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The 1961 Kampong Bukit Ho Swee fire and the making of modern Singapore
Get PDFBy 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
Income Tax Preparation System / Ku Seng Lip
No full textFinal year thesis is one of major requirements to fulfill Bachelor Degree in Computer Science at University Malaya, We need to develop a system alone or in one group from beginning stage of literature survey until the system was delivered. I had been chosen to develop a system so call income tax preparation system, which require assisting taxpayers to prepare the return forms and furnish estimate of the tax payable for the year of assessment. At the same time calculate tax to be pay to Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri Malaysia (LHDN) by monthly payments. The system will
be developed for individual taxpayers assist them self-assess their income tax electronically My friend Mr. Lee Hong Yin and I will work together to develop this system.
The reason why I choose this topic is because I am interest with the Self-Assessment System that will fully applicable by LHDN to the individual taxpayers or employee in year of 2004. The Self-Assessment System requires taxpayers self-assess the tax to be paid for the current year of assessment. After Self-Assessment System fully applicable to the taxpayers, the Income Tax Preparation System will be very useful for the taxpayers
Substitusi seng dengan aluminium pada baterai seng - karbon.
Get PDFBaterai merupakan sel elektrokimia yang menghasilkan energi listrik. Baterai seng-karbon menghasilkan voltase sebesar 1,5 Volt. Baterai tersebut menggunakan seng sebagai anoda dan Mn02 sebagai katoda. Logam seng mempu-nyai potensial reduksi standar sebesar -0,76 Volt. Dengan mengganti anoda seng memekai aluminium yang memiliki potensial reduksi standar -1,66 Volt, maka voltase bate¬rai akan menjadi 2,4 Volt, tetapi dalam penelitian hanya 1,585 Volt.
Untuk mengetahui penggunaan aluminium sebgai elek-troda dilakukan percobaan yaitu melepas elektroda seng dan mengganti dengan lempeng aluminium. Kemudian diukur voltase dan kuat arusnya. Untuk mengetahui reaksi yang terjadi pada anoda dilakukan identifikasi cairan yang keluar dari baterai.
Penelitian menhasilkan voltase dan kuat anus baterai aluminium lebih rendah dari bateari seng. Hal ini dapat terjadi karena pemasangan yang kurang sempurna.
Dari penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa voltase dan kuat anus baterai tak hanya ditentukan oleh rekasi redoks, tetapi oleh reaksi lain yang sangat kompleks. Pengaruh teknis perakiatan baterai juga mempengaruhi voltase dan kuat anus baterai. Pada 'baterai seng, seng diubah menjadi Zn2 di anoda. Pada baterai aluminium Al diubah menjadi A13'.
Battery is electrochemical sel which products
electrical energy. Zink-carbon battery products voltage 1,5 Volt. This battery uses zink as anoda and Mn02 as katoda. Zink has -0,76 Volt standard reduction potential. Replacement zink with aluminium which has -1,66 Volt standard reduction potential will product voltage 2,4 Volt. But according to this experiment battery has voltage 1,585 Volt.
In this experiment, replacement zink with aluminium is order to know the utility aluminium as electroda. After that, it is measured voltage electrical current. Liquid identification battery is doing to know a reaction which occur in anoda.
Aliminium produts lower voltage and electrical
current than zink battery. This case can happen if anoda installation does not perfect.
It can concluded that voltage and electrical current of battery just does not only determine by redokx reaction. But it also determine by another reaction which very complex. Organizing battery influences the voltage and electrical current of battery. In a zink battery, the zink will be changed into Zn2+ in the anode. In in aluminium battery, the Al will be changed into A13+.
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Distribution and association of interpregnancy weight change with subsequent pregnancy outcomes in Asian women
No full textThe extent of interpregnancy weight change and its association with subsequent pregnancy outcomes among Asians remain unclear. We examined changes in maternal body mass index (BMI) between the first two deliveries and outcomes in the second delivery. Medical records of women with their first two consecutive deliveries between 2015 and 2020 at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore were retrieved. Gestational-age-adjusted BMI was determined by standardising to 12 weeks gestation and interpregnancy BMI change was calculated as the difference between both pregnancies. Pregnancy outcomes were analysed using modified Poisson regression models. Of 6264 included women with a median interpregnancy interval of 1.44 years, 40.7% had a stable BMI change within ± 1 kg/m2, 10.3% lost > 1 kg/m2, 34.3% gained 1–3 kg/m2 and 14.8% gained ≥ 3 kg/m2. Compared to women with stable BMI change, those with > 1 kg/m2 loss had higher risk of low birthweight (adjusted risk ratio [RR] 1.36; 95% confidence interval 1.02–1.80), while those with 1–3 kg/m2 gain had higher risks of large-for-gestational-age birth (1.16; 1.03–1.31), gestational diabetes (1.25; 1.06–1.49) and emergency Caesarean delivery (1.16; 1.03–1.31); these risks were higher in those with ≥ 3 kg/m2 gain. Our study strengthens the case for interpregnancy weight management to improve subsequent pregnancy outcomes
CUHK electronic theses & dissertations collection
No full textChan, Shing Chee Symphorosa.Thesis M.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2015.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 280-307).Appendix in Chinese.Title from PDF title page (viewed on 30, November, 2016)
Nerve re-innervations by an end-to-side neurorrhaphy of myocutaneous transplantation in rats.
No full textDeveloping Teachers’ Epistemic Agency in a Knowledge Building Community through Cogenerative Dialogues
No full textThe Multiple Dialectics of a Text and Author—A Study on Seng Zhao’s <i>Non-Complete Emptiness</i> (<i>Bu zhenkong lun</i>)
No full textIn discussing the arrival of Buddhism to China, Erik Zürcher describes the meeting of “a jungle of Buddhist metaphysics” with other local philosophies and practices. This period was a transformative encounter with wide-ranging ramifications, including for textual traditions. Non-complete Emptiness (Bu zhenkong lun 不真空論), written by Seng Zhao 僧肇, is one product of this encounter. While explaining the principle of emptiness, Non-complete Emptiness incorporates Daoist and Confucian terminologies and elements. Nevertheless, the text is considered formative for the development of Buddhist writing and practice during the critical period of Buddhism’s assimilation into China in the third to fifth centuries AD. This study of Non-complete Emptiness looks at the philosophical and cultural relevance of the text. It suggests a methodological solution to some of the tensions that have arisen from Seng Zhao’s notion of emptiness. The article begins by looking into the historical and hermeneutical tendencies in the scholarship of Non-complete Emptiness. The following section provides a textual and cultural analysis of the text and its author, viewing the sage as an “open entity”, to understand Seng Zhao’s idea of emptiness. This analysis suggests that a multiple dialectic approach should be followed to improve the understanding of the text’s Buddhist message and Seng Zhao’s position as a scholar-monk in medieval China
Dietary supplement intake and fecundability in a Singapore preconception cohort study
No full textSubfertility is a global problem affecting millions worldwide, with declining total fertility rates. Preconception dietary supplementation may improve fecundability, but the magnitude of impact remains unclear. This prospective cohort study aimed to examine the association of preconception micronutrient supplements with fecundability, measured by time to pregnancy (TTP). The study was conducted at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore, between February 2015 and October 2017, on 908 women aged 18-45 years old, who were trying to conceive and were enrolled in the Singapore PREconception Study of long-Term maternal and child Outcomes (S-PRESTO). Baseline sociodemographic characteristics and supplement intake were collected through face-to-face interviews. The fecundability ratio (FR) was estimated using discrete-time proportional hazard modelling. Adjusting for potentially confounding variables, folic acid (FA) (FR 1.26, 95% confidence interval 1.03–1.56) and iodine (1.28, 1.00–1.65) supplement users had higher fecundability compared to non-users. Conversely, evening primrose oil supplement users had lower fecundability (0.56, 0.31–0.99) than non-users. In this study, preconception FA and iodine supplementation were associated with shortened TTP, while evening primrose oil use was associated with longer TTP. Nonetheless, the association between supplement use and the magnitude of fecundability changes will need to be further confirmed with well-designed randomised controlled trials
The success of the genome-wide association approach: A brief story of a long struggle
No full text10.1038/ejhg.2008.12European Journal of Human Genetics165554-564EJHG
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