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Production of curdlan with agro-industrial byproduct by Agrobacterium sp. ATCC 31749

  • Jeong, Dae-Yeong;Kim, Hyeon-Suk;Seo, Hyeong-Pil;Lee, Nam-Gyu;Kim, Ji-Mo;Lee, Jin-U
    • 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.04a
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    • pp.251-254
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    • 2000
  • Effect of carbon sources including agro-industrial byproduct on cell growth and production of curdlan by Agrobacterium sp. ATCC 31749 was investigated. Maximal production of curdlan was obtained when the carbon source was sucrose. The conversion rate of curdlan from 2% (w/v) sucrose was 59%. Glucose, mannose and maltose were also found to be good carbon sources for production of curdlan. Production of curdlan increased up to 3% (w/v) glucose as the carbon source and then decrease as the concentration of glucose increased. The major components of agro-industrial byproduct (AIB) were glucose, maltose, and maltose, and maltotriose. Agrobacterium sp.ATCC 31749 utilized up to 25% (v/v) AIB and produced curdlan with 29.8g/1.

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A Study on the Life Satisfaction of the Rural Olders near Taegu Metropolitan City (대구근교농촌노인의 생활만족도에 관한 연구)

  • Seo Mal-Hee;Yoo Ka-Hyo
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.37 no.12 s.142
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    • pp.29-41
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships of the social demographic variables, health variables, and family environmental variables to life satisfaction of rural olders, to identify their problems and to find good directions to enhance the welfares for the rural olds who are in poor life situations. The results are as follows : 1. The male old's satisfaction were higher than the female old's one. The life satisfaction didn't show differences according to the age or religion. But, the higher educational level, the higher life satisfaction was shown. The higher the economic status, the higher life satisfaction was shown. 2. The degree of life satisfaction had meaningful differences on the number of disease and health situation. The more disease they have, the lower life satisfaction was shown. 3. The life satisfaction of the rural old was highest when they live together with their married children than living alone. When they have spouse, the life satisfaction was high. And, as the relation with their children was close, the life satisfaction was high. So, it is thought the children have great influences to the rural old. 4. In the multiple regression analysis, It was found that physical health, the relationship with their children, perceived economic status, and unemployment of their children were effective variables in the old's life satisfaction.

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Factors Influencing Old People's Stress and Coping with It (노인의 스트레스 요인과 대처방안에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Choi, Sang-Gyu;Nam, Chul-Hyun;Lee, Soon-Ja;Kim, Gi-Yeol;Park, Geum-Hwa;Lee, Uung-Chang
    • Journal of Society of Preventive Korean Medicine
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.53-65
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    • 2006
  • This study was conducted to analyze factors influencing old people's stress and coping with it. The subjects of this study were 1186 people who lived in 6 cities. The data were collected from September, 2003 to March, 2003. The result of this study can be summarized as follow. 1. 14.3% of the respondents was in good health, while 30.6% of them was not in good health. 11.0% of them had good eyesight and 22.2% had a good sense of hearing. 12.0% of them had good teeth. 2. The level of coping with stress was 59.9 points on the basis 100 points. The level of coping with it actively was highest, while the level of coping with it passively was lowest. 3. Factors which influenced old people's stress were job health condition, leisure activity, smoking, hearing ability, and regular exercise. 4. Factors which affected coping with stress were gender, having meals regularly, smoking, job, vigor, preference of foods, and average pocket money per month. As shown in the above results, the level of old people's stress factors and coping with it were significantly low in the groups of low education level, having less pocket money, living alone, being in bad health, having weak eyesight, having bad sense of hearing, having bad teeth, low satisfaction level with leisure, and having no health behavior. Therefore, the method of decreasing stress factors and coping with it should be developed. The government and related organizations must make great efforts to improve old people's quality of life and increase healthy life expectancy.

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A Study on Sleep Environment in Bedroom and Segmentation of Sleepers in Seoul and Metropolitan Area (서울시 및 수도권 거주자의 침실환경과 침실 사용자그룹 세분화에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Bi-Na;Chun, Chung-Yoon
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.37-44
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    • 2009
  • Sleep has big influence on our life, for example productivity, character formation of babies, mortality and the people who suffered from sleep problem are also diverse. Therefore, indoor environmental supports for good sleep, might be different with the situation and need of respective person. The objectives of this study are: 1) to investigate the current bedroom condition, sleep problem, and life pattern of Korean. 2) to classify Korean into several groups and explain their characteristics relevant to sleep, in order to understand Korean's need for good sleep. The questionnaire was sent out to Seoul and its environs in Jan.$\sim$Feb. 2008, and total of 702 questionnaires were collected. The research on the bedroom condition was conducted around perceived influence of environmental factors, opening and closing of the door, cooling and heating strategy, clo value during sleep, bedding type, lighting, sharing bedroom. People are divided into 6 groups by 8 factors, and 5 groups could be seen that they need some management for good sleep because of their sleep problem.

Water Environmental Assessment by the Species Biotic Index of Freshwater Fish in the Namdaecheon, Gangneung City (담수어류의 종생물지수를 이용한 강릉 남대천의 수환경 평가)

  • Song, Ho-Bok;Baek, Hyun-Min;Lee, Chun-Won
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.237-245
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    • 2005
  • We investigated the water environmental assessment by the species biotic index (SBI) of freshwater fish at the Namdaecheon in Gangneung city, Gangweon-do during June and July in 2004 and June in 2005. In fish fauna, 29 species and 10 families were collected. Dominant species was Zacco platypus (relative abundance 15.33%) and subdominant species was Rhynchocypris steindachneri (13.13%). Species biotic index (SBI) in station 1, 2, 3, 4 was 1.70, 2.85, 1.00 and 3.39 respectively and water environmental grade by SBI was all very good. Station 5 was 4.13 in SBI and good grade. Station 6 was 4.47 and fairly good. Station 7 was 7.25 and poor. And station 8 was 8.10 and very poor grade. Results of water environmental grade by SBI and water quality grade were very similar in this stream.

Nutrition Counseling Practice, Perception, and Nutrition Knowledge of Nutrition Counseling Participants and Non-Participants -Elementary Students in Gyeongbuk Province- (초등학생의 영양 상담에 따른 인식, 흥미도 및 영양 지식 -경북 지역 중심-)

  • Lee, In-Sook
    • Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.146-153
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    • 2011
  • For the purpose of carrying out nutrition counseling effectively and efficiently, this study assessed the nutrition counseling practice, perception and nutrition knowledge of elementary school children in Gyeongbuk province. Survey questionnaires were distributed between November 2009 and December 2009 to 100 nutrition counseling experienced children (participants) and 110 nutrition counseling non-experienced children (non-participants) and were completed with nutrition teachers' assistance. According to the survey results, girls and overweight/obese children showed higher tendency of participation in nutrition counseling (p<0.001). Participants who took nutrition counseling according to their own intentions showed satisfaction after counseling on diverse subjects such as obesity, unbalanced diet, and weight control. Particularly, 'lack of counseling session time', 'unfavorable counseling condition' or 'difficult explanation' caused participants unsatisfaction after counseling. Participants usually perceived the meaning of nutrition counseling more correctly than non-participants and showed positive intentions for taking further counseling in the future(p<0.001). Diet good for weight control, good food to fix unbalanced diet and diet good for growing stature were the top three subjects of nutrition counseling chosen by subjects (p<0.001). Participants also showed higher nutrition knowledge scores than non-participants. Therefore, it is critically important to apply nutrition counseling in the proper environment (counseling room, time, teaching materials, etc) to elementary school students to fix healthy food habits. Therefore, nutrition teachers need to be provide professional nutrition counseling skills and knowledge.

Synthetic Peptide-Based Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Human $\alpha$-Fetoprotein

  • Yoon, Mi-Chung;Lee, Hyun-Hee
    • Biomedical Science Letters
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.103-110
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    • 2001
  • $\alpha$-Fetoprotein(AFP) is a good marker for the detection of several diseases such as hepatocellular carcinoma, gonadal germ cell tumor, gastric tumor, and Down's syndrome. In this study, we developed ELISA, using synthetic peptides corresponding to the epitopes of AFP. Five kinds of peptides were synthesized from AFP to produce antibodies in rats that recognize AFP in human plasma as well as amniotic fluid and do not cross-react with serum albumin. All five kinds of antibodies showed good reactivities with their peptide-keyhole limpet hemocyanin conjugates. Anti-synthetic peptide 1 (R-N-E-Y-G-I-A-S-I-L, 4-13) antibody, in particular, reacted well with AEP as well as synthetic peptide 1-KLH but not with human serum albumin. The binding affinity(Kd) was 2.7$\times$10$^{-9}$M for peptide 1 and 6.8$\times$10$^{-8}$M for AEP. The range for measurement of AFP was 10~1,000 ng/ml. The within-assay and between-assay coefficients of variance(CV) were 4.83% and 10.97%, respectively. In a sample of 31 sera and 33 amniotic fluids, there was a good correlation between AFP values determined in this assay and those in a commercial kit. These results indicate that the antibodies against synthetic peptides corresponding to the epitopes of AFP are highly specific to APP and synthetic peptide-based ELISA would be useful for the measurement of human AFP.

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Effect of Diet Contents on Serum Composition and Urinary Excretion in Female Students According to Sasang Constitution (사상 체질별로 분류한 여대생의 식사내용이 혈청과 뇨중 성분치에 미치는 영향에 대 한 연구)

  • 박귀선;한진숙;김현주
    • Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.271-279
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    • 1998
  • This study was conducted to compare the serum composition and urinary excretion in four institutional groups and the effects of intakes of good foods and harmful foods according to the Sasang constitiution for a short time on serum and ruine compositon. The contitutions of 33 female stucdents were classified by O-ring test and muscular strength test according to the Sasang constitution, The number of each institutional group was So-yang-in 11, So-em-in 10 and Tae-em-in 12. No subject belonged to Tae-yang-in There were no significant differences among contitutional groups in the values of most serum composition and urinary excretion Serum levels of total cholesterol, glucose, calcium and phosphorus in Tae-em-in was the highest among groups and the level of albumin and total protein in So-em-in was highest. The values of serum compositions changed after the 33 subjects took good foods and then harmful foods according to The Sasang constitution for a short time(5 days). Dietary behavior of the subjects had some effects among the constitutional groups in the values of most serum composition and urinary excretion. But the effects of dietary behavior on the serum composition and urinary excretion showed various trends in the four institutional groups.

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Effect of Cellulose, Pectin and Alginic Acid Level on Serum Lipid Composition in Rats (셀룰로오스, 펙틴 및 알긴산 수준이 흰쥐의 혈청지질 농도에 미치는 영향)

  • 황은희;서은숙;이형자
    • Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.27-34
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    • 1999
  • This study was carried out to investigate the effects of the kinds and the amounts of dietary fiber on serum lipid composition in rats. Seventy-two male Sprague-Dawley rats weighting 160$\pm$10g were fed diets containing 1.0%, 3.6%, 6.0% and 10.0% $\alpha$-cellulose, pectin and alginic acid fer 4 weeks. Daily food intake of experimental groups was significantly higher in the u-cellulose 10.0% group than in the other groups. Increasing the dietary fiber level decreased the food efficiency ratio of the $\alpha$-cellulose, pectin and alginic acid groups. Serum triglyceride concentration was significantly lower in the rats fed the alginic acid diet. Serum total cholesterol concentration showed no significant difference in the kind and the amount of three dietary fibers. Serum HDL-cholesterol concentration was higher in $\alpha$-cellulose and pectin diet. HDL-cholesterol/total cholesterol ratio was higher in u-cellulose and pectin diet than alginic acid diet. In conclusion, alginic acid is good for the serum triglyceride decrease, pectin is good for HDL-cholesterol increase, $\alpha$-cellulose and alginic acid are good for HDL-cholesterol/total cholesterol ratio increase. But the different effects according to the dietary fiber's contents did not show a significant trend.

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A Study on Recognition and Consumption about Instant Food of Homemakers in Inchon (주부의 가공식품에 대한 인식 및 소비 연구 -인천 지역을 중심으로-)

  • 이강자
    • Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.299-307
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    • 1995
  • This study was surveyed concept and consumption for Instant foods by homemakers in Inchon city. The result of study were as follows. 1. In the view of integral numberized high, middle, low, high group reached 19.2%, middle was 50.2% and low showed 30.1%. As higher their ages up, the point was high. 2. Their concept of instant food is close to 'convenience' and 'time saving' but far from 'good for health', 'high nutrition' and 'safe sanitation'. 3. Divied into two groups with positive and negative, which proved their concept of Instant foods as 57.5% positively. Negative group which has negative concept for instant food has a good dietary pattern, Positive group which consists of low ages and high income showed positive attitute for instant fodds. 4. Consumption of bred, noodles and soybean sourecs is little bit higher than other items. Consumption by the group which has low ages, highly educated, having small number of children proved high percentage. Also, the group which has good dietary pattern showed low consumption of instant foods comparing to other group. 5. According to the relation between concept and consumption of the instant foods the group that conceives instant foods positive consumes higher than the group which has negative concept.

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