Prominent explanations of the overrepresentation of Black Americans in criminal justice statistics focus on the effects of neighborhood concentrated disadvantage, racial isolation, and social disorganization. We suggest that perceived personal discrimination is an important but frequently neglected complement to these factors. We test this hypothesis with longitudinal data on involvement in gen...

Visualisation is generally considered to be a problem in structural design. Being an iterative process, structural design is time consuming for engineers, and results are difficult for clients to visualize. Current numerical methods have slow dynamic visualisation capability, which is usually separate from the calculation phase. This paper investigates whether an analogue virtual reality (VR) m...

The dynamics of cables with concentrated loads is studied using a direct perturbation method (DPM) combined with multiple time scales. A general cable model is assumed to have complex loads, including nonlinear aerodynamic force and concentrated masses. An early developed perturbation method––DPM–– is applied to investigate the cable s motion. This approach does not need to transform the origin...

Lentiviral technology has proven to be a powerful tool to express exogenous genes in dividing and non-dividing cells. Currently, most protocols for generating high-titer lentivirus require ultracentrifugation, which can be an instrumental barrier for routine operations in a laboratory. In this study, the effect of relative centrifugal force (RCF) on the concentration efficiency of the lentiviru...

This paper evaluates the effect of slot existence with limited length between flanges and web junction of I-shaped beams at the region of moment connections on vertical force and shear stress distribution in beam flanges and web at connection section in comparison with classical theory of stress distribution. The main purpose of this research is to evaluate the efficiency of the slot in connect...

The aim of this study was to assess the dentistry profile, based on social and demographic data, post-graduation formation, and to verify the insertion of dental graduates in the labour force. The participants were professionals graduated from a Brazilian Public Dental School, between 2000 and 2010. An instrument was sent by mail and/or e-mail to them. It was used Kruskal Wallis Test. Among 104...

Original scientific paper The results of numerical experiments on dynamic response of a steel column, with a concentrated mass on the top are presented. The column is fixed in the base subjected to a triangular pulse force. Preisach hysteresis model was applied to investigate the dynamic behaviour of the steel column. In the solution of the non-linear dynamic equation of the motion the fix-poin...