Configuring whiteness as contagion, Birdie Lee, the narrator of Danzy Senna’s Caucasia, connects assimilation to illness and disease. Separated from her African American activist father, Birdie Lee and her blue-blooded mother flee from the law in a racialized and radicalized 1970s Boston. Eventually, the two take up residence in New Hampshire, where Birdie passes as "Jesse"and for white. This a...

in this paper, it was shown that , where  and , and , where  is not prime and , are od-characterizable.

This paper aims at obtaining universal laws and absolute lower bounds of feedback systems using information theory. The feedback system setup is that with causal plants and causal controllers. Three laws (entropy rate never decreases, generalized Bode integral, and absolute lower bound in variance minimization) are obtained, which are in entropy domain, frequency domain, and time domain, respec...

the objective of this study was to examine the effects of the fluidized-bed drying me-thod on the final quality of two varieties of iranian rice, medium- and long grain. the re-sults were compared to that of paddy drying using a traditional method. rough rice was treated in the fluidized bed drier at 140ºc for 2 minutes. similar samples were dried for 8-10 hrs by the traditional method. dried s...

The power, privilege, and oppression paradigm that most schools of social work currently espouse to are often taught through an experiential approach whiteness, privileging the majority white students with opportunity explore their identity at expense learning Black/Brown, Indigenous, People Color (BIPOC) in classroom. Many BIPOC experience these courses as a hostile environment, finding themse...

Appearance of rice grain is an important property, affecting its acceptance by consumers. Moreover, appearance is a complex characteristic involving many components, including glossiness and whiteness. The genetic bases for the glossiness of cooked rice and the whiteness of polished rice (WPR) were determined using 133 recombinant inbred lines (RILs) derived from a cross between two closely rel...

We consider a random geometric graph constructed by the homogeneous Boolean model with spherical grains in R, d ≥ 2; that is, a node of the graph corresponds to a germ of the Boolean model and there is an edge between two nodes when their grains intersect with each other. We show that, when the radius distribution of grains is long-tailed, so is the degree distribution of the graph. Our result ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the surface roughness, microhardness and morphology of human enamel exposed to six bleaching agents (at baseline and post-treatment). Human dental enamel samples were obtained from human third molars and randomly divided into seven groups (n = 11): control, Whiteness Perfect 10% carbamide peroxide (10% CP), Colgate Platinum 10% CP, Day White 2Z 7.5% hydroge...