• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.17-28
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• 1978

A simplified photoelectric apparatus producing graphic records of the free Achilles tendon reflex allowed us to study the reflex quantitatively in subjects with normal and abnormal thyroid function. In this study Achilles tendon reflex times were tested in 340 normal Korean persons, 89 hyperthyroid patients, 19 hypothyroid patients and 85 other thyroid disease patients who were euthyroid in thyroid function tests. In normal Korean persons, the Achilles tendon reflex time was delayed with increasing age and slower in female than in male. They showed good correlationship with various thyroid function tests which included ETR, $T_3RU,\;^{131}I$ thyroid uptake and serum TSH. Diagnostic accuracy of them was 71% in hyperthyroidism and 90% in hypothyroidism. Finally the serial measurements of them were very useful tests in evaluating the clinical coures of hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism once treatment was begun.

• Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.178-187
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• 2001

A study has been performed to estimate the average and high (90th percentile of consumers-only) daily intakes of sorbates by age-sex groups (> 3 years old) in Korea. The estimation of daily intakes was based on individual-based dietary intake data in ‘National Health and Nutrition Survey in 1998’and the contents of sorbates from samples. The estimated daily intakes (EDI) of sorbates for average consumers ranged from 0.09 mg/kg/bw/day to 0.51 mg/kg bw/day corresponding to 0.4-2.1% of acceptable daily intake (ADI). For high consumers, the range of EDI of sorbates was 3.42-14.65 mg/kg bw/day corresponding to 13.7-58.6% of ADI. Foods that contributed most to the daily intakes of sorbates for all age-sex groups were processed fish products, processed meat products, and salted floods. There was an inverse relationship between age and the consumption of sorbates for average and high consumers, whereas no marked pattern was emerged by sex categories. The intake levels of sorbates even among high consumers were below the ADI in Korea.

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.151-154
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• 1992

갈색종은 비교적 드문 종양으로 다발성으로 생기는 경우는 더욱 드물다. 갈색종은 수술로 90%이상 완치 가능한 질환이므로 수술전 종양의 위치와 범위를 정확히 확인하는 것 이 매우 중요하다. 저자들은 최근 파동하는 고혈압을 주소로 내원한 33세 남자환자에서 복부전산화 단층촬영술상 우측부신의 종양만을 확인할 수 있었으나, $^{131}I-MIBG$ 신티그라피에서는 우측 부신의 병소외에 골반강 내에 또다른 병소가 발견되어 골반강 전산화 단층촬영술을 추가로 시행하였고 이어 수술로써 확진된 이중병소의 갈색종 1예를 보고하는 바이다.

• The Science & Technology
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• v.30 no.9 s.340
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• pp.20-21
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• 1997

인류사상 가장 많은 책을 쓴 과학자로 알려진 아이작 아시모프는 1992년 4월 6일 심장병으로 타계할 때까지 5백종에 가까운 저서를 남겼다. 기네스북에 따르면 세계에서 가장 많은 저서를 쓴 사람은 5백종 이상을 펴낸 영국의 미스테리작가 존 크리지로 기록되어 있으나 과학을 비롯하여 문학과 종교에서 역사와 어린이 읽을 거리에 이르는 광범위한 분야를 넘나들면서 그처럼 많은 저서를 남긴 사람은 찾기 어렵다. 그는 분당 90단어를 타자하면서 50세가 되기 전에 1백종을 출간했으나 그로부터 저술작업에는 더욱 가속도가 붙어 다음 22년간 4백종을 더 펴냈다. 그는 이렇게 많은 저작을 하기 위해 창문의 차양을 내려 놓은 방에서 1주일동안 하루도 쉬지 않고 글쓰는 일로 지샜다. 그는 탄탄한 과학지식을 배경으로 매우 정확하면서도 누구나 쉽고 재미있게 읽을 수 있는 글을 통해 과학대중화의 측면에서는 수천명의 과학자 못지 않은 위업을 남긴 것으로 평가되고 있다. 그는 작품을 통해 오늘날 로봇이 조업하는 조립공장을 이미 1939년에, 그리고 컴퓨터혁명을 1950년에 예언했다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1992.10a
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• pp.237-248
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• 1992

본 논문에서는 통계적인 특징 추출 방법을 사용하여 샘물체로 필기된 한글을 고속으로 인식하는 방법을 소개한다. 대부분이 직선 성분으로 이루어진 한글의 특성을 이응하기 위하여 입력 영상으로부터 수평, 수직, 사선, 역사선의 방향 성분을 추출하며, 검은 화소의 밀도에 따라 동적으로 그물을 결정함으로써 획 간의 접촉 변형에 무관한 특징 벡터를 추출한다. 이와 같은 통계적 특징 추출 방법은 크기 정규화나 세선화 과정이 필요없으며, 또한 샘물체라는 필기 형태의 제약에 의해 정합 대상 부류의 수가 현저히 줄어들기 때문에 인식에 소요되는 시간을 상당히 줄일 수 있음은 물론, 인식률을 향상시켰다. 제안된 방법의 타당성을 검증하기 위하여 샘물체로 필기된 KS 완성형 한글 2,350자에 대해 실험한 결과, 평균 90% 이상의 인식률을 보이며, IBM PC 486(33MHz)상에서 문자당 평균 0.17초의 인식 속도를 보임으로써, 실용적인 고속 OCR 시스템의 개발 가능성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.245-248
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• 2000

자동차 번호판 인식 시스템에서 가장 중요한 요소는 자동차 이미지 영역에서 번호판 영역을 추출, 추출된 영역에서 문자 추출, 추출된 문자의 인식 등의 과정이다. 본 논문은 자동차 번호판 인식 과정에서 적응 알고리즘을 이용하여 보다 정확한 인식이 될 수 있도록 한다. 본 논문에서 사용하는 적응 알고리즘은 기존의 방식과는 달리 특정한 알고리즘을 이용한 인식을 하지 않고 다양한 알고리즘을 이용한 인식 결과의 조합으로 최적의 해법을 찾는다. 번호판 인식을 위한 적응 알고리즘은 원형 정합 알고리즘, 벡터 알고리즘, 세선화 알고리즘 등이다. 적응 알고리즘을 이용한 실험 결과 자동차 이미지에 대해서 90% 이상 인식이 가능함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• v.52 no.6
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• pp.608-615
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• 2002

Background : ADA is an enzyme found in most cells, and is involved in purine metabolism, but its chief role concerns the proliferation and differentiation of lymphocytes, especially T-lymphocytes. For that reason ADA has been looked on as a marker of cell-mediate immunity, which is the key mechanism of the tuberculous pleural effusion. Thus, the pleural fluid ADA activity is increased in the tuberculous pleural effusion. Age associated immune decline is characterized by decreases in both B and T-lymphocyte function and the former may be largely a result of the latter. Therefore, the pleural fluid ADA activity would be lower in old rather than in young, patients with tuberculous pleural effusion. We studied the relationship between age, and pleural fluid ADA activity, in patients with tuberculous pleural effusion. Materials and Methods : In the 46 patients with tuberculous pleural effusion enroll in this study, the pleural fluid ADA activities were measured by means of an automated kinetic method. Results : The mean age of the patients was $53.0{\pm}22.0$ years, with a male to female ratio of 30:16. The patients were divided into two groups, young patients, regarded as < 65 and old regarded as ${\geq}65$ years with 28 and 18 patients, respectively. The pleural fluid ADA activity in both groups show significant differences : $99.4{\pm}22.6$ IU/L(young patients) Vs. $75.8{\pm}30.9$ IU/L(old patients)(p<0.05), but a negative correlation with age (r=-0.311, p<0.05). Conclusion : Although pleural fluid ADA activity was not adequately increased, tuberculous pleural effusion, in older patients, would have to be considered clinically suspicious tuberculous pleural effusion.

• The Korean Journal of Pesticide Science
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.26-35
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• 2001

In order to search potent antifungal substances from domestic plants, 40 plants cultivated in Korea were collected. After extracting with methanol (MeOH) and concentrating to dryness, the MeOH extracts were screened for in vivo antifungal activity against six plant diseases at a concentration of $2000{\mu}g/mL$. Fourteen extracts showed disease-controlling activity more than 90% against at least one of the 6 plant diseases tested; eight, seven, and three extracts controlled more than 90% the development of rice blast, tomato late blight, and wheat leaf rust, respectively. However, none of the extracts exhibited in vivo antifungal activity more than 90% against rice sheath blight, tomato gray mold, and barley powdery mildew. From the MeOH extracts of Angelica gigas and A. dahurica showing potent controlling activity against rice blast, 1 and 2 antifungal substances, respectively, were isolated by solvent partitioning and column chromatography. The three compounds were identified to be coumarins, namely, decursin, imperatorin, and isoimperatorin, by mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy. They were examined for in vitro and in vivo antifungal activities together with umbelliferone (7-bydroxycournarin) and scopoletin (6-methoxy-7-hydroxycoumarin) containing a free hydroxyl group at position 7 to investigate the structure-activity relationship. In vitro, most of 50% growth inhibitory concentrations ($IC_{50}$) were over $200{\mu}g/mL$, indicating that they have relatively weak antifungal activity. The antifungal activity of decursin and scopoletin, containing cyclic alkoxy groups instead of free hydroxyl group at position 7, was stronger than umbelliferone and scopoletin. Especially, decursin and imperatorin showed potent antifungal activities against Pythium ultimum and Magnaporthe grisea, respectively, with $IC_{50}$ values less than $25{\mu}g/mL$. In vivo, decursin and imperatorin showed potent antifungal activity against rice blast, whereas other coumarins hardly controlled the development of 6 plant diseases tested. These results suggest that the antifungal activity of 7-hydroxycoumarin derivative is substantially increased when the hydroxyl group at position 7 is protected by a stable cyclic alkoxy grouping.

• Korean journal of applied entomology
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.145-150
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• 2005

Three Korean isolates of entomopathogenic nematodes, Steinernema carpocapsae KCTC 0981BP (ScK), S. glaseri Dongrae (SgD), and Heterorhabditis sp. KCTC 0991BP (HsK), were evaluated for the control of a turfgrass pest, Popillia quadriguttata. Three days after treatment, all nematodes showed high pathogenicity to adult P. quadriguttata with $97.5\%$ mortality by ScK, $90.8\%$ by HsK, and $80\%$ by SgD at the concentration of 900 infective juveniles per adult. Nematode attachment and infection rate to adult P. quadriguttata were various depending on nematode species and inoculation density. The rate of nematode attachment was $90.8\%$ in HsK, $90.6\%$ in SgD, and $35\%$ in ScK, resfectively at the concentration of 900 infective juveniles per adult. The infection rate that represents the rate of detected nematode from inside insect of body was $97.5\%$ in ScK, $ 80\%$ in both HsK and SgD at the 900 concentration of infected juveniles. The infection rate, however, was decreased to $27.5\%$ in ScK, $72.5\%$ in SgD, but no nematodes was detected in HsK at the concentration of 90 infective juveniles.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Grassland and Forage Science
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.171-178
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• 1998

This experiment was conducted to study on forage utility of Diplachne fusca L. which live in reclaimed saline land of midwest region of Korea. The primary experiment was conducted to know on germination characteristics of Diplachne fusca L. according to storage condition after seed harvesting, light, temperature, flooding depth, salinity and soil covering. The results obtained are summarized as follows; 1. The germination percentage, average days to germination, germination rate and coefficient of germination were not different in existence of light, combination with existence of light and storage condition, but those were higher different in storage condition. 2. The germination characteristics were more higher on the condition of alternating temperature than constant temperature, and it was the highest on the condition of alternating temperature with $35/25^{\circ}C$ and constant temperature with $35^{\circ}C$. 3. There were apparently significant in germination percentage, average days to germination, germination rate and coefficient of germination according to flooding depth. The germination characteristics of D. fusca L. were the highest on the wndition of flooding depth with Ocm and did not germinate on the condition of flooding depth more than 3cm. 4. There were apparently significant in germination percentage, average days to germination, germination rate and coefficient of germination according to salinity. Germination characteristics were the highest on the condition of salinity with 0.2%. There was more than 30% of germination percentage on the condition of salinity with 1% SO Diplachne fuaca L. was suitable to cultivate in reclaimed saline land. 5. The germination percentage, average days to germination, germination rate and coefficient of germination were significantly difference between soil covering. So Germination characteristics were the highest on the condition of soil covering with 0.2cm. But they scarcely germinated on the condition of more than 1cm of the soil covering.