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Understanding why the public agricultural information services would meet troubles?: based on systems thinking approach

  • Lee, Jongtae;Park, Kyuhyun
    • Agribusiness and Information Management
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.22-26
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    • 2017
  • This study aims to understand why public information systems in agricultural fields have shown lower performances than other industrialized fields and industries and how these problems would be fixed and overcame. To accomplish this research purpose, this study would overview the previous studies on developing agricultural information systems in public sectors and would find out meaningful and considerable factors. This study would accept the methodologies of literature review and systems thinking approaches to understand the relationships among the found factors and to suggest the conceptual research model. Agricultural information system should take care to reduce implement and maintenance costs to reduce the negative relationships between costs and expected service value and between expected service value to perceived service value. Also, it should be understood that impersonal response would reduce the eager to use the services, so the government sectors should consider positively to adopt the concept of CRM even though the government sectors traditionally have ignored its necessity. The failure of public information systems/services may be caused not only by lack of the contents but also by the failure of the persistent post management.

Improving Protein Production on the Level of Regulation of both Expression and Secretion Pathways in Bacillus subtilis

  • Song, Yafeng;Nikoloff, Jonas M.;Zhan, Dawei
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.25 no.7
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    • pp.963-977
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    • 2015
  • The well-characterized gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis is an outstanding industrial candidate for protein expression owing to its single membrane and high capacity of secretion, simplifying the downstream processing of secretory proteins. During the last few years, there has been continuous progress in the illustration of secretion mechanisms and application of this robust host in various fields of life science, such as enzyme production, feed additives, and food and pharmaceutical industries. Here, we review the developments of Bacillus subtilis as a highly promising expression system illuminating strong chemical- and temperatureinducible and other types of promoters, strategies for ribosome-binding-site utilization, and the novel approach of signal peptide selection. Furthermore, we outline the main steps of the Sec pathway and the relevant elements as well as their interactions. In addition, we introduce the latest discoveries of Tat-related complex structures and functions and the countless applications of this full-folded protein secretion pathway. This review also lists some of the current understandings of ATP-binding cassette transporters. According to the extensive knowledge on the genetic modification strategies and molecular biology of Bacillus subtilis, we propose some suggestions and strategies for improving the yield of intended productions. We expect this to promote striking future developments in the optimization and application of this bacterium.

Research and development of centrifugal classifiers: A review (회전체 분급기의 원리 및 연구 개발 동향)

  • Song, Dong Keun;Han, Bangwoo;Kim, Hakjoon;Kim, Yong Jin;Jeong, Sang Hyun;Hong, Won Seok
    • Particle and aerosol research
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.37-50
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    • 2008
  • Concerns on centrifugal classifiers, of which have cut sizes are below few micrometers, have been increased and it is prospected to be used in extensive industries, such as manufacturing the fine minerals, cosmetics, advanced electric materials, and life science. This paper reviews the recent progress of research and development on the centrifugal classifiers. General categorization of classifiers for feeds was assessed and separation mechanism of the classifiers was followed. History of centrifugal classifiers was explored and some points to be improved were briefly indicated. Fundamental theory of the classification by centrifugal classifiers was pearly studied, and advanced and further understandings on factors affecting the separation or grading efficiency are described. Factors determining the classification precision and efficiency of centrifugal classifiers, such as geometry, rotational speed and inclined angle of rotating vanes, feed and air flow rates, and rotor dimensions are reviewed.

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A study on the effect of regional economy of cultural city development industry (문화도시조성사업이 지역경제에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Ji-Yeon
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.365-373
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    • 2012
  • Culture is the essential requisite to improve the resource of city competitiveness and the quality of life. The modern society hope to make the city, more regional and able to be expressed creativity, combining with culture industries for the purpose continuous economic growth and regeneration city. This development industry of cultural city constructed employment and the production of income due to the operations by infra-construction. And It inspired civic awareness about Cultural History. In addition, It presented the effective direction of national aspects caused by improving the identity and the value of ethnicity, culture.

Performance Evaluation of Transmitting Brainwave Signals in Ad-Hoc Network at Medical Center (의료센터의 애드혹망에서 뇌파전송 성능평가)

  • Jo, Jun-Mo
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.10 no.12
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    • pp.216-222
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    • 2010
  • To improve the quality of life, wireless ad-hoc network technologies are considered as one of the key research areas in computer science and healthcare application industries. The ubiquitous healthcare systems also provide alerting mechanisms against ill conditions in real time. This minimizes the need for care-givers and helps the chronically ill and elderly to survive. For the application of the system, supporting the efficient and proper network system is essential. So in this paper, I suggest some hospital network environments including patient mobile nodes continuously sending brainwaves to the server of the hospital area. Finally, the network systems are simulated by OPnet simulator and evaluate the performance among various mobility of the mobile nodes and topologies of the network for the efficient system.

Benthic dinoflagellates in Korean waters

  • Lim, An Suk;Jeong, Hae Jin
    • ALGAE
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.91-109
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    • 2021
  • The occurrence of benthic dinoflagellates, many of which are known to be toxic, is a critical concern for scientists, government officers, and people in the aquaculture, dining, and tourism industries. The interest in these dinoflagellates in countries with temperate climate is increasing because tropical or subtropical species introduced into temperate waters by currents are able to survive the winter season in the new environment owing to global warming. Recently, several species from the benthic dinoflagellate genera Amphidinium, Coolia, Ostreopsis, Gambierdiscus, and Prorocentrum have been reported in the waters of the South and East Sea of Korea. The advent of the benthic dinoflagellates in Korean waters is especially important because raw or slightly cooked seaweeds, which may harbor these benthic dinoflagellates, as well as raw fish, which can be potentially intoxicated by phytotoxins produced by some of these benthic dinoflagellates, are part of the daily Korean diet. The recent increase in temperature of Korean coastal waters has allowed for the expansion of benthic dinoflagellate species into these regions. In the present study, we reviewed the species, distribution, and toxicity of the benthic dinoflagellates that have been reported in Korean waters. We also provided an insight into the ecological and socio-economic importance of the occurrence of benthic dinoflagellates in Korean waters.

Empirical Risk Assessment in Major Graphical Design Software Systems

  • Joh, HyunChul;Lee, JooYoung
    • Journal of Multimedia Information System
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.259-266
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    • 2021
  • Security vulnerabilities have been reported in major design software systems such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, which are recognized as de facto standard design tools in most of the design industries. Companies need to evaluate and manage their risk levels posed by those vulnerabilities, so that they could mitigate the potential security bridges in advance. In general, security vulnerabilities are discovered throughout their life cycles repeatedly if software systems are continually used. Hence, in this study, we empirically analyze risk levels for the three major graphical design software systems, namely Photoshop, Illustrator and GIMP with respect to a software vulnerability discovery model. The analysis reveals that the Alhazmi-Malaiya Logistic model tends to describe the vulnerability discovery patterns significantly. This indicates that the vulnerability discovery model makes it possible to predict vulnerability discovery in advance for the software systems. Also, we found that none of the examined vulnerabilities requires even a single authentication step for successful attacks, which suggests that adding an authentication process in software systems dramatically reduce the probability of exploitations. The analysis also discloses that, for all the three software systems, the predictions with evenly distributed and daily based datasets perform better than the estimations with the datasets of vulnerability reporting dates only. The observed outcome from the analysis allows software development managers to prepare proactively for a hostile environment by deploying necessary resources before the expected time of vulnerability discovery. In addition, it can periodically remind designers who use the software systems to be aware of security risk, related to their digital work environments.

An Analysis of the Differences of the Self-Service Research Issues and Trends before and after COVID-19 Pandemic: A Bibliometrics Approach by Using Citespace (셀프서비스 연구 이슈와 추세에 대한 코로나-팬데믹 발생 전후 차이 분석: Citespace를 이용한 계량서지학적 접근)

  • Wu, Haoxi;Joon, Koh
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.53-72
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    • 2022
  • As a trend of modern service industry, self-service has been widely concerned by all walks of life, but there is a lack of literature on systematic management of the overall research in this field. Recently, people's lifestyle has been forced to change due to the influence of COVID-19, while there have been some changes in the field of self-service research. Based on the Web of Science data source, this study takes the literature of self-service field before and after the outbreak of COVID-19 as the research object, and summarizes the development process, research status and future research trend of self-service field through the Citespace visualization tool. The research shows that firstly, academic circles continue to be enthusiastic about self-service field research, cooperation between countries is becoming more and more diversified. Secondly, the communication between researchers is becoming more and more intensive, and the cooperation between different disciplines gradually becomes the mainstream. Third, related research gradually shifted to the practical application of technology, the research perspective gradually shifted from the initial traditional retail perspective industries such as tourism services. Finally, the role of customer experience and participation behavior in self-service process is gradually emphasized.

Trends in Development and Marketing of Degradable Plastics (분해성 플라스틱의 개발 및 시장 동향)

  • You, Young-Sun;So, Kyu-Ho;Chung, Myong-Soo
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.365-374
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    • 2008
  • Plastics are comparatively new polymeric materials that are manufactured by chemical synthesis, making them different from natural materials such as wood, paper, stone, metal, and glass. Due to a wide range of properties, including processing capabilities and duration, plastics have become rapidly ubiquitous, being used in all industries, and have improved our quality of life. However, it is true that plastics cause environmental contamination problems that have become important social issues, such as environmental hormone leakage due to incineration or reclamation, difficulty in securing reclamation sites, and deadly poisonous dioxin generated by the incomplete incineration of waste plastic materials. To solve these problems, it is urgent to develop and commercialize degradable plastics that can be stably and conveniently used just as general plastics, and that are easily decomposed by sunlight, soil microbes, and heat generated from reclaimed land after use. This review presents recent worldwide trends in the development and marketing of environmentally degradable plastics.

Enhancing Adhesion between Polyphenylene Sulfide Fabric and Polytetrafluoroethylene Film for Thermally Stable Air Filtration Membrane (열안정 공기 여과막용 폴리페닐렌 설파이드 원단과 폴리테트라플루오로에틸렌 필름 사이의 접착력 향상)

  • Jin Uk Kim;Hye Jeong Son;Sang Hoon Kang;Chang Soo Lee
    • Membrane Journal
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.201-210
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    • 2023
  • Dust filter membranes play a crucial role in human life and various industries, as they contribute to several important aspects of human health, safety, and environmental protection. This study presents the development of a polysulfone@polyphenylene sulfide/polytetrafluoroethylene (PSf@PPS/ePTFE) composite dust filter membrane with excellent thermal stability and adhesion properties for high-temperature conditions. FT-IR analysis confirms successful impregnation of PSf adhesive onto PPS fabric and interaction with ePTFE support. FE-SEM images reveal improved fiber interconnection and adhesion with increased PSf concentration. PSf@PPS/ePTFE-5 exhibits the most suitable porous structure. The composite membrane demonstrates exceptional thermal stability up to 400℃. Peel resistance tests show sufficient adhesion for dust filtration, ensuring reliable performance under tough, high-temperature conditions without compromising air permeability. This membrane offers promising potential for industrial applications. Further optimizations and applications can be explored.