• Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.289-297
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• 2014

Although big-sized markers are good for accurate marker recognition and tracking, they are easily occluded by other objects and deteriorate natural visualization and level of immersion during user interaction in AR environments. In this paper, we propose an approach to exploiting the use of rectangular markers to support tangible AR interaction based on fingertip touch using small-sized markers. It basically adjusts the length, width, and interior area of rectangular markers to make them more suitably fit to longish objects like fingers. It also utilizes convex polygons to resolve the partial occlusion of a marker and properly enlarges the pattern area of a marker while adjusting its size without deteriorating the quality of marker detection. We obtained encouraging results from users that the approach can provide better natural visualization and higher level of immersion, and be accurate and tangible enough to support a pseudo feeling of touching virtual products with human hands or fingertips during design evaluation of digital handheld products.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.374-383
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• 2013

Various interaction techniques have been studied for providing the feeling of touch and improve immersion in augmented reality (AR) environments. Tangible AR interaction exploiting two types (product-type and pointer-type) of simple objects has earned great interest for cost-effective design evaluation of digital handheld products. When the sizes of markers attached to the objects are kept big to obtain better marker recognition, the pointer-type object frequently and significantly occludes the product-type object, which deteriorates natural visualization and level of immersion in an AR environment. In this paper, in order to overcome such problems, we propose tangible AR interaction using fingertip touch combined with small-sized markers. The proposed approach facilitates the use of convex polygons to recover the boundaries of AR markers which are partially occluded. It also properly enlarges the pattern area of each AR marker to reduce the sizes of AR markers without sacrificing the quality of marker detection. We empirically verified the quality of the proposed approach, and applied it in the process of design evaluation of digital products. From experimental results, we found that the approach is comparably accurate enough to be applied to the design evaluation process and tangible enough to provide a pseudo feeling of manipulating virtual products with human hands.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제44권5호
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• pp.530-536
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• 2006

Bacteriophage P4, a satellite phage of coliphage P2, is a very useful experimental tool for the study of viral capsid assembly and cos-cleavage. For an in vitro cos-cleavage reaction study of the P2-P4 system, new shortened and selectable markers containing P4 derivative plasm ids were designed as a substrate molecules. They were constructed by swapping the non-essential segment of P4 DNA for either the kanamycin resistance (kmr) gene or the ampicillin resistance (apr) gene. The size of the genomes of the resulting markers were 82% (P4 ash8 delRI:: kmr) and 79% (P4 ash8 delRI:: apr) of the wild type P4 genome. To determine the lower limit of genome size that could be packaged into the small P4-size bead, these shortened P4 plasmids were converted to phage particles with infection of the helper phage P2. The conversion of plasmid P4 derivatives to bacteriophage particles was verified by the heat stability test and the burst size determination experiment. CsCl buoyant equilibrium density gradient experiments confirmed not only the genome size of the viable phage form of shortened P4 derivatives, but also their packaging into the small P4-size head. P4 ash8 delRI:: apr turned out to be the smallest P4 genome that can be packaged into P4-sized head.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.99-113
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• 2010

목 적: 최근 다능성을 가진 극소형 줄기세포가 생쥐와 인간에서 발견된다고 보고되었다. 이 연구의 목적은 극소형 추정줄기세포들이 인간 자궁내막에 존재하는지, 그리고 이 세포들이 줄기세포의 고유 특성들과 줄기세포 표지자들을 발현시키는지 확인하기 위함이다. 연구방법: 자궁내막조직검사로부터 채취한 여성 5명의 자궁내막세포를 2주 동안 배양하였으며, alkaline phosphatase, OCT-4, CXCR4 면역화학염색을 통해 줄기세포 표지자 발현 여부를 확인하였다. 이후 percoll density gradient method 방법으로 극소형 추정줄기세포들을 분리하여 배양하였으며, 또한 극소형 추정줄기세포들과 그 유래의 세포들이 OCT-4와 CXCR4를 발현시키는지 확인하였다. 결 과: $3{\mu}m$ 미만의 극소형 추정줄기세포들과 5~15 ${\mu}m$의 과다염색질 원형세포들로 구성된 군집들이 모든 여성의 자궁내막세포에서 발견되었으며, alkaline phosphatase, OCT-4 및 CXCR4를 강하게 발현시켰다. Percoll을 이용하여 극소형 추정줄기세포들을 분리 배양한 결과, 극소형 추정줄기세포들은 자가재생, 배아체양 형성, 군집 형성, 분화 가소성과 같은 줄기세포의 형태학적 및 기능적인 특성들을 나타내었다. 극소형 추정줄기세포들은 세포간 응집 혹은 세포융합을 통하여 약 5~15 ${\mu}m$ 과다염색질 원형세포들과 약 10~20 ${\mu}m$ 구형세포들을 점진적으로 형성시켰다. 이후이 세포들은 섬유아세포 유사세포, 신경유사세포, 혈관내피유사세포를 포함하는 다양한 세포로 분화하였다. 또한 극소형 추정줄기세포들과 극소형 추정줄기세포에서 유래한 세포들은 흔히 OCT-4와 CXCR4를 강하게 발현시켰다. 결 론: 3 ${\mu}m$ 미만의 극소형 추정줄기세포들과 극소형 추정줄기세포에서 유래한 세포들이 인간 자궁내막에서 발견되며, 이 세포들은 줄기세포의 고유 특성들과 줄기세포 표지자인 alkaline phosphatase, OCT-4, CXCR4를 발현시킨다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.90-98
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• 2010

본 논문은 얼굴 모션 데이터를 벡터 기반 캐리커처의 얼굴에 적용하여 캐리커처 얼굴 표정 애니메이션을 생성할 수 있도록 하는 방법론을 기술한다. 본 방법은 일러스트레이터의 플러그인 형식으로 구현하였으며, 별도의 사용자 인터페이스를 갖추고 있다. 실험에 사용된 얼굴 모션 데이터는 28개의 소형 마커를 배우 얼굴의 주 근육 부분에 부착하고 다양한 다수 개의 표정을 Facial Tracker로 캡처한 것이다. 캐리커처는 모션데이터와의 연결을 위해 모션 캡처를 할 때 배우의 얼굴에 부착된 주요 마커의 위치와 동일한 부위에 각각의 제어점을 가진 베지어 곡선 형태로 제작되었다. 그러나 얼굴 모션 데이터는 캐리커처에 비하여 공간적인 규모가 너무 크기 때문에 모션 캘리브레이션 과정을 거쳤으며, 사용자로 하여금 수시로 조절이 가능하게 하였다. 또한 캐리커처와 마커들을 연결시키기 위해서는 사용자가 얼굴 부위의 각 명칭을 메뉴에서 선택한 다음, 캐리커처의 해당 부위를 클릭함으로써 가능하게 하였다. 결국 본 논문은 일러스트레이터의 사용자 인터페이스를 통하여 벡터 기반 캐리커처에 얼굴 모션 데이터를 적용한 캐리커처 얼굴 표정 애니메이션 생성이 가능하도록 하였다.

• Journal of Veterinary Science
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.26.1-26.14
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• 2020

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is a lethal cancer type that is associated with multiple gene mutations in somatic cells. Genetically engineered mouse is hardly applicable for developing a pancreatic cancer model, and the xenograft model poses a limitation in the reflection of early stage pancreatic cancer. Thus, in vivo somatic cell gene engineering with clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats is drawing increasing attention for generating an animal model of pancreatic cancer. In this study, we selected Kras, Trp53, Ink4a, Smad4, and Brca2 as target genes, and applied Campylobacter jejuni Cas9 (CjCas9) and Streptococcus pyogens Cas9 (SpCas9) for developing pancreatic cancer using adeno associated virus (AAV) transduction. After confirming multifocal and diffuse transduction of AAV2, we generated SpCas9 overexpression mice, which exhibited high double-strand DNA breakage (DSB) in target genes and pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN) lesions with two AAV transductions; however, wild-type (WT) mice with three AAV transductions did not develop PanIN. Furthermore, small-sized Cjcas9 was applied to WT mice with two AAV system, which, in addition, developed high extensive DSB and PanIN lesions. Histological changes and expression of cancer markers such as Ki67, cytokeratin, Mucin5a, alpha smooth muscle actin in duct and islet cells were observed. In addition, the study revealed several findings such as 1) multiple DSB potential of AAV-CjCas9, 2) peri-ductal lymphocyte infiltration, 3) multi-focal cancer marker expression, and 4) requirement of > 12 months for initiation of PanIN in AAV mediated targeting. In this study, we present a useful tool for in vivo cancer modeling that would be applicable for other disease models as well.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.61-77
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• 1994

The calcium-binding proteins (CaBP), parvalbumin (PV) and calbindin-D 28K (calbindin) are particularly abundant and specific in their distribution, and present in different subsets of neurons in many brain regions. Although their physiological roles in the neurons have not been elucidated, they are valuable markers of neuronal subpopulations for anatomical and developmental studies. This study is designed to characterize dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) neurons and axon terminals in terms of differential expression of immunoreactivity (IR) for two well-known CaBPs, PV and calbindin. The experiments were carried out on 6 adult monkeys. Monkeys were perfused under deep Nembutal anesthesia with 2% paraformaldehyde and 0.2% glutaraldehyde in 0.1M phosphate buffer. After removal, the brains were postfixed for 6-8 hr in 2% paraformaldehyde at $4^{\circ}C$ and infiltrated with 30% sucrose at $4^{\circ}C$. Thereafter, they were frozen in dry ice. Serial sections of the thalamus, at $20{\mu}m$, were made in the frontal plane with a sliding microtome. The sections were stained for PV and calbindin with indirect immunocytochemical methods. For electron microscopy, after infiltration with 30% sucrose the blocks of thalamus were serially sectioned at $50{\mu}m$ with a Vibratome in the coronal plane and stained immediately by indirect ABC methods without Triton X-100 in incubation medium. Stained sections were postfixed in 0.2% osmium tetroxide, dehydrated and flat-embedded in Spurr resin. The block was then trimmed to contain only a selected lamina or interlaminar space. The dLGN proper showed strong PV IR in fibers in all laminae and interlaminar zones. Particularly dense staining was noted in layers 1 and 2 that contain many stained fibers from optic tract. Neuronal cell body stained with PV was concentrated only in the laminae. In these laminae staining was moderate in cell bodies of all large and medium-sized neurons, and was strong in cell bodies of some small neurons together with their processes. Calbindin IR was marked in the neuronal cell body and neuropil in the S layers and interlaminar zones whereas moderate in the neuropil throughout the nucleus. Regional difference in distribution of PV and calbindin IR cell is distinct; the former is only in the laminae and the latter in both the S layer and interlaminar space. The CaBP-IR elements were confined to about $10{\mu}m$ in depth of Vibratome section. The IR product for CaBP was mainly associated with synaptic vesicle, pre- and post-synaptic membrane, and outer mitochondrial membrane and along microtubule. PV-IR was noted in various neuronal elements such as neuronal soma, dendrite, RLP, F, PSD and some myelinated or unmyelinated axons, and was not seen in the RSD and glial cells. Only a few neuronal components in dLGN was IR for calbindin and its reaction product was less dense than that of PV, and scattered throughout cytoplasm of soma of some relay neurons, and was also persent in some dendrite, myelinated axons and RLP. The RSD, F, PSD and glial elements were always non-IR for calbindin. Calbindin labelled RLP were presynaptic to unlabeled dendrite or dendritic spine and PSD. Calbindin-labeled dendrite of various sizes were always postsynaptic to unlabeled RSD, RLP or F. From this study it is suggested that dLGN cells of different functional systems and their differential projection to the visual cortex can be distinguished by differential expression of PV and calbindin.