The Influence of Asian Immigration on the Architectural Culture of Canada: A Study on the Preservation of Asian Culture and Identity in Architecture in Canada

Henry Hing-Yip Tsang(Henry Hing-Yip Tsang ) 한국캐나다학회 2017 Asia-Pacific Journal of Canadian Studies (APJCS) Vol.23 No.2

Immigrants from Asian countries to Canada has a history dating back to the 18th Century, and Asian-Canadians today make up an increasingly significant part of the Canadian population. As these communities grow over generations, they become an integral part of the culture and heritage of Canada’s own culture of multiculturalism. Originating from Asia and reestablishing themselves in Canada, immigrants carry with them culture, customs and away of life to their new home, ranging from new food, fashion, customs, language and even the way to construct buildings. This paper studies the relationship of Asian immigrant communities with the spaces and buildings they occupy, and how they inhabit and adapted spaces, buildings and cities to represent the culture and identity of their country of origin. In particular, the paper will focus on three major Asian ethnic groups: Chinese, Japanese and Korean, trace their paths and identify major tendencies in how each have attempted to preserve culture and express identity in the design of significant buildings in their communities. The research methodology consists firstly of literature review on the subject of Asian immigration and the mapping of major architectural style trends in Canada. Secondly, a selection of buildings were identified from each community for further analysis, including site visits, study of architectural drawings, plans, photographs, as well as interviews with building occupants to better understand the significance of these buildings and how they were conceived to represent their ethnic communities. Preliminary results indicate that the Chinese community, with along history of immigration to Canada, expresses identity mainly in the exterior appearance of the buildings. The Japanese community has a scattered history of immigration to Canada and the expression of identity is rather subdued and the expression is present mainly in the building’s interior. The Korean community is relatively young in Canada, and has a tendency to adapt existing spaces and buildings, while expressing culture and identity through signage and decoration.

A Brief Review of the Traditional Indigenous Architecture of Canada

Henry Hing-Yip Tsang(Henry Hing-Yip Tsang ) 한국캐나다학회 2020 Asia-Pacific Journal of Canadian Studies (APJCS) Vol.25 No.2

The identity of Canadian architecture is hard to define. Many waves of immigration of all contributed in sculpting the built environment in Canadian cities. Identity has much to do with origins, therefore tracing Canadian architecture should start by studying the architecture of our First Nations and indigenous people. This paper briefly explores the roots of Canadian architecture tracing back to the various indigenous tribes of Canada and outlines the main characteristics of the vernacular architecture built by these people. This paper review seven major typologies of indigenous architecture found in Canada: the Wigwam, the Longhouse, the Tipi, the Pit House, the Thule Winter House, the Plank House and the Igloo. Different indigenous tribes construct different styles of architecture as shelters that respond to their particular abodes and lifestyle. For instance, tribes living in colder climates construct narrow entrance tunnels for preventing cold wind drifts, whiles other tribes dig earth and construct their shelters protected by tree bark and soil. Further, living styles also influence the different types of shelters. Nomadic tribes carry thin long logs and animal hide with them and construct Pit Houses in places where they spend days chasing bison herds. Other tribes, engaged in agriculture therefore need a more permanent residence, such as the Iroquois who build Longhouses with wood bark and mats. Although this paper is brief, it lays the foundation for those who wish to understand and pursue further research into the different typologies of indigenous architecture of Canada.

What do Options have to do With It?: Inclusion of Options Market Indicators in Bid-ask Spread Decomposition

Henry Y. K. Yip,David Michayluk,Laurie Prather,Li-Anne E. Woo 한국증권학회 2009 Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies Vol.38 No.3

This paper develops a cross-market model to extend Huang and Stoll (1997) by utiliz-ing information from trade flows in the options market. Empirical tests reveal a significant increase in the estimated adverse information component, which stays consistent irrespective of the degree of option leverage. Further, intraday variation in stock bid-ask spread components is affected by the stock trade size and the extent of imbalance in information-based option trades. Including the options market information in decomposition of the stock bid-ask spread enhances the quality of its estimation.

Implementation of IOT (Internet of Things) and Automation Systems to Control Temperature and Humidity in Home-style Greenhouse

( Henry Fall Carvalho ),( Yong-tae Kim ) 한국농공학회 2018 한국농공학회 학술대회초록집 Vol.2018 No.-

The current study was conducted to build up a smart home-style greenhouse and implement inside this structure an IOT (Internet of Things) system. We have combined electronic equipments and IT tools and have thus been able to control and monitor two essential growing parameters in agriculture: Temperature and Humidity The temperature and humidity of the air directly affect two main functions of a plant, namely transpiration and photosynthesis, which consequently affects the quality, the crop yield, the production costs and therefore the profits that can be generated through an agricultural activity. The electronic system conceived to equip our home-style greenhouse is composed of several Arduino modules, servomotors, relays and various sensors. It had been then combined with a computer system consisting of a computer monitor, a central microprocessor based on a Raspberry Pi microcontroller and a camera. We had designed and developed the software programs needed to make this package works and placed in the greenhouse, temperature and humidity sensors connected to the Arduino modules. They transmit at any time (every second) these two climatic parameters of the greenhouse to another central Arduino module that controls the main heating and humidifying equipments. All Arduino modules that collect climate datas communicate with the central Arduino module via a 2.4GHz wireless radio connection. Then, the central Arduino transmits this datas to the computer system which is permanently connected to internet via a Wi-Fi connection. We have created a web server to which the Raspberry Pi upload all datas received from the greenhouse 24/7, and have designed a web interface from which the instantaneous evolution of the greenhouse climate can be observed from anywhere in the world. This web interface makes also possible to send back commands to the greenhouse, as well as will do a mobile phone application we had design for, to change its climatic conditions, namely to increase or reduce the temperature and/or humidity setpoints, open or close valves to trigger or stop feeding the plants with water, stopping or restarting the heating or humidification system, and starting or stopping the start-up of a fan to manage the flow of air within the greenhouse. Finally, a vision system that we have installed by equipping the greenhouse with a camera allows us to observe the greenhouse from any point of the globe, live on the web interface, and a GSM communication module we have programmed and coupled to one of the Arduino modules, is able to trigger a phone call to a predefined number, this number is editable either directly from keypads and small Liquid Cristal Display (LCD) screens linked to greenhouse, as well as in the mobile application, or editable from everywhere at any time through the web interface. This communication system can also send SMS to an operator, and thus, may alert urgently when a failure of a device occurs inside the greenhouse or when a predefined value of one of the setpoints has been exceeded or has fallen down below the expected reference.

Corporate Governance and the Global Reach of Chinese Family Firms in Singapore

Henry Wai-chung Yeung,Tse Min Soh 서울대학교 경제연구소 2000 Seoul journal of economics Vol.13 No.3

The emergence of Chinese business conglomerates in recent decades has spurned a lot of interesting literature in the field of Chinese business. Much has been attributed to the "bamboo networks" in explaining the entrepreneurial success of ethnic Chinese outside China. In this paper, we examine the international linkages of 157 public-listed Chinese family firms in Singapore. We show that although they conform to some of the characteristics mentioned in the existing literature, public-listed Chinese family firms have forged global linkages directly by means of overseas principal bankers and auditors. These global linkages help to influence the corporate governance practices of Chinese family firms. We conclude the paper with some implications for future research and management policies.

한국과 EU 의 경쟁 및 산업정책

Henry LESGUILLONS 한국EU학회 1996 EU학연구 Vol.1 No.1

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“Japan’s Proactive Foreign Policy and the Rise of the BRICs”

Henry Laurence 경남대학교 극동문제연구소 2007 ASIAN PERSPECTIVE Vol.31 No.4

Within the past decade or so, Japan’s foreign policy has become more proactive and assertive than it was during the cold war, placing greater emphasis on non-economic sources of power. Changing bilateral relations with all four BRICs are both causes and consequences of this newly assertive foreign policy stance. Japan’s relationship with China is both the most important and the most complicated of the four. At the core of complexity is Japan’s deep ambivalence about whether to treat China’s economic rise as a threat or an opportunity. Japanese policy has consequently veered between engagement and confrontation, with the paradoxical result that while bilateral trade has exploded, diplomatic relations are the worst in memory. Japan’s relations with Russia display a similar if less pronounced ambivalence. Largely as a consequence of heightened concerns about the threats from China and Russia, Japanese policy makers have begun to see the potential of both India and Brazil as useful counterweights, a view that coincides with the newly-articulated “values diplomacy” that stresses the importance of shared democratic values. However, India and Brazil remain relatively unimportant trading partners for Japan.

Treat North Korea as a nuclear proliferator

Henry Sokolski 동아시아재단 2006 Global Asia Vol.1 No.1

ADAPTIVE SELLING IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY: A CASE STUDY ON INSURANCE AND UNIT TRUST INDUSTRY

Henry Chee Wei Cheah,Soo Yeong Ewe,Helen Hui Ping Ho 글로벌지식마케팅경영학회 2023 Global Marketing Conference Vol.2023 No.07

Insurance and unit trust (also known as mutual funds) are high-involvement financial products that require investors to hold for long term to gain desired returns. These financial products are also considered unsought products, which require salespeople’s personal touch with their potential customers to make sales. Therefore, the relationship between salespeople and their potential or existing customers becomes crucial in the sales of insurance and unit trust. In theoretical terms, this relationship represents business ties. A strong business ties between the salespeople and the customers enable them to exchange resources and knowledge, and co-create values in their business relationships. Such exchange and co-creation of values are desirable in a business network. Weak ties are irregular and infrequent exchanges, creating structural holes that bring about an opportunity for bridging but have not yet been capitalized.

Topology Optimization of Support Structure for Long-Range Boom Lift

Henry Panganiban,Woncheol Kim,Tae-Jin Chung 한국자동차공학회 2012 한국자동차공학회 학술대회 및 전시회 Vol.2012 No.11

Structural design of long-range telescopic boom system used for lifting work platform requires serious consideration of structural integrity and reliability. Component design can be rapidly and economically conceptualized using CAE tools. In this work, the concept design of support structure for a long-range telescopic boom lift is obtained using topology optimization method. The classical topology optimization formulation is implemented with consideration on various load cases encompassing actual operation conditions. Transfer mechanism of loads from the work platform and boom self-weight into the support structure is analyzed and verified by FEM. In the analytical solution, boom self-weight is defined by its magnitude and location in space while bar or truss elements are used to model the boom structure with the corresponding point loads. Agreement of the calculated reaction forces is very close. The support structure is isolated with the reaction forces imposed on predefined loading points of the structure and topology optimization is carried out. This method can significantly reduce FE-model size and consequently computation time allowing more opportunities to explore possible design configurations within the capability of the topology optimization tool being used. The topology or material layout of the support structure at the converged iteration will be translated into manufacturable final design using a CAD tool.