• Development and Reproduction
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.281-286
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• 2010

Recent evidence has revealed that the intratesticular injection of hypertonic saline(20%) resulted in a chemically castrated state such as nadir testosterone levels in rats. To confirm the efficacy of this simple saline-injection method further, we investigated the changes in the gross and microscopic anatomy of testis. Our study comprised three groups; intact(control) group, orchidectomy group and saline-injection (experimental) group. Single dose of hypertonic saline (sterilized, $750{\mu}{\ell}/testis$) were directly administered into both testis of adult rats (about 300 g BW). Bilateral orchidectomy was performed at the same day of saline injection. Following 30 days post-injection, reproductive tissues were surgically removed, weighed and fixed for histological examination. The body weights were not changed in both orchidectomy group and saline-injection group when compared to those in intact group. The wet weights of testis were significantly decreased in saline-injection group when compared to those in intact group. The wet weights of epididymis and seminal vesicle and prostate were significantly decreased in orchidectomy group and saline-injection group when compared to those in intact group. Macroscopically, the testes exerted slight atrophy and the tunica albuginea seemed to be intact in saline injection group. Histologically, however, larger parts of testicular tissue underwent necrosis and were barely recognizable after hematoxylin-eosin staining. In the same section, only the opposite part of the injection site was stained showing abnormal state of cell layers mostly fibrosis and infiltrated leukocytes. Sloughing of immature germ cells from the basement membrane along with shedding cells in the intraluminal space was notable in most seminiferous tubules from the saline injected testis. The present study confirmed that the direct injection of hypertonic saline into testis can induce a castration-like, testosterone-depriving effects on accessory sex organs. Our findings suggest that the efficacy of this less expensive and minimally invasive method seems to be almost even with that of conventional orchidectomy and chemical castration, though more in-depth evaluation should be supported.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.722-729
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• 1997

The study was undertaken to extend the shelf life of filleted and salted fishes such as mackerel and jacopever. These filleted and salted fishes were dehydrated by dewatering sheet containing sodium polyacrylate resin at $5{\pm}1^{\circ}C$, wrapped with low density polyethylene film, and then stored at $-18{\pm}2^{\circ}C$. During the frozen storage, the change of brown pigment formation, peroxide value, carbonyl value, drip formation content in the cold-osmotic dehydrated fishes after salt dipping were much lower than those of non-dehydrated ones. Moreover, the proteins and Ca-ATPase in the cold-osmotic dehydrated fishes after salt dipping were more stable than those of non-dehydrated ones during frozen storage. It was supposed that the cold-osmotic dehydration pretreatment processing for filleted and salted fishes was useful in improvement of the frozen storage stability.

• Journal of Korea Foresty Energy
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2001

In this study, it was examined the effect of carbonized wastewoods on soil improvement and effect of charcoal size on tree seedling growth Thuja accidentalis seedlings grow better in the charcoal-treated soil than in the non-treated soil. Especially Pinus koraiensis charcoal with good adsorption. brought the best growth result. The charcoal treatment also improved the height growth of transplanted Aesuculus turbinate seedling However charcoal sizes(i.e. powder and particle) did not affect the growth of the seedling. Also apple trees which had been suffering from rotten roots caused by root rot was recovered by application particle-sized charcoal.

• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.54-63
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• 2007

To examine the effects of amendments on heavy mineral oil degradation, a pilot scale experiment was conducted for over 105days. During the experiment, soil samples were collected and analyzed periodically for the determination of residual hydrocarbon and microbial activities. At the end of the experiment, the initial level of contamination ($6,205{\pm}173mgkg^{-1}$) was reduced by $33{\sim}45%$ in the amendment amended soil; whereas only 8% of the hydrocarbon was eliminated in the non-amended soil. Heavy mineral oil degradation was much faster and more complete in compost amended soils. Enhanced dissipation of heavy mineral oil in compost amended soil might be derived from increased microbial activities (respiration, microbial biomass-C) and soil enzyme activity(lipase, dehydrogenase, and FDA hydrolase) were strongly correlated with heavy mineral oil biodegradaton (P < 0.01).

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.87-94
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• 1996

In order to design an extended relational database management system supporting multilevel security, the standard relational data model is extended and new relational integrity constrains are proposed for the model. The extended relational model and proposed multilevel integrity constraniants maintain database in consistent state and produce a basis that can eliminat eambiguity of entity and relation ship representations bypoly instantiation. The proposed up dates emantics canincreases the efficiency of up date operations by supporting multilevel entry and up dates. The semantics also provides a basis for the implementation of decomposition of extended relations.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• 제2권5호
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• pp.634-644
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• 1995

In this paper, we propose a mechanism to transform more effective and semantically equivalent queries by using appropriately represented three kinds of knowledge. Also we proposed a mechanism which transforms partially omitted components or expressions into complete queries so that users can use more simple queries. The knowledges used to transform and optimize are semantic, structural and domain knowledge. Semantic knowledge includes semantic integrity constraints and domain integrity constraints. Structural knowledge represents physical relationship between relations. And domain knowledge maintains the domain information of attributes. The proposed system optimizes to more effective queries by eliminating/adding/replacing unnecessary or redundant restrictions/joins.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 한국방송∙미디어공학회 2022년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.67-70
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• 2022

최근 딥러닝 방법의 발전하면서 영상처리 및 컴퓨터 비전의 다양한 분야에서 딥러닝 기반의 알고리즘들이 그 이전의 방법들에 비하여 큰 성능 향상을 보이고 있다. 손실 영상 압축의 경우 최근 encoder-decoder 형태의 네트웍이 영상 압축에서 사용되는 transform을 대체하고 있고, transform 결과들의 엔트로피 코딩을 위한 추가적인 encoder-decoder 네트웍을 사용하여 HEVC 수준에 버금가는 성능을 내고 있다. 무손실 압축의 경우에도 매 픽셀 예측을 CNN으로 수행하는 경우, 기존의 예측방법들에 비하여 예측성능이 크게 향상되어 JPEG-2000 Lossless, FLIF, JEPG-XL 등의 딥러닝을 사용하지 않는 방법들에 비하여 우수한 성능을 내는 것으로 보고되고 있다. 그러나 모든 픽셀에 대하여 예측값을 CNN을 통하여 계산하는 방법은, 영상의 픽셀 수 만큼 CNN을 수행해야 하므로 HD 크기 영상에 대하여 지금까지 알려진 가장 빠른 방법이 한 시간 이상 소요되는 등 비현실적인 것으로 알려져 있다. 따라서 최근에는 성능은 이보다 떨어지지만 속도를 현실적으로 줄인 방법들이 제안되고 있다. 이러한 방법들은 초기에는 FLIF나 JPEG-XL에 비하여 성능이 떨어져서, GPU를 사용하면서도 기존의 방법보다 좋지 않은 성능을 보인다는 면에서 여전히 비현실적이었다. 최근에는 신호의 특성을 더 잘 활용하는 방법들이 제안되면서 매 픽셀마다 CNN을 수행하는 방법보다는 성능이 떨어지지만, 짧은 시간 내에 FLIF나 JPEG-XL보다는 좋은 성능을 내는 현실적인 방법들이 제안되었다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 최근의 몇 가지 방법들을 살펴보고 이들보다 성능을 더 좋게 할 수 있는 보조적인 방법들과 raw image에 대한 성능을 평가한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 한국정보처리학회 2020년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.242-245
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• 2020

최근 IT 기술의 발전에 따라 블록체인 기술과 융합하려는 다양한 시도를 보인다. 비트코인(Bitcoin)의 탄생으로 알려지게 된 블록체인은 P2P (Peer-to-Peer) 네트워크에서 데이터의 무결성 조건을 만족할 수 있게 되면서 보안 기술에 대해 많은 연구가 진행 중이다. 데이터의 무결성을 증명하기 위해 합의 알고리즘을 사용하는데 합의 알고리즘의 처리속도 및 저장 공간 문제 등으로 인해 다른 분야로 확장에 어려움을 겪고 있다. 따라서 블록체인을 구성하는 환경이나 목표에 따라서 적절한 합의 알고리즘을 선택하는 것이 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 확장성 문제를 해결할 수 있는 Bitcoin-NG 합의 알고리즘을 비롯하여 다양한 합의 알고리즘의 원리와 장단점을 소개한다. 블록의 합의에 참여하는 범위, 리더를 선정하는 방법 등의 기준으로 Bitcoin-NG 알고리즘이 확장성 문제에 긍정적인 합의 알고리즘으로서 갖춘 특징을 살펴 보고 앞으로 합의 알고리즘의 발전 방향에 대해 고찰한다.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.132-138
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• 1998

This study was conducted to evaluate the storage stability of danmooji(salted radish) treated with high hydrostatic pressure $(300{\sim}686\;MPa)\;and\;heat\;(55^{\circ}C)$. Danmooji pressurized at 500 MPa and 686 MPa for 5 min showed $4{\sim}6log-cycle$ reductions in total microorganism, while danmooji heated at $55^{\circ}C\;for\;2\;hr\;showed\;3{\sim}5log-cycle$ reductions. However, danmooji pressurized at 300 MPa for 5 min showed a 2 log-cycle reduction, indicating that pressurization at lower than 300 MPa is insufficient for sterilization. After pressurized at 300 MPa, 500 MPa and 686 MPa for 5 min, pectinesterase (PE) activity of danmooji was increased by approximately 35%, 76% and 64%, respectively; and polygalacturonase (PG) activity of danmooji was increased by 109%. 163% and 120%, respectively. After heated at $55^{\circ}C$ for 2 hr, PE and PG activities of danmooji were increased by 18% and 200%, respectively. This indicates that PE in danmooji was more activated bypressure than heat, while PG was mostly activated by heat. Pressurized and heat-treated danmooji had higher hardness than control and maintained its hardness during storage at $30^{\circ}C$.

• Food Science and Preservation
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.757-765
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• 2014

Campbell Early grapes were spontaneously fermented with and without sulfiting to investigate the effect of sulfiting on the fermentation characteristics and physicochemical properties of Campbell Early wine. During the fermentation, the increase in the alcohol and the decrease in the soluble solid contents were faster without sulfiting, as was the increase in the yeast viable counts compared to those with sulfiting. However, the final alcohol and soluble solid contents reached similar levels with and without sulfiting. The PCR-RFLP analysis of the yeast in the ITS I-5.8S-ITS II region revealed that the increase in the S. cerevisiae was faster in the initial fermentation stage and reached a slightly higher level in the late stage with sulfiting than without sulfiting. The wine prepared after the fermentation with sulfiting showed higher malic and tartaric acid contents, as well as methanol, acetaldehyde, and n-propanol contents, than the wine prepared without sulfiting. The ethyl acetate content of the wine without sulfiting was 375.5 mg/L, which was 5.3 times higher than that (70.5 mg/L) with sulfiting. In the sensory evaluation, the wine without sulfiting obtained higher scores in flavor and overall preference than that with sulfiting.