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Breast Cancer Diagnosis by Mammography in Kazakhstan - Staging Results of Breast Cancer with Double Reading

  • Beysebayev, Eldar;Tulebayev, Kazbek;Meymanalyev, Tylek
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.31-34
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    • 2015
  • While mammography has been used for diagnosis of breast cancer in Kazakhstan for a long period, published data are very limited. Recently stress has been placed on increasing the accuracy by double reading of mammograms. Here we provide an overview of breast cancer screening in the different regions of Kazakhstan with data on the stages of cancers detected. A total 459,816 women aged 50, 52, 54, 56, 58 and 60 years were screened in 2012 and 379,903 in the first 9 months of 2013. Clear differences in levels of detection were noted between urban and rural residents, the latter demonstrating lower rates for both screening and cancer detection. Women aged 50 were more likely to undergo screening than their counterparts aged 60. While there were no clear relationships evident between screening rates and stage or numbers of breast cancers observed, this might be due to a number of complicating factors like geographical variation in risk factors as well as ethnicity. Future analyses should focus on the efficacy of mammography in Kazakhstan to reduce mortality.

The Unfulfilled Journey of a Flâneur: Reading "The Man of the Crowd" through the Eyes of the City (미완의 만보자 -도시의 시선으로 『군중의 남자』 읽기)

  • Nam, Soo-Young
    • Journal of English Language & Literature
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    • v.56 no.4
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    • pp.617-635
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    • 2010
  • This paper argues that what Edgar Allan Poe pursues in ;The Man of the Crowd" (1840) is not a story that can be told but an active reading that must be mediated. It is not only because the subject of the pursuit, the secret of the flaneur, remains veiled until the end, but also because the story proves itself to be a reading of various kinds of other texts: that is, the contemporary urban texts as well as the city itself. Although the 'man of the crowd' and his double (i.e. the narrator) embrace the figure of a modern flaneur, it is highly questionable whether the image of flaneur in the story fully qualifies itself as that of an ideal stroller, who can represent the free spirit of a detached collector. Rather, the narrator's flaneur reflects a panoptic perspective, systematically hierarchizing the constituents of the city. Still, it should be noted that ;The Man of the Crowd" raises questions about the idea of creation and appropriation, observation and originality, and reading and storytelling by ascertaining the impossibility of reading and through assimilating to the contemporary texts not without subtle acknowledgement. In short, this novella tries a new way of storytelling, of which meaning is not to be found in creation but to be mediated in modern experiences.

Functions of Hepatitis B Virus- X Gene product

  • 윤영대
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology
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    • 1993.11a
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    • pp.39-40
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    • 1993
  • Hepatitis B virus (HBV)is a member of the Hepadna virus family whose members share a characteristic virion structure and genome size, around 3.2kb in a paritially double-stranded form. The genome of HBV contains four overlapping open reading frames designated as P(polymerase). C(core), S(surface antigen)and X. The X gene has potential to encode 154 amino acids protein.

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PSK Demodulation and Synchronization at Automatic Meter Reading System using Distribution Power Lines. (전력선을 이용한 자동검침 시스템에서의 PSK 복조 및 동기처리)

  • Kim, In-Soo;Park, Yang-Ha;Oh, Sang-Ki;Kim, Kwan-Ho;Kim, Yo-Hee;Moon, Hong-Suk;Park, Sei-Ung
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1991.07a
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    • pp.870-873
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    • 1991
  • In this paper, We present demodulation and synchronization method of phase shift keying signal using Double Frequency Vector Technique for Reference Vector. 2nd Harmonic Vector for Reference Vector is utilized in discriminating between noise and carrier signal, and in producting correlation value for data bit logical level. And we applied this demodulator to Automatic Meter Reading System being communicated with electric distribution power lines.

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Optical image encryption by use of double random phase mask and analysis of its encryption level (이중 임의 위상판을 이용한 광학상의 암호화 및 암호화 수준 분석)

  • 김병철;차성도;신승호
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.79-83
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    • 2002
  • We present a method to improve encryption level by use of a rotational term in the double random-phase-mask(RPM) encryption system. Encrypted optical images are recorded in a photorefractive LiNbO$_3$:Fe crystal and reconstructed by using a phase conjugated reading beam. The encryption level for the analog image is analyzed by use of visibility function.

Clonorchis sinensis tropomyosin: Cloning and sequence of partial cDNA amplified by PCR (간흡충 tropomyosin: PCR로 일부분 증폭된 cDNA의 cloning 및 염기서열)

  • 홍성종
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.285-292
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    • 1993
  • C. sinensis total RMh was containing large amount of 185 rRNA but little 285 rRNA. The size of the double-stranded cDNA synthesized from poly $(A)^{+}$ mRNA was 0.4-4.2 kb long with tapering unto 9.5 kb. Degenerated oligonucleotides (as 2 sense and 3 antisense Primers) were designed on the conserved regions of the known tropomyosin amino acid sequences. From one out of the PCR amplifications using total CDNA and matrix of primers, a specific gene product, 580 bp in size, was produced. Upon Southern hybridization of the PCR products with Schistosomn mnnsoni tropomyosin (SMTM) CDNA, only one signal appeared at the band of 580 bp product. This 580 bp product was considered to encode C. sinensis tropomyosin (CSTM) and cloned in pGEM-3Zf(-) for DNA sequencing. CSTM cDNA was 575 bp containing one open reading frame of 191 predicted amino acids, which revealed 86.3% homology with SMTM and 51.1% with rrichostronsylur coeubnlormis tropomyosin. CSTM cDNA obtained will serve as a probe in the studies of molecular cloning of CSTM.

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Analysis of Reproducing Characteristics in Perpendicular Magnetic Recording System Using Preisach Model (Preisach 모델을 이용한 수직자기기록장치의 재생특성 해석)

  • 박관수;이향범;이택동;장평우
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.50-55
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    • 1992
  • Numerical method for analyzing the reading process in magnetic recording system is described. Hysteresis characteristics must be included in numerical analysis not only recording process but also reading process because of hysteretic behavior of recording media. Algorithm which is consisted of finite clement method for numerical analysis and Preisach model considered to be more appropriate method than Stoner-Wohlfarth model with spin curling mode for describing hysteresis characteristics is constructed. Equations to calculate waveform of reproduced voltage is proposed. Then, this is applied to perpendicular magnetic recording systems with pole type head and double layer media. Waveform of magnetic flux density and reproduced voltage induced in head coil is obtained. If the recording current increase in recording process, magnitude of reproduced voltage in reproducing process saturates. From this saturation curve, value of current which produce maximum voltage can be obtained.

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Three-Dimensional Optical Encryption of Quick Response Code

  • Kim, Youngjun;Yun, Hui;Cho, Myungjin
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.153-159
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, we present a three-dimensional (3D) optical encryption technique for quick response (QR) code using computational synthesized integral imaging, computational volumetric reconstruction, and double random phase encryption. Two-dimensional (2D) QR code has many advantages, such as enormous storage capacity and high reading speed. However, it does not protect primary information. Therefore, we present 3D optical encryption of QR code using double random phase encryption (DRPE) and an integral imaging technique for security enhancement. We divide 2D QR code into four parts with different depths. Then, 2D elemental images for each part of 2D QR code are generated by computer synthesized integral imaging. Generated 2D elemental images are encrypted using DRPE, and our method increases the level of security. To validate our method, we report simulations of 3D optical encryption of QR code. In addition, we calculated the peak side-lobe ratio (PSR) for performance evaluation.

Charles and Mary Lamb's Ambivalent Adaptation Attitudes in Their Tales from Shakespeare (『셰익스피어 이야기』에 나타난 찰스 램과 메리 램의 이중적 각색 태도)

  • Lim, Keunsun
    • Journal of English Language & Literature
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    • v.59 no.4
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    • pp.593-617
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    • 2013
  • Tales from Shakespeare, written by Charles and Mary Lamb in 1807, is an adaptation of Shakespeare's plays which was intended for children. Shakespeare's poetic language is transmitted into prose, which enables children to easily read his works. Charles and Mary Lamb collaborated in adapting Shakespeare's plays, but they undertook separate duties which revealed different attitudes in their approach to the adaptation. This dissertation examines Mary Lamb's adaption of Shakespeare's problem play All's Well That Ends Well and Charles Lamb's adaption of Shakespeare' tragedy King Lear, with an adapted pattern focusing on the plot and character. Charles Lamb stressed the "imagination of a fairy tale," which was against the trend in children's literature of the time, while Mary Lamb stressed "the moral and didactic element." Mary Lamb was concerned with the education of female children in the early nineteenth-century. As a result, the Tales presents "a double movement" or perspective, which stresses didactic elements, as well as imagination. These ambivalent attitudes caused critical debates in the nineteenth-century. However, the Lambs defended criticism against "the double movement," suspecting themselves to be "no bigger than a child," from the viewpoint of "the imagination," and reading the Tales to be effective at "making a child a virtuous man," from the viewpoint of "an education."

Application of Engineered Zinc Finger Proteins Immobilized on Paramagnetic Beads for Multiplexed Detection of Pathogenic DNA

  • Shim, Jiyoung;Williams, Langley;Kim, Dohyun;Ko, Kisung;Kim, Moon-Soo
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.31 no.9
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    • pp.1323-1329
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    • 2021
  • Micro-scale magnetic beads are widely used for isolation of proteins, DNA, and cells, leading to the development of in vitro diagnostics. Efficient isolation of target biomolecules is one of the keys to developing a simple and rapid point-of-care diagnostic. A zinc finger protein (ZFP) is a double-stranded (ds) DNA-binding domain, providing a useful scaffold for direct reading of the sequence information. Here, we utilized two engineered ZFPs (Stx2-268 and SEB-435) to detect the Shiga toxin (stx2) gene and the staphylococcal enterotoxin B (seb) gene present in foodborne pathogens, Escherichia coli O157 and Staphylococcus aureus, respectively. Engineered ZFPs are immobilized on a paramagnetic bead as a detection platform to efficiently isolate the target dsDNA-ZFP bound complex. The small paramagnetic beads provide a high surface area to volume ratio, allowing more ZFPs to be immobilized on the beads, which leads to increased target DNA detection. The fluorescence signal was measured upon ZFP binding to fluorophore-labeled target dsDNA. In this study, our system provided a detection limit of ≤ 60 fmol and demonstrated high specificity with multiplexing capability, suggesting a potential for development into a simple and reliable diagnostic for detecting multiple pathogens without target amplification.