Open source software (OSS) presents opportunities and challenges for developers to exploit its commons based licensing regime by creating specializations of a software technology to address plurality of goals and priorities. By ‘forking’ a new branch of development separate from the main project, development diverges into a path in order to relieve tensions related to specialization, which late...

Several cosmological tensions have emerged in light of recent data, most notably the inferences parameters ${H}_{0}$ and ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{8}$. We explore possibility alleviating both these simultaneously by means Albrecht-Skordis ``quintessence'' potential. The field can reduce size sound horizon ${r}_{s}^{*}$ while concurrently suppressing power matter density fluctuations before it com...

This study explores the ways in which the affordances of social media not only increase open communication and knowledge sharing, but also promote covert behavior, creating dialectical tensions for distributed workers that must be communicatively managed. Drawing on a case study of the engineering division of a distributed high tech start-up, we find our participants navigate tensions in visibi...

The present study examined age differences in exposure and reactivity to interpersonal tensions among White and Black Americans. Participants from the National Study of Daily Experiences II (NSDE II, n= 1696 White and n = 239 Black; ages 34 to 84) reported their experiences of daily interpersonal tensions and well-being (positive and negative affect) over 8 days and provided salivary cortisol s...

This paper addresses the cable tension distributions of a cable-driven parallel robot with non-negligible cable mass for large dimension mechanisms. A well-known model which describes the profile of a cable under the action of its own weight allows us to take the cable sags into account. In addition, an approach to computing the cable tensions is presented, in which there are two major steps to...

Integrins coupled with other proteins form protein complexes named focal adhesions (FA) which are considered as the primary sites for cellular forces transduction during cell stable adhesion. Cell traction forces transmitted by FAs and integrin tensions inside FAs have been extensively studied. However, it remains unknown whether integrins outside FAs can transmit tension, and if so, what is th...