For tors1 on chromosome 20, female WL-allele bearers have more rigid femurs in rigidity tests by torsion.
Local rigidity tests were also performed, to ascertain the influence of the indentation at the loading points on the rigidities measured.
Mechanical testing of these orthopedic implants can involve analysis of the implant rigidity, testing how many cycles it takes until it breaks, how the implant influences the rest of the body around it, or a multitude of other needs.
Then again, we did not specifically rule out psychogenic ED by the use of psychometric assessments or by evaluating the intactness of sleep-time erections through nocturnal penile tumescence and rigidity testing.
In addition, on the basis of the heated prism specimens (100×100×300 mm3) tested on an electro-hydromantic rigidity servo test machine, the complete stress strain curves are obtained, and the effects of temperatures on the residual prism compressive strength, the strain, and the elastic modulus etc are analysed.
Here, the microwells in both soft and hard PDMS were limited to 2-D projected surface areas between 78 and 330 µm2 (total surface areas of 314 942 µm2) so that substrate rigidity was tested for two populations of single cells in microwells that had similar cell adhesion surface areas, but different rigidities.
The stiffened plates with longitudinal stiffeners of a range of rigidities were tested to failure.
In this mode of neuronal guidance, growth cone filopodia most likely do not test rigidity by integrin-mediated mechanosensing.
Most likely on such stripes, which have micrometric size features, growth cone filopodia experience the ECM as a 2D environment and use myosin II-based mechanosensing to test rigidity of the surrounding ECM.
An initiative to take those most likely to end up in a life of drugs and violence out of the normal classroom and educate them separately, in ways that try to give them an element of self-knowledge and pride, is stymied both by a lack of funding - itself due in no small part to political hubris and chicanery - and the necessity of forcing each pupil blindly through the rigidity of state testing.
