A scientific basis for this concept is emerging from modern research on the properties of the support and movement systems of the body, which are responsible for maintaining verticality and for motion in the gravity field. The tensegrity concept of Buckminster Fuller explains how therapeutic ...
To fulfill this role, CSK is organized as "tensegrity" structures pre-stressing the cells to keep the cell shape stabilized by the network of opposing tension and compression components (Ingber 2006). As re- cently demonstrated for Piezo1 channels, which are gated ac- cording to the FFL ...
The main difference to traditional stretching is the change of vector: the fascia love to be pulled and stretched in all possible directions. Why? It all goes back to the principle of tensegrity. The idea of flabby connective tissue without a specific function has completely changed. It has ...
Though usually used to refer to the entire clock tower structure, Big Ben specifically refers to the largest of the five bells, also called the Great Bell, in the north-end striking clock at the Palace of Westminster in London, England. The tower was officially designated part of a UNESCO ...
Skin is a complex organ consisting of two very different tissue compartments, the epidermis and the dermis, which comprise cells of diverse origin and function. Establishing and maintaining the functionality of skin requires not only tightly regulated processes of maturation and differentiation of the ...
constructions, including spiders" webs and cell membranes, are "tensegrity systems" — robust structures made up of many interconnected elements which can be manipulated to change shape without losing their structural integrity. "These structures can bend and twist, but no element in the structure ...
A novel engineering application of biomimetics is in the field of structural engineering. Recently, researchers from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) have been incorporating biomimetic characteristics in an adaptive deployable tensegrity bridge[1]. The bridge can carry out self-diagnosis and ...
What is...atensegrity? —Robert Connelly, January 2013 What is...aframe? —Christopher Heil, June/July 2013 What is...thep-adic Mandelbrot set? —Joseph H. Silverman, September 2013 What is...theLeech lattice? —Chuanming Zong, October 2013 ...
1993). To fulfill this role, CSK is organized as “tensegrity” structures pre-stressing the cells to keep the cell shape stabilized by the network of opposing tension and compression components (Ingber 2006). As recently demonstrated for Piezo1 channels, which are gated according to the FFL ...