• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제53권3호
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• pp.299-305
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• 2015

Tapeworms of the genus Spirometra are pseudophyllidean cestodes endemic in Korea. At present, it is unclear which Spirometra species are responsible for causing human infections, and little information is available on the epidemiological profiles of Spirometra species infecting humans in Korea. Between 1979 and 2009, a total of 50 spargana from human patients and 2 adult specimens obtained from experimentally infected carnivorous animals were analyzed according to genetic and taxonomic criteria and classified as Spirometra erinaceieuropaei or Spirometra decipiens depending on the morphology. Morphologically, S. erinaceieuropaei and S. decipiens are different in that the spirally coiled uterus in S. erinaceieuropaei has 5-7 complete coils, while in S. decipiens it has only 4.5 coils. In addition, there is a 9.3% (146/1,566) sequence different between S. erinaceieuropaei and S. decipiens in the cox1 gene. Partial cox1 sequences (390 bp) from 35 Korean isolates showed 99.4% (388/390) similarity with the reference sequence of S. erinaceieuropaei from Korea (G1724; GenBank KJ599680) and an additional 15 Korean isolates revealed 99.2% (387/390) similarity with the reference sequences of S. decipiens from Korea (G1657; GenBank KJ599679). Based on morphologic and molecular databases, the estimated population ratio of S. erinaceieuropaei to S. decipiens was 35: 15. Our results indicate that both S. erinaceieuropaei and S. decipiens found in Korea infect humans, with S. erinaceieuropaei being 2 times more prevalent than S. decipiens. This study is the first to report human sparganosis caused by S. decipiens in humans in Korea.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제41권8호
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• pp.569-579
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• 2014

전술 네트워크 환경에서 임무 수행을 위해 조합된 서비스를 수행하기 위해서는 실제로 서비스를 제공하는 자원과 추상 서비스를 바인딩 하는 작업이 필요하다. 그러나 군이 운용하는 전술 네트워크는 대역폭이 낮고 패킷 손실률이 높아 서비스를 안정적으로 수행하기 위해서는 통신량을 최소화 해야 한다. 또한 전장 환경은 그 특성상 동적으로 변화한다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 분산 서비스 코디네이션 과정에 생기는 서비스 게이트웨이간 통신량을 최소화 하고 전장 환경의 변화 중 일부 게이트웨이의 무력화 상황을 고려하는 두 개의 자원 재할당 기법을 제안하고 게이트웨이간 총 통신 오버헤드와 할당 유사도를 기준으로 평가하였다.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.409-417
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• 2007

Burkholderia sp. HY-10 isolated from the digestive tracts of the longicorn beetle, Prionus insularis, produced an extracellular lipase with a molecular weight of 33.5 kDa estimated by SDS-PAGE. The lipase was purified from the culture supernatant to near electrophoretic homogenity by a one-step adsorption-desorption procedure using a polypropylene matrix followed by a concentration step. The purified lipase exhibited highest activities at pH 8.5 and $60^{\circ}C$. A broad range of lipase substrates, from $C_4\;to\;C_{18}$ p-nitrophenyl esters, were hydrolyzed efficiently by the lipase. The most efficient substrate was p-nitrophenyl caproate ($C_6$). A 2485 bp DNA fragment was isolated by PCR amplification and chromosomal walking which encoded two polypeptides of 364 and 346 amino acids, identified as a lipase and a lipase foldase, respectively. The N-terminal amino acid sequence of the purified lipase and nucleotide sequence analysis predicted that the precursor lipase was proteolytically modified through the secretion step and produced a catalytically active 33.5 kDa protein. The deduced amino acid sequence for the lipase shared extensive similarity with those of the lipase family 1.2 of lipases from other bacteria. The deduced amino acid sequence contained two Cystein residues forming a disulfide bond in the molecule and three, well-conserved amino acid residues, $Ser^{131},\;His^{330},\;and\;Asp^{308}$, which composed the catalytic triad of the enzyme.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2016년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.363-366
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• 2016

추천 기법은 개인의 관심사와 상황을 고려한 개인화된 아이템을 제공함으로써 아이템의 소비과정에서 발생하는 부하를 줄여주고 정보 소비의 효율성을 증대시키는데 중요한 역할을 한다. 본 연구에서는 전통적인 추천 기법인 Content-Based(CB)기법과 최근 온라인 소셜 네트워크의 경향을 반영한 Social Network-based(SN)기법을 접목하여 새로운 복합방식의 정보 추천 기법을 제시한다. CB 기법의 대표적인 한계점인 cold start problem과 SN 기법의 추천 아이템의 전문성 문제를 상호 보완하며, 특히 최근 소셜 네트워크의 특징인 비신뢰 (non-trust) 기반의 영향력 있는 정보 확산자가 존재하는 환경에서 기법을 적용할 수 있도록 하였다. 또한 대부분 사람 추천 중심인 기존의 SN 기법들과는 달리 사람에게 제공할 정보의 추천에 초점을 두며, 정보 선정과정에서 개인의 온라인과 현실(real world)에서의 사회 활동 정보를 모두 활용하여 더육 더 개인화된 가치 정보를 제공하고자 한다.

• 한국언어정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국언어정보학회 2007년도 정기학술대회
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• pp.285-292
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• 2007

The parallel corpus is an important resource in the research field of data-driven natural language processing, but there are only a few parallel corpora publicly available nowadays, mostly due to the high labor force needed to construct this kind of resource. A novel strategy is brought out to automatically fetch parallel text from the web in this paper, which may help to solve the problem of the lack of parallel corpora with high quality. The system we develop first downloads the web pages from certain hosts. Then candidate parallel page pairs are prepared from the page set based on the outer features of the web pages. The candidate page pairs are evaluated in the last step in which the sentences in the candidate web page pairs are extracted and aligned first, and then the similarity of the two web pages is evaluate based on the similarities of the aligned sentences. The experiments towards a multilingual web site show the satisfactory performance of the system.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.73-103
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• 2015

According to Resource Dependence theory, an organization's behavior and strategy is affected by external resources. An organization has diverse resources interacting with environment. Because organization cannot focus on all those resources, it concentrates on its critical resources. In market environment, firm responds to other firms by controlling their internal critical resources or manages interdependency with environment to get market share. Thus Firm should choose best behavior and strategy when internal and external resources are change. When new brand enters, incumbents might change their strategy to protect their market share depending on critical value. More precisely, incumbents sharing market with entrant respond, but incumbents having competitive internal resources do not. In this article, we study incumbent's responses to a new brand entry and long-term effect. We show that how incumbents change their price strategy in reaction to the new brand' entry and also show these responses vary depending on interdependency of internal resources and external environments and ownership.

• 환경생물
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.364-369
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• 2023

Two newly recorded sea stars, Henricia densispina (Sladen, 1879) and H. reniossa asiatica Djakonov, 1958, collected from the East Sea of Korea using fishing nets, were described in this study. Morphologically, H. densispina is characterized by the shape (sub-triangular) similarity of the intermarginal plates to the superomarginal plates. Henricia reniossa asiatica Djakonov, 1958, has long and slender arms (R/r=7.2-9.1); clustered abactinal paxillae with 3-13 abactinal spinelets; a denuded abactinal skeleton made up of crescentic, elongated cross-shaped, the presence of small ossicles that divided the papular areas; and an adambulacral armature comprised of 14-17 spinelets. This study provides the first occurrence of H. densispina and H. reniossa asiatica in the Korean fauna and a detailed morphological description of these species' key characteristics is provided.

• 한국농림기상학회지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.303-310
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• 2005

의성군 금봉산일대 산림식생의 조성 및 구조적 특성에 대하여 정성적 및 정량적으로 분석하였고, 조사구 70개소$(10m{\times}10m)$를 설정하여 식생유형과 그에 대한 특성(상재도, 상대피도, 종다양도, 종간유사도)이 분석되었다. 식생유형은 큰기름새 등이 특징짓는 산지식생형과 고로쇠나무, 고추나무, 고광나무 등이 특징짓는 저지$\cdot$계곡식생형 등 2개의 식생형으로 대별되었다. 식생단위는 4개 군락(신갈나무군락, 굴참나무군락, 떡갈나무군락, 고로쇠나무군락)으로 구분되어 총 1때 식생그룹으로 나타났다. 상재도와 상대피도는 그룹별로 다소차이는 있지만, 상대피도는 평균적으로 교목성이 $50\~65\%$를 나타내었고, 종다양성은 저지$\cdot$계곡식생유형에서 $2.06\pm0.25\~2.31\pm0.26$으로 산지식생유형보다 높은 값을 나타내었다. 층위별 주요 구성종의 종간유사성을 보면, 교목층과 아교목층에서 신갈나무와 소나무, 떡갈나무, 피나무 등이, 고로쇠나무와 층층나무, 당느릅나무 등이 유사성이 높았으며, 관목층과 초본층에서는 신갈나무와 생강나무, 쇠물푸레나무, 산거울, 대사초 등과 고로쇠나무와 고광나무, 등칡 등이 높은 값을 나타내었다.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.63-82
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• 2022

Purpose - Drawing on relational institutional theory, we explored how demographic similarity between board members of a firm and newly emerged political elites led to firms' increased financial resource acquisition such as leverage ratio and decreased export intensity amidst the Asian financial crisis. We also studied how a firm's leverage ratio and export intensity can further affect firm profitability and financial credit rating. Design/methodology - We revisited and explored a unique, unprecedented crisis that affected most Korean firms: the Asian financial crisis that coincided with a governmental shift from a conservative to a liberal party. We collected demographic information from 432 listed Korean firms' board members and 43 political elites of the Blue House from 1998-2000 to create a demographic similarity measurement. We collected firms' financial information, built panel data, and used ordinary least squares regression to test our theory. Findings - Our results showed that demographic similarity between a firm's directors and newly emerged politicians had a positive association with a firm's leverage ratio but a negative association with a firm's export intensity. A firm's leverage ratio had a negative relationship with firm performance measured by firm profitability and financial credit rating. A firm's export intensity showed a positive effect on firm performance. Originality/value - We highlighted that during an economic crisis that coincided with a governmental shift and change of leading political actors, firms exerted efforts to survey the environment and build new external stakeholder relationships to cope with the changing landscape. We proposed that in an emerging market like Korea where low levels of trust and favoritism are prevalent across society, one of the relational institutional strategies that firms can employ is the selection of directors with similar demographic characteristics to political elites based on factors including birthplace and school affiliations. We examined the efforts of firms to build political networks with newly empowered political elites during a financial crisis, and the consequences of establishing such networks. We highlighted that during a financial crisis, the demographic similarity between a firm's board members and newly emerged politicians can provide firms with access to financial resources but can also result in poor management and reduced effort to enhance its international competitiveness.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.1318-1323
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• 2004

This study describes the purification and characterization of a novel antihypertensive angiotensin 1­converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory peptide from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Maximal production of the ACE inhibitor from Saccharomyces cerevisiae was obtained from 24 h of cultivation at $30^{\circ}C$ and its ACE inhibitory activity was increased by about 1.5 times after treatment of the cell-free extract with pepsin. After the purification of ACE inhibitory peptides with ultrafiltration, Sephadex G-25 column chromatography, and reverse-phase HPLC, an active fraction with an $IC_{50}$ of 0.07 mg and $3.5\%$ yield was obtained. The purified peptide was a novel decapeptide, showing very low similarity to other ACE inhibitory peptide sequences, and its amino acid sequence was Tyr-Asp-Gly-Gly-Val-Phe-Arg-Val-Tyr-Thr. The purified inhibitor competitively inhibited ACE and also showed a clear antihypertensive effect in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) at a dosage of 1 mg/kg body weight.