Elasticity imaging can be understood as the intersection of the study of biomechanical properties, imaging sciences, and physics. It was mainly motivated by the fact that pathological tissue presents an increased stiffness when compared to surrounding normal tissue. In the last two decades, research on elasticity imaging has been an international and interdisciplinary pursuit aiming to map the ...

Pure bending experiments on prismatic bars of square cross-section composed of reticulated polymer foam exhibit deformation behavior not captured by classical elasticity theory. Perhaps the clearest example of this is the observed sigmoidal deformation of the bars’ lateral surfaces, which are predicted by classical elasticity theory to tilt but remain planar upon pure moment application. Such f...

Cloud computing has spurred the exploration and exploitation of elastic access to large scales of computing. To date the predominate building blocks by which elasticity has been exploited are applications and operating systems that are built around traditional computing infrastructure and programming models that are in-elastic or at best coarsely elastic. What would happen if application themse...

This study used thermoelastic measurements to investigate the role of proline in the elastic mechanism of hydrated, spider major ampullate (MA) and flagelliform (FL) silks. Experiments on hydrated MA silk from Araneus diadematus (proline content 16%) reveal that conformational entropy elasticity accounts for about 90% of the elastic force at small extensions, but entropy elasticity drops to abo...

Microenvironmental mechanical properties of stem cell niches vary across tissues and developmental stages. Accumulating evidence suggests that matching substrate elasticity with in vivo tissue elasticity facilitates stem cell differentiation. However, it has not been established whether substrate elasticity can control the maturation stage of cells generated by stem cell differentiation. Here w...

Macrophages serve to maintain organ homeostasis in response to challenges from injury, inflammation, malignancy, particulate exposure, or infection. Until now, receptor ligation has been understood as being the central mechanism that regulates macrophage function. Using macrophages of different origins and species, we report that macrophage elasticity is a major determinant of innate macrophage...

This paper investigates patterns in the demand for barge transportation along the inland waterway system. Non-parametric techniques including both rolling regression and locally weighted regressions are used to visually analyze the pattern of elasticity estimates along the river at the pool level. The results of these non-parametric approaches visually indicate that barge demand elasticity may ...

We present a structural model of urban growth in a spatial equilibrium setting to aid the separation of the effects of demand shocks from those of the spatial variation in housing supply elasticity. The model is applied to an analysis of urban growth across Chines cities between 1998 and 2004, to evaluate the determinants of housing supply elasticity. The variation in supply, via urban expansio...

An important determinant of option prices is the elasticity of the pricing kernel used to price all claims in the economy. In this paper, we rst show that for a given forward price of the underlying asset, option prices are higher when the elasticity of the pricing kernel is declining than when it is constant. We then investigate the implications of the elasticity of the pricing kernel for the ...

Part 1. Three-dimensional theory 3 Outline 3 1.1. Notation, definitions, and some basic formulas 3 1.2. Equations of equilibrium 5 1.3. Constitutive equations of elastic materials 8 1.4. The equations of nonlinear and linearized three-dimensional elasticity 11 1.5. A fundamental lemma of J.L. Lions 13 1.6. Existence theory in linearized three-dimensional elasticity 14 1.7. Existence theory in n...