• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제56권5호
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• pp.409-418
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• 2018

Acanthamoeba spp. are free-living protozoa that are opportunistic pathogens for humans. Cysteine proteases of Acanthamoeba have been partially characterized, but their biochemical and functional properties are not clearly understood yet. In this study, we isolated a gene encoding cysteine protease of A. castellanii (AcCP) and its biochemical and functional properties were analyzed. Sequence analysis of AcCP suggests that this enzyme is a typical cathepsin L family cysteine protease, which shares similar structural characteristics with other cathepsin L-like enzymes. The recombinant AcCP showed enzymatic activity in acidic conditions with an optimum at pH 4.0. The recombinant enzyme effectively hydrolyzed human proteins including hemoglobin, albumin, immunoglobuins A and G, and fibronectin at acidic pH. AcCP mainly localized in lysosomal compartment and its expression was observed in both trophozoites and cysts. AcCP was also identified in cultured medium of A. castellanii. Considering to lysosomal localization, secretion or release by trophozoites and continuous expression in trophozoites and cysts, the enzyme could be a multifunctional enzyme that plays important biological functions for nutrition, development and pathogenicity of A. castellanii. These results also imply that AcCP can be a promising target for development of chemotherapeutic drug for Acanthamoeba infections.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.31-36
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• 2011

축산농가에서 발생되는 돈분 슬러리의 처리 능력을 평가하기 위하여 Full-scale의 단상 혐기성 소화조에서 중온소화와 고형물 체류시간을 20일로 하여 연속식으로 운전하면서 성능평가 및 특성연구를 실시하였다. 운전기간 중 알칼리도는 약 4,000 mg/L(3,500~9,000 mg/L as $CaCO_3$)이였고, 소화조내의 pH는 7.5~8.0 범위로 약간 높은 경향이었으나 pH는 안정적이었다. 바이오가스의 발생량은 OLR 1.2 $g{\cdot}COD/L{\cdot}day$에서 0.69 L/L/day의 바이오가스를 생산하였고, 제거된 COD를 바탕으로 계산된 메탄가스 발생량은 63% 수준이였다. 생산된 바이오가스 중 메탄가스 함량은 65~70%이었고, CO2는 약 30% 전후였으며, 열병합 발전을 실시하였을 때 총전력요구량의 50~75% 수준을 공급하였다. 또한 발전기 부하가 5~9 kW시 평균 1 kWh의 전력을 생산하기 위한 바이오가스 소모량은 약 1.8 $m^3$이였다. 따라서 실제 규모의 plant에서 약 500일간 운전한 결과 유입되는 돈분 슬러리의 TS 농도에 상관없이 소화조 내에 일정 농도의 유기물을 확보할 수 있었고, 바이오가스의 발생량은 일반적인 축산분뇨 가스 발생량 보다 높게 나타나 단상 혐기성 소화공정으로 고효율 처리가 가능한 것으로 나타났다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제62권7호
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• pp.1009-1013
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• 2013

In this study, we developed a fiber-optic goniometer for the continuous measurement of knee joint angle which provides important medical information on Alzheimer's disease. The fiber-optic goniometer is composed of a light-emitting diode (LED), a plastic optical fiber (POF), and a voltage output photodiode (PD). As a sensing part of the fiber-optic goniometer, a unclad fiber with regular intervals of 1 mm was fabricated to improve efficiency of bending loss according to the angle variation of knee joint. The emitting light with a center wavelength of 470 nm from a LED is guided by a POF to the PD, the transmitted light is then attenuated by the bending loss inside the bent POF. The intensity variation of the light transmitted from the POF gives rise to a change in output voltage in the fiber-optic goniometer. Therefore, we measured the real-time output voltage of the proposed fiber-optic goniometer using the unclad fiber according to the knee joint angle. Through the repeated experiments, the fiber-optic goniometer shows that it has a reversibility and a wide measurable angle range.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.551-559
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• 2000

서해안의 신도시 및 산업단지 근교에 위치한 인공 시화호에서 유입지천 부근의 상류쿠터 최하류의 수문부근까지 3~8개 지점에서 1994년~1999년에 걸쳐 수환경 오인을 매월 1~2회 조사하였다. 환경요인은 연평균 $COD_{Mn}$, 엽록소 $\alpha$, 총질소, 총인농도 및 투명도가 각각 5.2~15.1mg/L, $7.3~148.1\;\mu\textrm{g}$/L, 1.50~4.48 mgN/L, 0.055~0.281 mgP/L 및 0.5~1.4 m로서 중영양단계에서 과영양단계까지의 수질을 보였다. 시화호가 조성된 1994년부터 1997년 3월 이전까지의 수질은 외부 또는 내부의 저층으로부터 부하되는 오염물질이 지속적으로 호소내에 축적되어 극도로 악화되었다. 수질오염은 연중 식물플랑크톤이 대발생하는 생물학적 현상으로 뚜렷하게 나타났다. 반면에 1997년 3월부터 1999년까지는 다양한 수질개선대책의 시행으로 빠른 속도의 수질회복이 관찰되었고, 1999년의 수질은 담수화 초기의 수질로 회복된 것으로 조사되었다. 시화호의 수질회복은 1997년 7월부터 시행한 해수유통에 의해 가장 큰 효과를 보였고, 1997년 3월부터 운영한 반월공단 및 시화공장의 차집수로에 의한 유입부하량 저감으로 수질회복효과를 더욱 향상시킨 것으로 평가되었다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.299-306
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• 2016

Body temperature (BT) monitoring in cattle could be used to early detect fever from infectious disease or physiological events. Various ways to measure BT have been applied at different locations on cattle including rectum, reticulum, milk, subcutis and ear canal. In other to evaluate the temperature stability and reliability of subcutaneous temperature (ST) in highly fluctuating field conditions for continuous BT monitoring, long term ST profiles were collected and analyzed from cattle in autumn/winter and summer season by surgically implanted thermo-logger devices. Purposes of this study were to assess ST in the field condition as a reference BT and to determine any location effect of implantation on ST profile. In results, ST profile in cattle showed a clear circadian rhythm with daily lowest at 05:00 to 07:00 AM and highest around midnight and rather stable temperature readings (mean${\pm}$standard deviation [SD], $37.1^{\circ}C$ to $37.36^{\circ}C{\pm}0.91^{\circ}C$ to $1.02^{\circ}C$). STs are $1.39^{\circ}C$ to $1.65^{\circ}C$ lower than the rectal temperature and sometimes showed an irregular temperature drop below the normal physiologic one: 19.4% or 36.4% of 54,192 readings were below $36.5^{\circ}C$ or $37^{\circ}C$, respectively. Thus, for BT monitoring purposes in a fever-alarming-system, a correction algorithm is necessary to remove the influences of ambient temperature and animal resting behavior especially in winter time. One way to do this is simply discard outlier readings below $36.5^{\circ}C$ or $37^{\circ}C$ resulting in a much improved mean${\pm}$SD of $37.6^{\circ}C{\pm}0.64^{\circ}C$ or $37.8^{\circ}C{\pm}0.55^{\circ}C$, respectively. For location the upper scapula region seems the most reliable and convenient site for implantation of a thermo-sensor tag in terms of relatively low influence by ambient temperature and easy insertion compared to lower scapula or lateral neck.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.549-558
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• 2017

본 연구는 체지방률이 32% 이상인 폐경 후 비만여성 36명을 대상으로 유산소운동이 혈청지질, 렙틴, 그렐린 및 인슐린저항성지수에 미치는 영향을 구명하기 위하여 운동집단(18명)과 통제집단(18명)으로 나누어 유산소운동인 라인댄스를 16주간 실시한 후 체조성, 혈청지질, 렙틴, 그렐린 및 인슐린저항성지수를 운동전과 후로 측정하여 비교분석하였다. 본 연구의 결과 운동 후에 운동집단에서 체중, 체지방률(%BF), 체질량지수(BMI), 내장지방면적(VFA), 렙틴(Leptin), 인슐린(Insulin), 글루코스(Glucose), 인슐린저항성지수(HOMA-IR), 총콜레스테롤(TC), 중성지방(TG), 아포리포프로틴(Apolipoprotein) B, 저밀도지단백 콜레스테롤(LDL-C) 및 수축기혈압(SBP)이 유의하게 감소하였다. 또한 아포리포프로틴(Apolipoprotein) A-1, 그렐린(Ghrelin) 및 고밀도지단백 콜레스테롤(HDL-C)이 유의하게 증가하였다. 유산소운동집단의 내장지방면적에 영향을 미치는 에너지대사조절인자의 회귀분석결과에서 주요요인으로 그렐린, 인슐린, 글루코스 및 HOMA-IR 나타났다. 따라서 규칙적이고 지속적인 유산소운동이 폐경 후 비만여성의 체조성, 내장지방, 혈청지질, 렙틴, 그렐린 및 HOMA-IR을 개선시키는 데 효과가 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제18권9호
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• pp.1299-1304
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• 2005

An experiment was conducted to study the production performance of broiler breeder females (25 to 40 weeks of age) fed either reference diet or low non-phytate phosphorus (NPP) diet with or without microbial phytase (500 FYT/kg) supplementation. A weighed (160 g/b/d) quantity of feed from each diet was offered daily to 40 replicates of one bird each housed in California type cage having individual feeders. Each cage was considered as a replicate. A continuous 16-h light per day was provided using incandescent bulbs. Body weight, egg production, egg weight, feed per egg mass, egg specific gravity, egg breaking strength, shell thickness, tibia ash and serum Ca and protein concentrations were not affected by reducing the NPP level from 0.30 to 0.18% in the broiler breeder diet. Supplementation of phytase (500 FYT/kg) enzyme to the diet containing 0.18% NPP had no added advantage on any of the above production parameters. The serum inorganic P was increased significantly (p<0.05) by either enhancing the NPP content from 0.18 to 0.30% or supplementing phytase @500 FYT/kg to the diet containing low P which were found comparable. Retention of Ca and P was positive on all the diets. P retention decreased significantly (p<0.05) with either increase in NPP content or phytase supplementation in the diet. Neither NPP nor phytase supplementation influenced bone mineralization in terms of tibia ash and strength. The hatchability was not influenced by either increasing the NPP content or supplementing the enzyme phytase. Similarly, the P concentration in the egg yolk and day old chick, day old and 14th day body weight and leg score was not altered by increasing the level of NPP or supplementing phytase enzyme. The mortality was within the normal limits in all the three dietary groups. Thus, it can be concluded that 0.18% NPP (288 mg NPP intake/b/d) in the broiler breeder' diet is adequate in sustaining the optimum performance from 25 to 40 wks of age. Enhancing the NPP content or supplementation of phytase (500 FYT/kg diet) to diet containing 0.18% NPP had no added advantage on performance.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.616-625
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• 2017

Measurements using five real-time particle samplers were compared to measurements using three NRM (National Reference Method system) filter-based samplers(Gravimetric method) at Incheon, Korea, between May and August, 2014. The purpose of this study was to suggest the quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) method of each instrument for use in a real-time continuous particle sampler to measure the mass of airborne particles with an aerodynamic diameter less than $2.5{\mu}m$ ($PM_{2.5}$). Five real-time particle samplers of BAM1020, FH62C_14, TEOM, PM-711 and SPM-613 were evaluated by comparing its measured 23 hr average $PM_{2.5}$ concentrations with those measured with NRM filter-based samplers simultaneously. The parameters(e.g. Inlet heating condition, Slope factor, Film response, Intercept, Background, Span value) of the real-time samplers were optimized respectively by conducting test performance evaluation during 7 days in field sampling. For example, inlet heating temperature of TEOM sampler controls $35{\sim}40^{\circ}C$ to minimize the fluctuation of the real-time measurement data and background value of BAM1020 is the key factor affecting the accuracy of $PM_{2.5}$ mass concentration. We classified the $PM_{2.5}$ concentration according to relative humidity (80%) to identify water absorbed in aerosols by measuring the ${\beta}$-ray samplers(BAM1020, FH62C_14) and TEOM. ${\beta}$-ray samplers were not strongly affected by relative humidity that the difference of the average $PM_{2.5}$ concentration was about 5%. On the other hand, The TEOM sampler overestimated $PM_{2.5}$ mass concentration about 15% at low relative humidity (<80%).

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.342-351
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• 2017

뉴럴 디코딩은 뉴론이 발화한 스파이크 트레인으로부터 뉴론에 인가된 원 자극을 추정하는 작업을 말한다. 디코딩은 뉴론들끼리 어떻게 신호를 주고 받는 지를 이해함으로써 궁극적으로 뇌가 어떻게 정보처리를 하는 지 이해하는 기초적인 작업이다. 이 논문에서 우리는 3가지 뉴럴 디코딩 방법, 즉 빈도 디코딩, 시간 디코딩, 군집 디코딩 방법에 대해 설명하겠다. 빈도 디코딩은 자극에 대한 스파이크의 발화빈도 정보를 이용하여 자극을 복원하는 방법을 말한다. 역사적으로 가장 먼저 시도되었고 가장 간단한 디코딩 방법이다. 그러나 정수 개인 스파이크 개수로부터 빈도를 계산하는 과정에서 빈도자체가 불연속이고 양자화될 가능성이 높기 때문에 간단하고 정적인 자극이 아닌 경우 빈도 디코딩으로는 자극을 복원하기 어렵다는 한계를 가지고 있다. 시간 디코딩은 스파이크 발생 빈도가 아닌 개별 스파이크들의 발생시각을 이용한 디코딩 방법을 말하며 실제 빠르게 변화하는 자극의 경우 신경세포는 빈도 디코딩이 아니라 시간 디코딩을 통해 자극을 추정하는 것으로 이해되고 있다. 군집 디코딩은 단일 신경세포가 아닌 군집 신경세포로부터 자극을 복원하는 방법이다. 군집 디코딩은 단일 신경 세포 디코딩에 비해 신경 세포의 가변성에 따른 불확실성을 감소시킬 수 있고 서로 다른 자극의 특성을 동시에 표현할 수 있다는 장점을 갖는다. 이 논문에서는 먼저 세 가지 뉴럴디코딩 방법에 대해 소개하고 정보이론이 뉴럴디코딩에 어떻게 적용되는 지를 다룬 후 마지막으로 최근에 각광받고 있는 기계학습 방법에 의한 뉴럴 디코딩에 대해 다루도록 하겠다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.64-73
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• 2020

As Korean government and safety-related organizations make continuous efforts to reduce the number of industrial accidents, accident rate has steadily declined since 2010, thereby recording 0.48% in 2017. However, the number of fatalities due to industrial accidents was 1,987 in 2017, which means that more efforts should be made to reduce the number of industrial accidents. As an essential activity for enhancing the system safety, accident analysis can be effectively used for reducing the number of industrial accidents. Accident analysis aims to understand the process of an accident scenario and to identify the plausible causes of the accident. Accident analysis offers useful information for developing measures for preventing the recurrence of an accident or its similar accidents. However, it seems that the current practice of accident analysis in Korean manufacturing companies takes a simplistic accident model, which is based on a linear and deterministic cause-effect relation. Considering the actual complexities underlying accidents, this would be problematic; it could be more significant in the case of human error-related accidents. Accordingly, it is necessary to use a more elaborated accident model for addressing the complexity and nature of human-error related accidents more systematically. Regarding this, HFACS(Human Factors Analysis and Classification System) can be a viable accident analysis method. It is based on the Swiss cheese model and offers a range of causal factors of a human error-related accident, some of which can be judged as the plausible causes of an accident. HFACS has been widely used in several work domains(e.g. aviation and rail industry) and can be effectively used in Korean industries. However, as HFACS was originally developed in aviation industry, the taxonomy of causal factors may not be easily applied to accidents in Korean industries, particularly manufacturing companies. In addition, the typical characteristics of Korean industries need to be reflected as well. With this issue in mind, we developed HFACS-K as a method for analyzing accidents happening in Korean industries. This paper reports the process of developing HFACS-K, the structure and contents of HFACS-K, and a case study for demonstrating its usefulness.