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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
Configuration Control of Aerospace Structures with Smart Materials
No full textThis article introduces some analytical and experimental researches on the application of smart materials, especially shape memory alloys (SMAs)and FBG optical fibers to control the shape and vibration of aerospace structures such as the inflated cylindrical beam and wing. In the first section, the methodology for adjusting the configuration of inflated cylindrical using SMA thin is presented. The second one is about the aeroelastic characteristic of Smart Composite Wing fabricated using SMA actuators and a FBG optical fiber sensor
Adaptive Thermal Post-buckling Responses of Shape Memory Hybrid Composite Shell Panel
No full textThis research was performed for the Smart UAV Development program, one of the 21st Century Frontier R&D Programs funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Korea
Kim Il Sung, the great man of the century.
No full text"The editorial board publishes in translation the essay written by Han Myong Ho, a Korean expatriate, in 1992 in two volumes."--leaf preceding t.p
Synergy between Zeolite Framework and Encapsulated Sulfur for Enhanced Ion-Exchange Selectivity to Radioactive Cesium
No full textTo eliminate the radioisotope 137Cs+ from contaminated water, various inorganic ion-exchange materials have been developed. Many selective ion-exchange materials are relatively expensive and difficult to prepare, whereas conventional materials such as aluminosilicate zeolites lack ion-exchange selectivity in the presence of competing cations. Here, we report a simple but powerful strategy to significantly increase the Cs+ selectivity of conventional zeolites. We demonstrate that encapsulation of elemental sulfur in the micropores of zeolites (NaA, NaX, chabazite, and mordenite) via vacuum sublimation can remarkably increase the selectivity toward Cs+ in the presence of competing ions. It appears that the elemental sulfur does not provide additional adsorption sites for Cs+ ions but increases the ion-exchange selectivity toward Cs+ by providing additional interaction. Various analyses show that sulfur partially donates its electron to the ion-exchanged Cs+ cations in zeolites, indicating significant Lewis acid–base interaction. According to the hard soft acid base (HSAB) theory, the enhanced Cs+ ion-exchange selectivity can be explained by the fact that sulfur, a soft Lewis base, interacts more strongly with Cs+, which is a softer Lewis acid than other alkali and alkaline earth metal cations. Because of the high intrinsic Cs+ selectivity of bare zeolites and selectivity enhancement resulting from sulfur encapsulation, the sulfur-modified chabazite and mordenite showed highly promising Cs+ capture ability in the presence of various competing ions.
ALWPs Improve Cognitive Function and Regulate A beta Plaque and Tau Hyperphosphorylation in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease
No full textRecently, we reported that ALWPs, which we developed by combining Liuwei Dihuang pills (LWPs) with antler, regulate the LPS-induced neuroinflammatory response and rescue LPS-induced short- and long-term memory impairment in wild-type (WT) mice. In the present study, we examined the effects of ALWPs on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology and cognitive function in WT mice as well as 5x FAD mice (a mouse model of AD). We found that administration of ALWPs significantly reduced amyloid plaque levels in 5x FAD mice and significantly decreased amyloid β (Aβ) levels in amyloid precursor protein (APP)-overexpressing H4 cells. In addition, ALWPs administration significantly suppressed tau hyperphosphorylation in 5x FAD mice. Oral administration of ALWPs significantly improved long-term memory in scopolamine (SCO)-injected WT mice and 5x FAD mice by altering dendritic spine density. Importantly, ALWPs promoted spinogenesis in primary hippocampal neurons and WT mice and modulated the dendritic spine number in an extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK)-dependent manner. Taken together, our results suggest that ALWPs are a candidate therapeutic drug for AD that can modulate amyloid plaque load, tau phosphorylation, and synaptic/cognitive function. © Copyright © 2019 Nam, Joo, Lee, Han, Ryu, Koh, Kim, Koo, We and Hoe.1
Ho! Fill me a Tankard
No full textA man drinks and insults Puritanshttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/1789/thumbnail.jp
“The Shame of Being a Man”?: Masculinity and Shamefulness in Peter Ho Davies’s A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself (2021)
No full textOften drawing on a misogynistic psychoanalytical tradition that perpetuates gender stereotypes, guilt has generally been considered a “masculinised” affect, while shame has often been “feminised,” apparently causing men and women to write shame differently. Scholars have often concluded that while women tend to write themselves out of shame, men have frequently written shame in abstract philosophical terms, displaced it onto female bodies or tried to coin glory from it. These alleged differences between men’s and women’s writing in/about shame have been taken as an indicator that shame organises women’s personal sense of self but is never the baseline condition of being a man. However, this article proposes that Peter Ho Davies’s A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself (2021), a narrative about the aftermath of an abortion, can be read as an exploration of the shame ofbeing a man in contemporary postfeminist society. The text investigates the legitimacy of the shame experienced by privileged subjects and demonstrates that the pro-feminist stance of its author/protagonist goes beyond mere imposture. In his exploration of male shamefulness, Davies’s writing aligns itself with the criticised female (or feminised) tradition of “oversharing” and vindicates the feminist adage that “t he personal ispolitical.”Partiendo con frecuencia de una tradición psicoanalítica misógina que perpetúa estereotipos de género, por lo general se ha considerado que la culpa es un afecto “masculinizado,” mientras q ue a la vergüenza se la ha “feminizado,” haciendo que parezca que hombres y mujeres escriben la vergüenza de forma diferente. A lgunos académicos han llegado a la conclusión de que, si bien las mujeres han tratado de exorcizar la vergüenza por medio de la escritura, con frecuencia los hombres han escrito la vergüenza en términos filosóficos abstractos, la han desplazado a cuerpos femeninos o han tratado de vanagloriase a través de ella. Estas supuestas diferencias entre la escritura que hombres y mujeres hacen con o sobre la vergüenza se ha tomado como un indicador de que la vergüenza ejerce un rol fundamental en la construcción de la identidad de las mujeres, pero nunca es la condición básica de ser un hombre. Sin embargo, este artículo propone que A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself (2021), de Peter Ho Davies, una narración sobre las secuelas de un aborto, puede entenderse como una exploración de la vergüenza de ser hombre en la sociedad posfeminista contemporánea. El texto investiga la legitimidad de la vergüenza experimentada por sujetos privilegiados y demuestra que la postura pro-feminista de su autor/protagonista es más que simple impostura. En su exploración de la vergüenza masculina, la escritura de Davies se alinea con la criticada tradición femenina (o feminizada) del “ oversharing” y reivindica el adagio feminista de que “lo personal es político.
The use of interdisciplinary seminars for the development of caring dispositions in nursing and social work students
No full textAuthor name used in this publication: Amy Ho Po-yingAuthor name used in this publication: Jenny Hui Man-chun2009-2010 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalVersion of RecordPublishedPublisher permissio
The Relationship Between Pretend Play and Playfulness in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/30/2017
This study explored the relationship between pretend play and playfulness in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Our findings suggest that it is important to assist children with ASD to engage in pretend play, for doing so could promote their internal experience of playfulness.
Primary Author and Speaker: Hsiu-Man Chiu
Additional Authors and Speakers: Kuan-Lin Chen
Contributing Authors: Ya-Chen Lee, Cheng-Te Chen, Chien-Ho Lin, Yu-Ching Lin</jats:p
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