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Scale Revalidation Study for Online Use of the Learning Strategy Diagnostic Scale for Junior College (전문대학생용 학습전략 진단 척도의 온라인 활용을 위한 재타당화 연구)

  • Hwang, Jae Gyu
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.349-359
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of this study is to add and revalidate items of learning cognition and learning emotion factors for online use of the K-LSS for junior college. It is important for self-reflection and improvement of academic achievement to specifically explore and analyze the sub-factors of learning cognition, learning behavior, and learning emotion for each item that can affect the learning strategy of junior college students. The added items are two items for diagnosing the concentration of attention in the learning information processing process of the learning cognitive factor and two questions about the interpersonal anxiety factor for diagnosing the level of anxiety about others in the learning emotional factor. The study area was conducted in 5 areas nationwide, and the subjects of the study were 923 junior college students excluding 327 respondents who answered insincerity. The K-LSS_r scale is a learning strategy diagnosis scale of 52 questions composed of three sub-elements of learning cognition (18 questions), learning emotion (15 questions), and learning behavior (19 questions), and reliability for generalization in this study. As a result of the verification, Cronbach's α coefficient of the entire scale was .896, and Cronbach's α coefficient of the three factors ranged from .876 to .910. The half-segment reliability coefficient of the scale was .858 in total, and the half-segment reliability coefficients of the three factors ranged from .792 to .843. The test-retest reliability verification result for 3 weeks for 350 Junior college Students in 5 regions was .884, and the validity test for generalization also confirmed that the recruitment validity is significant.

Estimating milk production losses by heat stress and its impacts on greenhouse gas emissions in Korean dairy farms

  • Geun-woo, Park;Mohammad, Ataallahi;Seon Yong, Ham;Se Jong, Oh;Ki-Youn, Kim;Kyu-Hyun, Park
    • Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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    • v.64 no.4
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    • pp.770-781
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    • 2022
  • Meteorological disasters caused by climate change like heat, cold waves, and unusually long rainy seasons affect the milk productivity of cows. Studies have been conducted on how milk productivity and milk compositions change due to heat stress (HS). However, the estimation of losses in milk production due to HS and hereby environmental impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are yet to be evaluated in Korean dairy farms. Dairy milk production and milk compositions data from March to October 2018, provided by the Korea Dairy Committee (KDC), were used to compare regional milk production with the temperature-humidity index (THI). Raw data for the daily temperature and relative humidity in 2018 were obtained from the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA). This data was used to calculate the THI and the difference between the maximum and minimum temperature changing rate, as the average daily temperature range, to show the extent to which the temperature gap can affect milk productivity. The amount of milk was calculated based on the price of 926 won/kg from KDC. The results showed that the average milk production rate was the highest within the THI range 60-73 in three regions in May: Chulwon (northern region), Hwasung (central region), and Gunwi (southern region). The average milk production decreased by 4.96 ± 1.48% in northern region, 7.12 ± 2.36% in central region, and 7.94 ± 2.57% in southern region from June to August, which had a THI range of 73 or more, when compared to May. Based on the results, the level of THI should be maintained like May. If so, the farmers can earn a profit of 9,128,730 won/farm in northern region, 9,967,880 won/farm in central region, and 12,245,300 won/farm in southern region. Additionally, the average number of cows raised can be reduced by 2.41 ± 0.35 heads/farm, thereby reducing GHG emissions by 29.61 ± 4.36 kg CO2eq/day on average. Overall, the conclusion suggests that maintaining environmental conditions in the summer that are similar to those in May is necessary. This knowledge can be used for basic research to persuade farmers to change farm facilities to increase the economic benefits and improve animal welfare.

Signal Transduction of C-Terminal Phosphorylation Regions for Equine Luteinizing Hormone/Chorionic Gonadotropin Receptor (eLH/CGR)

  • Byambaragchaa, Munkhzaya;Joo, Hyo-Eun;Kim, Sang-Gwon;Kim, Yean-Ji;Park, Gyeong-Eun;Min, Kwan-Sik
    • Development and Reproduction
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2022
  • This study aimed to investigate the signal transduction of phosphorylation sites at the carboxyl (C)-terminal region of equine luteinizing hormone/chorionic gonadotropin receptor (eLH/CGR). The eLH/CGR has a large extracellular domain of glycoprotein hormone receptors within the G protein-coupled receptors. We constructed a mutant (eLH/CGR-t656) of eLH/CGR, in which the C-terminal cytoplasmic tail was truncated at the Phe656 residue, through polymerase chain reaction. The eLH/CGR-t656 removed 14 potential phosphorylation sites in the intracellular C-terminal region. The plasmids were transfected into Chinese hamster ovary (CHO)-K1 and PathHunter Parental cells expressing β-arrestin, and agonist-induced cAMP responsiveness was analyzed. In CHO-K1 cells, those expressing eLH/CGR-t656 were lower than those expressing eLH/CGR wild-type (eLH/CGR-wt). The EC50 of the eLH/CGR-t656 mutant was approximately 72.2% of the expression observed in eLH/CGR-wt. The maximal response in eLH/CGR-t656 also decreased to approximately 43% of that observed in eLH/CGR-wt. However, in PathHunter Parental cells, cAMP activity and maximal response of the eLH/CGR-t656 mutant were approximately 173.5% and 100.8%, respectively, of that of eLH/CGR-wt. These results provide evidence that the signal transduction of C-terminal phosphorylation in eLH/CGR plays a pivotal role in CHO-K1 cells. The cAMP level was recovered in PathHunter Parental cells expressing β-arrestin. We suggest that the signal transduction of the C-terminal region phosphorylation sites is remarkably different depending on the cells expressing β-arrestin in CHO-K1 cells.

Existence of antibodies against bovine enterovirus in humans and various animals in Korea (사람 및 동물에 대한 소 엔테로바이러스 항체 분포 조사)

  • Park, Jong-Hyeon;Kim, Su-Mi;Bang, Min-Woo;Lee, Kwang-Nyeong;Ko, Young-Joon;Lee, Hyang-Shim;Shim, Hang-Sub;Cho, In-Soo
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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    • v.49 no.3
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    • pp.237-242
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    • 2009
  • Bovine enteroviruses (BEVs) were separated into two groups, BEV-1 and BEV-2. BEVs, found in cattle worldwide, usually cause asymptomatic infections and are excreted in the feces of infected animals. Antibodies against BEV have been found in different species including human, cattle, sheep, goats, dogs, horses and monkeys in the world. This study aimed to investigate prevalence of the neutralizing antibodies for BEVs in human and animals in Korea. Antibodies against BEV-1 in humans, cattle, pigs, goats, horses and dogs were shown to be 46.8%, 48.3%, 70.6%, 11.5%, 11.5% and 6.3% respectively. Also, antibodies against BEV-2 were shown to be 98.7%, 68.1%, 89.2%, 59.4%, 9.4% and 96.9% respectively. We found that the neutralizing antibodies against these viruses are common in Korea. The prevalences of antibodies against BEV-1 were lower than those against BEV-2 in humans and in all animals except horses. These results showed that the BEV is considered endemic in cattle in many regions in Korea.

Geometric Correction of Lips Using Lip Information (입술정보를 이용한 입술모양의 기하학적 보정)

  • 황동국;박희정;전병민
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.29 no.6C
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    • pp.834-841
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    • 2004
  • There can be lips transformed geometrically in the lip images according to the location or the pose of camera and speaker. This transformation of the lip images changes geometric information of original lip phases. Therefore, for enhancing global lip information by using partial information of lips to correct lip phases transformed geometrically, in this paper we propose a method that can geometrically correct lips. The method is composed of two steps - the feature-deciding step and the correcting step. In the former, it is for us to extract key points and features of source image according to the its lip model and to create that of target image according to the its lip model. In the latter, we decide mapping relation after partition a source and target image based on information extracted in the previous step into each 4 regions. and then, after mapping, we unite corrected sub-images to a result image. As experiment image, we use fames that contain pronunciation on short vowels of the Korean language and use lip symmetry for evaluating the proposed algorithm. In experiment result, the correcting rate of the lower lip than the upper lip and that of lips moving largely than little was highly enhanced.

Biomass and Molecular Characteristics of Multi-tillering Miscanthus Mutants

  • Lee, Geung-Joo;Zhang, Lili;Choi, Young In;Chung, Sung Jin;Yoo, Yong Kweon;Kim, Dong Sub;Kim, Sang Hoon
    • Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.745-752
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    • 2012
  • Compared to wide ranges of genetic variation of natural populations, very limited Miscanthus cultivar has been released. This study was the first report on the development of Miscanthus cultivar by means of radiation breeding. Seeds of M. sinensis were initially exposed to gamma rays of 250 Gy for 24 h, generated from a $^{60}Co$ gamma-irradiator. The irradiated seeds were sown and then the highly tiller-producing mutants were selected for this study. Biomass-related parameters including tiller number, plant height, stem diameter, and leaf number were measured. Ploidy level and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) were investigated to characterize the mutants compared to wild type (WT) Miscanthus. Plant height and tiller number were negatively related, where multi-tillering mutants were relatively short after 4 month growth. However stem diameter and leaf number were greater in mutants. All the materials used in this study were diploid, implying that the mutants with greater tiller numbers and stem diameter were not likely related to polyploidization. Based on the sequence of ITS regions, the mutants demonstrated base changes from the gamma irradiation where G+C content (%) was decreased in the ITS1, but increased in ITS2 when compared to WT sequence. ITS2 region was more variable than in ITS1 in the mutants, which collectively allows identification of the mutants from WT. Those mutants having enhanced tillers and allelic variations might be used as breeding materials for enhanced biomass-producing Miscanthus cultivars.

The Optimal Partition of Initial Input Space for Fuzzy Neural System : Measure of Fuzziness (퍼지뉴럴 시스템을 위한 초기 입력공간분할의 최적화 : Measure of Fuzziness)

  • Baek, Deok-Soo;Park, In-Kue
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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    • v.39 no.3
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    • pp.97-104
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    • 2002
  • In this paper we describe the method which optimizes the partition of the input space by means of measure of fuzziness for fuzzy neural network. It covers its generation of fuzzy rules for input sub space. It verifies the performance of the system depended on the various time interval of the input. This method divides the input space into several fuzzy regions and assigns a degree of each of the generated rules for the partitioned subspaces from the given data using the Shannon function and fuzzy entropy function generating the optimal knowledge base without the irrelevant rules. In this scheme the basic idea of the fuzzy neural network is to realize the fuzzy rule base and the process of reasoning by neural network and to make the corresponding parameters of the fuzzy control rules be adapted by the steepest descent algorithm. According to the input interval the proposed inference procedure proves that the fast convergence of root mean square error (RMSE) owes to the optimal partition of the input space

Genetic Diversity of Wild Tea(Camellia sinensis L.) in Korea (우리나라 야생 차나무(Camellia sinensis L.)의 유전적 다양성)

  • Oh, Chan-Jin;Lee, Sol;You, Han-Choon;Chae, Jeong-Gi;Han, Sang-Sub
    • Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.41-46
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    • 2008
  • Molecular relationship and genetic diversity of 21 wild tea collections which grown natural region in Korea were investigated based on PCR-RFLP analysis using DFR genes. Approximately 1.4kb fragment of the DFR gene from wild tea samples were successfully amplified use DFR 4+5 primer pair. On the bases of restriction fragment length polymorphism(RFLP) analysis using Hpa II and Mse I enzymes, three different band patterns shown from Hpa II enzyme and showed genetic diversity between same region wild tea group. Six kind of restriction enzyme profiles obtained from digested with restriction endonuclease Mse I and shown two kind of restriction enzyme profiles collected from same region wild tea at Ungpo. The results of RFLP analysis indicated that wild tea showed genetic diversity among different regions of tea groups, but also between same region wild tea.

MAGNETIC HELICITY PUMPING BY TWISTED FLUX TUBE EXPANSION

  • CHAE JONGCHUL;MOON Y.-J.;RUST D. M.;WANG HAIMIN;GOODE PHILIP R.
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.33-41
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    • 2003
  • Recent observations have shown that coronal magnetic fields in the northern (southern) hemisphere tend to have negative (positive) magnetic helicity. There has been controversy as to whether this hemispheric pattern is of surface or sub-surface origin. A number of studies have focused on clarifying the effect of the surface differential rotation on the change of magnetic helicity in the corona. Meanwhile, recent observational studies reported the existence of transient shear flows in active regions that can feed magnetic helicity to the corona at a much higher rate than the differential rotation does. Here we propose that such transient shear flows may be driven by the torque produced by either the axial or radial expansion of the coronal segment of a twisted flux tube that is rooted deeply below the surface. We have derived a simple relation between the coronal expansion parameter and the amount of helicity transferred via shear flows. To demonstrate our proposition, we have inspected Yohkoh soft X-ray images of NOAA 8668 in which strong shear flows were observed. As a result, we found that the expansion of magnetic fields really took place in the corona while transient shear flows were observed in the photosphere, and the amount of magnetic helicity change due to the transient shear flows is quantitatively consistent with the observed expansion of coronal magnetic fields. The transient shear flows hence may be understood as an observable manifestation of the pumping of magnetic helicity out of the interior portions of the field lines driven by the expansion of coronal parts as was originally proposed by Parker (1974).

Bandwidth Efficient Summed Area Table Generation for CUDA (CUDA를 이용한 효율적인 합산 영역 테이블의 생성 방법)

  • Ha, Sang-Won;Choi, Moon-Hee;Jun, Tae-Joon;Kim, Jin-Woo;Byun, Hye-Ran;Han, Tack-Don
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.67-78
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    • 2012
  • Summed area table allows filtering of arbitrary-width box regions for every pixel in constant time per pixel. This characteristic makes it beneficial in image processing applications where the sum or average of the surrounding pixel intensity is required. Although calculating the summed area table of an image data is primarily a memory bound job consisting of row or column-wise summation, previous works had to endure excessive access to the high latency global memory in order to exploit data parallelism. In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm for generating the summed area table in the GPGPU environment where the input is decomposed into square sub-images with intermediate data that are propagated between them. By doing so, the global memory access is almost halved compared to the previous methods making an efficient use of the available memory bandwidth. The results show a substantial increase in performance.