[PB-0094] Genome-Wide Association Study of Leaf Chlorophyll Content Using High-Density 50K SNP Array in Peanut Accessions

Kunyan Zou(Kunyan Zou),Nayoung Kwon(Nayoung Kwon),Tae-Hwan Jun(Tae-Hwan Jun) 한국육종학회 2022 한국육종학회 공동학술발표집 Vol.2022 No.-

[PB-0095] Genome-Wide Association Study and Transcriptome Analysis of Salinity Tolerance in Peanuts(Arachis hypogaea L.)

Kunyan Zou(Kunyan Zou),Seung-Ah Han(Seung-Ah Han),Min-jae Choi(Min-jae Choi),Min-jeong Lee(Min-jeong Lee),Da-Hye Jeon(Da-Hye Jeon),Tae-Hwan Jun(Tae-Hwan Jun) 한국육종학회 2022 한국육종학회 공동학술발표집 Vol.2022 No.-

Dynamic response characteristics of an innovative turretless low motion FPSO hull in central GoM ultra-deep waters

Zou, Jun Techno-Press 2022 Ocean systems engineering Vol.12 No.2

In oil and gas industry, FPSO concept is the most popular hull form and ship shaped hull form dominants the FPSO market. Only a non-ship-shaped hull in operations with minor market shares is the cylindrical FPSO hull with medium to small storage capability. To add contracting options and competitions to reduce field development costs, an innovative turretless low motion hull, eco-FPSO, with 1MM bbls oil storage capacity and suitable for installing topsides modulars and equipping with regular SCRs, was first introduced in Zou (2020a). Dynamic characteristic responses of the eco-FPSO compared to the traditional SS-FPSO hull and DD-Semi platform are presented and discussed in this paper, suitability and feasibility of the proposed hull have been demonstrated and validated through extensive analyses in 10-yrp, 100-yrp and 1,000-yrp hurricanes in ultra-deepwater central GoM.

자기 공명 영상을 이용한 안면비대칭환자의 측두하악관절 원반의 형태와 위치에 관한 연구

Bingshuang Zou,김태우,최순철 대한치과교정학회 2005 대한치과교정학회지 Vol.35 No.5

본 연구는 안면비대칭이 있는 환자의 측두하악관절원반 형태와 위치를 평가하고 악관절내장증과 안명비대칭 간의 관계를 규명하기 위하여 시행되었다. 남자 10명 및 여자 27명으로 구성된 안명비대칭 환자 37명의 74개의 TMJ MRI를 사용하였으며, 대상 집단의 연령은 12세에서 44세까지의 범위로 평균 21.4세였다. 시상 및 두정 TMJ MRI를 최대감합위 및 최대개구위에서 채득한 후 부분전방변위, 전방변위, 회전 또는 측방 원반변위 등 원반변위의 종류를 기록하였으며, 원반의 모양, 위치, 그리고 원반의 변위 및 회전을 MRI tracing 상에서 판독하였다. 악관절내장증의 증상은 정상, 정복성 전방원반변위 (ADDR). 그리고 비정복성 전방원반변위(ADDNR)집단으로 분류하였으며, 환자는 양측성 정상. 편측 혹은 양측 내장증 집단으로 분류하였다. 약 70%의 환자에서 편측성 또는 양측성 내장증을 보였으며, 통계분석 결과 ADD. 특히 회전성 ADD가 변위측에서 더 높은 빈도로 나타났으나 반대측에서는 원반의 위치가 정상인 경우가 많았다 (p<0.01).변위측의 원반은 모양의 변형 및 하전방 변위를 유의하게 더 나타냈다. 그러나 반대쪽은 개구시 원반이 수직방향으로 과운동성이 관찰되었다. 이 연구는 안면비대칭 환자에서 ADD의 종류가 원반의 모양,경사,변위 각도,변위의 수직거리 및 회전각도와 연관이 있다는 것을 제시한다. The present study was conducted to examine the morphometrics and function of the disk on both sides among patients with facial asymmetry (FA) and to elucidate plausible correlations between internal derangement (ID) and FA. The sample was composed of 10 males and 27 females with FA. The disk status of all subjects was evaluated by biateral high resolution magnetic resonance scans in the sagittal (closed and open) and coronal (closed) planes. Five types of disk displacement were identified accordingly. The disk function was diagnosed as normal disk function, disk displacement with reduction, and disk displacement without reduction. The disk shape on sagittal MRI in closed position was classified as bi-concave, biplanar, funnel/hemiconvex, and deformed. The disk position, translation and rotation were also measured. The difference between the shifted side and non-shifted side was analyzed by statistical analysis. Approximately 70% of the patients in the present study showed unilateral or bilateral ID. It was found that anterior disk displacements (ADD), especially rotational ADD, occurred more frequently in the shifted side, while normal disk position was observed mainly in the non-shifted side(p<0.01). The disk of the shifted side showed significantly deformed configuration and inferior-anterior disk position. However, the disk of the non-deviated side showed hyper-mobility during jaw opening movement. These results demonstrate that in FA patients, the disks status of the shifted side is different from that of the non-shifted side, a phenomenon that could be correlated to facial asymmetry.

Substituting oat hay or maize silage for portion of alfalfa hay affects growth performance, ruminal fermentation, and nutrient digestibility of weaned calves

Yang Zou,XinPing Zou,XiZhi Li,Gang Guo,Peng Ji,Yan Wang,ShengLi Li,YaJing Wang,ZhiJun Cao 아세아·태평양축산학회 2018 Animal Bioscience Vol.31 No.3

Objective: The impact of forage feeding strategy on growth performance, ruminal fermentation and nutrient digestibility in post-weaning calves was investigated. Methods: Forty-five female Holstein calves (body weight [BW] = 79.79±0.38 kg) were enrolled in the 35-d study at one week after weaning and randomly assigned to one of three dietary treatments. All diets were fed as total mixed ration containing 60% (dry matter [DM] basis) of basal starter feed and 40% (DM basis) of forage, but varied in composition of forage source including i) alfalfa (40% DM, AH); ii) alfalfa hay (26.7% DM)+oat hay (13.3% DM; OH); iii) alfalfa hay (26.7% DM)+corn silage (13.3% DM; WS). Results: Dry matter intake was not different among treatment groups (p>0.05). However, BW (p<0.05) and average daily gain (p<0.05) of calves fed AH and OH were greater than WS-fed calves, whereas heart girth was greater in OH-fed calves than those fed AH and WS (p<0.05). Ruminal fermentation parameters including proportion of butyric acid, acetated-to-propionate ratio, concentration of total volatile fatty acid, protozoal protein, bacterial protein, and microbial protein in rumen were the highest in OH (p<0.05) and the lowest in WS. Compared with the AH and WS, feeding oat hay to postweaning calves increased crude protein digestibility (p<0.05), and decreased duration of diarrhea (p<0.05) and fecal index (p<0.05). Conclusion: Our results suggested that partially replacing alfalfa hay with oat hay improved ruminal fermentation, nitrogen utilization, and reduced incidence of diarrhea in post-weaning dairy calves.

Semisubmersible platforms with Steel Catenary Risers for Western Australia and Gulf of Mexico

Zou, Jun Techno-Press 2012 Ocean systems engineering Vol.2 No.2

Steel Catenary Risers (SCR) are the simplest and often the most economic solution compared to other riser types such as flexible pipe, riser towers, top tensioned risers, etc. The top of a SCR is connected to the host platform riser porch. The other end of the SCR connects to flowlines from subsea wells. The riser touchdown point (TDP), which is the location along the riser where contact with the sea floor first occurs, exhibits complex behaviors and often results in compression and fatigue related issues. Heave dynamic responses of semisubmersibles in extreme and operating sea states are crucial for feasibility of SCR application. Recent full field measurement results of a deep draft semisubmersible in Hurricane Gustav displayed the considerable discrepancies in heave responses characteristics between the measured and the simulated results. The adequacy and accuracy of the simulated results from recognized commercial software should be examined. This finding raised the awareness of shortcomings of current commercial software and potential risk in mega investment loss and environmental pollutions due to SCR failures. One main objective of this paper is to attempt to assess the importance and necessity of accounting for viscous effects during design and analysis by employing indicator of viscous parameter. Since viscous effects increase with nearly third power of significant wave height, thus newly increased metocean criteria per API in central Gulf of Mexico (GoM) and even more severe environmental conditions in Western Australia (WA) call for fundamental enhancements of the existing analysis tools to ensure reliable and robust design. Furthermore, another aim of this paper is to address the impacts of metocean criteria and design philosophy on semisubmersible hull sizing in WA and GoM.

Cs ₃ VO(O ₂ ) ₂ CO ₃ : an exceptionally thermostable carbonatoperoxovanadate with an extremely large second-harmonic generation response

Zou, Guohong,Lin, Zhien,Zeng, Hongmei,Jo, Hongil,Lim, Seong-Ji,You, Tae-Soo,Ok, Kang Min Royal Society of Chemistry 2018 Chemical Science Vol.9 No.48

<▼1><P>A highly thermostable carbonatoperoxovanadate, Cs<SUB>3</SUB>VO(O<SUB>2</SUB>)<SUB>2</SUB>CO<SUB>3</SUB>, exhibits a remarkably strong SHG response of approximately 23.0 times that of KDP, which is the largest among those of the reported NLO carbonate materials.</P></▼1><▼2><P>A novel nonlinear optical (NLO) carbonatoperoxovanadate, Cs<SUB>3</SUB>VO(O<SUB>2</SUB>)<SUB>2</SUB>CO<SUB>3</SUB>, with an exceptionally high thermostability was successfully synthesized by introducing highly polarizable Cs<SUP>+</SUP> cations and inorganic polydentate carbonate anions into asymmetric peroxovanadates. The structure of Cs<SUB>3</SUB>VO(O<SUB>2</SUB>)<SUB>2</SUB>CO<SUB>3</SUB> is composed of distorted [VO(O<SUB>2</SUB>)<SUB>2</SUB>CO<SUB>3</SUB>]<SUP>3–</SUP> units and charge balancing Cs<SUP>+</SUP> cations. The title compound exhibits the largest NLO intensity ever found in the current carbonate NLO materials, <I>i.</I>e., 23.0 times that of KH<SUB>2</SUB>PO<SUB>4</SUB> (KDP). The remarkably strong second-harmonic generation (SHG) response originates from the synergistic effect of the exceedingly polarizable Cs<SUP>+</SUP> cations, distortive polyhedra of the V<SUP>5+</SUP> cation, delocalized π orbitals in CO<SUB>3</SUB> groups, and distorted localized π orbitals in O<SUB>2</SUB> groups. First-principles calculations indicated that introducing the polarizable cations into peroxovanadates not only induces the enhancement of the SHG response but also improves the thermal stability of the framework.</P></▼2>

Wrinkled Surface-Mediated Antibacterial Activity of Graphene Oxide Nanosheets

Zou, Fengming,Zhou, Hongjian,Jeong, Do Young,Kwon, Junyoung,Eom, Seong Un,Park, Tae Jung,Hong, Suck Won,Lee, Jaebeom American Chemical Society 2017 ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES Vol.9 No.2

<P>Surface wrinkles are commonly observed in large-scale of graphene films. As a new feature, the wrinkled surface of graphene films may directly affect bacterial viability by means Of various interactions of bacterial cells with graphene sheets. In the present study, we introduce a wrinkled surface geometry of graphene oxide (GO) thin films for antibacterial application. Highly wrinkled GO films were formed by vacuum filtration of a GO suspension through a prestrained filter. Several types of wrinkled GO surfaces were obtained with different roughness grades determined by root-mean-square values. Antibacterial activity of the fabricated GO films toward three different bacterial species, Escherichia coli, Mycobacterium smegmatis, and Staphylococcus aureus, was evaluated in relation to surface roughness. Because of their nanosoopically corrugated nature, the wrinkled GO films exhibited excellent antibacterial properties. On the basis of our detailed observations; we propose a novel concept of the surrounded contact-based mechanism for antimicrobial activity of wrinkled GO films. It postulates formation of a mechanically robust GO surface 'trap' that prompts interaction of bacteria with the diameter-matched GO sink, which results in substantial damages to the bacterial cell membrane. We believe that our approach uncovered a novel use of a promising two-dimensional material for highly effective antibacterial treatment.</P>

Expression profiles of glutathione S-transferase genes in larval midgut of Bombyx mori exposed to insect hormones

Zou, Feng-Ming,Lou, De-Shuai,Zhu, Ya-Hong,Wang, Sheng-Peng,Jin, Byung-Rae,Gui, Zhong-Zheng Springer-Verlag 2011 Molecular biology reports Vol.38 No.1

Expression of TS, RRM1, ERCC1, TUBB3 and STMN1 Genes in Tissues of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer and its Significance in Guiding Postoperative Adjuvant Chemotherapy

Zou, Zhi-Qiang,Du, Yi-Ying,Sui, Gang,Xu, Shi-Ning Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2015 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.16 No.8

Background: To explore the expression of TS, RRM, ERCC1, TUBB3 and STMN1 genes in the tissues of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and its significance in guiding the postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy. Materials and Methods: Real time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was applied to detect the expression of TS, RRM, ERCC1, TUBB3 and STMN1 genes in the tissues of NSCLC patients so as to analyze the relationship between the expression of each gene and the clinical characteristics and to guide the postoperative individualized chemotherapy according to the detection results of NSCLC patients. Results: Expression of TS gene was evidently higher in patients with adenocarcinoma than those with non-adenocarcinoma (P=0.013) and so was the expression of ERCC1 (P=0.003). The expression of TUBB3 gene was obviously higher in NSCLC patients in phases I/II and IV than those in phase III ($P_1=0.021$; $P_2=0.004$), and it was also markedly higher in patients without lymph node metastasis than those with (P=0.008). The expression of STMN1 gene was apparently higher in patients in phase I/II than those in phase IV (P=0.002). There was no significant difference between the rest gene expression and the clinical characteristics of NSCLC patients (P>0.05). Additionally, the diseasefree survival (DFS) was significantly longer in patients receiving gene detections than those without (P=0.021). Conclusions: The selection of chemotherapeutic protocols based singly on patients' clinical characteristics has certain blindness. However, the detection of tumor-susceptible genes can guide the postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy and prolong the DFS of NSCLC patients.