• Journal of Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.202-208
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• 2022

This study investigated the influence of sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO₃) and progesterone on acrosome reaction and proportion of polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) composition boar sperm. The sperm were diluted with semen extender and incubated with NaHCO₃ and progesterone at 38℃, 5% CO₂ for 6 h. Plasma membrane integrity and acrosome reaction were analyzed using SYBR14/propidium iodide (PI) and FITC-PNA/PI doubling staining method, and proportion of PUFA was analyzed using gas chromatography. In results, Plasma membrane integrity was significantly decreased in 50 mM NaHCO₃ group and acrosome reaction was significantly increased by over the 100 mM NaHCO₃ group compared to control group (p < 0.05). In addition, progesterone significantly increased decreased plasma membrane integrity at 100 mM progesterone and acrosome reaction at over the 5.0 µM progesterone (p < 0.05), but there was no difference among the 5.0 to 100 µM groups. PUFAs were significantly decreased in 100 mM NaHCO₃ and 50 µM progesterone treatments compared to control group. In summary NaHCO₃ and progesterone induce acrosome reaction and reduce PUFA composition in boar sperm, therefore, the results maybe help to understand basically knowledge for the acrosome reaction and PUFA composition in boar sperm.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.61-68
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• 2020

Recent studies have suggested that detectable ionospheric disturbances precede earthquakes. In the present study, variations in the vertical total electron content (TEC) for eight earthquakes with magnitudes of M ≥ 5.5 in the western United States were investigated during the solar maximum of 2013-2015 using United States total electron content (US-TEC) data provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Analyses of 12 earthquakes with magnitudes of 5.0 ≤ M < 5.5 in the same region were also performed. The TEC variations were examined for 40 days, including the times when the earthquakes occurred. The results indicated a correlation between earthquakes with magnitudes of M ≥ 5.0 and ionospheric TEC anomalies. TEC anomalies occurred before 60% of the earthquakes. Additionally, they were more frequently observed for large earthquakes (75%, M ≥ 5.5) than for small earthquakes (50%, 5.5 > M ≥ 5.0). Anomalous increases in the TEC occurred 2-18 days before the earthquakes as an ionospheric precursor, whereas solar and geomagnetic activities were low or moderate.

• BMB Reports
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.753-756
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• 2004

Membranes prepared from Bacillus cereus KCTC 3674, grown aerobically on a complex medium, oxidized NADH exclusively, whereas deamino-NADH was little oxidized. The respiratory chain-linked NADH oxidase exhibited an apparent $K_m$ value of approximately $65\;{\mu}m$ for NADH. The maximum activity of the NADH oxidase was obtained at about pH 8.5 in the presence of 0.1 M KCl (or NaCl). Respiratory chain inhibitor 2-heptyl-4-hydroxyquinoline-N-oxide (HQNO) inhibited the activity of the NADH oxidase by about 90% at a concentration of $40\;{\mu}m$. Interestingly, rotenone and capsaicin inhibited the activity of the NADH oxidase by about 60% at a concentration of $40\;{\mu}m$ and the activity was also highly sensitive to $Ag^+$.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.78.2-78.2
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• 2012

Orion A 분자운은 별탄생이 활발하게 일어나는 영역이면서 태양계에 비교적 가깝다. 그렇기 때문에 낮은 분해능으로도 자세한 관측이 가능하다. Orion A 분자운까지의 거리가 450 pc 이므로 대덕전파안테나 1' beam으로 0.13 pc 가 된다. 이곳에는 필라멘트 구조가 있는데 FCRAO를 통한 다파장관측을 통해서 필라멘트 구조가 확인되었다.(Melnick et al. 2011). 필라멘트는 길이 4.8 pc, 너비 1.5 pc 로 대덕전파망원경의 1' beam으로 자세한 관측이 가능하였다. 2010년 11월-2011년 5월까지 Orion A 분자운을 대덕전파망원경을 이용하여 $^{12}CO$, $^{13}CO$(J=1-0) 분자선 관측을 하였으며, 관측영역은 적경: 5h 32m - 5h 37m, 적위: $-5^{\circ}$ 14' - $-5^{\circ}$ 37'으로 ($1^{\circ}{\times}1^{\circ}$) 영역을 관측하였다. 그 결과 필라멘트구조를 확인할 수 있었으며 일자 형태로 분포되어 있다는 구조적 결과 얻었다. 관측된 필라멘트 덩어리의 전형적인 크기는 약 0.7 pc, 밀도는 약 $10^4cm^{-3}$, 질량은 약 500 $M_{\odot}$이다. 매우 밀한 곳은 1000 M${\bigodot}$이상의 질량분포도 나타내고 있다. 이것은 이 지역이 일반적인 분자운과 비교했을 때 고밀도 영역임을 나타내고 있다. 더욱 자세한 밀도구조와 질량분포를 밝혀보고 별탄생과의 관련성을 연구하고자 한다.

• Korean journal of applied entomology
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• v.23 no.1 s.58
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• pp.37-41
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• 1984

The $100\%$ of insect pests on the imported logs and Sitophilus oryzae(L.) will be killed both when the imported logs are fumigated on shipboard with 25g methyl $bromide/m^3$ for 24hours at $10\~20^{\circ}C$ and when they are fumigated on shipboard with 37.5g methyl $bromide/m^3$ caculated by DT products for 16 hours at $10\~20^{\circ}C$ using 2 fans of 1800rpm over and ID 30cm. Without using fans, it takes $4\~6$ hours to make gas concentration even in hold. But using 2 fans per hold, the period reduces to $1\~3$ hours.

• Journal of Technologic Dentistry
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.67-72
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• 1996

This test is verifying for influence of W/P ratio of investment upon dental prosthesis Firstly we made 40 MOD die and divide 4 groups, each group take 0.2 different w/p ratio grade such as 0.35, 0.37, 0.39 and 0.41. The method of data analysis applied were by ANOVA, Tukey test and Mann-Whiney and Kruskal Wallis test. The finding of this study were as follows : 1. The 0.37 w/p ratio group showed most accurte margin due to $15.8{\mu}m$ gap between margin and die which keep up with manufacture's instruction and 0.35 w/p ratio group was followed as second accuracy group o 새 $48.3{\mu}m$ gap between margin and die, 0.39 w/p ratio group showed $101{\mu}m$ gap and 0.41 w/p ratio group showed $129.8{\mu}m$ gap. 2. As to the relationship of the margin accuracy between 4 different grade of w/p ratio groups, each group was statistically significant(P<0.01). Also the all groups were statistically significant except between 0.35 and 0.37 groups between 0.39 and 0.41 groups, and between 0.35 and 0.39 groups. 3. A consequence of Mann-Whitney & Kruskal-Wallis test for marginal accuracy between 4 different grade of w/p ratio was statistically significant as same as above ANOVA test result. Also Tukey test for verifying similarity from each group showed same as above.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.1-22
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was a comparative of the differences, relationships and impacts between the self-concept and career development for elementary schoolers by gender. The subjects of this study were 259(133 boys and 126 girls) elementary schoolers. The instrument used in this study was Jung Jong Jin's(1996) self-concept Inventory and Ahn Chang gyu & Ahn Hyeon eui's(2006) Holland career development Inventory. The collected data were analyzed with a SPSS 12.0 program. The major findings of the study were as follows: (1) the mean score of boy(M=54.857, SD=7.593) was higher than girl(M=52.302, SD=8.908) in 'emotional-self'. (2) (1) the mean score of girl(M=42.200, SD=5.918) was higher than boy(M=37.372, SD=7.600) in 'gender-related prejudice about occupation'. (2) the mean score of boy(M=36.544, SD=5.544) was higher than girl(M=35.008, SD=5.118) in 'autonomy' (3) the revealed that self-concept was highly correlated with boy's(r=.175~.761) and girl's(r=.199~.667) career development. (4) (1) the 'academic-self' had an impact of the boy's(5.6%~56.3%) and girl's(8.4%~48.7%) career development. (2) the 'social-self' had an impact of the boy's(2.6%~5.9%) and girl's(2.7%~4.3%) career development. (3) the 'emotional-self' had an impact of the boy's(1.9%~37.0%) and girl's(11.2%) career development. (4) the 'physical-self' no had an impact of the boy's and girl's career development. The findings of the study illustrated that the self-concept for elementary schoolers had an impact career development.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.106-113
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• 2016

In this paper, we deal with the wavefront compensation capability of a silicon carbide (SiC) deformable mirror (DM) with 37 actuators for adaptive optics. The wavefront compensation capability of the SiC DM is predicted by computer simulation and examined by actual experiments with a closed-loop adaptive optics system consistsing of a light source, a phase plate, a SiC DM, a high speed Shack-Hartmann sensor, and a control computer. Distortion of wavefront is caused by the phase plate in the closed-loop adaptive optics system. The distorted wavefront has a peak-to-valley (PV) wavefront error of $0.3{\mu}m{\sim}0.9{\mu}m$ and root-mean-square (RMS) error of $0.06{\mu}m{\sim}0.25{\mu}m$. The high-speed Shack-Hartmann sensor measures the wavefront error of the distortion caused by the phase plate, and the SiC DM compensates for the distorted wavefront. The compensated wavefront has residual errors lower than $0.1{\mu}m$ PV and $0.03{\mu}m$ RMS. Consequently, we conclude that we can compensate for the distorted wavefront using the SiC DM in the closed-loop adaptive optics system with an operating frequency speed of 500 Hz.

• Korean Journal of Veterinary Service
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.247-252
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• 2014

The economic impact of swine mycoplasma infection is high. An accurate diagnosis is often difficult and time consuming. We report the development and validation of an effective multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay that detects Mycoplasma (M.) hyopneumoniae and M. hyorhinis. The multi detection of M. hyopneumoniae and M. hyorhinis primer set were employed to detect mycoplasma species and typing of the species was performed on the basis of sequence analysis of the PCR product. The target nucleic acid fragments were specifically amplified by M. hyopneumoniae and M. hyorhinis PCR with 16S ribosomal DNA primers. Single and mixed Mycoplasma species DNA templates were used to evaluate the specificity of the multiplex assay. The corresponding specific DNA products were amplified for each pathogen. The multiplex PCR assay provides a novel tool for simultaneous detection and differentiation of M. hyopneumoniae and M. hyorhinis.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.85-92
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• 2020

Ground hot-firing tests were conducted to analyze the combustion performance according to the characteristic lengths 1.37 m, 1.71 m, and 2.06 m of the combustion chamber in 200 N-class GCH4-LOx small rocket engine. Thrust, specific impulse, and characteristic velocity at the steady-state could be obtained as the key performance parameters of the rocket engine. The performance characteristics acquired through the test were compared and analyzed with the theoretical performance calculated from CEA analysis. Observation of the influence of characteristic length on the combustion performance indicates that an optimal characteristic length shall remain between 1.71 m and 2.06 m.