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Worship... Up Above and Down Below / Idol : All the Stars in Our Worlds...
No full textIn this artist's book by Ho Tam, images from the mass media of television are juxtaposed with those from labels from Chinese food products
Les plus belles histoires jamais racontées
No full text"Greatest Stories is a collection of fables, fairy tales and urban legends, inspired by the collages of images from international banknotes. Humorous and satirical, all writings and artwork are written and created by the neurotic mind of Ho Tam." -- Site web de l'éditeu
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
Westward Ho : A Guided Tour
No full textCatalogue and twenty-one cards to accompany a group exhibition of contemporary art from Nova Scotia, initiated by the Contemporary Arts Projects Society (CAPS) and curated by Oscar Ho Hing-Kay (Exhibitions Director of the Hong Kong Art Centre). While describing the curatorial process for this series of seven two-person exhibitions, Hing-Kay compares the act of being a curator to that of being a superficial visitor (tourist). The cards contain brief interpretations of the artworks, photographic documentation, brief biographical notes on the artists and images of popular Nova Scotian icons (used to indicate the location of the artworks). 2 bibl. ref
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Study of Ho-doped Bi2Te3 topological insulator thin films
No full textThis publication arises from research funded by the John Fell Oxford University Press (OUP) Research Fund and the Research Complex at Harwell is acknowledged for their hospitality. This work was supported by a DARPA MESO project (No. N66001-11-1-4105). S.E.H. was supported by the VPGE (Stanford University). L.C.M. and A.A.B. acknowledge partial financial support from EPSRC (UK) through a Doctoral Training Award. Diamond Light Source is acknowledged for beamtime on I10 (proposal SI10207).Breaking time-reversal symmetry through magnetic doping of topological insulators has been identified as a key strategy for unlocking exotic physical states. Here, we report the growth of Bi2Te3 thin films doped with the highest magnetic moment element Ho. Diffraction studies demonstrate high quality films for up to 21% Ho incorporation. Superconducting quantum interference device magnetometry reveals paramagnetism down to 2 K with an effective magnetic moment of ∼5 μB/Ho. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy shows that the topological surface state remains intact with Ho doping, consistent with the material's paramagnetic state. The large saturation moment achieved makes these films useful for incorporation into heterostructures, whereby magnetic order can be introduced via interfacial coupling.Peer reviewe
HO-1 induction promotes M2 macrophage polarisation.
No full textRAW 264.7 cells were transfected with siRNA HO-1 and siRNA NC (non-correlated). (A) RT-qPCR analysis of HO-1 mRNA in cells transfected 48 hours after transfection. Cells were treated with SP (10 μM) and/or LPS (100 ng/ml) for 24 hours and mRNA expression of selected genes was evaluated by RT-qPCR (B) IL-6 mRNA expression (C) TNF-α mRNA expression (D) Arg1 mRNA expression (E) IL-10 mRNA expression and (F) Rel A mRNA expression. The data are mean ±SD of two separate experiments, each of which was performed in triplicate. **p < 0.01 versus siRNA NC.</p
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
Sosibia qiongensis Ho 2013
No full textSosibia qiongensis Ho, 2013 E/T Sosibia qiongensis, Ho, 2013a: 824, figs. 13–16. Types. Holotype: ♀, Exianling Limestone Forest, Dongfang, Hainan, China, 4.IV.2011, George Ho Wai-Chun (KFBG); Paratypes: 1♂ & 1♀, Exianling Limestone Forest, Dongfang, Hainan, China, 4.IV.2011, George Ho Wai- Chun (1♂ in KFBG & 1♀ in GH); 1♀, Yinggeling Nature Reserve, Baisha, Hainan, China, 28.IX.2010, George Ho Wai-Chun (KFBG); 1♂ & 1♀, Jianfengling National Nature Reserve, Ledong, Hainan, China, 16.IV.2011, George Ho Wai-Chun (SYSBM); 1♂ & 2♀♀, Yinggeling Nature Reserve, Baisha, Hainan, China, 16–17.VI.2011, George Ho Wai-Chun (GH); 1♀, Huishan Nature Reserve, Qionghai, Hainan, China, 2.VII.2011, George Ho Wai-Chun (GH); 1♀, Shangxi Nature Reserve, Wanning, Hainan, China, 4.VII.2011, George Ho Wai-Chun (GH); 1♀, Wuzhishan National Nature Reserve, Hainan, China, 10.VII.2011, George Ho Wai-Chun (GH); 1♂, Jianfengling National Nature Reserve, Ledong, Hainan, China, 12.VII.2011, George Ho Wai-Chun (GH). Distribution. Hainan (Exianling, Huishan, Jianfengling, Shangxi, Yinggeling and Wuzhishan), China.Published as part of Ho, George Wai-Chun, 2016, Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Phasmatodea III: Catalogue of the phasmids of Hainan Island, China, with descriptions of one new genus, one new species and two new subspecies and proposals of three new combinations, pp. 314-340 in Zootaxa 4150 (3) on page 328, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/25841
Neoqiongphasma diaoluoshanense Ho 2013
No full textNeoqiongphasma diaoluoshanense Ho, 2013 E/T Neoqiongphasma diaoluoshanensis, Ho, 2013d: 408, figs. 1–3, 44. Type. Holotype: ♀, Diaoluoshan National Nature Reserve, Lingshui, Hainan, China, 7.VII.2011, George Ho Wai- Chun (SYSBM). Distribution. Hainan (Diaoluoshan), China.Published as part of Ho, George Wai-Chun, 2016, Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Phasmatodea III: Catalogue of the phasmids of Hainan Island, China, with descriptions of one new genus, one new species and two new subspecies and proposals of three new combinations, pp. 314-340 in Zootaxa 4150 (3) on page 321, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/25841
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