• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.65-77
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• 2006

By using general means, some oscillation criteria for second order nonlinear elliptic differential equation with damping $$\sum_{i,j=1}^{N}D_i[a_{ij}(x)D_iy]+\sum_{i=1}^{N}b_i(x)D_iy+p(x)f(y)=0$$ are obtained. These criteria are of a high degree of generality and extend the oscillation theorems for second order linear ordinary differential equations due to Kamenev, Philos and Wong.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.5633-5636
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• 2012

Purpose: Breast cancer is an important cause of cancer-related death in women. Numerous studies have evaluated the association between the insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism in the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene and breast cancer risk. However, the specific association is still controversial rather than conclusive. Therefore, we performed a meta-analysis of related studies to address this controversy. Methods: PubMed, EMBASE, Google Scholar and the Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure databases were systematically searched to identify relevant studies. A meta-analysis was performed to examine the association between the I/D polymorphism in the ACE gene and susceptibility to breast cancer. Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) were calculated. Results: 10 separate studies of 7 included articles with 10,888 subjects on the relation between the I/D polymorphism in the ACE gene and breast cancer were analyzed by meta-analysis, and our results showed no association between the I/D polymorphism in the ACE gene and breast cancer in total population and different populations. No publication bias was found in the present study. Conclusions: The ACE I/D polymorphism may not be associated with breast cancer risk. Further large and well-designed studies are needed to confirm this conclusion.

• Korean Journal of Biological Psychiatry
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.107-113
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• 2005

Purpose:In an attempt to predict the interpersonal differences of therapeutic response to antipsychotic drugs on pharmaco-genetic bases, this study was designed to investigate the relationship between the therapeutic response to antipsychotic drugs and Taq I A dopamine $D_2$ receptor polymorphism in schizophrenic patients. Methods:The subjects were 158 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia(DSM-IV). The therapeutic response to antipsychotic drugs was evaluated using the Treatment Response Scale(TRS) retrospectively. Patients were divided into two groups, dopamine receptor antagonist responders, and serotonin-dopamine antagonist responders. The patients' Taq I A dopamine $D_2$ receptor polymorphism was determined by polymerase chain reaction(PCR) and restriction fragment length polymorphism(RFLP). Results:The dopamine receptor antagonist responders had the A1 allele in significantly higher incidences (${\chi}^2$(1)=4.875, p=0.027, two-tailed). No significant difference was found among the serotonin-dopamine antagonist responders between those with or without the A1 allele. Conclusions:The patients with the A1 allele responded better to dopamine receptor antagonists than those with no A1 allele. Based on these results, it is suggested that the pharmacological effect of dopamine receptor antagonists can be predicted depending on the presence of the A1 allele in schizophrenic patients.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.538-547
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• 2012

This paper presents two different robust controllers for boost converters with two stages in a cascade. The first robust controller is monovariable; that is, the duty-cycle is the same for the two switches. The monovariable controller ensures that some prescribed constraints on pole placement and control effort are met, and optimizes the load disturbance rejection, while takes into account the uncertainty in certain parameters. The first controller is then compared with a multivariable robust controller; that is, with independent duty cycles in each switch. The multivariable controller takes into account the same uncertainty, constraints and optimization function. The comparison shows that the multivariable controller performs better at the expense of a slightly more complex implementation; that is, the multivariable controller provides a better rejection of the load disturbance. The paper also describes simulations and experimental results that are in perfect agreement with theoretical derivations.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.13
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• pp.199-210
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• 2008

Nous tentons ici d'une analyse esthetique sur le film d'animation francais "Renaissance". Le film d'animation est un genre du recit d'images. L'on no peut donc le traiter simplement comme les chaines des images sans I'histoire, ni comme I'histoire sans les images. Nous essaions de trouver dans notre etude, un meddle d'analyse sur le film d'animation. L'acces y est commece par expliquer le context du film et son resume de I'histoire. Ensuite, nous travaillons sur les caracteristiques produites par des images(noir et blanc) et des techniques(motion capture). Elles sont considerees comme les traits expressifs, ou les trails formels. Troisiement, on analysr des codes des genres et des sens implicites qui sont presentes dans le film. Apres aborder tous ces prises on comptes, nous les synthetisons dans ie principe d'esthetique. lci, celui-ci est figure comme un accord entre les caractedristiques formelless et les contenus traites. Mais le film n'arrive pas a cette concordance. L'avancee technique et le plaisir visuel que le film nous donne ne sont pourtant pas meprisable memo si I'objectif esthetique du film no s'acheve sur un echec. Notre etude est un peu large afin d'analyser les detailes du film. Nous laisssons cette faiblesss a un autre travail du futur, on etant content sur l'etude qui pout servir a analyser un film d'animation, mame un peu grossierement.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.19
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• pp.20.1-20.1
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• 1994

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.15 no.6 s.73
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• pp.935-940
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• 2005

Fluorescence change of coumarin labeled phosphate binding protein (PBP-MDCC) was monitored to measure the amount of released inorganic phosphate ($P_{i}$) during nucleoside triphosphate (NTP) hydrolysis reaction. After purification of PBP-MDCC, fluorescence emission spectra showed that fluorescence responded linearly to $P_{i}$ up to about 0.7 molar ratio of $P_{i}$ to protein. The correlation of fluorescence signal and $P_{i}$ standard was measured to obtain [$P_{i}$] - fluorescence intensity standard curve on the stopped-flow instrument. When T7 bacteriophage helicase, double-stranded DNA unwinding enzyme using dTTP hydrolysis as an energy source, reacted with dTTP, the change of fluorescence was able to be converted to the amount of released $P_{i}$ by the $P_{i}$ standard curve. $P_{i}$ release results showed that single-stranded Ml3 DNA stimulated dTTP hydrolysis reaction several folds by T7 helicase. Instead of end point assay in NTP hydrolysis reaction, real time $P_{i}$-release assay by PBP-MDCC was proven to be very easy and convenient to measure released $P_{i}$.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2007.03a
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• pp.8-13
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• 2007

2005년 남극의 해빙을 촬영한 Kompsat-1 EOC 영상을 이용하여 SSM/I와 AMSR-E 해빙 면적비를 비교， 분석하였다. EOC 영상은 남극의 봄철에 해당하는 9-11월 사이에 남극 대륙의 가장자리를 가로지르는 11 개 궤도로부터 총 676개 영상이 획득되었으며， 이 중 대기 및 광량 조건이 양호한 68개 의 영상을 선별하였다. EOC 영상에 감독분류 방볍 을 적 용하여 표면 유형 을 White ice(W), Grey ice(G), Dark-grey ice(D), Ocean(O)로 분류하였고 해빙 면적비를 산출하였으며, 이를 NASA Team Algorithm(NT)으로 계산된 SSM/I 해빙 면적비, NASA Team2 Algorithm(NT2)으로 계산된 AMSR-E 해빙 면적비와 비교하였다. 남극의 봄철에 SSM/I 해빙 면적비는 EOC W+G 면적비와 잘 일치하였고，AMSR-E 해빙 면적비는 EOC W+G+D 면적비와 좋은 상관성을 나타내었다. 따라서 이 시기의 남극 SSM/I NT 해빙 면적비는 W와 G만을 반영하며, AMSR-E NT2 해빙 면적비는 D도 포함하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한 AMSR-E가 SSM/I보다 높은 해빙 면적비를 나타내는 것을 확인하였으며，두 수동 마이크로파 해빙 면적비의 차이는 EOC D 면적비와 높은 상관성을 보였다. 이로부터 EOC 영상에서 분류된 D와 NT2에 서 고려되는 Ice type C가 서로 유사한 해빙 유형임을 추정할 수 있었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.1A
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

This paper offers performance analysis of selection decode and forward (DF) networks with differential modulation/demodulation for an arbitrary number of relays in independent but not identically distributed Rayleigh fading channels. We have shown that the selection DF protocol with differential modulation can achieve full diversity in both independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) and independent but not identically distributed (i.n.d.) Rayleigh fading channels, and the performance loss due to using non-coherent detection is not substantial. Furthermore, we study the impact of combining techniques on the performance of the system by comparing a system that uses selection combining (SC) to one that uses maximum ratio combining (MRC). Simulations are performed and show that they match exactly with analytic ones in high SNR regime.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1989.11a
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• pp.278-282
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• 1989

A Digital P.I.D Predictive Controller is applied to the various types of D.C drives. The system with predictive controllers is compared to the system with conventional P.I.D controllers. The effect of the predictive control for the practical applications are investigated. The stability of the system with predictive controllers is also studied.