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A Study on Development and Effect of Information Communication Technology (lCT) Based Science Unit - Focusing on 'Reproduction' of Science 10 (정보통신기술(ICT)을 활용한 과학학습지도안 개발과 효과에 관한 연구 - 10학년 과학 '생식' 단원을 중심으로)

  • Cho, Jung-Il;Yoo, Hyung-Bin;Kim, Hyun-A;Park, Soo-Jung
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.193-201
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of ICT on tenth grade students' understandings of and attitude toward reproduction. The subject of the study was 8 classes of 267 students. Four classes learned with help of lCT, but another four classes learned on the basis of a textbook. Understanding of reproduction and the attitude were assessed using a written test and a survey, respectively. The lCT was found to be effective to foster understanding of reproduction concepts and consciousness toward human reproduction. Discussions in the web enabled students get some feedbacks on their preconceptions from other students.

Neurokinin B-related Peptide Suppresses the Expression of GnRH I, Kiss2 and tac3 in the Brain of Mature Female Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus

  • Jin, Ye Hwa;Park, Jin Woo;Kim, Jung-Hyun;Kwon, Joon Yeong
    • Development and Reproduction
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.51-61
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    • 2016
  • Neurokinin B (NKB) and neurokinin B related peptide (NKBRP) belong to tachykinin peptide family. They act as a neurotransmitter and/or neuromodulator. Mutation of NKB and/or its cognate receptor, NK3R resulted in hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in mammals, implying a strong involvement of NKB/NK3R system in controlling mammalian reproduction. Teleosts possess NKBRP as well as NKB, but their roles in fish reproduction need to be clarified. In this study, NKB and NKBRP coding gene (tac3) was cloned from Nile tilapia and sequenced. Based on the sequence, Nile tilapia NKB and NKBRP peptide were synthesized and their biological potencies were tested in vitro pituitary culture. The synthetic NKBRP showed direct inhibitory effect on the expression of GTH subunits at the pituitary level. This inhibitory effect was confirmed in vivo by means of intraperitoneal (ip) injection of synthetic NKB and NKBRP to mature female tilapia (20 pmol/g body weight [BW]). Both NKB and NKBRP had no effect on the plasma level of sex steroids, E2 and 11-KT. However, NKBRP caused declines of expression level of GnRH I, Kiss2 and tac3 mRNAs in the brain while NKB seemed to have no distinct effect. These results indicate some inhibitory roles of NKBRP in reproduction of mature female Nile tilapia, although their exact functions are not clear at the moment.

The Study of Similarity Measure on O-Line Game Software (온라인 게임 소프트웨어 복제도 산출기법에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jin-Yong;Kim, Jin-Uk
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.50-57
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    • 2004
  • The copyright against the game which is successful to a performance, is increasing rapidly. The compute r game is sensitive to a popularity. Game from the hazard which it develops short time, the expense which is cheap, about lower the dispute with a copyright, a reproduction and the ticket paragraph increases with the insufficient back of technical power. It analyzes the quality of the tools comparison it will be able to analyze the source codes from the dissertation which it sees. It analyzed the game source code and against the method which produces the original program and the reproduction degree of reproduction program for it researched. The method which produces a reproduction degree game feature following function shares a module especially. After from each module separating a file in file structure, source pro gram and data structure form, it calculates a similarity measure. It followed in important degree of each function and weight it let and the fixed quantity reproduction degree of full game program it produced.

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Effects of Steroid Hormones for Sexual Reproduction of Rotifer, Brachionus rotundiformis (Rotifer Brachionus rotundiformis의 유성생식에 관한 스테로이드 호르몬의 영향)

  • Lee, Kyun-Woo
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.20 no.10
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    • pp.62-67
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    • 2019
  • We studied the effect of several sex-related steroid hormones (serotonin, progesterone and ${\beta}$-estradiol) for 6 days on the induction of sexual reproduction for the mass production of resting eggs in the marine rotifer Brachionus rotundiformis. The highest mix rate of 20.6% appeared with the ${\beta}$-estradiol ($E_2$) treatment on the third day. The number of resting eggs was highest with $E_2$ treatment, followed by that of the serotonin treatment group. In addition, we investigated the effect of the hormones on the expression pattern of the genes related to sexual reproduction in the rotifer. NrbP, SRY, Cyclin and MrpmB genes were up-regulated with all the hormone treatments. As a result, ${\beta}$-estradiol was more effective than the other hormone treatments to produce resting eggs in B. rotundiformis. We suggest that the sexual reproduction-related genes in the rotifer are the NrbP, SRY, Cyclin and MrpmB genes. Further study is required to determine the optimum concentration of $E_2$ for the effective production of resting eggs in the rotifer.

A Study on An Identification System for Scanned Cartoon Book (북스캔 만화 저작물 식별 시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Byung Jun;Kim, Tae-Hyun;Kang, Ho-Gap;Cho, Seong-Hwan;Lee, Kyun Young
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.131-137
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    • 2014
  • Although illegal reproduction of cartoon books are prevalent with rapid growth of webhard services and smartphone use, fingerprinting technology for product identification, as seen in music and videos, has not been developed yet. This leads to indiscriminate illegal reproduction of cartoon books, causing great amount of copyright damages from copyright infringement of the rightful owners. The copyright R&D project granted from the Korea Copyright Permission (Project Title: Identification and Copy Protection Technology of Bookscaned Text/Comic Books) has been carried out in order to develop technology to effectively identify illegal reproduction and distribution of scanned cartoon books. The developed technology will contribute to increase of royalty payments and robust ecosystem of cartoon book markets. The study is to propose an enhanced implementation model for identification of scanned cartoon books on the basis of hierarchical symmetric difference feature algorithms adopted from existing feature extraction algorithms for video.

Effect of xylo-oligosaccharides on reproduction, lipid metabolism, and adipokines of hens during the late egg-laying period

  • Wen, Fengyun;Wang, Fengyan;Li, Pei;Shi, Hanyi;Liu, Ning
    • Animal Bioscience
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    • v.35 no.11
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    • pp.1744-1751
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    • 2022
  • Objective: The present study aimed to investigate the effect of xylo-oligosaccharides (XOS) administration on egg production, reproductive hormones, serum lipids and adipokines of hens at the late cycle of reproduction. Methods: Four treatments included control (basal diet) and XOS addition at 2.0 (XOS-2), 4.0 (XOS-4), or 6.0 (XOS-6) g/kg of diet using 288 commercial Hy-Line brown hens from 73 to 84 wk of age. Egg production, body fat deposition, reproductive tract and hormones, lipid metabolism and adipokines were determined. Results: At 84 wk, compared to the control, XOS supplementation at the three doses increased (p<0.001) egg-laying rates by 13.2% averagely, which led to a higher egg mass by 131 g/hen throughout the whole trial period. Abdominal fat and skinfold of XOS treatments were decreased (p<0.001) by 26.1% and 18.6%, respectively; large follicles and ovary weight were increased (p<0.001) by 0.73 follicle/hen and 18.6%, respectively. For serum parameters, cholesterol and triglyceride were decreased (p<0.001) by 17.5% and 29.2%, respectively; luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone, and progesterone were increased (p≤0.001) by 16%, 31%, 29%, respectively; adiponectin and visfatin were increased (p<0.001) by 34% and 44%, respectively; but chemerin and leptin were decreased (p≤0.001) by 22% and 14%, respectively. With the increased XOS doses, linear decreases (p<0.05) were found on abdominal skinfold and serum triglyceride. Conclusion: The obtained data indicate that XOS can be used as an additive to improve fecundity by beneficially modulating fat deposition, lipid metabolism, reproductive hormones, and adipokines of hens at the late cycle of reproduction.

A Study on Fatigue Wear Improvement of High Pressure Seal for Tracked Vehicle Suspension (궤도차량 현수장치 고압용 시일의 피로마모 개선 연구)

  • Lee, Yongjun;Kim, Hyeonghyeon;Kim, Kyungro;Koo, Yungseo
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.12-17
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, causes of wear on high pressure seals for suspension are analyzed, and the result of reproduction test and verification on improved design are described. First, by performing the observation of worn surfaces and its failure analysis, the primary cause of wear on the seals are analyzed. The result of analysis shows that the main failure mechanism of wear is a fatigue wear, and test criteria for failure reproduction are set up with consideration for frequency condition, surface roughness and pressure. Durability comparison test on the condition of low amplitude and high frequency is carried out. And, it is found that the durability of wear on seals by increasing hardness of cylinder and managing for surface roughness is enhanced.

Comparative toxicity of some pesticides on reproduction of Korean native freshwater Cladocerans, Moina macrocopa and Daphnia sp. (한국산 물벼룩 Moina macrocopa와 Daphnia sp.에 대한 수종 농약의 번식독성 비교)

  • Kim, Byung-Seok;Park, Yoen-Ki;Park, Kyung-Hun;Jeong, Mi-Hye;You, Are-Sun;Yang, Yu-Jung;Shin, Jin-Sup;Kim, Jin-Hwa;Yoon, Seong-Myeong;Ahn, Young-Joon
    • The Korean Journal of Pesticide Science
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.246-253
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    • 2007
  • The reproduction toxicity of several pesticides on two Korean water flea was investigated to develop a new standard species used for ecological risk assessment of pesticide. Moina macrocopa and Daphnia sp. were exposed to 4 different types of pesticides over 10 and 21 days, respectively. No-ohserved effect concentration (NOEC) for synthetic pyrethroid, fenpropathrin on Moina macrocopa and Daphnia sp. were 0.17 and $0.06\;{\mu}g\;L^{-1}$, respectively. Diazinon, carbofuran and myclobutanil were in the order of their reproduction toxicity to cladocerans tested. There were large differences between Moina macrocopa and Daphnia sp. in their susceptibility to fenpropathrin, diazinon and carbofuran except myclobutanil. Daphnia sp. is more sensitive than M. macrocopa to pesticides tested. Therefore Daphnia sp. may be a good surrogate species to assess the reproduction effect of pesticides on aquatic invertebrates. M. macrocopa also be a good surrogate species because it is one of the most abundant cladocera in agricultural environment, especially rice paddy in Korea. In addition to it's ecological importance of wide spread distribution, it has also economical importance to make possible to shorten period for reproduction test using M. macrocopa due to it's short life cycle.

Current Status and Prospects of Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer and Cloning

  • Cheong, H.T.
    • Korean Journal of Animal Reproduction
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.393-398
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    • 1999
  • Somatic cell nuclear transfer is an efficient technique for the multiplication of elite livestock, engineering of transgenic animals, cell therapy and xenotransplantation, and analyzing the interactions between nucleus and cytoplasm, for various agricultural, biomedical and research purposes. Since the first somatic cell clone lamb was born, tremendous progress has been made toward developing technology for animal cloning. Viable farm animals and mice have now been produced by nuclear transfer using various fetal and adult somatic cells as nuclei donors. Transgenic clones were also produced from nuclear transfer of transfected somatic cells. In the future, somatic cell nuclear transfer will provide more numerous opportunities, both in basic and appled research as well as immediate uses in the generations of superior clone and transgenic animals. However, further technology refinement and improved understanding of the process are essential for commercial and basic research applications.

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