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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
Chinese literary works translated into Baba Malay: a bibliographical study
No full textAnalyses 68 unique titles of Baba translated works published between 1889 and 1950. The titles are held in the libraries of the University of Malaya (UM), Science University Malaysia (USM), National University of Malaysia (UKM), the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP), National University of Singapore (NUS), National Library of Singapore (NLS) and the British Library (BL). The results reveal three periods of active publication of Baba translated works. A total of 18 works were translated before World War I, followed by 10 just after the war, 39 titles were published before the break of the World War II and 1 was identified in 1950. There were 103 persons involved in the 68 translated works, some of whom are responsible for more than one title. The most prominent translators were Chan Kim Boon, Wan Boon Seng, Seow Chin San and Lee Seng Poh. Some of the translators were also be editors, illustrators or editors. There were 31 publishers and 21 printing presses involved, all were located in Singapore. The most active publishers were Wan Boon Seng, Kim Seck Chy Press and Nanyang Romanised Malay Book Co. The translated works mainly cover historical classical Chinese stories, chivalrous stories, romances, folklore and legends. The titles were priced between 10 cents to 2 dollars in Straits currency. The University of Malaya Library held the largest number of unique title (62) out of which 15 were unique titles
Facilitators and barriers of human papillomavirus vaccine uptake in young females 18–26 years old in Singapore: A qualitative study
No full text10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.08.053Vaccin
Adaptive caching in a distributed file system
No full textEffective file system caching reduces local disk accesses and remote file server accesses significantly. Traditional file systems use fixed strategies to control caching. This thesis shows that a file system with adaptive caching achieves better performance than traditional file systems.Our file system implements multiple caching strategies and permits performance tuning through customized caching strategies. It adapts to the computing environment by selecting strategies suitable for the environment. It observes file accesses and uses the observed behaviors to anticipate and predict future behaviors. It adapts to different file access behaviors by modifying caching strategies. It does not depend on the application or the user for caching hints but will utilize hints when provided.Experiments with two large workloads having distinct file access characteristics show that adaptive file caching consistently outperforms non-adaptive caching. Adaptive file caching can reduce runtime by 36.6%, cache misses by 20.6%, and network load by 24.2%.In addition, this work also includes innovations in file system architecture. They include continuations for highly-concurrent asynchronous remote accesses, and zombies for efficient memory reclamation.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:26:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Adaptive Caching in a Distributed File System
No full textEffective file system caching reduces local disk accesses and remote file server accesses significantly. Traditional le systems use fixed strategies to control caching. This thesis shows that a file system with adaptive caching achieves better performance than traditional file systems. Our file system implements multiple caching strategies and permits performance tuning through customized caching strategies. It adapts to the computing environment by selecting strategies suitable for the environment. It observes file accesses and uses the observed behaviors to anticipate and predict future behaviors. It adapts to different file access behaviors by modifying caching strategies. It does not depend on the application or the user for caching hints but will utilize hints when provided.fi Experiments with two large workloads having distinct le access characteristics show that adaptive le caching consistently outperforms non-adaptive caching. Adaptive file caching can reduce runtime by 36.6%, cache misses by 20.6%, and network load by 24.2%. In addition, this work also includes innovations in file system architecture. They include continuations for highly-concurrent asynchronous remote accesses, and zombies for e cient memory reclamation
Business opportunities in Vietnam
No full textAs implied by the title, this final year project explores the business environment in Vietnam. We will study the opportunities and threats from the stand point of a typical cautious Singaporean businessman. We will also look into the various major industries in Vietnam.BUSINES
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