Cho Jihoon’s Korean Aesthetics: the Concept of ‘Meot’

Cho Jihoon’s aesthetics is based on the Confucian literati’s spirit, choesado, and on the Buddhist idea of non-duality. He presented the theory of meot, meaning taste originally, as a Korean-specific aesthetic category in his Study of Meot, where he synthesized the previously discussed theories of other scholars into twelve elements. Discussing the formal characteristics of works that have the aesthetic quality of meot, he took unrefinedness as basic, and cited diversity, eurhythmy, and curvature as its subtraits. Discussing the compositional power or method of expression that provokes meot, he took hyperstandard as basic, and the subtraits include maturity, distortion, and playfulness. Furthermore, he discussed meot as an emotion or idea that Koreans live with, where the most basic one is otiosity (impracticality), and assimilation, moderation, and optimism are its subtraits. Finally, he identified meot as the ultimate aesthetic state with pungryu, a lifestyle in harmony with Nature, which is originated from the ancient Silla period.

New Business Exercise: The Pop-Up Store Project

In this hands-on exercise, students develop and manage a successful retail pop-up store for one week in Tucson Mall in the city of Tucson. This is the final process in a two-semester project that involves the comprehensive business planning and execution process from idea generation, business planning, merchandise planning, investor pitch, vendor selection, product development, vendor selection and execution. Students work as teams to achieve maximum revenue and profits over a full week and, most importantly, develop a genuine understanding of the challenges of developing and executing a retail concept. The learning objectives of this year-long project are 1) to help students to understand how learning by doing in an ever-changing and unpredictable environment may have substantial advantages over traditional analysis, research, and business planning; 2) to find solutions for customers\u27 wants; 3) to execute an actual business with their own innovative products; 4) to explore the trade-offs that entrepreneurs face as they start a new business or launch a product or service; 5) to build team work, communication, and leadership skills

The Effects of Consumers\u27 Values, Environment Self-identity, and Injunctive Norms on Enjoyment-based Intrinsic Motivation and Eco-friendly Apparel Purchasing Behavior

The aim of this study was to analyze how the individual\u27s values, environment self-identity, and descriptive norms, and injunctive norms influence enjoyment-based intrinsic motivation and eco-friendly apparel purchasing behavior. Researchers conducted a paper-based survey and a total of 353 Korean college students\u27 data were used for the analyses. The results showed that biospheric-altruistic values are positively related to environmental self-identity, but egoistic values had statistically significant influence on environmental self-identity in negative direction. Also, enjoyment-based intrinsic motivation to purchase eco-friendly apparel was strengthened by environmental self-identity and injunctive norms, while no significant influence by descriptive norms on enjoyment-based intrinsic motivation was found. The findings in this study suggest that college students with a strong environmental self-identity strengthened by biospheric-altruistic values enjoy purchasing eco-friendly apparel. In addition, injunctive norm was internalized via enjoyment-based motivation for college student to purchase eco-friendly apparel

A Team-based Experiential Learning in Supply Chain Sourcing: Purchasing and Negotiation Exercises

This paper presents a web-hosted Google Sheet model of supply chain sourcing game focusing on negotiation activities which has been used in the classroom. The negotiation exercise was designed to place students in a position where they must make team based purchasing and selling decisions. The exercise was broken into three separate games. The first game is a group based on purchasing strategies. In this activity, they learn the basics of making purchasing decisions while considering demand, holding and ordering costs, and variable (tier based) pricing. The next two games are round based games. In the class, teams are formed (an even number) and half the teams are assigned to be a purchaser while the other half are suppliers in the first round. Each team must make decisions that will make them better off than other teams. Once the first round is complete, the teams switch roles with a different scenario and continue negotiating. The team with the most profit is the winner of the exercise. The purpose of this article is to describe the structure of the exercise, how we deliver it as a pedagogical game in our classes, and share this easy to apply activities that capture the dynamics of negotiation and the resulting benefits to supply to supply chain members

Impact of Macro-economic Factors on the Hemline Cycles

This current study is to investigate whether the relationships between hemline and macro-economic factors – rGDP, recession, and unemployment – are applicable now; and to analyze time lags reflecting economic factors on hemline index using U.S. data. The hemline theory and fashion cyclical theory were applied to propose the relationships studied

Illumination-invariant vegetation detection for a vision sensor-based agricultural applications

In this paper, we propose a novel method, illumination-invariant vegetation detection (IVD), to improve many aspects of agriculture for vision-based autonomous machines or robots. The proposed method derives new color feature functions from simultaneously modeling the spectral properties of the color camera and scene illumination. An experiment in which an image sample dataset was acquired under nature illumination, including various intensities, weather conditions, shadows and reflections, was performed. The results show that the proposed method (IVD) yields the highest performance with the lowest error and standard deviation and is superior to six typical methods. Our method has multiple strengths, including computational simplicity and uniformly high-accuracy image segmentation

The roles of values, environment self-identity, and social norms on personal norms and eco-friendly apparel purchasing behavior

This study empirically investigated relationships among values, identity, and personal norms. In addition, we analyzed the roles of environmental self-identity as a mediator between values and personal norms. The theory of normative suggests that descriptive and injunctive norms, that influence an individual\u27s belief and behavior differently. Thus, we hypothesized that descriptive norms and injunctive norms are positively related to consumers\u27 eco-friendly apparel purchasing behavior. Results of three regression analyses using a total of 292 US adult participants showed that bio-altruistic values and egoistic values are related to environmental self-identity. Moreover, we found that the relationship between bio-altruistic values and personal norm and between egoistic values and personal norms were fully mediated by environmental self-identity. This suggests that values need to be linked to self in order to be influential in apparel choices made by US consumers. Also, descriptive norms influenced personal norm, which in turn influenced eco-friendly apparel purchasing behavior

Pano Duo Recital: Joanna Kim Doyle and Soohyun Yun, Works for Four-Hands on One Piano

KSU School of Music presents Piano Duo Recital, Works for Four-Hands on One Piano, Joanna Kim Doyle and Soohyun Yun.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1281/thumbnail.jp

dxz/yzd_{xz/yz} Orbital Subband Structures and Chiral Orbital Angular Momentum in the (001) Surface States of SrTiO3_3

We have performed angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) experiments on the surface states of SrTiO$_3$(001) using linearly and circularly polarized light to investigate the subband structures of out-of-plane $d_{xz/yz}$ orbitals and chiral orbital angular momentum (OAM). The data taken in the first Brillouin zone reveal new subbands for $d_{xz/yz}$ orbitals with Fermi wave vectors of 0.25 and 0.45 $\mathrm{\AA}^{-1}$ in addition to the previously reported ones. As a result, there are at least two subbands for all the Ti 3d t$_{2g}$ orbitals. Our circular dichroism ARPES data is suggestive of a chiral OAM structure in the surface states and may provide clues to the origin of the linear Rashba-like surface band splitting.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, Journal pape

The Effects of Paid Leave Policies on Work and Elder Care

This dissertation consists of three papers studying the relationship between paid leave policies and work and informal care outcomes among older workers. Paper one investigates whether different types of paid leave provided by employers are associated with the supply of elder care. Paper two examines the role of paid leave in determining labor market outcomes for older workers with a family member who experiences a health decline. Paper three analyzes the case in South Korea -- how leave policies influence labor market outcomes for older workers with a spouse who experiences a health decline