Deb's Page: Buckle Up

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Electrically conducting fluids can generate a magnetic dynamo when layers of fluid slide past one another, often at different rates. Known as shear, this is how the Earth and the Sun produce magnetic fields. But exactly how large-scale spatial coherence over the entire surface of the Sun can arise at high magnetic Reynolds numbers, as lines of magnetic field are dragged along by fluid flow, has...

Speeding up Web Page Loads with Shandian

Web page loads are slow due to intrinsic inefficiencies in the page load process. Our study shows that the inefficiencies are attributable not only to the contents and structure of the Web pages (e.g., three-fourths of the CSS resources are not used during the initial page load) but also the way that pages are loaded (e.g., 15% of page load times are spent waiting for parsing-blocking resources...

Message from the DEBS Chairs

TechniBall: DEBS’2013 Grand Challenge

In this work we present the solution to the DEBS’2013 Grand Challenge, as crafted by the joint effort of teams from the Technion and TU Dortmund. The paper describes the architecture, details the queries and offers our observations regarding the appropriate way to trade-off high-level processing with time constraints.

Buckle up: Membrane tension drives lamellipodial network compression and adhesion deposition

Whether to spread on a surface or to crawl, cells must apply traction forces to the underlying substrate via adhesion complexes. In this issue, Pontes et al. (2017. J. Cell Biol. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201611117) shed new light on how the interplay among membrane tension, the lamellipodial actin network, and adhesions coordinate the dynamics of spreading fibroblasts.