Sentence examples for rigid or soft from inspiring English sources

The wave equation can be separated only if the boundaries are ideally reflecting (rigid or soft).

The pelvic socket (acetabulum) is substituted with a rigid or soft spherical shell called the acetabular cup (Farag 2013).

The mechanical properties of the particulate-homocomposite materials demonstrated differences that depended on the particle size, particle nature (rigid or soft) and particle/matrix interfacial adhesion.

Matrix stiffness regulates cell behavior, and a SILAC-based study of changes in protein synthesis in cells grown on rigid or soft matrix found increased synthesis of cytoskeletal and glycolysis proteins by those cells grown on rigid surfaces [ 33].

Wide interest was generated in the influence of mechanical cues on cell differentiation following the demonstration that stem cells are primed for differentiation by the stiffness of their substrate, with rigid, stiff, or soft substrates supporting osteogenic, myogenic, or neurogenic differentiation, respectively.

This analysis revealed that neonatal CMs can undergo clonal expansion in vitro, a process which involves multiple cell divisions; moreover, this potential can be induced most readily on the 20 kPa matrix, compared to either rigid or softer matrices.

The goal is to determine the shape of a certain structure such that it is either as rigid or as soft as possible.

In this communication, the analysis is extended to the case of diverging cylindrical progressive waves incident upon a rigid or a soft cylinder in a non-viscous fluid with explicit calculations for the radiation force function (which is the radiation force per unit energy density and unit cross-sectional surface) not shown in [F.G. Mitri, Ultrasonics 50 (2010) 620 627].

The starfish body should be taut and rigid, not soft or mushy.

Analysis of human cancer cell lines is generally performed using cells cultured on rigid plastic, or in Matrigel or soft agar, the mechanical properties of which are poorly defined and/or difficult to modulate.

The problem of plane-wave scattering from a convex body with a soft, rigid or impedance surface is considered.