which has been introduced for free plates with smoothly varying edges, cannot be employed for the straight edges of the polygonal plates, a new coordinate system is required for the polygonal plates. These problems are solved by developing the new method of modifying a corner into a circular arc and setting the normal direction at the corner to an average value of normal direct ions of two edges adjacent to the corner. Some case studies for plates with various shapes show that the proposed method gives credible natural frequencies and mode shapes for various polygons that agree well with those by an exact method or FEM (ANSYS).

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.2729-2734
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• 2012

Despite clinical advances in anticancer therapy, there is still a need for novel anticancer metabolites, with higher efficacy and lesser side effects. Oroxylum indicum (L.) Vent. is a small tree of the Bignoniaceae family which is well known for its food and medicinal properties. In present study, the chemopreventive properties of O. indicum hot and cold non-polar extracts (petroleum ether and chloroform) were investigated with MDA-MB-231 (cancer cells) and WRL-68 (non-tumor cells) by XTT assay. All the extracts, and particularly the petroleum ether hot extract (PHO), exhibited significantly (P<0.05) higher cytotoxicity in MDA-MB-231 when compared to WRL-68 cells. PHO was then tested for apoptosis induction in estrogen receptor (ER)-negative (MDA-MB-231) and ER-positive (MCF-7) breast cancer cells by cellular DNA fragmentation ELISA, where it proved more efficient in the MDA-MB-231 cells. Further, when PHO was tested for anti-metastatic potential in a cell migration inhibition assay, it exhibited beneficial effects. Thus non-polar extracts of O. indicum (especially PHO) can effectively target ER-negative breast cancer cells to induce apoptosis, without harming normal cells by cancer-specific cytotoxicity. Hence, it could be considered as an extract with candidate precursors to possibly harness or alleviate ER-negative breast cancer progression even in advanced stages of malignancy.

• 천문학회지
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.49-60
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• 2021

Observations of line of sight (LOS) Doppler velocity and non-thermal line width in the off-limb solar corona are often used for investigating the Alfvén wave signatures in the corona. In this study, we compare LOS Doppler velocities and non-thermal line widths obtained simultaneously from two different instruments, Coronal Multichannel Polarimeter (CoMP) and Hinode/EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS), on various off-limb coronal regions: flaring and quiescent active regions, equatorial quiet region, and polar prominence and plume regions observed in 2012-2014. CoMP provides the polarization at the Fe xiii 10747 Å coronal forbidden lines which allows their spectral line intensity, LOS Doppler velocity, and line width to be measured with a low spectral resolution of 1.2 Å in 2-D off limb corona between 1.05 and 1.40 RSun, while Hinode/EIS gives us the EUV spectral information with a high spectral resolution (0.025 Å) in a limited field of view raster scan. In order to compare them, we make pseudo raster scan CoMP maps using information of each EIS scan slit time and position. We compare the CoMP and EIS spectroscopic maps by visual inspection, and examine their pixel to pixel correlations and percentages of pixel numbers satisfying the condition that the differences between CoMP and EIS spectroscopic quantities are within the EIS measurement accuracy: ±3 km s-1 for LOS Doppler velocity and ±9 km s-1 for non-thermal width. The main results are summarized as follows. By comparing CoMP and EIS Doppler velocity distributions, we find that they are consistent with each other overall in the active regions and equatorial quiet region (0.25 ≤ CC ≤ 0.7), while they are partially similar to each other in the overlying loops of prominences and near the bottom of the polar plume (0.02 ≤ CC ≤ 0.18). CoMP Doppler velocities are consistent with the EIS ones within the EIS measurement accuracy in most regions (≥ 87% of pixels) except for the polar region (45% of pixels). We find that CoMP and EIS non-thermal width distributions are similar overall in the active regions (0.06 ≤ CC ≤ 0.61), while they seem to be different in the others (-0.1 ≤ CC ≤ 0.00). CoMP non-thermal widths are similar to EIS ones within the EIS measurement accuracy in a quiescent active region (79% of pixels), while they do not match in the other regions (≤ 61% of pixels); the CoMP observations tend to underestimate the widths by about 20% to 40% compared to the EIS ones. Our results demonstrate that CoMP observations can provide reliable 2-D LOS Doppler velocity distributions on active regions and might provide their non-thermal width distributions.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.209-223
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• 2023

이 연구는 초·중등 학생의 극지 소양 함양을 위해 개발된 극지 소양 교육 프로그램을 적용한 효과를 평가하고, 기후 변화 대응 교육을 위한 시사점을 도출하기 위해 수행되었다. Polar-ICE 단체가 정립한 7가지 극지 소양 원리를 중심으로 개발한 모듈식 프로그램 중 과학개념을 강조한 프로그램과 인문학과 사회학적 쟁점을 강조한 프로그램 등 두 과정에 적합한 세부 프로그램을 선정해서 구조화했다. 이들 두 가지 프로그램은 서울 소재 대학 과학교육과에서 주최한 토요 과학교실에서 초등학생과 중학생 26명에게 약 69시간에 걸쳐 적용되었다. 26명의 학생을 세 집단으로 나누어 두 집단에게는 각각 극지 소양을 위한 과학 교육 프로그램과 인문 사회학적 쟁점 교육 프로그램을 실시했고, 나머지 한 집단은 극지 소양과 관련 없는 일반 과학 교육을 적용하여 대조군이 되었다. 프로그램을 적용하기 전후에 세 집단의 학생들은 모두 동일하게 극지 소양 검사와 극지에 대한 연상 단어와 장면을 진술하는 설문에 응답했다. 검사 결과는 비모수검정 방법인 Wilcoxon의 대응쌍 부호순위로 나타내어 프로그램 적용 전후의 향상도를 비교했다. 연구 결과 인지적 측면에서 실험군과 대조군 모두 지식 측면에서 프로그램 적용 후 향상이 나타났으나 실험군이 대조군 보다 향상의 정도가 더 컸으며, 명시적으로 다룬 내용이나 소재에서 특히 분명한 차이를 나타냈다. 정의적 측면에서 프로그램 전후의 차이는 그다지 큰 차이를 나타내지 않았지만, 인문 사회학적 쟁점을 다루었던 집단은 통계적으로 유의미한 향상을 보였다. 극지 심상의 변화는 실험 집단인 두 집단이 대조 집단에 비해 단조로운 이미지에서 좀 더 다양한 이미지로 분산되는 경향이 보였다. 이상의 연구 결과를 바탕으로 극지 소양 원리 과학 교육 프로그램의 효과를 높이기 위해 유의할 점, 과학적 사고를 함양하고 지구계 교육에 도움이 되는 소재로 활용할 필요성, 극지에 대한 태도를 향상하기 위한 방안, 기후 위기 대응을 준비하는 학교 교육 과정과의 연계 등의 시사점을 제안했다.