Discussion of “Physio-Chemical Properties, Consolidation, and Stabilization of Tropical Peat Soil Using Traditional Soil Additives – A State of the Art Literature Review” by Afnan Ahmada, Muslich Hartadi Sutantoa, Mohammed Ali Mohammed Al-Bareda, Indr

Brendan C. O’Kelly 대한토목학회 2022 KSCE JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING Vol.26 No.8

This discussion article provides commenting on the sections of the review paper by Ahmad et al. (the authors) concerning consistency limits determinations for peats and peaty soils, drawing on the writer’s experiences regarding the usefulness of liquid limit (LL) and plastic limit (PL) testing/results for these soils in explaining their geotechnical behaviors/properties. From the writer’s experience, despite being regularly specified in geotechnical engineering practice and used in research work, the conventional consistency limits tests generally do not produce physically meaningful results when testing peat soils, especially for more fibrous peats. Hence, the writer does not agree with the authors’ recommendations on consistency limits testing of peats; namely, they recommended that an utmost effort is needed to improve the quality and standard of the thread rolling test and the fall-cone test for consistency limits determinations of highly organic soils such as peat. Rather than grappling with various known inherent shortcomings of consistency limits testing for peats and other highly organic soils, a suggested way forward for assessing the likely geoengineering behavior/properties of these materials points to the routine measurement of a more useful suite of index tests; namely, their natural water content, organic content, fiber content, and humification (decomposition) level. In this discussion, the above aspects are explored in detail, including greater elaboration of the writer’s earlier research work in this area, which was touched on in the authors’ paper.

Examples of Holistic Good Practices in Promoting and Protecting Mental Health in the Workplace: Current and Future Challenges

Kelly C. Sivris,Stavroula Leka 한국산업안전보건공단 산업안전보건연구원 2015 Safety and health at work Vol.6 No.4

Background: While attention has been paid to physical risks in the work environment and the promotion of individual employee health, mental health protection and promotion have received much less focus. Psychosocial risk management has not yet been fully incorporated in such efforts. This paper presents good practices in promoting mental health in the workplace in line with World Health Organization (WHO) guidance by identifying barriers, opportunities, and the way forward in this area. Methods: Semistructured interviews were conducted with 17 experts who were selected on the basis of their knowledge and expertise in relation to good practice identified tools. Interviewees were asked to evaluate the approaches on the basis of the WHO model for healthy workplaces. Results: The examples of good practice for Workplace Mental Health Promotion (WMHP) are in line with the principles and the five keys of the WHO model. They support the third objective of the WHO comprehensive mental health action plan 2013e2020 for multisectoral implementation of WMHP strategies. Examples of good practice include the engagement of all stakeholders and representatives, science-driven practice, dissemination of good practice, continual improvement, and evaluation. Actions to inform policies/legislation, promote education on psychosocial risks, and provide better evidence were suggested for higher WMHP success. Conclusion: The study identified commonalities in good practice approaches in different countries and stressed the importance of a strong policy and enforcement framework as well as organizational responsibility for WMHP. For progress to be achieved in this area, a holistic and multidisciplinary approach was unanimously suggested as a way to successful implementation.

Anti-Systematic Precision, Possibility, and Soul

Kelly S. Walsh 한국외국어대학교 외국문학연구소 2016 외국문학연구 Vol.- No.62

로베르트 무질은 유럽 모더니즘의 주요 인물이지만, 그의 대표작인『특성 없는 남자』는 그 방대한 길이로 인해 작가의 명성에 비해 그리 널리 읽히지 않는다. 무질은 이 작품 속에서“에세이즘”이라는 문학 기법을 탐구하는데, 이 기법은 예술적 사고와 과학적 사고가 서로 만나는 접점을 제공한다. 무질에게 있어서 에세이즘은 사고의 방식이자 삶의 태도가 되는 동시에, 그가 “질서 정연한 개념이 부재한다”라고 정의하는 근대성의 개념을 비판하고 재고하게 하는 효과적인 수단이 된다. 무질의 에세이적 글쓰기는 사고와 감정, 실제와 상상, 이성과 비이성 사이의 실체를 규정하기 힘든“중간 지대”에서 작동하며, 과학적 사고의 엄격함에 “영혼”을 불어넣는 역할을 한다. 다시 말해, 에세이즘의 본질은“가능성”에 있다. 에세이스트에게 실제와 가능성은 동등한 가치를 지니며, 실재하는 것과 아직 실재하지 않는 것은 서로 공존하면서 상상적이고 구성적인 가상의 무한한 가능성들을 만들어낸다. 이와 같이, 무질은 삶의 내부에 존재하는 반복이나 확정이 불가능한 현상들을 통해, 정확하고 귀납적인 사고하는 것이 얼마나 중요한가를 확인 하고 있는 것이다. 이와 같은 과정을 통해 무질의 에세이즘은 현실에 관해 무비판적으로 접근하는 태도에 의문을 제기하고, “내가 어떻게 살아야 하는가?”라는 질문에 비록 불완전할지언정 보다 만족스러운 답변들을 제시한다. 무질의 에세이스트적 사고방식은 그 본질 자체가 비결정적이고 열려있다. 에세이스트적 사고를 통해 우리는 실제 또는 가상의 개별적인 감정의 복합체 각각에 정밀한 주의를 기울이며, 인간 개념을 재구성할 수 있고, 보다 훌륭하고 덜 파괴적인 삶의 방식을 만들어 낼 수 있는 무한한 가능성을 얻을 수 있는 것이다. Robert Musil (1880-1942) is widely recognized as a major figure of European modernism, though his most famous work, The Man Without Qualities (1930-1942), continues to be better known than read. In this novel, Musil elaborates his investigative literary method of “essayism,” which strives to bring artistic and scientific thinking into contact with each other. For him, essayism—simultaneously a mode of thinking and a manner of living—provides the most effective means for critiquing and reshaping a modernity he believes to be "devoid of ordering concepts." Operating in the elusive “middle zone” between thought and feeling, reality and imagination, rationality and irrationality, Musil’s essayistic writing brings the rigor of scientific thinking to bear on matters of the “soul,” particularly the ecstatic experiences of the so-called "Other Condition." Constitutive of this essayism, then, is “the sense of possibility”; for the essayist, the actual and the potential are imbued with the same value, the coexistence of what is and what is not (yet) engenders a virtual infinitude of imaginative and constructive possibilities. Ultimately, Musil affirms the importance of thinking precisely and inductively through the unrepeatable and indeterminate phenomena of the inner life. By doing so, his essaysim destabilizes an uncritical sense of reality, while suggesting more satisfying, if provisional, ways of responding to the question: “How should I live?” By its very nature, essayistic thought is inconclusive and open-ended, but in the precise attention to singular affective complexes, both actual and virtual, it opens myriad possibilities for reshaping the human and inventing finer, less-destructive manners of living. 로베르트 무질은 유럽 모더니즘의 주요 인물이지만, 그의 대표작인『특성 없는 남자』는 그 방대한 길이로 인해 작가의 명성에 비해 그리 널리 읽히지 않는다. 무질은 이 작품 속에서“에세이즘”이라는 문학 기법을 탐구하는데, 이 기법은 예술적 사고와 과학적 사고가 서로 만나는 접점을 제공한다. 무질에게 있어서 에세이즘은 사고의 방식이자 삶의 태도가 되는 동시에, 그가 “질서 정연한 개념이 부재한다”라고 정의하는 근대성의 개념을 비판하고 재고하게 하는 효과적인 수단이 된다. 무질의 에세이적 글쓰기는 사고와 감정, 실제와 상상, 이성과 비이성 사이의 실체를 규정하기 힘든“중간 지대”에서 작동하며, 과학적 사고의 엄격함에 “영혼”을 불어넣는 역할을 한다. 다시 말해, 에세이즘의 본질은“가능성”에 있다. 에세이스트에게 실제와 가능성은 동등한 가치를 지니며, 실재하는 것과 아직 실재하지 않는 것은 서로 공존하면서 상상적이고 구성적인 가상의 무한한 가능성들을 만들어낸다. 이와 같이, 무질은 삶의 내부에 존재하는 반복이나 확정이 불가능한 현상들을 통해, 정확하고 귀납적인 사고하는 것이 얼마나 중요한가를 확인 하고 있는 것이다. 이와 같은 과정을 통해 무질의 에세이즘은 현실에 관해 무비판적으로 접근하는 태도에 의문을 제기하고, “내가 어떻게 살아야 하는가?”라는 질문에 비록 불완전할지언정 보다 만족스러운 답변들을 제시한다. 무질의 에세이스트적 사고방식은 그 본질 자체가 비결정적이고 열려있다. 에세이스트적 사고를 통해 우리는 실제 또는 가상의 개별적인 감정의 복합체 각각에 정밀한 주의를 기울이며, 인간 개념을 재구성할 수 있고, 보다 훌륭하고 덜 파괴적인 삶의 방식을 만들어 낼 수 있는 무한한 가능성을 얻을 수 있는 것이다. Robert Musil (1880-1942) is widely recognized as a major figure of European modernism, though his most famous work, The Man Without Qualities (1930-1942), continues to be better known than read. In this novel, Musil elaborates his investigative literary method of “essayism,” which strives to bring artistic and scientific thinking into contact with each other. For him, essayism—simultaneously a mode of thinking and a manner of living—provides the most effective means for critiquing and reshaping a modernity he believes to be "devoid of ordering concepts." Operating in the elusive “middle zone” between thought and feeling, reality and imagination, rationality and irrationality, Musil’s essayistic writing brings the rigor of scientific thinking to bear on matters of the “soul,” particularly the ecstatic experiences of the so-called "Other Condition." Constitutive of this essayism, then, is “the sense of possibility”; for the essayist, the actual and the potential are imbued with the same value, the coexistence of what is and what is not (yet) engenders a virtual infinitude of imaginative and constructive possibilities. Ultimately, Musil affirms the importance of thinking precisely and inductively through the unrepeatable and indeterminate phenomena of the inner life. By doing so, his essaysim destabilizes an uncritical sense of reality, while suggesting more satisfying, if provisional, ways of responding to the question: “How should I live?” By its very nature, essayistic thought is inconclusive and open-ended, but in the precise attention to singular affective complexes, both actual and virtual, it opens myriad possibilities for reshaping the human and inventing finer, less-destructive manners of living.

NEW WOMAN, ROMANCE, AND RAILROADS: THE PARADOX OF COLONIAL MODERNITY

KELLY JEONG 계명대학교 한국학연구원 2007 Acta Koreana Vol.10 No.2

This article sees Korea’s colonial modernity as a set of paradoxes and provides a reading of it through the most symptomatic aspects of such modernity—the New Woman, ideals of romance, hypermasculinity of the colonial subject, and railroads. I examine texts by and about colonial intellectuals who were at the forefront of cultural and literary experience and production. My discussion shows that this literature reveals colonial Korea as an arena in which the old and the new intermingle and coexist, leading to new conceptions and practices of family and marriage. The New Woman and her male counterpart become recognizable cultural personae and compete against each other for the limited access to modernity especially through education and travel, the two major modes of gaining exposure to the changing world and its values. The New Woman becomes the human fallout of such competition, as Korea’s anti-colonial nationalism, a very much male-identified thought, provides an excuse to ignore women’s causes, even though they are intertwined with the causes of national sovereignty. Ultimately, what results is a split loyalty and double-identification among Korea’s colonial intellectuals, who fail to create a viable alternative to the Old that is dead and the New that is yet unborn.

Point of view from Editor in Chief of Annals of Surgical Oncology: How to get your paper published

Kelly M. McMasters 대한종양외과학회 2022 대한임상종양학회 학술대회지 Vol.2022 No.2

ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS BLACK HOLE MASS ESTIMATES IN THE ERA OF TIME DOMAIN ASTRONOMY

Kelly, Brandon C.,Treu, Tommaso,Malkan, Matthew,Pancoast, Anna,Woo, Jong-Hak IOP Publishing 2013 The Astrophysical journal Vol.779 No.2

<P>We investigate the dependence of the normalization of the high-frequency part of the X-ray and optical power spectral densities (PSDs) on black hole mass for a sample of 39 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with black hole masses estimated from reverberation mapping or dynamical modeling. We obtained new Swift observations of PG 1426+015, which has the largest estimated black hole mass of the AGNs in our sample. We develop a novel statistical method to estimate the PSD from a light curve of photon counts with arbitrary sampling, eliminating the need to bin a light curve to achieve Gaussian statistics, and we use this technique to estimate the X-ray variability parameters for the faint AGNs in our sample. We find that the normalization of the high-frequency X-ray PSD is inversely proportional to black hole mass. We discuss how to use this scaling relationship to obtain black hole mass estimates from the short timescale X-ray variability amplitude with precision similar to 0.38 dex. The amplitude of optical variability on timescales of days is also anticorrelated with black hole mass, but with larger scatter. Instead, the optical variability amplitude exhibits the strongest anticorrelation with luminosity. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of our results for estimating black hole mass from the amplitude of AGN variability.</P>

A SHORT NOTE ON PAIRWISE NORMAL SPACES

Kelly, C.,Ferrer, J.,Gregori, V. Department of Mathematics 1993 Kyungpook mathematical journal Vol.33 No.2

Complex Pastoralism in an Age of Technological Transformation: Jean Toomer’s Cane and the Poetics of Racial Untranslatability

( Kelly Walsh ) 미국소설학회(구 한국호손학회) 2021 미국소설 Vol.28 No.1

Jean Toomer’s Cane has long been recognized as a singular work of American modernism, mixing prose, lyric poetry, black spirituals, and drama to forge an aesthetic search for African American self-realization. In staging the failure of black characters to achieve this by rooting themselves in the soil and rustic life of Georgia, I argue, Cane enacts a complex pastoralism, which focalizes the dissonant and pervasive doubleness of black life in an age of technological transformation. With bifurcations that include African and American, past and present, rural and urban, South and North, black vernacular speech and standardized English writing, Toomer ironizes and racializes the longing for an unspoiled Arcadia that might redress the insufficiencies of the present. In the face of the racialized forces of modernization and industrialization, which threaten to translate black consciousness and aspirations into a single idiom, Toomer insists on a writing that maintains intimate contact with the contradictions and particularities of black life, forging complexities that resist translation and subvert unexamined American myths of exceptionalism and progress. Ultimately, African American self-realization remains unachieved in Cane; its complex pastoralism reveals this open-ended project requires inventively affirming the antitheses of modern black life, defiantly asserting its singularity and untranslatability.

Is the 'F-bomb' Dropped from Movies into Minds? Genre and Register-Specific Usage of 'Fuck' in Cinema

Kelly McCluskey 영상영어교육학회 2009 영상영어교육 (STEM journal) Vol.10 No.2

This paper examines the sociolinguistic aspects of taboo language in the English speaking world, including a search of the literature to seek further perspectives or insights about taboo items related to cinema and society. Teachers could give more accurate information about taboo items if it were available, but little consensus exists. Cinema presents an excellent opportunity to quantify this relationship. For the sake of research manageability, the range of 'taboo items' is narrowed to fuck–Also known as The F-bomb. The absolute frequency of lemmas of fuck are compared against genre and year in a quantitative analysis of a self-constructed corpus of cinema texts and then isolated KWIC (Key Word in Context) items are examined within a single film's plot line to illustrate possible influences of register, in particular the relationships between the speakers and the hearers. The author concludes that intuitions about the use of fuck in cinema are generally confirmed by the results of this study.

Seeing with Borrowed Eyes: Joyce and Keats in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

( Kelly S. Walsh ) 미국소설학회 2016 미국소설 Vol.23 No.1

“The ugly fact,” said Cormac McCarthy in an interview, “is books are made out of books.” For several decades, critics have been seeking out the specific intertextual sources that abound in McCarthy’s works, with Melville, Faulkner, and Hemingway considered to be his closest forebears. In the case of The Road, critics have identified a number of romantic and modernist intertexts; no one, however, has investigated the role that Keats’s odes and Joyce’s Ulysses play in McCarthy’s novel, the reason being, presumably, that its engagement with the works of the romantic poet and modernist novelist is not a matter of direct influence or “similar poetics.” Instead, as I argue, McCarthy’s narrative “reads” these works of Anglo-Irish romanticism and modernism and actively works to decontextualize and critically rearticulate fragments of their aesthetic visions. This process reveals profound ambivalence and irresolvable tension: Keats and Joyce are incapable of meeting the demands of the novel’s post-apocalyptic wasteland, yet McCarthy’s own literary vision is measurably conditioned by these predecessors. In momentarily borrowing their “eyes” at heightened junctures of the novel, McCarthy stylistically forges ways of seeing that both intensify the atmosphere of melancholic despair and proffer a small measure of resistance amidst a “world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities.”