• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.408-412
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• 2008

This research was designed to investigate the antioxidant activities and tyrosinase inhibitory effects of guava (Psidium guajava L.) leaf. Total phenol content was obtained from guava leaf extract of 19.0 (g/100g, D.W.). The crude extract exhibited significantly antioxidant activities (IC50value $102.5{\mu}g/ml$, free radical scavenging; $49.4{\mu}g/ml$, SOD like activity). The crude extract of guava leaf was fractionated into four partition layers; hexane (G-H), ethyl acetate (G-E), butanol (G-B) and water (G-W) layer. The extracts of G-E, G-B, G-W showed high radical scavenging activities of over 50% at $100{\mu}g/ml$. SOD like activities of G-E, G-B, G-W were revealed, as 81.8%, 84.7%, 65.3% at $100{\mu}g/ml$, while those of G-H did not showed the effectively. The crude extract of guava leaf showed high tyrosinase inhibitory effect as 60.8% at 1mg/ml, the measurement of G-E, G-B, G-W were 65.2%, 62.8%, 51.6% and that of G-H was not effective. These results indicate that useful bioactive substances exist in the guava leaf extracts, especially G-E, G-B. And the guava leaf has the potential of being developed into health related products.

• Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.377-383
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• 1997

Studies were conducted on the nature of allelopathic effect of the substances in the waste of ginkgo leaves from pharmaceutic factory. In the first step, to find out whether there was any allelophatic effect, young seedlings of radish and rice were grown in the water (crude) extract of ginkgo leaf waste and in different liquid/lquid partitioned fractions of EtOAc at pH 9, EtOAc at pH 3, and BuOH. As second step, attempts were made to isolate and identify the allelophatic substance in different liquid/liquid partitioned fractions using GC/MS and NMR techniques. The water (crude) extract of ginkgo leaf waste retarded the growth of radish seedlings under 10% concentration. In case of rice seedlings, the water extract of ginkgo leaf extract showed adverse effect on the growth when combined with $3.3{\times}10^{-6}M$ gibberellin A3. All of the liquid/liquid fractions of crude extract showed strong retardation of seedling growth of radish and rice at the concentration of 1%. Allelophatic substance was isolated from the crude extract using liquid/liquid partition, column chromatography and HPLC techniques. The analytical results of isolated componet using GC/MS and NMR proved that the allelophatic substance in the ginkgo leaf wastes is catechol; one of phenol compounds. Based on the experiences current study, a practical method for the testing of allelophatic effect of crude extract of some materials was proposed. In this method, rice seeds were allowed to sprout until the length of coleoptile to reach 0.5 mm. Such seedlings were submerged in the solution containing supposedly allelophatic substance and the length of shoot and root was measured 3 days after treatment.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Tobacco Science
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.49-57
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• 1988

The phenolic compounds were isolated from the cigarette smoke condensate using two immiscible organic solvents by a partition coefficient. Of them, 20 phenolic compounds were identified by GC and GC/MS. The amount of the phenolic compounds was phenol, p-crestol, hydroxybensoic acid in order. And there was no difference in composition of these compound dependent on leaf tobacco . About 70% amount of these compounds were absorbed to cellulose acetate filter used. The contents and composition of these compounds were various in the commercial cigarette.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.99-106
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• 1990

With two-class-based storage assignment policy and dual command cycle in Automated Storage/Retrieval Systems(AS/RS), the problem of determining the region dedicated for class-one item is considered. First, the expected travel time of the S/R machine is derived when the boundary of the class-one region is square. Secondly, a heuristic procedure is proposed which determines sequentially the class-one region in a discrete rack. An application of the procedure generates leaf shape region which confirms that the L-shape partition is not necessarily optimal.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.217-221
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• 2003

Antimutagenic effects og Eleutherococcus senticosus Maxim. on the mutagenicty induced by mutagens, 4-NQO, MNNG, $\textrm{NaN}_{3}$, 2-NF, and 1-NP was studied by the Ames test with Salmonella typhimurium TA98 and TA100. The methanol extract ($500\mu\textrm{g}$/plate) of E. senticosus Maxim. showed inhibitory effect on the mutagenicty induced by 1-NP only among the tested mutagens. In S. typhimurium TA98, the methanol extracts of the root, stem and leaf showed inhibitory effects of 54.9, 29.5, and 32.9% inhibition on 1-NP mutagenicity, respectively. In S typhimurium TA100, the methanol extracts of the root, stem, and leaf showed inhibitory effects of 593, 30.2, and 43.6%, respectively. The methanol extract were further fractionated by a subsequent liquid-liquid partition technique with chloroform, butanol, and water. The chloroform ($300\mu\textrm{g}$/plate) fraction of the root, stem and leaf showed the strong antimutagenic effects on the mutagenicity induced by 1-NP in S typhimurium TA98 and TA100. But none or weak antimutagenicities were observed in the butanol and aqueous fraction. The chloroform fractions of root, stem and leaf showed the antimutagenic effects of 61.6~88.6% in a dose-dependent manner. In the antimutagenic mode test, the inhibition effect of root was mainly bio-antimutagenic, whereas stem and leaf were desmutagenic.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.109-120
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• 2010

Recently, due to rapid increasement of spatial data collected from various geosensors in u-GIS environments, the importance of spatial index for efficient search of large spatial data is rising gradually. Especially, researches based R-Tree to improve search performance of spatial data have been actively performed. These previous researches focus on reducing overlaps between nodes or the height of the R -Tree. However, these can not solve an unnecessary node access problem efficiently occurred in tree traversal. In this paper, we propose a MR-Tree(Mapping-based R-Tree) to solve this problem and to support efficient search of large spatial data. The MR-Tree can improve search performance by using a mapping tree for direct access to leaf nodes of the R-Tree without tree traversal. The mapping tree is composed with MBRs and pointers of R-Tree leaf nodes associating each partition which is made by splitting data area repeatedly along dimensions. Especially, the MR-Tree can be adopted in various variations of the R-Tree easily without a modification of the R-Tree structure. In addition, because the mapping tree is constructed in main memory, search time can be greatly reduced. Finally, we proved superiority of MR-Tree performance through experiments.

• KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.314-339
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• 1982

Fluctuating climate is still most important environmental constrain, although improved modem agricultural technology has succeeded to increase crop production in the world. To stabilize the food production under fluctuating weather conditions, it is very needed to obain the quantitative information of interactions between crops and climate. The main purpose of this paper is three hold. Using the JIBP-data, the dry matter accumulation of rice crops is studied in relation to weather indexes (\SigmaTa and \SigmaSt). Temperature dependence of the yield index of rice is analyzed as to air temperature and water temperature. \SigmaT$_{10}$ -fluctuations are studied using meteorological data at various stations. The possible shift of \SigmaT$_{10}$ -isopleths due to climate fluctuation is evaluated. The second interest is in the plant climate of rice crops. Using results of canopy photosynthesis, it is pointed that the canopy structure has most important implication in plant climate. Leaf-air, stomatal, and mesophyll resistances of rice crops are described in relation to weather conditions. The change in light condition and aerodynamical property of rice crops with the growth is illustrated. The energy partition is also studied at different growing stages. Third point is to show in more detail effective countermeasures against cold irrigation water and cool summer. Heat balance of warming pond and polyethylene tube as a heat exchanger is studied to make nomo-grams for evaluating the necessary area and necessary length. Effects of windbreak net on rice crops are illustrated by using experimental and simulation results.lts.

• KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.262-269
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• 1994

This study was conducted to clarify high yielding factors of F$_1$ hybrids in terms of the growth characteristics, canopy structure, nitrogen content and nitrogen profile in the canopy. Varieties used in this study were four hybrid rices showing different heterosis in grain yield and their parents. Varieties of Japonica were Reimei (maintainer), TP 681 and TP 1278(restorers), and F$_1$ (Reimei ms ${\times}$ TP 681, Reimei ms ${\times}$ TP 1278) hybrid rices. Those of Indica type were 1378 (maintainer), Milyang 46 and Suweon 287(restorers), and F$_1$ (1378 ms ${\times}$ Milyang 46, 1378 ms ${\times}$ Suweon 287) hybrid rices. High heterosis in F$_1$ hybrid rices were shown in panicles per hill and spikelets per panicle, being greatest in spikelets per panicle. Spikelets per square meter expressed even greater heterosis than those two yield components because of multiplicative effect of them. Heterosisof ripened concentration of leaf nitrogen and steeper gradient of leaf nitrogen in canopy strata but also better productive structure in favor of light interception seemed to have led to higher canopy photosynthesis of F$_1$ hybrids and subsequent higher partition of assimilates for leaf area expantion especially during vegetative growth stage. Higher dry matter production, resulting from these factors, during vegetative stage would have contributed to the production of greater number of spikelets per square meter, and consequently to higher grain yield in F$_1$ hybrids.

• KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.273-281
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• 1990

Two rice varieties, Samkangbyeo and Sangpungbyeo, were transplanted on 1/2000a pots at 6 different dates beginning on May 11 with 10 day interval in 1987 and at 4 different dates beginning on May 21 with 10 day interval in a paddy field at the Chungbuk Provincial Rural Development Administration. Dry matter distributions to stem and leaf sheath, leaves and ear at different growth stages were analyzed to provide basic informations neccessary for the development of dynamic growth model. Dry matter production was reduced as transplanting was delayed and the degree of reduction was greater at the transplanting later than June 1. Dry matter distribution to stem and leaf sheath was increased up to 60-70 days after transplanting with the maximum ratio between 60-70%, which were decreased to 37-43% in pots and 27-33% in field at the end of ripening stage. On the other hand, dry matter distribution to leaf blade was decreased from 40-50% at transplanting to 11-17% at harvesting. Ear dry matter distribution increased rapidly after heading and the distribution ratio was 42-49% in pots and 52-62% in field. Although regression equations to predict dry matter distribution to different parts of rice plant were satisfactory for individual experiment, the application to different experiment was not appropriate.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.367-380
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• 2002

Due to recent increase in applications requiring huge amount of data such as spatial data analysis and image analysis, clustering on large databases has been actively studied. In a hierarchical clustering method, a tree representing hierarchical decomposition of the database is first created, and then, used for efficient clustering. Existing hierarchical clustering methods mainly adopted the bottom-up approach, which creates a tree from the bottom to the topmost level of the hierarchy. These bottom-up methods require at least one scan over the entire database in order to build the tree and need to search most nodes of the tree since the clustering algorithm starts from the leaf level. In this paper, we propose a novel top-down hierarchical clustering method that uses multidimensional indexes that are already maintained in most database applications. Generally, multidimensional indexes have the clustering property storing similar objects in the same (or adjacent) data pares. Using this property we can find adjacent objects without calculating distances among them. We first formally define the cluster based on the density of objects. For the definition, we propose the concept of the region contrast partition based on the density of the region. To speed up the clustering algorithm, we use the branch-and-bound algorithm. We propose the bounds and formally prove their correctness. Experimental results show that the proposed method is at least as effective in quality of clustering as BIRCH, a bottom-up hierarchical clustering method, while reducing the number of page accesses by up to 26～187 times depending on the size of the database. As a result, we believe that the proposed method significantly improves the clustering performance in large databases and is practically usable in various database applications.