Structures enabling transformability of buildings, components and materials at different levels gain significance in view a sustainable built environment. Such structures are capable obtaining shapes response to varying functional, environmental or loading conditions. Certain limitations classic tensegrity scissor-like structures, applied so far an architectural engineering context, attributed ...

Materials that embody computational properties are reshaping the ways in which we design, interact and communicate. This thesis looks at the topic of form transformation and how to bring the programmability and versatility of digital forms into the physical world. The focus is placed on the relationship between materials, form and interaction, in particular how the behavior and properties of sh...

Burkholderia spp. are genetically and physiologically diverse. Some strains are naturally transformable and capable of DNA catabolism. Burkholderia pseudomallei (Bp) strains 1026b and K96243 and B. thailandensis strain E264 are able to utilize DNA as a sole carbon source for growth, while only strains 1026b and E264 are naturally transformable. In this study, we constructed low-copy broad-host-...

Although Escherichia coli does not have a natural transformation process, strains of E. coli can incorporate extracellular plasmids into cytoplasm 'naturally' at low frequencies. A standard method was developed in which stationary phase cells were concentrated, mixed with plasmids, and then plated on agar plates with nutrients which allowed cells to grow. Transformed cells could then be selecte...

Sirotnak, Francis M. (Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York, N.Y.), Ramona B. Lunt, and Dorris J. Hutchison. Alteration in transformability of Diplococcus pneumoniae after the acquisition of genetic determinants inducing resistance to erythromycin. J. Bacteriol. 86:735-739. 1963.-The genetic alteration of a highly transformable (competent) recipient strain of Diplococcus pneum...