• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• v.37 no.9
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• pp.794-800
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• 2004

Deer Antler has been known for its traditional oriental medicinal properties and has been widely used to promote growth, boost immune function, treat blood loss and chronic joint pain. Recent study showed imported (New Zealand) Deer Antler was beneficial in reducing the side effects of cancer treatments. However, there was no intervention study conducted on the effect of Korean Deer Antler on reducing the oxidative stress to patients with diabetes. One of the sensitive ways to measure endogenous oxidative stress is by measuring cellular DNA damage using single cell gel electrophoresis (COMET assay). This study was conducted to investigate the possible beneficial effect of commercial Deer Antler drink (provided by Chung-yang Deer Farm) on lymphocyte DNA damage and blood glucose of diabetic patients. Ten patients (4 men, 6 women) participated in the study and consumed 2 pouches of Deer Antler drink every day for 20 days. Blood was collected on the morning before and after the intervention for lymphocyte isolation and blood glucose analysis. Both systolic and diastolic blood pressure showed a tendency to decrease but did not reach statistical significance after the trial. Blood glucose level was not affected by the supplementation. After the intervention, over 50% reduction were noted in the cellular DNA damage, expressed as tail length (TL) and tail moment (TM: tail length ${\times}$ percent tail DNA) . Although we did not obtain beneficial effect on lowering blood glucose levels in the patients, this results suggest that Deer Antler may initially act in protecting endogenous DNA damage in short-term experiment.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.1171-1177
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• 2007

We consider estimation of the right-tail probability in a log-Laplace random variable, As we derive the density of ratio of two independent log-Laplace random variables, the k-th moment of the ratio is represented by a special mathematical function. and hence variance of the ratio can be represented by a psi-function.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1991.10a
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• pp.889-893
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• 1991

This paper describe the mathematical model of helicopter rotor, which is suitable for the calculation of trim condition to develop the stability and control. The mathematical model is a nonlinear, total force and moment model of a single main rotor helicopter. The effects of fuselage, tail rotor, horizontal tail, and vertical tail are included. The phase angle and stick displacement are obtained and compared at the trim condition.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.251-259
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• 2010

We proposed a tail function parameter extraction procedure for the establishment of a robust ion implantation database. We showed that, for the expression of ion implantation profiles, there are many local minimum values set for the third and fourth moment parameters of $\gamma$ and $\beta$ for the Pearson function that comprises the standard dual Pearson and tail functions. We proposed the use of a joined tail function as a mediate function to extract $\gamma$ and $\beta$, and demonstrated that this enables us to extract the parameters uniquely. Other parameters associated with channeling phenomena can also be simply and uniquely extracted by our procedure.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.32A no.3
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• pp.100-109
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• 1995

A new Hydrodynamic model for the high energy tail electrons(Tail Electron Hydrodynamic Model : TEHD) is developed using the moment method. The Monte Carlo method is applied to a $n^{+}-n^{-}-n^{+}$ device to calibrate the TEHD equations. the discretization method and numerical procedures are explained. New models for the impact ionization and injection into the gate oxide using the tail electron density are proposed. The simulated results of the impact ionization rate for a $n^{+}-n^{-}-n^{+}$ device and MOSFET devices, and the gate injection experiment are shown to give good agreement with the Monte Carlo simulation and the measurements.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.620-625
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• 2013

Mammals such as dogs and cheetahs change their gait from trot to gallop as they run faster. However, lizards always trot for various speeds of running. When mammals run slowly with trot gait, their fore leg and hind leg generate the required force for acceleration or deceleration such that the yaw moments created by these forces cancel each other. On the other hand, when lizards run slowly, their fore legs and hind legs generate the forces for deceleration and acceleration, respectively. In this paper, the yaw motion of a lizard model is controlled by the movement of their waist and tail, and the reaction moment from the ground produced by the hind legs in simulation. The simulation uses the whole body dynamics of a lizard model, which consists of 4 links based on the Callisaurus draconoides. The results show that the simulated trotting of the model is similar to that of a real lizard when the movement of the model is optimized to minimize the reaction moment from the ground. It means that the body of a lizard moves in such a way that the reaction moment from the ground is minimized. This demonstrates our hypothesis on how lizards trot using body motion.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.302-309
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• 2010

Aerial application using an unmanned agricultural helicopter would allow precise and timely spraying. The attitude of a helicopter depends on a number of dynamic variables for roll-balanced flight. Laterally tilting behavior of a helicopter is a physically intrinsic phenomenon while hovering and forwarding. In order to balance the fuselage, the rotor should be counter-tilted, resulting in the biased down-wash. The biased spraying toward right side causes uneven spray pattern. In this study, a raised tail rotor system for the roll-balanced helicopter was studied. Thrust of the tail rotor system was measured and theoretically estimated for the fundamental database of the roll-balanced helicopter design. The estimated tail thrust and roll-moment would be used to design the raising height of tail rotor and roll balancing dynamics. The unmanned agricultural helicopter required the tail rotor thrust of about 39.2 N (4.0 kgf) during hovering with a payload of 235.4 N (24 kgf). A raised tail rotor system would compensate for the physical tilt phenomena. A further attitude control system of helicopter would assist roll-balanced aerial spray application.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.838-844
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to investigate gender-specific changes of plasma MDA, SOD, and lymphocyte DNA damage during high intensity exercise. In this study, 17 healthy male and 18 healthy female college students ran on a treadmill at 85%$VO_{2max}$ until the point of all-out. Blood-collecting was carried out five times (Rest, Ex-Exha, R0.5h, R4h and R24h), and with the collected blood, plasma malondialdehyde (MDA), superoxide dismutase (SOD), and lymphocyte DNA damage were analyzed. Plasma MDA and SOD concentration increased significantly at the Ex-Exha (p<0.05), and there were no significant differences in gender. For the degree of lymphocyte DNA damage, all %DNA in the tail, tail length and tail moment increased significantly at the Ex-Exha (p<0.05), and %DNA in the tail and tail length were significantly higher in the male group than in the female group (p<0.05). These results suggest that acute high intensity exercise not only causes oxidative stress but also brings about lymphocyte DNA damage. In addition, it was found that males showed higher DNA damage than females in terms of oxidative stress subject to high intensity exercise. Nevertheless, further subsequent studies are required in order to better understand the mechanism behind DNA damage varying with gender, in a way that takes into consideration physical fitness, hormonal level, exercise intensity and duration - additional factors which might affect DNA damage.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.647-658
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• 2009

It is already known from the previous study that flood seems to have heavier tail. Therefore, to make prediction of future extreme label, some agreement of tail behavior of extreme data is highly required. The LH-moments estimation method, the generalized form of L-moments is an useful method of characterizing the upper part of the distribution. LH-moments are based on linear combination of higher order statistics. In this study, we have formulated LH-moments of five distributions useful in hydrology such as, two types of three parameter kappa distributions, beta-${\kappa}$ distribution, beta-p distribution and a generalized Gumbel distribution. Using LH-moments reduces the undue influences that small sample may have on the estimation of large return period events.

• Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.15 no.spc2
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• pp.53-56
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• 2000

We investigate the critical issue on how the BBF (bursty bulk flow) is related to the substorm current wedge formation. Observationally, after analysing data sets from Geotail spacecraft at near tail and many ground magnetic observatories for 9 months period of 1996, we find three BBF events that clearly occurred at the center of the wedge with region I type FAC (field-aligned current), and two other BBF events that were seen outside the wedge sector. Theoretically, we suggest that the substorm current wedge generation by BBF is most likely when the h' VB contribution is dominant in the well-known MHD $J_{II}$ expression (Vasyliunaus, 1984) or when the divergence of the cross-tail current carried by the particle's gradient/curvature drift is predominantly sufficient at the moment of the BBF arrival at near tail.