• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권4C호
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• pp.362-369
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• 2007

APSK(Amplitude Phase Shift Keying) 계열의 디지털 변조 방식은 전송 심볼들이 성상도 상에서 원형으로 분포해 있는 구조적 특성을 갖고 있다. 이러한 구조로 인하여 QAM(Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) 계열의 변조 방식과 비교하여 평균 전력 대비 최대 전력의 크기를 감소시키는 효과를 얻을 수 있으며, 비선형 채널 환경에서 전송 시 성능 열화 정도를 감소시킬 수 있다. 이와 같은 장점으로, APSK 변조 방식은 최근 DVB-S2(Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite, Version 2)를 포함하는 위성 통신 시스템에서 표준으로 채택되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 일정 크기 이상의 입력 전력 크기에 대해서는 출력 전력 크기가 포화되는 특성을 갖는 채널 모델을 사용하여, 16APSK 변조 방식 적용의 비트 오율 (BER; Bit Error Rate)의 상한 근사식을 유도하고 실제 실험 결과와 비교하여 정확성을 검증한다. 또한 유도식을 활용하여 비트 오율을 최소화시키는 입력 전력의 크기를 결정하였으며, 16APSK 내각원 반지름과 외각원 반지름 비율 및 비선형 채널의 포화 특성에 따른 성능 최적화 방안을 제시한다.

• BMB Reports
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.148-154
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• 2000

The glycation process plays an important role in accelerated atherosclerosis in diabetes, and the uptake of atherogenic lipoproteins by macrophage in the intima of the vessel wall leads to foam cell formation, an early sign of atherosclerosis. Besides the lipolytic action on the plasma triglyceride component, lipoprotein lipase (LPL) has been reported to enhance the cholesterol uptake by arterial wall cells. In this study, some properties of LPL-mediated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) uptake and the effect of LDL glycation were investigated in RAW 264.7 cell, a murine macrophage cell line. In the presence of LPL, $^{125}I$-LDL binding to RAW 264.7 cells was increased in a dose-dependent manner. At concentrations greater than $20\;{\mu}g/ml$ of LPL, LPL-mediated LDL binding was increased about 17-fold, achieving saturation. Without LPL, both very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) were ineffective in blocking the binding of $^{125}I$-LDL to Cells. However, LPL-enhanced LDL binding was inhibited about 50% by the presence of VLDL, while no significant effect was observed with HDL. Heat inactivation of LPL caused a 30% decrease of LDL binding. In the presence of LPL, the cells took up 40% of cell-bound native LDL. No significant difference was observed in cell binding between native and glycated LDL. However, the uptake of glycated LDL was significantly greater than that of native LDL, reaching to 70% of the total cell bound glycated LDL. These results indicate that LPL can cause the significant enhancement of LDL uptake by RAW 264.7 cells and the enhanced uptake of glycated LDL in the presence of LPL might play an important role in the accelerated atherogenesis in diabetic patients.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.97-102
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• 1996

To investigate whether human $\beta$$_2$-adrenergic receptor devoid of the C-terminal two transmembrane helices retain its ligand binding activity and specificity, 5'780-bp DNA fragment of the receptor gene which encodes amino acid 1-260 of human $\beta$$_2$-adrenergic receptor was subcloned into the bacterial fusion protein expression vector and expressed as a form of glutathione-S-transferase (GST) fusion protein in E. coli DH5$\alpha$. The receptor fusion protein was expressed as a membrane bound form which was verified by SDS-PAGE and Western blot. The fusion protein expressed in this study specifically bound $\beta$-adrenergic receptor ligand [$^3$H] Dihydroalprenolol. In saturation ligand binding assay, the $K_{d}$ value was 7.6 nM which was similar to that of intact $\beta$$_2$-adrenergic receptor in normal animal tissue ( $K_{d}$=1~2 nM) and the $B_{max}$ value was 266 fmol/mg membrane protein. In competition binding assay, the order of binding affinity of various adrenergic receptor agonists to the fusion protein was isoproterenol》epinephrine norepinephrine, which was similar to that of intact receptor in normal animal tissue. These results suggest that N-terminal five transmembrane helices of the $\beta$$_2$-adrenergic receptor be sufficient to determine the ligand binding activity and specificity, irrespective of the presence or absence of the C-terminal two transmembrane helices.s.s.s.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제11권9호
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• pp.741-749
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• 2005

This paper presents a nonlinear controller design for optical disk drive systems to improve anti-shock performance. The nonlinear anti-shock controller is added parallel to the original linear servo control loop. In the previous work, a dead-zone nonlinear element is used for the nonlinear controller and a PID control method is used for the linear controller. Although this parallel structure of the controller improves anti-shock performance, it has a narrow stability bound. In this paper, the dead-zone with saturation nonlinear element is proposed for the nonlinear controller. Since this nonlinear element improves stability margin, we can use higher slope gain of dead-zone than that of nonlinear controller using dead-zone only. In the linear controller design, it is shown that the lead-lag control has an improved stability margin over PID control. Numerical simulation results and experimental results show that the proposed method can get better performance to the external shock than previously proposed methods.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.333-337
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• 2002

A content-based image retrieval method using color, texture, and shape features is proposed in this paper. A region segmentation technique using PIM(Picture Information Measure) entropy is used for similarity indexing. For segmentation, a color image is first transformed to a gray image and it is divided into n$\times$n non-overlapping blocks. Entropy using PIM is obtained from each block. Adequate variance to perform good segmentation of images in the database is obtained heuristically. As variance increases up to some bound, objects within the image can be easily segmented from the background. Therefore, variance is a good indication for adequate image segmentation. For high variance image, the image is segmented into two regions-high and low entropy regions. In high entropy region, hue-saturation-intensity and canny edge histograms are used for image similarity calculation. For image having lower variance is well represented by global texture information. Experiments show that the proposed method displayed similar images at the average of 4th rank for top-10 retrieval case.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.49-58
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• 2018

Open-mode cracks could be commonly observed in layered rocks. A concept model is firstly used to explore the mechanism of the vertical cracks (VCs) in the top layer. Then the crack behaviour of the two-layer model is simulated based on a cohesive zone model (CZM) for layer interfaces and a plastic-damage model for rocks. The model indicates that the tensile stress normal to the VCs changes to compression if the crack spacing to layer thickness ratio is lower than a threshold. The results indicate that there is a threshold for interfacial shear strength that controls the crack patterns of the layered system. If the shear strength is lower than the threshold, the top layer is meshed by the VCs and interfacial cracks (ICs). When the shear strength is higher than the threshold, the top layer is meshed by the VCs and parallel cracks (PCs). If the shear strength is comparative to the threshold, a combining pattern of VCs, PCs and ICs for the top layer can be formed. The evolutions of stress distribution in the crack-bound block indicate that the ICs and PCs can reduce the load transferred for the substrate layer, and thus leads to a crack saturation state.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제48권3호
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• pp.243-250
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• 2008

A calmodulin-dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) sandwich fusion protein was generated by insertion of calmodulin into the $\beta$-bulge region of DHFR to observe the effects of structurally constraining the calmodulin structure. The calcium binding properties of the sandwich protein were almost identical to calmodulin. Similar to calmodulin ($10.7 {\mu}M$), the sandwich protein bound four equivalents of calcium, with half saturation ($K_{0.5}$) observed at a [$Ca^{2+}$] of $8{\mu}M$. However, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) kinase activation property of the sandwich protein was lower than that of calmodulin. The sandwich protein activated NAD kinase, but to only half of the level obtained with calmodulin. The K 0.5 for both calmodulin and the sandwich protein were approximately the same (1-2 nM). Methylation analyses of the sandwich protein show that insertion of calmodulin into DHFR results in a large decrease in methylation. The $V_{max}$ observed with the sandwich protein (95 nmole/min/ml) was only 22% of the value observed with calmodulin (436 nmol/min/ml) in the presence of calcium. Addition of trimethoprim to the reaction significantly inhibited the observed methylation rate. Overall, the data suggest that the insertion of calmodulin into the DHFR structure has little effect on calcium binding by the individual lobes of calmodulin, but may constrain the lobes in a manner that results in altered interaction with the calmodulin-dependent proteins, and severely perturbed the methyltransferase recognition site.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.945-961
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• 2019

Tongue diagnosis is one of the most important diagnostic methods in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Tongue image segmentation aims to extract the image object (i.e., tongue body), which plays a key role in the process of manufacturing an automated tongue diagnosis system. It is still challenging, because there exists the personal diversity in tongue appearances such as size, shape, and color. This paper proposes an innovative segmentation method that uses image thresholding, gray projection and active contour model (ACM). Specifically, an initial object region is first extracted by performing image thresholding in HSI (i.e., Hue Saturation Intensity) color space, and subsequent morphological operations. Then, a gray projection technique is used to determine the upper bound of the tongue body root for refining the initial object region. Finally, the contour of the refined object region is smoothed by ACM. Experimental results on a dataset composed of 100 color tongue images showed that the proposed method obtained more accurate segmentation results than other available state-of-the-art methods.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.5-7
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• 1974

본 논문은 필자가 미국 미쉬간대학에 유학중 실시된 연구로서 동대학 목재가공학과에 설치된 소형 목재인공건조장치를 사용하여 일정한 건조조건(건구 온도 $150^{\circ}F{\risingdotseq}65.5^{\circ}C$, 습구온도 $1250^{\circ}F{\risingdotseq}51.7^{\circ}C$, 관계습도 48%, 평형함수율 6.9%)하에 공기 순환속도를 매분당 250ft., 400ft, 및 650ft.로 변경할 때 얻어지는 건조속도를 측정하고, 시간당 건조율을 산출하여 비교 검토한 것이다. 본 실험에 사용한 수종은 북미산소나무 Northern white pine (Pinus strobus L.)로서 시편의 크기는 길이 60cm, 넓이 12.5mm(5in.), 두께 18.7mm(3/4in.)이며 공시목의 표면은 증발조건을 균일히 하기 위하여 포삭하였으며, 마구리(end grain)에는 end coating 하였다. 또한 공기순환속도 측정은 상기대학에 비치된 velometer를 사용하였다. 1. 목재의 섬유포화점(함수율 30%) 이상에 있어서 공시목의 건조율은 건조실내 공기순환속도의 증가에 따라서 증가된다. 즉 공시목의 건조율 증감은 공기 순환속도에 대략 비례한다. 그러나 섬유포화점 이하에 있어서는 공기순환속도의 증강은 건조율 증감에 거의 영향을 이치지 아니한다(그림 1, 2 참조). 2. 실험한 건조조건하에 있어서는 공시목의 초기 함수율이 높을수록 높은 건조율을 얻을 수 있다. 즉 공시목의 초기 함수율(MC30% 이상)이 동일하지 아니한 경우에도 공기순환속도를 증가하면 건조 최종기에 있어서 비교적 빨리 대체로 같은 함수율의 공시목을 얻을 수 있다(실험한 초기 함수율, 건조조건 및 공기순환 속도등은 심한 건조 결함을 유발하지 아니하였음). 3. 본연구 결과에 의하면 공시목의 건조율은 섬유포화점(대략 MC30%)에 있어서 현저한 변화를 나타내고 있다. 즉 공시목의 함수율에 대한 건조율 곡선은 그림 3으로 표시된 바와 같이 섬유포화점 이상에 있어서는 건조율 곡선은 X축(MC)에 대하여 요(凹)형(concave)을 나타냈는데, 섬유포화점 이하의 함수율 범위 30%에서 20%에 있어서는 건조율 곡선은 X축에 대하여 철(凸)형(convex)을 나타냈으며 함수율 20% 이하에 있어서는 재차 심한 요(凹)형을 나타내고 있음을 알 수 있다. 이와감은 결과를 요약표시한 원문 그림4에 있어서, 건조율 곡선의 반곡점은 대략 섬유포화점인 MC 30%와 MC 20%에 위치하고 있음을 알 수 있다. 이와같이 섬유 포화점으로 알려져 있는 MC 30%와 20%에 있어서 건조율이 급변하는 반곡점 즉 한계점을 표시하는 것은 다음과 같은 야유에 의한 것으로 고려된다. 즉 세포막에 흡수된 결합수의 증발은 세포강, 세포간격 및 기타의 미세한 공간에 존재하는 자유수의 증발보다 훨씬 곤란하므로, 함수율 30%에서 20%의 범위에 있어서는 철(凸)형을 나타낸다. 즉 함수율 30%에서 20% 의 범위에 있에서 세포막의 모세관 응축수(capillary-condensed water)의 증발은 대략 동일한 감소율을 나타내나, 공시목의 함수율이 20%에 접근됨에 따라서 한층 강한 결합상태하에 있는 수분(표면 결합수 및 그 부근에 있는 수분)이 증발하게 되나, 그와 같은 수분의 증발은 한층 곤란하므로 함수율 20% 이하에 있어서 건조율곡선은 재차 요(凹)형을 표시하는 것으로 사료된다. 이상의 관계를 요약 표시한 원문 그림 4에 있어서, 반곡점을 가지지 아니한 점선 곡선 AC 와 2개의 반곡점을 가지는 실선곡선 BD를 비교하면, BD곡선은 AC곡선보다 함수율범위 30%에서 20%에 있어서 그 건조율은 현저히 감소되고 또한 D점을 반곡점으로 해서 그 건조율은 가일층 감소되고 있음을 알 수 있다. 이상을 요약하면 생재에서 함수율 30%(섬유포화점)까지는 큰 건조율을 표시하니 함수율 범위 30%에서 20%에 있어서는 그 건조율은 점감되고 함수율 20% 이하에 있어서는 그 건조율은 현저히 감소됨을 표시한다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제24권10호
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• pp.1372-1376
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• 2011

The content of Ca in milk exceeds the typical saturation level of Ca salts, which is necessary for neonate growth. This calcium is distributed between the casein micelles in the colloidal and aqueous phases. Information on the properties of calcium activity in the aqueous phase is limited compared with that on the properties of bound or sequestrated calcium. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the changes in calcium activity in fresh milk using an ion-selective electrode and to assess the relationship between calcium activity and milk production in hot season. Milk samples collected from 10 cows at the National Agricultural Research Center for Kyushu Okinawa Region in June to October (Min-Max: 7.2-$35.2^{\circ}C$, 24.3-100% RH) were analyzed on total calcium concentrations and calcium activity. We observed that the rectal temperature of the cows increased according to elevation of ambient temperature but that the pH of the collected milk ($6.61{\pm}0.01$ (Mean${\pm}$SEM)) was not significantly influenced by rectal and ambient temperature. Total calcium concentrations and calcium activity in fresh milk decreased in July (Min-Max: 21.1-$33.5^{\circ}C$, 48.9-100.0% RH) compared with the values after August (Min-Max: 18.1-$35.0^{\circ}C$, 26.5-96.2% RH) (p<0.05); however, there was no significant correlation between the two parameters. The ratio of calcium activity to total calcium concentration decreased after August compared with the values in June and July (p<0.05). The calcium activity in fresh milk was positively correlated with milk yield (r = 0.45, p<0.01) and negatively correlated with milk lactose content (r = -0.53, p<0.01). These results suggest that the calcium activity in milk could be affected by ambient temperature and might be associated with milking production in hot season.