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Interior Designs of Rural American Housing and the Satisfaction Rates of Koreans Living in the Housing Units - A Case Study of Koreans Residing in Columbia, Missouri - (미국 지방 주택의 실내 인테리어와 거주 한국인의 만족도 - 미주리주 컬럼비아시에 거주하는 한국인을 중심으로 -)

  • Shin, Kyung-Joo;Jang, Sang-Ock;Rhee, Jee-Heon
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.41-51
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this article is to offer a guideline for residence planning for Koreans living in the United States. To achieve the goal, this article examines the Korean family's satisfaction rates of interior design and living conditions of houses in American cities, with a case study of families in Columbia, MO. A total of 105 valid samples(126 collected) out of 200 survey questionnaires distributed was acquired and processed with the statistical-aid software SPSS PC+ window version 14.0. The survey was analyzed using frequency, percentages, means, standard deviations, and multiple response analysis. The results are as follow: 1) Most of the Koreans preferred interior design and environment similar to their previous Korean residences. 2) Participants were not satisfied with partial/indirect lightings typical in the United States and desired more bright illuminating lights. 3) Participants kept their habit of taking off shoes indoors while living in the United States, therefore when designing a house for Koreans living in the U.S., designers should take this into account when designing for Korean residents. 4) Among the American interior elements, storage such as walk-in closets and bathroom cabinets were highly demanded by Koreans, thus possibly to be adopted to Korean houses. Researchers expect the results of this study would contribute to supplying comfortable and convenient living environments to those Koreans living in the United States.

Curriculums in the Nonprofit Sector of the School of Business Administration: Focused on South Korea and United States (경영학과 비영리부문의 교과과정 분석: 한국과 미국을 중심으로)

  • Noh, Mi-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.10 no.10
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    • pp.2846-2856
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    • 2009
  • There has been minimal research regarding nonprofit sectors in the school of business administration, and many research have processed a structure aspect. And there is no studies of curriculums in nonprofit sectors. Therefore, this study is to analyze and examine the degree of opening about nonprofit subjects in the school of business administration and MBA which are established in the main universities of South Korea and United States. And it is to find the activation plans about subjects relevance to nonprofit in domestic universities. We classified the systematization level, educational level, and curriculum level based on the Wish & Mirabella(1998), and analyzed nonprofit curriculums opened in the school of business administration and MBA of South korea and United States. The results shows that the systematization level, educational level, and curriculum level in domestic universities are lower than universities of United States. This results of this study show the needs for the research institutes of the nonprofit sector, establishment of degree courses, education of expert, curriculum opening and others to activate the nonprofit field in domestics universities.

A Study of the Vacating of Arbitral Awards by Finding Harmony of Case Law with Statutory Law of the United States (미국의 중재판정 취소에 관한 연구: 판례법과 제정법의 조화를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Chin-Hyon;Chung, Yong-Kyun
    • Journal of Arbitration Studies
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.125-157
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    • 2012
  • This study is to vindicate the vacation of arbitral awards in the United States. It focuses on the harmony of case law with statutory law of the United States. Until the early twentieth century, the American legal system, having adopted the English common law view, harbored a hostile attitude toward arbitration. The purpose of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) of the United States, enacted in 1925, was to eliminate the hostile attitude of courts toward arbitration. Congress is to enforce arbitration agreements into which parties have entered and to place arbitration agreements upon the same footing as other contracts. The structure of grounds for vacating arbitration awards has two layers. One is of vacating grounds with statutory origins, such as the FAA and the Uniform Arbitration Act, and the other, of vacating grounds originating from a nonstatutory, case law background. For a while, vacatur based on case law has coexisted with vacatur on statutory grounds for arbitration awards. After the Supreme Court decision in Hall Street Associates, L.L.C. v. Mattel, Inc., however, the justification of vacating based on case law has weakened. Post-Hall Street decisions of circuit courts show ways to deal with manifest disregard of the law. One of them is the harmonization of the case law grounds for vacating with the statutory grounds. It seems that the manifest-disregard-of-law and public-policy exceptions show a possibility of survival after Hall Street. However, other nonstatutory grounds for vacation of arbitration awards have no firm basis after Hall Street.

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Developing Woody Crops for the Enhancement of Ecosystem Services under Changing Climates in the North Central United States

  • Zalesny, Ronald S. Jr.;Headlee, William L.
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.78-90
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    • 2015
  • Short rotation woody crops belonging to the genera Populus L., Salix L., Pinus L., and Eucalyptus L'Her. have provided broad economic and ecological benefits throughout the world, including afforestation and reforestation along urban to rural gradients. Within the genus Populus, cottonwoods, poplars, aspens, and their hybrids (hereafter referred to as poplars) have been shown to exhibit favorable genotype ${\times}$ environment interactions, especially in the face of changing climates. Similar growth responses have been reported for Pinus, especially with white pine (Pinus strobus L.) in the North Central United States. This has led to current research priorities focused on ecosystem services for both genera. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) defines cultural, supporting, provisioning, and regulating ecosystem services. The overarching objective of this paper was to synthesize information about the potential of poplars to provide multiple ecosystem services when grown at sites with varying soil and climate conditions across landscape gradients from urban to rural areas. Specific objectives included: 1) providing background of the United States Forest Service and its Research and Development branch, 2) integrating knowledge of current poplar breeding and development with biomass provisioning and carbon regulating ecosystem services as they relate to changing climates in the North Central United States, and 3) providing a case study illustrating this integration through comparisons of poplar with white pine. Our results were evaluated in the context of climate change mitigation, with specific focus on selection of favorable genotypes for sequestering atmospheric carbon and reducing fossil fuel carbon emissions.

Review of Contamination and Monitoring of On-site Groundwater at Foreign Nuclear Power Plants due to Unplanned Release (비계획적 방출에 의한 해외 원전 부지 지하수 오염 및 감시 기술현황 분석)

  • Sohn, Wook;Lee, Gab-Bok;Yang, Yang-Hee
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.124-131
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    • 2013
  • Utilities have tried to ensure that radiological hazards to the environment and residents are kept as low as reasonably achievable by monitoring and controlling planned releases. However, since groundwater contamination was reported to occur due to unplanned releases mostly in the United States nuclear power plants, the interest of the stakeholders has increased to a point where it is now one of the most important issues in the United States nuclear power industry. This paper aims to help to implement an effective on-site groundwater monitoring program at domestic nuclear power plants by briefing the experiences of the United States nuclear power plants on groundwater contaminations and groundwater monitoring, and responses of the United States nuclear industry and regulator body for them.

Comparative Analysis on Current Status of Research University Libraries between Korea and the United States (연구중심대학의 도서관 지원과 연구경쟁력에 관한 연구)

  • Han Hye-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.39 no.4
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    • pp.25-44
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    • 2005
  • Research is one of main roles of university and its importance has been emphasized gradually since a few decades ago. Yet, the objective and concrete criterion lot the definition of the research university is not available in Korea, Accordingly, the role of the research university library is not established as a key system for research university. In this study the criterion for the United States research university is applied to domestic universities, thereby current status of research universities and their libraries between the United States and Korea is analyzed comparatively. Fundamental data including budget, employees and information resources for pursuing high research competitiveness necessary for the research university library are provided based on comparative analysis of 98 research university libraries in the United States and 38 domestic research university libraries. Correlation analysis data between library investment and research Publication are also provided. Finally this study can be used, hopefully, as a milestone for the establishing strategy of domestic research university libraries.

Synchronization Phenomenon and Correlation Analysis of Global Stock Market (글로벌 주식시장의 동조화 현상과 상관관계 분석)

  • Choi, Jeong-Il
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.699-707
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study, including the Korea stock market and neighboring countries markets is seeing a look at the correlation and synchronization phenomenon. For this purpose, which is expected to have an impact on Korea's stock market, selection the United States and China, Japan, Germany on behalf of the European analyzed the data of the last 151 months. Any analysis, Korea market appeared to show a high correlation with the synchronization phenomenon in Germany and the United States. However Korea and Japan exhibited a low correlation. While the US market showed a very high correlation with Germany but showed a low correlation with China. China has been judged by the proprietary market due to a low correlation with the United States and Japan. The Japanese market has been more affected in Germany and the United States than Asian markets. German market is analyzed to influence the US market under the influence of the Asian market.

A Chronological Study on the Transformation and the Spatial Characteristics of Inpatient Care Facilities in the United States (미국의료시설 병동부의 시대적 변천과 공간적 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sukyung;Choi, Yoonkyung
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.57-69
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    • 2017
  • Purpose: This study aims to emphasize interrelation between healthcare policies, design standards and hospital architecture of the United States since 1950s; to examine spatial characteristics of inpatient care facilities through case studies; and to consider the social implication of these spatial changes. Methods: In this study, reviewing the overall healthcare system, design standards and inpatient care facilities of the United States since 1950s, a total of five inpatient care facilities, one for each period, were selected in order to analyze the spatial characteristics. The spatial maps of Space Syntax were employed for analyzing five case studies. Results: The distance between the nursing station, the support service, and inpatient room were getting closer. The spatial structure of inpatient care facilities is transformed from tree structures to annular tree structures. This result shows that the efficiency between patient, staff and support service is higher and the depth of the spaces is getting deeper, which indicates that efficiency for improving healthcare quality affect the spatial structure of inpatient care facilities. Implications: In the future, if Korea's health policy is changed to a demand-oriented health care policy, this conclusion predicts medical planning of hospital will be focused on the efficiency.

Analysis of the Quantity and Quality of the Contents of Junior High School Mathematics Curriculum and Textbooks (중학교 수학 교육과정 및 교과서 내용의 양과 난이도 수준 분석)

  • 박경미
    • Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.35-55
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    • 2000
  • There seems to be a public consensus that the content of Korean mathematics textbooks is extensive and of a high level of difficulty. However, such judgment is the result of a generalization based on individual experience or on the results from comparisons of the international levels of achievement. Therefore, a more objective and stricter approach to the determination of the quantity and level of difficulty of mathematics content is necessary. For this purpose, this study has compared the content of Koreas 6th and 7th junior high school curriculums, and the Korean mathematics curriculum to textbooks of the United States, which has a considerable influence on the making of Korean mathematics textbooks. First of all, a comparison of Koreas 6th and 7th junior high school mathematics curriculums showed a slight reduction in the total quantity of content, as more content was deleted than was added in the 7th curriculum. However, given the fact that the number of hours of mathematics classes has been reduced, the reduction in content cannot be regarded as anything more than a simple reflection of the reduction in hours, proving that the 7th curriculum has not met its revision objective of reducing the content by 30%. Meanwhile, the comparison of the United States junior high school mathematics textbooks to Korea's 7th curriculum showed that the 7th grade content in the United States was much broader, encompassing content which in Korea ranged from the 2nd grade of elementary school to the 2nd year of junior high school. Therefore, on the surface, it may appear that the overall level of content in the American mathematics textbook is lower than that of the Korean. However, there are several cafes, such as statistics and probability, where certain content was more difficult and introduced at an earlier grade in the United States than in Korea. In fact, it can be said that Korea students tend to find content of the mathematics textbooks to be harder than they actually are because they are delivered as a mere aggregate of algorithms, with little consideration to its application in their everyday lives. In this respect, there is much room for improvement on the mathematics textbooks of Korea.

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The Origin of the Southeastern United States Continental Margin: Is it Volcanic or Non-Volcanic? (미국남동부 대륙주변부의 기원 : 화산성 혹은 비화산성?)

  • Oh, Jinyong
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.571-577
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    • 1994
  • It has been controversial whether the United States Atlantic margin, which developed during Mesozoic separation of Africa and North America, is a volcanic or non-volcanic rifted margin. To understand its nature, the basement images of multi-channel seismic profiles off the southeastern United States continental margin have been examined. One of prominent results is the presence of seaward-dipping reflector (SDR) wedges, the most diagnostic feature of volcanic rifted margins. Two sets of SDR wedges appear to exist here; one along the basement hinge zone ('the hinge SDR wedge') and another seaward of the East Coast magnetic anomaly ('the outer SDR wedge'). Seaward of the basement hinge zone, the lower crustal high-velocity body previously known as the 7.2 km/s layer and the underlying smooth Moho configuration are also observed. Based on the comparison of these basement images with the crustal structures of the well-known volcanic rifted margin, the southeastern United States Atlantic margin can now be characterized as a typical volcanic rifted margin.

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