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Knowledge, Media and Information in the Age of Digital Reproduction (디지털 복제 시대의 지식, 미디어, 정보 - 지식의 기술.사회적 조건 변화를 중심으로)

  • Paik, Wook-Inn
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.49
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    • pp.5-19
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this paper is to disclose the characteristics of knowledge in the age of digital reproduction. To achieve this I extended Benjamin's concept of technological reproduction to three different stages as mechanical reproduction, electric reproduction and digital reproduction. Each stage has different degree of reproducibility and de-materialization. I also combined McLuhan's concept of the electricity at the point of de-materialization with reproducibility. The degree of materiality and reproducibility is the key concept which could scale the technical condition of knowledge production. The social condition of knowledge reproduction is controlled by economic and political factors. In this connection between technological and social condition the current knowledge production and intellectual property could be explained properly. This study could open the theoretical door to deepen such an understanding.

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The Improvement of color reproduction ratio used to CCFL with high color rendering characteristic in TFT-LCD (고연색 CCFL을 이용한 TFT-LCD 색재현율의 향상)

  • Park, Ki-Duck;Song, Yong-Ki;Park, Doo-Sung;Kim, Seo-Yoon;Lim, Young-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.438-440
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    • 2005
  • At present, characteristic of high color reproduction for LCD TV is needed in Display market according to start mass production of LCD TV. Therefore development target for LCD is focused on improvement of color reproduction. The improving methods of high color reproduction are alteration of color Filter or Red, Green, Blue phosphor alteration of CCFL. But decrease of luminance and panel transmittance is caused by alteration of Color Filter. Accordingly, we completed LCD with high color reproduction by the most suitable emission spectrum of CCFL phosphor at panel with conventional color filter. In this experiment, we knew that LCD applied to CCFL with high color rendering characteristic had color reproduction range of 81% compared with NTSC in CIE color coordinate. According to increase of intensity peak and alteration of Red, Green, Blue phosphor spectrum, we made LCD with high color reproduction characteristic. In conclusion we achieved improvement of color reproduction ratio by alteration of CCFL phosphor without changing color filter.

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An infertile patient with Y chromosome b1/b3 deletion presenting with congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens with normal spermatogenesis

  • Kuroda, Shinnosuke;Usui, Kimitsugu;Mori, Kohei;Yasuda, Kengo;Asai, Takuo;Sanjo, Hiroyuki;Yakanaka, Hiroyuki;Takeshima, Teppei;Kawahara, Takashi;Hamanoue, Haruka;Kato, Yoshitake;Miyoshi, Yasuhide;Uemura, Hiroji;Iwasaki, Akira;Yumura, Yasushi
    • Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.48-51
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    • 2018
  • We report the case of a 46-year-old Chinese male patient who visited our clinic complaining of infertility. Semen analysis revealed azoospermia, and azoospermia factor c region partial deletion (b1/b3) was detected using Y chromosome microdeletion analysis. Testicular sperm extraction was performed after genetic counseling. The bilateral ductus deferens and a portion of the epididymis were absent, whereas the remaining epididymis was expanded. Motile intratesticular spermatozoa were successfully extracted from the seminiferous tubule. On histopathology, nearly complete spermatogenesis was confirmed in almost every seminiferous tubule. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of b1/b3 deletion with a congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens and almost normal spermatogenesis.

Successful onco-testicular sperm extraction from a testicular cancer patient with a single testis and azoospermia

  • Kuroda, Shinnosuke;Kondo, Takuya;Mori, Kohei;Yasuda, Kengo;Asai, Takuo;Sanjo, Hiroyuki;Yakanaka, Hiroyuki;Takeshima, Teppei;Kawahara, Takashi;Kato, Yoshitake;Miyoshi, Yasuhide;Uemura, Hiroji;Iwasaki, Akira;Yumura, Yasushi
    • Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.44-47
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    • 2018
  • Onco-testicular sperm extraction is used to preserve fertility in patients with bilateral testicular tumors and azoospermia. We report the case of a testicular tumor in the solitary testis of a patient who had previously undergone successful contralateral orchiectomy and whose sperm was preserved by onco-testicular sperm extraction. A 35-year-old patient presented with swelling of his right scrotum that had lasted for 1 month. His medical history included a contralateral orchiectomy during childhood. Ultrasonography revealed a mosaic echoic area in his scrotum, suggesting a testicular tumor. The lesion was palpated within the normal testicular tissue along its edge and semen analysis showed azoospermia. Radical inguinal orchiectomy and onco-testicular sperm extraction were performed simultaneously. Motile spermatozoa were extracted from normal seminiferous tubules under microscopy and were frozen. Eventual intracytoplasmic sperm injection using the frozen spermatozoa is planned. Onco-testicular sperm extraction is an important fertility preservation method in patients with bilateral testicular tumors or a history of a previous contralateral orchiectomy.