The older scientific literature on the histology of skeletal muscle de scribes the trans verse fragmentation of myofibrils to form sarcomere disks and the attachment of Z lines to the sarcolemma in contracted muscle. These phenomena may now be explained by recent research on the cytoskeletal framework of muscle fibers, particularly desmin and vinculin. The formation of sa rcomere disks might be...

Billions of LEDs are used today in traffic control, automotive headlights, flat panel display technology, mobile devices, back lighting, projection and general illumination applications. With the dramatic growth in LEDs, manufacturers are looking for technologies to increase production yield and decrease cost. Sapphire wafer singulation into miniature dies is one of the critical steps used in b...

Le présent article offre une vue d’ensemble sur les manuscrits de Galien conservés dans la bibliothèque du cardinal Bessarion (m. 1472), qui fit don sa riche collection grecs à République Venise entre 1468 et mort. Après avoir présenté galéniques Bessarion, tout en corrigeant intégrant descriptions jusqu’ici publiées, nous attachons un groupe sept récents, copiés dernières années vie par différ...

Abstract Medieval Hebrew and Syriac scribes both indicated vowels by placing dots above or below their consonantal writing. These vowel points were created in the Late Antique early Islamic periods to disam-biguate vocalization of important texts, especially Bible. The earliest step this process was implementation ‘diacritic dot’ system, which used a single dot distinguish pairs homographs: ‘ab...

Abstract This article discusses two important representatives of the manuscript culture Devotio Moderna in late medieval eastern Low Countries (c. 1500): a vernacular devout song (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz mgo 185) and Middle Dutch rapiarium or collection various short religious texts (Zwolle, Historisch Centrum Overijssel, Collectie Emmanuelshuizen 13). Both ...