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Genomic Structure of the Cu/Zn Superoxide Dismutase(SOD1) Gene from the Entomopathogenic Fungus, Cordyceps pruinosa

  • Park, Nam Sook;Jin, Byung Rae;Lee, Sang Mong
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.67-73
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    • 2019
  • The genomic structure of the Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) gene from the entomopathogenic fungus, Cordyceps pruinosa was characterized. The SOD1 gene of C. pruinosa spans 947 nucleotides and consisted of four exons encoding for 154 amino acids and three introns. Four exons of the SOD1 gene are composed of 13, 331, 97 and 20 nucleotides respectively. Homology search of amino acid sequences of the SOD1 gene of C. pruinosa with another 13 fungi species showed higher sequence similarity of 69% ~ 95% and had the most highest sequence identity of 95% with Beauveria bassiana and Cordyceps militaris, which can easely infect domesticated Bombyx mori and another wild lepidopteran species in artificial or natual manner of infection. This SOD1 gene sequence showed copper, zinc and beta-barrel fold sites. Homology search showed that the Cu/Zn SOD1 gene from the entomopathogenic fungus, C. pruinosa is an orthologous gene homolog present in different species of organism whose ancestor predates the split between the relating species. In addition, C. pruinosa SOD1 gene is placed together within the ascomycetes group of fungal clade. From these results it is concluded that C. pruinosa SOD1 gene is orthologous gene having the same or very similar functions with a common evolutionary ancestor.

Study on The Generation Expansion Planning Considering Emission Trading and LOLP (배출권거래와 공급신뢰도(LOLP)를 고려한 설비계획 방법론에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Hye-Kyeong;Chung, Gu-Hyung;Hong, Hee-Jung;Han, Seoc-Man;Kang, Dong-Ju;Kim, Bal-Ho
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2007.11b
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    • pp.214-216
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    • 2007
  • Post 2012 기후변화협약 체제의 토래 및 강화되는 기후변화협약으로 인해 우리나라의 온실가스 의무감축이 확실하게 예견되고 있는 현 시점에서 우리나라의 온실가스 감축이행을 위한 대응책의 필요성이 증가하고 있다. 특히 발전부문은 우리나라의 온실가스 배출의 약 30%를 차지하고 있으며, 경제성장에 따라 온실가스 배출량이 빠른 속도로 증가하고 있으므로 Post 2012 기후변화협약 체제의 대응책이 보다 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 향후 발전부문에 온실가스 감축의무가 부담될 것을 고려하여 온실가스 배출량 제약 및 배출권거래제를 고려한 설비계획을 도출하고자 한다. 현재 우리나라의 전원 개발계획에서 사용되고 있는 전산모형(WASP, POWERSYM 등)은 온실가스 배출량 제약 및 배출권거래제를 고려하지 못하므로 MEFISET 모형을 이용하여 이를 고려하고자 한다. 그러나 MEFISET 모형은 설비예비력 제약조건을 통해 공급신뢰도를 만족하고 있다. 이러한 설비계획 결과는 공급신뢰도 기준 을 만족시키기 위해 과도한 설비계획 결과를 도출한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 이를 보완하기 위해 Visual C를 통해 구현한 LOLP 프로그램을 통해 공급신뢰도 기준을 만족시키기 위한 적정 설비예비력을 추정하고자 한다.

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Analysis of Wind Resources of the South Seashore of JeonNam Province (전남지역 남해안 풍력자원조사 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Chan;Chung, Chin-Wha;Lee, Eung-Chae;Chun, Ch.-H.;Han, Kyung-Seop;Kim, Yong-Whan
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.281-285
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    • 2006
  • As the needs of wind energy increase, the more sites for the wind farm are required. As a part of searching for the prominent wind farm site, specially for offshore wind farm, we chose 4 sites along the southern part seashore of JeonNam province based on the analysis of the data gathered by meteorological observatory ud have gathered wind data for more than a year by use of 40m Met masts installed in the representative locations, ie. small islands of 4 different bay area. The siting for the Met masts were very limited by the geographical circumstances The wind data of those areas show a little lower annual average wind speeds, for the wind farm development, of 4m/s to 5.5m/s at the height of 40m above the ground level of the respective islands. The detail figures of one year wind data of those area are presented in this report.

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Construction of Environment Database for Saemangeum watershed Using GIS (GIS를 활용한 새만금 환경 DB 구축)

  • Eom, Myung-Chul;Jo, Guk-Hyun;Lee, Kwang-Ya;Kim, Kye-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.381-384
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study is to construct an Environment Database Management System (EDMS) for the Saemangeum watershed based on the linkage of Water Quality Model, i.e. QUALKO and WASP model, and GIS database to estimate water quality effectively in this area. There are two major river systems on this study area, the Mangyeong and the Dongjin rivers. Input data are automatically generated through the calculation of the pollutant loading and inflow concentration from the point and non-point sources. The developed system is composed of three different phases, such as pre-process, model performance and post-process. The Model performance is supported by the database at pre-process phase and model performance results were shown in the graphs and attribution data at post-process phase. The measured data from the Mangyeong and the Dongjin rivers are used to evaluate the applicability of EDMS. The EDMS shows higher reliability, and it is expected to contribute to the effective management and improvement of water quality modeling in the Saemangeum watershed since the system reduces complications of using a model in DOS operating environment and increases the accuracy of water quality analysis.

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Application of Water Quality Management System of Freshwater Lake

  • Kim, Sun-Joo;Kim, Phil-Shik;Lee, Joo-Young
    • Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.45 no.7
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    • pp.38-48
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    • 2003
  • Lake water quality assessment information is useful to anyone involved in lake management, from lake owners to lake associations. It provides lake water quality criteria, which can improve the ways how to manage out lake resources and how to measure current conditions. It also provides a knowledge base so that the lakes can be protected and restored. Here, the Freshwater Lake Water Quality Management System(FLAQUM) was developed. The results of FLAQUM application by scenario proved that pollutant load at rainfall by the nonpoint sources was much more than normal times at rainfall. From the result of Scenario I (pollutant source increase case), the concentrations of Boryeong freshwater lake were BOD 9.43mg/L, T-N 4.53 mg/L and T-P 0.21 mg/L, respectively, and those values exceed the standard of agricultural water. And in case of Scenario I and II(the present case) excluding Scenario III (pollutant source decrease case), all of T-N and T-P are either mesotrophication or eutrophication, on the other hand when 60% of pollution source is removed, the concentrations of Scenario III were BOD 3.21 mg/L, T-N 0.95 mg/L, T-P 0.11 mg/L, respectively, and which satisfies the standard of agricultural water quality.

Analysis of Gas Turbine Competitiveness and Adequacy of Electricity Market Signal in Korea (한국 전력시장에서의 가스터빈(GT) 발전기 경쟁력 및 시장 미진입 적정성 분석)

  • Kim, Eun Hwan;Park, Yong-Gi;Park, Jong-Bae;Roh, Jae Hyung
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.66 no.8
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    • pp.1172-1180
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    • 2017
  • This study analyzed competition in peak load plants between CCGT and GT instead of competition between base and peak load plants like in previous studies. In common overseas power markets, CCGT and GT claim certain market shares as peak load plants with the latter boasting a high utilization rate as reserve plants. In South Korea, however, there has been no introduction of GT in the market that opened in 2001 with no analysis cases of GT's economy as a peak load plant. The current power market of South Korea is run on the cost-based pool, which allows for no price spikes. Since the capacity payment criteria for compensations for missing money are set based on GT generators, the power market uses GT generators as marginal plants. The purposes of this study were to analyze the competitive edge of GT generators as peak load plants in the domestic power market of South Korea and identify the causes of GT's failure in market entry, thus assessing the adequacy of market signals in the domestic power market.

Cellular Protrusions - Lamellipodia, Filopodia, Invadopodia and Podosomes - and their Roles in Progression of Orofacial Tumours: Current Understanding

  • Alblazi, Kamila Mohamed Om;Siar, Chong Huat
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.2187-2191
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    • 2015
  • Background: Protrusive structures formed by migrating and invading cells are termed lamellipodia, filopodia, invadopodia and podosomes. Lamellipodia and filopodia appear on the leading edges of migrating cells and function to command the direction of the migrating cells. Invadopodia and podosomes are special F-actin-rich matrix-degrading structures that arise on the ventral surface of the cell membrane. Invadopodia are found in a variety of carcinomatous cells including squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck region whereas podosomes are found in normal highly motile cells of mesenchymal and myelomonocytic lineage. Invadopodia-associated protein markers consisted of 129 proteins belonging to different functional classes including WASP, NWASP, cortactin, Src kinase, Arp 2/3 complex, MT1-MMP and F-actin. To date, our current understanding on the role(s) of these regulators of actin dynamics in tumors of the orofacial region indicates that upregulation of these proteins promotes invasion and metastasis in oral squamous cell carcinoma, is associated with poor/worst prognostic outcome in laryngeal cancers, contributes to the persistent growth and metastasis characteristics of salivary gland adenoid cystic carcinoma, is a significant predictor of increased cancer risk in oral mucosal premalignant lesions and enhances local invasiveness in jawbone ameloblastomas.

Wide band prototype feedhorn design for ASTE focal plane array

  • Lee, Bangwon;Gonzales, Alvaro;Lee, Jung-won
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.66.2-66.2
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    • 2016
  • KASI and NAOJ are making collaborating efforts to implement faster mapping capability into the new 275-500 GHz Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment focal plane array (FPA). Feed horn antenna is one of critical parts of the FPA. Required fractional bandwidth is almost 60 % while that of traditional conical horn is less than 50 %. Therefore, to achieve this wideband performance, we adopted a horn of which the corrugation depths have a longitudinal profile. A profiled horn has features not only of wide bandwidth but also of shorter length compared to a linear-tapered corrugated horn, and lower cost fabrication with less error can be feasible. In our design process the flare region is represented by a cubic splined curve with several parameters. Parameters of the flare region and each dimension of the throat region are optimized by a differential evolution algorithm to keep >20 dB return loss and >30 dB maximum cross-polarization level over the operation bandwidth. To evaluate RF performance of the horn generated by the optimizer, we used a commercial mode matching software, WASP-NET. Also, Gaussian beam (GB) masks to far fields were applied to give better GB behavior over frequencies. The optimized design shows >23 dB return loss and >33 dB maximum cross-polarization level over the whole band. Gaussicity of the horn is over 96.6 %. The length of the horn is 12.5 mm which is just 57 % of the ALMA band 8 feed horn (21.96 mm).

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Analysis of Generation Expansion Planning Methodology in Deregulated Power Systems (규제 완화된 전력시스템의 전원개발계획 방법론 고찰)

  • Cho, Hyoung-Joon;Hwang, Sung-Wook;Chang, Seung-Chan;Kim, Bal-Ho;Kim, Jung-Hoon
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1999.07c
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    • pp.1101-1103
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    • 1999
  • Deregulation and restructuring of electric industry change the fundamental nature of electric business which will be coordinated by the evolved market structures such as spot market with pool and bilateral transaction structure, forward market and future market. Introduction of competition can significantly change the system operation in near-terms as well as long-run generation expansion planning Previous centralized planning by monopoly utilities which was guided for the public service purpose will be replaced by decentralized investments plan by individual generation companies in response to commercial incentives. This paper reviews WASP model as a centralized planning tool and presents a methodological analysis of generation expansion planning in deregulated power systems. It stresses how affects the process of planning new generation investments by the introduction of competition and how maintains proper fuel mix and continuously sustains system reliability under deregulated environments.

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The Photometric Analysis Of The W Subtype Contact Binary EK Comae Berenices

  • Song, Mi-Hwa;Kim, Chun-Hwey;Lee, Jae Woo
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.64.1-64.1
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    • 2017
  • 접촉쌍성 EK Com은 0.2667일의 짧은 주기를 가진 만기형 식쌍성으로 광도곡선의 변화로 인해 연구자마다 이계의 하위 유형을 다르게 언급하여 하위유형의 혼동이 있는 천체이다. 우리는 소백산천문대에서 2009년 5월 VR 필터로, 2013년 2 ~ 5월 사이 BVRI 필터로, 2016년 1 ~ 4월 사이 R 필터로 CCD 측광 관측하여 3개의 새로운 광도곡선을 획득하였다. 우리의 관측 자료와 SuperWASP의 공개된 자료로부터 40개의 새로운 극심시각을 산출하였다. 이 극심시각을 포함하여 155개의 극심시각을 여러 문헌에서 수집하여 주기 연구를 수행한 결과, EK Com의 공전주기는 영년 주기 증가와 더불어 8.2년의 주기적인 변화가 겹쳐 변화함을 발견하였다. 이러한 주기 변화 원인에 대하여 살펴본 결과, 영년주기변화는 질량이 작은 별에서 큰 별로의 질량이동에 의하여 일어나고, 주기적인 변화는 질량이 큰 주성의 자기 활동에 의해 발생할 수 있음을 보였다. Wilson-Devinney code를 이용한 광도곡선 분석을 통하여 EK Com은 개기식이 부식에 있는 하위 유형 A라기 보다 주식에 있는 W형에 속하며, 모든 광도곡선에서 1개의 Hot spot과 1개의 Cool spot을 가진 모형이 가장 관측치를 잘 설명한다. W UMa형 별들의 HR도, 온도비, 질량의 그래프에서 EK Com은 W형 Group들이 있는 위치에 존재한다. 이는 광도곡선에서 유추한 EK Com의 하위 유형과도 일치한다.

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