Library provision to the Tamil Community in Singapore by Ilangovan, Malarvele, Higgins, Susan E.

“…Focus group participants also propose an Internet portal in Tamil. Many indicate that the library could, through facilitating the reading and use of the Tamil language, help in promoting the usage of the Tamil language in Singapore. …”
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You are under arrest : epistemic arrest and the endless reproduction of the image of the colonised native by Farish Ahmad Noor

“…In the year 1907 the colonial entrepreneur and expert on tin-mining in British Malaya, CG Warnford-Lock, wrote thus in his book Mining in Malaya for Gold and Tin: From a labour point of view, there are practically three races: the Malays, the Chinese and the Tamils. By nature, the Malay is an idler, the Chinaman is a thief and the Indian is a drunkard. …”
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Elevated levels of organochlorine pesticides in South Asian immigrants are associated with an increased risk of diabetes by Elliott, Paul, Kooner, Jaspal, Macherone, Anthony, McMullin, Matthew, Zhang, Luoping, Chambers, John Campbell, Sanchez, Sylvia S., La Merrill, Michele A., Hubbard, Alan E., Smith, Martyn T., Daniels, Sarah I.

“…Research Design and Methods: South Asians of Tamil or Telugu descent (n = 120) and European whites (n = 72) were recruited into the London Life Sciences Population Study cohort. …”
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Terribly severe though mercifully short : the episode of the 1918 influenza in British Malaya by Liew, Kai Khiun

“…The influenza epidemic swept through our midst in September and October, unhappily with fatal consequences to a number of friends in the Tamil community. We are glad to say that though terribly severe while it lasted, its duration was mercifully short. …”
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Native language perceptual sensitivity predicts nonnative speech perception differently in younger and older singaporean bilinguals by Kalaivanan, Kastoori, Wong, Patrick C. M., Wong, Francis C. K., Chan, Alice Hiu Dan

“…We investigate in this study how individual variability in native language speech perception (termed Perceptual Sensitivity) influences nonnative speech perception in Singaporean Tamil-English bilinguals. Further, we assess if and how contextual and demographic factors influence Perceptual Sensitivity in the acquired languages and if the influence of Perceptual Sensitivity on nonnative speech perception is different across younger and older bilinguals.…”
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The homogenization of ethnic differences in Singapore English? A consonantal production study by Kalaivanan, Kastoori, Sumartono, Firqin, Tan, Ying Ying

“…Participants' phonetic behavior of /θ/, which was produced similarly across the three ethnic groups, disputed substrate influence. Tamil speakers were the most disparate, particularly with the /v/-/w/ contrast production. …”
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Deradicalizing detained terrorists by Webber, David, Chernikova, Marina, Kruglanski, Arie W., Gelfand, Michele J., Hettiarachchi, Malkanthi, Gunaratna, Rohan, Lafreniere, Marc-Andre, Belanger, Jocelyn J.

“…We present the first empirical assessment of one such program: the Sri Lankan rehabilitation program for former members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (a terrorist organization that operated in Sri Lanka until their defeat in 2009). …”
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Cartographic mismatches and language policy: the case of Hindi in Singapore by Jain, Ritu, Wee, Lionel

“…The particular need to accommodate the enhanced linguistic diversity among the linguistically heterogeneous Indians, previously served by Tamil, has led to the ‘semiofficial’ representation of Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati, and Urdu in the language policy in recent years. …”
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Diversity management and the presumptive universality of categories : the case of the Indians in Singapore by Jain, Ritu, Wee, Lionel

“…The government’s appreciation of this complexity among the Indians has led to a relaxation of the education policy by which five other Indian languages (Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu) serve as possible alternatives to Tamil (the officially assigned ethnic mother tongue). …”
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Anticancer potential of L-histidine-capped silver nanoparticles against human cervical cancer cells (SIHA) by Mohammed Asik, Rajmohamed, Manikkaraja, Chidhambaram, Tamil Surya, Karuppusamy, Suganthy, Natarajan, Priya Aarthy, Archunan, Mathe, Domokos, Sivakumar, Muthusamy, Archunan, Govindaraju, Padmanabhan, Parasuraman, Gulyás, Balázs

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Multifunctional iron oxide nanoparticles for diagnostics, therapy and macromolecule delivery by Yen, Swee Kuan, Padmanabhan, Parasuraman, Selvan, Subramanian Tamil

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MicroRNAs : the next generation therapeutic targets in human diseases by Srinivasan, Sakthivel, Selvan, Subramanian Tamil, Archunan, Govindaraju, Gulyas, Balazs, Padmanabhan, Parasuraman

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Mimicking cellular transport mechanism in stem cells through endosomal escape of new peptide-coated quantum dots by Narayanan, Karthikeyan, Yen, Swee Kuan, Dou, Qingqing, Padmanabhan, Parasuraman, Sudhaharan, Thankiah, Ahmed, Sohail, Ying, Jackie Y., Selvan, Subramanian Tamil

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“Smart” theranostic lanthanide nanoprobes with simultaneous up-conversion fluorescence and tunable T1–T2 magnetic resonance imaging contrast and near-infrared activated photodynami... by Zhang, Yan, Das, Gautom Kumar, Vijayaragavan, Vimalan, Xu, Qing Chi, Padmanabhan, Parasuraman, Bhakoo, Kishore K., Tamil Selvan, Subramanian, Tan, Timothy Thatt Yang

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Theranostic applications of nanoparticles in neurodegenerative disorders by Ramanathan, Sahana, Archunan, Govindaraju, Sivakumar, Muthusamy, Selvan, Subramanian Tamil, Fred, A. Lenin, Kumar, Sundramurthy, Gulyás, Balázs, Padmanabhan, Parasuraman

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“Turn-on” fluorescence probe integrated polymer nanoparticles for sensing biological thiol molecules by Li, Menghuan, Li, Peizhou, Zhang, Quan, Selvan, Subramanian Tamil, Zhao, Yanli, Ang, Chung Yen, Tan, Si Yu, Lu, Yunpeng, Bai, Linyi

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Silica-coated Mn-doped ZnS nanocrystals for cancer theranostics by Ang, E. H., Zeng, J., Subramanian, G. S., Chellappan, V., Sudhaharan, T., Padmanabhan, Parasuraman, Gulyás, Balázs, Selvan, Subramanian Tamil

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Coordination chemistry of ligands: insights into the design of amyloid beta/tau-PET imaging probes and nanoparticles-based therapies for Alzheimer's disease by Selvan, Subramanian Tamil, Ravichandar, Roopa, Ghosh, Krishna Kanta, Mohan, A., Mahalakshmi, Pachaiyappan, Gulyás, Balázs, Padmanabhan, Parasuraman

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Design of single- and multi-loop self-adaptive PID controller using heuristic based recurrent neural network for ALFC of hybrid power system by Veerasamy, Veerapandiyan, Noor Izzri Abdul Wahab, Ramachandran, Rajeswari, Mohammad Lutfi Othman, Hashim Hizam, Kumar, Jeevitha Satheesh, Irudayaraj, Andrew Xavier Raj

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