Plants enlarge mostly because the walls of certain cells enlarge, with accompanying input of wall constituents and other factors from the cytoplasm. However, the enlargement can occur without input, suggesting an uncertain relationship between cytoplasmic input and plant growth. Therefore, the role of the input was investigated by quantitatively comparing growth in isolated walls (no input) wit...

Living walls are a nature-based strategy to enhance climate resilience in urban areas. There is need study the possible influence of living on thermal performance building façades, given rising temperatures 2022 across UK. This aims analyze impacts façade temperature based orientation variation through simulation Envi-met 5.0.3. software. The wall studied attached multistory located Manchester ...

We study intact and bulging Escherichia coli cells using atomic force microscopy to separate the contributions of the cell wall and turgor pressure to the overall cell stiffness. We find strong evidence of power-law stress stiffening in the E. coli cell wall, with an exponent of 1.22±0.12, such that the wall is significantly stiffer in intact cells (E=23±8  MPa and 49±20  MPa in the axial and c...

A possibility that the origin of the CP violation in our world is a domain wall itself, on which we are living, is investigated in the context of the brane world scenario. We estimate the amount of the CP violation on our wall, and show that either of order one or suppressed CP phases can be realized. An interesting case where CP is violated due to the coexistence of the walls, which conserve C...

The longitudinal muscle of the body wall of Isostichopus badionotus may be considered a model for excitation-contraction coupling in echinoderm muscle. Other echinoderm muscles are reviewed by comparison with the model. Echinoderm muscle is also of interest as a model for 'mutable collagenous tissue'; however, in that tissue, Ca(2+) has been proposed to function both in living control systems a...

We present the Living-Room, an interactive application for browsing, organizing and sharing digital photos. The application runs in an instrumented environment on a wall display and an interactive tabletop, which is meant to simulate a future living room. We discuss the design rationale as well as the interaction techniques and the technical implementation. To asses how well our design goals we...