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Free radical scavenging activity of some Mangroves available in Bangladesh

  • Ahmed, Firoj;Shahid, IZ;Razzak, MA;Rahman, M Mostafizur;Hoque, Tahmina;Rahman, MT;Sadhu, SK
    • Advances in Traditional Medicine
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.58-64
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    • 2006
  • The crude alcoholic extracts of various parts of five different Bangladeshi mangrove plants (Amoora cucullata, Caesalpinia bonducella, Cerbera odollam, Derris uliginosa and Sonneratia caseolaris) were screened in-vitro for anti-oxidant activity using the 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryldydrazyl-hydrate (DPPH) free radical scavenging assay. Of all of them, the ethanolic extracts of the leaves of Derris uliginosa and Sonneratia caseolaris showed potential antioxidant activity ($IC_{50}$: 94.406 and 26.30 mg/ml respectively) whereas the ethanolic extracts of aerial parts of Derris uliginosa, barks of Cerbera odollam and leaves and stems of Caesalpinia bonducella showed moderate activity ($IC_{50}$: 125.89, 211.35 and 301.99 mg/ml respectively). Mild anti-oxidant activity was observed with the methanolic extract of leaves of Amoora cucullata and ethanolic extracts of fruits of Cerbera odollam.

Development Strateges for University Initiated Technology Business Ineubator (대학주도형 기술창업보육센터의 발전방향 - 해외사례연구를 중심으로 -)

  • 강병수;오덕성
    • Journal of the Korean Regional Science Association
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.63-86
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    • 1995
  • One of the innovative and most promising approaches to new high-tech business formation from university is technology business incubators, which attempts to enhance small high-tech start-up firms' chances of survival. To date, there is few comprehensive effort to do a comparative study of technology business incubatiors between European Countries and U.S. to evaluate the impacts of them on regional development. With these consideration in mind this research anlayzed key findings of 6 case studies of university related Technology Business Incubators in the U.K., Germany, and U.S. to explore relationship of university to regional development. These included Cambridge Science Park(CSP) '||'&'||' West of Scotland Science Park in the U.K., Dortmund Technologiezentrum '||'&'||' Berlin Technologiezentrum, and Rensselaer Technology Development Center of the Georgia Institute of Technology in the U.S. The primary objective of this study was to advance our understanding of the impact and utility of technology business incubators and to get some policy implications for the future development in this area in Korea. Among the major question examined hear was "how do they contribute the overall economy of the communities in which they are located\ulcorner". The results of the case study about this question were very positive. The technology business incubators contributed to foster new high-tech small business formation from university, to facilitate the cooperation between university and industry and Incubator tenants created jobs and income, pay taxes, and in doing so, had a multiplier effects on the local economy. The same was true of incubator graduates. With this consideration in mind the university related business regioned development policy in korean local communities.

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Dark Matter Deficient Galaxies Produced via High-velocity Galaxy Collisions In High-resolution Numerical Simulations

  • Shin, Eun-jin;Jung, Minyong;Kwon, Goojin;Kim, Ji-hoon;Lee, Joohyun;Jo, Yongseok;Oh, Boon Kiat
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.34.1-34.1
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    • 2020
  • The recent discovery of diffuse dwarf galaxies that are deficient in dark matter appears to challenge the current paradigm of structure formation in our Universe. We describe the numerical experiments to determine if the so-called dark matter deficient galaxies (DMDGs) could be produced when two gas-rich, dwarf-sized galaxies collide with a high relative velocity of ~ 300km/s. Using idealized high-resolution simulations with both mesh-based and particle-based gravito-hydrodynamics codes, we find that DMDGs can form as high-velocity galaxy collisions separate dark matter from the warm disk gas which subsequently is compressed by shock and tidal interaction to form stars. Then using a large simulated universe ILLUSTRISTNG, we discover a number of high-velocity galaxy collision events in which DMDGs are expected to form. However, we did not find evidence that these types of collisions actually produced DMDGs in the ILLUSTRISTNG100-1 run. We argue that the resolution of the numerical experiment is critical to realize the "collision-induced" DMDG formation scenario. Our results demonstrate one of many routes in which galaxies could form with unconventional dark matter fractions.

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1D-Coordination Polymer Formed by Structural Conversion of an Oxazolidine Ligand in Reaction with the Copper(II) Halides

  • Mardani, Zahra;Golsanamlou, Vali;Jabbarzadeh, Zahra;Moeini, Keyvan;Carpenter-Warren, Cameron;Slawin, Alexandra M.Z.;Woollins, J. Derek
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.62 no.5
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    • pp.372-376
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    • 2018
  • A 1D-coordination polymer of $1D-\{Cu({\mu}-picolinato)_2\}$ $\{Hakimi,\;2012\;\sharp73\}_n$ (1), was prepared by the reactions between 2-(2-(pyridin-2-yl)oxazolidin-3-yl)ethanol (AEPC) ligand and $CuCl_2$ or $CuBr_2$. The product was characterized by elemental analysis, UV-Vis, FT-IR spectroscopy and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The X-ray analysis results revealed that the AEPC ligand, after reactions with the copper(II) chloride or bromide, gives the same product - $1D-\{Cu({\mu}-picolinato)_2\}_n$ (1). The coordination modes for various picolinate-based ligands were extracted from the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD). In the crystal structure of 1, the copper atom has a $CuN_2O_4$ environment and octahedral geometry, which is distorted by elongation of the axial bond lengths due to the Jahn-Teller effect.

Differential Change in the Prevalence of the Ascaris, Trichuris and Clonorchis infection Among Past East Asian Populations

  • Zhan, Xiaoya;Yeh, Hui-Yuan;Shin, Dong Hoon;Chai, Jong-Yil;Seo, Min;Mitchell, Piers D.
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.57 no.6
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    • pp.601-605
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    • 2019
  • As we learn more about parasites in ancient civilizations, data becomes available that can be used to see how infection may change over time. The aim of this study is to assess how common certain intestinal parasites were in China and Korea in the past 2000 years, and make comparisons with prevalence data from the 20th century. This allows us to go on to investigate how and why changes in parasite prevalence may have occurred at different times. Here we show that Chinese liver fluke (Clonorchis sinensis) dropped markedly in prevalence in both Korea and China earlier than did roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides) and whipworm (Trichuris trichiura). We use historical evidence to determine why this was the case, exploring the role of developing sanitation infrastructure, changing use of human feces as crop fertilizer, development of chemical fertilizers, snail control programs, changing dietary preferences, and governmental public health campaigns during the 20th century.

Discovery of Eurytrema Eggs in Sediment from a Colonial Period Latrine in Taiwan

  • Yeh, Hui-Yuan;Cheng, Chieh-fu Jeff;Huang, ChingJung;Zhan, Xiaoya;Wong, Weng Kin;Mitchell, Piers D.
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.57 no.6
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    • pp.595-599
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    • 2019
  • In this study we take a closer look at the diseases that afflicted Japanese police officers who were stationed in a remote mountainous region of Taiwan from 1921 to 1944. Samples were taken from the latrine at the Huabanuo police outpost, and analyzed for the eggs of intestinal parasites, using microscopy and ELISA. The eggs of Eurytrema sp., (possibly E. pancreaticum), whipworm and roundworm were shown to be present. True infection with Eurytrema would indicate that the policemen ate uncooked grasshoppers and crickets infected with the parasite. However, false parasitism might also occur if the policemen ate the uncooked intestines of infected cattle, and the Eurytrema eggs passed through the human intestines. These findings provide an insight into the diet and health of the Japanese colonists in Taiwan nearly a century ago.

A novel, reversible, Chinese text information hiding scheme based on lookalike traditional and simplified Chinese characters

  • Feng, Bin;Wang, Zhi-Hui;Wang, Duo;Chang, Ching-Yun;Li, Ming-Chu
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.269-281
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    • 2014
  • Compared to hiding information into digital image, hiding information into digital text file requires less storage space and smaller bandwidth for data transmission, and it has obvious universality and extensiveness. However, text files have low redundancy, so it is more difficult to hide information in text files. To overcome this difficulty, Wang et al. proposed a reversible information hiding scheme using left-right and up-down representations of Chinese characters, but, when the scheme is implemented, it does not provide good visual steganographic effectiveness, and the embedding and extracting processes are too complicated to be done with reasonable effort and cost. We observed that a lot of traditional and simplified Chinese characters look somewhat the same (also called lookalike), so we utilize this feature to propose a novel information hiding scheme for hiding secret data in lookalike Chinese characters. Comparing to Wang et al.'s scheme, the proposed scheme simplifies the embedding and extracting procedures significantly and improves the effectiveness of visual steganographic images. The experimental results demonstrated the advantages of our proposed scheme.

The Suggestion of LINF Algorithm for a Real-time Face Recognition System (실시간 얼굴인식 시스템을 위한 새로운 LINF 알고리즘의 제안)

  • Jang Hye-Kyoung;Kang Dae-Seong
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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    • v.42 no.4 s.304
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    • pp.79-86
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, we propose a new LINF(Linear Independent Non-negative Factorization) algorithm for real-time face recognition systea This system greatly consists of the two parts: 1) face extraction part; 2) face recognition part. In the face extraction Part we applied subtraction image, the detection of eye and mouth region , and normalization method, and then in the face recognition Part we used LINF in extracted face candidate region images. The existing recognition system using only PCA(Principal Component Analysis) showed low recognition rates, and it was hard in the recognition system using only LDA(Linear Discriminants Analysis) to apply LDA directly when the training set is small. To overcome these shortcomings, we reduced dimension as the matrix that had non-negative value to be different from former eigenfaces and then applied LDA to the matrix in the proposed system We have experimented using self-organized DAIJFace database and ORL database offered by AT(')T laboratory in Cambridge, U.K. to evaluate the performance of the proposed system. The experimental results showed that the proposed method outperformed PCA, LDA, ICA(Independent Component Analysis) and PLMA(PCA-based LDA mixture algorithm) method within the framework of recognition accuracy.

A Study on the Users' Response to Privacy Issues in Customized Services

  • Park, Sunwoo;Baek, Jeongyun;Yoo, Yeajoo;Kim, Dongwhan
    • Journal of Multimedia Information System
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.201-208
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    • 2022
  • Customized service is a vital and mandatory element for apps in improving their technical performance and app customer analysis. While apps require users' consent for their data extraction and usage, many of the terms and agreement forms are written intricately, making it harder for users to fully understand the whole concept of users' data collection for customized services. Ever since the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal, personal data privacy has been re-examined, forcing many app companies to reinforce a reliable solution to data privacy issues. However, there has not been a secured solution, which worries many people about the future advanced issues when metaverse platforms are actively used in daily apps. The research aims to collect the reactions and behaviors of everyday app users who utilize apps with customized services to understand the nature of privacy data issues and the users' opinions about the future implementation of metaverse platforms. The method of the research was an online questionnaire that targeted university students. The study revealed many fearful and anxious reactions about personal data and further metaverse issues where most app users were uneducated about how current apps collect and utilize users' private data.

An Impact of Patient-physician Communication Curriculum on Students of Korean Medical School (환자-의사 의사소통 수업의 한의학전문대학원 학생에 대한 효과)

  • Lee, Hye-Yoon;Im, Sunju;Yune, So Jung;Lee, Sang Yeoup
    • The Journal of Korean Medicine
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    • v.42 no.3
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    • pp.86-98
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    • 2021
  • Objectives: This study aims to evaluate the impact of patient-physician communication curriculum on students of Korean medical school in terms of cognitive, affective, and psychomotor level of communication skills. Methods: A communication curriculum was developed considering COVID-19 pandemic situation. Lectures, peer role-play, open interview with standardized patient (SP), discussion and feedback were conducted by online, and face-to-face 1:1 SP-interview was performed. Scores of written test, peer role-play of medical communication, SP-interview, self-evaluation on one's interview with real patients in clinical clerkship, and questionnaire of importance were collected and analyzed. Results: Converted to 100 point scale, the mean score of written test (cognitive level) was 91.2 while that of importance questionnaire (affective level) was 77.5. The mean scores of psychomotor level were 72.5, 77.5, and 62.5 for peer role-play, SP-interview, and real patient interview in clerkship, respectively. Conclusions: Students' performance is lower in higher level of competence. Curriculums should provide more opportunities of practices to students, and include evaluation focusing on performance skills.