Electron microscopic evidence demonstrated that dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) induces formation of giant intranuclear microfilament bundles in the interphase nucleus of a cellular slime mold, Dictyostelium. These giant bundles are approximately giant bundles are approximately 3 micrometer long, 0.85 micrometer wide, and composed of microfilaments 6 nm in diameter. Studies in which glycerinated cell...

Brain image registration aims at reducing anatomical variability across subjects to create a common space for group analysis. Multi-modal approaches intend to minimize cortex shape variations along with internal structures, such as fiber bundles. A difficulty is that it requires a prior identification of these structures, which remains a challenging task in the absence of a complete reference a...

We study general equilibrium with private and incomplete state verification. Trade is agreed ex ante, that is, before private information is received. It is useful to define a list of bundles as a derivative good that gives an agent the right to receive one of the bundles in the list. Enforceable trade agreements can be described by Pimeasurable plans of lists of bundles, instead of Pi-measurab...

We study quotients of multi-graded bundles, including double vector bundles. Among other things, we show that any such quotient fits into a tower affine Applications the theory include construction normal bundles for weighted submanifolds, as well pairs submanifolds with clean intersection.

The flexor tibiae muscle of a locust hind leg consists of 10-11 pairs of fibre bundles in the main body of the muscle and a distal pair of bundles that form the accessory flexor muscle, all of which insert onto a common tendon. It is much smaller than the antagonistic extensor tibiae muscle and yet it is innervated by nine excitatory motor neurons, compared with only two for the extensor. To de...

This article provides an overview of OSGi (open services gateway initiative) standardization activities for software technology that is applicable to gateways that control and manage, in a coordinated fashion, various services and devices connected to networks in homes, offices, vehicles, and factories. The OSGi architecture allows for the timely provision of various new network-based services,...

Let X be a smooth projective curve over C (you can think of X as a Riemann surface in the analytic setting if you wish) throughout. Then there exists a smooth variety PicX over C whose C-points are the isomorphism classes of line bundles on X. More generally, for any scheme (variety) S over C, the set HomC(S,PicX) corresponds to a sheafification of the line bundles on the family of curves X ×S ...

A well-known result of Horrocks (see [Ho]) states that a vector bundle on a projective space has not intermediate cohomology if and only if it decomposes as a direct sum of line bundles. There are two possible generalizations of this result to arbitrary varieties. The first one consists of giving a cohomological characterization of direct sums of line bundles. This has been done for quadrics an...

We prove transversality theorems for piecewise linear manifolds, maps and polyhedra. Our main result is that given two closed manifolds contained in a third, then one can be ambient isotoped until it is transversal to the other. This result is then extended to maps and polyhedra. The transversality theory for smooth manifolds was initiated by Thorn in his classical paper [8], and has been exten...

The cruciate ligaments of the knee consist of numerous fascicles, groups of which comprise fibre bundles. The stabilising function of these ligaments is established by changes in the lengths and orientations of the fascicles. Understanding the function of knee ligaments thus requires an understanding of their 3-dimensional fascicle architecture. Hitherto, the cruciate ligaments have been consid...