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In-vitro meat: a promising solution for sustainability of meat sector

  • Kumar, Pavan;Sharma, Neelesh;Sharma, Shubham;Mehta, Nitin;Verma, Akhilesh Kumar;Chemmalar, S;Sazili, Awis Qurni
    • Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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    • 제63권4호
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    • pp.693-724
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    • 2021
  • The in-vitro meat is a novel concept in food biotechnology comprising field of tissue engineering and cellular agriculture. It involves production of edible biomass by in-vitro culture of stem cells harvested from the muscle of live animals by self-organizing or scaffolding methodology. It is considered as efficient, environmental friendly, better ensuring public safety and nutritional security, as well as ethical way of producing meat. Source of stem cells, media ingredients, supply of large size bioreactors, skilled manpower, sanitary requirements, production of products with similar sensory and textural attributes as of conventional meat, consumer acceptance, and proper set up of regulatory framework are challenges faced in commercialization and consumer acceptance of in-vitro meat. To realize any perceivable change in various socio-economic and environmental spheres, the technology should be commercialized and should be cost-effective as conventional meat and widely accepted among consumers. The new challenges of increasing demand of meat with the increasing population could be fulfill by the establishment of in-vitro meat production at large scale and its popularization. The adoption of in-vitro meat production at an industrial scale will lead to self-sufficiency in the developed world.

러시아 연해주 지역의 한인 주거에 관한 연구 -문헌고찰과 현지 답사를 통한 1930년대 이전의 한인주거 분석 - (Study on the Dwellings of Korean Diaspora in Yunhaju of Russia pre-1930's - Focusing on Analysis of related documents and Interviewing in Yunhaju -)

  • 이영심;조재순;이상해
    • 대한가정학회지
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    • 제41권7호
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    • pp.59-71
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    • 2003
  • Koreans were started moving to Yunhaju in Russia for escaping from tyrannical rule and famine in 1860's in Korea. Social and political situation of Russia were made it very hard to get to know about Korean's life there so far. But it was known that Korean Diaspora has been kept traditional way of living in without contacts between Korea for 140 years. This study examined the dwellings of Korean Diaspora in Yunhaju through reviewing related documents and records firstly and had a time to visit places which Koreans lived since 1860's for example Posyet(equation omitted), Suifen(equation omitted), Ussuriisk(equation omitted), Vladivostok(equation omitted), Partizansk(equation omitted) and took interviews with Koreans who lived there pre 1930's. Results of research were as following : 1) A first place to settle down for Koreans in Yunhaju was Posye(equation omitted) and scattered as time goes by far away from there. 2) Koreans were helping each other for living and they had their own self managing organizations in village there. 3) The villages which was made in Yunhaju by Koreans in the beginning were similar to traditional ones in Korea. 4) It was verified that dwellings which was built by Koreans in Yunhaju were similar to ones in north area in Korea. At that time lots of Korean Diaspora came from north part and they kept their own traditional way of building houses there for a long time. 5) Korean Diaspora have been kept traditional heating system ‘Ondol’ in their various types of houses until now in Yunhaju. Moreover, it is known that Russians prefer to set ‘Ondol’ in their houses recently as a very special and expensive heating system. This study would be a very good opportunity to standing out Korean history of housing in Yunhaju as well as evaluating their identification as Koreans. For this, it is needed to take more deep research in specific areas which could see more various types of housing and could compare ones between two countries.

자연공원 용도지구 설정을 위한 환경공간정보와 SOM(Self-Organizing map)을 활용한 지역 특성 도출 - 태안해안국립공원을 대상으로 - (Deduction of regional characteristics using environmental spatial information and SOM (Self-Organizing map) for natural park zoning - Focused on Taeanhaean National Park -)

  • 이성희;손용훈
    • 한국환경복원기술학회지
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    • 제26권3호
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    • pp.1-17
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    • 2023
  • Korea's natural parks are managed by dividing them into four use districts: nature preservation district, natural environment district, cultural heritage district, and park village district within the park under the goal of 'conservation and sustainable use of natural parks'. However, the use districts divided in this way are designated by reflecting the results derived from the simple drawing overlapping method, and there is a limit in that objective and scientific evidence for this is insufficient. In addition, in Taeanhaean National Park, the case of this study, only a very small area of less than 1% of the nature preservation district is designated, and the natural environment district that serves as a buffer space is designated on an excessively wide scale, making it difficult to efficiently manage the national park. Therefore, the use district is not fulfilling its role. In this study, the purpose of this study was to present a method for analyzing the spatial characteristics of natural parks using environmental indicators and unsupervised learning analysis methods to set the use districts of natural parks. In this study, evaluation indicators that can evaluate the natural and human environments were derived, and the distribution patterns for each indicator were analyzed. Afterwards, by applying Self-Organizing Map (SOM) analysis, one of the unsupervised learning analysis methods, districts with similar characteristics were derived in Taeanhaean National Park, and the characteristics of each district were analyzed. As a result of the study, 7 districts with different characteristics were derived in Taeanhaean National Park, and by examining the contribution of each indicator together, it was possible to reveal that each district had different representative characteristics even though it was an adjacent area. This study evaluated natural parks by comprehensively considering the indicators of the natural and human environments. In addition, the SOM method used in the study is meaningful in that it can provide scientific and objective grounds for the existing zoning and apply it to the management plan.

정보기술 수용 후 주관적 지각 형성: 사용 경험에서 형성된 습관, 기대일치, 자기효능감의 역할 (What happens after IT adoption?: Role of habits, confirmation, and computer self-efficacy formed by the experiences of use)

  • 김용영;오상조;안중호;장정주
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • 제18권1호
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    • pp.25-51
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    • 2008
  • Researchers have been continuously interested in the adoption of information technology (IT) since it is of great importance to the information systems success and it is also an important stage to the success. Adoption alone, however, does not ensure information systems success because it does not necessarily lead to achieving organizational or individual objectives. When an organization or an individual decide to adopt certain information technologies, they have objectives to accomplish by using those technologies. Adoption itself is not the ultimate goal. The period after adoption is when users continue to use IT and intended objectives can be accomplished. Therefore, continued IT use in the post-adoption period accounts more for the accomplishment of the objectives and thus information systems success. Previous studies also suggest that continued IT use in the post-adoption period is one of the important factors to improve long-term productivity. Despite the importance there are few empirical studies focusing on the user behavior of continued IT use in the post-adoption period. User behavior in the post-adoption period is different from that in the pre-adoption period. According to the technology acceptance model, which explains well about the IT adoption, users decide to adopt IT assessing the usefulness and the ease of use. After adoption, users are exposed to new experiences and they shape new beliefs different from the thoughts they had before. Users come to make decisions based on their experiences of IT use whether they will continue to use it or not. Most theories about the user behaviors in the pre-adoption period are limited in describing them after adoption since they do not consider user's experiences of using the adopted IT and the beliefs formed by those experiences. Therefore, in this study, we explore user's experiences and beliefs in the post-adoption period and examine how they affect user's intention to continue to use IT. Through deep literature reviews on the construction of subjective beliefs by experiences, we draw three meaningful constructs which theoretically have great impacts on the continued use of IT: perceived habit, confirmation, and computer self-efficacy. Then, we examine the role of the subjective beliefs on the cognitive/affective attitudes and intention to continue to use that IT. We set up a research model and conducted survey research. Since IT use implies interactions among a user, IT, and a task, we carefully selected the sample of users using same/similar IT to perform same/similar tasks, to exclude unwanted influences of other factors than subjective beliefs on the IT use. We also considered that the sample of users were able to make decisions to continue to use IT volitionally or at least quasi-volitionally. For each construct, we used measurement items recognized for reliability and widely used in the previous research. We slightly modified some items proper to the research context and a pilot test was carried out for forty users of a portal service in a university. We performed a full-scale survey after verifying the reliability of the measurement. The results show that the intention to continue to use IT is strongly influenced by cognitive/affective attitudes, perceived habits, and computer self-efficacy. Confirmation affects the intention to continue indirectly through cognitive/affective attitudes. All the constructs representing the subjective beliefs built by the experiences of IT use have direct and/or indirect impacts on the intention of users. The results also show that the attitudes in the post-adoption period are formed, at least partly, by the experiences of IT use and newly shaped beliefs after adoption. The findings suggest that subjective beliefs built by the experiences have deep impacts on the continued use. The results of the study signify that while experiencing IT in the post-adoption period users form new beliefs, attitudes, and intentions which may be different from those of the pre-adoption period. The results of this study partly demonstrate that the beliefs shaped by the behaviors, those are the experiences of IT use, influence users' attitudes and intention. The results also suggest that behaviors (experiences) also change attitudes while attitudes shape behaviors. If we combine the findings of this study with the results of the previous research on IT adoption, we can propose a cycle of IT adoption and use where behavior shapes attitude, the attitude forms new behavior, and that behavior shapes new attitude. Different from the previous research, the study focused on the user experience after IT adoption and empirically demonstrated the strong influence of the subjective beliefs formed in the post-adoption period on the continued use. This partly confirms the differences between attitudes in the pre-adoption and in the post-adoption period. Users continuously change their attitudes and intentions while experiencing (using) IT. Therefore, to make users adopt IT and to make them use IT after adoption is a different problem. To encourage users to use IT after adoption, experiential variables such as perceived habit, confirmation, and computer self-efficacy should be managed properly.

그래프 컷을 이용한 학습된 자기 조직화 맵의 자동 군집화 (Automatic Clustering on Trained Self-organizing Feature Maps via Graph Cuts)

  • 박안진;정기철
    • 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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    • 제35권9호
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    • pp.572-587
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    • 2008
  • SOFM(Self-organizing Feature Map)은 고차원의 데이타를 군집화(clustering)하거나 시각화(visualization)하기 위해 많이 사용되고 있는 비교사 학습 신경망(unsupervised neural network)의 한 종류이며, 컴퓨터비전이나 패턴인식 분야에서 다양하게 활용되고 있다. 최근 SOFM이 실제 응용분야에 다양하게 활용되고 좋은 결과를 보이고 있지만, 학습된 SOFM의 뉴론(neuron)을 다시 군집화해야 하는 후처리가 필요하며, 대부분의 경우 수동으로 이루어지고 있다. 후처리를 자동으로 하기 위해 k-means와 같은 기존의 군집화 알고리즘을 많이 이용하지만, 이 방법은 특히 다양한 모양의 클래스를 가진 고차원의 데이타에서 만족스럽지 못한 결과를 보인다. 다양한 모양의 클래스에서 좋은 성능을 보이기 위해, 본 논문에서는 그래프 컷(graph cut)을 이용하여 학습된 SOFM을 자동으로 군집화하는 방법을 제안한다. 그래프 컷을 이용할 때 터미널(terminal)이라는 두 개의 추가적인 정점(vertex)이 필요하며, 터미널과 각 정점 사이의 가중치는 대부분 사용자에 의해 입력받은 사전정보를 기반으로 설정된다. 제안된 방법은 SOFM의 거리 매트릭스(distance matrix)를 기반으로 한 모드 탐색(mode-seeking)과 모드의 군집화를 통하여 자동으로 사전정보를 설정하며, 학습된 SOFM의 군집화를 자동으로 수행한다. 실험에서 효율성을 검증하기 위해 제안된 방법을 텍스처 분할(texture segmentation)에 적용하였다. 실험 결과에서 제안된 방법은 기존의 군집화 알고리즘을 이용한 방법보다 높은 정확도를 보였으며, 이는 그래프기반의 군집화를 통해 다양한 모양의 클러스터를 처리할 수 있기 때문이다.

Oral Cancer Awareness and its Determinants among a Selected Malaysian Population

  • Ghani, Wan Maria Nabillah;Doss, Jennifer Geraldine;Jamaluddin, Marhazlinda;Kamaruzaman, Dinan;Zain, Rosnah Binti
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • 제14권3호
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    • pp.1957-1963
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    • 2013
  • Objective: To assess oral cancer awareness, its associated factors and related sources of information among a selected group of Malaysians. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted on all Malaysian ethnic groups aged ${\geq}15$ years old at eight strategically chosen shopping malls within a two week time period. Data were analysed using chi-square tests and multiple logistic regression. Significance level was set at ${\alpha}$ <0.05. Results: Most (84.2%) respondents had heard of oral cancer. Smoking was the most (92.4%) recognized high risk habit. Similar levels of awareness were seen for unhealed ulcers (57.3%) and red/white patches (58.0%) as signs of oral cancer. Age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, education, occupation and income were significantly associated with oral cancer awareness (p<0.05). Conclusions: There was a general lack of awareness regarding the risk habits, early signs and symptoms, and the benefits of detecting this disease at an early stage. Mass media and health campaigns were the main sources of information about oral cancer. In our Malaysian population, gender and age were significantly associated with the awareness of early signs and symptoms and prevention of oral cancer, respectively.

Altered Functional Disconnectivity in Internet Addicts with Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

  • Seok, Ji-Woo;Sohn, Jin-Hun
    • 대한인간공학회지
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    • 제33권5호
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    • pp.377-386
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    • 2014
  • Objective: In this study, we used resting-state fMRI data to map differences in functional connectivity between a comprehensive set of 8 distinct cortical and subcortical brain regions in healthy controls and Internet addicts. We also investigated the relationship between resting state connectivity strength and the level of psychopathology (ex. score of internet addiction scale and score of Barratt impulsiveness scale). Background: There is a lot of evidence of relationship between Internet addiction and impaired inhibitory control. Clinical evidence suggests that Internet addicts have a high level of impulsivity as measured by behavioral task of response inhibition and a self report questionnaire. Method: 15 Internet addicts and 15 demographically similar non-addicts participated in the current resting-state fMRI experiment. For the connectivity analysis, regions of interests (ROIs) were defined based on the previous studies of addictions. Functional connectivity assessment for each subject was obtained by correlating time-series across the ROIs, resulting in $8{\times}8$ matrixs for each subject. Within-group, functional connectivity patterns were observed by entering the z maps of the ROIs of each subject into second-level one sample t test. Two sample t test was also performed to examine between group differences. Results: Between group, the analysis revealed that the connectivity in between the orbito frontal cortex and inferior parietal cortex, between orbito frontal cortex and putamen, between the orbito frontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex, between the insula and anterior cingulate cortex, and between amydgala and insula was significantly stronger in control group than in the Internet addicts, while the connectivity in between the orbito frontal cortex and insula showed stronger negative correlation in the Internet addicts relative to control group (p < 0.001, uncorrected). No significant relationship between functional connectivity strength and current degree of Internet addiction and degree of impulsitivy was seen. Conclusion: This study found that Internet addicts had declined connectivity strength in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and other regions (e.g., ACC, IPC, and insula) during resting-state. It may reflect deficits in the OFC function to process information from different area in the corticostriatal reward network. Application: The results might help to develop theoretical modeling of Internet addiction for Internet addiction discrimination.

Effects of Auditory Cues on Gait Initiation in Patients With Parkinson's Disease: A Preliminary Study

  • Kim, Hyeong-Dong
    • 한국전문물리치료학회지
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    • 제14권4호
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    • pp.44-49
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of auditory cues in the form of a metronome on gait initiation (GI) in Parkinson's disease (PD). 2 patients (mean age: 54 yrs) with idiopathic PD participated in the study. All patients (Hoehn and Yahr disability score of 2.0) were tested in the "on" state approximately 1.5 hours following the administration and fully responding to their PD medications. Subjects first initiated walking at self-initiated speeds to determine their cadences. Then, subjects were asked to initiate gait along the walkway while keeping pace with a metronome. The metronome rate (in beats/min) was set at a cadence 85% (slow condition), 100% (normal condition) and 115% (fast condition) of gait for each subject. Subjects were able to increase the speed of GI with faster cadence, but the speed of GI for the slow condition was similar to that of the normal condition. Swing toe-off was 578.3 ms for the fast condition, 709.4 ms for the normal condition and 736.2 ms for the slow condition. Respective times for swing heel-strike were 894.3 ms, 1110.2 ms and 1119.1 ms, and stance toe-off were 1105.4 ms, 1338.5 ms, and 1343.1 ms. Except for stance unloading ground reaction forces were greatest for the fast condition and smallest for the slow condition. It appears that PD patients were able to modulate GRFs and temporal events in response to auditory cues to achieve the peak acceleration force of the swing and stance limb. The findings from this study provided preliminary data, which could be used to investigate how PD patients modulate GRFs and temporal events during GI in response to tasks.

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희귀난치성질환자에서 사회경제적 수준이 의료이용에 미치는 영향 (Effect of Socioeconomic Status on Healthcare Utilization in Patients with Rare and Incurable Diseases)

  • 임준;김명희;임정수;오대규
    • 보건행정학회지
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    • 제19권4호
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    • pp.66-77
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    • 2009
  • This study aims to examine the effect of socioeconomic status (hereafter, SES) on healthcare utilization of the patients with rare and incurable diseases. Information of 2,973 patients who were self-employed insured and utilized healthcare service in 2007 was drawn from the National Health Insurance (hereafter, NHI) claim data. SES was set as four groups based on the monthly contribution. Outcome variable was the expense for outpatient and in-hospital services, which was log-transformed and square-rooted in oder to obtain normal distribution. Covariates included age, gender, residence and diagnosis. To examine the effects after controlling for covariates, we employed generalized estimating equation model, since patients with the same diagnosis are likely to have similar characteristics of demographics and healthcare utilization. Univariate statistics showed that lower SES was associated with less utilization of healthcare services. After controlling for covariates, a significantly smaller amount of money was expended for the lowest SES group compared to the highest one. Rural residence was associated with less utilization, except that residents in Seoul significantly more utilized outpatient services in tertiary hospitals. Considering that there is a subsidy program for the low income patients, such differences in healthcare utilization according to SES seems to result from the burden of out-of-pocket payments for uncovered services of the NHI.

어린이그림책일러스트레이션의 표현형식에 대한 어린이의 선호 분석 (Analysis of Children's Preference about the Expression Form of Illustrations in Children's Picture Books)

  • 유동관
    • 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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    • 제11권10호
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    • pp.165-175
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    • 2011
  • 본 연구의 목적은 어린이그림책 일러스트레이션에서 나타나는 사실적 표현과 환상적 표현의 선호도 차이를 비교, 분석하는데 있다. 연구대상은 충청남도 천안에 위치한 유치원생 7세 어린이 52명(남 26명, 여26명)으로 하였으며, 2차에 걸쳐 실시한 선호도 조사는 어린이의 개별면접과 자기기입식 설문지를 통한 자료수집방식을 활용하였다. 설문에 활용한 연구도구는 국내에서 제작, 출판된 어린이그림책 중에서 어린이도서연구회의 추천도서와 국외 수상작 가운데 사실적 표현과 환상적 표현이 잘 나타난 어린이그림책을 활용하였다. 선호도비교에서는 남녀어린이 모두 사실적 표현에 비해 환상적 표현형식을 선호하는 것으로 나타났으며, 여자어린이의 경우 남자어린이보다 사실적 표현을 다소 선호하는 것으로 나타났다. 연구과정에서 지역별, 연령별 어린이들의 선호도 분석 및 동일한 주제나 이야기내용을 바탕으로 서로 다른 표현유형의 그림책을 보았을 때 나타나는 어린이의 반응을 분석하는 데는 한계점이 있었다.