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Isolation of Small Prothoracicotropic Hormone-Like Gene in Drosophila mefanoguster (초파리에서 전홍선자극 호르몬 유사 유전자의 재조합)

  • Ki Wha Chung;Huu
    • The Korean Journal of Zoology
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.12-18
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    • 1994
  • The prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH) produced by the neurosecretory cells in insects is involved in molting and metamorphosis by activating the prothoracic frins) glands to secrete ecdysone (or related ecdvsteroidsl. In the present study, the small PTTH-like gene was isolated by screening of CDNA library using the bombvxin (corresponding to small PTTH in Bombvx moril gene probe in Drosophilo melonogaster. It showed 50-6096 sequence homology to bombyxin gene. The expression patterns of this gene showed developmental stage- and tissue-dependent manners. The mRNA was detected only in the late third instar larval-prepupa which is stases showing the highest hormonal activity to secrete ecdysteroids, and detected in the brain pan of the Isle third instar lanrae.

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A Study on Foot Shape of Women in Korea (한국 성인 여성의 발치수 비교 연구)

  • Cheon, Jong-Suk;Choe, Seon-Hui
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.109-120
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    • 1999
  • The characteristics of Korean women's foot shape were extracted by analyzing foot measurements. 14 measurements were measured from foot outline and 12 conventional measurements were taken on the right foot of 386 Korean women from 18 to 86 years. The results indicate that women's foot shape is changed with aging. The young subjects' feet were longer than the foot length of older subjects. The metamorphosis angle of the women over age 45 was greater than the measurement of women under age 45. The typical Korean women's foot shapes characterized by cluster analysis were (1) small foot with little deformity on great toe, (2) wide foot with big deformity on great toe, and (3) thick and narrow foot with moderate deformity on great toe. These results indicate that the foot height and the degree of deformity on great toe are needed to be considered in developing the shoe last for Korean women. The specialized shoe last needs to be developed for elderly.

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Calatrava's Morphogenetic Mechanism Based on Methodological Hypothesis; Analogy and Analysis (칼라트라바의 방법론적 전제에 의한 형태구성 메커니즘)

  • Park, Sun-Woo;Choi, Sun-Young;Park, Chan-Soo;Choi, Chui-Kyung
    • Proceeding of KASS Symposium
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.142-152
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study is to explore an inquisitive and innovative approach to structure and form, Calatrava's morphogenetic mechanism and to trace the ideas behind his working methods and his theoretical preoccupations. The bridges and buildings of S. Calatrava possess a breathtaking rhythm and of them some are designed to expand and contract like living organisms. The analogy Calatrava has used as a creative tool to mutate human bodies into arcing roof forms and bridge suspensions is introduced to illustrate the morphogenetic process. At the same time, the analysis used developing how to design frame structures foldable with brilliant mathematical solution is also investigated. Consequently, the potentialities of Calatrava's morphogenetic mechanism to invent new systems are generated by methodological hypothesis; analysis and analogy.

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Alkaline Phosphatase Activity in the Developing Pronephros and Mesonephros of the Frog Bombina orientalis (발생중의 무당개구리 前賢 및 中賢의 Alkaline Phosphatase활성)

  • Jae Chung Hah
    • The Korean Journal of Zoology
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.177-184
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    • 1974
  • The cobalt capture method of Gomori's modified technique(Gomori, 1952) was employed to study the histochemistry of the developing frog kidney. Alkaline phosphatase activity was observed in association with the brush borders of pronephros and mesonephros. By the stage of transition from larva to tadpole alkaline phosphatase activity was gradually increased in the brush border of pronephros, and as the pronephros begun to degenerate the enzyme activity was decreased and disappeared. By the time of maximum development of the pronephros the mesonephros began to develop and alkaline phosphatase activity of the mesonephric tubules showed highly positive throughout the stage of metamorphosis. No activity was observed in association with the collecting tubules and ductal elements.

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A Study on the Characteristics of Blur Color in Olafur Eliasson's Works (올라퍼 엘리아슨의 작품에 나타난 블러 색채 특성 연구)

  • Kim, Sun-Young
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.87-94
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    • 2012
  • This thesis has purpose of explaining that blur color is not only appreciated but also undecided spacial color in contemporary space design and examining effects of space experience through the light. In keeping such developments, blur color has been perceived as the object of another tool in contemporary space and has provided us with new views by providing various program, sensor and screen from digital media. With the expansion of blur color, light has changed a spacial color structural that is not simple meaning factor into the essential concept. So this research aims to understand the principle of blur color in Olafur Eliasson's work, which of the fine artist in diverse fields from installation art to media art. The principle of blur color such as deconstruction of vanishing point, dimensional transfer, color gradation, and fiction of visual perception makes it possible to extract the expressed element and method of blur color. Meanwhile, the features of blur color such as sense of depth from viewpoint changes, hybrid from collapse of order, media metamorphosis from reconstitution and interaction from uncanny can be inferred from case analysis.

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Applications of Morphing on Facial Model Reconstruction and Surgical Simulation

  • Lee, Tong-Yee;Sun, Yung-Nein;Weng, Tzu-Lun;Lin, Yung-Ching
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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    • 1999.06a
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    • pp.103.2-110
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    • 1999
  • Facial model reconstruction and surgical simulation are essential parts in the computer-aided surgical system. Plastic surgeons use it to design appropriate repair plans and procedures before actual surgery is operated. In this work, the exploration of 3-D metamorphosis to them presents new results in these two parts.

Current research status for imaging neuroinflammation by PET

  • Namhun Lee;Jae Yong Choi
    • Journal of Radiopharmaceuticals and Molecular Probes
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.116-130
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    • 2020
  • The aging society is globally one of biggest issue because it is related with various degenerative brain disease such as dementia, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, and cerebrovascular disease. These diseases are characterized by misfolded-protein aggregation; another pathological trait is "neuroinflammation". In physiological state, the resting microglia cells are activated and it removes abnormal synapses and cell membrane debris to maintain the homeostasis. In pathological state, however, microglia undergo morphological change form 'resting' to 'activated amoeboid phenotype' and the microglia cells are accumulated by neuronal damage, the inflammatory reactions induced nerve metamorphosis with a variety of neurotoxic factors including cytokines, chemokines, and reactive oxygen species. Thus, the activated microglia cell with various receptors (TSPO, COX, CR, P2XR, etc.) was perceived as important biomarkers for imaging the inflammatory progression. In this review, we would like to introduce the current status of the development of radiotracers that can image activated microglia.

The Concept of Postmodernism

  • Le Huy Bac, A.
    • SUVANNABHUMI
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.17-32
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    • 2012
  • This study explores the concept of postmodernism in literature. There are many ideas which have conflicted with each other, but now postmodernism is real concept. We cannot deny. By researching papers of Jean-François Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Roland Barthes, Ihab Hassan etc. we find out many characteristics of postmodernism. From that, we propose a conceptual understanding of postmodern literature as follows: Starting from the late 1910s with the poetry of Dadaism (1916), Franz Kafka's prose (Metamorphosis 1915) and drama by Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot 1953), postmodern literature coexists with modern literature and is a thriving form from 1960 on. Postmodernism is opposed to modernism in nature in that it accepts nothingness, chaos, games and intertextuality. It tries to solve some difficult problems of modernism making use of science to free people from a life of darkness and dogma. Postmodernism is associated with the information technology revolution, an economic, scientific and technological boom and rapid urbanization.

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Levels and Patterns of Main Terms' Interrelationships in Student Teachers' Notable Questions about the Contents of the Elementary Science Textbooks (초등 과학교과서 내용에 대한 예비교사들의 주요 질문에 나타나는 용어의 상호 관련성 수준과 유형)

  • Lee, Myeong-Je
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.20-31
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    • 2006
  • This study analysed student teachers' notable questions about the earth science contents in the elementary science textbooks. The contents of notable questions were defined as ‘notable question contents 1' and 'notable question contents 2'. Both the question contorts are contents about which the number of questions is above three times and from two times to three times as much as the mean number of questions per page of each unit respectively. The results are as follows. First, question contents 1 are found as 'clouds observation', 'geological strata formation' and so on. Question contents 2, 'rainfall measurement', 'moon's movement during one night' and so on are found. Second, the number of interrelationships of main terms in questions increased in each question of question contents 1, but 4 term-patterns are found more in question contents 2 than question contents 1. Third, high interrelationship patterns of terms in question contents 1 are 'coal and petroleum-generation', 'metamorphosis-heat and pressure', 'metamorphosis-heat and pressure-metamorphic rocks', 'planet-sun-comet-revolution' and in question contents 2. 'constellation plate-use', 'dryness and wetness hygrometer-principle', 'seismograph-principle-earthquake', 'earth rotation axis-tilting-occurrence', 'dryness and wetness hygrometer-principle-humidity' and so on. The sources of questions analysed in this study are estimated as the content construction system of textbooks, or students' general questions about the earth science contents. If this is the former, the problems in texts and illustrations in textbooks should be articulated and resolved. And if the latter, the elementary science curriculum has to be reconsidered in view of scientific literacy in earth science.

Egg Development and Effects of Livefood and Thyroid Hormone on the Amphiprion melanopus Larvae (Cinnamon Clownfish Amphiprion melanopus의 난발생과 자치어 변태에 미치는 먹이생물과 갑상선호르몬의 영향)

  • Noh, Gyeong-Eon;Rho, Sum;Min, Byung-Hwa;Chang, Young-Jin
    • Development and Reproduction
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.121-131
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    • 2011
  • The aim of this study was to investigate the egg development and the color change of Amphiprion melanopus, by the live food and thyroid hormone. After fertilizing, it took 168 h until hatching. The size of hatching larvae were $3.5{\pm}0.3$ mm, and some individuals had small yolk sac. As reaching the particular age, they underwent the color change (metamorphosis) - Days after hatching (DAH) 10: black, DAH 15~20: the 3 white stripes appear, DAH 30: the dorsal & the caudal white stripe begin to disappear. DAH 90: body color become red and orange, adult: cinnamon body color and a white stripe on head. - The group fed enriched Artemia with Tigriopus japonicus grew the faster than with only Artemia. The fin coloration of the one fed the only T. japonicus has a vivid red and orange color. $T_3$-treated group (4 ppm) grew the faster than the others (0, 2, 6 ppm). The size of the 6 ppm group was the smallest. The results suggest T. japonicus can be used as a supplement with rotifer and Artemia for the juvenile development and coloration. $T_3$ is considered to be involved in the metamorphosis and color formation of Amphipirion sp.