Since its first issue, Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives (PHRP) has been unique in every aspect. Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) relocated to Osong technopolis, the heartland of the Republic of Korea in December 2010. The small city was planned to serve as a center of the biomedical industry and six governmental agencies in Korea: Korean National Institute of...

PREFACE THE MAP OF the world shows no country called Technopolis, yet in many ways we are already its citizens. Ifone observes how thoroughly our lives are shaped by interconnected systems of modern technology, how strongly we feel their influence, respect their authority and participate in their workings, one begins to understand that, like it or not, we have become members of a new order in h...

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Knowledge-Based Urban Development (KBUD) has now become a fashionable term both in terms of urban policy making and academic study. This is the case not only in post-industrial cities in developed countries, but also in cities which are still in the process of industrialisation in developing countries. In responding to this, urban development policies have been redirected in recent years to enh...

To assess the distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and identifying the main source of the pollutants in coastal, canals, riverine and the upper Gulf of Thailand, surface sediments were collected from urban canals (n = 8), the Chao Phraya River (n = 11), estuarine (n = 9), coastal area (n = 14) and the upper Gulf of Thailand (n = 28) and analyzed for 3-7 rings of PAHs. Sources...

This contribution aims at highlighting how a video-game firm copes in managing creativity and expression of artistic values, while meeting the constraints of the economics of mass entertainment. The research is based on an ethnographic study in one of the largest video game studios in the world located in Montréal. The approach considers that the creative units of the firms are the “communities...