Effects of near-fault loading and lateral bracing on the behavior of RBS moment connections

Qi-Song “Kent” Yu,Chia-Ming Uang 국제구조공학회 2001 Steel and Composite Structures, An International J Vol.1 No.1

An experimental study was conducted to evaluate the effects of loading sequence and lateral bracing on the behavior of reduced beam section (RBS) steel moment frame connections. Four full-scale moment connections were cyclically tested-two with a standard loading history and the other two with a near-fault loading history. All specimens reached at least 0.03 radian of plastic rotation without brittle fracture of the beam flange groove welds. Two specimens tested with the nearfault loading protocol reached at least 0.05 radian of plastic rotation, and both experienced smaller buckling amplitudes at comparable drift levels. Energy dissipation capacities were insensitive to the types of loading protocol used. Adding a lateral bracing near the RBS region produced a higher plastic rotation; the strength degradation and buckling amplitude were reduced. A non-linear finite element analysis of a one-and-a-half-bay beam-column subassembly was also conducted to study the system restraint effect. The study showed that the axial restraint of the beam could significantly reduce the strength degradation and buckling amplitude at higher deformation levels.

Future Challenges in Wesleyan Theological Education

Kent Brower,David McEwan 나사렛대학교출판사 2011 지성과 창조 Vol.- No.14

The Traps of Geopolitical Discourse and the Mandate for New Thinking

Kent E. Calder 동아시아재단 2014 Global Asia Vol.9 No.3

The Outlier Alliance: US-Japan Security Ties in Comparative Perspective

( Kent E Calder ) 한국국방연구원 2003 The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis Vol.15 No.2

This paper examines the US-Japan bilateral security alliance in comparative perspective in an effort to identify distinctive structural features and evolutionary trends. The policy objective is to understand the prospective cohesion of the alliance relationship between these two political/economic powers, which between them generate over 46 percent of global GDP and account for nearly 50 percent of the world`s military expenditure. A comparison is made with the contemporary US-Japan alliance and other security alliances in the Pacific and the rest of the industrialized world. Comparisons are made within three basic dimensions: (A) Patterns of security cooperation; (B) Political-economic linkages within bilateral alliance-related relationships; and (C) Asymmetries in security and economic spheres. The final section of the paper asks: "Why?"-after identifying the underlying causal dynamics that have forged the current US-Japan alliance, it enquires what these imply for that partnership`s future operation. It concludes that future consolidation is likely, with broad geo-political consequences that urgently need further exploration.

Fatty Acid Modulation of Atherosclerosis by Peroxisome Proliferator - Activated Receptors

Kent L. Erickson,Neil E. Hubbard,Lynette M. Meinecke 한국식품영양과학회 2002 Preventive Nutrition and Food Science Vol.7 No.4

While atherosclerosis is a major killer, there is now concern that mortality from the disease will increase due to the rising incidence of type II diabetes. Because diet can potentially influence both diseases, it is important to elucidate the role of diet in the progression of atherosclerosis. In addition, the mechanisms involved in dietaryrelated alterations of the disease need to be defined to guide public health recommendations to reduce atherosclerosis incidence and limiting unwanted side effects. Since diet is thought to play a role in atherosclerosis even without added complications due to type II diabetes, reducing the incidence of that metabolic disease will not be enough. While evidence is increasing that high intake of carbohydrate can lead to type II diabetes and atherosclerosis, the preponderance of existing evidence indicates that intake of specific fats as a major dietary causal factor. It has recently been hypothesized that a dietary fat link to atherosclerosis may depend partly on the activity of a transcriptional regulator, the peroxisome proliferator activated receptors (PPAR). Thusfar, PPAR α, β/δ andγ, have been shown to play a major role in metabolism, inflammation, and cancer. Furthermore, PPAR may regulate specific processes associated with atherosclerosis such as triglyceride and low density lipoprotein (LDL) metabolism; the reverse cholesterol transport pathway; lipid accumulation within plaques; the local inflammatory response and plaque stability. Synthetic ligands for PPAR have been developed; however, natural ligands include specific fatty acids and their metabolites. Though the role of PPAR in atherosclerosis has been reported with respect to synthetic ligands, additional studies need to be done with established and possible natural ligands. In this review, we will focus on the relation of dietary fat to PPAR alteration of atherosclerosis.

Faculty Coaching and Faculty Needs in Korean Universities

Kent Alan Lee,Hikyoung Lee 범태평양 응용언어학회 2023 Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Ling Vol.27 No.2

This study examines the various needs of new professors at a Korean university, focusing on professional development issues and English language challenges for those required to teach in English due to Englishmedium instruction (EMI) policies. Through a qualitative analysis of coaching reports, we explored the specific needs of professors in various academic fields, such as pedagogical methods, course management, and the demands of teaching and research. This investigation highlights the distinctive challenges faced by new professors due to EMI policies. These demands not only add another set of language related challenges, but may compound the other typical professional challenges of new professors. These results can inform those involved in university faculty coaching. The results also show limitations of typical coaching programs at Korean universities, difficulties with EMI policies, and a need for further professional development programs for professors, especially for those in EMI contexts.

Education and Society in Hong Kong and Macao: Comparative Perspectives on Continuity and Change

Kent Sheng-Yao Cheng,Peter Wen-Jing Shan 서울대학교 교육연구소 2005 Asia Pacific Education Review Vol.6 No.1

지하 온수 배관 설계 시 고려 사항

Kent W. Peterson,윤린(번역자) 대한설비공학회 2019 설비저널 Vol.48 No.9

Renaissance of the Rimlands: How Eurasia’s Transformation at Sea Re-Shapes Geopolitics on Land

Kent E. Calder 고려대학교 일민국제관계연구원 2023 국제관계연구 Vol.28 No.2

The functional role of Eurasia’s surrounding sea lanes has changed substantially over the past three decades, with broader implications on land for the continent’s role in world affairs. Until recent decades largely a venue for local trading, since the early 1990s the Indian Ocean and surrounding bodies of water have become arenas for intense, large-scale trans-continental commerce, as the economies of the rimlands have expanded. Energy, industrial raw materials, and food products have flowed to Northeast Asia and Europe, balanced by industrial exports. The expansion of commodity trade has much further to go, especially in the South and Southeast Asian rimlands of the Indian Ocean, as both energy and food consumption expand from their still-low per capita base in these heavily populated nations. Three other dimensions of transformation complement the expansion of commodity trade and manufactured exports. Beneath the seas, raw material extraction is rising, even as the information revolution transforms Eurasia’s oceans, through the rapid expansion of undersea fiber-optic cables, and sub-surface military technology advances. Global warming is also making Arctic transport and resource development, long rendered impractical by climate, increasingly feasible. These multiple maritime transformations all have geopolitical implications on land. In the aggregate, the changes benefit China and Russia, rendering their prospective partnership of enhanced global strategic value. The embedded strengths of the industrial democracies, however, remain formidable, especially in the technological realm, leveraged by their market orientation. The changing geopolitics of Eurasia’s waterways thus intensifies challenges to the industrial democracies, increasing the future importance of multilateral collaboration, although whether these marginal changes in capacity will provoke thorough going systemic transformation still remains unlikely.

Why linguists like the colloquial marker ‘like’

Kent Lee 한국언어과학회 2020 한국언어과학회 학술대회 Vol.2020 No.10

The colloquial discourse particle ‘like’ has attracted some attention in the pragmatics and semantics literature. This particle is of interest to linguists because of its varied usage and properties. Past analyses have treated it as a hedge, approximator, and focus particle. Good empirical evidence and analysis exists for its hedging functions, but the proposals related to focus have not been so well developed. If it indeed has focus marking properties, it is not clear what kind of focus is involved, or how that can be reconciled with its hedging functions. For this presentation, two small sets of conversational data are examined, showing that it shows both hedging and focusing functions. This talk will sketch out a possible hypothesis that could explain its focusing functions, and how that might be reconcilable with its hedging functions. Such a hypothesis indicates that it has interesting pragmatic properties that deserve further research.