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.

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.

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.

이중언어작가 혼돈의 조율 -베케트, 워드싯 그리고 형식의 이슈들

( Kelly S Walsh ) 한국비교문학회 2013 比較文學 Vol.0 No.59

조르주 뒤뛰 (Georges Duthuit) 와의 대화에서 사무엘 베케트는 그의 예술적 정언명령이 표현할 대상도, 수단도 없으며, 표현의 가능성이나 힘도 욕망도 없이, 표현해야할 의무와 더불어 지속되는 어떤 것으로 묘사하고 있다. 주요 작품들을 불어로 쓴 아일랜드 태생의 베케트는 자신의 작품을 추후 영어로 번역하며 모국어와 고국을 스스로 박탈함과 동시에 강박적으로 그것으로 회귀하고자 하는 경향을 보여준다. 이러한 미적 감수성과 작품의 이중적 존재와 더불어 그는 자신의 것이자 자신의 것이 아니기도 한 독특하고, 낯선 미지의 목소리를 창출해낸다. 따라서 우리가 그의 작품을 모던하고 트랜스내셔널하다고 말할 때, 그것은 바로 그러한 특성이 패러독스이자 아포리임을 받아들이는 것을 의미한다. 요컨대 그의 주인공들은 점점 한갖 글쓰는 목소리들로 격하되어, 마침 그들이 언어와 의미의 혼돈 속에 빠져있을 때에 뿌리상실과 이해불가능성의 첨예한 감각을 표현하는 것이다. 그러한 목소리들이 무관심으로부터 벗어나고자 혼돈을 조율하려 시도하고 또 실패하면서, 그것들은 불가피하게 - 문법 속의 신과 더불어, 의미를 부여할 종결에 대한 믿음이 없는 - 하나의 긴 문장임이 드러난다. <무(無)를 위한 텍스트들> 과 <어떤가요> 와 같은 작품들은 무능과 실패의 독특하고 역동적인 미학을 실행시키면 서구문명의 잔해와 화석으로부터 일관된 정체성을 형성하는 일의 실패들을 그리고 있다. 완성되지도 종결되지도, 그렇다고 무(無)를 성취하지도 못하면서 목소리들은 결국에는 그것들을 지지하는 혼돈에 더 많은 워드싯을 더하면서 지속된다. 이러한 패러독스에서 베케트가 이끌어내는 결코 잠재울 수 없을 듯한 에너지를 통해 우리는 단지 혼돈 속에 머무는 것에서 어떤 고통스러운 감동과 찬탄을 발견하게 된다.

Eating on the Insane Root

Kelly S. Walsh 한국셰익스피어학회 2011 셰익스피어 비평 Vol.47 No.2

At the conclusion of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the entrance of Macduff, bearing Macbeth’s severed head on a pike, sets off mirthful celebration. Evil, it seems, has been mercilessly punished and all that had been foul in Scotland is now fair. There is, however, something excessive and incongruous about this gruesome thing, the sightless head that was Macbeth’s, juxtaposed against the optimism of the victors. For us, who have watched Macbeth’s precipitous rise and decline, we find scant comfort in the synecdotal assassination of a man who saw so deeply and intensely into an abyss of horrors. The profound ambivalence-a complex affect mingling revulsion, desire, terror, and regret-we experience in witnessing Macbeth’s precipitous rise and fall, I believe, can be accounted for by synthesizing Sigmund Freud’s notion of the uncanny and theories of the sublime put forth by such figures as Immanuel Kant, and Edmund Burke. Macbeth’s persistent and strange power, then, emerges from its awareness of a compulsion to unearth the “old and long familiar” (what Freud would later deem “the uncanny”), as well as its poetic power to intimate the infinite, the unknowable, the unthinkable-that is, the sublime. In the end, we are left to ponder the greatness of Macbeth’s visionary capacity, the uncanniness that transforms “horrible imaginings” into all-too-real deeds, and the utterly compelling staging of evil that, through a man who dared to eat “on the insane root,” signals towards an infinite, untotalizable whole that overflows the mind’s capacity to grasp it.

Civic Engagement of Older Adults in a Northern City of Canada

Kelly Gingrich, Parveen Nangia 한국캐나다학회 2023 Asia-Pacific Journal of Canadian Studies (APJCS) Vol.29 No.2

Civic engagement is considered virtuous for the citizens as it enhances individual and social well-being. With age, interest and capability of participation in civic activities may decline. This study is part of a larger study on quality of life of older adults in Greater Sudbury. It is based on interviews with 20 citizens over the age of 80 years and examines their civic engagement. The participants were selected through a combination of purposive and snowball sampling designs. During the face-to-face interviews, they were asked questions about the rights of citizens in general and their own involvement in political and voluntary activities. The findings of the study indicate that the older adults in the city consider it their duty to cast vote in elections at all levels, however, they are disappointed with the politicians who either fail to keep their promises or adopt policies that counter social welfare, particularly the welfare of older adults. They also expressed their concerns about many local issues. Their participation in voluntary activities waned down to mostly helping their family and friends, though some of them still supported their community in different ways. Their active participation in civic activities could be enhanced by overcoming some of the age-related challenges.

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

Assessment of the mechanical properties of the muscle-tendon unit by supersonic shear wave imaging elastography: a review

Kelly Mônica Marinho e Lima,José Francisco Silva Costa Júnior,Wagner Coelho de Albuquerque Pereira,Liliam Fernandes de Oliveira 대한초음파의학회 2018 ULTRASONOGRAPHY Vol.37 No.1

This review aimed to describe the state of the art in muscle-tendon unit (MTU) assessment by supersonic shear wave imaging (SSI) elastography in states of muscle contraction and stretching, during aging, and in response to injury and therapeutic interventions. A consensus exists that MTU elasticity increases during passive stretching or contraction, and decreases after static stretching, electrostimulation, massage, and dry needling. There is currently no agreement regarding changes in the MTU due to aging and injury. Currently, the application of SSI for the purpose of diagnosis, rehabilitation, and physical training remains limited by a number of issues, including the lack of normative value ranges, the lack of consensus regarding the appropriate terminology, and an inadequate understanding of the main technical limitations of this novel technology

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.

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.