For years economists have paid special attention to the disparities in academic achievement among minority groups in the United States. Particularly, the White-Black achievement gap has been the focus of many studies. On average, a Black seventeen year old reads at the proficiency level of a White thirteen year old and, in 2008, about 45% of Whites ages 18 to 24 were enrolled in college compare...

the effects of electronic properties of inner and outer surfaces of carbon nano tubes (cnts) on the deactivation of cobalt fischer-tropsch (ft) catalysts were studied. the comparative characterization of the fresh and used catalysts by tem, xrd, tpr, bet and h2 chemisorption showed that cobalt re-oxidation, cobalt-support interactions and sintering are the main sources of catalyst deactivation....

Partial words, that is, finite words with holes, were introduced in the 70s by Fischer and Paterson, with respect to bioinformatics applications. Infinite partial words were introduced later. Recently, Dassow et al.’s connected partial words and regular languages. In this paper, we extend the local partial languages to local ω-partial languages and study their closure properties. We introduce t...

The present work collects the checklist of species of Opiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Iran and presents new information about the specimens captured in the Sistan and Baluchestan province during 2009-2011. A total of 68 species belonging to eight genera have been listed, of which nine species including Opius (Hypocynodus) arundinis Fischer, 1964a; Opius (Hypocynodus) bouceki (Fischer, 19...

Abstract This paper proposes using the neural networks to efficiently solve the secondorder cone programs (SOCP). To establish the neural networks, the SOCP is first reformulated as a second-order cone complementarity problem (SOCCP) with the Karush-KuhnTucker conditions of the SOCP. The SOCCP functions, which transform the SOCCP into a set of nonlinear equations, are then utilized to design th...

and female one, as Eric Vilain from the University of California at Los Angeles, USA, and colleagues have reviewed recently (Nat. Rev. Endocrinol. (2014) 10, 603–615). While these variations of human sex between male and female are not necessarily linked to the psychological issue of gender identity, both display a spectrum of many different shades that is much more complex than the traditional...

Juvenile Fischer 344 rats are known to be less playful than other inbred strains, although the neurobiological substrate(s) responsible for this phenotype is uncertain. In the present study, Fischer 344 rats were compared to the commonly used outbred Sprague-Dawley strain on several behavioral and physiological parameters in order to ascertain whether the lack of play may be related to compromi...

Fischer-Tropsch synthesis is a promising route for production of light olefins via CO hydrogenation over transition metals. Co is one of the most active metals for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. Some different variables such as preparation parameters and operational factors can strongly affect the selectivity of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis toward the special products. In the case of preparat...