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• Prosthetics
  A possible application of biotensegrity research is the production of light-weight resilient and natural feeling pr ...ic efficiency and Stride Time Variability indicates how likely a person is to fall. Oxygen consumption and stride time will be collected on a treadmill a
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• Condyle
  ...about condyles, the prominent end of a biological bone that is a focus of biotensegrity research. ...rity models of structural anatomy, bone is the component that is optimized to bear compressive load. The condyle
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• Scarr, Graham
  Read here about Graham Scarr, a tensegrity researcher who specializes in biotensegrity and human anatomical studies. ...ral biology and has published several peer-reviewed articles and a book on biotensegrity, now in its second edition.
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• Earnhardt, Phil
  ...structural anatomy. Read here about Earnhardt's biography, as it relates to tensegrity, and his activites in promoting the comprehension of tensegrity. ...y, as it relates to the human body. He promotes the metaphor of "floating" to comprehend the tensegrity that everybody has in their own body. See [[float
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• Levin, Stephen M
  ...dical description of biomechanical forces in biological life, from viruses to humans. ...different. Levin sought a model that embraced these qualities, in contrast to the lever-dominated Newtonian approach, and found it in tensegrity studies.
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• Biotensegrity
  Read here about '''biotensegrity''', the field of research into biological forms of tensegrity ...on the structural/mechanical aspects of living forms and their connections to whole-organism and whole-body physiology.
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• Blood
  Read here about tensegrity, as it relates to biological blood. ...-based models of red blood cells to begin to understand the cells' ability to constantly deform in circulation while preserving their underlying shape. T
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• Needle Tower
  ...[Snelson, Kenneth|Kenneth Snelson's]] most well known works, partially due to its location on the Washington DC Mall. ...less steel cable. It measures 60 x 20 x 20 feet, 18.2 x 6 x 6m. It belongs to the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
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• Movement Therapy
  ...practitioners spans a broad range, from connoting a vague idea of balance, to a specific and accurate conception of tensegrity as the structural unificat ...re at the cause of pain, tightness and instability. The method is designed to enhance stability in the body’s muscles and joints, thereby alleviating p
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• Cytoskeleton
  [2] Levin, writing to Geodesic listserv, 25 Feb 2010 [[Category:Portal to Cellular Biology]]
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• Integrins
  ...are linked together by extracellular matrix (ECM) scaffolds. Cells adhere to these ECMs (composed of collagens, glycoproteins, and proteoglycans) via bi ...anical tension that is distributed to all elements of the cell, as well as to the external ECM, via their integrin contact points. Importantly, this is o
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• Main Page
  ...</nowiki>), University of Salerno, Italy: CAD model of a tensegrity column to be 3D printed through Electron Beam Melting (EBM) in the Ti6Al4V titanium a Click this page to read about it: [[Project_2021]]
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• Videos
  Use this page to access videos about tensegrity. For a more complete catalog, visit our vide * CAD (computer aided design) videos, about utilizing CAD tools to work with tensegrity models. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGaKVU8ikPc&l
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• Scaffold
  Scaffolding is a temporary structure used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and ...is in place. This will likely always be the case when scaffolding is used to construct a tensegrity.
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• Elbow
  ...omplex control tasks directly into the structure reduces the effort needed to coordinate changes49,77,78 with muscles refining movement at a higher level
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• Octahedron
  For a discussion of the centrality of the icosahedron in biotensegrity structures, see the discussion under [[icosahedron]] . ...is has its disadvantages since the octahedron has a much more faceted look to it than the icosahedron. An icosahedron would be the preferred basis if it
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• Shear
  To define shear we follow Thomas J. Avery's explanation for lay people [1]: ...ay from you. The force of shear is the force acting on the bar that wants to slice it in half.
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• Birth
  While there is little literature applying biotensegrity concepts to the organism as a whole in the process of birth, the behavior of meiosis, u ...rong contractions, and, with each heartbeat, arteries will lengthen enough to crowd the brain out of the skull." [3]
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• Animals
  Read here about tensegrity concepts as they relate to animals, the animal kingdom, and the depiction of animals. ...mals is usually an application of Myers, Tom|Myers Anatomy Trains approach to comprehending the interplay of fascia and bone|bone in vertebrates.
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• Bone
  ...tructure structure] they are lightweight, yet strong and hard, in addition to fulfilling their many other [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_(biology ...porosity is 30-90%. If for any reason there is an alteration in the strain to which the cancellous is subjected, there is a rearrangement of the trabecul
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