Multiple heterologous M2 extracellular domains presented on virus-like particles confer broader and stronger M2 immunity than live influenza A virus infection

Kim, M.C.,Lee, J.S.,Kwon, Y.M.,O, E.,Lee, Y.J.,Choi, J.G.,Wang, B.Z.,Compans, R.W.,Kang, S.M. Elsevier/North-Holland 2013 Antiviral research Vol.99 No.3

The influenza M2 ectodomain (M2e) is poorly immunogenic and has some amino acid changes among isolates from different host species. We expressed a tandem repeat construct of heterologous M2e sequences (M2e5x) derived from human, swine, and avian origin influenza A viruses on virus-like particles (M2e5x VLPs) in a membrane-anchored form. Immunization of mice with M2e5x VLPs induced protective antibodies cross-reactive to antigenically different influenza A viruses and conferred cross protection. Anti-M2e antibodies induced by heterologous M2e5x VLPs showed a wider range of cross reactivity to influenza A viruses at higher levels than those by live virus infection, homologous M2e VLPs, or M2e monoclonal antibody 14C2. Fc receptors were found to be important for mediating protection by immune sera from M2e5x VLP vaccination. The present study provides evidence that heterologous recombinant M2e5x VLPs can be more effective in inducing protective M2e immunity than natural virus infection and further supports an approach for developing an effective universal influenza vaccine.

Improvement in the Electrochemical Properties of ZrMn2 Hydrides by Substitution of Elements

Song, M . Y .,Kwon, I . H .,Ahn, D . S .,Sohn, M . S . 대한금속재료학회(대한금속학회) 2001 METALS AND MATERIALS International Vol.7 No.3

The hydrogen-storage properties and the electrochemical properties are investigated for the alloys ZrMn₂Nix, ZrMnNi_(1+x), Zr_(0.5)Ti_(0.5)Mn_(0.4)V_(0.6)Ni_(1-x)Fe_x and Zr_(0.5)Ti_(0.5)Mn_(0.4)V_(0.6)Ni_(0.85)M_(0.15). The C14 Laves phase forms in all the alloys ZrMn₂Ni_x (x=0.0, 0.3, 0.6, 0.9 and 1.2). Among the alloys ZrMn₂Ni_x, ZrMn₂Ni_(0.6) has the largest discharge capacity (29 mAh/g) and a relatively good cycling performance, and shows a relatively easy activation. The C14 Laves phase also forms in all the alloys ZrMnNi_(1+x) (x=0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 and 0.4). Among the alloys ZrMnNi_(1+x), ZrMnNi_(1.0) has the largest discharge capacity (42 mAh/g) and a relatively good cycling performance, and shows the easiest activation. Zr_(0.5)Ti_(0.5)Mn_(0.4)V_(0.6)Ni_(1+x)Fe_x (x=0.00, 0.15, 0.30, 0.45 and 0.60) has the C14 Laves phase hexagonal structure. Their hydrogen storage capacities do not show significant differences. The discharge capacity just after activation decreases with an increase in the amount of the substituted Fe but the cycling performance is improved. The discharge capacity after activation of the alloy with x=0.00 is about 240 mAh/g at the current density 60 mA/g. Zr_(0.5)Ti_(0.5)Mn_(0.4)V_(0.6)Ni_(0.85)M_(0.15) is the best composition with a relatively large discharge capacity and a good cycling performance. The increase in the discharge capacity of Zro.sTio.sMno.qVo.bNio,asFeo.,s with the increase in the current density (from 60 mA/g to 125 mA/g) is considered to result from the self-discharge property of the electrode. Zr_(0.5)Ti_(0.5)Mn_(0.4)V_(0.6)Ni_(0.85)M_(0.15) (M=Fe, Co, Cu, Mo and Al) alloys also have the C14 Laves phase hexagonal structure. The alloys with M=Co and Fe have relatively larger hydrogen storage capacities. The discharge capacities just after activation are relatively large in the case of the alloys with M=Co and Fe. The Zr_(0.5)Ti_(0.5)Mn_(0.4)V_(0.6)Ni_(0.85)M_(0.15) alloy is best with a relatively large discharge capacity (257 mAh/g at the current density 250 mA/g for the 12^(th) cycle) and a good cycling performance. During activation form Ni-rich and Fe-rich regions on the surface of the Zr_(0.5)Ti_(0.5)Mn_(0.4)V_(0.6)Ni_(0.85)M_(0.15) alloy. They may act as the active sites for the electrochemical reaction. With the increase in the number of charge-discharge cycles for the Zr_(0.5)Ti_(0.5)Mn_(0.4)V_(0.6)Ni_(0.85)M_(0.15) alloy, the quantities of the Zr and Fe dissolved in the electrolyte solution increase.

Supplementation of oil-based inactivated H9N2 vaccine with M2e antigen enhances resistance against heterologous H9N2 avian influenza virus infection

Park, J.K.,Lee, D.H.,Cho, C.H.,Yuk, S.S.,To, E.O.,Kwon, J.H.,Noh, J.Y.,Kim, B.Y.,Choi, S.W.,Shim, B.S.,Song, M.K.,Lee, J.B.,Park, S.Y.,Choi, I.S.,Song, C.S. Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co 2014 Veterinary microbiology Vol.169 No.3

Avian influenza virus (AIV) subtype H9N2 has been evolving rapidly and vaccine escape variants have been reported to cause circulation of infections and economic losses. In the present study, we developed and evaluated ectodomain of the AIV matrix 2 (M2e) protein as a supplementing antigen for oil-based inactivated H9N2 vaccine to increase resistance against vaccine escape variants. AIV H9N2 M2e antigen was expressed in Escherichia coli and supplemented to inactivated H9N2 oil emulsion vaccine. Specific pathogen-free chickens received a single injection of inactivated H9N2 oil emulsion vaccines with or without M2e supplementation. At three weeks post vaccination, hemagglutination inhibition tests and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays were performed to determine serological immune responses. Challenge study using a vaccine escape H9N2 variant was performed to evaluate the efficacy of M2e supplementation. M2e antigen supplemented in oil emulsion vaccine was highly immunogenic, and a single M2e-supplemented vaccination reduced challenge virus replication and shedding more effectively than non-supplemented vaccination.

수도의 유묘기 냉해에 관한 연구 II. 주요 신품종들의 제 3 엽기 내냉한계

권용웅,김주헌,오윤진,이문희,Kwon, Y.W.,Kim, J.H.,Oh, Y.J.,Lee, M.H. 한국작물학회 1979 한국작물학회지 Vol.24 No.2

Indica \times Japonica 교잡에 의해 육성된 수도신품종들의 유묘기 내냉한계와 내냉발현특성을 Janica품종들과 비교 고찰하고자 10개 품종을 유묘기 내냉성이 제일 약한 제 3 엽기에 주간 11\circ C야간 5\circ C의 저온조건에 0, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10일 처리한 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 저온처리 전후에 주야 26\circ C / 18\circ C에서 생장한 파종 후 35일묘의 건물중이 무처리묘의 90% 이상이 되는 최장저온처리기간은 신품종들의 경우 0.8~2.8일 간으로써 특히 조생통일이 짧고 밀야 2003가 길었으며, Japonica 품종들의 경우 4.0~5.2일간으로써 신품종들보다 가역적 내냉한계기간이 배정도 길었다. 2. 저온처리에 따른 냉해발현 종료후 묘생존율이 90%이상되는 최장저온처리기간은 신품종들의 경우 3.0~5.6 일간으로써 수원 258호가 제일 짧고 수원 25001가 제일 길었으며, Japonica 품종들은 공시품종 모두 10일간 이상으로 신품종들보다 비가역적 내냉한계기간이 2~3배 이상 길었다. 3. 저온처리중 엽신변색고사율(y_1) 및 묘고사율(y_2), 저온처리 후 발현된 모신변색고사율(y_3), 묘고사율(y_4), 냉해를 받은 35일묘의 초장(y$_{5}$)과 건물중(y$_{6}$)은 모두 저온처리기간(x)과 고도로 유의한 상관성을 보였는데 특히 y_1, y_3, y$_{6}$와 높은 상관성을 보였으며, y_1~y$_{6}$들 상호간에도 모두 고도로 유의한 상관성을 보였으나 특히 y_1과 y_3, y_3와 y$_{6}$의 상관성이 컸다. 4. 냉해징상들의 발현순서와 상태들간의 상관성 분석결과로부터 가역적 및 비가역적, 직접적 및 간접적 냉해의 발생과 그들의 복합현상으로써 결과되는 관찰되는 냉해징상의 발현과정 모식도를 작성하여 그림 5에 제시하였다. 5. 수도유묘의 내냉성 평가에 있어서 가역적 피해와 비가역적 피해를 종합적으로, 그리고 정량적으로 나타내며 일반적으로 냉해를 나타내는 조사형질들 중 냉해에 가장 예민한 반응을 보이는 건물중율을 1차요인으로 취급할 것으로 제의한다. Comparative tolerance of the new rice varieties from Indicax Japonica cross to elastic and plastic chilling injuries was examined at the 3rd leaf-stage, the most sensitive stage to chilling during nursery, using a chilling chamber set 11\circ C, 13hrs. 20K lux day/5$^{\circ}C$ night. Seedlings were reared until 35 days after seeding in a 26\circ C, 13hrs. day / 18\circ C night chamber except the period of chilling treatment for 0, 3, 4, 6, 8 or 10 days. The new varieties were approximately twice susceptible to elastic injuries, and thrice susceptible to plastic injuries than the Japonica varieties in the term of chilling duration. Among the variables indicating apparant chilling injuries the reduction in dry matter responded most sensitively and differentiated well the varietal difference in chilling resistance even with shorter chilling period. Sequential aspects of the cause and effect relations involved in the development of the apparant chilling injuries are discussed and a schematic diagram is presented as Fig. 5 in the text.

Lactobacillus reuteri의 Bacillus anthracis Sterne 34 F2 대한 항균효과

권남훈,김소현,배원기,김지연,임지연,노경민,김준만,안종삼,허진,박용호 한국수의공중보건학회 2001 예방수의학회지 Vol.25 No.4

Antimicrobial activities of three different Lactobacillus strains (Lactobacillus reuteri, L. bulgaricus, and L. casei) against Bacillus anthracis were determined on the Mueller Hinton Agar containing each culture supernatant obtained from 3 different growth conditions (MRS without glycerol, MRS with 0.5 M glycerol and 0.25 M glycerol solution).Though antimicrobial activity of L. reuteri in the first two conditions was not better than the others', the activity was significantly higher than those of others in 0.25 M glycerol solution. This prominent effect might be attributable to reuterin, produced by L. reuteri using glycerol. We could detect the presence of reuterin in the supernatant of 0.25 M glycerol solution with 500 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). The result of minimum bactericidal concentration (dilution fold) against spore of B. anthracis has revealed that reuterin had strong effect against anthrax spores. To examine any changes of antimicrobial activities of the probiotics, the probiotics were treated with different pH concentration, pepsin or trypsin digestion. The study has revealed that antimicrobial activities of L. bulgaricus and L. casei were significantly decreased, but reuterin activity was not entirely affected by any of these treatments.

서울지역 4년제 간호대학생들의 임상실습 유,무에 따른 진로태도성숙

권혜진,김보람,김소연,김수임,성정아,신영미,윤서진,이경진,홍영선,이자형,정덕유,신혜원 이화여자대학교 간호과학대학 2009 이화간호학회지 Vol.- No.43

This study was conducted to investigate the differences in the degrees of career attitude maturity according to the clinical practice experience of the college of nursing students. The convenience sample was 275 students attending the college of nursing in Seoul. Data was obtained through a questionnaire from December 1st to 12th, 2008. The instrument used to measure the career attitude maturity in this study was "A barometer of maturity in career attitudes" developed by Ki-hak, Lee(1997). The collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, Chronbach's alpha, t-test and ANOVA with the SPSS 16.0 program. Below is the result of this study. 1. The average score for career attitude maturity of nursing students who experienced clinical practices was 135.56(±12.17): higher than the average score of inexperienced students, 134.37(±12.44). However it could not show meaningful differences in the statistics(F=-.805, p=.422). 2. Determinacy, one of five subordinate concepts of career attitude maturity, was statistically significative. On average, the group comprised of students with clinical practices scored 27.60(±3.81): higher than that of unpracticed students, 26.63(±4.26)(F=-1.976, p=.049). 3. The more academic years they have, except for junior year students, the points of career attitude maturity relative to general characteristics were increasingly higher. The points were 132.60(±11.99) for freshmen, 135.93(±12.72) for sophomores, 133.50(±12.57) for juniors and 138.11(±11.24) for seniors(F=2.714, p=.045). 4. According to the age of the group, the grade of career attitude maturity became higher. The scores were 133.21(±12.34) for 18-19yrs., 134.05(±12.16) for 20-22yrs., 138.43(±10.96) for 23-26yrs. and 148.71(±12.76) for 27-32yrs. (F=5.118, p=.002). 5. The average total score for career attitude maturity of nursing students was 135.00(±12.30). Of the five subdivisions―readiness, conviction, determinacy, independence and finality― readiness demonstrated the highest result with 32.33(±4.46) followed by conviction, determinacy, independence and finality respectively. Based on the results, there are some proposals for further researches. As this research was only for college of nursing in Seoul, it is necessary to compare career attitude maturity with 3-year colleges and other departments. In addition, alongside clinical practices there is a growing need to develop programs that will not only provide guidelines but also prepare students for the maturity of their career attitude.

간호 대학생의 간호정보역량과 문제해결능력 연구

권현지,김송이,김지홍,노유진,박수아,손엄지,엄민지,윤정혜,Man Ngaih Cing,김미영,김지연 이화여자대학교 간호과학대학 2016 이화간호학회지 Vol.- No.50

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between nursing students' nursing informatics competencies and problem solving skills. Methods: Data were collected from a convenient sample of 181 nursing students at 14 universities in Korea from September 20th, 2015 to February 25th, 2015. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA and Pearson’s correlation coefficient. Results: The mean score for nursing informatics competencies and problem solving skills were respectively 3.57±0.74 and 3.35±0.65. Relationship of nursing informatics competencies to problem solving skills was statistically significant(r=.785, p<.01). Conclusion: The result of this study suggests that nursing informatics competencies is significantly related to problem solving skills of the nursing students. Therefore, nursing informatics education program for the nursing students would be a helpful intervention for problem solving skills of the nursing students. And further studies are required with more sample sizes and more systematic data collecting methods to confirm these results.

수정진동자를 이용한 고분자 감응성막의 유기가스 응답특성

권영수,김정명,유승엽,장상목,김영한 경북대학교 센서기술연구소 1995 센서技術學術大會論文集 Vol.6 No.1

It is very useful to use piezoelectric device as transducer of gas sensor. AT-cut quartz crystal with 9 MHz resonant frequency can precisely measure about 1 nanogram as mass sensitivity. There are two different type of Gas sensor. One is the gas sensor coated with functional films which has selectivity to gas. The other is to use pattern recognition and array of quartz crystal with different coating materials, which don't have any selectivity to organic gases. In this paper, we used polymers as coating materials, which has thermal and mechanical stability and investigated the possibility of pattern recognition using new parameter in flow system. Our purpose is to develope gas sensor using pattern recognition and neural network.

미국 의학드라마에 나타난 간호이미지와 역할수행 연구

권영애,길민지,김정현,박옥경,서민정,유현정,이민경,정지혜,조양현,천기윤,이자형,정덕유,김성남 이화여자대학교 간호과학대학 2009 이화간호학회지 Vol.- No.43

We tried to inquire the people's views on nursing or nurses, correct the image of nurse and take it as a basis to be applied on nursing education examining the image of nursing on Television drama playing a important role of mass media. 523 nurses of the characters in drama is applied to the analysis object of this study by selecting 3 American medical dramas, Grey's Anatomy, House M.D, E.R from 2005 to 2007. Contents analysis method was used in Data Analysis, which was used in Lim Mi-lim ?Research on contents analysis on image of nursing on television drama?, 7 Items was used after Coders previously modify and compensate it based on research documents of Kalish & Kalisch(1986), Yoon Young(1983), Lee Hye-Ok(1982), Lee Young-Bok, etc in analysis items. Before making the coding, we did pre-test. 6 Coders made of 3teams, 2 Coders are in each team, made the Codings the article on each person by Item seeing the recorded Film. An each team makes coding about 50episodes, total 147episodes for 2weeks. We used double coding and when the results are different between two coders, we decided just one result through mutual agreement. The average of reliability degree was 97.4% which measured the reliability degree by the method of Holsti. The statistic method of Frequency, Percentage was used using EXCEL Program in data processing. The result of research is as follows. 1. The general feature of nurses on the drama is that they are women(92.7%) which is 20 or 30-aged(70.5%). 2. Relative importance of 65.2% nurses in drama is depicted as surrounding characters and most of them was expressed as the character plating surrounding role. 3. The affair attitude of nurses shown on drama is revealed as active(24.5%), autonomous(32%), kind(16.8%), mechanical(23.2%) and adept(28.4%). However, unknown category is the highest in all affairs. 4. The professional activity of nurses was classified with professional/simple affair, The professional activity of nurses was 80% and simple activity of nurses was 22.9%. The professional activity of nurses was classified with personal/assistant affair. The personal activity of nurses was 61.9% and assistant activity of nurses was 15.1%. 5. The place nurses of the drama appears are hospital(97.7%). 6. The appearance feature of nurses is shown on common physique (55.0%), common stature(79.3%), common appearance(76.1%), common dignity(97.5%) and decent (51.1%). 7. The feature of character of nurses depicted on Television drama is neutral in all 11 affairs. We want the following epigraph based on above conclusion. 1. The continuos research intended for mass people is required about how their image of nurse is changed after watching medical drama. 2. The research to construct monitoring mass media system and make plans for developing is required for nurse image being in a triangular position as a professional job.

Dispersion, hybrid interconnection and heat dissipation properties of functionalized carbon nanotubes in epoxy composites for electrically conductive adhesives (ECAs)

Kwon, Y.,Yim, B.s.,Kim, J.m.,Kim, J. Pergamon Press 2011 Microelectronics reliability Vol.51 No.4

Different types of MWNTs/epoxy composites were prepared with diglycidyl ether of bisphenol F (DGEBF) and bisphenol A (DGEBA) used as epoxy resins. MWNTs were functionalized to enhance the properties of epoxy composites by treatment with strong acids (acid-treated MWNTs, a-MWNTs) followed by m-phenylenediamine grafting (amine grafted MWNTs, m-MWNTs). Raw, a-, and m-MWNTs were dispersed in DGEBF or DGEBA to a concentration of 1wt.%. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and thermogravimetric analysis verified the effectiveness of acid treatment and confirmed the amine-functionalization of the MWNTs. Scanning electron microscopy of the fracture surface of the epoxy matrix showed that chemical functionalization improves compatibility between the epoxy and MWNTs. Good dispersion of MWNTs leads to the improvement in coalescence and pull strength in the quad flat package (QFP) test. Further, the thermal conductivity of MWNTs/epoxy composites was higher than that of pure epoxy resins. In particular, the m-MWNT/epoxy composite has the best heat dissipation properties, due to the formation of an effective network for heat flow.