March 5, 2015 Type Package Title Dynamic Assembly Model of Colonization, Local Extinction and Speciation Version 1.1 Date 2015-03-05 Depends R (>= 3.0), geiger, caper, ape, deSolve, matrixStats Imports expm, picante Author Rampal S. Etienne & Alex L. Pigot Maintainer Rampal S. Etienne License GPL-2 Description Simulates and computes (maximum) likelihood of a dynamical model...

Healthy, mature, spontaneously contracting muscle was cultivated from explants of 13-day chick embryos for periods up to 4 months in the multipurpose chamber (Rose, 1954) using cellophane-strip technique (Rose et al., 1958) with silicone gaskets, Eagle's medium including 10 per cent horse serum reinforced with 300 mg-per cent of glucose, and the teased type of explant. This method provided opti...

Naive T cells encounter antigen-presenting cells within the cortex of lymph nodes to initiate primary immune responses. Within this T cell cortex is the reticular network (RN)--a system of collagen fibers and extracellular matrix (ECM) wrapped by fibroblastic reticular cells (FRC). We have investigated the distribution of various molecules, including ECM proteins and proteoglycans, in the T cel...

The Facility for Advanced Accelerator and Experimental Tests (FACET) at SLAC installed a 10-TW Ti : sapphire laser system for pre-ionized plasma wakefield acceleration experiments. High energy (500 mJ), short (50 fs) pulses of 800 nm laser light at 1 Hz are used at the FACET experimental area to produce a plasma column. The laser pulses are stretched to 250 fs before injection into a vapor cell...

Neural tissue engineering is premised on the integration of engineered living tissue with the host nervous system to directly restore lost function or to augment regenerative capacity following nervous system injury or neurodegenerative disease. Disconnection of axon pathways - the long-distance fibers connecting specialized regions of the central nervous system or relaying peripheral signals -...

Polymerization of soluble fibronectin into extracellular matrix fibers occurs through the interaction between the amino terminus of fibronectin contained within a 70 kDa fragment and 'matrix assembly sites' on the cell surface. The present studies were performed to localize the 'matrix assembly sites' (defined by 70 kDa binding sites) on newly adherent cells and on cells containing preformed fi...

Both the vasculature and the nervous system form extensively branched networks in the vertebrate body, interact with very different tissue environments and establish connections over long distances. Although there are many obviousmorphological, functional andmolecular differences between blood vessels and nerve fibers, striking conceptual similarities in the assembly of these networks through g...

October 14, 2009 Type Package Title Distributions to be used for GAMLSS modelling. Version 3.0-1 Date 2009-14-09 Author Mikis Stasinopoulos , Bob Rigby with contributions from Calliope Akantziliotou, Gillian Heller, Raydonal Ospina and Nicoletta Motpan. Maintainer Mikis Stasinopoulos <[email protected]...

resin transfer molding (rtm) is a composite manufacturing process. a preformed fiber is placed in a closed mold and a viscous resin is injected into the mold. in this paper, a model is developed to predict the flow pattern, extent of reaction and temperature change during filling and curing in a thin rectangular mold. a numerical simulation is presented to predict the free surface and its inter...