Bounced between two cultures: Study of smoking behavior of Korean Americans

The United States is often referred as a melting pot, with a great wave of global immigrants constant populating its shores. When coming to America, the immigrants bring along their own culture. With the new generation born in the States, the fusion of two different cultures is an important factor in shaping their behavior. Coming from a different culture that is more accepting of smoking, many of the new generation also start to smoke. Asian Americans provide an important example. Despite having the lowest smoking rates of all ethnic groups, in 2011, 9.9 percent of Asian American and Pacific Islander, specific subsets had noticeably high consumption rates. Various previous studies have studied factors contributed to smoking behavior in these ethnic groups, and acculturation is one of important characteristic impacts on this behavior. Korean Americans have the highest smoking rate in this group with 26.6% in 2011--20.1 percent of women and 37.4 percent of men smoked. By using data and research from tobacco industry marketing strategy and public health studies, this paper examines how the acculturation, the influences of Korean culture and tobacco companies as factors shape smoking behavior of Korean Americans and suggest a preventive program to target this subgroup

Impact of New Technology on Reading Habits: A Glimpse on the World Literature

Reading helps in all-round development of a person from his birth to death. It adds new sight to eyes and new wisdom to mind. A dump person becomes a communicator and a lame climbs mountains of knowledge through reading. However, in the modern multimedia society, the radio, television, cell phone, computer and the Internet have captured a big slice of time and reading has taken a back seat. These new gadgets of technology have become the “Time Eating Machine” and reading has almost become a closed book. Children, youth and adults alike are more inclined towards new technology for information, entertainment and pleasure. This paper attempts to summarize the literature available worldwide on this issue to identify the impact of new technology on reading habits

Indian Contribution to Open Access Scholarly Publishing: A Case Study of DOAJ

India has been a cradle of knowledge for thousands of years. Presently it has significant advantages in the 21st century knowledge race due to one of the largest higher education system in the world. It generates a lot of information in the form of research papers, project reports, books, conference papers, theses, dissertations, articles, and so on. Therefore, it is necessary to preserve, manage and make it accessible to the academic community in particular for sharing and visualizing their innovations for the betterment of society as a whole. The present study attempts to evaluate the initiatives taken by India to make this intellectual output accessible for all by publishing them in Open Access journals. The results revealed that India is continuously contributing in Open Access scholarly publishing as some of the premier institutions, particularly in the science and technology area, are providing open access to their research publications. The position of India in terms of number of journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is 7th in the world, well ahead of countries such as China, Australia, and Japan

Sizes of Lightest Glueballs in SU(3) Lattice Gauge Theory

Standard Monte Carlo simulations have been performed on improved lattices to measure the wave functions and sizes of the scalar and tensor glueballs at four lattice spacings in the range $a= 0.05 - 0.145$ fm. Systematic errors from discretization and finite volume are studied. Our results in the continuum limit show that the size of the tensor state is approximately two times as large as that of the scalar glueball.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication. To appear in Prog. Theor. Phys. Vol. 116, No. 1 (2006