본 연구에서는 사용자로부터 입력받은 이미지를 분석하여 그에 맞는 음악을 생성, 재생하는 방법을 고안 하였다. 단순히 이미지를 청각화 하는 기술적인 의미 뿐 아니라 사용자의 이미지에 담긴 정서와 의도 또한 담아내는 것을 목표로 하였다. 사용자는 본 연구에서 제안된 어플리케이션에 원하는 물체를 그린다. 인공지능을 통해 이미지가 어떤 물체인지 판별 후, 그 물체와 이어질 수 있는 감정을 대응해 해당 멜로디의 감정과 분위기를 맞출 수 있도록 하였다. 정서에 알맞는 음정(key)를 설정한 뒤, 사용자가 이미지를 그릴 때 입력한 획순을 분석해 이를 기준으로 음계를 추출하여 선율을 생성하였다. 향후 이미지의 청각적 표현을 구현하는 것뿐만 아니라 그림에 대한 예술적인 이해와 의미 있는 음악을 만들어내기 위한 화성법 등의 작곡이론을 연구하여 이미지에 담긴 예술성과 의도를 음악에 담아낼 수 있는 한 가지 방향을 제시할 것이다. 또한 그림을 인식하고 판별하기 위한 인공지능 기술과 그림 분석, 음악 생성 등의 예술 분야를 결합해 공학과 예술의 융합이라는 방향으로서 의미 있는 시도가 될 것이다.

연료 전지 구동 시 전기화학적 활성은 촉매와 연료, 전해질이 만나는 삼상계면에서 일어나며 연료전지의 성능은 이 삼상계면의 수에 영향을 받는다. 인산이 도핑된 Polybenzimidazole (PA-doped PBI)을 기반으로 한 고온 고분자 전해질막 연료전지 (HT-PEMFC)의 경우 막 내의 인산이 전해질의 역할을 하며 삼상계면 및 연료전지의 성능에 영향을 끼친다. PBI 막 내의 인산은 고분자 합성 용매인 폴리인산의 가수분해에 의해 생성된다. 본 연구에서는 Sol-Gel 법(Direct casting 법)으로 제조된 PA-doped PBI 막의 가수분해 조건을 달리하여 이에 따른 연료전지의 성능을 비교하여 보았다.

고온형 고분자 전해질 막 연료전지 (HT-PEMFC)는 100°C 이하의 저온 고분자전해질 운영 시스템에 비해 개선된 전극 반응 동역학, 뛰어난 물 및 열 관리, 연료 불순물에 대한 내성 및 폐열 이용과 같은 많은 이점을 제공한다. 그러나 HT-PEMFC는 구동 중 발생하는 물의 증발과 함께 분리막 내 인산이 증발하여 성능이 낮아진다는 단점이 있다. 때문에 본 연구에서는 이러한 인산의 유출에 대한 핫 프레스 유무, 전극 GDL 종류, 분리막 가수분해 조건, 셀 성능에 따른 영향을 인산의 비색정량을 통해 분석하였다. 그 결과 인산의 유출량은 주로 셀성능에 영향을 받으며 GDL이 치밀할수록 억제됨을 확인하였다.

목 적 : 가입한 (±)구면렌즈 굴절력에 대응하는 조절력의 변화를 비교하여 렌즈의 적응효과를 알아보았다. 방 법 : 평균연령 21.76±1.76세의 51명(남자 26명, 여자 25명)을 대상으로 하였다. 대상자들의 완전교정 된 눈 앞에 S+1.00 D, S+2.00 D, S+3.00 D, S-1.00 D, S-2.00 D, S-3.00 D를 순서대로 가입하여, 가입 직 후, 15분 후, 그리고 30분 후에 각 단안조절력을 측정하였다. 측정값들은 완전교정 상태의 조절력과 비교 하였고, 렌즈 가입 전·후 측정된 단안조절력의 변화값은 가입한 굴절력 값에 대한 상대 비율로 계산하였다. 결 과 : S+1.00 D, S+2.00 D, S+3.00 D 가입 후 조절력은 완전교정 조절력보다 모두 유의하게 (p<0.001) 증가되었지만, 가입된 렌즈굴절력의 약 55~68% 수준이었다. S-1.00 D, S-2.00 D, S-3.00 D 가입 후 조절력은 완전교정 조절력보다 모두 유의하게(p<0.001) 감소되었고, 가입된 굴절력의 약 72~105% 수준이었다. 결 론 : 조절변화를 목적으로 구면렌즈를 처방할 때, 임상전문가들은 렌즈적응으로 인해 더해준 구면굴절 력 값보다 조절변화량이 대부분 감소될 것이라는 점을 고려해야 한다.

Muscle satellite cell (SC) is responsible for postnatal muscle growth, repair, and regeneration. Satellite cell is an im-portant source of multi-potent stem cell process and differentiation into adipogenic, myogenic, and osteoblastogenic. The objective of this study was to identify alter of transcriptome during differentiation in porcine satellite cell and to elevated transcriptome at different stages of postnatal development to gain insight into the differences in differ-entiated PSC. We used RNA-seq technique to investigate the transcriptomes during differentiation in pig muscle. Sequence reads were obtained from Illumina HiSeq2000. Differentially expressed genes (DEG) were detected by EdgeR. Gene ontology (GO) terms are powerful tool for unification among representation genes or products. In study of GO biological terms, functional annotation clustering involved in cell cycle, apoptosis, extracellular matrix, phosphoryla- tion, proteolysis, and cell signaling in differences stage. Taken together, these results would be contributed to a better understanding of muscle biology and processes underlying differentiation. Our results suggest that the source of DEGs could be better understanding of the mechanism of muscle differentiation and transdifferentiation.

Satellite cells were derived from muscular tissue in postnatal pig. Satellite cell is an important to growth and development in animal tissues or organs. However, the progress underlying induced differentiation is not clear. The aim of this study was to evaluate the morphologic and the transcriptome changes in porcine satellite cell (PSC) treated with insulin, rosiglitazone, or dexamethasone respectively. PSC was obtained from postnatal muscle tissue. In study 1, for study the effect of insulin and FBS on the differentiated satellite cells, cells were cultured at absence or presence of insulin treated with FBS. Total RNA was extracted for determining the expression levels of myo-genic PAX3, PAX7, Myf5, MyoD, and myogenin genes by real-time PCR. Myogenic genes decreased expression levels of mRNA in treated with insulin. In study 2, in order to clarify the relationship between rosiglitazone and lipid in differentiated satellite cells, we further examined the effect of FBS on lipid accumulation in the presence or absence of the rosiglitazone and lipid. Significant differences were observed between rosiglitazone and lipid by FBS. The mRNA of FABP4 and PPARγ increased in rosiglitazone treatment. In study 3, we examined the effect of dexame-thasone on osteogenic differentiation in PSC. The mRNA was increased osteoblasotgenic ALP and ON genes treated with dexamethasone in 2% FBS. Dexamethasone induces osteoblastogenesis in differentiated PSC. Taken together, in differentiated PSCs, FABP4 and PPARγ increased to rosiglitazone. Whereas, no differences to FBS and lipid. These results were not comparable with previous reports. Our results suggest that adipogenic, myogenic, and osteoblasto-genic could be isolated from porcine skeletal muscle, and identify culture conditions which optimize proliferation and differentiation formation of PSC.

Muscular satellite cell (SC), which is stem cell of postnatal pig, is an important for study of differentiation into adipogenesis, myogenesis, and osteoblastogenesis. In this study, we isolated and examined from pig muscle tissue to determine capacity in proliferate, differentiate, and expression of various genes. Porcine satellite cells (PSC) were isolated from semimembranosus (SM) muscles of 90∼100 days old pigs according to standard conditions. The cell proliferation increased in multi-potent cell by Masson’s, oil red O, and Alizarin red staining respectively. We per-formed the expression levels of differentiation related genes using real-time PCR. We found that the differentiation into adipocyte increased expression levels of both fatty acid binding protein 4 (FABP4) and peroxisome proliferator- acti-vated receptor gamma (PPARγ) genes (p<0.01). Myocyte increased the expression levels of the myosin heavy chain (MHC), myogenic factor 5 (Myf5), myogenic regulatory factor (MyoD), and Myogenic factor 4 (myogenin) (p<0.01). Osteo-blast increased the expression levels of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) (p<0.01). Finally, porcine satellite cells were indu-ced to differentiate towards adipogenic, myogenic, and osteoblastogenic lineages. Our results suggest that muscle satellite cell in porcine may influence cell fate. Understanding the progression of PSC may lead to improved strat-egies for augmenting meat quality.

The centipede Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans has been a medically important arthropod species by using it as a traditional medicine for the treatment of various diseases. In this study, we derived a novel lactoferricin B like peptide (LBLP) from the whole bodies of adult centipedes, S. s. mutilans, and investigated the antifungal effect of LBLP. LBLP exerted an antifungal and fungicidal activity without hemolysis. To investigate the antifungal mechanism of LBLP, a membrane study with propidium iodide was first conducted against Candida albicans. The result showed that LBLP caused fungal membrane permeabilization. The assays of the three dimensional flow cytometric contour plot and membrane potential further showed cell shrinkage and membrane depolarization by the membrane damage. Finally, we confirmed the membrane-active mechanism of LBLP by synthesizing model membranes, calcein and FITC-dextran loaded large unilamellar vesicles. These results showed that the antifungal effect of LBLP on membrane was due to the formation of pores with radii between 0.74 nm and 1.4 nm. In conclusion, this study suggests that LBLP exerts a potent antifungal activity by pore formation in the membrane, eventually leading to fungal cell death.

[n order to obtain the trlle expected DNA prod uct from PCR and RT-PCR using genornic DNA or cDNA reversely transcribed from mRNA. the PCR should be done in an appropriated condition. Sometimes the PCR was repeatedly fail ed. and cventllally the PCR product was turned out to be nonspecific and rudimentary . And more‘ t he PCR prodllctwas not reproducible even though careflll repeat of experiments. As the PCR was based on the exact primel hybridization. the condition of primer hybridization should be properly controlled by a nnealing temperatllre. But the selection of primer seqllences for targeting a specific gene is mostly important. A new method of primer eval uation is now available llsing DNA base pair polarity program. This study presents an example of PCR targeting to human Bax gene using genomic DNA. The DNA base pair polarity theory can di vide the genetic cord into propel DNA segments and calclllaLe their DNA base pair hybridization energy. Thus. mathematically the degree 0(' exact primer hybridization can be expected for the t r1l8 targeting of PCR. However, the DNA base pair polal'ityanalysis demonstrates that the more frequent number of DNA segment incl'eased the specificity of PCR. but decreased its sensitivity . While the greater polarity of DNA segment composed of increased nllmber of polarized DNA base pairs showed increased sensitivi ty 0 1' PCR. bllt relati vely decreased specificity of PCR. With the mllltiple analysis of PCR. especially for PCR cloning from the gDNA and cDNA, we found that the primers themselves showed secondary strllcture of partial hybridization between sameprimers or each pair primers. The DNA base pail‘ polarity signal can directly demonstrated symmetric sequences 0 1' each primer. and also can distinguish the dimmer formation from each pair primers. At least the symmetric seqllence of fOlll‘ base pairs dramatically showed the dimrner formation. On the other hand. in addi tion Lo the statlls of DNA base pair polarity the three-dimensional strllctllre of DNA dOllble helix targeted by the primer seqllences may affect the sensitivity and specificity of PCR detection. The present study introduced a new method of primer evalllation and selection in order to obtain abundant and exacL! y-trlle DNA product for genomic ffilltation analysis and gene expression profï le