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Attitudes of Urban Housewives and Teachers (도시민의 의생활의식에 대한 연구 - 주부와 여교사를 중심으로 -)

  • 이춘규
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.262-275
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    • 1973
  • The aim of the present study is to explore the following two key questions on woman's attitude toward the clothing : (1) Their willingness to make their own dress at home : (2) purchasing tendencies of ready-made wear. The data were drawn through questionaires collected form 495 women in random sampling-335 housewives and 160 high school woman teachers living in Seoul. The findings are ; 1. As a whole there is no significant difference between the teachers and the housewives in their attitudes on clothing and home dressmaking. 2. Teachers and housewives alike have shown the tendency to avoid to take the trouble to make their own dresses themselves due, in large measure, to the technical difficulties of dressmarking. 3. On account of general shortcomings of ready-made clothing such as poor quality cloth, casual workmanship, inadequate assortment, unfitness of size to figure and outdated fashion, they purchase ready-made only for casual uses and really resort to tailor made for formal dresses. Since this paper is preliminary report, the accounts are to intend to be suggestive rather than conclusive, and more detailed and profound must, of course, await further empirical research.

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Relationship between Flood Characteristics and Underground Inundation (홍수특성과 지하공간침수의 관계 검토)

  • Lee, Dae-Young;Lee, Keon-Haeng;Kyoung, Min-Soo;Kim, Hung-Soo
    • 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.02a
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    • pp.367-370
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    • 2007
  • In recent, the utilization of underground in urban area is increased as subway, store, and others but we have done a few studies for the inundation of underground due to flooding. So, we investigate the examples of underground inundation and the causes of inundation for flood events. And the relationship between flood characteristics and underground inundation is analyzed through the frequency of rainfall which is made by annual multi maximum series. As a result, most of underground is inundated by high frequency of rainfall. And there are some cases that the underground is inundated by low frequency of rainfall because of poor drainage system and characteristics of location.

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Deformation Behavior and Reinforcement Design of a Tunnel Excavated in Weak Rock by the NATM (연약암반에 굴착되는 NATM 터널의 변형거동과 보강설계)

  • 서영호;이정인
    • Tunnel and Underground Space
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.132-141
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    • 1993
  • Laboratory and field tests were performed to find out the effectiveness of ground improvement by grouting for an urban subway tunnel that was excavated in weak rock by the NATM. Field measurements were carried out to monitor the behavior of rock mass around the tunnel and to ensure the validity of the current design of the distance form the measuring points to the tunnel face. The final converged displacement and the peroid were predicted using the gamma function. It was found that the ground improvement in terms of reduced permeability and increased stength in the self-supportability of the excavation face enabled the NATM applied in poor gorund. As the result of applying the gamma function to the predicting of displacement, the final displacement including the preceding one and the converged period could be approximately predicted at the early excavation stage.

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Deriving Residents' Perception on Public Facilities through the Contingent Valuation Method: focusing on Cultural Center (공공시설에 대한 주민의식과 가상평가에 관한 연구 -문화회관을 중심으로 -)

  • 김한수
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.157-164
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    • 2003
  • This study tests the effectiveness of residents' direct evaluation method about the feasibility of cost of public facilities based on their willingness to pay. The main findings are follows. First, residents do not use the public facilities(Cultural Center and Library) frequently. The main reasons are the shortage of complemental supplies, low accessibility, and poor communication to public. Second, the Contingent Valuation Method(CVM) reveals the residents' unwillingness to pay for facilities by agreeing only 46.8% on the cultural center. Third, this study concludes that the CVM is an effective method to measure willingness to pay for public facilities and also an useful tool to aid priority setting in urban planning.

A Study of the Remodeling Techniques for Old Apartment Blocks (아파트단지 내부의 리모델링 수법에 관한 연구)

  • 김한수;김재홍
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.121-131
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    • 2002
  • The rebuilding method for old apartment housing blocks has merits of providing new buildings and larger private living spaces. However, it causes many serious urban problems, such as shortage of infrastructure capacity, traffic congestion, reduction of building life, and deterioration of open space quality. Nowadays, remodeling is accepted as a way of overcoming such negative effects of the rebuilding method. This study focuses on the various techniques of remodeling. The results of this research are as follows; First, old apartment blocks provide poor level of service in general, so they have problems of bad accessibility, deterioration of facilities, and degraded landscape. In many cases, there is a hindrance from walking freely and security problem due to illegal privatization of public spaces. Second, various remodeling techniques are required to meet residents' different needs. The residents of apartment housing value private space above public space, and show low level of willingness to pay cost for remodeling. Third, based on these findings, some remodeling techniques are suggested - integration of a space to another, expansion of spaces, connection of spaces, reuses of roofs and walls, relocation and renovation of paths between buildings, and so on.

The Effects of Micro-Environmental Factors on the House Dust Mite

  • Jo, Wan-Je;Sohn, Jang Yeul
    • Architectural research
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.37-45
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    • 2007
  • The proliferation of the House Dust Mite(HDM) is affected by temperature, humidity, ventilation, etc. Measuring temperature and humidity was performed at the very location where dust samplings take place and where they live in reality together with temperature and humidity of the ambient of the room. There has been discussion over the key environment factor of HDM survival; absolute humidity or relative humidity. It seems that relative humidity is the more important determinant for the mite's survival through the analysis of previous studies. Temperature, humidity, ventilation rate and Der P1 were measured in 4 flats in London. Mite allergen was detected in every house. Levels of Der P1 varied between <100ng/g and 22,778ng/g. Flats with high relative humidity(>50%) and poor ventilation(<0.5ach) showed higher levels of mite allergen than flats with lower humidity and adequate air change rate. Questionnaire survey was conducted and the result helped to confirm the findings from monitoring of environmental factors and the dust sampling.

Access Time Distribution of Subway Users (지하철 이용자의 접근시간분포)

  • 김동녕
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.28-40
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    • 1986
  • Accurate subway demand estimation which is essential for better route selection can be achieved by the exact definition of the influence sphere of subway station. The influence was derived implicitly from the analysis of access time to the station for the cases of Seoul. Access time distribution was investigated by trip purposes, by age, by income, by sex, by travel distance, by kinds of thickets, by the location of station for the analysis of relationship between access time and socio-economic characteristics or urban structure. The difference of average access time between direct access trip and transfer trip which is found 8.6 minutes and 6.1 minutes respectively also investigated. The small difference implies poor transfer system of Seoul subway. 83.1% of subway users are coming from the distance of 10minutes' walk and average access time is 7.8minutes as a whole.

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Economics Crisis and Response: Case Study of Malaysia's Responses to Asian Financial Crisis

  • Furuoka, Fumitaka;Lim, Beatrice;Jikunan, Catherine;Lo, May Chiun
    • Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.43-56
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    • 2012
  • The paper chooses the "Asian Financial Crisis" as a case study to examine its impact on Malaysian economy and describes how Malaysian government responded to the crisis. It also focuses on the Asian financial crisis' impact on the employment of banking sector in Malaysia. In the finance, insurance, real estate and business service sector, a number of 6,596 workers were retrenched. Banks were forced into mergers and acquisition as well as downsizing, trim lean, organizational changes and introduction of new technologies. Excess workers were offered a "voluntary separation scheme." These retrenched workers became the urban poor facing high cost of living and no opportunity for jobs as there is no safety net provided.

Application for Self-Supported Retaining Wall Using Deep Cement Mixing (DCM(심층혼합처리공법)에 의한 자립식 흙막이 적용사례)

  • Jeong, Gyeong-Hwan;Kim, Yong-Wan;Shin, Min-Sik;Han, Kyoung-Tae;Kim, Tae-Hyo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2006.03a
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    • pp.257-267
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    • 2006
  • The earth retaining wall systems for excavation works in a populated urban area or a poor soil deposit can be limited due to various restriction. Thus there are various methods to be applied for them such as the soldier pile method, the diaphragm wall with counterfort and so on. In this study, the self-supported earth retaining wall using the DCM(Deep Cement Mixing) method, including its merits, demerits and some important characteristics occured in the design and the construction stage, was introduced. It might be reference for the other design and construction procedures using the DCM method.

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Opinions on 'Dagagu' Housing Purchase and Public Rental Housing Program by Public Officials and Professionals in the Area of Welfare (다가구주택 매입임대사업에 대한 공무원 및 전문가 의견 조사)

  • Kwon Oh-Jung;Kim Mi-Hee;Kim Young Joo;Park Kyung-Nam;Lee Ok Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.135-144
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study was to identify the opinions on 'Dagagu' Housing Purchase and Public Rental Program by public officials and professionals in the area of social or housing welfare to suggest ideas for improvement of this program. Data were collected from 146 public officials and 108 professionals in the area of social or housing welfare. Respondents showed that the perception on this program was not high, especially respondents working in Seoul showed lower perception than respondents in other localities in spite of experience of pilot program executed in Seoul. Respondents also thought that this program will take an realistic role to improve housing welfare for urban poor. Other opinions to practice this program were also suggested.