A model that has been proposed to investigate the continued IT usage behavior is the Expectation-Confirmation Model in IT Domain (ECM-IT). This paper proposes an extension to the ECM-IT that incorporates perceived ease of use; provide empirical evidence for the utility of the extended ECM-IT; and deepen our knowledge about the factors affecting the continued IT usage behavior. The extended ECM-...

The mechanical properties of the extracellular matrix (ECM) in which cells reside have emerged as an important regulator of cell fate. While materials based on natural ECM have been used to implicate the role of substrate stiffness for cell fate decisions, it is difficult in these matrices to isolate mechanics from other structural parameters. In contrast, fully synthetic hydrogels offer indepe...

There is described a spacetime formulation of both nonrelativistic and relativistic elasticity. Specific attention is devoted to the causal structure of the theories and the availability of local existence theorems for the initial-value problem. Much of the presented material is based on joint work of B.G.Schmidt and the author (in Class.Quantum Grav.20 (2003), 889-904).

physics education is the nearly complete absence of continuum mechanics in the typical undergraduate or graduate curriculum. Continuum mechanics refers to field descriptions of mechanical phenomena, which are usually modeled by partial differential equations. The Navier–Stokes equations for the velocity and pressure fields of Newtonian fluids provide an important example, but continuum modeling...

The importance of the extracellular matrix (ECM) in muscle is widely recognized, since ECM plays a central role in proper muscle development (Buck and Horwitz, 1987), tissue structural support (Purslow, 2002), and transmission of mechanical signals between fibers and tendon (Huijing, 1999). Since substrate biomechanical properties have been shown to be critical in the biology of tissue developm...

The mechanical properties of tissues play a critical role in their normal and pathophysiological functions such as tissue development, aging, injury, disease. Understanding mechanics is important not only for designing realistic biomimetic materials engineering drug testing but also developing novel diagnostic techniques medical interventions. Tissues are heterogeneous consisting cells confined...