• 한국의류학회지
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• 제48권2호
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• pp.328-349
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• 2024

In the last decade, Korean culture has progressively facilitated the assimilation of appearance-related norms established by modern Korean society among young generations in Vietnam. Of note, Vietnamese consumers residing in Korea, under the influence of diverse sociocultural factors, are aligning themselves with an ideal standard of Korean beauty through cultural adaptation. This study explores how Vietnamese students internalize Korean beauty standards and the resultant negative behavioral reactions. We investigated the effects of sociocultural pressures (media, in-group, and out-group pressure) on risky appearance management and irrational purchase behavior by mediating sociocultural internalization toward appearance. We tested how the mechanism underlying these variables differs based on how long one has resided in Korea. A total of 213 female participants were surveyed online. The research model was tested using structural equation modeling through AMOS 22.0. The findings show that media and out-group pressure significantly increased sociocultural internalization, which led to consumer behavior in the form of risky appearance management and irrational purchases. The influence of internalization on consumption behavior was stronger for short-term residents of Korea. This study contributes to the literature on acculturation by investigating how foreign consumers accept the host country's ideal beauty standards.

• 한국균학회소식:학술대회논문집
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• 한국균학회 2014년도 추계학술대회 및 정기총회
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• pp.11-11
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• 2014

Fungal pathogens have huge impact on health and economic wellbeing of human by causing life-threatening mycoses in immune-compromised patients or by destroying crop plants. A key determinant of fungal pathogenesis is their ability to undergo developmental change in response to host or environmental factors. Genetic pathways that regulate such morphological transitions and adaptation are therefore extensively studied during the last few decades. Given that epigenetic as well as genetic components play pivotal roles in development of plants and mammals, contribution of microbial epigenetic counterparts to this morphogenetic process is intriguing yet nearly unappreciated question to date. To bridge this gap in our knowledge, we set out to investigate histone modifications among epigenetic mechanisms that possibly regulate fungal adaptation and processes involved in pathogenesis of a model plant pathogenic fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae. M. oryzae is a causal agent of rice blast disease, which destroys 10 to 30% of the rice crop annually. Since the rice is the staple food for more than half of human population, the disease is a major threat to global food security. In addition to the socioeconomic impact of the disease it causes, the fungus is genetically tractable and can undergo well-defined morphological transitions including asexual spore production and appressorium (a specialized infection structure) formation in vitro, making it a model to study fungal development and pathogenicity. For functional and comparative analysis of histone modifications, a web-based database (dbHiMo) was constructed to archive and analyze histone modifying enzymes from eukaryotic species whose genome sequences are available. Histone modifying enzymes were identified applying a search pipeline built upon profile hidden Markov model (HMM) to proteomes. The database incorporates 22,169 histone-modifying enzymes identified from 342 species including 214 fungal, 33 plants, and 77 metazoan species. The dbHiMo provides users with web-based personalized data browsing and analysis tools, supporting comparative and evolutionary genomics. Based on the database entries, functional analysis of genes encoding histone acetyltransferases and histone demethylases is under way. Here I provide examples of such analyses that show how histone acetylation and methylation is implicated in regulating important aspects of fungal pathogenesis. Current analysis of histone modifying enzymes will be followed by ChIP-Seq and RNA-seq experiments to pinpoint the genes that are controlled by particular histone modifications. We anticipate that our work will provide not only the significant advances in our understanding of epigenetic mechanisms operating in microbial eukaryotes but also basis to expand our perspective on regulation of development in fungal pathogens.

• 한국심리학회지 : 문화 및 사회문제
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.39-69
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• 2008

한국 사회의 다문화, 다인종 사회로의 이행 과정에서 중요한 사회 변동의 축으로 자리잡은 여성결혼이민자들에 대한 지역사회 수용성의 제 단면을 질적 연구를 통해 알아보았다. 여성결혼이민자들이 거주하고 있는 도시(안산)와 농촌(영암) 지역의 내국인 주민 23명을 대상으로 심층면접을 실시하여, 여성결혼이민자에 대한 인식과 접촉 경험, 그리고 여성결혼이민자에 대한 개방성 및 다문화 사회로의 변화에 관한 인식을 조명하였다. 심층면접 결과, 조사된 지역주민들은 여성결혼이민자에 대해서 전반적으로 긍정적 인식과 개방적 태도를 지니고 있지만 이러한 긍정적 인식의 실체는 한국사회에 깊게 뿌리박힌 가부장제와 성역할 고정관념에 기반하고 있음을 시사하는 결과를 얻었다. 또한 여성결혼이민자들의 한국 문화 적응에 대한 지역주민들의 인식 역시 한국문화에 대한 일방적 동화를 전제로 공생관계를 인정하는 수준에 머물러 있는 것으로 나타났다. 전반적으로 본 연구의 결과는 현 단계로서는 여성결혼이민자들의 유입 및 그들과의 상호작용 경험이 문화적 다양성을 인정하고 양방향의 문화통합을 추구하는 형태의 문화적 다원화 과정으로 연결되지 못하고 있음을 시사한다. 본 연구 결과의 시사점 및 의의, 그리고 장래연구의 방향을 논의하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권2B호
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• pp.279-286
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• 2010

RFID 리더 프로토콜은 RFID 리더와 미들웨어, 애플리케이션 등의 상위 호스트 사이의 인터페이스이다. 현재의 리더 프로토콜은 리더 제조업체별로 상이하여 이기종의 리더들을 사용하는 환경에서는 리더들 간의 호환성 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 문제를 해결하기 위해 EPCglobal의 LLRP(Low Level Reader Protocol)을 지원하는 리더를 설계하고 구현하였다. 또한, 다양한 응용분야에 적용하기 위해 리더를 두 개의 모듈로 나누어 설계하였고, 다양한 인터페이스를 지원하도록 설계하였다. LLRP는 임베디드 리눅스 환경에서 멀티 쓰레드를 이용해 구현하였으며, LLRP의 대부분의 기능을 지원하고 다양한 요구에 맞출 수 있도록 유연한 하드웨어와 소프트웨어 구조로 설계하였다.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.543-552
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• 2019

Fusarium asiaticum of the F. graminearum species complex causes head blight in small-grain cereals. The nivalenol (NIV) chemotypes of F. asiaticum is more common than the deoxynivalenol (DON) chemotypes of F. asiaticum or F. graminearum in Korea. To understand the prevalence of F. asiaticum-NIV in Korean cereals, we characterized the biological traits of 80 cereal isolates of F. asiaticum producing NIV or 3-acetyl-deoxynivalenol (3-ADON), and 54 F. graminearum with 3-ADON or 15-acetyl-deoxynivalenol (15-ADON). There was no significant difference in mycelial growth between the chemotypes, but F. asiaticum isolates grew approximately 30% faster than F. graminearum isolates on potato dextrose agar. Sexual and asexual reproduction capacities differed markedly between the two species. Both chemotypes of F. graminearum (3-ADON and 15-ADON) produced significantly higher numbers of perithecia and conidia than F. asiaticum-NIV. The highest level of mycotoxins (sum of trichothecenes and zearalenone) was produced by F. graminearum-3-ADON on rice medium, followed by F. graminearum-15-ADON, F. asiaticum-3-ADON, and F. asiaticum-NIV. Zearalenone levels were correlated with DON levels in some chemotypes, but not with NIV levels. Disease assessment on barley, maize, rice, and wheat revealed that both F. asiaticum and F. graminearum isolates were virulent toward all crops tested. However, there is a tendency that virulence levels of F. asiaticum-NIV isolates on rice were higher than those of F. graminearum isolates. Taken together, the phenotypic traits found among the Korean F. asiaticum-NIV isolates suggest an association with their host adaptation to certain environments in Korea.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.155-162
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• 2002

Cytochrome P45O (CYP) gene has been known to play one of the most important roles in metabolizing the exogenous materials. In insect, CYP is particularly known to detoxify toxic materials by adding oxygen molecule to the hydrophobic region of the materials. Thus, CYP-dependent metabolism is associated with the adaptation of insect to host plant chemicals. This in turn is known to be one of the driving forces for CYP diversification. In the present study, we cloned seven gene fragments of CYP 4 (CYP4) family from the midgut of the beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua, through RT.PCT, Sequence analysis of the product showed the gene fragment to contain an open reading frame of ~150 amino acids, consisted of ~450 bp. The cloned gene fragments contained typical, conserved regions found in CYP4 family. Pairwise comparison of the deduced amino acid sequences among seven clones ranged in divergence from 0% to 52.86% and resulted in five distinct clones. The other two clones were identical or differ by one amino acid respectively to the corresponding clone, although each differed by ten nucleotides. Analysis of correlation between GenBank-registered, full length CYP4 and the cloned fragments resulted in statistically significant relationship ($r^{2}$ = 0.96085; p < 0.001), suggesting utility of the partial sequences as such full-length sequences. Phylogenetic analysis of the clones with GenBank-registered insect and mammal CYP4 family sequences by parsimony and several distance methods subdivided the clones into two groups: tones belonging to CYP4S and the others to CYP4M families.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제17권6호통권86호
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• pp.847-858
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• 2007

ER-Golgi 분비 경로를 통해서 정확한 구조를 가지면서 post-translational modification 과정을 거친 재조합 단백질의 발현을 최대화하는 것은 ER stress반응에 대한 연구의 중요한 계기가 된다. 세포가 스트레스를 받지 않는 상태라도 ER stress signaling은 재조합 단백질의 생산량을 제한하고 품질을 떨어뜨리는 여러 가지 조건을 만들게 된다. ER stress signaling을 막는 여러 가지 방법들이 제시되고 있으며 표 2는 이러한 방법들 중 일부를 나타내고 있다. 일반적으로는 pro-survival 경로에 관련되어 있는 인자를 촉진하고 pro-apoptosis에 관련되어 있는 인자를 억제하는 것들이다. 그러나 ER stress 반응은 매우 복잡하고 적응과 사멸 기작(adaptation and elimination mechanism)의 중간 역할을 하기 때문에 ER stress에 관련된 주요 인자를 산업적으로 응용하기 위해선 이들의 기능에 대해 보다 깊은 연구가 이루어져야 한다. 현재까지 재조합단백질의 생산량을 최대한으로 높이는 방법은 ER stress 반응이 생기지 않도록 fed-batch process를 개선하고 세포 사멸 기작을 조절하며 단백질의 glycosylation 처리를 하는 것이다.

• 한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회논문지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.31-41
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• 2019

가상 및 증강현실과 같은 확장현실(XR: Extended Reality)은 몰입형 데이터 시각화 및 분석을 위한 거대한 잠재력을 가지고 있다. 확장현실에서 사용자는 3차원 가상 공간을 활용하여 데이터 및 여러 사용자와 사실적으로 상호 작용할 수 있으므로 보다 직관적인 데이터 분석이 가능하다. 그러나 확장현실의 장점을 제대로 활용하기 위한 시각화를 생성하는 것은 복잡한 프로그래밍이 필요하기 때문에 상당히 어려운 일이다. 본 논문에서는 손 제스처만으로 XR을 위한 시각화 전 과정을 수행하고, 모든 3차원 공간을 활용할 수 있는 가젯암(Gadget Arms) 시스템을 제안한다. 이 시스템에서 분석가는 데스크탑 기반 환경이나 복잡한 프로그래밍을 사용할 필요 없이 XR 기기를 착용한 상태에서 직관적으로 전체 시각화 공간을 디자인할 수 있으며, 가상의 손을 임의의 3차원 공간에 자유자재로 위치시킬 수 있는 인터랙션을 통해 거대한 3차원 공간을 효과적으로 활용할 수 있다. 우리는 사용자 연구를 통해 제안된 시스템이 시각화 제작과 공간 활용의 사용성을 크게 향상시시키는 것을 확인하였다.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.152-161
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• 2021

Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) is known as a key product for agriculture in several countries across the world. Beet soil-borne virus (BSBV) triggers substantial economic damages to sugar beet by reducing the quantity of the yield and quality of the beet sugars. We conducted the present study to report the complete genome sequences of two BSBV isolates in Turkey for the first time. The genome organization was identical to those previously established BSBV isolates. The tripartite genome of BSBV-TR1 and -TR3 comprised a 5,835-nucleotide (nt) RNA1, a 3,454-nt RNA2, and a 3,005-nt RNA3 segment. According to sequence identity analyses, Turkish isolates were most closely related to the BSBV isolate reported from Iran (97.83-98.77% nt identity). The BSBV isolates worldwide (n = 9) were phylogenetically classified into five (RNA-coat protein read through gene [CPRT], TGB1, and TGB2 segments), four (RNA-rep), or three (TGB3) lineages. In genetic analysis, the TGB3 revealed more genetic variability (Pi = 0.034) compared with other regions. Population selection analysis revealed that most of the codons were generally under negative selection or neutral evolution in the BSBV isolates studied. However, positive selection was detected at codon 135 in the TGB1, which could be an adaptation in order to facilitate the movement and overcome the host plant resistance genes. We expect that the information on genome properties and genetic variability of BSBV, particularly in TGB3, TGB1, and CPRT genes, assist in developing effective control measures in order to prevent severe losses and make amendments in management strategies.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제46권8호
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• pp.513-525
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• 2023

Orange carotenoid protein (OCP) of photosynthetic cyanobacteria binds to ketocarotenoids noncovalently and absorbs excess light to protect the host organism from light-induced oxidative damage. Herein, we found that mutating valine 40 in the α3 helix of Gloeocapsa sp. PCC 7513 (GlOCP1) resulted in blue- or red-shifts of 6-20 nm in the absorption maxima of the lit forms. We analyzed the origins of absorption maxima shifts by integrating X-ray crystallography, homology modeling, molecular dynamics simulations, and hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics calculations. Our analysis suggested that the single residue mutations alter the polar environment surrounding the bound canthaxanthin, thereby modulating the degree of charge transfer in the photoexcited state of the chromophore. Our integrated investigations reveal the mechanism of color adaptation specific to OCPs and suggest a design principle for color-specific photoswitches.