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Angiogenic Effect of Cardiac Ankyrin Repeat Protein Overexpression in Vascular Endo-thelial Cell (Cardiac Ankyrin Repeat Protein의 과량발현이 혈관내피세포에서 갖는 혈관신생 촉진 효과)

  • Kong, Hoon-Young;Byun, Jong-Hoe
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.44 no.4
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    • pp.282-288
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    • 2008
  • Tissue ischemia resulting from the constriction or obstruction of blood vessels leads to an illness that may affect many organs including the heart, brain, and legs. In recent years, considerable progress has been made in the field of therapeutic angiogenesis and the new approaches are expected to cure those "no-option patients" who are unsuited to conventional therapies. Although single angiogenic growth factor may be successful in inducing angiogenesis, combination of multiple growth factors is increasingly sought these days to augment the therapeutic responses. This trend is proper in light of the fact that blood vessel formation is a complex and multi-step process that requires the actions of many different factors. To meet the growing need for functionally significant blood flow recovery in the ischemic tissues, a novel strategy that can provide concerted actions of multiple factors is required. One way to achieve such a goal is to use a transcription factor that can orchestrate the expression of multiple target genes in the ischemic region and thus induce significant level of angiogenesis. Here, a putative transcription factor, cardiac ankyrin repeat protein (CARP), was evaluated in adenoviral vector context for angiogenic activity in human umbilical vein endothelial cells. The results indicated significant increase in proliferation, capillary-like structure formation, and induction of vascular endothelial growth factor, a typical angiogenic gene. Taken together, these results suggest that CARP represents itself as a novel target for therapeutic angiogenesis and warrants further investigation.

Omnidirectional Environmental Projection Mapping with Single Projector and Single Spherical Mirror (단일 프로젝터와 구형 거울을 활용한 전 방향프로젝션 시스템)

  • Kim, Bumki;Lee, Jungjin;Kim, Younghui;Jeong, Seunghwa;Noh, Junyong
    • Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2015
  • Researchers have developed virtual reality environments to provide audience with more visually immersive experiences than previously possible. One of the most popular solutions to build the immersive VR space is a multi-projection technique. However, utilization of multiple projectors requires large spaces, expensive cost, and accurate geometry calibration among projectors. This paper presents a novel omnidirectional projection system with a single projector and a single spherical mirror.We newly designed the simple and intuitive calibration system to define the shape of environment and the relative position of mirror/projector. For successful image projection, our optimized omnidirectional image generation step solves image distortion produced by the spherical mirror and a calibration problem produced by unknown parameters such as the shape of environment and the relative position between the mirror and the projector. Additionally, the focus correction is performed to improve the quality of the projection. The experiment results show that our method can generate the optimized image given a normal panoramic image for omnidirectional projection in a rectangular space.

Solid-phase PEGylation for Site-Specific Modification of Recombinant Interferon ${\alpha}$-2a : Process Performance, Characterization, and In-vitro Bioactivity (재조합 인터페론 알파-2a의 부위 특이적 수식을 위한 고체상 PEGylation : 공정 성능, 특성화 및 생물학적 활성)

  • Lee, Byung-Kook;Kwon, Jin-Sook;Lee, E.K.
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.133-139
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    • 2006
  • In 'solid-phase' PEGylation, the conjugation reaction occurs as the proteins are attached to a solid matrix, and thus it can have distinct advantages over the conventional, solution-phase process. We report a case study: rhIFN-${\alpha}$-2a was first adsorbed to cation exchange resin and then N-terminally PEGylated by aldehyde mPEG of 5, 10, and 20 kD through reductive alkylation. After the PEGylation, salt gradient elution efficiently recovered the mono-PEGylate in a purified form from the unwanted species such as unmodified IFN, unreacted PEG, and others. The mono-PEGylation and its purification were integrated in a single chromatographic step. Depending on the molecular weight of the mPEG aldehyde used, the mono-PEGylation yield ranged 50-64%. We could overcome the major problems of random, or uncontrollable, multi-PEGylation and the post-PEGylation purification difficulties associated with the solution-phase process. N-terminal sequencing and MALDI-TOF MS confirmed that a PEG molecule was conjugated only to the N-terminus. Compared with the unmodified IFN, the mono-PEGylate showed the reduced anti-viral activity as measured by the cell proliferation assay. The bioactivity was reduced more as the higher molecular weight PEG was conjugated. Immunoreactivity, evaluated indirectly by antibody binding activity using a surface plasmon resonance biosensor, also decreased. Nevertheless, trypsin resistance as well as thermal stability was considerably improved.

Design of a Double-Faced Monopole Antenna Using the Coupling Effect of Induced Currents (유도 전류의 커플링 효과를 이용한 모노폴 안테나 설계)

  • Choi, Young;Lee, Seungwoo;Kim, Nam
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.23 no.12
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    • pp.1327-1336
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, the dual-faced monopole antenna, which is arranged by numerous rectangular ring patches in sequence for the multi-bands is proposed. The ring type structure of the patch can be increased the bandwidth. Therefore the bandwidth and beam width are improved by using multiple arrayed patches. When the ring type patches are inserted serially, the resonance frequencies are occurred by the current flow from the first ring patch. It is possible because the gap between the patches is very narrow. In addition, if the patches are composed on the same plane as the feed-line, fabrication could be very difficult because the gap between the patches is extremely narrow. The thickness and permittivity of the antenna, moreover, are very important parameters because both sides of the substrate are used. We finally found the optimal thickness and permittivity to generate the coupling effect by simulation. All patches are consisted of 4-steps which the patch size was decreased 85 % by each step. In conclusion, the resonant frequency bands are 1.75~2.6 GHz(850 MHz), 3.24~3.46 GHz(220 MHz), 3.8~4.0 GHz(200 MHz), and 4.4~4.9 GHz(500 MHz).

A Design of Memory-efficient 2k/8k FFT/IFFT Processor using R4SDF/R4SDC Hybrid Structure (R4SDF/R4SDC Hybrid 구조를 이용한 메모리 효율적인 2k/8k FFT/IFFT 프로세서 설계)

  • 신경욱
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.430-439
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    • 2004
  • This paper describes a design of 8192/2048-point FFT/IFFT processor (CFFT8k2k), which performs multi-carrier modulation/demodulation in OFDM-based DVB-T receiver. Since a large size FFT requires a large buffer memory, two design techniques are considered to achieve memory-efficient implementation of 8192-point FFT/IFFT. A hybrid structure, which is composed of radix-4 single-path delay feedback (R4SDF) and radix-4 single-path delay commutator (R4SDC), reduces its memory by 20% compared to R4SDC structure. In addition, a memory reduction of about 24% is achieved by a novel two-step convergent block floating-point scaling. As a result, it requires only 57% of memory used in conventional design, reducing chip area and power consumption. The CFFT8k2k core is designed in Verilog-HDL, and has about 102,000 Bates, RAM of 292k bits, and ROM of 39k bits. Using gate-level netlist with SDF which is synthesized using a $0.25-{\um}m$ CMOS library, timing simulation show that it can safely operate with 50-MHz clock at 2.5-V supply, resulting that a 8192-point FFT/IFFT can be computed every 164-${\mu}\textrm{s}$. The functionality of the core is fully verified by FPGA implementation, and the average SQNR of 60-㏈ is achieved.

An Study on the Construction of Basic Data System for Restoration of 3x3 Kan Central Hall Remains of Buddhist Temple in Joseon Dynasty - Comparison with the floor plan of the extant Hall- (조선시대 사찰의 3X3칸 주불전 건물지 복원을 위한 자료구축에 관한 기초연구 - 현존 주불전과의 평면 계획 비교를 중심으로-)

  • Kim, Hwan-Chol;An, Dai-Whan
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.9
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    • pp.163-177
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    • 2016
  • This study suggests a method for making a system of basic materials for the restoration of the 3X3 Kan central hall remains of a Buddhist temple from the Joseon Dynasty. Because there are both an extant hall and remains from the Joseon Dynasty, the basic material can be constructed through comparison with the floor plan. Multi-step comparisons were found to be the most suitable example for restoration. For this study, five parts of the 3x3 Kan remains were compared with 70 extant halls for a case study. For the first comparison, the limit of collection makes four examples in the whole examples. There are many relationships with the area and the length ratio of the front to the side as the comparison articles, so there are examples that satisfied both comparison articles. However, there is little relationship between the length ratio of the front Eokan to the front Hyeopkan and the length ratio of side Eokan to the side Hyeopkan. The construction method of the basic material shows the possibility of expansion with various directions that have pros and cons.

Optimization of Elastic Modulus and Cure Characteristics of Composition for Die Attach Film (다이접착필름용 조성물의 탄성 계수 및 경화 특성 최적화)

  • Sung, Choonghyun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.503-509
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    • 2019
  • The demand for smaller, faster, and multi-functional mobile devices in increasing at a rapidly increasing rate. In response to these trends, Stacked Chip Scale Package (SCSP) is used widely in the assembly industry. A film type adhesive called die attach film (DAF) is used widely for bonding chips in SCSP. The DAF requires high flowability at high die attachment temperatures for bonding chips on organic substrates, where the DAF needs to feel the gap depth, or for bonding the same sized dies, where the DAF needs to penetrate bonding wires. In this study, the mixture design of experiment (DOE) was performed for three raw materials to obtain the optimized DAF recipe for low elastic modulus at high temperature. Three components are acrylic polymer (SG-P3) and two solid epoxy resins (YD011 and YDCN500-1P) with different softening points. According to the DOE results, the elastic modulus at high temperature was influenced greatly by SG-P3. The elastic modulus at $100^{\circ}C$ decreased from 1.0 MPa to 0.2 MPa as the amount of SG-P3 was decreased by 20%. In contrast, the elastic modulus at room temperature was dominated by YD011, an epoxy with a higher softening point. The optimized DAF recipe showed approximately 98.4% pickup performance when a UV dicing tape was used. A DAF crack that occurred in curing was effectively suppressed through optimization of the cure accelerator amount and two-step cure schedule. The imizadole type accelerator showed better performance than the amine type accelerator.

Comparison of Multi-angle TerraSAR-X Staring Mode Image Registration Method through Coarse to Fine Step (Coarse to Fine 단계를 통한 TerraSAR-X Staring Mode 다중 관측각 영상 정합기법 비교 분석)

  • Lee, Dongjun;Kim, Sang-Wan
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.37 no.3
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    • pp.475-491
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    • 2021
  • With the recent increase in available high-resolution (< ~1 m) satellite SAR images, the demand for precise registration of SAR images is increasing in various fields including change detection. The registration between high-resolution SAR images acquired in different look angle is difficult due to speckle noise and geometric distortion caused by the characteristics of SAR images. In this study, registration is performed in two stages, coarse and fine, using the x-band SAR data imaged at staring spotlight mode of TerraSAR-X. For the coarse registration, a method combining the adaptive sampling method and SAR-SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) is applied, and three rigid methods (NCC: Normalized Cross Correlation, Phase Congruency-NCC, MI: Mutual Information) and one non-rigid (Gefolki: Geoscience extended Flow Optical Flow Lucas-Kanade Iterative), for the fine registration stage, was performed for performance comparison. The results were compared by using RMSE (Root Mean Square Error) and FSIM (Feature Similarity) index, and all rigid models showed poor results in all image combinations. It is confirmed that the rigid models have a large registration error in the rugged terrain area. As a result of applying the Gefolki algorithm, it was confirmed that the RMSE of Gefolki showed the best result as a 1~3 pixels, and the FSIM index also obtained a higher value than 0.02~0.03 compared to other rigid methods. It was confirmed that the mis-registration due to terrain effect could be sufficiently reduced by the Gefolki algorithm.

Analysis System of School Life Records Based on Data Mining for College Entrance (데이터 마이닝 기반 대학입시를 위한 학교생활기록부 분석시스템)

  • Yang, Jinwoo;Kim, Donghyun;Lim, Jongtae;Yoo, Jaesoo
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.49-58
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    • 2021
  • The Korean curriculum and admission system have evolved through numerous changes. Currently, the nation's college entrance rate stands at nearly 70 percent, and it is the highest among OECD members. Amid this environment, the importance of school life records is increasing among students who are interested in going to college and who have the highest percentage in the nation's education system. Happiness is not the order of grades, but I can find my future and happiness at the same time through active school life. Through the analysis system of school life records, you can find interests and career paths suitable for yourself, and analyze and supplement factors suitable for the university and department you want to go to, so that you can take a step further in successful advancement. Each item in the school records is divided into three categories to analyze the necessary and unnecessary words. By visualizing and numericalizing the analyzed data, an analysis system is established that can be supplemented in school life. An analysis system through data mining can be utilized by concisely summarizing sentences of different elements and extracting words by applying the multi-topic minutes summary system using word frequency and similarity analysis as an existing prior study.

Anomaly Detection Methodology Based on Multimodal Deep Learning (멀티모달 딥 러닝 기반 이상 상황 탐지 방법론)

  • Lee, DongHoon;Kim, Namgyu
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.101-125
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    • 2022
  • Recently, with the development of computing technology and the improvement of the cloud environment, deep learning technology has developed, and attempts to apply deep learning to various fields are increasing. A typical example is anomaly detection, which is a technique for identifying values or patterns that deviate from normal data. Among the representative types of anomaly detection, it is very difficult to detect a contextual anomaly that requires understanding of the overall situation. In general, detection of anomalies in image data is performed using a pre-trained model trained on large data. However, since this pre-trained model was created by focusing on object classification of images, there is a limit to be applied to anomaly detection that needs to understand complex situations created by various objects. Therefore, in this study, we newly propose a two-step pre-trained model for detecting abnormal situation. Our methodology performs additional learning from image captioning to understand not only mere objects but also the complicated situation created by them. Specifically, the proposed methodology transfers knowledge of the pre-trained model that has learned object classification with ImageNet data to the image captioning model, and uses the caption that describes the situation represented by the image. Afterwards, the weight obtained by learning the situational characteristics through images and captions is extracted and fine-tuning is performed to generate an anomaly detection model. To evaluate the performance of the proposed methodology, an anomaly detection experiment was performed on 400 situational images and the experimental results showed that the proposed methodology was superior in terms of anomaly detection accuracy and F1-score compared to the existing traditional pre-trained model.