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The 1961 Kampong Bukit Ho Swee fire and the making of modern Singapore
No full textBy 1970, Singapore’s urban landscape was dominated by high-rise blocks of planned public housing built by the People’s Action Party government, signifying the establishment of a high modernist nation-state. A decade earlier, the margins of the City had been dominated by kampongs, home to semi-autonomous communities of low-income Chinese families which freely built, and rebuilt, unauthorised wooden houses. This change was not merely one of housing but belied a more fundamental realignment of state-society relations in the 1960s. Relocated in Housing and Development Board flats, urban kampong families were progressively integrated into the social fabric of the emergent nation-state. This study examines the pivotal role of an event, the great Kampong Bukit Ho Swee fire of 1961, in bringing about this transformation. The redevelopment of the fire site in the aftermath of the calamity brought to completion the British colonial regime’s ‘emergency’ programmes of resettling urban kampong dwellers in planned accommodation, in particular, of building emergency public housing on the sites of major fires in the 1950s. The PAP’s far greater political resolve, and the timing of and state of emergency occasioned by the scale of the 1961 disaster, enabled the government to rehouse the Bukit Ho Swee fire victims in emergency housing in record time. This in turn provided the HDB with a strategic platform for clearing other kampongs and for transforming their residents into model citizens of the nation-state. The 1961 fire’s symbolic usefulness extended into the 1980s and beyond, in sanctioning the PAP’s new housing redevelopment schemes. The official account of the inferno has also become politically useful for the government of today for disciplining a new generation of Singaporeans against taking the nation’s progress for granted. Against these exalted claims of the fire’s role in the Singapore Story, this study also examines the degree of actual change and continuity in the social and economic lives of the people of Bukit Ho Swee after the inferno. In some crucial ways, the residents continued to occupy a marginal place in society while pondering, too, over the unresolved question of the cause of the fire. These continuities of everyday life reflect the ambivalence with which the citizenry regarded the high modernist state in contemporary Singapore
FROM PHILOSOPHY TO HO CHI MINH'S IDEOLOGY
No full textAbstract: The article points out that Ho Chi Minh is a typical philosopher whose core is political philosophy, thereby clarifying Ho Chi Minh’s ideology and practicing Ho Chi Minh’s ideology in Vietnam.
Keywords: Philosophy, ideology, Ho Chi Minh.
Title: FROM PHILOSOPHY TO HO CHI MINH’S IDEOLOGY
Author: Dr. Nguyen Thi Hong Hai
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
Vol. 11, Issue 2, April 2023 - June 2023
Page No: 121-126
Research Publish Journals
Website: www.researchpublish.com
Published Date: 25-April-2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7861846
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Low back pain and risk factors for low back pain in car drivers
No full textThe cause of low back pain in populations of professional drivers is uncertain. A literature review
revealed factors that seem to be associated with low back pain (e.g. physical factors: exposure to
whole body-vibration, prolonged sitting posture, frequent lifting, pushing and pulling, lack of physical
fitness; psychosocial factors: job satisfaction or stress; individual factors: age, gender,
anthropometrics, tobacco, alcohol consumption, etc.).
This thesis investigates the occurrence of back pain in professional car drivers – a group found to
be not focussed upon in previous epidemiological studies. The thesis seeks to advance
understanding of response relationships between risk factors and low back pain in populations of
car drivers (209 taxi drivers and 365 police drivers) and 485 non-drivers. A longitudinal study with
cross-sectional baseline combined with field measurement of driving in selected vehicles was
performed to investigate the occurrence of musculoskeletal problems (mainly low back pain) and
the relationship between risk factors and low back pain experienced for at least one day during the
past 12 months in the two populations of professional drivers (taxi drivers and police drivers) and
professional non-drivers.
The cross-sectional baseline of the longitudinal study revealed that 45% (38.3-51.7%) of taxi
drivers, 53% (48-58.6%)of police drivers and 46% (41-50.1%) of police non-drivers reported low
back pain for at least one day during the past 12-months (p = 0.09). The prevalence of low back
pain in the non-driving population of police employees fell within prevalence range reported by
professional car drivers in this study and in previous epidemiological studies. The cross-sectional
study revealed risk factors associated with the prevalence of low back pain (i.e., stature, previous
physical demands, increased psychosomatic distress, daily and cumulative driving in taxi drivers;
age, lifting, bending, increase psychosomatic distress in police drivers; stature, bending, increased
psychosomatic distress in police non-drivers).
Measurements of whole-body vibration in selected taxi and police vehicles revealed frequencyweighted
accelerations in the dominant vibration direction (i.e., z-axis) to be 0.47 ms-2 r.m.s. in taxi
vehicles and 0.58 ms-2 r.m.s. in police vehicles.
A study of cumulative exposure to whole-body vibration in a group of taxi drivers pointed to a
possible overestimation of their self-estimated duration of vibration exposure by 31% on average.
The longitudinal study revealed a lower incidence of low back pain in taxi drivers than in both
police drivers and police non-drivers (p = 0.02). The difference might be attributed to a different
approach to low back pain in taxi drivers who lose income if unable to work. An alternative
explanation for increased low back pain among police employees could be that taxi drivers with low
back pain leave their profession and were excluded from the follow-up study – a healthy worker
effect.
The longitudinal study revealed that increased psychosomatic distress was a risk factor
associated with the development of new episodes of low back pain in all three of the studied
populations (i.e. taxi drivers and police drivers and non-drivers).
In police drivers, increased daily duration of driving was a risk factor for the development of low
back pain. Although the results point to increased incidence of low back pain with increasing
duration of daily driving, non-drivers were at a similar risk of developing of low back pain. Plausible
explanations for this finding include ergonomic factors that were present for both the drivers and the
non-drivers (e.g., the duration of sitting or duration in a constrained posture) and the presence of
other risk factors not investigated in the study but associated with increased incidence of low back
pain in non-drivers
Cooling rates of neutron stars and the young neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant
No full textWe explore the thermal state of the neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant using the recent result of Ho & Heinke that the thermal radiation of this star is well described by a carbon atmosphere model and the emission comes from the entire stellar surface. Starting from neutron star cooling theory, we formulate a robust method to extract neutrino cooling rates of thermally relaxed stars at the neutrino cooling stage from observations of thermal surface radiation. We show how to compare these rates with the rates of standard candles – stars with non-superfluid nucleon cores cooling slowly via the modified Urca process. We find that the internal temperature of standard candles is a well-defined function of the stellar compactness parameter x=rg/R, irrespective of the equation of state of neutron star matter (R and rg are circumferential and gravitational radii, respectively). We demonstrate that the data on the Cassiopeia A neutron star can be explained in terms of three parameters: f?, the neutrino cooling efficiency with respect to the standard candle; the compactness x; and the amount of light elements in the heat-blanketing envelope. For an ordinary (iron) heat-blanketing envelope or a low-mass (? 10?13 M?) carbon envelope, we find the efficiency f?? 1 (standard cooling) for x? 0.5 and f?? 0.02 (slower cooling) for a maximum compactness x? 0.7. A heat blanket containing the maximum mass (?10?8 M?) of light elements increases f? by a factor of 50. We also examine the (unlikely) possibility that the star is still thermally non-relaxe
Write back routine for JFFS2 efficient I/O
No full textWhen flash memory is used as a storage in embedded systems, block level translation layer is required between conventional filesystem and flash memory chips due to its physical characteristics. A far more efficient use of it is the design of a filesystem itself without no extra layer of translation. However, since flash filesystem does not use block device layer, it cannot utilize deferred I/O although deferred I/O enhances write latency by delaying the flushing jobs. Linux operating system generally uses the write back routine for deferred I/O using kernel thread, which writes back dirty pages and buffers through the block device layer. In this paper, we design and implement efficient I/O for JFFS2 flash filesystem based on flash memory. For this, we first analyze the write procedure of JFFS2 filesystem in detail, and derive the drawback and overhead. Then, we design the flash write back routine for deferred I/O. We apply it to the Linux JFFS2 by implementing f flush and flash-writeback kernel thread. The designed flash write back routine can reduce average write latency when the kernel buffers are enough to get the users data
Factors influencing the continuance intention of Momo e-wallet: An empirical study using sem in Can Tho and Ho Chi Minh City
No full textThe research aims to identify the factors that influence continuance intention towards the MoMo e-wallet of customers living in Can Tho and Ho Chi Minh City. This study extends the Theory of Planned Behavior and Technology Acceptance Model by integrating situational normality and security perceptions in fintech adoption. Using a convenient sampling technique, the author has collected data from 248 respondents in Can Tho and Ho Chi Minh City, then proceeded to analyze the data to achieve research objectives. Accordingly, descriptive statistics, Cronbach’s Alpha reliability test, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling analysis methods were performed thoughout the thesis. The results reveal that all thirteen hypothesized paths are statistically significant. Out of the accepted results, Trust significantly impacts continuance intention (β = 0.58, p < 0.01), while perceived security has a moderate effect (β = 0.41, p < 0.05), are the most profound because they explain the success of MoMo in the highly competitive market of fintech and banking apps. Also, there is a significant means difference in terms of continuance intention among people in Can Tho City and Ho Chi Minh City
Sin Chae-ho, historical science and nationalism (On the origin of Korean historiography)
No full textThe paper is devoted to the historical works of the outstanding Korean enlightener Sin Chae-ho (1880–1936). His position was fundamentally uncompromising; after the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910, he never came back to its territory. In the period of 1905–1910, he published a number of historical works in which he outlined his own methodology. As an activist of the Korean liberation movement, Sin Chae-ho was an apologist for nationalist historiography. He regarded the historical process as a struggle between “we” and “not-we” and the nation as a whole was recognized as its subject. Its main task was the awakening of the national spirit, the awakening of the Korean nation, and the search for its deep historical roots and the independence of the history of Korea from the history of China. In line with the theses on the struggle of races, Sin Chae-ho based his ideas on the theories by the outstanding Chinese historian Liang Qichao (1873–1929) about the struggle between “historical” and “non-historical” nations. An indicator of the attitude toward historical people is external expansion. However, Koreans were unique, because they are directed outward against the traitors of the homeland and the “universalists” that consistently suppressed the national spirit. In modern Korea, Sin Chae-ho is recognized as one of the founders of national historiography; Lee Ki-baik creatively developed many of his views
Het Ho-Lee rentemodel
No full textHet verslag legt het rentemodel van Ho en Lee uit en bekijkt verschillende eigenschappen van dit model, waaronder het arbitragevrij zijn en de kalibratie van het model.Technische WiskundeMathematicsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Tactile thresholds are preserved yet complex sensory function is impaired over the lumbar spine of chronic non-specific low back pain patients. A preliminary investigation
No full textObjectives: To investigate impairments in sensory function in chronic non-specific low back pain patients and the relationship between any impairment and the clinical features of the condition. Design: A cross-sectional case-control study. Setting: Laboratory based study. Participants: Nineteen chronic non-specific low back pain patients and nineteen healthy controls. Main Outcome measures: Tactile threshold, two point discrimination distance and accuracy at a task involving recognizing letters drawn over the skin of the lower back (graphaesthesia) were assessed over the lumbar spine in both groups. Pain duration, pain intensity, physical function, anxiety and depression were assessed by questionnaire in the back pain group Results: We found no difference in tactile threshold between the two groups (median difference 0.00 95% CI -0.04 – 0.04). There was a significant difference between controls and back pain patients for two point discrimination (mean difference 17.85 95% CI 5.93 – 29.77) and graphaesthesia accuracy (mean difference 6.13 95% CI 1.27-10.99). Low back pain patients had a larger lumbar two point discrimination distance threshold and a greater letter recognition error rate. In the patient group, we found no relationship between clinical profile and sensory function and no relationship between the sensory tests. Conclusions: These data support existing findings of perceptual abnormalities in chronic non-specific low back pain patients and are suggestive of cortical rather than peripheral sensory dysfunction. Amelioration of these abnormalities may present a target for therapeutic intervention
Westward ho!
No full textGift of Dr. Mary Jane Esplen.Piano vocal [instrumentation]Come you heroes strong and ready! Hear you not the bugles call? [first line]Westward Ho! follow the lonesome trail Westward Ho! [first line of chorus]G major [key]Tempo di Marcia [tempo]Popular song [form/genre]Horses, men, wagons [illustration]Inspired by and dedicated to Jesse L. Lasky's marvellous film production "The Covered Wagon" [dedication]Publisher's advertisement on back cover [note
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