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Targeting Cell-Cell and Cell-Matrix Interactions and Its Therapeutic Applications

  • Kim, In-San
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.100-101
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    • 2003
  • Cell-cell and cell-matrix interaction is clearly required for metazoans not only to hold their cells together but also to conduct more sophisticated biological processes. Each cell has adhesion molecules on its cell membrane to link extracellular matrix and adjacent cells to the intracellular cytoskeleton, and also to transduce signals. In complex metazoans, information is transmitted from one cell to another by mechanisms such as direct intercellular communication, soluble signal molecules among distant cells, and local cellular environments formed by highly specialized extracellular matrix. (omitted)

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Microbial linguistics: perspectives and applications of microbial cell-to-cell communication

  • Mitchell, Robert J.;Lee, Sung-Kuk;Kim, Tae-Sung;Ghim, Cheol-Min
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2011
  • Inter-cellular communication via diffusible small molecules is a defining character not only of multicellular forms of life but also of single-celled organisms. A large number of bacterial genes are regulated by the change of chemical milieu mediated by the local population density of its own species or others. The cell density-dependent "autoinducer" molecules regulate the expression of those genes involved in genetic competence, biofilm formation and persistence, virulence, sporulation, bioluminescence, antibiotic production, and many others. Recent innovations in recombinant DNA technology and micro-/nano-fluidics systems render the genetic circuitry responsible for cell-to-cell communication feasible to and malleable via synthetic biological approaches. Here we review the current understanding of the molecular biology of bacterial intercellular communication and the novel experimental protocols and platforms used to investigate this phenomenon. A particular emphasis is given to the genetic regulatory circuits that provide the standard building blocks which constitute the syntax of the biochemical communication network. Thus, this review gives focus to the engineering principles necessary for rewiring bacterial chemo-communication for various applications, ranging from population-level gene expression control to the study of host-pathogen interactions.

A New Cell Selection Scheme For Heterogeneous Mobile Communication Networks (이종 이동통신 네트워크를 위한 새로운 셀 선택 기법)

  • Ban, Tae-Won;Jung, Bang Chul;Jo, Jung-Yeon;Sung, Kil-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.18 no.10
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    • pp.2397-2402
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    • 2014
  • Recently, heterogeneous mobile communication network is attracting plenty of interest to serve explosively increasing mobile data traffic. Although the heterogeneous mobile communication network can enhance spatial reuse ratio by using both conventional macro cells and small cells simultaneously, it causes the unbalance in performance of downlink and uplink. In this paper, we propose a new cell selection scheme for heterogeneous mobile communication network. In the proposed cell selection scheme, mobiles select their home cells by considering both uplink and downlink performance, contrary to conventional schemes. We analyze the performance of the proposed scheme in terms of average cell transmission rate through system level simulations and compare it with those of conventional schemes.

Inter-Cell Cooperative Transmission Scheme for Improving Reliability at the Heterogeneous Network (이종 네트워크 환경에서 신뢰성 향상을 위한 인접 셀 간 협력 전송 기법)

  • Kang, Sung-jin
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.40 no.10
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    • pp.1931-1933
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    • 2015
  • This paper proposes inter-cell cooperative transmission scheme in order to improve the reliability of the wireless communication system at the heterogeneous network environments. The heterogeneous network can increase data rate by using existing network technologies. However, degradation of communication performance in the cell edge has been a serious problem. Therefore, this letter proposes an adaptive transmission scheme according to the diverse situations in order to solve this problem.

Cell ID Detection and SNR Estimation Algorithms Robust to Noise (잡음에 강인한 셀 아이디 검출 및 SNR 추정 알고리즘)

  • Lee, Chong-Hyun;Bae, Jin-Ho
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.139-145
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, we propose robust cell ID detection algorithm and SNR estimation algorithm applicable to mobile base station, which can be operated independently. The proposed cell ID estimation uses signal subspace to estimate cell IDs used in cell. The proposed SNR estimation algorithm uses number of noise subspace vectors and the corresponding eigen-vectors. Through the computer simulations, we showed that performance of the proposed cell ID detection and SNR estimation algorithms are superior to existing correlation based algorithms. Also we showed that the proposed algorithm is suitable to fast moving channel in high background noise and strong interference signal.

An Equalizing for CCI Canceling in MLC NAND Flash Memory (MLC NAND 플래시 메모리의 CCI 감소를 위한 등화기 설계)

  • Lee, Kwan-Hee;Lee, Sang-Jin;Kim, Doo-Hwan;Cho, Kyoung-Rok
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.48 no.10
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    • pp.46-53
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    • 2011
  • This paper presents an equalizer reducing CCI(cell-to-cell interference) in MLC NAND flash memory. The CCI is a critical factor which affects occurring data errors in a cell, when surrounding cells are programed. We derived a characteristic equation for CCI considering write procedure of data that is similar with signal equalizing. The model considers the floating gate capacitance coupling effect, the direct field effect, and programming methods of the MLC NAND flash memory. We verify the proposed equalizer comparing with the measured data of 1-block MLC NAND flash memory. As the simulation result, the equalizer shows an error correction ratio about 60% under 20nm NAND process.

Cancer Cell Recognition by Fuzzy Logic

  • Na, Cheol-Hun
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.466-470
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    • 2011
  • This paper proposes the new method based on fuzzy logic which recognizes between normal and abnormal. The object image was the Thyroid Gland cell image that was diagnosed as normal and abnormal(two types of abnormal : follicular neoplastic cell, and papillary neoplastic cell), respectively. The nuclei were successfully diagnosed as normal and abnormal. The multiple feature parameters (pre-obtained 16 feature parameters of image data) were used to extract the features of each nucleus. As a consequence of using fuzzy logic algorithm, proposed in this paper, average recognition rate of 98.25% was obtained.

The Effect of Soft Handoff Techniques on Cell Coverage for CDMA Cellular System (소프트 핸드오프가 CDMA 셀룰러 시스템의 셀 영역에 미치는 영향)

  • Oh, Hyon-Kyu;Kim, Hang-Rae;Kim, Nam
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.125-128
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    • 2000
  • In this paper, the handoff margins are analyzed using the propagation attenuation which is modeled as a product of the fourth power of the distant and a log-normal random variable whose standard deviation is 8 ㏈. The effect of handoff techniques on cell coverage for CDMA system are shown that soft handoff increases cell coverage relative to hard handoff. When the cell radius extends 5-10 % and the outage probability is 10 %, the relative cell coverage area is extended 3.22 ㏈-3.99 ㏈ and 2.55 ㏈-2.85 ㏈ with power control and without power control, respectively.

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A flow control scheme for handoff on ATM-based PCN (ATM 기반 개인 휴대 통신망에서의 핸드오프를 위한 흐름 제어 방안)

  • 심재정;강경훈;장경훈;김덕진
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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    • v.34S no.10
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    • pp.9-25
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    • 1997
  • Personal Communication Networks will be composed of ATM-based broadband ISDN in the future. However, unlike the wired networks, many challenges will arise in the wireless communication service such as PCS. These callenges are frequency alteration of cell routing path, relatively very high error rate at transmission over the wireless interface, etc. Particularly, the alteration of cell routing path caused by handoff makes temporary deterioration of QoS. In this paper, the signaling flows of handoff scenarios which may occur on Personal Communication Networks are presented, and verified by Pertri-Net toolkit. In addition, the cell flow control scheme which minimizes the lagging gap between cells and maintains the cell sequence during handoff is proposed. The proposed scheme can be summarized as the differentiation of normal queue and handoff queue, and the cell flow control between these queues. For verification of the proposed scheme, we used two approaches, which are mathermatical manipulation and SLAM simulation.

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Bistable Property in a Splay Cell with a Chiral Additive

  • Lee, Seo-Hern;Kim, Tae-Jin;Lee, Jong-Lac;Jung, Mi-Jun;Park, Kyoung-Ho;Lee, Gi-Dong;Yoon, Tae-Hoon;Kim, Jae-Chang
    • Journal of Information Display
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.22-25
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, we propose the bistability the bistability in a chiral-splay nematic liquid crystal cell, which is obtained by adding a chiral additive to a splay cell and introduce a novel switching method for the bistable chiral-splay nematic cell in order to transit the LC director between the non-twisted state with splay and the 180$^{\circ}$ twist state.