• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.99 no.4
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• pp.501-507
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• 2010

Formaldehyde responsive protein(FRP) 1 belongs to the family of universal stress protein(USP) and is known to respond to stress caused by fumigation of gaseous volatile organic compounds(VOCs) such as formaldehyde and toluene. However, the molecular function of this protein is not well understood at cellular and molecular level. In this study, loss of function mutant of FRP1 generated by T-DNA insertion(frp1-4) has been isolated from Arabidopsis thaliana and the function of FRP1 was characterized. The loss-of-function mutant of FRP1 appeared slight growth defects with shorter stem and rosette leaves compared to wild type. In addition, the damage caused by exogenous VOCs was more severe in frp1-4 than in control. Therefore, Arabidopsis FRP1 seems to be the protein involved not only in the growth and development of plant but also the stress resistance against toxic volatile organic compounds.

• Journal of the Korean Arthroscopy Society
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.79-87
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• 2010

고관절경을 시행하는 집도의사는 관절경을 통해 관찰되는 정상 고관절의 해부학적 구조물에 대한 정확한 지식과 삽입구 위치에 대한 숙지를 통해 환자의 증상과 비정상 관절경 소견을 임상적으로 연관 시키는 것이 중요하며, 적절한 환자의 선택과 고관절경의 술기에 대한 항상성을 유지할 수 있어야 최소 침습적인 술기의 장점을 가지고 있는 고관절경의 만족할 만한 치료 결과를 기대할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the KSLP Conference
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• 1996.11a
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• pp.83-83
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• 1996

성대구는 성대점막 고유층의 일부 결손 또는 위축성 함입으로 유리연이 내함되어 성대궁형(bowing cord)이 형성되기 때문에 발성시 정상점막 파동이 소실되고 성문폐쇄부전을 보이며 그 결과 애성을 초래하게 된다. 이러한 성대의 내함을 교정하기 위하여 구절제술, 성대 상하순(upper and lower lip) 점막의 위치조절 둥이 시행되고 있으나 성대궁형이 교정되지 않아 음성개선에 실패하는 경우가 많다. 저자들은 구절제술 후 성대궁형을 교정할 목적으로 연골막을 포함한 연조직을 성대근 내측으로 삽입하여 음성을 개선하는데 도움을 얻고자 하였다. 이러한 방법으로 음성수술을 시행한 5례의 경험과 그 효과 및 문제점을 문헌고찰과 더불어 보고하고자 한다.

• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.73-77
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• 2004

Phalcus joreangensis sp. nov.(Pholcidae) is described with illustrations. This species is very similar to Pholcus clavimaculatus Zhu and Song, 1999 in shape of uncus and embolus of male palpal organ. But it is distinguished from the latter by size of uncus, length of embolus, shape of procursus and trochanter spur, and lengths of 3rd and 4th leg.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.268-270
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• 2003

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• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.98-101
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• 2003

폴리머 수용액인 점탄성 유체속에서 물체를 떨어뜨리면 시간 간격에 따라 종말속도가 다르게 측정된다. 이는 폴리머 수용액이 점성과 탄성을 포함하고 있는 것으로 수용액 내부에서 처음 통과한 물체를 기억하는 기억유체(memory fluid)라고 정의 할 수도 있다. 낙하에 사용된 물체는 속이 빈 알루미늄 구를 사용하였으며 구 내부에 일정량의 철분을 삽입하여 밀도를 변화시켰다. 이 결과 구를 떨어뜨리는 시간 간격이 작을수록 종말속도 값은 크게 나타나며 시간 간격이 충분히 크면 처음 구를 떨어뜨릴 때의 종말속도와 같게 된다. 또한, 농도가 증가할수록 처음 구를 떨어뜨려 측정된 종말속도는 서서히 감소하다가 측정시간간격의 85％를 통과하며 다시 처음의 속도에 도달하게 된다. 구의 종말속도는 점탄성 유체의 농도가 각각 500wppm, 1000wppm, 2000wppm의 경우 처음 구를 떨어뜨린 후에 구의 밀도와 온도변화에 따라 최고속도에 도달하는 시간도 증가하였으며, 시간이 경과할수록 감소하여 일정시간이 경과한 후에는 처음의 상태로 복귀되는 것을 알 수 있다.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.305-322
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• 2005

Watermarking is a widely employed method tn protecting copyright of a digital image, the owner's unique image is embedded into the original image. Strengthened level of watermark insertion would help enhance its resilience in the process of extraction even from various distortions of transformation on the image size or resolution. However, its level, at the same time, should be moderated enough not to reach human visibility. Finding a balance between these two is crucial in watermarking. For the algorithm for watermarking, the predefined strength of a watermark, computed from the physical difference between the original and embedded images, is applied to all images uniformal. The mean brightness or contrast of the surrounding images, other than the absolute brightness of an object, could affect human sensitivity for object detection. In the present study, we examined whether the detectability for watermark noise might be attired by image statistics: mean brightness and contrast of the image. As the first step to examine their effect, we made rune fundamental images with varied brightness and control of the original image. For each fundamental image, detectability for watermark noise was measured. The results showed that the strength ot watermark node for detection increased as tile brightness and contrast of the fundamental image were increased. We have fitted the data to a regression line which can be used to estimate the strength of watermark of a given image with a certain brightness and contrast. Although we need to take other required factors into consideration in directly applying this formula to actual watermarking algorithm, an adaptive watermarking algorithm could be built on this formula with image statistics, such as brightness and contrast.

• The korean journal of orthodontics
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.133-143
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• 2008

Objective: This study was performed to identify the characteristics of the MSX1 gene (locus chromosome 4p16) in Korean nonsyndromic cleft lip and palate (CL/P), which is assumed to be a major candidate gene acting as a causal factor in nonsyndromic CL/P and missing teeth. Methods: The 36 individuals (23 males and 13 females) who had visited the department of orthodontics at from 1998 to 2002 and who had nonsyndromic CL/P were included in the study. Using a PCR-based assay, the MSX1 gene was amplified, sequenced, and searched for inferred protein products (Reference: Homo sapiens MSX1, accession number AF426432 and NP_002439). The common single nucleotide polymorph isms were observed. Results: In exon 1, nucleotide "A" of the 253 basepair (bp) region was substituted for "G", and in the 255 bp region, nucleotide "G" was inserted. In exon 2, nucleotide "C" of the 11 bp region was substituted for "A", and "T" or "G" was inserted into the 351 bp region whereas "T" or "A" was inserted into the 352 bp region. In protein analysis, "Thr85Ala" missense mutation was found. The "Thr85Ala" missense mutation in this study is different from those of studies using subjects of other races. Conclusions: The results suggest that there is specific mutation of MSX1 in Korean and it plays an important role in Korean nonsyndromic CL/P. However, any distinct genetic polymorphisms between CL/P with missing teeth in the cleft region and CL/P without missing teeth could not be found.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.24-32
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• 1997

This study aims to describe, at one aspect, the relativity between syntactic structure and prosodic phrasing, and at the other, to establish a suitable phrasing pattern to produce more natural synthetic speech. To get meaningful results, all the word boundaries in the prosodic database were statistically analyzed, and assigned by the proper boundary type. The resulting 10 types of prosodic boundaries were classified into 3 types according to the strength of the breaks, which are zero, minor, and major break respectively. We have found out that the durational information was a main cue to determine the major prosodic boundary. Using the bigram and trigram of syntactic information, we predicted major and minor classification of boundary types. With brigram model, we obtained the correct major break prediction rates of 4.60%, 38.2%, the insertion error rates of 22.8%, 8.4% on each Test-I and Test-II text database respectively. With trigram mode, we also obtained the correct major break prediction rates of 58.3%, 42.8%, the insertion error rates of 30.8%, 42.8%, the insertion error rates of 30.8%, 11.8% on Test-I and Test-II text database respectively.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.11C
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• pp.1118-1122
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a new invisible digital watermarking scheme based on wavelet transform using singular value decomposition. Embedding process is started by decomposing the lowest frequency band image with 3${\times}$3 block among which we define the watermark block chosen by a key set; entropy and condition number of the block. A watermark is embedded in the singular values of each watermark blocks. This provides a robust watermarking in lowest possible time-frequency domain. To detect the watermark, we are locally modeling an attack as 3${\times}$3 matrices on the watermark blocks. Combining with the SVD and the attack matrices, we estimate watermark set corresponding to the watermark blocks. In each watermark block, we determine an optimal watermark which is justified by the T-testing. A numerical experiment shows that the proposed watermarking scheme efficiently detects the watermarks from several JPEG attacks.