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The measures to reduce sewer odor in South Korea through sewer odor reduction system in Los Angeles and San Francisco (Los Angeles와 San Francisco의 악취 저감 시스템을 통해 본 우리나라 하수도의 악취 저감 방안)

  • Ji, Hyonwook;Yoo, Sungsoo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.445-451
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    • 2018
  • Urban sanitary sewer systems can aid in preventing inundation, and can improve civil health by effectively disposing stormwater and wastewater. However, since sewage odor can cause adverse effects, numerous technical and administrative studies have been conducted for reducing such odor. European countries and the United States of America (USA) built modern sewer systems in the late 19th century, and have since been endeavoring to eliminate sewage odors. Several cities of the USA, such as Los Angeles (LA) that has a separate sewer system and San Francisco (SF) that has a combined sewer system, have produced and distributed odor control master plan manuals. Features common in the odor reduction plans of both these cities are that the odor reduction programs are operated in all the respective local regions and are supported by administrative systems. The primary aspectual difference between the two said programs is that the city of LA employs a sewage air purification system, whereas the city of SF controls the emission of major odor causing compounds. Compared to the existing sewer odor reduction systems of these two cities, South Korea is still in the initial phase of development. Through technical studies and policy implementations for sewer odor reduction, a foundation can be laid for improving the civil health quality.

The Urban Spaces and Politics of Hybridity: Repoliticizing the Depoliticized Ethnicity in Los Angeles Koreatown (혼성성의 도시 공간과 정치 : 로스앤젤레스 한인타운에서의 탈정치화된 민족성의 재정치화)

  • Park, Kyong-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.40 no.5 s.110
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    • pp.473-490
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    • 2005
  • The term hybridity has recently emerged as one of the most popularized leitmotivs in contemporary diasporic and transnational problematics on migrants' nomadic experiences. Especially, in postcolonial politics, hybridity is argued to provide a critical 'third space' on which to challenge discursive boundaries and redescribe power-embedded history However, this paper suggests that the hybrid subject position can be easily articulated in producing new cultural discourse and empowering hegemonic subjects in certain spates. Based on distinguishing the intentional, conscious hybridity from the organic, lived hybridity, this research Intends to investigate the Janus-faced, double-edged nature of the postcolonial politics of hybridity in the case of Los Angeles Koreatown. First, I discuss how a place of organic hybridity in Koreatown can lead to challenging invented and depoliticized ethnicity. At the second half of this paper, 1 focus on understanding the ways in which new Korean American professionals and elites employ the discourse of '1.5 generation' as an intentional hybridity for empowering their own political position at a local scale. I conclusively suggest that hybridity should be a deconstructive strategy to unlearn dominant socio-spatial boundaries rather than bring about the third space as a reterritorialized political position.

How to extract value from poverty? : an institutional ethnographic critique on the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles (빈곤으로부터 가치 짜내는 방법 -로스앤젤레스 도시재개발국에 대한 제도민족지적 비판-)

  • Park, Kyong-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.305-322
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    • 2006
  • An increasing number of cities employ rescaling strategies that not only construct metropolitan production network scaled down from national context, but also tune up new governance to effectively control local geographies of the city. In this context, urban redevelopment has emerged a key 'global' strategy to empower governmental institutions of the city, which not only eliminate such threatening spatial variables as deteriorated housing, working-class ghettos, and crime areas, but also increase and extract exchange value of those spaces. I view such practices a process of 'glurbanization'. This paper investigates how state/city government employs the discourse of urban re/development for 'inventing' poverty at an urban scale: how it institutionalizes the discourse for implementing concrete projects: and how urban institutional apparatus appropriate their discursive practices of redevelopment for their own ends in the city. By particularly focusing on the California Redevelopment Law and the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles, this paper analyzes the ways in which the law and the agency extract value from what they define 'blight areas' by means of eminent domain and tax increment revenues. For empirical analysis I employ discourse analysis and institutional ethnography. I conclusively argue that the urban spaces stigmatized as 'blight areas' are increasingly entrapped by the urban redevelopment agency, which extracts increased exchange value from the areas and redirects it for supporting external investors, private developers, and the body of the agency itself.

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Estimation of water content and strong acideity of ambient particles in Seoul (서울지역 입자의 수분함량 및 강산성도 예측)

  • 김진영;김용표;심상규;문길주;천만영;김희강
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.69-76
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    • 1995
  • Water content and strong acidity are estimated for ambient particles measured between Fall, 1991 and Summer, 1992 in Seoul using a gas/aerosol equilibrium model, called SCAPE. Particle water content and formation of solid species are closely related to ambient relative humidity and ionic concentrations. Generally, water content of particles is high during the night and summer. Estimated particle strong acidity level of Seoul is similar to that of Los Angeles, U.S.A. Acidity of wet and dry depositions in Seoul is discussed.

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APPLICATIONS OF HILBERT SPACE DISSIPATIVE NORM

  • Kubrusly, Carlos S.;Levan, Nhan
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.49 no.1
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    • pp.99-107
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    • 2012
  • The concept of Hilbert space dissipative norm was introduced in [8] to obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for exponential stability of contraction semigroups. In the present paper we show that the same concept can also be used to derive further properties of contraction semigroups, as well as to characterize strongly stable semigroups that are not exponentially stable.

Tobacco-Related Education in Graduate, Baccalaureate and Associate Degree Programs in Korea (전국 간호교육기관의 금연관련 교육내용 분석)

  • ;Sarna, Linda;Danao, Leda
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.256-264
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    • 2003
  • Purpose: The purpose of this research was to find out tobacco control education taught graduate, baccalaureate and associate degree-nursing programs in Korea. Method: A valid and reliable questionnaire previously used to assess tobacco use in medical and nursing schools in the United States was translated and revalidated. Surveys were sent out to all the graduate, baccalaureate and associate nursing programs in Korea. All 6-tobacco curricula content areas recommended by the United States National Cancer Institute and the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research was included. Result: Majority of BSN (93.2%-75%) and AD (92.3%-64.1%) programs were teaching health hazards, cancer risk, health effects of tobacco, effects of ETS, contents of cigarette, withdrawal symptoms and high risk groups of smoking as a part of required courses. However, 87.5% (14/16) of graduate, 50.0% (22/44) in baccalaureate, 53.8% (21/39) in associate degree programs were not teaching about the 5 A's. Of those who reported teaching smoking cessation strategies, they were covered most frequently in Community Nursing (50%), Adult Health Nursing (43.8%) on the graduate level, and in Community Nursing (65.9%-BSN, 76.9%-AD) and Adult Health (54.5%-BSN, 74.4%-AD) on the undergraduate level. 31.1% (5/16) in Graduate, 18.2%(8/44) in BSN, 10.3% (4/39) in Associate Degree programs reported that there are no smoking students in their schools and rest of the schools reported either do not know or they have 1 to more than 21% of students smoking. Conclusion: The study results identifies the quantity and level of tobacco control content in three different nursing programs and will help in developing curricular guidelines in the future. Further survey needs to be done on nursing students' knowledge, attitude and belief on smoking and smoking cessation.

Electrodeposition Characteristics and Magnetic Properties of CoFeNi Thin Film Alloys

  • Song, Jae-Song;Yoon, Do-Young;Han, Choon;Kim, Dae-Heum;Park, Dyuk-Young;Myung, No-Sang
    • Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.17-20
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    • 2002
  • Various compositions of CoFeNi alloys have been electrodeposited in chloride bath and in sulfate bath, and evaluated for electrodeposition characteristics and magnetic properties. For electrodeposited CoFeNi thin film alloys, the increase of Fe content in the deposits from sulfate bath was considerably faster than those from chloride bath. The current efficiencies in sulfate bath showed observable decrease from $75\%\;to\;50\%$ while those in chloride bath showed no significant decrease. From the low coercivity of 3 Oe in the minimum and the higher squarenesses of the alloys from sulfate bath than those from chloride bath, the alloy at Co, Fe, and Ni contents of $80wt.\%,\;10wt.\%,\;and\;10wt.\%$ can be considered to be the best CoFeNi alloy in this research for the soft magnetic material.

Research about Image Evaluations from Jeans' Finishing -Focus on Undergraduate Students in Los Angeles of the USA- (진즈[Jeans]의 가공[Finishing]에 따른 이미지 평가 연구 -미국 L. A. 거주 대학생을 중심으로-)

  • Lee, Mi-Yeon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.56 no.7 s.107
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    • pp.18-32
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    • 2006
  • The objectives of this research were to identify the differences of image evaluations by perceiver's gender, majors and jeans' finishing and to examine image characteristics that have an influence on attractiveness and preferences of jeans' finishing. The subjects are 96 undergraduate students in Los Angeles of the USA. Elegant and refined images had a significant effort on perceiver's gender, so men tended to highly evaluate jeans as elegant and refined images than did women. Soft images were recognized differently by perceiver's major, so non-specialists in design tended to highly evaluate jeans as soft images than did specialists in design. In finishing, shattered wash was evaluated as the most individual, attractive, energetic, and splendid images, and stone wash was evaluated as the most ordinary, unattractive, and plain images. Light images tended to have interaction effects by majors and finishing. Specialists in design did not perceive differences between light images from finishing well, but non-specialists in design perceived that stone wash finishing's image is lighter than indigo blue finishing's image. Sociable images had interaction effects by perceiver's gender, majors and jeans' finishing, and especially non-specialists in men estimated that shattered wash has the lowest sociable images in finishing. According to evaluations about finishing images of ladies' jeans, men tended to be attracted by splendid images, and women tended to be attracted by sexy images. In addition, both men and women were commonly attracted by feminine images, so the study found that feminine images is important image for developing jeans for ladies. According to evaluations about finishing images of ladies' jeans, men preferred sexy and natural images to comfortable and energetic images, and women preferred sexy and neat images. Female undergraduate students of the USA tended to be attracted by sexy images, and we found that actually they consider buying jeans with such images.