Lee Kuan Yew: race, culture and genes.

Singapore- Challenges and Improvements in Urban Mobility

Machiavelli's Tiger: Lee Kuan Yew and Singapore's Authoritarian Regime

Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I'm meaningless. Lee Kuan Yew, 6.10.1997 Introduction 'History', observes Adorno, 'is the unity of continuity and discontinuity'. Even a basic awareness to this reality should be enough to prevent anyone – especially the new sojourner into the realm of political science – from making c...

Speckle Noise Reduction for the Enhancement of Retinal Layers in Optical Coherence Tomography Images

Introduction One of the most important pre-processing steps in optical coherence tomography (OCT) is reducing speckle noise, resulting from multiple scattering of tissues, which degrades the quality of OCT images. Materials and Methods The present study focused on speckle noise reduction and edge detection techniques. Statistical filters with different masks and noise variances were applied on ...

Transposon mutagenesis identifies genes that cooperate with mutant Pten in breast cancer progression.

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) has the worst prognosis of any breast cancer subtype. To better understand the genetic forces driving TNBC, we performed a transposon mutagenesis screen in a phosphatase and tensin homolog (Pten) mutant mice and identified 12 candidate trunk drivers and a much larger number of progression genes. Validation studies identified eight TNBC tumor suppressor genes...

Singapore: Economy

“A wonder created out of a tear drop” is an apt way to describe what Singapore is today compared to what it was just over forty years ago in 1965 when Singapore was thrown out of the Malaysian Federation. The tears that the nation saw in the eyes of the then young leader Lee Kuan Yew solidified the determination of the nation to rise against all odds. The rest is history; Singapore turned its v...