Rigidity versus deformability hypothesis in impact dynamics

Deformability of Tumor Cells versus Blood Cells

The potential for circulating tumor cells (CTCs) to elucidate the process of cancer metastasis and inform clinical decision-making has made their isolation of great importance. However, CTCs are rare in the blood, and universal properties with which to identify them remain elusive. As technological advancements have made single-cell deformability measurements increasingly routine, the assessmen...

the comparative impact of prompts and recasts in processing instruction versus meaningful output-based instruction on efl learners’ writing accuracy

the purpose of the present study was to see which one of the two instruction-processing instruction (pi) and meaningful output based instruction (mobi) accompanied with prompt and recast- is more effective on efl learners’ writing accuracy. in order to homogenize the participants in term of language proficiency a preliminary english test (pet) was administrated between 74 intermediate students ...

Dynamics of materials with a deformability threshold

Some biological tissues exhibit a sharp reduction of deformability beyond some stress threshold, below which they may be considered elastic. The simplest constitutive equation used to describe the mechanical behavior of tendons and ligaments is a stress-strain relation in which the stress is a sharply increasing function of the strain (for instance exponential, [Fung, 1993]). The system can be ...

Rigidity in Holomorphic and Quasiregular Dynamics

We consider rigidity phenomena for holomorphic functions and then more generally for uniformly quasiregular maps.

Rigidity and Inflexibility in Conformal Dynamics