Tension generation in endothelial cells of the aorta, spleen, and eye occurs in actin stress fibers, and is necessary for normal cell function. Sarcomeres are the tension-generating units of actin stress fibers in endothelial cells. How sarcomeres generate and maintain tension in stress fibers is not well understood. Using femtosecond laser ablation, we severed living stress fibers and measured...

On “Increasing muscle extensibility...” Weppler CH, Magnusson SP. Phys Ther. 2010;90:438–449. This perspective article was very interesting and thought provoking; however, I was slightly skeptical about your conclusions in the section on neuromuscular relaxation. Specifi cally, I am having trouble reconciling my clinical experience with your suggestion that an increase in extensibility during a...

With the rapid advancement of hardware and software, entertainment computing industry has been popularized during the last decade. TV content/story production is a major bottleneck in the entertainment industry. Previous work has identified key problems, such as narrative control, the duality between character and plot, the tension between interactivity and storytelling, and the tools that arti...

A ®nite element model for investigating damage evolution in brittle matrix composites was developed. This modeling is based on an axisymmetric unit cell composed of a ®ber and its surrounding matrix. The unit cell was discretized into linearly elastic elements for the ®ber and the matrix and cohesive elements which allow cracking in the matrix, ®ber-matrix interface, and ®ber. The cohesive elem...

Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream is about true love and felicitous marriage as essentials of both natural and social order. With three interwoven plots, Shakespeare’s names and references reflect three types of sources, each with associative possibilities relevant to the basic themes. The main plot is about Athenian nobles whose names draw symbolic meaning from Greek mythology. It focuses ...

identification of the factors causing change in policy process plays an important role in implementing healthy policy process. narrative policy framework introduces new concepts and tools to identify the factors causing policy change. one of the important variables in narrative policy framework is narrative structure. narrative structure has so many elements which the main one is plot. plot lin...