• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.1146-1151
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• 2005

The yeast Candida albicans has a distinguishing feature, dimorphism, which is the ability to switch between two morphological forms: a budding yeast form and a multicellular invasive filamentous form. This ability has been postulated to contribute to the virulence of this organism. Previously, we reported that the yeast-to-hypha transition in this organism is suppressed by farnesoic acid, a morphogenic autoregulatory substance that accumulates in the medium as the cells proliferate. In this study, using a differential display reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (DDRT-PCR) technique, we have identified several genes induced in C. albicans by farnesoic acid treatment. These observations indicate that farnesoic acid can alter the expressivity of multiple genes, including the DNA replication machinery and cell-cycle-control proteins.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.211-214
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• 2007

Chemical and morphological changes of phenol formaldehyde-based photoresist after $O_2$ radiofrequency(RF) plasma treatment depending on exposure time and source power were investigated. It was found that etch rate of photoresist sharply increased after discharge turn on and reached a limit with increase in plasma exposure time. Contact angle measurements and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS) analysis showed that the surface chemical structure become nearly constant after 15 sec of the treatment. Atomic force microprobe(AFM) measurements were shown that surface roughness was increased with plasma exposure time.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.971-976
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• 2005

In a 30-1 bioreactor culture, whole differentiation occurred from 48 h, and then proceeded rapidly. As swollen hyphal fragments and arthrospores increased, cephalosporin C (CPC) production increased exponentially to $1.85\;g/1^{-1}$ at 72 h. To explain the morphological changes of Cephalosporium acremonium M25 more quantitatively, specific differentiation rates and fractal analysis were employed. Specific differentiation rates of morphological factors varied greatly during the period of culture time from 48 h to 72 h, when CPC production increased significantly. Changes of fractal dimensions showed a pattern similar to that of the specific rate of arthrospores. Furthermore, it was inversely related to the specific rate of tips. Overall, it was suggested that the fractal dimension had potential for a new morphological parameter of fungal morphology, showing complex differentiation patterns.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.75-80
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• 2013

The morphological features of pollen grains collected from the broad-leaved and cylindrical-leaved Portulaca species of the Hawaiian Islands were investigated. The variation in size and surface pattern were examined using scanning electron microscopy and statistical analysis. Pollens of the Portulaca were apolar grains of monads exhibiting apertures, colpi, and relatively thin echini. Of particular interest was the differing size of pollen grains among the species studied. Pollens of the broad-leaved Portulaca were considerable in size with a length of about $73{\sim}86{\mu}m$, while the cylindrical-leaved Portulaca tended to have smaller pollen grains ranging from 50~65 in diameter. The smallest pollens were found in cultivar 2 having an average of $43{\mu}m$. The pollen was intectate, and the exine surface appeared granulous, having sculptured elements of spinules and puncta. Two types of puncta were discerned; one forming an operculum, and the other, a simple perforation. Numerous spinules and small puncta were found throughout the cylindrical-leaved Portulaca. In the present study, morphological features of pollen grains from ten Hawaiian Portulaca species, including endemic and unknown taxa, revealed the aforementioned pattern of variation. This paper aim to provide morphological information that could be of phylogenetic value within the Hawaiian Portulaca.

• Mycobiology
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.7-13
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• 2006

Arbuscular mycorrhizas (AM) have mutualistic symbiosis with plants and thus efforts have been placed on application of these symbiotic relationships to agricultural and environmental fields. In this study, AM fungi were collected from 25 sites growing with 16 host plant species in Korea and cultured with Sorghum bicolor in greenhouse condition. AM fungal spores were extracted and identified using both morphological and molecular methods. Using morphological characters, total 15 morpho-speices were identified. DNA was extracted from single spore of AM fungi and a partial region on 18S rDNA was amplified using nested PCR with AM fungal specific primers AML1/AML2. A total of 36 18S rDNA sequences were analyzed for phylogenetic analysis and 15 groups of AM fungi were identified using both morphological and molecular data of spores. Among the species, 4 species, Archaeospora leptoticha, Scutellospora castanea, S. cerradensis, S. weresubiae were described for the first time in Korea and two species in Glomus and a species in Gigaspora were not identified. Morphological and molecular identification of AM fungal spores in this study would help identify AM fungal community colonizing roots.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2009년도 제40회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1523_1524
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• 2009

Inkjet technology has various merits as a direct patterning process in plenty of industrial applications, but critical issue such as coffee ring effect should be overcome for the application to an industrial manufacturing process. In this paper, we introduced the morphological analysis of inkjet printed pattrerns on the characristics of inks and substrates. In case of Triethlene Glycol Monoethly Ether based ink, the coffee ring effect was observed. However, an ethanol based ink showed the round shaped morphology under the same printing conditions and surface conditions. An ink consisted of the solvent with high boiling point results in coffee ring effect. This experimental results showed that the morphological change of the printed droplet is caused by the main solvent of ink, rather than the metal content, viscosity and surface tension.

• 한국자원식물학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.194-199
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• 2003

자병취 (Saussurea chabyoungsanica Im..)에 대한 실체를 파악하기 위해 전반적인 형태학적 형질을 재검토하여 지역간 변이의 폭을 분석하였다. 태백산맥계에 속하는 만덕봉, 석병산, 석개재, 덕항산의 능선부 등 모두 석회암 지대에서 발견된 자병취와 북한에 자생하는 것으로 보고된 산골취의 외부형태에 대한 PCA분석 결과, 자병취 집단은 산골취 집단과 뚜렷이 구분되었고, 잎, 화관, 포엽의 형질이 주요 요인으로 나타났다. 또한 자병취의 지역별 외부형태의 분석결과, 석병산 지역의 자병취집단이 다른 지역의 자병취 집단과 구분되었으며 이는 환경구배현상에서 오는 차이가 반영된 것으로 생각된다.

• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.197-205
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• 2010

The ecotoxicological effects of two antibiotics, fenbendazole and lincomycin, were observed in the harpacticoid copepod Tigriopus japonicus s.l. collected from tidal pools in the southern coast of Korea. Fenbendazole had a significant effect on the survival rates (p < 0.05), delay of copepodite emergence, and urosome size (p < 0.05). Lincomycin, on the other hand, had no significant influence on these environmental indicators. However, our analysis of morphological abnormalities in T. japonicus s.l. showed that lincomycin was more effective than fenbendazole in causing deformities. The pattern of deformity was diverse, with fused segments, and loss or addition of setae in the swimming legs. All of these patterns appeared as a result of relatively low concentrations of this antibiotic (0.3, $1\;{\mu}g\;L^{-1}$). We report here patterns of morphological abnormality in T. japonicus s.l. exposed to antibiotics, and suggest their possible application in ecotoxicological monitoring.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1993년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.145-150
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• 1993

It is an important component of the diagnosis to research the morphological changes of EMG in pathological conditions. In order to provide an EMG signal resulting from a predetermined neuromuscular pathophysiology, we have initially developed a mathmatical model of electromyographic interference pattern(IP). It can be used to study the variation of the IP resulting from morphological and electrophysiological changes occurring in disease states, because the model computes the IP from the underlying fiber and muscle structure. We performed quantative analysis or the model output, focusing on IPs resulting from simulations of dystrophic fiber loss and the MU denervation and reinnervation typical of neuropathies. To discribe the characteristics of IPs associated with these pathologies, a set of frequency domain discriptors, activity, mobility, and complexity were used, as well as several measures of the spectral density function. These discriptors demonstrate distinct patterns of variation corresponding to morphological changes observed in disease states, and closely with results obtained from the classical method, turn/amp technique.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제26권8호
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• pp.55-63
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• 2021

소셜 빅데이터는 신조어나 고유명사를 포함하는 경우가 많으며, 이들을 처리하기 위해 단어별 출현 빈도수를 기반으로 한 통계적인 형태소 분석 방법이 많이 활용되고 있다. 그러나 이들 방법에서는 복합 명사를 제대로 인지하지 못해, 키워드 추출의 정확도가 떨어지는 문제점이 지적되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 소셜 빅데이터의 키워드 분석에 있어 복합 명사를 추출하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법은 형태소 분석 단계를 통해 얻어진 단어를 조합하여 복합 명사 후보군을 만들고, 주어진 리뷰에서 이들의 출현 빈도를 조사하여 얻어진 빈도수를 기반으로 복합 명사를 추출한다. 복합 명사 후보군을 구성하는 방법에 따라 두 가지 알고리즘을 제안하였으며, 각 알고리즘의 성능을 수식으로 표현하고 비교한다. 그리고 온라인에서 수집된 실제 데이터를 대상으로 실험을 통해 비교 결과를 검증하는 동시에, 제안 방법이 실시간 처리에도 적합함을 보여준다.