Many cellular processes are driven by cytoskeletal assemblies. It remains unclear how cytoskeletal filaments and motor proteins organize into cellular scale structures and how molecular properties of cytoskeletal components affect the large-scale behaviors of these systems. Here, we investigate the self-organization of stabilized microtubules in Xenopus oocyte extracts and find that they can fo...

1. To explore roles of intracellular Ca(2+) stores in excitation-contraction coupling in smooth muscle, we examined the effects of ryanodine, a fixer of ryanodine receptor-Ca(2+) channels to an open state, and thapsigargin, a selective inhibitor of the Ca(2+) pump in the intracellular stores, on smooth muscle contraction in the presence and absence of extracellular Ca(2+) in guinea-pig taenia c...

Colloidal CdSe nanocrystals ~NCs! with high photoluminescent quantum yield are fabricated by a method adopting a large initial Se:Cd ratio of the precursors in the solution. X-ray diffraction and Raman measurements confirm that there exists lattice contraction in the free-standing wurtzite CdSe NCs. The lattice contraction indicates the occurrence of surface optimization/reconstruction during t...

The minimum linear arrangement problem is widely used and studied in many practical and theoretical applications. In this paper we present a linear-time algorithm for the problem inspired by the algebraic multigrid approach which is based on weighted edge contraction rather than simple contraction. Our results turned out to be better than every known result in almost all cases, while the short ...

boujari [5] proved a fixed point theorem with an old version of the integraltype contraction , his proof is incorrect. in this paper, a new generalizationof integral type contraction is introduced. moreover, a fixed point theorem isobtained.

Many cellular processes are driven by cytoskeletal assemblies. It remains unclear how cytoskeletal filaments and motor proteins organize into cellular scale structures and how molecular properties of cytoskeletal components affect the large scale behaviors of these systems. Here we inves5 tigate the self-organization of stabilized microtubules in Xenopus oocyte extracts and find that they can f...

A dynamical system is called contractive if any two solutions approach one another at an exponential rate. More precisely, the dynamics contracts lines This property implies highly ordered asymptotic behavior including entrainment to time-varying periodic vector fields and, in particular, global stability for time-invariant fields. Contraction theory has found numerous applications systems and ...

Myocardial post-systolic shortening is characterized by a large variability in both duration and magnitude. Although typically occurring in a setting of ischemic heart disease, this regionally asynchronous myocardial contraction is considered a normal finding in approximately one-third of myocardial segments in healthy subjects, as long as the magnitude is low and the systolic strain is preserv...

objective: due to the frequent use of surface electromyography as a tool for the study of muscle function, to accurately compare electromyographic data from different muscles and different subjects, it is necessary to normalize the integrated data obtained from each muscle. the most common normalization technique is the use of maximum voluntary isometric contraction (mvic) of a predetermined is...