Mechanical perturbations increase intracellular Ca2+ in cells, but the coupling of mechanical forces to the Ca2+ influx is not well understood.We used a microfluidic chamber driven with a high-speed pressure servo to generate defined fluid shear stress to cultured HEART FORMULA astrocytes, and simultaneously measured cytoskeletal forces using a for
The aim of this article is to scrutinize car culture and gender in post-socialist China and to show how discourses of mobility and gender have come to be intertwined with the new middle Pourover Coffee Machines class and ideas of nation and cars as imagined communities.The article departs from theoretical and methodological considerations of gender
In May 2007, potato plants exhibiting symptoms possibly of brown rot were collected in some potato fields in the Baixo Mondego region (Center), Portugal, as a part of a nationwide programme to monitor Ralstonia solanacearum.All laboratory procedures laid down in Commission Directive 2006/63/EC, including dilution plating on semi-selective medium SM
The force distribution proposed by codes, which in many cases is framed in the equivalent static force procedure, likely leads to design structures with non-uniform drift distribution in terms of inter-storey drift and ductility demands.This can lead to an unbalanced drift demand at certain storeys.This phenomenon may also amass cyclic damage to th
The Grameen Bank is a specialized financial institution in Bangladesh that was established to provide credit to the rural poor for the purpose of improving their economic conditions with the hypothesis that if the poor are supplied with working capital they can generate productive self-employment without external assistance.Loans from the Grameen B