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Regulation of Leaf Polarity during Leaf Development (잎의 발생과정에 있어서의 극성제어)

  • Cho, Kiu-Hyung;Jun, Sang-Eun;Tsukaya , Hirokazu;Kim, Gyung-Tae
    • Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.51-61
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    • 2008
  • Leaves are indeterminate organs and possess a lot of genes which is involved in establishing leaf polarities. These polarities are regulated relatively early during leaf development and defined relative to the factors intrinsic to the primordia and interactions with the shoot apical meristem (SAM). Recently, several genes that control the polarity of lateral organs have been identified. Our genetic study of deformed root and leaf1 (drl1) mutant, which produces narrow, filament‐like leaves and defective meristems, revealed that DRL1 is involved in the regulation of SAM activity and leaf polarity. The DRL1 gene was found to encode a novel protein showing homology to Elongator‐associate protein (EAP) of yeast KTI12. The amino acid sequence of DRL1 is universally conserved in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. DRL1 and the plant DRL1 homologs clearly formed a monophyletic clade, suggesting the evolutionary conservation of DRL1 homologs was maintained in the genomes of all land plants.

Measurement and Analysis of Pediatric Patient Exposure Dose Using Glass dosimeter and a PC-Based Monte Carlo Program (Glass dosimeter와 PCXMC Program을 이용한 소아피폭선량 측정 및 분석)

  • Kim, Young-Eun;Lee, Jeong-Hwa;Hong, Sun-Suk;Lee, Kwan-Seob
    • Korean Journal of Digital Imaging in Medicine
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.9-14
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    • 2012
  • Exposed dose of young child should be managed necessarily. Young child is more sensitive than adult of a Radioactivity, especially, and lives longer than adult. Must reduce exposed dose which follows The ALARA(As Low As Reasonably Achievable)rule is recommended by ICRP(International Commission on Radiological Protection)within diagnostic useful range. Therefore, We have to prepare Pediatric DRL(Diagnostic Reference Level) in Korea as soon as possible. Consequently, in this study, wish to estimate organ dose and effective dose using PCXMC Program(a PC-Based Monte Carlo Program), and measure ESD(Entrance surface dose)and organ dose using Glass dosimeter, and then compare with DRL which follows EC(European Commission)and NRPB(National Radiological Protection Board). Using glass dosimeter and PCXMC programs conforming to the International Committee for Radioactivity Prevention(ICRP)-103 tissue weighting factor based on the item before the organs contained in the Chest, Skull, Pelvis, Abdomen in the organ doses and effective dose and dose measurements were evaluated convenience. In a straightforward way to RANDO phantom inserted glass dosimeter(GD352M)by using the hospital pediatric protocol, and in a indirect way was PCXMC the program through a virtual simulation of organ doses and effective dose were calculated. The ESD in Chest PA is 0.076mGy which is slightly higher than the DRL of NRPB(UK) is 0.07mGy, and is lower than the DRL of EC(Europe) which is 0.1mGy. The ESD in Chest Lateral is 0.130mGy which is lower than the DRL of EC(Europe) is 0.2mGy. The ESD in Skull PA is 0.423mGy which is 40 percent lower than the DRL of NRPB(UK) is 1.1mGy and is 28 percent lower than the DRL of EC(Europe) is 1.5mGy. The ESD in Skull Lateral is 0.478mGy which is half than the DRL of NRPB(UK) is 0.8mGy, is 40 percent lower than the DRL of EC(Europe) is 1mGy. The ESD in Pelvis AP is 0.293mGy which is half than the DRL of NRPB(UK) is 0.60mGy, is 30 percent lower than the DRL of EC(Europe)is 0.9mGy. Finally, the ESD in Abdomen AP is 0.223mGy which is half than the DRL of NRPB(UK) is 0.5mGy, and is 20 percent lower than the DRL of EC is 1.0mGy. The six kind of diagnostic radiological examination is generally lower than the DRL of NRPB(UK)and EC(Europe) except for Chest PA. Shouldn't overlook the age, body, other factors. Radiological technician must realize organ dose, effective dose, ESD when examining young child in hospital. That's why young child is more sensitive than adult of a Radioactivity.

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Comparative Analysis of the Conserved Functions of Arabidopsis DRL1 and Yeast KTI12

  • Jun, Sang Eun;Cho, Kiu-Hyung;Hwang, Ji-Young;Abdel-Fattah, Wael;Hammermeister, Alexander;Schaffrath, Raffael;Bowman, John L.;Kim, Gyung-Tae
    • Molecules and Cells
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    • v.38 no.3
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    • pp.243-250
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    • 2015
  • Patterning of the polar axis during the early leaf developmental stage is established by cell-to-cell communication between the shoot apical meristem (SAM) and the leaf primordia. In a previous study, we showed that the DRL1 gene, which encodes a homolog of the Elongator-associated protein KTI12 of yeast, acts as a positive regulator of adaxial leaf patterning and shoot meristem activity. To determine the evolutionally conserved functions of DRL1, we performed a comparison of the deduced amino acid sequence of DRL1 and its yeast homolog, KTI12, and found that while overall homology was low, well-conserved domains were presented. DRL1 contained two conserved plant-specific domains. Expression of the DRL1 gene in a yeast KTI12-deficient yeast mutant suppressed the growth retardation phenotype, but did not rescue the caffeine sensitivity, indicating that the role of Arabidopsis Elongator-associated protein is partially conserved with yeast KTI12, but may have changed between yeast and plants in response to caffeine during the course of evolution. In addition, elevated expression of DRL1 gene triggered zymocin sensitivity, while overexpression of KTI12 maintained zymocin resistance, indicating that the function of Arabidopsis DRL1 may not overlap with yeast KTI12 with regards to toxin sensitivity. In this study, expression analysis showed that class-I KNOX genes were downregulated in the shoot apex, and that YAB and KAN were upregulated in leaves of the Arabidopsis drl1- 101 mutant. Our results provide insight into the communication network between the SAM and leaf primordia required for the establishment of leaf polarity by mediating histone acetylation or through other mechanisms.

A Study on the Diagnostic Reference Level of Skull Radiography in Digital Radiography (디지털 방사선 환경에서 두부 방사선검사 시 진단참고수준 검사조건에 대한 고찰)

  • Yeon-Jin, Jeong;Young-Cheol, Joo;Dong-Hee, Hong;Sang-Hyeon, Kim
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.16 no.7
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    • pp.897-904
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of this study is to compare the difference in dose and image quality when applying the diagnostic reference level (DRL) test conditions for head radiography in a digital radiation environment and the test conditions currently applied in clinical practice. I would like to review the conditions of radiographic examination. In this study, the head model phantom was targeted, and the investigation conditions were divided into clinical conditions (Clinic), DRL value (DRL75), and DRL average value (DRLmean). For dose, Enterance surface dose (ESD) was measured, and for image quality, signal-to-noise ratio and contrast-to-noise ratio were measured and analyzed for comparison. The average values of skull anterior posterior(AP) ESD according to the changes in test conditions were Clinic 1214.03±4.21 µGy, DRL75 3017.83±8.14 µGy, DRLmean 2283.50±7.09 µGy, and skull lateral (Lat). The average value of ESD was statistically significant with Clinic 762.79±3.54 µGy, DRL75 2168.57±10.83 µGy, and DRLmean 1654.43±6.48 µGy (p<0.01). The average values of SNR and CNR measured in the orbital, maxillary sinus, frontal sinus, and sella turcica were statistically significant (p<0.01). As a result of this study, compared to DRL, the conditions used in clinical practice showed lower dose levels of about 58% for AP and about 70% for Lat., and there was no qualitative difference in terms of image quality. Through this study, it is necessary to consider a new diagnostic reference level suitable for the digital radiation environment, and it is considered that the dose should be reduced accordingly.

Determination of Derived Release Limits for a CANDU Nuclear Power Plant (CANDU형 원전에서의 유도방출한도 결정)

  • Kim, Kyo-Youn;Hwang, Hae-Ryong;Kim, Jong-Kyung
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.23-35
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    • 1994
  • A computer code DRL was developed to calculate the derived release limits at CANDU type nuclear power plants. The derived release limits resulting from DRL code is to set guidelines for the release of radionuclides in airborne and water-borne effuents during normal operations of a CANDU type nuclear power plant. The DRL code generally follows the methodology Prescribed in the CSA standard N288.1-M87 and uses the Parameter values recommended in the same standards. The DRL code was used to calculate a set of preliminary derived release limits for the Wolsong NPP.

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Research Trends on Deep Reinforcement Learning (심층 강화학습 기술 동향)

  • Jang, S.Y.;Yoon, H.J.;Park, N.S.;Yun, J.K.;Son, Y.S.
    • Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2019
  • Recent trends in deep reinforcement learning (DRL) have revealed the considerable improvements to DRL algorithms in terms of performance, learning stability, and computational efficiency. DRL also enables the scenarios that it covers (e.g., partial observability; cooperation, competition, coexistence, and communications among multiple agents; multi-task; decentralized intelligence) to be vastly expanded. These features have cultivated multi-agent reinforcement learning research. DRL is also expanding its applications from robotics to natural language processing and computer vision into a wide array of fields such as finance, healthcare, chemistry, and even art. In this report, we briefly summarize various DRL techniques and research directions.

Path Planning with Obstacle Avoidance Based on Double Deep Q Networks (이중 심층 Q 네트워크 기반 장애물 회피 경로 계획)

  • Yongjiang Zhao;Senfeng Cen;Seung-Je Seong;J.G. Hur;Chang-Gyoon Lim
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.231-240
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    • 2023
  • It remains a challenge for robots to learn avoiding obstacles automatically in path planning using deep reinforcement learning (DRL). More and more researchers use DRL to train a robot in a simulated environment and verify the possibility of DRL to achieve automatic obstacle avoidance. Due to the influence factors of different environments robots and sensors, it is rare to realize automatic obstacle avoidance of robots in real scenarios. In order to learn automatic path planning by avoiding obstacles in the actual scene we designed a simple Testbed with the wall and the obstacle and had a camera on the robot. The robot's goal is to get from the start point to the end point without hitting the wall as soon as possible. For the robot to learn to avoid the wall and obstacle we propose to use the double deep Q networks (DDQN) to verify the possibility of DRL in automatic obstacle avoidance. In the experiment the robot used is Jetbot, and it can be applied to some robot task scenarios that require obstacle avoidance in automated path planning.

Distributed Localization for Reducing Error Propagation in Wireless Sensor Networks (센서네트워크에서 에러 전파를 고려한 분산 위치 추정 기법)

  • Kim, Taeyoung;Shon, Minhan;Choo, Hyunseung
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2010.11a
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    • pp.1068-1069
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    • 2010
  • 무선센서네트워크에서 저가의 센서 필드를 구성하기 위해 센서노드의 위치 추정은 매우 중요하다. 소수의 위치를 알고 있는 센서노드인 앵커노드를 이용하여 모든 일반노드들의 위치를 알게 하는 방법으로 DRLS이 있으며, 이 기법은 이전의 기법들에 비해 상대적으로 정확한 위치 추정을 가능하게 한다. 하지만 DRLS는 이웃하는 앵커노드가 없는 일반노드의 경우 위치 추정 정확도를 심각하게 낮추는 에러 전파가 일어나는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문은 DRLS의 에러전파를 줄이기 위한 Distributed Localization for Reducing Error Propagation (DLREP)를 제안한다. DLREP는 각 일반노드들이 DRLS를 이용하여 위치 추정을 한 뒤 한 번의 추가적인 브로드캐스트를 더 수행하여 각 일반노드가 추가적인 앵커노드의 위치 정보를 얻게 한다. 그리고 이 정보를 이용하여 앵커노드 위치를 중심으로한 초기 위치의 회전을 통해 일반노드의 에러전파가 된 위치에 대한 수정을 가한다. DLREP는 위치 측정이 완료된 DRLS에 적용되어 더 정확한 센서노드의 위치 추정을 할 수 있도록 하는 진보된 위치 추정 기법이다.

A Study on the Age Determination with the Aid of Mandibular Molar Development (하악 구치 발육을 이용한 연령감정에 관한 연구)

  • Young-Don Hur;Jong-Mo Ahn;Chang-Lyuk Yoon
    • Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.221-231
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    • 1994
  • Age determination in children have been criticized because they rely on subjective estimations of tooth development, as seen in radiographs. This study was undertaken to obtain the objective estimation of developing teeth. The panoramic radiograph of 254 males and 254 females ranging from 6 to 14 years of age were studied. The structures measured were crown height, apex width and root length. The data weree statistically investigated with SPSS/PC + package. The results were as follows : 1. With the aid of a multiple regression model, a linear relationship between some of these distances and age was shown. 2. In th total material(6-14yr) and four-yr. intervals, linear equations are as follow : Boys : 6-14 age = 683 + 145.6 44RL + 126.6.45RL + 71.1 46DRL - 161.3 46DAW 6-10 age = 1202 + 72.6 46DRL + 100.2 44RL + 75.1 45RL 8-12 age = 3818 + 75.9 45RL - 190.9 44AW 10-14 age = 4151 + 58.6 45RL - 84.0 45AW - 130.6 44AW Girls : 6-14 age = 1587 + 104.9 45RL + 113.4 44RL - 233.1 46DAW + 81.4 47DRL - 255.9 46MAW 6-10 age = 1821 + 55.8 46DRL + 67.2 45RL - 184.2 46MAW + 56.3 44RL 8-12 age = 2435 + 68.2 45RLL + 71.3 44RL 10-14 age = 3485 + 49.9 47DRL - 51.3 45AW - 179.9 47DAW + 33.4 45RL + 39.4 44RL (DRL, length of distal root in molars. RL, root length in premolars. DAW, width of distal apex in molars. MAW, width of mesial apex in molars. AW, width of apex n molars)

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Assessment of DRL for Computed Tomography in Local Hospital (지역병원에서의 전산화단층촬영 검사에 대한 DRL 평가)

  • Choi, Seok-Yoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.619-625
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    • 2022
  • In the field of imaging medicine, computed tomography is one of the most common test methods and one of the most frequently used test methods in hospitals. However, it is accompanied by a very high radiation exposure compared to other test methods. In order to reduce exposure, CT scans should be performed only when absolutely necessary, and even if the tests are performed because they are absolutely necessary, a protocol that serves the purpose of the test and allows the test to be performed in a small dose should be used. In this study, we wanted to learn about the most up-to-date radiation dose usage information used by the region's leading general hospitals and develop a diagnostic reference level (DRL). In the experimental results, the Head CT and Abdomen CT tests showed that DLP was higher than the NRPB (U.K) and Korean DRL. The DLP values used by Chest CT were low for all 3 types of CT devices. The hospital found that efforts to reduce exposure should be made during CT examinations, and in particular, Head CT and Abdomen CT determined that efforts to reduce exposure were necessary.