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The Paradoxical Coping In Life of Children of Alcoholics (알코올중독자 자녀의 삶에 대한 역설적 대처)

  • Kim Myung Ah
    • Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.299-316
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    • 2003
  • A phenomenological methodology was used to identify the life of children living with alcoholic parents. Nine adolescents participated in the in-depth interviews, done between October and December 2001. The Colaizzi's method was used for data analysis. The results of this study are as follows. One theme and thirteen meanings were identified, The one theme is Paradoxical Coping in Life. The meanings are obsessive behavior as a way to control father's behavior, always on the defensive due to anxiety and tension, being afraid of life alone due to paranoid thoughts, contradictory expectations about father's drinking behavior due to life with chronic tension, stress becoming familiar and life being boring and tendious without stimulation, life that is fake and filled with misinterpretations about reality, affection sought from others due to loneliness, compensatory life within peer group, negative expectation about the future due to negative experiences, controling others to protect ego, denial of real emotion to protect self from hurt, life of regretting self, and strong need for approval from others. The results of this study can provide a foundation for the development of programs for children of alcohol dependent parents.

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Breed Effects of Terminal Sires on Carcass Traits and Meat Quality in Commercial Pig Industry (돼지의 웅돈계열에 따른 도체형질 및 육질 변화에 관한 연구)

  • Sun, Du-Won;Seo, Hyun-Woo;Kim, Byeong-Woo;Yang, Han-Sul;Joo, Seon-Tea;Lee, Jung-Gyu
    • Food Science of Animal Resources
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.125-132
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    • 2013
  • In the present study, to determine the effects of terminal sire strains, carcass characteristics, yields of retail cut, and meat quality of 425 pigs were examined. Terminal sires were divided into five strains (D1, D2, B1, B2, and BD) based on the countries of origin and breeds. The strains D1 and D2 showed high grade 1+ appearance ratios and strains B1, B2, and D1 showed high appearance ratios of carcass yield grade A. As for the real retail cut yields of meat, strain D1 showed large real retail cut yields of meat in shoulder, rib, fore leg, loin, belly, tenderloin and hind leg. Moisture contents were significantly higher in strain B1, and protein and fat contents were significantly higher for strain D1 than in the other strains (p<0.05). Shear force values were significantly higher for strain B1 than in the other strains (p<0.05). For meat color properties, the lightness were significantly higher in strains D1, D2, and BD, and the yellowness were significantly higher in strains D1, D2, and BD relative to the other strains (p<0.05). In sensory evaluation, drip of strains D1 and D2 were significantly lower while marbling and overall acceptability were significantly higher in the other four strains (p<0.05). Therefore, when considering the results of the present study comprehensively, using strains D1 and D2 that showed high grade 1+ appearance ratios, large real retail cut yields of belly, significantly higher lightness and sensory evaluation will be helpful to the incomes of producers and farm households.

The effect of heat stress on frame switch splicing of X-box binding protein 1 gene in horse

  • Lee, Hyo Gun;Khummuang, Saichit;Youn, Hyun-Hee;Park, Jeong-Woong;Choi, Jae-Young;Shin, Teak-Soon;Cho, Seong-Keun;Kim, Byeong-Woo;Seo, Jakyeom;Kim, Myunghoo;Park, Tae Sub;Cho, Byung-Wook
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.32 no.8
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    • pp.1095-1103
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    • 2019
  • Objective: Among stress responses, the unfolded protein response (UPR) is a well-known mechanism related to endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. ER stress is induced by a variety of external and environmental factors such as starvation, ischemia, hypoxia, oxidative stress, and heat stress. Inositol requiring enzyme $1{\alpha}$ ($IRE1{\alpha}$)-X-box protein 1 (XBP1) is the most conserved pathway involved in the UPR and is the main component that mediates $IRE1{\alpha}$ signalling to downstream ER-associated degradation (ERAD)- or UPR-related genes. XBP1 is a transcription factor synthesised via a novel mechanism called 'frame switch splicing', and this process has not yet been studied in the horse XBP1 gene. Therefore, the aim of this study was to confirm the frame switch splicing of horse XBP1 and characterise its dynamics using Thoroughbred muscle cells exposed to heat stress. Methods: Primary horse muscle cells were used to investigate heat stress-induced frame switch splicing of horse XBP1. Frame switch splicing was confirmed by sequencing analysis. XBP1 amino acid sequences and promoter sequences of various species were aligned to confirm the sequence homology and to find conserved cis-acting elements, respectively. The expression of the potential XBP1 downstream genes were analysed by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction. Results: We confirmed that splicing of horse XBP1 mRNA was affected by the duration of thermal stress. Twenty-six nucleotides in the mRNA of XBP1 were deleted after heat stress. The protein sequence and the cis-regulatory elements on the promoter of horse XBP1 are highly conserved among the mammals. Induction of putative downstream genes of horse XBP1 was dependent on the duration of heat stress. We confirmed that both the mechanisms of XBP1 frame switch splicing and various binding elements found in downstream gene promoters are highly evolutionarily conserved. Conclusion: The frame switch splicing of horse XBP1 and its dynamics were highly conserved among species. These results facilitate studies of ER-stress in horse.

Creep Life Prediction of Aircraft Gas Turbine material by ISM (ISM에 의한 항공기용 가스터빈 재료의 크리프 수명예측)

  • 공유식
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.43-48
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    • 2001
  • In this paper, the real-time prediction of high temperature creep strength and creep for nickel-based superalloy Udimet 720 (high-temperature and high-pressure gas turbine engine materials) was performed on round-bar type specimens under pure load at the temperatures of 538, 649 and 704$^{\circ}C$. The predictive equation of ISM creep has better reliability than that of LMP and LMP-ISM, and its reliability is getting better for long time creep prediction ($10^3~10^5$h).

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On the Estimation of Parameters in ALT under Generalized Exponential Distribution

  • Yoon, Sang-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.923-931
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    • 2005
  • The two parameter generalized exponential distribution was recently introduced by Gupta and Kundu (1999). It is observed that the generalized exponential distribution can be used quite effectively to analyze skewed data set. This paper develops the accelerated life test model using generalized exponential distribution and considers maximum likelihood estimation of parameters under the tampered random variable model. To show the performance of proposed maximum likelihood estimates, some simulation will be performed. Using a real data set, an example will be given.

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Highly Accelerated Life Tests for Auto-Connector in Use-Environment (자동차 환경을 고려한 커넥터의 가속시험에 관한 연구)

  • Kim Jong-Gurl;Kim Jin-Hawn
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.229-235
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    • 2004
  • This paper treats accelerated life tests for automotive connector. The contact resistance of connector is explained by some factors; the use time(calender time, real cycle), stresses and loads adapted in auto test. The relationships between contact resistance and some factors are compared and analyzed by regression models in various test conditions; field use-environment, manufacturer's test environment, and accelerated test condition. The consistency between of manufacturer's test and field test is examined. Finally, the future study on accelerated test for automotive connector is presented.

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Somoothing Mean Residual Life with Censored Data

  • Dong-Myung Jeong;Myung-Unn Song;Jae-Kee Song
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.129-138
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    • 1996
  • We propose a smoothing estimator of mean residual life function based on Ghorai and Susarla's (1990) smooth estimator of distribution function under random censorship model and provide the asymptotic properties of this estimator. The Monte Carlo simulation is performed to compare the proposed estimator with the other estimators and an exmple is also given using the real data.

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