Book Review: In Search of Identity: Debates on Religious Conversion in India

A review of In Search of Identity: Debates on Religious Conversion in India by Sebastian C. H. Kim

Introducing the sequential linear programming level-set method for topology optimization

The authors would like to thank Numerical Analysis Group at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory for their FORTRAN HSL packages (HSL, a collection of Fortran codes for large-scale scientific computation. See http://www.hsl.rl.ac.uk/). Dr H Alicia Kim acknowledges the support from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, grant number EP/M002322/1Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Marina La Malinche: Writing Across Cultures

Tulisan ini membahas karya pengarang perempuan Prancis, Kim Lefévre. Lefévredilahirkan di Vietnam dari ayah Prancis dan ibu Vietnam—ia sendiri kini tinggal di Prancis.Karya-karya autobiografinya berkenaan dengan kompleksitas identitas campurannya. Dalamkarya novelnya Marina la Malinche, ia menyajikan kehidupan seorang wanita penerjemah,Malinche, selama invasi Spanyol di Meksiko. Malinche saat ini dianggap oleh orang Meksikosebagai pengkhianat bangsa. Dalam novel itu Lefévre menggunakan tokoh Malinche sebagaicermin problem identitasnya. Penerjemah hanyalah seorang “pengkhianat” ketika ia menjadikorban kekuatan di luar dirinya

SRAD Director\u27s Corner: Understanding North Korea and the Key to Security in East Asia

In the third installment of the SRAD Director’s Corner, Colonel George Shatzer focuses on North Korea and the Kim family regime. He reviews Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer’s Insights into North Korea’s Enigmatic Young Dictator by Jung H. Pak and Rationality in the North Korean Regime: Understanding the Kims’ Strategy of Provocation by David W. Shin and shows how these books might help readers better understand North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un and the implications of his actions for US foreign and military policy in the region. The books also provide insights for strategists attempting to plan for security in East Asia

Comment on ``Large Slip of Aqueous Liquid Flow over a Nanoengineered Superhydrophobic Surface'' by C-H Choi and C Kim

In a recent Letter (Phys. Rev. Lett. vol 96, 066001 (2006), ref [1]), Choi and Kim reported slip lengths of a few tens of microns for water on nanoengineered superhydrophobic surfaces, on the basis of rheometry (cone-and-plate) measurements. We show that the experimental uncertainty in the experiment of Ref. [1], expressed in term of slip lengths, lies in the range 20 - 100 micrometers, which is precisely the order of magnitude of the reported slip lengths. Moreover we point out a systematic bias expected on the superhydrophobic surfaces. We thus infer that it is not possible to draw out any conclusion concerning the existence of huge slip lengths in the system studied by Choi and Kim.Comment: to appear in Physical Review Letter

Review of The Politics of War: Canada’s Afghanistan Mission, 2001-14 by Jean-Christophe Boucher and Kim Richard Nossal

Review of The Politics of War: Canada’s Afghanistan Mission, 2001-14 by Jean-Christophe Boucher and Kim Richard Nossal

Review of The Politics of War: Canada’s Afghanistan Mission, 2001-14 by Jean-Christophe Boucher and Kim Richard Nossal

Review of The Politics of War: Canada’s Afghanistan Mission, 2001-14 by Jean-Christophe Boucher and Kim Richard Nossal

Four Discussions from the September 2019 ACI Structural Journal

Disc. 116-S113/From the September 2019 ACI Structural Journal, p. 201 Reinforcement Limits for Reinforced Concrete Elements with High-Strength Steel. Paper by A. W. Puranam and S. Pujol Disc. 116-S117/From the September 2019 ACI Structural Journal, p. 247 Novel Empirical Expression to Predict Shear Strength of Reinforced Concrete Walls Based on Particle Swarm. Paper by Hadi Baghi, Hani Baghi, and Sasan Siavashi Disc. 116-S141/From the November 2019 ACI Structural Journal, p. 251 Torsional Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Beams with High-Strength Steel Bars. Paper by C. Kim, S. Kim, K.-H. Kim, D. Shin, M. Haroon, and J.-Y. Lee Disc. 117-S04/From the January 2020 ACI Structural Journal, p. 43 Bond Behavior of 0.6 in. (15.2 mm) Prestressing Strand in Beltic Calcium Sulfoaluminate (BCSA) Cement Concrete. Paper by T. M. Bowser, C. D. Murray and R. W. Floy