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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
A portfolio of 2 compositions.
No full textHo Pak-Kei.Thesis (M.M.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000.Abstracts in English and Chinese.English Horn Quintet --- p.1River and Land --- p.1
Changes in South Korea during Dictatorship of President Park Chung Hee (1961-1979)
No full textBakalaura darba tēma ir “Pārmaiľas Dienvidkorejā Prezidenta Pak Čunghī Diktatūras laikā (1961-1979)”. Dienvidkoreja pēdējos gados kļuvusi par paraugu citām attīstības valstīm, ar iespaidīgu ekonomisko lēcienu un vērā ľemamiem sasniegumiem zinātnē, izglītībā un tehnoloģiskajā nozarē. Kā arī Dienvidkorejas fenomenālie sasniegumi pārsteiguši pasaules attīstītās valstis kā, piemēram, ASV un Austrāliju. Darba galvenais mērķis ir noskaidrot, kas ir Pak Čunghī, izpētīt viľa aptuveno biogrāfiju un noskaidrot, kādas pārmaiľas Pak Čunghī ieviesis Dienvidkorejā. Kā arī izpētīt viľa pretrunīgo reţīmu valstī un pašreizējo lomu Dienvidkorejā. Darbs sastāv no divām pamat daļām. Pirmā daļa veltīta, lai izpētītu Pak Čunghī dzīves gājumu un viľa sasniegumus. Otrā daļa veltīta, lai izpētītu situāciju Dienvidkorejā pēc Korejas kara, Pak Čunghī ceļu līdz prezidenta amatam, viľa pretrunīgo reţīmu, tā beigas un viľa atstāto mantojumu.The title of the Bachelor's paper is “Changes in South Korea during the dictatorship of President Park Chung Hee”. Today South Korea is a model for other developing countries, with it‟s significant economic leap, impressive achievements in science, education and technology. As well South Korea‟s phenomenal progress and surprising achievements are impressing developed countries like USA and Australia. Paper‟s main aim is to find out who is Park Chung Hee, to make a research in his biography and to find out what kind of changes Park Chung Hee introduced in South Korea. As well to find out about his controversial regime in the country, and his legacy in South Korea. The paper consists of two parts. The second part is devoted to study the situation in South Korea after the Korean War, circumstances which led Park Chung Hee to the position as South Korea‟s president. As well his controversial regime, the end of it and Park Chung Hee's legacy
Phase Diversity of Nickel Phosphides in Oxygen Reduction Catalysis
No full textMotivated by the challenge to find a low-cost catalyst with high activity for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), transition metal phosphides (TMPs) appear to be one of the most burgeoning alternatives to noble metal based electrocatalysts. In addition to the low cost, TMPs have numerous interesting features such as high conductivity and chemical stability. Since, the catalytic activity of TMPs is highly dependent on the metal/phosphorous ratio, herein, we report the investigation of nickel-phosphide/carbon composites of different stoichiometries (NixPy/C) with tractable nickel phosphide phases as promising electrocatalyst for ORR under alkaline and acidic conditions. The NixPy/C composites are obtained by carbonization of a Ni-struvite (NiNH4PO4 ⋅ H2O) coated phenol-formaldehyde resin at different temperatures, resulting in variations of the formed NixPy phases. As expected, it is found that the electrocatalytic ORR performance of the NixPy/C composites highly depends on the predominant phase of nickel phosphide formed. The highest catalytic activity for ORR in alkaline as well as acidic media was found for the NixPy/C composite with the highest proportion of Ni2P as a predominant phase, obtained at 800 °C. For composites with NiP2 and Ni12P5 as the predominant phase, obtained at lower and higher temperatures, respectively, a lower catalytic activity was found. © 2018 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim1
FROM PHILOSOPHY TO HO CHI MINH'S IDEOLOGY
No full textAbstract: 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
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Nonexistence results on isometric embedding.
No full textHo Pak Tung.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-64).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.4Chapter 2 --- The Theorem Of Efimov --- p.6Chapter 2.1 --- Main Theorem --- p.6Chapter 2.2 --- Proof of Lemma 2.1.1 --- p.9Chapter 2.3 --- Proof of Lemma 2.1.2 --- p.14Chapter 2.4 --- Proof of Efimov's Main Lemma --- p.21Chapter 3 --- Hilbert's Theorem --- p.58Chapter 3.1 --- Hilbert's Theorem for a surface at least C2 immersed in R2 --- p.58Bibliography --- p.6
The dogmatic structure of liability for defects in the new sales law
No full textIm gegenwärtigen Recht der Gewährleistung für Sachmängel sind zwei ganz unterschiedliche Arten von Ansprüchen vereinigt. Nämlich einerseits solche, die das "Aufstockungs"-Interesse des Käufers betreffen und andererseits solche, die sich auf sein Integritätsinteresse beziehen. Die letzteren, vor allem also Schadensersatzansprüche wegen Mangelfolgeschäden will der Verfasser nach besonderen Regeln behandeln, insbesondere nicht der kurzen Verjährung des § 438 BGB, sondern der Regelverjährung des §195 BGB unterwerfen.In today's law of guarantee for material defects, two totally different kinds of claims are united. On the one hand, there are claims which concern "increase-"interest of the buyer, and on the other hand, claims which refer to his interest of integrity. The author will discuss the last ones, especially the claims for compensation due to follow-up defects according to special rules. The claims are subjected in particular not to short limitation of actions of § 438 BGB, but to rule limitation of actions of § 195 BGB
Transverse X-ray radiation from petawatt-laser-driven electron acceleration in a gas cell
No full textWe measure X-rays emitted perpendicular to the laser propagation direction in petawatt-laser-driven wakefield acceleration of electrons in a gas cell. Multi-mega-electronvolt electrons are ejected in the transverse direction by laser-driven plasma wakefields, generating bremsstrahlung X-rays when they encounter a dense medium such as a gas-cell window. The X-rays, detected and characterized by two separate filter-stack spectrometers containing a series of imaging plates, exhibit peak energy fluences at similar to 150-200 keV. The mechanism of electron acceleration in the transverse direction and subsequent bremsstrahlung X-ray generation is also examined and confirmed using particle-in-cell and Monte Carlo FLUKA simulations.11Nsciescopuskc
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
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