• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.324-338
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• 2015

Analytical solutions for interaction between seabed and waves such as progressive wave or partial standing wave with arbitrary reflection ratio or standing wave have been developed by many researchers including Lee et al.(2014; 2015a; 2015b; 2015c; 2015d) and Yamamoto et al.(1978). They handled the pore-water pressure as oscillating pore-water pressure and residual pore-water pressure separately and discussed the seabed response on each pore-water pressure. However, based on field observations and laboratory experiments, the oscillating and residual pore-water pressures in the seabed do occur not separately but together at the same time. Therefore, the pore-water pressure should be investigated from a total pore-water pressure point of view. Thus, in this paper, the wave-induced seabed response including liquefaction depth was discussed among oscillating, residual, and total pore-water pressures' point of view according to the variation of wave, seabed, and flow conditions. From the results, in the field of flow with the same direction of progressive wave, the following seabed response has been identified; with increase of flow velocity, the dimensionless oscillating pore-water pressure increases, but the dimensionless residual pore-water pressure decreases, and consequently the dimensionless total pore-water pressure and the dimensionless liquefaction depth decrease.

• Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.710-714
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• 2009

Several studies showed that the survival rate of stage IIIB disease with malignant pleural effusion is worse than stage IIIB disease without malignant effusion. But, malignant pleural effusion was considered T4. To analyze changes the survival time for malignant pleural effusion, in the seventh revision of TNM classification for lung cancer. The records of all patients had to have either a histological or cytological diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), who were admitted to Wonkwang university hospital between January 2004 and December 2006 were reviewed retrospectively. We evaluated the survival time of 187 patients with advanced lung cancer with and without malignant pleural effusion. This included the pleural effusion or nodule M1 a (pleural dissemination, currently classified as T4), nodule(s) in the other lung M1 a (contralateral lung nodule, currently classified as M1), nodule(s) with the same lobe as the primary tumor T3 (currently classified as T4), other T4 factors T4 (T4 MO anyN), and extrathoracic sites of disease M1b (distant metastasis, currently classified M1). Among the 187 patients, T4anyNMO was 57 patients in the current TNM classification. In the next edition of the TNM classification, T4MOanyN-T4 (excluding same lobe nodules) was 12 patients, pleural dissemiantion-M1a was 45 patients, contralateral lung nodule(s)-M1a was 7 patients, and metastatic disease-M1b was 55 patients. We compared the survival time for these groups. Survival time was 11 months, 8 months, 11 months, and 4 months. The survival time of malignant pleural effusion was shorter than other T4 factors without pleural effusion. But, there was no remarkable difference in statistics due to small cases (p=0.23). We strongly suggest that malignant pleural effusion in advanced NSCLC will be categorized with metastatic disease.

• Journal of Society of Preventive Korean Medicine
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.121-130
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• 2003

The Musculoskeletal Disease has been ignored or turned away due to the difficulty of diagnosis and the vagueness of judgement up to now. Contrary to other diseases, there were many cases where the character of the Musculoskeletal Disease wasn't revealed through the objective inspection. And that's because the Musculoskeletal Disease appears for the most part due to muscular defect so it is impossible to diagnose the muscle by X-ray diagnosing the bone and it is also impossible to diagnose the fine damage of the muscle or tendon even by advanced device like MRI. As the nervous blood vessels or acupunctures pass through or are next to the muscle, the tension of the muscle put pressure on these so can become the direct or indirect causes of various kinds of pains or intern diseases. But in spite of that, for lack of proper equipment diagnosing the state of the muscle(Shortened.. Relaxed... or Hardened...) the muscle has been disregarded or neglected intentionally or unintentionally. While many people think themselves to be a muscular expert, if they don't see the shape of the muscle, that is just like blind treatment. But as now the equipment diagnosing the state of the muscle is developed, it seems that this problem can be settled. It was attempted in this study that the muscle or skeleton of the Musculoskeletal disease patients was diagno the treatment order and method were decided by a questionnaire survey and simple inspection, and the Musculoskeletal correction exercise using the muscle management and sling system made them escape from the Musculoskeletal disease, turning their muscle into more flexible and stronger muscle. As a result notwithstanding the limited treatment period '12 times', the improvement rate was as high as 74%, which showed that the muscle management and Musculoskeletal correction exercise had a great effect on the symptom improvement of the patients. If the treatment times had increased, the improvement rate also would have increased more.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.299-306
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• 2013

In the present study, we investigated the effect of ethanolic extract of the seed of Zizyphus jujuba var. spinosa (EEZS) on cholinergic blockade-induced memory impairment in mice. Male ICR mice were treated with EEZS. The behavioral tests were conducted using the passive avoidance, the Y-maze, and the Morris water maze tasks. EEZS (100 or 200 mg/kg, p.o.) significantly ameliorated the scopolamine-induced cognitive impairment in our present behavioral tasks without changes of locomotor activity. The ameliorating effect of EEZS on scopolamine-induced memory impairment was significantly reversed by a sub-effective dose of MK-801 (0.0125 mg/kg, s.c.). In addition, single administration of EEZS in normal naive mouse enhanced latency time in the passive avoidance task. Western blot analysis was employed to confirm the mechanism of memory-ameliorating effect of EEZS. Administration of EEZS (200 mg/kg) increased the level of memory-related signaling molecules, including phosphorylation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase or cAMP response element-binding protein in the hippocampal region. Also, the time-dependent expression level of brain-derived neurotrophic factor by the administration of EEZS was markedly increased from 3 to 9 h. These results suggest that EEZS has memory-ameliorating effect on scopolamine-induced cognitive impairment, which is mediated by the enhancement of the cholinergic neurotransmitter system, in part, via NMDA receptor signaling, and that EEZS would be useful agent against cognitive dysfunction such as Alzheimer's disease.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.11-25
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• 2008

As breast cancer shows the highest incidence among women's cancers, the use of mammography is also increasing as a screening test. Mammography should produce high-quality images for accurate diagnosis. For this, it is necessary to manage the performance and image quality of mammography. Thus, in order to investigate quality control, the present study conducted a questionnaire survey of 37 hospitals registered as breast cancer medical examination centers in Gwang-Ju, concerning their quality control of mammography. In the results of surveying the characteristics of apparatus use for mammography, many respondents did not know about the equipment that they were using. Of the hospitals, 19 (49%) were using film, 19 (49%) CR, and 1 DR. In the results of asking how to do quality control, only 38% answered that they inspected according to the manual. In addition, all the surveyed hospitals had specialized agencies do quality control for them. As to the reason for using agencies, 65% mentioned limitations in personnel, time, distance, etc, and 44% mentioned the absence of machines and materials. These results suggest that quality control is being performed perfunctorily, as well as passively and indifferently as it relies on specialized agencies. Accordingly, it is necessary to provide regular education for enhancing people's perception of quality control and to perform quality control adequately in the presence of Radiologist.

• The Journal of the Korean Society for Microbiology
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.171-180
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• 2000

Ninety two strains of Streptococcus pyogenes were isolated from patients with pharyngitis, scarlet fever, skin infection, and invasive streptococcal infections in Seoul, Korea from January to December, 1998. All isolates were epidemiologically characterized by T protein serotype, and serum opacity factor (OF) detection to phenotypes. To analyze the genetic relationship, fifty two isolates including 32 erythromycin-clindamycin (Em-Cm) resistant strains, 20 antimicrobial susceptible strains were attempted to the pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). T protein serotype showed 16 kinds in distribution including T12 and T4. Among the total isolates, 40 strains (43.5%) belonged to the T12 serotype and twenty strains (21.7%) to T4 serotype. On the other hand, when infection aspect of S. pyogenes isolates were analysed by T serotype distribution, T12 type was predominant for pharyngitidis which contributed to 21 strains (53%) and for skin infection isolates which contributed to 11 strains (28%), respectively. In case of T4 type, it was the most predominant pharyngitidis isolates which contributed to 8 strains (40%). In T serotype distribution of Em-Cm resistant strains, 27 strains (84%) of the thirty two showed T12 serotype. In minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values of Em-Cm resistance isolates, thirty two isolates showed resistant to erythromycin 27 strains (84%), had high MIC of >$128\;{\mu}g/ml$. And also to clindamycin, twenty two strains (69%) had high MIC of >$128\;{\mu}g/ml$. When OF detection of Em-Cm resistance of S. pyogenes isolates were analyzed by T serotype distribution, T12 serotype isolates revealed that all of the isolates except one strain were OF negative. In PFGE profile analysis to Em-Cm resistance isolates, of the twenty seven, Em-Cm resistance of T12 serotype isolates, 26 strains showed identical PFGE profile and all of these isolates revealed that OF negative. Eighty four percent of Em-Cm resistance S. pyogenes isolates had identical phenotype and PFGE profile. These results strongly suggested that the Em-Cm resistant S. pyogenes isolates from Seoul area showed close genetic correlation and PFGE could be available tool for molecular epidemiology.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2012.02a
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• pp.441-441
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• 2012

Franz Keldysh Oscillation (FKO)은 p-n 접합 구조의 Photoreflectance (PR) spectra에서 표면 및 계면의 전기장(electric field) 특성을 반영한다. InAs/GaAs 양자점 태양전지(Quantum Dot Solar Cell, QDSC) 구조에서 InAs 양자점 층 전후에 AlGaAs 층을 삽입하여 퍼텐셜 장벽(potential barrier) 두께에 따른 PR spectra 및 GaAs-matrix에서 FKO 주파수 특성을 비교 분석하였다. InAs/GaAs 양자점 태양전지는 p-i-n 구조의 i-GaAs에 2.0 monolayer (ML), 8주기의 InAs 양자점 층을 삽입하여 Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) 방법으로 성장하였다. 각 양자점 층 전후에 두께가 각각 0.0, 1.6, 2.8, 6.0 nm인 AlGaAs 층을 삽입하여 퍼텐셜 장벽 두께에 따른 FKO 주파수 변화를 관측하였다. 또한 태양전지 구조의 전기장 분포를 좀 더 용이하게 관측하기 위해 여기 광의 세기(power intensity)를 충분히 낮추어 Photovoltaic effect에 의한 내부 전기장의 변화를 최소화하여 비교 분석하였다. InAs/GaAs 양자점 태양전지 구조에서 AlGaAs 장벽층이 없는 경우, PR spectra의 Fast Fourier Transform 결과에 반영되는 FKO 주파수 특성은 p-i-n 구조 계면에서 공핍층(depletion region)의 space charge field보다 양자점 층의 내부 전기장에 의한 FKO 주파수가 더 큰 진폭(amplitude)을 보였다. 반면에, AlGaAs 장벽층이 삽입되면 두께가 커짐에 따라 p-i-n 구조 계면의 space charge field에 의해 더 큰 진폭의 FKO 주파수가 관측되었다. 이는 AlGaAs 장벽층이 삽입됨으로써 양자점 층 내 양자 상태 수 및 여기광에 의한 캐리어의 수와 관련이 있음을 확인하였으며, 결과적으로 GaAs-matrix에서 p-i-n 구조 계면의 space charge field에 영향을 미치게 됨을 알 수 있다. 이러한 PR 특성 결과들을 InAs/GaAs 양자점 태양전지의 설계 및 제조에 반영함으로써 양자효율 증대에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of fish pathology
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.29-37
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• 2005

This study investigated external symptoms, behavior characteristics and the distribution pattern of the scuticociliates in the skin, gill and blood vessel of the tiger puffer, Takifugu rubripes, infected with scuticociliates among tiger puffer cultured. The fish infected with scuticociliates did not show any external symptoms, such as change in body color or swimming behavior, in the early infection stage. However, they showed congestion, erosion, and ulcer on the skin and fin at advanced stages. They showed a turning movement, mainly stayed on the bottom, and swam with their mouths open at the surface of water. Some fish showed a sudden swimming movement of zigzag type. The scuticociliates were ovoid in shape and $20\times40{\mu}m$ in size. The scuticociliates had a contractile vesicle and a caudal cilium that ranged 10-12 ${\mu}m$, and reproduced by binary fission. Therefore the scuticociliates were identified as ciliated, belonging to class Hymenostomatia, order Scuticociliatida in morphogenetic character. The gills infiltrated with scuticociliates showed clubbed gill filament due to hypertrophy of gill lamella. Within the blood vessels, scuticociliates were observed one to ten individuals, depending on diameter of the blood vessels. Some of the scuticociliates were observed to have ingested erythrocytes.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.375-380
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• 2011

This study was performed to investigate cholesterol improvement effects of adding fermented defatted soybean grit (FD) and FD added to 5 or 10% Corchorus olitorius (FDC). Cholesterol adsorption in the FD and FDC group was more than 70%. Apolipoprotein AI and CIII improved in HepG2 cells, and a greater improvement effect was shown in FDC than that in FD. We also investigated the effect of FDC on body lipid metabolism and a high-fat diet for 4 weeks. Rats were divided into control (Con), high-fat (HF), HF treated with 20% FD (HF-FD), and HF treated with 20% FDC (HF-FDC) groups. Plasma total cholesterol and low density lipoprotein-cholesterol concentrations, hepatic total cholesterol, and triglyceride contents were significantly lower in the HF-FDC group than those in the HF group. Additionally, fecal total cholesterol and triglyceride contents increased in rats treated with FDC. Hepatic 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase activities were significantly lower in the HF-FDC group than those in the HF group.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.38-43
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• 2013

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of the synthetic CopA3 peptide of Copris tripartitus on skin inflammation. Regulatory mechanisms of cytokines and nitric oxide (NO) are involved in the immunological activity of RAW 264.7 cells. Tested cells were treated with different concentrations of CopA3 and further cultured for an appropriate time after lipopolyssacharide (LPS) addition. During the entire experimental period, 5, 25, 50, and 100 ${\mu}g/ml$ of CopA3 had no cytotoxicity. At these concentrations, CopA3 inhibited tumor necrosis factor-${\alpha}$ (TNF-${\alpha}$), interleukin-$1{\beta}$ (IL-$1{\beta}$), and interleukin-6 (IL-6). CopA3 also inhibited the expression of inducible NO synthase (iNOS) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2). CopA3 inhibited the activity of iNOS and COX-2 by 41% and 59%, respectively, at 100 ${\mu}g/ml$. In addition, CopA3 reduced the release of inflammatory cytokines including TNF-${\alpha}$, IL-$1{\beta}$, and IL-6. These results suggest that CopA3 may have significant effects on inflammatory factors and that it may be a potential anti-inflammatory therapeutic agent.