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  1. Article ; Online: Risk factors of internal carotid artery stenosis in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy: an analysis using optical coherence tomography and optical coherence tomography angiography.

    Lee, Chae Yoon / Park, Jung Min / Yeom, Myeong In

    BMC ophthalmology

    2024  Volume 24, Issue 1, Page(s) 156

    Abstract: Background: This research investigates the correlation between the severity of internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis and retinal parameters in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR), aiming to uncover potential risk factors.: Methods!# ...

    Abstract Background: This research investigates the correlation between the severity of internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis and retinal parameters in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR), aiming to uncover potential risk factors.
    Methods: A retrospective analysis of 68 patients (136 eyes) diagnosed with bilateral PDR from January 1, 2017, to December 31, 2021, was conducted. Carotid artery stenosis (CAS) was assessed using neck computed tomography angiography (CTA) and carotid duplex ultrasound (CDUS), with stenosis classified into two groups: normal (group 1) and mild or above (group 2), based on the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial (NASCET) criteria. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) and OCT angiography (OCTA) measured several retinal parameters, including sub foveal choroidal thickness (SFCT), retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness, ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer (GCIPL) thickness, vessel density (VD), and foveal avascular zone (FAZ) area. Statistical analyses determined correlations between ICA degrees and retinal parameters.
    Results: This study showed significant differences between groups in total VD, FAZ area, total RNFL thickness, and temporal RNFL thickness, indicating that patients with more severe ICA stenosis had noticeable retinal changes. Other parameters such as hyperlipidemia, total cholesterol levels, and intraocular pressure (IOP) also differed significantly, while no notable differences were observed in SFCT, central VD, average GCIPL, and superior, nasal, and inferior RNFL thickness.
    Conclusion: The study findings highlight retinal changes, such as an increased FAZ area, decreased total VD, and a total and thinner temporal RNFL, which suggest the need for carotid artery evaluation in patients. These findings have important clinical implications for the need for carotid work up in patients with PDR.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Diabetic Retinopathy/complications ; Diabetic Retinopathy/diagnosis ; Retrospective Studies ; Tomography, Optical Coherence/methods ; Carotid Stenosis/complications ; Carotid Stenosis/diagnostic imaging ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Angiography ; Risk Factors ; Retinal Vessels ; Fluorescein Angiography/methods ; Diabetes Mellitus
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-04-09
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2050436-6
    ISSN 1471-2415 ; 1471-2415
    ISSN (online) 1471-2415
    ISSN 1471-2415
    DOI 10.1186/s12886-024-03391-z
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  2. Article: Bactericidal Effects and Quality Impact of Peroxyacetic Acid and Sodium Hypochlorite on Chicken Carcasses.

    Zhang, Bo-Zheng / Kim, Jin-Man / Park, Jung-Min

    Foods (Basel, Switzerland)

    2024  Volume 13, Issue 8

    Abstract: There is an urgent need to develop efficient and environmentally friendly decontaminants for poultry products. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the practical application of peroxyacetic acid (PAA) as a replacement for sodium hypochlorite (SH) to ... ...

    Abstract There is an urgent need to develop efficient and environmentally friendly decontaminants for poultry products. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the practical application of peroxyacetic acid (PAA) as a replacement for sodium hypochlorite (SH) to sterilize fresh chicken carcasses, using microbial, color, and electronic-nose analyses. We evaluated the decontamination effects of different concentrations of PAA and SH on chicken carcasses. The bactericidal effects of PAA at pH 3, 7, and 9, and SH at pH 10, at concentrations ranging from 100 to 500 ppm on coliform bacteria, total bacteria, and
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-04-15
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2704223-6
    ISSN 2304-8158
    ISSN 2304-8158
    DOI 10.3390/foods13081204
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  3. Article ; Online: OPTILOD: Optimal Beacon Placement for High-Accuracy Indoor Localization of Drones.

    Famili, Alireza / Stavrou, Angelos / Wang, Haining / Park, Jung-Min Jerry

    Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)

    2024  Volume 24, Issue 6

    Abstract: For many applications, drones are required to operate entirely or partially autonomously. In order to fly completely or partially on their own, drones need to access location services for navigation commands. While using the Global Positioning System ( ... ...

    Abstract For many applications, drones are required to operate entirely or partially autonomously. In order to fly completely or partially on their own, drones need to access location services for navigation commands. While using the Global Positioning System (GPS) is an obvious choice, GPS is not always available, can be spoofed or jammed, and is highly error-prone for indoor and underground environments. The ranging method using beacons is one of the most popular methods for localization, especially for indoor environments. In general, the localization error in this class is due to two factors: the ranging error, and the error induced by the relative geometry between the beacons and the target object to be localized. This paper proposes OPTILOD (Optimal Beacon Placement for High-Accuracy Indoor Localization of Drones), an optimization algorithm for the optimal placement of beacons deployed in three-dimensional indoor environments. OPTILOD leverages advances in evolutionary algorithms to compute the minimum number of beacons and their optimal placement, thereby minimizing the localization error. These problems belong to the Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) class and are both considered NP-hard. Despite this, OPTILOD can provide multiple optimal beacon configurations that minimize the localization error and the number of deployed beacons concurrently and efficiently.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-14
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2052857-7
    ISSN 1424-8220 ; 1424-8220
    ISSN (online) 1424-8220
    ISSN 1424-8220
    DOI 10.3390/s24061865
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  4. Article: First Report of Rust Caused by

    Park, Jung Min / Heo, A Yeong / Kang, Sung-Uk / Park, Ki Hyeong

    Plant disease

    2024  

    Abstract: Korean winter hazel (Corylopsis coreana) is an endemic species of the South Korea (Seo et al. 2016; Kim et al. 2021), which is cultivated as an ornamental plant in this country, but also in China and Japan (Yoon et al. 2016). In July 2022, typical ... ...

    Abstract Korean winter hazel (Corylopsis coreana) is an endemic species of the South Korea (Seo et al. 2016; Kim et al. 2021), which is cultivated as an ornamental plant in this country, but also in China and Japan (Yoon et al. 2016). In July 2022, typical symptoms of a rust disease were observed on C. coreana at Jirisan National Park (35°22'07.7"N 127°34'57.7"E) in Namwon, South Korea. Spermogonia were epiphyllous, densely grouped, pale brown or orange-yellow, round, and 0.23 - 0.38 × 0.19 - 0.41 mm in size. Aecia were hypophyllous, mostly densely grouped, yellow or pale orange, resembling small wart-like galls, and 0.04 - 0.06 × 0.89 - 1.68 mm in size. Aeciospores were hyaline, mostly angularly globose, ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid, and 17.8 - 25.2 × 15 - 26.5 μm (average 19.2 × 19.1 μm; n=50) in size. Aeciospore walls were echinulate-verrucose, and 1.1 - 2.2 µm (average 1.7 µm; n=50) in thickness. In December 2022, dark brown telia were observed on the lower surface of Sasa borealis leaves near C. coreana. Telia were mostly scattered but often compacted, brown to dark brown, round, and 1.5 - 1.95 × 1.24 - 1.55 mm in size. Teliospores were either one- or two-celled with a long tapering apex, and light brown to brown in color. One-celled teliospores were globose, and 95.1 - 186.5 × 20.5 - 36.4 μm (average 136.4 × 27.7 μm; n=50) in size. Two-celled teliospores were ellipsoid-cylindrical, and 111.4 - 180.3 × 13.5 - 32.6 μm (average 149 × 21.1 μm; n=50) in size. Side walls of teliospores were golden and 2.2 - 5.5 µm thick (average 3.5 µm; n=50), and pedicels were hyaline, measuring 150 - 300 μm long. Uredinial stage was not observed. Disease symptomology and pathogen morphology were mostly consistent with that of Puccinia sasicola reported in Japan (Hino. 1955). For phylogenetic analysis, genomic DNA was extracted from the aeciospores collected from C. coreana and the teliospores collected from S. borealis. The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) rDNA and the large subunit (LSU) rDNA regions were amplified using ITS5u/ITS4rust (Pfunder and Schürch 2001) and LRust1R/LRust3 (Beenken et al. 2012) primers, respectively. Both sequences were identical for the spores collected from the two different hosts. The sequences were deposited in GenBank (PP171665, PP174211 [ITS], PP171709, PP174356 [LSU]). A GenBank BLAST search revealed 89.53% and 96.78% similarity with Puccinia kusanoi (KX610657) and Puccinia sp. (MT7298241) for ITS and LSU sequences, respectively. In maximum-likelihood phylogenetic analysis of ITS and LSU sequences, the isolates from C. coreana and S. borealis formed a separate clade from other Puccinia species. To test Koch's postulates, leaf disks with telia from S. borealis were directly attached to the adaxial surface of six healthy C. coreana leaves with tape. As controls, healthy S. borealis leaf disks were attached to the adaxial surface of six C. coreana leaves. After four weeks, four inoculated leaves developed small yellow wart-like galls on the abaxial surface, while the control leaves remained symptom-free. The isolates obtained from the inoculated leaves had identical sequences to the original isolate. There are no publicly available sequences for P. sasicola, nor did we find any sequences that match our Puccinia samples. Nevertheless, based on morphological characteristics and life cycle, our isolates closely matched with the previous description of P. sasicola by Hino (1955). To our knowledge, this is the first report of P. sasicola causing leaf rust in C. coreana in South Korea.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-05-02
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 754182-x
    ISSN 0191-2917
    ISSN 0191-2917
    DOI 10.1094/PDIS-02-24-0326-PDN
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  5. Article ; Online: Contrastive Learning-Based Anomaly Detection for Actual Corporate Environments.

    An, Gi-Taek / Park, Jung-Min / Lee, Kyung-Soon

    Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)

    2023  Volume 23, Issue 10

    Abstract: Information systems play an important role in business management, especially in personnel, budget, and financial management. If an anomaly ensues in an information system, all operations are paralyzed until their recovery. In this study, we propose a ... ...

    Abstract Information systems play an important role in business management, especially in personnel, budget, and financial management. If an anomaly ensues in an information system, all operations are paralyzed until their recovery. In this study, we propose a method for collecting and labeling datasets from actual operating systems in corporate environments for deep learning. The construction of a dataset from actual operating systems in a company's information system involves constraints. Collecting anomalous data from these systems is challenging because of the need to maintain system stability. Even with data collected over a long period, the training dataset may have an imbalance of normal and anomalous data. We propose a method that utilizes contrastive learning with data augmentation through negative sampling for anomaly detection, which is particularly suitable for small datasets. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method, we compared it with traditional deep learning models, such as the convolutional neural network (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM). The proposed method achieved a true positive rate (TPR) of 99.47%, whereas CNN and LSTM achieved TPRs of 98.8% and 98.67%, respectively. The experimental results demonstrate the method's effectiveness in utilizing contrastive learning and detecting anomalies in small datasets from a company's information system.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-05-15
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2052857-7
    ISSN 1424-8220 ; 1424-8220
    ISSN (online) 1424-8220
    ISSN 1424-8220
    DOI 10.3390/s23104764
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  6. Article ; Online: Securing Your Airspace: Detection of Drones Trespassing Protected Areas.

    Famili, Alireza / Stavrou, Angelos / Wang, Haining / Park, Jung-Min Jerry / Gerdes, Ryan

    Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)

    2024  Volume 24, Issue 7

    Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) deployment has risen rapidly in recent years. They are now used in a wide range of applications, from critical safety-of-life scenarios like nuclear power plant surveillance to entertainment and hobby applications. While the ...

    Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) deployment has risen rapidly in recent years. They are now used in a wide range of applications, from critical safety-of-life scenarios like nuclear power plant surveillance to entertainment and hobby applications. While the popularity of drones has grown lately, the associated intentional and unintentional security threats require adequate consideration. Thus, there is an urgent need for real-time accurate detection and classification of drones. This article provides an overview of drone detection approaches, highlighting their benefits and limitations. We analyze detection techniques that employ radars, acoustic and optical sensors, and emitted radio frequency (RF) signals. We compare their performance, accuracy, and cost under different operating conditions. We conclude that multi-sensor detection systems offer more compelling results, but further research is required.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-22
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2052857-7
    ISSN 1424-8220 ; 1424-8220
    ISSN (online) 1424-8220
    ISSN 1424-8220
    DOI 10.3390/s24072028
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  7. Article ; Online: Cytosolic zinc mediates the cytotoxicity of thiol-reactive electrophiles in rat vascular smooth muscle cells.

    Park, Jung-Min / Park, Suin / Seo, Yoon-Seok / Kim, Jae-Hyeong / Lee, Moo-Yeol

    Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association

    2024  Volume 185, Page(s) 114446

    Abstract: The aberrant increase or dysregulation of cytosolic ... ...

    Abstract The aberrant increase or dysregulation of cytosolic Zn
    MeSH term(s) Rats ; Animals ; Sulfhydryl Compounds/metabolism ; Zinc/metabolism ; Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/metabolism ; Cytosol ; Acids/metabolism ; Ethylenediamines
    Chemical Substances N,N,N',N'-tetrakis(2-pyridylmethyl)ethylenediamine (R9PTU1U29I) ; Sulfhydryl Compounds ; Zinc (J41CSQ7QDS) ; Acids ; Ethylenediamines
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-18
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 782617-5
    ISSN 1873-6351 ; 0278-6915
    ISSN (online) 1873-6351
    ISSN 0278-6915
    DOI 10.1016/j.fct.2024.114446
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  8. Article: Cigarette Smoke-Induced Reactive Oxygen Species Formation: A Concise Review.

    Seo, Yoon-Seok / Park, Jung-Min / Kim, Jae-Hyeong / Lee, Moo-Yeol

    Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)

    2023  Volume 12, Issue 9

    Abstract: Smoking is recognized as a significant risk factor for numerous disorders, including cardiovascular diseases, respiratory conditions, and various forms of cancer. While the exact pathogenic mechanisms continue to be explored, the induction of oxidative ... ...

    Abstract Smoking is recognized as a significant risk factor for numerous disorders, including cardiovascular diseases, respiratory conditions, and various forms of cancer. While the exact pathogenic mechanisms continue to be explored, the induction of oxidative stress via the production of excess reactive oxygen species (ROS) is widely accepted as a primary molecular event that predisposes individuals to these smoking-related ailments. This review focused on how cigarette smoke (CS) promotes ROS formation rather than the pathophysiological repercussions of ROS and oxidative stress. A comprehensive analysis of existing studies revealed the following key ways through which CS imposes ROS burden on biological systems: (1) ROS, as well as radicals, are intrinsically present in CS, (2) CS constituents generate ROS through chemical reactions with biomolecules, (3) CS stimulates cellular ROS sources to enhance production, and (4) CS disrupts the antioxidant system, aggravating the ROS generation and its functions. While the evidence supporting these mechanisms is chiefly based on in vitro and animal studies, the direct clinical relevance remains to be fully elucidated. Nevertheless, this understanding is fundamental for deciphering molecular events leading to oxidative stress and for developing intervention strategies to counter CS-induced oxidative stress.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-09-07
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2704216-9
    ISSN 2076-3921
    ISSN 2076-3921
    DOI 10.3390/antiox12091732
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  9. Article: Effect of Fermentation Duration on the Quality Changes of Godulbaegi Kimchi.

    Park, Jung-Min / Zhang, Bo-Zheng / Kim, Jin-Man

    Foods (Basel, Switzerland)

    2022  Volume 11, Issue 7

    Abstract: Fermentative and antioxidative characteristics of Godulbaegi kimchi (LGK), a traditional, fermented Korean food, were conducted. For the study, LGK kimchi was made of Godulbaegi kimchi with pepper powder, salted shrimp, refined salt, green onions, and so ...

    Abstract Fermentative and antioxidative characteristics of Godulbaegi kimchi (LGK), a traditional, fermented Korean food, were conducted. For the study, LGK kimchi was made of Godulbaegi kimchi with pepper powder, salted shrimp, refined salt, green onions, and so on, and fermented at 5C for 6 months. The pH was decreased, and total acidity was increased during fermentation. Furthermore, lactic acid bacteria and yeast were increased, while the total viable count was decreased. The LGK showed the highest DPPH-scavenging activity, phenol content, and nitrite-scavenging activity with methanol extract among methanol, ethanol, and water. In addition, we screened strains among LGK kimchi with high antimicrobial activity and isolated them. We tested antimicrobial activity for 20 lactic acid bacteria, and we separated and identified nine strains of lactic acid bacteria with high antimicrobial activity. Given these results, LGK is expected to be an effective food in considerable antioxidative activity with an antimicrobial effect. These results are expected to serve as basic data for the study of Godulbaegi kimchi.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-03-31
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2704223-6
    ISSN 2304-8158
    ISSN 2304-8158
    DOI 10.3390/foods11071020
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  10. Article ; Online: Reply to: letter to the editor regarding "The association between laryngopharyngeal reflux and insomnia".

    Kang, Jeong Wook / Park, Jung Min / Lee, Young Chan / Eun, Young-Gyu

    European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

    2022  Volume 279, Issue 7, Page(s) 3751–3752

    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Laryngopharyngeal Reflux/complications ; Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-05-03
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Letter ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 1017359-6
    ISSN 1434-4726 ; 0937-4477
    ISSN (online) 1434-4726
    ISSN 0937-4477
    DOI 10.1007/s00405-022-07405-8
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