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    The 1961 Kampong Bukit Ho Swee fire and the making of modern Singapore

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    By 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

    Oral History of Ho Van Khoi

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    An oral history of Mr. Ho Van Khoi (Khoi Van Ho, western-style) who was born in 1949 in Go Cong, Vietnam. He spent his childhood in Go Cong and then lived in Saigon during his high school years. The oldest in a family of 10 kids, he described his family as being poor. In 1968 he volunteered to join the military training school in Thu Duc and described several of his deployments in Cambodia. After the war ended, he was imprisoned in reeducation camp for 4.5 years. His family escaped Vietnam by boat, passing through an Indonesia refugee camp, resettled in San Diego and then moved again to San Jose during the technology industry boom in California. He is active in political and cultural activities in the Bay Area Vietnamese American community.Recorded Digitall

    Nancy Lee

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    [Verse 1] Of all the wives as e\u27er you know, Yeo ho! lads! ho! Yeo ho! yeo ho! There\u27s none like Nancy Lee I trow, Yeo ho! lads! ho! yeo ho! See there she stands an\u27 waves her hand upon the quay, An\u27 ev\u27ry day when I\u27m away She\u27ll watch for me, An whisper low when tempests blow, for Jack at sea; Yeo ho! lads! ho! yeo ho! The sailor\u27s wife, the sailors\u27 star shall be, Yeo ho! we go across the sea, The sailor\u27s wife, the sailor\u27s star shall be, The sailor\u27s wife his star shall be. [Verse 2] The harbor\u27s past, the breezes blow, Yeo ho! lads! ho! yeo ho! Yeo ho! yeo ho! \u27Tis long ere we come back I know; Yeo ho! lads! ho! yeo ho! But true an bright from morn till night my home will be, An\u27 all so neat an sung an\u27 sweet, for Jack at sea, An\u27 Nancy\u27s face to bless the place, an\u27 welcome me; Yeo ho! lads! ho! yeo ho! The sailor\u27s wife, the sailors\u27 star shall be, Yeo ho! we go across the sea, The sailor\u27s wife, the sailor\u27s star shall be, The sailor\u27s wife his star shall be. [Verse 3] The Boa\u27s\u27n pipes the watch below; Yeo ho! lads! ho! Yeo ho! yeo ho! Then here\u27s a health afore we go, Yeo ho! lads! ho! yeo ho! A long, long, life to my sweet wife, and mates at sea, An\u27 keep our bones from Davy Jones where\u27er we be, An\u27 may you meet a mate as sweet as Nancy Lee; Yeo ho! lads! ho! yeo ho! The sailor\u27s wife, the sailors\u27 star shall be, Yeo ho! we go across the sea, The sailor\u27s wife, the sailor\u27s star shall be, The sailor\u27s wife his star shall be

    FROM PHILOSOPHY TO HO CHI MINH'S IDEOLOGY

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    Abstract: 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 Paper Download Link (Source) https://www.researchpublish.com/papers/from-philosophy-to-ho-chi-minhs-ideologyInternational Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research, ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online), Research Publish Journals, Website: www.researchpublish.co

    Nancy S. Jecker, Zohar Lederman, and Anita Ho reply

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    This letter replies to the letter "Colonial and Neocolonial Barriers to Companion Digital Humans in Africa," by Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues, in the same, May-June 2024, issue of the Hastings Center Report. </p

    System Theoretic Safety Analysis of the Sewol-Ho Ferry Accident in South Korea

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    This paper is to show the application of CAST, Causal Analysis based on STAMP (Systems Theoretic Accident Model and Processes) accident analysis tool to investigate the Sewol‐Ho Ferry Accident at the entire maritime transportation sociotechnological system level and to provide the system level safety improvements to the system safety control structure; to show that CAST is an accident analysis tool to effectively and holistically analyze the entire maritime transportation sociotechnological system level disaster; and to show that CAST can provide preventive solutions in a holistic view of top‐down system safety engineering

    Cooling rates of neutron stars and the young neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant

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    We explore the thermal state of the neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant using the recent result of Ho &amp; 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

    Factors influencing the continuance intention of Momo e-wallet: An empirical study using sem in Can Tho and Ho Chi Minh City

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    The 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 &lt; 0.01), while perceived security has a moderate effect (β = 0.41, p &lt; 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

    Het Ho-Lee rentemodel

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    Het 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
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