Schools today frequently resort to punishments that exclude students from the classroom, such as expulsion, suspension, and in-school suspension, much like the criminal justice system excludes criminals from greater society. Although prior research testing the racial threat hypothesis has found that racial composition is associated with the use of more punitive criminal punishment and harsher s...

The velocity autocorrelation function is derived from the mean-squared displacement measured on a colloidal suspension of particles with hard-sphere-like interactions. It decays to zero from below and follows a stretched exponential function of delay time for the thermodynamically stable suspension. For the metastable suspension a power-law decay emerges. The results are discussed in terms of t...

Glioma is one of the most common malignant tumors affecting the central nervous system. We screened active drugs from 12 classes to provide experimental data for the study of human glioma. Serum-free suspension clone formation was used to induce the formation of glioma stem‑like cells (GSLCs) from U251 cells. We screened active drugs from 12 class...

In this paper we consider the design and analysis of a semi-active suspension controller. In the recent years different kinds of semi-active control strategies, like two-state Skyhook, LQ-clipped or model-predictive, have already been developed in the literature. In this paper we introduce a new semi-active suspension control strategy that achieves a priori limitations of a semi-active suspensi...

This paper presents a methodological approach for the application of virtual prototyping for the evaluation of the intelligent vehicle active suspension system performance. In this approach, a full passenger car model is developed using ADAMS software. In the modeling approach, not only the suspension components are precisely modeled, but also modeling of all systems like steering systems that ...

Targeting tumour-initiating cells (TICs) would lead to new therapies to cure cancer. We previously demonstrated that TICs have the capacity to survive under suspension conditions, while other cells undergo anoikis. Here we show that TICs exhibit increased phosphorylation levels of S727STAT3 because of PP2A inactivation. Collagen 17 gene expression is upregulated in a STAT3-dependent manner, whi...

In a tissue culture isolate from a biopsy of a recurrent paraganglioma, lymphoblast-like cells were found growing in suspension from the first culture on. The suspension culture has now been growing continuously for 14 months. These cells occasionally contained cytoplasmic areas of anastomosing tubular structures showing continuity with endoplasmic reticulum. Cell-to-cell contact between these ...

Jihadists are very active on Twitter but their accounts frequently get suspended. A debate over the effectiveness of suspension has arisen; an important factor is that Jihadists quickly create new accounts, resurging back like the moles in the “whack-a-mole” game. This causes biases for terrorism and intelligence analysts. Whilst widely acknowledged, little research investigates the problem. In...

BACKGROUND In the present study, antidepressant-like activity of palmatine was evaluated in unstressed and stressed young male Swiss albino mice. METHODS The animals were subjected to unpredictable mild stress daily for 21 successive days to induce depression-like behavior. Palmatine (0.25, 0.5, 1 mg/kg, ip) was administered for 21 successive days to unstressed and stressed mice. The antidepr...

A pooled suspension of rotavirus was prepared from the stools of eight children with acute non-bacterial gastroenteritis. The suspension was infused into the duodenum and stomach of an infant monkey (Nemestrina macaque). Biopsy samples of duodenal mucosa were taken at several intervals after inoculation, examined by light and electron microscopy, and assayed for lysosomal activity. Virus-like p...