For the absent

When faced with trauma we often do not recognize the importance of taking time to heal. The purpose of my work is to heal myself from my past. The process of making pieces can ease agony and create hope in my mind. My design concept will be developed through the creation of my work, and I hope to begin healing from the trauma of my father\u27s death. I have reflected on the post-traumatic feelings that are associated with my father\u27s death eight years ago. I realize that I still feel anger, sadness and grief. To confront this reality and work to begin healing myself. I thought about how I could overcome the trauma positively. I decided to do so through the creation of this body of work. The beginning of this process of healing takes form with the making of four distinct pieces: a stool, a bench, a coat rack and sculptures specifically for him. Before my father\u27s death, I had promised I would create furniture for him. Unfortunately I was never able to fulfill this promise, and the guilt has remained with me to this day. Although it is too late to fulfill my promise, I realized that this body of work is the best way for me to honor my father for his dedication, and will in turn help me overcome the unresolved feelings that I still have surrounding his death. Each of the four pieces relates to the memory of my father, and has a specific connotation, implying self- reflection, self- complacency and/or recollection. It is important to maintain a balance between utilitarian concerns and sculptural form to communicate with him. The utility is a way to keep the promise with my father. Adopting sculptural forms allows me to explore and create a strong metaphor, which exposes the hidden meaning of my relationship with my father. This interaction of utility and sculptural metaphor makes the work more powerful through the balance of these two contributions. 1 The objects I create act as a medium to connect with my father. They may also possess another meaning beyond function. In my case, the role of symbolic function is very important, and determines how I see the form. As a result, this perspective continues to inform and develop my design sensibility for objects. I am convinced that everyone has the ability to overcome trauma, and must be guided by his or her own unique way. I intend to apply this process in an effort to heal myself. I want to use my design approach (for the absent person) to better understand my relationship with my father. The ambiguity in my work represents the irony of making a functional object for the absent. My process is to find the intersection between the two elements: my absent father, and the functionality of furniture. The goals for my design process goes beyond physical/functional concerns and seek to open furniture to more than a utilitarian experience. I hope to reconcile this unconscious relationship through the metaphorical function of furniture

COMPETITION AND GROWTH: A TIME SERIES ANALYSIS FOR SOUTH KOREA

By utilising South Korea’s annual data from 1986 to 2004, the regression results are found to be consistent with the hypothesis that more intense competition makes a substantial contribution to real per capita income growth rate. It is also evident in the structural change analysis that competition has intensified due to the regulatory reform over the period 1999 to 2004, which in turn enhanced the real per capita income growth rate. It has been observed that competition is highly sensitive to real per capita income growth rate. Therefore, the choice of South Korea’s policy instruments should be based upon the intensity of competition through the market monitoring mechanism of large companies (e.g., private lawsuits for damage compensation in antitrust cases) as well as regulatory reform.Competition, Real Per Capita Income Growth Rate, Structural Break Analysis, Market Monitoring Mechanism

The electron temperature of the inner halo of the Planetary Nebula NGC 6543

We investigate the electron temperature of the inner halo and nebular core regions of NGC 6543, using archival Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) images taken through narrow band [O III] filters. Balick et al. (2001) showed that the inner halo consists of a number of spherical shells. We find the temperature of this inner halo to be much higher (~15000 K) than that of the bright core nebula (~8500 K). Photo-ionization models indicate that hardening of the UV radiation from the central star cannot be the main source of the higher temperature in the halo region. Using a radiation hydrodynamic simulation, we show that mass loss and velocity variations in the AGB wind can explain the observed shells, as well as the higher electron temperature.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures, to be published in A&

Trajectory of test particle around a slowly rotating relativistic star emitting isotropic radiation

We explored the motion of test particles near slowly rotating relativistic star having a uniform luminosity. In order to derive the test particle's equations of motion, we made use of the radiation stress-energy tensor first constructed by Miller and Lamb \cite{ML96}. From the particle's trajectory obtained through the numerical integration of the equations of motion, it is found that for sufficiently high luminosity, "suspension orbit" exists, where the test particle hovers around at uniform angular velocity in the same direction as the star's spin. Interestingly, it turned out that the radial position of the "suspension orbit" was determined by the luminosity and the angular momentum of the star alone and was independent of the initial positions and the specific angular momentum of the particle. Also found is that there exist not only the radiation drag but also "radiation counter-drag" which depends on the stellar radius and the angular momentum and it is this radiation counter-drag that makes the test particle in the "suspension orbit" to hover around at uniform angular velocity which is greater than that induced by the Lense-Thirring effect (i.e., general relativistic dragging of inertial frame).Comment: 23 pages, 7 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D

The Influence of Alcohol Consumption on Income and Health: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries

Employing the panel data from 2001, 2003, and 2005 from 27 OECD countries, regression results suggest that income and a set of three indicators of health (that is, lung cancer mortality, mortality due to 14 kinds of cancers, and healthy life expectancy) are found to be related, thus implying that income and health may be one package in policy formulation. In this sense, expenditure on health care can be self-financing, at least partially. Increased government spending on health care results in improved health, which subsequently results in higher income and more government revenue. Evidently, the differences in alcohol consumption are causal to both income and health differentials. Given that the total income elasticity of moderate alcohol consumption is low, any alcohol taxes designed to dis- courage excessive drinking will result to welfare losses on drinkers who may not be imposing external costs by their drinking; higher prices are unfair on moderate drinkers (UK parliament, 2010). Education and campaigns implemented with the aim of influencing behavior such as anti-binge drinking programs will not only improve income (partially self- funding) but also health, as primarily intended

Ethanol Production Using Organic Waste

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