• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.64 no.4
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• pp.453-463
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• 2021

This study investigated that comparison of the nutrients (including fatty acids, amino acids, and minerals) and ginsenoside, total phenolic (TP) and total flavonoid (TF) contents and antioxidant activities in 5-year-old cultivated ginseng (CG), mountain-cultivated ginseng (MCG), and whole plant parts of MCG (WPMCG). The contents of total fatty acids and unsaturated fatty acids were determined highest in MCG (1215.9 and 751.2 mg/100 g), and saturated fatty acid was determined highest in WPMCG (486.4 mg/100 g) respectively. Characteristically, the α-linolenic acid content was detected up to 10 times higher in MCG (139.3 mg/100 g) and WPMCG (194.4 mg/100 g) compared to CG (18.1 mg/100 g). Total free and essential amino acid contents were high with CG < MCG < WPMCG (1006.35 mg/100 g and 839.46 mg/100 g). Notably, γ-aminobutyric acid and arginine were detected as the main non-essential amino acids with highest levels detected in WPMCG (163.10 mg/100 g) and MCG (305.23 mg/100 g), respectively. Total mineral content was high in CG (30.36 mg/100 g) and WPMCG (29.82 mg/100 g). Particularly, Calcium (Ca) was detected more than twice as high in WPMCG (6.68 mg/100 g) as compared to CG and MCG. TP and TF contents were 5.12 gallic acid mg/g and 3.04 RE mg/g respectively. Ginsenoside content was the highest in WPMCG (42.44 mg/g) in general and the highest antioxidant activity was also observed in WPMCG.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.2 no.6
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• pp.937-946
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• 1995

We proposed and efficient block segmentation and classification method for the document analysis using SGLDM(spatial gray level dependence matrix) and BP (back Propagation) neural network. Seven texture features are extracted directly from the SGLDM of each gray-level block image, and by using the nonlinear classifier of neural network BP, we can classify document blocks into 9 categories. The proposed method classifies the equation block, the table block and the flow chart block, which are mostly composed of the characters, out of the blocks that are conventionally classified as non-character blocks. By applying Sobel operator on the gray-level document image beforebinarization, we can reduce the effect of the background noises, and by using the additional horizontal-vertical smoothing as well as the vertical-horizontal smoothing of images, we can obtain an effective block segmentation that does not lead to the segmentation into small pieces. The result of experiment shows that a document can be segmented and classified into the character blocks of large fonts, small fonts, the character recognigible candidates of tables, flow charts, equations, and the non-character blocks of photos, figures, and graphs.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.833-838
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• 2013

In this study, twelve strains of brewing fungi were individually cultivated on wheat extract broth (WEB), potato dextrose broth (PDB) and malt extract broth (MEB) in order to determine the microorganism with good culture characteristics as well as with amylolytic activity. The strain cultured in PDB exhibited mycelia production from 12.6 g/L (Rhizopus oryzae KACC 45714) to a maximum of 48.0 g/L (Aspergillus oryzae KACC 46959), which was 2.3~9.2 times lower than that of the strain cultured in WEB and 1.7~14.6 times lower than that of the strain cultured in MEB. Accorfing the results, We found that the commercial strains of A. oryzae Suwon, CF1001 and CF1003 had a higher dry cell mass than the wild-type strains KACC 46421, 46423, 46424 and 46959. For Rhizopus sp., the acidity levels in WEB, PDB and MEB were 0.12~0.47%, 0.22~1.0% and 0.16~0.68% (equivalent lactic acid concentration) respectively. For A. oryzae, the acidity levels were 0.06~0.11%, 0.03~0.04% and 0.06~0.08% (equivalent lactic acid concentration), respectively. Amylase enzyme from Rhizopus delemar KACC 46419 exhibited an enzyme activity of 0.013 U and 0.019 U in WEB and MEB cultures, respectively. The enzyme activity of the amylase enzyme from A. oryzae was 0.019~0.037, 0.017~0.033 and 0.028~0.046 U in WEB, PDB and MEB cultures, respectively.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.265-272
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• 2020

In the research of brain computer interface (BCI) technology, one of the big problems encountered is how to deal with some people as called the BCI-illiteracy group who could not control the BCI system. To approach this problem efficiently, we investigated a kind of spectral EEG characteristics in the prior resting state in association with BCI performance in the following BCI tasks. First, spectral powers of EEG signals in the resting state with both eyes-open and eyes-closed conditions were respectively extracted. Second, a convolution neural network (CNN) based binary classifier discriminated the binary motor imagery intention in the BCI task. Both the linear correlation and binary prediction methods confirmed that the spectral EEG characteristics in the prior resting state were highly related to the BCI performance in the following BCI task. Linear regression analysis demonstrated that the relative ratio of the 13 Hz below and above the spectral power in the resting state with only eyes-open, not eyes-closed condition, were significantly correlated with the quantified metrics of the BCI performance (r=0.544). A binary classifier based on the linear regression with L1 regularization method was able to discriminate the high-performance group and low-performance group in the following BCI task by using the spectral-based EEG features in the precedent resting state (AUC=0.817). These results strongly support that the spectral EEG characteristics in the frontal regions during the resting state with eyes-open condition should be used as a good predictor of the following BCI task performance.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.208-220
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• 2011

Korean traditional practice that gets a gravesite for burial and reckless grave establishment not only obstructs systematic national land management and reasonable urban development, but also causes a serious factor which has a harmful effect on natural environment and residential space in reality that our country is limited in area and national and social bases for use and establishment of graves are still inadequite. Though government and local governments have tried to cope with these problems by enacting legislation on funeral and others and so forth, they still have a variety of problems due to the shortage of grave management systems and information of accumulated individual graves. This study describes about the development of a GIS-based grave management system for making administrative management for individual cemeteries the prime object. As a result of application to a pilot area, the system developed in this study was able to be applied for supporting the time-limited burial system and managing cemeteries for those who left no relatives behind by constructing the database with grave-related position/attribute information which are collected by administrative system or direct survey. In addition, it is expected that this system will be utilized as a systematic management method that can be handed down the present or the future descendants under the tradition of the family-oriented funeral culture.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.42 no.5 s.335
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• pp.55-60
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• 2005

A V-band MIMIC quadruple subharmonic mixer is reported in this paper. The cascode harmonic generator is proposed for a high conversion gain. The proposed cascode harmonic generator is shown with a 4-th harmonic output characteristic that represents an average of 2.9 dB and a maximum of 4 dB higher than the conventional multiplier. The measured result of the subharmonic mixer has a conversion gain of 3_4 dB which a good conversion gain at a LO power of 13 dBm. Isolations of LO-to-IF and LO-to-RF were obtained -53.6 dB and -46.2 dB, respectively. The conversion gain of the subharmonic mixer in this study has a higher conversion gain compared with some other reports in millimeter-wave range.

• Childhood Kidney Diseases
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.20-25
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• 1998

Purpose : It has been reported that endothelin-1 can be associated with the development of cyclosporine A nephrotoxicity. Levels of endothelin-1 was assayed to determine the effect of cyclosporine A on the plasma and urine levels of this peptide. Method : Nine patients who were less than 15 years of age and were also diagnosed as steroid dependent minimal change nephrotic syndrome were included in this study. Assay of endothelin-1 was done before and 3 months after cyclosporine A treatment. The mean age of the patients was $8.3{\pm}4.6$ years. Result : There was no significant differences in the plasma levels of endothelin-1 before and after 3 months of cyclosporine A treatment ($3.22{\pm}0.39$ pg/mL vs. $3.84{\pm}1.52$ pg/mL, P=0.64). Also there was no changes in the urine levels of endothelin-1 ($21.8{\pm}5.8$ pg/mL vs. $20.3{\pm}3.1$ pg/mL, P=0.30). Conclusion : No significant changes of endothelin-1 levels were found with 3 months of cyclosporine A treatment. Further studies with longer durations will help clarifying the effect.

• Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.289-297
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• 1999

최근 생약 추출물의 항균, 항염효과에 관한 관심이 증대되고 있으며 이를 이용한 치주질환의 예방 및 억제효과에 관한 연구들이진행되고 있다. 이 연구의 목적은 시험관 실험을 통하여 이미 밝혀진 후박 및 대조추출물의 치주질환 원인 균에 대한 항균, 항염효과를 성견에서 인위적으로 치주질환을 일으킨 후 실험 약제의 경구투여를 통하여 질환의 진행에 미치는 영향을 알아보는 것이다. 실험동물은 생후 18개월된 비글견 6마리를 이용하였다. 상악은 제2,3 소구치 및 제4소구치에 하악은 제2, 3, 4 소구치 및 제1 대구치를 실험대상 치아로 하였으며 교정용 철사와 봉합사를 이용하여 치경부주위에 결찰하여 인위적 치주질환을 일으켰다. 염증 유발 8주 후에 결찰을 풀고 실험동물을 아무 것도 투여하지 않은 군(음성대조군, 3마리), 후박 및 대조 추출혼합물 투여군(실험군, 3마리)으로 나누었다. 실험 시작 (-8주), 약제 투여 시작(0주), 투여 후 2, 4, 6, 8주째에 치태지수, 치은지수, Florida Probe를 이용한 치주낭깊이 및 치은열구액 등의 임상지수를 측정하였다. 염증유발 8주동안에 치태지수, 치은지수, 치주낭깊이, 치은열구액은 급속히 증가하였다. 결찰은 제거하고, 약제를 투여한 이후 실험군에서 치은지수, 치주낭깊이, 치은열구액은 가장 높은 값을 나타내고 있었다. 실험군에서는 8주가 될때까지 임상지수 수치가 낮아지고 있었으며, 8주째에는 대부분의 지수에서 음성대조군과 유의성 있는 차이를 보이고 있었다. 양성대조군에서 비해서 실험군은 대부분의 경우에 임상지수가 나이지고 있었지만 6주 또는 8주째의 치은지수, 치주낭깊이 중 일부만을 제외하고는 유의성 있는 차이를 보이지는 않았다. 이 연구결과 후박 및 대조 추출혼합물이 in vitro뿐만 아니라 in vivo 상태에서도 치주염의 치료 및 골재생의 효과가 있음을 알 수 있었으며, 이와 같은 동물실험의 결과를 바탕으로 임상시험을 거쳐 향후 사람에게 유용한 치주염치료제로 개발, 사용될 수 있을 것으로 여겨진다.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.310-316
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• 2010

The objective of this study was to determine the optimum manufacturing conditions of whole egg powder with high foaming property sufficient for making sponge cakes. Whole eggs were either desugarized and/or adjusted pH before spray-dried at a temperature of $70^{\circ}C$. The physical properties of the cake were measured, and sensory evaluation was conducted on a 9-point scale. The pH and specific gravities of the foam and batter made from desugarized egg powder did not differ from those of the control, whereas batter made from commercial powder experienced significant loss of cake characteristics. The pH adjustment did not improve the foaming properties of the egg powders. The volume and textural properties of the cakes made from spray-dried egg did not differ from those of fresh egg. The taste and sensory characteristic scores for fresh egg, desugarized whole egg powder, and commercial powder were 5.00, 4.78, and 1.89, respectively. These results indicate that egg powders desugarized and spray-dried at $70^{\circ}C$ are sufficient for making sponge cakes with acceptable physical and sensory attributes.

• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.117-122
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of education and test information provision on anxiety, discomfort, and satisfaction of patients during double contrast barium enema. The experiments were conducted from October 11, 2010 to November 5, 2010. Among all patients who visited the hospital to receive colon study in the outpatient radiology clinic of one general hospital located in Seoul, a total of 50 patients fit for selection criteria were divided into an experimental group (25) and a control group (25). After providing education and test information to the experimental group, we evaluated patients' levels of anxiety and discomfort, as well as satisfaction. The experimental group and the control group had different anxiety scores: 3.76 versus 6.04 respectively (P<0.05). In addition, the levels of abdominal pain and anal pain in the experimental group were lower than those of the control group (P<0.05). Lastly, the scores of test satisfaction between two groups were 89.6 and 67.4 respectively (P<0.05). Education and test information provision about the colon study decreased the levels of patients' anxiety and discomfort and increased satisfaction level of the test.