This paper examines the effect of temporarily suspending the trading of exchange-listed individual stocks. We evaluate whether regulatory authorities can successfully use the mechanism of trading suspension in forcing companies to disclose new and material information to the capital market. Previous studies on trading suspensions mainly concentrate on North-American stock markets and find no co...

The effect of metal particles on the photoluminescence (PL) and the Raman spectra of functionalized SWCNTs in aqueous solutions was systematically investigated by studying three different metal particles (gold, cobalt, and nickel) on three different SWCNT suspensions (DNA-, RNA-, and sodium deoxycholate salt (DOC)-functionalized SWCNTs). Substantial enhancement of the PL intensities was observe...

Twin screw extrusion based pretreatment of biomass is an attractive option due to its flexibility to carry out chemical reactions under relatively high stresses, temperatures and pressures. However, extrusion processes are rarely utilized in biomass pretreatment because such processing is constrained by rheological behavior of typical biomass suspensions. Without the manipulation of their rheol...

Suspensions of anisometric particles in the nematic phase of a liquid crystalline host solvent were prepared. We chose Claytone AF, a commercial quaternary ammonium surfactant treated montmorillonite, with an aspect ratio of up to 1:2000, and dimethyldioctadecylammonium bromide treated Laponite, with an aspect ratio of 1:8 as the dispersed particles. K15, a nematogenic compound (also known as 5...

Suspensions of bacteria containing from a few million to several billion cells per milliliter are used in numerous phases of bacteriology and immunology. The importance of maintaining the proper hydrogen ion concentration in bacterial suspensions used for various purposes and in cultures has long been known. It has also been demonstrated that bacterial celLs exert a buffering action, and often ...

The flocculated structure and flow properties of suspensions of brilliant carmine 6B (C6B) in polybutadiene were investigated. In this study, we have used simple suspensions of C6B in polybutadiene having different viscosity. Stress overshoot phenomenon after various rest periods and double-step shearing test were examined for the suspensions. In the double-step shearing test, a transient stres...

The Langevin description of Brownian motion in inhomogeneous suspensions is here revisited. Inhomogeneous suspensions are characterized by a position-dependent friction coefficient, which can significantly influence the dynamics of the suspended particles. Outstanding examples are suspensions in confinement or in the presence of a temperature gradient. The Langevin approach in inhomogeneous sys...

We demonstrate a new approach for determining particle-size distribution in concentrated suspensions from spectral measurement of isotropic scattering coefficients by use of steady-state, continuous-wave photon-migration techniques. Successful recovery of particle-size distribution for TiO(2) suspensions in the form of log-normal functions is achieved through a regularized inverse algorithm, in...

In many embedded systems, tasks may experience suspension delays. The problem of analyzing task systems with such suspensions on multiprocessors has been relatively unexplored. The commonly used suspension-oblivious approach of treating all suspensions as computation can be quite pessimistic. As an alternative, this paper presents the first suspension-aware multiprocessor schedulability analysi...

      An oral suspension could a suitable dosage form for the geriatric patients. The calcium alginate coated ion exchange resinate of propranolol hydrochloride were prepared using Amberlite IR-120 by solvent evaporation. Microcapsules of propranolol hydrochloride resinate were prepared by solvent evaporation technique,the suspensions were prepared by using deionised water as the vehicle. Methy...