Food safety accidents like the occurrence of domestic animal diseases create an air of anxiety in consumers and increase their concerns about animal welfare. This study investigated consumer awareness of animal welfare livestock and attempted to look into the impacts of consumer awareness on the consumption of livestock product. It analyzed whether there was any difference in considerations of purchasing livestock products depending on awareness of animal welfare and consumption intention using Levene's equal variance test and independent sample t-test, and in order to inquire into the influence relationship of their considerations in purchasing livestock on animal welfare livestock product consumption intention, a binary logistic regression analysis was carried out. As a result of the analysis of consumer awareness, consumers were little aware of animal welfare while they were very interested in animal welfare and had the intent to consume livestock products produced following animal welfare. As a result of the analysis of the difference depending on the awareness and consumption intention of animal welfare using independent sample t-test, it turned out that there was no difference in considerations in purchasing livestock products between people who were aware of animal welfare and those who were not. In the difference depending on consumption intention, people who had the intent to consume animal welfare livestock products cared more than those who did not. Likewise, people who had the intent to consume animal welfare livestock products cared about the place of purchase, price, freshness, taste and quality more than those who were not. As a result of the binary logistic regression analysis of the two factors of internal property and external property of consideration in livestock products, it turned out that internal property only had impacts on consumption intention. Thus, considering the consumers' consciousness that they would like to be provided with safe livestock products relevant to items such as safety and reliability among their considerations in purchasing livestock products, the government and livestock industry should establish an appropriate marketing strategy for animal welfare livestock products

Xylitol is a sugar alcohol with a variety of functions including bactericidal and anticariogenic effects. However, the cellular mechanisms underlying the role of xylitol in bone metabolism are not yet clarified. In our present study, we exploited the physiological role of xylitol on osteoclast dif-ferentiation in a co-culture system of osteoblastic and RAW 264.7 cells. Xylitol treatment of these co-cultures reduced the number of tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP)- positive multinucleated cells induced by 10 nM 1α,25(OH)2 D3 in a dose‐dependent manner. A cell viability test revea-led no marked cellular damage by up to 100 mM of xylitol. Exposure of osteoblastic cells to xylitol decreased RANKL, but not OPG, mRNA expression in the presence of 10-8 M 1α,25(OH)2D3 in a dose‐dependent manner. Furthermore, bone resorption activity, assessed on bone slices in the co- culture system, was found to be dramatically decreased with increasing xylitol concentrations. RANKL and OPG proteins were assayed by ELISA and the soluble RANKL (sRANKL) concentration was decreased with an increased xylitol con-centration. In contrast, OPG was unaltered by any xylitol con-centration in this assay. These results indicate that xylitol inhibits 1α,25(OH)2D3-induced osteoclastogenesis by reducing the sRANKL/OPG expression ratio in osteoblastic cells.

뇌파 및 심전도 생체신호를 복합적으로 이용한 감정인식을 통한 실시간 사용자 인터페이스를 제안한다. 기존에 뇌파를 통한 감정인식의 문제점이었던 낮은 정확도를 개선하기 위해 뇌파의 Theta, Alpha, Beta, Gamma의 상대파워 값과 심전도의 자율신경계 비율을 혼합하는 복합 생체 신호 감정 인식 시스템을 개발했다. 기쁨, 공포, 슬픔, 즐거움, 화남, 혐오에 해당하는 6가지 감 정을 인식하기 위해 사용자별 확률 값을 저장하는 데이터 맵을 생성하고, 채널에 대응하는 감 정 인식의 정확도를 향상시키기 위해 가중치를 갱신하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 또한 뇌파로 구 성된 단일 데이터와 뇌파/심전도 생체신호 복합 데이터의 실험 결과를 비교한 결과 23.77%의 정확도 증가를 보였다. 제안된 인터페이스 시스템은 높은 정확도를 통해 게임 및 스마트 공간 의 제어에 필요한 인터페이스로 기기에 활용이 가능할 것이다.