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.

Two Golden Ages of Korean Cinema

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

Environmental ethics, green nudges and households’ waste management in the Democratic Republic of Congo

( Kelly Shukrani Buhendwa ),( Dong Seong Lee ) 한국행정학회 2023 한국행정학회 학술발표논문집 Vol.2023 No.1

Trespass to Airspace: How to Deter North Korea from Its Space Ambitions?

Kelly Kuan Shang (사) 이준국제법연구원 2013 Journal of East Asia and International Law Vol.6 No.1

In deterring North Korea from pursuing its space ambitions, the neighboring States may consider to advance a sovereignty argument that North Korea's overflying rockets have trespassed to their territorial airspace. The current UNSC Resolution-based arguments may not provide adequate deterrence because they are built upon a unilateral interpretation of the UNSC Resolutions and therefore lack legal persuasiveness. Currently, there is seemingly a strong international consensus favoring the demarcation line between airspace and outer space at approximately 100-120 kilometers above the sea level. As the North Korean rockets will likely overflow foreign territories when reaching to this altitude, a trespass claim should therefore have strong legal merits. Moreover, North Korea cannot raise a defense by claiming a right of innocent passage over foreign airspace, because such right does not exist as a customary international law. Even if such right exists, North Korea will be hard to rely on it because its overflying rockets are hardly 'innocent.'

Designing Economic Integration of East Asia: An Outlook of the Korea-China Free Trade Agreement

Kelly Gieop Na 이준국제법연구원 2015 China and WTO Review Vol.1 No.1

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.

A SHORT NOTE ON PAIRWISE NORMAL SPACES

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

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.

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.

Bridging Disappointment: Pak T’aewo˘n’s Kubo and James Joyce’s Ulysses

( Kelly S. Walsh ) 서울대학교 규장각한국학연구원 2012 Seoul journal of Korean studies Vol.25 No.1

Although Pak T’aewo˘n expressed his appreciation for Ulysses and the “experimental nature of James Joyce’s writing” in a 1934 article, there have been relatively few critical attempts to bridge his 1934 novella, A Day in the Life of Kubo the Novelist (Soso˘lga Kubo Ssi u˘ i iril), and Joyce’s 1922 epic modernist novel. And most of these have been limited to discussions of their diurnal structures and the motif of the urban wanderer, or flaneur, in the modern colonial city. So while Pak does not emulate Ulysses’s radical formal experiments, I argue that his Kubo does reveal a kindred sensibility in its portrait of the artist as a young man struggling to find, amidst a seemingly infertile 1930s Seoul, “happiness,” or, in Stephen Dedalus’s terms, something like “the word known to all men.” To varying degrees, the search for it remains inconclusive in both modernist texts; nevertheless, much as Joyce does in Ulysses, Pak offers an affirmative vision in the tentative moment of his intelligent and sensitive hero from excessive solipsism towards authentic empathy for others. And in both texts, the development of a greater capacity to respect and affirm the other in her or his singularity is intimately allied with a reconceived relationship to the mother. Kubo’s odyssey thus reaches its apparently hopeful conclusion when he understands, as if for the first time, sadness and suffering in a lonely widow and “ignorant” barmaids. Unlike Stephen, who continues to grieve for his dead mother, paralyzed to a great extent by his guilt, Kubo realizes the opportunity to return home and comfort the mother who, with her “infinite love,” waits for him, night after night, sleepless and worried. And as he hastens home, determined to “write a truly good novel,” it seems that Kubo may have found a means to revitalize his life and his art. That is, much as Stephen Dedalus is an ironized, literary portrait of a younger James Joyce, Pak suggests that Kubo the novelist, equipped with the (self-)awareness and empathy lacking for much of the day, will now be able to write a story much like the one he has been the principle character of.