The prevalence of cancer in companion dogs is growing nowadays with the increasing worldwide population of domestic dogs. Since there is a less established standard of care in veterinary medicine, investigational treatments, such as the development of biomarkers can be considered as a therapeutic intervention for early diagnosis. Despite the enormous efforts that have been invested in the search of biomarkers, still, there is a need for easy detection of significant biological markers for predicting canine cancers at an early stage. In this study, we have analyzed the expression pattern of previously reported 46 canine cancer-associated candidate genes in blood specimens using real-time qPCR. We hypothesized that analysis of gene expression in blood would provide preliminary evidence of local or systemic immunogenic response which further contribute to the easy and early diagnosis of canine cancer from blood specimen as an analytical tool. The datasets included a total of 22 blood samples collected from different breeds of dogs diagnosed with cancer and five from healthy normal dogs. RT-qPCR analysis was performed by employing the SYBR Green PCR mix to assess the expression of these 46 genes in a total of 27 samples. From our result, a total of nine genes (ROS1, C1QA, CD48, IL1b, TLR2, IL2R, CHI3L1, CTSS, and TLR7) were found to be significantly up-regulated (p < 0.05 and p < 0.01) in the cancer samples compared to non-cancer samples. The relative expression level of ROS1, C1QA, CD48, IL1b, TLR2, IL2R, CHI3L1, CTSS, and TLR7 genes was 5.74, 4.78, 3.94, 2.94, 2.57, 2.53, 2.50, 2.04, and 2.57, respectively, in cancer samples compared to non-cancer samples. Thus, our results reveal several highly expressed cancer genes that can be therapeutic target genes for further testing in canine cancers.

Seaports play a huge role in Vietnam's economy, being a border gate for economic and cultural exchanges with outsiders, especially the role of goods circulation. Container cargoes are one of the types of goods with large and increasing volume through Vietnam seaports. However, the heterogeneity between the seaport and the connected infrastructure greatly affects the capacity and efficiency of port investment. This is also one of the main causes leading to a shortage of goods, excess ports in some port areas. The root cause is that the planning has not kept up with the growth of the amount of goods arriving at the port, because the issue of forecasting the volume of goods through the port is not accurate. Therefore, it is necessary to develop models of forecasting container cargo through the ports with general, scientific, and high accuracy to serve the strategy, planning and development of seaport system; the work of planning and investment in the development of seaports, shipping fleets and other auxiliary transport infrastructure works. The purpose of this study is to build suitable forecasting models with high accuracy and reliability on the total volume of container cargo throughput of the Vietnamese seaport system. Based on the methods of a statistical survey, synthesis, regression analysis, and correlation to evaluate the influence of factors on container cargo volume through Vietnam's seaports in the period of 2004-2019. By incorporating more economic factors into the regression model, the paper focuses on forecasting container cargo through the Vietnamese seaport systems, going into cargo-based forecasting in tons and TEUs. The results of this study contribute to complete the rationale for forecasting, especially forecasts related to the shipping industry and the forecast for container cargo throughput of the seaport. Finally, selecting models for forecasting container cargo volume throughput of seaports by Vietnamese conditions.

전극 구성에 따른 고효율 전해정련공정의 일반적인 모델을 구축하기 위하여, 상미분방정식 인터페이스를 갖는 COMSOL Multiphysics V5.3 전착 모듈을 사용하여 수치해석을 실시하였다. 구축된 모델은 한국원자력연구원에서 제작한 실험실 규 모 (1kg 우라늄/day 규모) 다중배열전극 전해정련장치를 사용해 전극 간 거리, 전극 배열을 변수로 하여 실시한 실험의 전 류밀도-전위 곡선과 비교하였다. 공정온도는 500℃이다. 용융염은 3wt% UCl3가 포함된 LiCl-KCl 공융염을 사용하였다. 검 증된 모델을 이용하여 전류밀도-셀전위 곡선을 계산한 결과 전극 간 거리가 가까울수록, 전극 배열은 양극/음극 면적비가 증 가할수록 셀 전위가 낮아져 전해정련장치의 우라늄 처리효율을 향상시킬 수 있다는 것을 확인하였다. 이러한 접근은 고출력 사용후핵연료 전해정련기의 안전설계를 위한 데이터베이스 구축에 유용할 것이다.

The Automobile HVAC system is a habitat for odor-associated fungal communities. We investigated the odorassociated fungal community in an automobile HVAC system using a high-throughput DNA sequencing method. The fungal community structure was evaluated via metagenome analysis. At the phylum level, Ascomycota and Basidiomycota were detected, accounting for 43.41% and 56.49% of the fungal community in the HVAC system, respectively. Columnosphaeria (8.31%), Didymella (5.60%), Davidiella (5.50%), Microxyphium (4.24%), unclassified Pleosporales (2.90%), and Cladosporium (2.79%) were abundant at phylum of Ascomycota and Christiansenia (36.72%), Rhodotorula (10.48%), and Sporidiobolus (2.34%) were abundant at phylum of Basidiomycota. A total of 22 genera of fungi were isolated and identified from the evaporators of the HVAC systems which support fungal growth and biofilm formation. Among them, Cladosporium, Penicillium, Aspergillus and Alternaria are the most representative odor-associated fungi in HVAC systems. They were reported to form biofilm on the surface of HVAC systems with other bacteria by hypha. In addition, they produce various mVOCs such as 3-methyl-1-butanol, acetic acid, butanoic acid, and methyl isobutyl ketone. Our findings may be useful for extending the understanding of odor-associated fungal communities in automobile HVAC systems.

본 연구에서는 FT-IR 스펙트럼데이터의 다변량 통계분석 기법을 활용하여 인도수집 옥수수 계통 및 품종으로부터 단백질 함량이 높은 옥수수를 신속하게 선발할 수 있는 선발체계를 확립함과 동시에 lysine과 tryptophan의 함량분석을 목적으로 연구를 수행하였다. 총 48시료의 인도수집 옥수수 계통 및 품종과 국내산 품종을 이용하여 종자로부터 FT-IR 스펙트럼을 조사하였으며, 무작위로 선발된 24시 료를 대상으로 총 단백질 함량을 조사하였다. 대조구로 사용한 광평옥 모계(GPO1)의 경우 단백질 함량 이 9.34 ± 0.3mg/g dw인데 비하여 H4 계통의 경우 단백질 함량이 10.26 ± 0.5mg/g dw로 48개 옥 수수 시료 중에서 가장 높게 나타났다. 특히 옥수수 H4, H6, H11, 그리고 H12 계통의 경우 총 단백질 함량이 각각 10mg/g dw 이상으로 측정되어 광평옥 모계(9.34mg/g dw)와 부계(9.36mg/g dw) 및 이 들의 F1(9.14mg/g dw)보다 총 단백질 함량이 높은 계통으로 판명되었다. Cross-validation test에서 옥수수 종자 내 총 단백질 함량예측 PLS regression model의 regression coefficient(R2) 는 0.77로 비교적 정확하게 총 단백질 함량예측이 가능한 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 본 PLS regression model을 이용하여 단백질 함량이 높은 사일리지 옥수수 계통의 선발이 가능할 것으로 기대되며, 더 나아가 다양 한 옥수수 계통의 신속한 대사체 수준 평가가 가능할 것으로 예상된다.

Malaysia, situated between East and West, is an interface in world maritime trade, playing a crucial role in the business of moving container boxes in South-eastern parts of Asia. The prominent container terminals in Malaysia such as Port Klang and Port of Tanjung Pelepas are positioned among the top twenty ports in terms of volume handled. The annual average growth of throughputs in Malaysian container ports increased more than three-fold from the year 2000 to 2010. Within this context, the development of Malaysian seaports has been significantly influenced by three forces: increased use of containerisation, significant growth in domestic economic activities and ever-changing patterns in both supply and demand chains, all of which have led to increased transshipment activities and altered shipping routes. This phenomenon has brought dynamic change to Malaysian container ports, resulting in the establishment of new terminals and adapting emerging technology to enhance the ports’ ability to accommodate larger vessels and an increased number of containers. This paper aims to present the development of Malaysian container seaports by addressing changes to acreage size and handling volumes during the last three decades. The results of the analysis suggest that major Malaysian ports are experiencing an exponential growth in container trade with the expansion of port capacity following trade growth and need effective strategies to reduce the operational pressures of Malaysian seaports. The results of this research offer directions for development strategies of seaports by utilising the existing inland freight facilities as an effective strategy for capacity enhancement and develop efficient distribution network to meet future demands.

본 논문은 국제벼연구소(International Rice Research Institute: IRRI)의 분자육종체계의 현황을 살펴보고, 국제적으로 시장중 심의 육종체계로 변화함에 따라, 새로운 분자마커 이용 육종 법이 갖추어야 할 조건에 대해 논하였다. 벼에 있어서 신품종 개량을 위한 분자생물학의 도움을 받는 분자육종법은 재해 및 병충해 저항성과 수량 및 품질 제고에 전반적으로 활용되고 있으며, 관련 계통 및 품종이 속속 개발 되고 있다. 국제벼연구소는 기후변화 및 자원부족에 대응하면 서도 수량과 품질의 저하가 없는 쌀 품종을 개발하기 위해, 분자육종법을 적극 활용하고 있다. 지역적으로 시장구조별로 특화시킨 품종개발프로필(VDP)을 개발하고, 그에 맞는 형질을 발굴하여, 빠르게 우수형질에 도 입하기 위해서 분자표지를 이용한 육종이 활용될 수 있다. 각 형질은 유전적으로 우수하고 분명한 효과를 보이는 것으 로서, 분자마커는 해당 형질에 강하게 연관되어야 유용하다. 성공적인 분자표지육종법을 위해서, 고효율 유전분석법, 생장 촉진 및 세대촉진법, 연관마커 신속 설계 및 분석, 중간계통의 효율적인 표현형 검정법 개발이 필수적이다. 최근에는 차세대유전체분석법 (NGS)의 발달로 저렴하게 계 통의 유전체 분석이 용이해졌고, 이를 위해서 생물정보학과 유 전체학의 도움을 받는 유전체선발법이 개발되었다. 향후 성공적인 대량 신속 계통육성을 위한 분자육종법의 도 입을 위해 필요한 기술과 연구 제목을 제안하면, (1) 경제적 가치평가 기술과 합리적 효과 판정의 적용 (2) 체계적인 기본 식물 관리, (3) 온실 및 농장 전산화, (4) 계통육성시스템과 유전분석시스템의 일체화, (5) 유전분석 비용의 경제화, (6) 대 량 형질 및 유전자 추출 연구, (7) 다형질간 상호작용 연구, (8) 세대촉진법, (9) 육종가를 위한 결정지원소프트웨어 개발, (10) 집단개량 및 집단선발법의 체계화, 그리고 (11) 인위적 변 이 기술과의 접목 등이다. 분자육종법을 이용한 품종개량의 개발이익은 경제사회적으 로 그 효과가 적절히 평가될 때만이 궁극적으로 소비자와 농 민에게 이익을 제공하는 의미를 갖게 될 것이다.

The purpose of this study is to introduce the limit of previously used six sigma quality process evaluation metrics, Zst and Ppk, and a solution to overcome this drawback by using a metric based on performance evaluation of Z-factor quality innovation. Case analysis on projects from national six sigma contest from 2011 to 2012 is performed and literature review on new drug development HTS (High Throughput Screening) is used to propose innovative performance evaluation metrics. This research shows that experimental study on six sigma evaluation metric, Zst and Ppk, have no significance difference between industrial type (Manufacturing, Semi-Public Institute, Public Institute) and CTQ type (Product Technology Type CTQ, Process Technology Type CTQ). Following discovery characterize this quality improvement as fixed target type project. As newly developed moving target type of quality innovation performance metric Z-Factor is used for evaluating experimental study, hypothetical analysis suggests that Zst and Ppk share different relationship or even show reciprocal relationship. Constraints of the study are relatively small sample size of only 37 projects from past 2 years and conflict on having interview and communication with six sigma quality practitioner for qualitative experimental study. Both moving target type six sigma innovation project and fixed target type improvement project or quality circle enables efficient ways for a better understanding and quality practitioner use by applying quality innovation performance metric. Downside of fixed target type quality performance evaluation metric, Zst and Ppk, is presented through experimental study. In contrast, advantage of this study is that high throughput requiring product technology, process technology and quantum leap typed innovation effect is evaluated based on precision and accuracy and Z-Factor that enables relative comparison between enterprises is proposed and implemented.

The baculovirus expression system is one of the most popular methods used for the production of recombinant proteins but has several complex steps which have proved inherently difficult to meet a multi-parellel process. We have developed a novel recombinant bacmid, bEasyBm that enabling easy and fast generation of pure recombinant virus without any purification step. In the bEasyBm, attR recombination sites were introduced to facilitate the generation of recombinant viral genome by in vitro transposition. Moreover, extracellular RNase gene from bacillus amyloliquefaciens, barnase, was expressed under the control of Cotesia plutellae bracovirus early promoter. Therefore, only when the barnase gene was replaced to gene of interest, the bEasyBm could replicate in host insect cells. When the bEasyBm was transposed with pDualBac-EGFP and pDualBac-LUC respectively, there were no non-recombinant backgrounds were detected from unpurified BmEasy-EGFP or BmEasy-LUC stocks. In addition, the resulting recombinant virus, BmEasy-EGFP, showed comparable level of EGFP expression efficiency with the plaque-purified recombinant virus, BmEGFP, which was constructed using bBmGOZA system. Based on these results, high-throughput condition for generation of multiple recombinant viruses in a time was established.

The use of high throughput screening (HTS) in drug development is principally for the selection new drug candidates or screening of chemical toxicants. This system minimizes the experimental environment and allows for the screening of candidates at the same time. Umbilical cord-derived stem cells have some of the characteristics of fetal stem cell and have several advantages such as the ease with which they can be obtained and lack of ethical issues. To establish a HTS system, optimized conditions that mimic typical cell culture conditions in a minimal space such as 96 well plates are needed for stem cell growth. We have thus established a novel HTS system using human umbilical cord derived-mesenchymal stem cells (hUC-MSCs). To determine the optimal cell number, hUC-MSCs were serially diluted and seeded at 750, 500, 200 and 100 cells per well on 96 well plates. The maintenance efficiencies of these dilutions were compared for 3, 7, 9, and 14 days. The fetal bovine serum (FBS) concentration (20, 10, 5 and 1%) and the cell numbers (750, 500 and 200 cells/well) were compared for 3, 5 and 7 days. In addition, we evaluated the optimal conditions for cell cycle block. These four independent optimization experiments were conducted using an MTT assay. In the results, the optimal conditions for a HTS system using hUC-MSCs were determined to be 300 cell/well cultured for 8 days with 1 or 5% FBS. In addition, we demonstrated that the optimal conditions for a cell cycle block in this culture system are 48 hours in the absence of FBS. In addition, we candidates using our HTS system which demonstrates the feasibility if using hUC-MSCs for this type of screen. Moreover, the four candidate compounds can be tested for stem cell research application.

This paper presents a six sigma application case study for an automobile PCSV manufacturing process using rolled throughput yield improvement activity. Hidden factor and first yield concept is introduced and DMAIC procedure is implemented to maximize the first pass yield. The result of the six sigma project amounts to the reduction of failure cost of 0.1 billion won per year in the PCSV manufacturing process. This paper can benefit six sigma practitioners in some ways.

High-throughput microscopy (HTM) was developed recently for the automatic detection of airborne asbestos fibers that can cause lung cancer, asbestosis and mesothelioma. The HTM method has been applied to couting the airborne asbestos fibers as an alternative to the conventional phase contrast microscopy (PCM). In this paper, we demonstrated that the HTM enabled us to obtain quantitative results for low-concentration airborne asbestos samples under detection limit, and we made a comparison between the results from HTM and PCM. In addition, a verification study was conducted using proficiency analytical testing (PAT) samples of chrysotile and amosite. The HTM method can be applied to the existing PCM method by reducing analysis time and labors. Potential applications can be extended to detection of asbestos fibers in soil and water.

Since it has been reported that asbestos fibers cause serious health problems such as lung cancer, malignant mesothelioma and other related diseases, it turns into social issue leading to a number of studies for characterizing asbestos found in the indoor environment. Among the established methods for detecting asbestos fibers, phase contrast microscopy (PCM) method is widely used as it dose not require complicated process nor high-priced equipments. However, PCM method is hard to define a sort of asbestos and to detect tiny asbestos fibers. We developed an image-based high-throughput microscopy (HTM) for automated counting of asbestos fibers which were distinguishable from the spherical particles. HTM method enabled us to analyze asbestos fibers both automatically and quantitatively. Test samples of chrysotile, amosite and crocidolite, which are frequently detected in Korea, were used in this study and comparisons were made between concentrations of asbestos fibers measured by manual counting method and HTM method. Application of HTM system can be extended to various areas such as malaria diagnosis, rare cell detection and bacterial colony counting.

한우 이력추적제에 적용되는 11개의 MS marker (TGLA227, BM2113, TGLA53, ETH10, SPS115, TGLA126, TGLA122, ETH3, ETH225, BM1824 and INRA23)와 성감별을 위한 2개의 sexing primer로 조합된 하나의 Multiplex PCR set를 이용하여 모근에서 추출한 genomic DNA를 이용해 3510두의 대량 시료를 분석한 결과 3.93%의 genotyping 실패율로 성공적인 분석결과를 얻었다. 무작위교배집단으로 가 정 시 동일개체출현확률 (PI)은 1.31×10-23, 반형매교배집단으로 가정 시 동일개체출현확률 (PIhalf-sibs)은 2.52×10-16 그리고 전형매교배집단으로 가정 시 동일개체출현확률 (PIsibs)은 1.09×10-6으로 나타나 현재 사용 중인 11종의 MS marker는 범용적으로 사용하여도 무방할 것으로 재확인 되었다. 또한 생산 및 사 육단계의 생우의 경우 모근을 이용하여 DNA를 추출하는 것은 시료 채취 시 소에게 주어지는 스트레스를 최소화 시킬 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 대립유전자형 분석에 있어서 시간적, 경제적인 효율성을 높일 수 있었 다. 또한 모근 채취 부위 중 등, 배, 꼬리상부와 꼬리하부를 이용하여 검정한 결과 꼬리하부의 모근을 이 용하여 5~13가닥을 사용했을 때 최적의 분석결과를 보였다. 최종적으로 한우의 사육단계 대량 유전자형 분석에 적용 가능한 96 well 단위를 기본으로 하는 모근 DNA분리 체계를 확립하였다.

Recently, we constructed a novel recombinant baculovirus genome, bEasyBac, enabling easy and fast generation of pure recombinant baculovirus without any purification step. In the bEasyBac, bacteriophage lambda site-specific attachment (att) sites were introduced to facilitate the generation of recombinant viral genome by in vitro transposition. Moreover, extracellular RNase gene from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, barnase, was expressed under the control of Cotesia plutellae bracovirus (CpBV) ORF3005 early promoter to negatively select against non-recombinant background. The bEasyBac could replicate in host insect cells only when the barnase gene was replaced to gene of interest by in vitro transposition. When the bEasyBac was transposed with pDualBac-EGFP and the EGFP expression efficiency along passage was investigated, the resulting recombinant virus, EasyBac-EGFP, showed comparable level of EGFP expression efficiency with the plaque-purified recombinant virus, AcEGFP, which was constructed using bAcGOZA system, whereas, the non-purified AcEGFP showed quite reduced level of EGFP along passages. Moreover, no non-recombinant backgrounds were detected from unpurified EasyBac-EGFP stocks. Based on these results, high-throughput condition for generation of multiple recombinant viruses in a time was established. These results suggest that the bEasyBac has an effective benefit enabling for high-throughput baculovirus expression vector without purifying recombinant virus.