JJEE BB CC llaa ssss iicc ss JEB Classics is an occasional column, featuring historic publications from The Journal of Experimental Biology. These articles, written by modern experts in the field, discuss each classic paper’s impact on the field of biology and their own work. A PDF of the original paper accompanies each article, and can be found on the journal’s website as supplemental data. SM...

Shape annealing, a computational design method applied to structural design, has been extended to the design of traditional and innovative three-dimensional domes that incorporate the design goals of efficiency, economy, utility, and elegance. In contrast to deterministic structural optimization methods, shape annealing, a stochastic method, uses lateral exploration to generate multiple designs...

Various mechanisms have been proposed for the dynamic cause and kinematic development of gneiss domes. They include (1) diapiric fl ow induced by density inversion, (2) buckling under horizontal constriction (i.e., extension perpendicular to compression), (3) coeval orthogonal contraction or superposition of multiple phases of folding in different orientations, (4) instability induced by vertic...

Rabbits were starved for a week and then allowed to take the standard diet; the animals were sacrificed after 20 or 24 hr. One group of the animals were treated in winter, and the other, in summer. Control animals were fed solid rabbit food ad libitum. In the control rabbits, short rudimentary canaliculi and occasional small-sized pored domes were found in the thicker portions of the endothelia...

To determine the role of NT3 in the postnatal maturation of Merkel cell (MC) sensory neurite complexes (touch domes), we examined the development of their neural and end-organ components in wild-type and transgenic mice that overexpress NT3 (NT3-OE). Touch domes are sensory complexes of the skin that contain specialized MCs innervated by slowly adapting type 1 (SA1) neurons. Touch domes are dep...

This study deals with predicting nonlinear time history deflection of scallop domes subject to earthquake loading employing neural network technique. Scallop domes have alternate ridged and grooves that radiate from the centre. There are two main types of scallop domes, lattice and continuous, which the latticed type of scallop domes is considered in the present paper. Due to the large number o...

The diameters of many domes on Venus imaged by the Magellan synthetic aperture radar (aAR) are an order of magnitude larger than terrestrial subaerial domes; however, surveys of the seafloor using sonar imaging systems such as GLORIA (Geological Long Range Inclined Asdic) and SeaBEAM have revealed flat-topped volcanic features with similar diameters, volumes and slope angles. Suggested analogie...