Aerodynamic noise control is important for various engineering applications, including automobiles. To develop effective methods the flow and sound of bluff bodies, past a cylinder usually studied as simplified problem. In this study, passive technique using surface protrusions was developed to suppress aeolian tone generated by two-dimensional laminar circular cylinder. Protrusions were create...

Eukaryotic cells are thought to move across supporting surfaces through a combination of coordinated processes: polarisation; extension of dynamic protrusions from a leading edge; adhesion-associated stabilisation of some protrusions; centripetal pulling against those leading adhesions; and de-adhesion at the rear. Gradients of extracellular ligands can be detected by cells and then used to gui...

The telencephalon-associated intercellular adhesion molecule 5 (Telencephalin; ICAM-5) regulates dendritic maturation, a process dependent on extracellular proteases in the developing brain. Using transmission electron microscopy, we have reported previously that ICAM-5 is localized primarily in dendritic protrusions during a period of robust synaptogenesis (P14 in mouse visual cortex). As dend...