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.

The relationship of non-cognitive factors to academic and clinical performance in graduate rehabilitation science students in the United States: a systematic review

Kelly Reynolds 한국보건의료인국가시험원 2021 보건의료교육평가 Vol.18 No.-

Purpose: Rehabilitation science programs utilize cognitive and non-cognitive factors to select students who can complete the didacticand clinical portions of the program and pass the licensure exam. Cognitive factors such a prior grade point average and standardizedtest scores are known to be predictive of academic performance, but the relationship of non-cognitive factors and performance is lessclear. The purpose of this systematic review was to explore the relationship of non-cognitive factors to academic and clinical performance in rehabilitation science programs. Methods: A search of 7 databases was conducted using the following eligibility criteria: graduate programs in physical therapy (PT),occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, United States-based programs, measurement of at least 1 non-cognitive factor, measurement of academic and/or clinical performance, and quantitative reporting of results. Articles were screened by title, abstract, andfull text, and data were extracted. Results: After the comprehensive screening, 21 articles were included in the review. Seventy-six percent of studies occurred in PT students. Grit, self-efficacy, emotional intelligence, and stress were the most commonly studied factors. Only self-efficacy, emotional intelligence, and personality traits were examined in clinical and academic contexts. The results were mixed for all non-cognitive factors. Higher grit and self-efficacy tended to be associated with better performance, while stress was generally associated with worse outcomes. Conclusion: No single non-cognitive factor was consistently related to clinical or academic performance in rehabilitation science students. There is insufficient evidence currently to recommend the evaluation of a specific non-cognitive factor for admissions decisions.

Strange Rhetoric, Enigmatical Grammar, Poetic Logic: Wallace Stevens`s The Auroras of Autumn

( Kelly S. Walsh ) 한국영어영문학회 2015 영어 영문학 Vol.61 No.2

The recent turn in Stevens criticism has largely been phenomenological in nature, concerned with moving past the poet’s “failure” to overcome the epistemological problem of the relation of mind and world, imagination and reality, and thereby realize the “supreme fiction.” While many of these critics, who tend to focus on Stevens’s later poetry, have interpreted the effects of grammar or rhetoric in isolation, there has not been a satisfactory account of their complex interplay, which, at heightened junctures, realizes a multidimensional poetic world simultaneously constituted by seeing, interpreting, and feeling. My intervention, then, is pedagogical in inflection. I make the case that Stevens’s efforts in the later poetry to move beyond epistemology can be productively put in relation to the classical liberal arts trivium of grammar, rhetoric, and logic. But pedagogical, too, in the sense that these poems self-consciously teach us to read differently, to be attentive to the richness, vitality, and subtlety of rhetoric and grammar, which, in their active interpenetration, create a poetic logic of their own.one that takes us beyond empirical truth, beyond the types of truths religion has traditionally proffered humankind. In resisting “the intelligence / Almost successfully,” in continually framing and unframing phenomenal reality, the “endlessly elaborating” dance of grammar and rhetoric ultimately discloses the extent to which we share in the making of the logic of the poem.

Two Golden Ages of Korean Cinema

Kelly Y. Jeong 고려대학교 민족문화연구원 2015 Cross-Currents Vol.- No.14

Enlightening the Other: Colonial Korean Cinema and the Question of Audience

Kelly Jeong 한국학중앙연구원 한국학중앙연구원 2015 THE REVIEW OF KOREAN STUDIES Vol.18 No.1

The Japanese colonial authorities treated Korean subjects like pupils, and further, like metaphorical children in a number of ways. They attempted to enlighten Korea, and one of the most effective tools of enlightenment for the mostly illiterate colonial population was film. It was a powerful material of propaganda and governing due to its massive popularity since its introduction in the colony. Upon the Korea Film Decree announcement by the Government General in 1940, the colony’s movie theaters became schools that only screened educational films. With this historical context in mind, this essay provides a study of the late-colonial era films released in the 1940-1945 period, including Homeless Angels, Love and Vow, Volunteer, Portrait of Youth, and Suicide Squad at the Watch Tower. My analyses focus on the intertwined issues of colonial enlightenment and propaganda, as well as the issues of ethnography, censorship, and narrative strategies of the films. The films are often packaged as melodrama through a heavy use of music, but this genre façade actually leads to the films’ narrative failure as both melodrama and propaganda. Thus I argue that the Japanese colonial authorities’ attempt at enlightenment via propaganda films ultimately failed. In lieu of a conclusion, this essay ends with a consideration of postcolonial desire for a national cinematic tradition, and the implied ethics of film viewing in postcolonial worlds.

강연 - 미국 원자력 미래에 대한 전망

Kelly, John E. 한국원자력산업회의 2018 원자력산업 Vol.38 No.7

존 켈리 회장은 7월 12일 경주시 힐튼호텔에서 열린 '원자력 안전 및 해체산업 육성 국제 포럼'에 참석하여 'Perspectives on the Future of Nuclear Power in the United States'를 주제로 특별강연을 했다. 켈리 회장은 강연을 통해 미 행정부의 원자력정책, 미국 원자력산업의 단기 도전 과제, 전력 생산에서의 이산화탄소 감축과 원전 역할, 원전의 지속적인 운영, 미국에서 진행되는 신형 원자로 설계 등을 피력했다. 켈리 회장은 이날 언론과의 인터뷰에서 "한국은 원자력산업 강국인데, 원전 안전성에 대한 과학적인 근거보다 정치적 이슈로 신규 원전을 짓지 않고 수명 연장 대신 조기 폐쇄를 결정한 것은 우려할 사안"이라고 말하고 "원전산업 축소는 장기적으로 기업의 전력 확보가 어려워져 경제적 타격을 입는다. 특히 한국은 원전을 수출하면서 탈원전정책을 펴면 수출에 지장을 받지 않을까 걱정된다."고 밝혔다. 켈리 회장은 MIT 원자력공학박사로 미국 에너지부(DOE) 원자력에너지 기술책임자를 지냈다. 본고는 발표 내용을 정리한 것이다.

Virginia Woolf`s Figures of Loss

( Kelly S. Walsh ) 한국근대영미소설학회 2016 근대 영미소설 Vol.23 No.1

Virginia Woolf’s poetics of loss has long been recognized for its contradictory qualities, which make her elegiac works so singular, vital, and open-ended. Her “fiction-elegies” mourn for losses that are past and those that may come to pass; they register the “blows” of loss, both individual and collective, and aesthetically shape them; they use loss as a creative spur in the effort to overcome it and achieve some sort of wholeness. While this complex “grief work” is self-avowedly inconclusive, the consolations partial and temporary, there are, I contend, important, if equally provisional, triumphs at the level of style, through what I am calling Woolf’s figure-language of loss. Words will never be sufficient to recover what has been lost; however, by marshalling tropes, like metaphor and metonymy, imagery and anthropomorphism, into “companies,” Woolf’s figure-language, in intensified moments, pierces through the “cotton wool” of the “conventions of sorrow” and their prescribed forms and meanings. Throughout her major novels, these singular figure-languages both reopen wounds and feelingly contour our thoughts, such that, figuratively, we share in a more authentic response. Consoling and anti-consolatory, the force of this language lies in its capacity to wound, while provoking us to face loss openly, mindfully, and inventively.

Combined Laminoplasty and Posterior Fusion for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Treatment: A Literature Review

Kelly J. Bridges,Lauren N. Simpson,Carli L. Bullis,Andy Rekito,Christina M. Sayama,Khoi D. Than 대한척추외과학회 2018 Asian Spine Journal Vol.12 No.3

Study Design: A literature review. Purpose: To explore the utility of laminoplasty in combination with instrumented fusion, with a focus on neurological outcomes and changes in kyphotic deformity. Overview of Literature: Management of cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) to reduce morbidity within the neurosurgical population. Methods: A US National Library of Medicine PubMed search was conducted for manuscripts pertaining to cervical laminoplasty and fusion for the management of CSM. Several relevant studies were shortlisted for review, and the bibliographies of the articles were searched for additional references. The search was limited to human studies, English-language literature, and reports on more than one patient. Results: Combined laminoplasty and fusion was found to provide at least comparable, if not superior, neurological outcomes in specific patient populations with CSM. The Japanese Orthopedic Association scores, local kyphosis, and C2–C7 angle have been reviewed in several manuscripts, and improvement in each of these categories was found with laminoplasty and fusion. Conclusions: The treatment of CSM necessitates an individualized approach based on the pathoanatomical variation. Laminoplasty and fusion can be appropriately used for patients with CSM in a setting of local kyphotic deformity, ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament, associated segmental instability, and the need for strong stabilization.

Da Jiang Innovation, DJI: The Future of Possible

Kelly Sze Hiu Chin,Alex Chun Yin Siu,Stanley Yau Kit Ying,Yifan Zhang Academy of Asian Business (AAB) 2017 Academy of Asian Business Review Vol.3 No.2

This paper analyses subjective and objective factors of success of the Chinese drone startup DJI, which has developed from a dormitory workshop to a top global drone manufacturer. Devotion to innovation, attention to marketing and passion of the leaders are highlighted as cornerstones to the success of the company, while structural factors including external economy of scale, rapid growth in demand and pioneering advantage are also analysed. The prospect and challenges of the firms are surveyed and suggestions are also given.

North Korea’s Ping-Pong Diplomacy? : Revisiting the 1979 Pyongyang World Table Tennis Championships

Kelly Unkyong Hur 이화여자대학교 통일학연구원 2019 Journal of peace and unification Vol.9 No.2

This paper seeks to explore North Korea’s use of sports diplomacy, in particularly pingpong diplomacy with the United States during the Cold War. North Korea and the United States have no diplomatic relations but since the 1970s, North Korea began to explore ways to ameliorate relations with the United States through public diplomacy including by means of sports. By exploring the 1979 World Table Tennis Championships in Pyongyang, this study hopes to expand the discourse on North Korea’s sports diplomacy and examine the process and outcome it had on creating diplomatic avenues for communication, exchange, and engagement with the United States. This article analyzes the failures and successes as well as strategies of North Korea’s ping-pong diplomacy and the impact it had on North Korea’s policy towards the United States.