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CD Program Development Applied Logotherapy to Improve Quality of Life of Older School-age Children with Terminal Cancer (학령후기 말기 암 환아의 삶의 질 증진을 위한 의미요법 CD 프로그램 개발)

  • Kang, Kyung-Ah;Kim, Shin-Jeong;Song, Mi-Kyung
    • Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.82-90
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    • 2008
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop a CD program of applied logotherapy to improve the quality of life of older school-age children with terminal cancer. Methods: Keller's ARCS (Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction) theory and a model for developing learning materials (Dick and Cray) were applied to develop this program which comprised four distinct phases: planning, developing, applying, and evaluation stages. Results: This program was entitled 'Finding treasures in my mind' and consisted of 5 sessions, and its educational contents were made up as follows: "Treasure One" is 'learning three natures of the human mind', "Treasure Two" is 'learning creative value as first method to find meaning of life', "Treasure Three" is 'learning experiential value as second method to find meaning of life', "Treasure Four" is 'learning attitudinal value as third method to find meaning of life', and "Treasure Five" is 'Becoming the master of my life'. The sub-menu was made up of 'Beginning', 'What is it?', 'Travelling'. 'Laughing Song', and 'End'. Conclusion: This CD program is an applied logotherapy with flash animation technique as an emotional and spiritual intervention program for easier and more scientific application in pediatric oncology and hospice area.

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A study on Regional Economic Impacts Due to Launch of International Ferry Terminal at Seosan-Daesan Port (서산 대산항 국제여객선 취항에 따른 지역경제 유발효과 연구)

  • Yun, Kyong-Jun;Kim, Sung-Young;Ahn, Seung-Bum
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.17-30
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    • 2018
  • The regional industry promotion system, which seeks to link the characteristics and resources of the region to its core strategic industry, is spreading the industrial resources in the form of an organic network. The Seosan-Daesan Port is the only port in the Chungcheong provinces that is equipped with international passenger dock and terminal, and it will soon have a ferry service operating to the Longyan port in Rongcheng, China in 2018. The study focuses on effects of the first international ferry operation in the provinces that are being realized with the aim of developing the regional industry. The study also analyzes the ripple effects on the tourism and port industries in the provinces by tapping into the 2013 regional inter-industry table. The analysis shows that the scheduled ferry operation will generate 47,815 million won in production and 23,423 million won in added value for the region's tourism industry. It will also generate total revenue of 12,567 million won for the port industry driven by the locally handled freight containers and the added value. Currently, the Korea-China ferry operation in other regions exhibits greater dependence on the cargo than the passengers. Thus, for the international ferry operation to and from Seosan, generating maximum employment in tourism from the passengers of the international ferry operation will require strategic marketing to attract tourists. At the same time, a steady supply of cargo needs to be sustained by maintaining a balance between import and export cargoes. Furthermore, greater efforts should be made to create more sea routes than other regions or to increase voyages for the purpose of generating more added value.

Novel SINR-Based User Selection for an MU-MIMO System with Limited Feedback

  • Kum, Donghyun;Kang, Daegeun;Choi, Seungwon
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.62-68
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    • 2014
  • This paper presents a novel user selection method based on the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), which is approximated using limited feedback data at the base stations (BSs) of multiple user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems. In the proposed system, the codebook vector index, the quantization error obtained from the correlation between the measured channel and the codebook vector, and the measured value of the largest singular value are fed back from each user to the BS. The proposed method not only generates precoding vectors that are orthogonal to the precoding vectors of the previously selected users and are highly correlated with the codebook vector of each user but also adopts the quantization error in approximating the SINR, which eventually provides a significantly more accurate SINR than the conventional SINR-based user selection techniques. Computer simulations show that the proposed method enhances the sum rate of the conventional SINR-based methods by at least 2.4 (2.62) bps/Hz when the number of transmit antennas and number of receive antennas per user terminal is 4 and 1(2), respectively, with 100 candidate users and an SNR of 30 dB.

Hierarchical Value Map of the Korean Restaurant Experience of Foreigners - An Application of the Laddering Technique - (래더링 기법을 통한 한식당 이용 외국인의 추구 가치 분석)

  • Yang, Il-Sun;Cha, Sung-Mi;Shin, Seo-Young;Baek, Seung-Hee;Lee, Hae-Young
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.687-695
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    • 2009
  • The present study attempted to offer more insights into the foreign consumers' consumption decision structure of Korean restaurants located in foreign countries. A survey was designed based on the means-end chain theory, using the laddering interview technique. The qualitative data obtained from 10 Americans, 10 Japanese, and 10 Chinese were content analyzed and resulted in categories such as 'new experience', 'interest in Korea', 'recommendation', 'good food', 'easy to access', 'service', 'dining environment', and 'price' as perceived attributes of choice. The hierarchical value maps linking attributes, psychological consequences, and terminal values were presented. The most frequent consequences were 'experience new culture', 'be exposed to new experience', and 'learn more about Korea' which were related to 'happiness', 'pleasure', 'good relationship', 'desire fulfillment', and 'self-satisfaction' as personal values. Laddering interviews, which required laborious analysis, provided important information on the relationship between perceived attributes and the reasons for choosing Korean restaurants.

An Evaluation of Venture Business by ROV (실물옵션평가방법에 의한 벤처기업의 가치평가)

  • 김동환;정군오;김재옥
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.289-295
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, the option valuation of venture business was calculated by utilizing growth option model, chosen from real option valuation method. The evaluation of venture business was estimated by adding option value to the terminal value discounted from cashflow method. As the result of the empirical analysis, ROV model applied in the Study is more reliable Han the DCF model concerning the pricing of venture business. Unlike the previous study of Schartz & Moon which only analyzed one venture business, this study estimated and analyzed the rational pricing of venture business with comparative methods using various parameters of sampling 99 domestic venture businesses.

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Purification and Characterization of the Anabolic Acetolactate Synthase III from Serratia marcescens ATCC 25419

  • Joo, Han-Seung;Kim, Soung-Soo
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.244-249
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    • 2001
  • The anabolic acetolactate synthase III was purified to homogeneity from Serratia marcescens using DEAE-Sepharose, Phenyl-Sepharose, and hydroxylapatite column chromatography The native molecular weight of the enzyme was approximately 165 kDa. The enzyme is composed of two large and two small subunits with molecular weights of 64 and 15 kDa, respectively. The N-terminal sequence of the large and small subunit of the enzyme was Ser-Ala-Thr-Pro-Gln-Pro-Ser-Thr-Arg-Phe-Thr-Cys-Ala-Gln-Leu-Ile-Ala-His-Leu and Met-Leu-Gln-Pro-Gln-Asp-Lys-Pro-Gln-Val-Ile-Leu-Glu-Leu-Ala-Val-Arg-Asn-His-Pro-Gly-Val-Met-Ser-His-Val, respectively. The optimum pH and pI value were 7.5 and 5.5, respectively The $IC_{50}$ values were $20\;{\mu}M$ and $14\;{\mu}M$ for valine and herbicide SU7, respectively. The substrate specificity ratio, R value, was determined to be approximately 40, which suggests that this enzyme prefers the formation of $\alpha$-aceto-$\alpha$-hydroxybutyrate leading to the synthesis of isoleucine.

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A case report of monitoring PSA level changes in two prostate cancer patients treated with Mountain Ginseng Pharmacopuncture and Sweet Bee Venom along with western anticancer therapy (양방 항암치료와 병행하여 산삼약침과 봉약침 치료를 받은 전립선암 환자들의 PSA 수치 변화 관찰 보고)

  • Lee, Yeon-Hee;Kim, Chae-Won;Lee, Kwang-Ho
    • Journal of Pharmacopuncture
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.81-88
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    • 2011
  • Objectives: The purpose of this report is to find out how Mountain Ginseng Pharmacopuncture(MGP) and Sweet Bee Venom(SBV) treatments are effective on prostate cancer patients by monitoring Prostate specific antigen(PSA) values. Methods: We treated two prostate cancer patients with MGP and SBV from October 2008 to April 2011. One patient had localized prostate cancer, the other was in the terminal stage of prostate cancer with lung and bone metastasis and both had been receiving western anticancer therapy. We had monitored the changes of PSA value. Results: In case 1, MGP and SBV treatments seemed to be helpful in preventing the recurrence of localized prostate cancer. In case 2, PSA value was decreased by MGP treatment. Conclusions: It is conceivable that MGP and SBV are effective treatments for patients with prostate cancer.

Production of (R)-Ethyl-4-Chloro-3-Hydroxybutanoate Using Saccharomyces cerevisiae YOL151W Reductase Immobilized onto Magnetic Microparticles

  • Choo, Jin Woo;Kim, Hyung Kwoun
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.25 no.11
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    • pp.1810-1818
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    • 2015
  • For the synthesis of various pharmaceuticals, chiral alcohols are useful intermediates. Among them, (R)-ethyl-4-chloro-3-hydroxybutanoate ((R)-ECHB) is an important building block for the synthesis of L-carnitine. (R)-ECHB is produced from ethyl-4-chloro-3-oxobutanoate (ECOB) by a reductase-mediated, enantioselective reduction reaction. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae YOL151W reductase that is expressed in Escherichia coli cells exhibited an enantioselective reduction reaction toward ECOB. By virtue of the C-terminal His-tag, the YOL151W reductase was purified from the cell-free extract using Ni2+-NTA column chromatography and immobilized onto Ni2+-magnetic microparticles. The physical properties of the immobilized reductase (Imm-Red) were measured using electron microscopy, a magnetic property measurement system, and a zeta potential system; the average size of the particles was approximately 1 μm and the saturated magnetic value was 31.76 emu/g. A neodymium magnet was used to recover the immobilized enzyme within 2 min. The Imm-Red showed an optimum temperature at 45℃ and an optimum pH at 6.0. In addition, Bacillus megaterium glucose dehydrogenase (GDH) was produced in the E. coli cells and was used in the coupling reaction to regenerate the NADPH cofactor. The reduction/oxidation coupling reaction composed of the Imm-Red and GDH converted 20 mM ECOB exclusively into (R)-ECHB with an e.e.p value of 98%.

Model to Predict Absorbed Amino Acid Supply at the Proximal Duodenum in Growing Beef Cattle

  • Yan, Xianghua;Xu, Zirong;Zhang, Wen-ju;Wang, Jiaqi
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.358-363
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    • 2005
  • Five crossbred beef cattle (Simmental${\times}$yellow cattle, Shantung Province) fitted with permanent cannulae in the rumen and T-type cannulae at the proximal duodenum and terminal ileum, were fed five different diets containing corn, cotton meal or soybean meal and ammoniated straw to determine the dry matter, crude protein and amino acid flows in duodenal and ileum digesta, and to calculate the regression equations between theoretical and experimental concentration of AA in duodenal digesta. The results showed that there was a strong correlation between experimental (g/d, y) and theoretical CP flows (g/d, x) at the proximal duodenum, the $R^2$-value regression equation of crude protein is very high (0.9636). The $R^2$-value regression equation of the limiting amino acid (such as Met or Lys) is high (0.7573 or 0.9252 respectively). This results indicated that we can formulate better diets fed to beef cattle according to the theoretical amino acid concentration. A mathematical model has been successfully constructed for predicting the supply of absorbed amino acids at the proximal duodenum in growing beef cattle.

Two-Way MIMO AF Relaying Methods Having a Legacy Device without Self-Interference Cancellation (자기간섭 제거 기능이 없는 기존 단말을 가지는 양방향 다중입출력 중계 증폭 전송 기법)

  • Lee, Kyoung-Jae
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.338-344
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, two-way amplify-and-forward relay methods are investigated where two terminals and one relay node are equipped with multiple antennas. In two-way relay channels, it is assumed that one terminal can eliminate its own self-interference but the other cannot. For this channel, we first maximize the sum-rate performance by employing an iterative gradient descent (GD) algorithm. Then, a simple singular value decomposition (SVD) based block triangularization is developed to null the self-interference. Simulation results show the proposed methods outperform the conventional schemes for various environments.