• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.301-310
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• 1998

Background: Cell mediated immune response mediated by interaction between CD4+ T lymphocytes and macrophagies is thought to play an important role in tuberculous pleurisy. This interaction is dependent on the interplay of various cytokines. The immunologic response of tuberculous pleurisy is thought to depend on the balance between helper T cell(Th1) cytokine Interleukin-12, Interferon gamma and Th2 cytokine IL-4, IL-10. To understand immunologic mechanism in tuberculous pleurisy and evaluate diagnostic value of these cytokines, the concentrations of Th1 cytokine IL-12, IFN -$\gamma$ and Th2 cytokine IL-10 were measured in tuberculous pleurisy and malignant pleural effusion group. Material and Methods: The concentrations of IL-10, IL-12 and IFN-$\gamma$ were measured by ELISA method in pleural fluids and serums of 20 patients with tuberculous pleurisy and 20 patients with malignant pleural effusion ADA activities were measured by spetrophotomery in pleural fluids of both groups. Results: In tuberculous pleurisy, the mean concentrations of IL-10, IL-12 and IFN-$\gamma$ of pleural fluids showed $121.3{\pm}83.7$ pg/mL, $571.4{\pm}472.7$ pg/mL and $420.4{\pm}285.9$ pg/mL. These were significantly higher than that of serum, $21.2{\pm}60.9$ pg/mL, 194.5 pg/mL, $30.1{\pm}18.3$ pg/mL respectively(p< 0.01). In malignant pleural effusion, the mean concentrations of IL-10, IL-12 and IFN-$\gamma$ of pleural fluids showed $88.4{\pm}40.4$ pg/mL, $306.5{\pm}271.1$ pg/mL and $30.5{\pm}54.8$ pg/mL respectively. Compared with that of serum ($43.4{\pm}67.2$ pg/mL, $206.8{\pm}160.6$ pg/mL, $14.6{\pm}3.3$ pg/mL), only IL-10 was significantly higher (p<0.001), but IL-12, IFN-$\gamma$ were not significant. In tuberculous pleural effusion compared with malignant pleural effusion, the concentration of IL-12, IFN-$\gamma$, ADA were significantly higher (p=value 0.046, <0.001, <0.001), but IL-10 was not significant. For differential diagnosis of tuberculous pleurisy from malignant pleural effusion, using cut-off value of IL-12, IFN-$\gamma$, ADA as 300 pg/mL. 100 pg/mL, 45 U/L, the sensitivity/specificity were 60%/70%, 90%/87.5%, 85%/90% respectively. Conclusion: In tuberculous pleurisy, IL-10, IL-12 and IFN-$\gamma$ were selectively concentrated highly in pleural space than serum. Compared with malignant pleural effusion, IL-12 and IFN-$\gamma$ were significantly higher, but IL-10 were not in tuberculous pleural effusion. The results suggest that Th1 pathway contributes to immune resistant mechanism in tuberculous pleurisy. IFN-$\gamma$ and ADA revealed useful methods of differential diagnosis in tuberculous pleurisy from malignant pleural effusion.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.53 no.6
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• pp.1261-1273
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• 2016

In this paper, we analyze the necessary and sufficient condition introduced in [5]: that a functional F in $L^2(C_{a,b}[0,T])$ has an integral transform ${\mathcal{F}}_{{\gamma},{\beta}}F$, also belonging to $L^2(C_{a,b}[0,T])$. We then establish the inverse integral transforms of the functionals in $L^2(C_{a,b}[0,T])$ and then examine various properties with respect to the inverse integral transforms via the translation theorem. Several possible outcomes are presented as remarks. Our approach is a new method to solve some difficulties with respect to the inverse integral transform.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.83-94
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• 2003

Let K be a nonempty closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space H. Approximation solvability of a system of nonlinear variational inequality (SNVI) problems, based on the convergence of projection methods, is given as follows: find elements $x^*,\;y^*{\in}H$ such that $g(x^*),\;g(y^*){\in}K$ and $$<\;{\rho}T(y^*)+g(x^*)-g(y^*),\;g(x)-g(x^*)\;{\geq}\;0\;{\forall}\;g(x){\in}K\;and\;for\;{\rho}>0$$ $$<\;{\eta}T(x^*)+g(y^*)-g(x^*),\;g(x)-g(y^*)\;{\geq}\;0\;{\forall}g(x){\in}K\;and\;for\;{\eta}>0,$$ where T: $H\;{\rightarrow}\;H$ is a relaxed $g-{\gamma}-r-cocoercive$ and $g-{\mu}-Lipschitz$ continuous nonlinear mapping on H and g: $H{\rightarrow}\;H$ is any mapping on H. In recent years general variational inequalities and their algorithmic have assumed a central role in the theory of variational methods. This two-step system for nonlinear variational inequalities offers a great promise and more new challenges to the existing theory of general variational inequalities in terms of applications to problems arising from other closely related fields, such as complementarity problems, control and optimizations, and mathematical programming.

• Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.216-220
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• 2008

In general the Banach space $L^1(T^1)$ doesn't admit convergence in norm. Thus the convergence in norm of the partial sums can not be characterized in terms of Fourier coefficients without additional assumptions about the sequence$\{^{\^}f(\xi)\}$. The problem of $L^1(T^1)$-convergence consists of finding the properties of Fourier coefficients such that the necessary and sufficient condition for (1.2) and (1.3). This paper showed that let $\{{\alpha}_{\kappa}\}{\in}BV$ and ${\xi}{\Delta}a_{\xi}=o(1),\;{\xi}{\rightarrow}{\infty}$. Then (1.1) is a Fourier series if and only if $\{{\alpha}_{\kappa}\}{\in}{\Gamma}$.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.429-438
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• 2014

This study was designed to investigate the effects on anti-oxidative activities and increasing extraction yield of Aralia elata Cortex by gamma irradiation. Electron spin resonance (ESR) analysis as physical techniques for irradiation identification of Aralia elata showed that a pair of peak appeared on a space of 6.0 mT at the left and right of symmetric unspecific central ESR spectrums, confirming that the plant was gamma-irradiated. The optimum extracting conditions for preparing gamma irradiated samples from Aralia elata Cortex were to extract with 50% ethanol for 15 hrs after 10 kGy irradiation. DPPH scavenging activity and ABTS radical cation inhibitory activity of the water and 50% ethanol extracts from non irradiated and irradiated Aralia elata Cortex was very high as over 80% and 98%, respectively, at tested low concentration of $50{\mu}g/mL$. Antioxidant protection factor (PF) as anti-oxidation indicator of lipophilic compounds showed a very high level of activity as 2.18~2.78 PF. As for TBARs, water and ethanol extracts showed high level. Increase of TBARs inhibitory activity of water extracts was not shown by gamma-ray irradiation but ethanol extracts showed slight increasement of TBARs inhibitory activity with 10 kGy gamma-ray irradiation. These results shown confirmed increasement of extraction yield for phenolic compounds and anti-oxidative activity from Aralia elata. Thus, the treatment of gamma-irradiation can be used a way to amplify a solubility for biological active compounds and anti-oxidative activity in plants.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.27 no.1_2
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• pp.97-103
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• 2009

Suppose F is a field of characteristic not 2 and $F\;{\neq}\;Z_3$. Let $M_n(F)$ be the linear space of all $n{\times}n$ matrices over F, and let ${\Gamma}_n(F)$ be the subset of $M_n(F)$ consisting of all $n{\times}n$ involutory matrices. We denote by ${\Phi}_n(F)$ the set of all maps from $M_n(F)$ to itself satisfying A - ${\lambda}B{\in}{\Gamma}_n(F)$ if and only if ${\phi}(A)$ - ${\lambda}{\phi}(B){\in}{\Gamma}_n(F)$ for every A, $B{\in}M_n(F)$ and ${\lambda}{\in}F$. It was showed that ${\phi}{\in}{\Phi}_n(F)$ if and only if there exist an invertible matrix $P{\in}M_n(F)$ and an involutory element ${\varepsilon}$ such that either ${\phi}(A)={\varepsilon}PAP^{-1}$ for every $A{\in}M_n(F)$ or ${\phi}(A)={\varepsilon}PA^{T}P^{-1}$ for every $A{\in}M_n(F)$. As an application, the maps preserving inverses of matrces also are characterized.

• Korean Journal of Crystallography
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.93-98
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• 2004

The structure of C_{28}H_{41}N_4O_4Br\;{\cdot}\;2H_2O$ has been determined by X-ray deffraction methods. The crystal system is triclinic, space group Pl, unit cell constants, a=9.000(1) $\AA$, b=9.312(3) $\AA$, c=9.344(2) $\AA$, $\alpha=89.37(20)^{\circ},\;\beta=68.81(3)^{\circ},\;\gamma=84.70(4)^{\circ},\;V=726.7(8){\AA},\;T=298K,\;Z=1,\;D_c=1.402Mgm^{-3}$. The intensity data were collected on an Enraf-Nonius CAD4 Diffractometer with graphite monochromated $MoK\alpha$ radiation $(\lambda=0.71073\;{\AA}$. The molecular structure was solved by direct methods and refined by full-matrix least squares to a final $R=5.95\%$ for 2521 unique observed $F_0>4\sigma(F_0)$reflections and 370 parameters.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.66.4-66.4
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• 2019

NGC 6822 is a dwarf irregular galaxy whose metal abundance is lower than of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Hubble V is the brightest HII complex where molecular clouds surround the core cluster of OB stars. Because of its proximity (d = 500 kpc), we can resolve the star-forming regions on parsec scales (1 arcsec = 2.4 pc). Using the high-resolution (R = 45,000) near-infrared spectrograph, IGRINS, we observed molecular hydrogen emission lines from photo-dissociation regions (PDRs) and $Br{\gamma}$ emission line from ionized regions. In this presentation, we compare our data PDR models in order to derive the density distribution of the molecular clouds on parsec scales and to estimate the total mass of the clouds.

• Korean Journal of Crystallography
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.99-103
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• 2004

The structure of $C_{16}H_{19}O_2N_3CuCl_2\;{\cdot}\;H_2O$ has been determined by X-ray diffraction methods. The crystal system is triclinic, space group Pl, unit cell constants. $a=7.6202(9)\; \AA,\; b=8.5943(7) \AA,\; c= 8.6272(6) \AA,\; \alpha= 67.518(6)^{\circ}.\; \beta= 68.043(8)^{\circ},\; \gamma=74.370(8)^{\circ},\; V=478.89(8)\; \AA^3,\; T=295K,\; Z=1,\; D_c=1.504Mgm^{-3}$The intensity data were collected on an Enraf-Nonius CAD-4 Diffractometer with graphite monochromated $MoK\alpha$ radiation $(\alpha=0.7107\;\AA)$. The molecular structure was solved by direct method.』 and refined by full-matrix least squares to a final $R=2.47\%$ for 1659 unique observed $F_0>4\sigma(F_0)$ reflections and 234 parameters.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.43.3-43.3
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• 2017

NGC 6822 is a dwarf irregular galaxy in the Local Group and it is located in 500 kpc, further than the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud. Therefore, we can study star-forming processes by local condition in NGC 6822 instead of tidal force of the Galactic gravitational field. Hubble V is the brightest of several H II complexes in this galaxy. We observed Hubble V by using IGRINS attached on the 2.7 m telescope at the McDonald Observatory in Texas, US in May 2016. We performed a spectral mapping of $15^{{\prime}{\prime}}{\times} 7^{{\prime}{\prime}}$area on H and K bands, and detected emission lines of bright $Br{\gamma}\;{\lambda}2.1661{\mu}m$ and weak He I ${\lambda}2.0587{\mu}m$. Molecular hydrogen lines of 1-0S(1) ${\lambda}2.1218{\mu}m$, 2-1 S(1) ${\lambda}2.2477{\mu}m$, and 1-0 S(0) ${\lambda}2.2227{\mu}m$ was also detected. These emission lines show the structure of an ionized core and excited surface of clouds by far-ultraviolet photons, photodissociation region (PDR). We present three-dimensional maps of emission line distributions through multi slit scanning data and compare these results with the previous study. This presentation shows the physical structure of the star-forming regions and we discuss a PDR model and an evolution of Hubble V complex.