The belief that, in school, success only depends on will and hard work is widespread in Western societies despite evidence showing that several factors other than merit explain school success, including group belonging (e.g., social class, gender). In the present paper, we argue that because merit is the only track for low status students to reach upward mobility, Belief in School Meritocracy (...

We have established a cell line from hypertrophied rabbit urinary bladder smooth muscle (SM) that stably expresses SM myosin (SMM). These cells, termed BSM, are spindle shaped and form swirls, similar to the "hills and valleys" described for cultured aortic SM cells. Western blotting revealed that BSM expresses the amino-terminal SMM heavy chain isoform SM-B, the carboxy-terminal SM1 and SM2 is...

This article presents a fast inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) image simulation algorithm for electric-large rough surfaces based on the 3-D beam method (BSM) and point spreading function (PSF). It first computes induced current with BSM then convolutes it PSF to generate ISAR image. The decomposes large incident into overlapped truncated sub-beams. Each sub-beam illuminates small region ...

A significant challenge in methods for anomaly detection (AD) hyperspectral images (HSIs) is determining how to construct an efficient representation anomalies and background information. Considering the high-order structures of HSIs estimation information AD, this article proposes a kernel minimum noise fraction transformation-based separation model (KMNF-BSM) separate First, spectral-domain K...