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The Relationship between Anatomical Characteristics and Compression Strength Parallel to Grain in Major Species of Lepidobalanus (참나무 아속(亞屬) 주요 수종의 조직적 성질과 종압축강도와의 관계)

  • Oh, Seung-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.63-69
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    • 1998
  • This study was carried out to get some basic information on mechanical properties of Korea Lepidobalanus for rational utilization of wood. Five species of Quercus variabilis, Q. aliena, Q. serrata, Q. mongolica, Q. acutissima belong to Lepidobalanus were investigated in this research. Relationship of anatomical characteristics to compression strength parallel to grain was analyzed using stepwise regression technique. All possible combination of 21 independent variables were regressed on compression strength parallel to grain. The summarized results in this study were as follows: I. In the proportion of wood structural elements, the factors that had the greatest influence on compression strength parallel to grain appeared to be proportion of ray in earlywood in Q. variabilis and Q. acutissima, proportion of wood fiber in latewood in Q. aliena and Q. serrata and proportion of vessel in earlywood in Q. mongolica respectively. 2. In the size of wood element and its structure, the factors that had the greatest influence on compression strength parallel to grain were microfibril angle in Q. variabilis, Q. serrata and Q. mongolica and length of wood fiber in Q. aliena and Q. acutissima.

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Adaptive Q-Algorithm for Multiple Tag Identification in EPCglobal Gen-2 RFID System

  • Lim, In-Taek
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.307-311
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    • 2010
  • EPCglobal Class-1 Gen-2 protocol has been proposed for UHF-band RFID systems. In Gen-2 standard, Q-algorithm was proposed to select a frame size for the next query round without estimating the number of tags. Therefore, the Q-algorithm has advantage that the reader's algorithm is simpler than other algorithms. However, it is impossible to allocate the optimized frame size. Also, the original Q-algorithm did not define an optimized parameter C for adjusting the frame size. In this paper, we propose an adaptive Q-algorithm with the different parameter $C_c$ and $C_i$ in accordance with the status of reply slot. Simulation results show that the proposed adaptive Q-algorithm outperforms the original Gen-2 Q-algorithm.

Restriction endonuclease maps of three plasmids from bacillus thuringiensis serovar israelensis 4Q1 (Bacillus thuringiensis serovar israelensis 4Q1로부터 분리된 plasmid 제한효소지도 작성)

  • Faust, R.M.;;;C.L.Meyers-Dowling;P.E.McCawley
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.122-128
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    • 1985
  • Bacillus thuringiensis serovar israelensis 4Q1 contains 8 different covalently closed-circular (CCC) plasmids of molecular weight 204, 267, 109, 103, 16, 7.6, 6.4, and 5.0kb. The three smallest plasmids, designated pBti6, and pBti8 may prove to be useful as cloning vectors because of thier size and ease of isolation. The three plasmids were incubated separately with 9 different restriction enzymes and 7 of the enzymes tested cleaved one or more of the plasmids. Plasmid pBti6 has a single site for Bg1 II, Pst I and Pvu II, two sites for Bc1 I and Eco RI, and five sites for Hind III. Plasmid pBti7 has a single site for Bam HI and Pst I, two sites for Hind III, and three sites for PvuII. Plasmic pBti8 has a single site for Bam HI, BelI and Hind III, two sites for Eco RI, and three sites for Bgl II and Pvu II. Composite restriction enzyme maps for pBti6, pBti7 and pBti8 were constructed. The sites of restriction enzyme cleavage were determined by single, double and partial digests of the plasmid DNA. All the restriction sites were aligned relative to the single Bgl II(pBti6), Pst I(pBti7) or Hind III(pBti8) site, respectively.

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Eupafolin Suppresses P/Q-Type Ca2+ Channels to Inhibit Ca2+/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase II and Glutamate Release at Rat Cerebrocortical Nerve Terminals

  • Chang, Anna;Hung, Chi-Feng;Hsieh, Pei-Wen;Ko, Horng-Huey;Wang, Su-Jane
    • Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.630-636
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    • 2021
  • Eupafolin, a constituent of the aerial parts of Phyla nodiflora, has neuroprotective property. Because reducing the synaptic release of glutamate is crucial to achieving pharmacotherapeutic effects of neuroprotectants, we investigated the effect of eupafolin on glutamate release in rat cerebrocortical synaptosomes and explored the possible mechanism. We discovered that eupafolin depressed 4-aminopyridine (4-AP)-induced glutamate release, and this phenomenon was prevented in the absence of extracellular calcium. Eupafolin inhibition of glutamate release from synaptic vesicles was confirmed through measurement of the release of the fluorescent dye FM 1-43. Eupafolin decreased 4-AP-induced [Ca2+]i elevation and had no effect on synaptosomal membrane potential. The inhibition of P/Q-type Ca2+ channels reduced the decrease in glutamate release that was caused by eupafolin, and docking data revealed that eupafolin interacted with P/Q-type Ca2+ channels. Additionally, the inhibition of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) prevented the effect of eupafolin on evoked glutamate release. Eupafolin also reduced the 4-AP-induced activation of CaMK II and the subsequent phosphorylation of synapsin I, which is the main presynaptic target of CaMKII. Therefore, eupafolin suppresses P/Q-type Ca2+ channels and thereby inhibits CaMKII/synapsin I pathways and the release of glutamate from rat cerebrocortical synaptosomes.

Testing General Linear Constraints on the Regression Coefficient Vector : A Note

  • Jeong, Ki-Jun
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.107-109
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    • 1979
  • Consider a linear model with n observations and k explanatory variables: (1)b $y=X\beta+u, u\simN(0,\sigma^2I_n)$. We assume that the model satisfies the ideal conditions. Consider the general linear constraints on regression coefficient vector: (2) $R\beta=r$, where R and r are known matrices of orders $q\timesk$ and q\times1$ respectively, and the rank of R is $qk+q$.

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Analysis of Students' and Teachers' Questions Posted on Chemistry Q&A Board in a Chemistry Education Homepage (화학교육 홈페이지의 화학 Q&A 게시판에 등록된 학생과 교사 질문 분석)

  • Han, Jae-Young;Ji, Youn-Jung;Lee, Jae-Youn
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.56 no.1
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    • pp.137-143
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    • 2012
  • This study analyzed the questions posted on the chemistry Q&A board by students and teachers in a chemistry education homepage, in order to understand the difficulties in learning and teaching chemistry. The different tendencies were found in the contents and the motivations of questions by students and teachers. In Chemistry I, students raised many questions in the 'Water' unit, while teachers raised many ones in the 'Chemical compound in our life' unit. In Chemistry II, students asked many questions in the 'Gas, liquid, solid' unit, while teachers did in 'Chemical reaction and energy' unit. Students' motivations of questioning were 'Explanation of unclear concept', and 'Problem solving', while teachers' motivations were 'Searching information', and 'Question in experiment'. The Q&A board provided a field in exchanging informations needed in learning and teaching chemistry. Educational implications were discussed on the use of Q&A board in chemistry education.

EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING BY STEADY STATE AND TRANSIENT METHODS IN SOME ORGANIC LIQUID SCINTILLATORS

  • Giraddi, T.P.;Kadadevarmath, J.S.;Chikkur, G.C.;Rath, M.C.;Mukherjee, T.
    • Journal of Photoscience
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.97-103
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    • 1997
  • The effect of temperature on the fluorescence quenching of 2-(4-Methoxyphenyl)-5-(1-naphthyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole (MPNO1), 2-(4-Methoxyphenyl)-5-(2-naphthyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazote(MPNO2), by aniline, and 2-Phenylindole (2-PI) by CCk, in toluene by steady state method and in benzene by time-resolved method have been carried out in the temperature range 30 - 70$\circ$C. The Stem-Volmer (S-V) plots, I$_0$/I against quencher concentration [Q] at different temperanares show positive deviations. The fluorescence lifetimes determined at different temperatures show no systematic variations and the variations being within the experimental error, the average values of lifetimes $ $\tau$ (t) are taken for further calculations. Rate constants such as Stem-Volmer quenching constants K$_sv}$, quenching rate parameters k$_q$ and k'$_q$, static quenching constant V and kinetic distance r are determined using the modified Stem-Volmer equation and sphere of action static quenching model. In order to see whether the reactions are diffusion limited, equations k$_q$ = e$^{-Eq/RT}$ and k'$_q$ = e$^{-Eq/RT}$ are used to determine the values of E$_q$ and E'$_q$, the activation energies for collisional quenching and the values of E$_q$ are 14.53. 17.28 and 16.20 kJ mole$^{-1}$ for MPNO1, MPNO2 and 2-PI respectively and the values of E'$_q$ are 14.62 and 17.73 for MPNO1 and MPNO2 respectively. From the magnitudes of various quantities it has been concluded that the reactions are diffusion limited and the observed positive deviations in the S-V plot are due to static and dynamic quenching.

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Tag Anti-Collision Algorithms in Passive and Semi-passive RFID Systems -Part I : Adjustable Framed Q Algorithm and Grouping Method by using QueryAdjust Command- (수동형/반능동형 RFID 시스템의 태그 충돌 방지 알고리즘 -Part I : QueryAdjust 명령어를 이용한 AFQ 알고리즘과 Grouping에 의한 성능개선-)

  • Song, In-Chan;Fan, Xiao;Chang, Kyung-Hi;Shin, Dong-Beom;Lee, Heyung-Sub
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.33 no.8A
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    • pp.794-804
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, we analyze the performance of probabilistic slotted anti-collision algorithm used in EPCglobal Class-1 Generation-2 (Gen2). To increase throughput and system efficiency, and to decrease tag identification time and collision ratio, we propose new tag anti-collision algorithms, which are FAFQ (fired adjustable flamed Q) algorithm and AAFQ (adaptive adjustable framed Q) algorithm, by using QueryAdjust command. We also propose grouping method based on Gen2 to improve the efficiency of tag identification. The simulation results show that all the proposed algorithms outperform Q algorithm, and AAFQ algorithm performs the best. That is, AAFQ has an increment of 5% of system efficiency and a decrement of 4.5% of collision ratio. For FAFQ and AAFQ algorithm, the performance of grouping method is similar to that of ungrouping method. However, for Q algorithm in Gen2, grouping method can increase throughput and system efficiency, and decrease tag identification time and collision ratio compared with ungrouping method.

The Disabled, What do you think about them ? : Using the Q Methodology (장애인, 당신은 어떻게 생각하십니까? : Q방법론을 활용하여)

  • Lee, Doh-Hee;Joo, Jeong-ah
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.9
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    • pp.493-501
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    • 2021
  • This study started to examine the understanding and perception of 'disabled people' and 'non-disabled people', one of the dichotomous elements in the 21st century social integration era. In particular, for the analysis, Q-methodology, which should respond based on the respondent's inner self and perception, was used. For the analysis, 32 Q-statements were secured, and as a result of targeting 20 P-sample respondents, three types were derived as follows. In , statements such as 'A correct awareness of disability is necessary' and 'Disability can occur to anyone' are emphasized, so it was named 「Correct Perception Emphasis Type」. emphasized 'The life of the disabled is not easy' and 'The disabled need an opportunity to participate in society' and was named 「The Life of the Disabled Understanding Type」. emphasized statements such as 'Economic support is necessary for the disabled' and 'The welfare budget for the disabled must be sufficiently secured', and was named 「Institutional Support Emphasis Type」. Therefore, in addition to the necessity of correct recognition of disability and disability in our society, we expect this study result is to be priming water for improving the recognition of the disabled.

Typology Study on Journalists' Barriers to Science Reporting: Focusing on Q methodology (언론인들의 과학보도 장벽 유형에 관한 연구 - Q 방법론을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Jin-Young
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.49
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    • pp.99-121
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    • 2010
  • Utilizing Q methodology, this study explored typology on journalists' barriers to science reporting. Two research issues were raised: First, what are the subjectivity factors and characteristic feature of journalist's barriers to science reporting; Second, what are the commonalities and differences among them. 20 science journalists were interviewed in-depth to find out their subjectivity factors. Korean journalists' type of barriers to science reporting could be classified into 4 groups as follows: Type I(N=8) is "reporting tendency barrier" type. Type II(N=3) is named for "institutional and systematic framework barrier". Type 3(N=5) belongs to "situational barrier" type. Type 4(N=3) is "scientific knowledge barrier" type.

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