Having finished the first proof of the Noösphere book, I am thinking about how to present the work. As is, there is no text in the book, other than the text that appears in the images. Do I want to include some sort of explanation of the process, or footnotes or an appendix? My first instinct is not to include anything - to let the images just be themselves. The issue is that once I delve into the text, I open up a whole new set of questions about how the included text frames the work, and I’m not sure I want to get into that at this point.
Anyway, to test this out, I’ve done some research and dug up the source images and associated text for the following Noösphere:
6 of 7 layers positively identified. One layer (Source 5) tentatively identified.
ARTICLE TITLES FOR EACH LAYER:
Flare Spots in Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography Images of Bioabsorbable Stents
Cytoskeletal Dynamics During Cytokinesis
Oscillatory phase separation in giant lipid vesicles induced by transmembrane osmotic differentials
Thrombin and fibrinogen γ′ impact clot structure by marked effects on intrafibrillar structure and protofibril packing
Origin, structure, and role of background EEG activity
Interactions between Inhibitory Interneurons and Excitatory Associational Circuitry in Determining Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Hippocampal Dentate Granule Cells
Ambient seismic noise tomography of Canada and adjacent regions: Part I. Crustal structures
SOURCES:
Source 1: 04023_gr1.jpg here
Flare Spots in Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography Images of Bioabsorbable Stents
Flare spots (Figures 1A and 1B) are observed in intravascular optical coherence tomography (IVOCT) images of bioabsorbable stent struts in patients and have no analog in metallic stents. Gutiérrez-Chico et al. (1) proposed that flare spots were located at hinge points where the highest strain is experienced during deployment, suggesting that they represent micro-crazes (fine lines) in the polymer. Nonetheless, the mechanism for the presence of flare spots in IVOCT images, and the large variation in their appearance where no two are alike, is not known. In this study, micro-CT and IVOCT images of a bioabsorbable stent deployed in a cylindrical phantom blood vessel were coregistered and compared in order to investigate the underlying mechanism for presence of flare spots in IVOCT images.
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Cytoskeletal Dynamics During Cytokinesis: von Dassow, Bement, Foe, Odell
Sand dollar zygotes during first mitosis, fixed and stained for microtubules and chromosomes (single confocal sections). Top row: metaphase, early anaphase, late anaphase; bottom row: successive stages in furrowing. A variety of experiments imply that microtubules stimulate cortical contractility in the cell equator, but also many experiments purport to show that microtubules are dispensable after mid-anaphase (right-most frame in the top row). In an urchin egg like this one, microtubules have reached the cell poles at this stage, but not the equator. They only reach the equator after furrow initiation (left frame, bottom row). How can this be?
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Oscillatory phase separation in giant lipid vesicles induced by transmembrane osmotic differentials
Interrupted imaging of oscillatory phase separation: Z-stack projections of height-resolved fluorescence images of the lower hemisphere of a GUV consisting of POPC:SM:Ch (1:1:1) labeled with 0.5% Rho-DPPE (pseudo-colored red). The GUV encapsulates 200 mM sucrose, and the external dispersion medium is diluted in MilliQ water. Images are acquired at 25°C at arbitrary time points; (A) 0 s, (B) 99 s, (C) 148 s, (D) 299 s, (E) 550 s, and (F) 692 s. The first image was taken ∼2 hr after imposing the osmotic gradient. Scale bar: 5 µm.
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Thrombin and fibrinogen γ′ impact clot structure by marked effects on intrafibrillar structure and protofibril packing: Marco M. Domingues, Fraser L. Macrae, Cédric Duval, Helen R. McPherson, Katherine I. Bridge, Ramzi A. Ajjan, Victoria C. Ridger, Simon D. Connell, Helen Philippou and Robert A. S. Ariëns
Thrombin effects on fibrin clot network and fibrin fiber size. Transmission electron microscopy images under dried conditions of fibrin clots made with human plasminogen-depleted IF-1 purified fibrinogen (1 mg/mL), CaCl2 (2.5 mM), and thrombin at concentrations of (A) 0.1, (B) 1.0, and (C) 10 U/mL. Scale bars, 500 nm. (D) Fibrin fiber radius obtained by measurement of n = 50 fibrin fibers at 0.1, 1.0, and 10 U/mL thrombin. The individually plotted data represent the dispersion of the fiber size within the clot, and the bar represents the mean value. Statistical significance, using a 1-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), is denoted with ****P < .001 for comparison between 0.1 U/mL and the remaining thrombin concentrations.
Source 5: Fig_005.jpg here
Origin, structure, and role of background EEG activity
Methods: High-density 8×8 intracranial arrays were fixed over sensory cortices of rabbits. EEGs were spatially low pass filtered, temporally bandpass filtered and segmented in overlapping windows stepped at 2 ms. Phase was measured with the cosine as the temporal basis function, using both Fourier and Hilbert transforms to compensate for their respective limitations. Spatial patterns in 2D phase surfaces were measured with the geometric form of the cone as the spatial basis function.
Source 6: fnsys-09-00155-g011.jpg here
Interactions between Inhibitory Interneurons and Excitatory Associational Circuitry in Determining Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Hippocampal Dentate Granule Cells: Phillip J. Hendrickson*, Gene J. Yu, Dong Song and Theodore W. Berger
Simulation results when strengthening and weakening three individual synaptic connections in the granule-mossy-basket cell network. All raster plots show 1,000 ms of activity. (A1,B1) Shows balanced synaptic weights. (A2,B2) Show alterations to the MC-GC synaptic weights. (A3,B3) Show alterations to the MC-BC synaptic weights. (A4,B4) Show alterations to the BC-GC synaptic weights. When the excitatory mossy cell loop is strengthened relative to the inhibitory basket cell loop, a pattern of theta-modulated gamma oscillations develops (A3,A4,B2).
Source 7: FigS1_CCF_HF.jpg here
Ambient seismic noise tomography of Canada and adjacent regions: Part I. Crustal structures
Figure 3. Representative examples of stacked cross-correlation functions from continuous ambient seismic noise data. For each 100 km distance interval, only the trace with the highest signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio, defined as the ratio between the largest absolute amplitude and the mean absolute amplitude, is plotted. No filter is applied to waveforms. High-pass filtered (corner frequency at 0.1 Hz) and low-pass filtered (corner frequency at 0.02 Hz) plots are provided in the supporting information (Figures S1 and S2, respectively) for readers who are interested in assessing the data quality at different frequency ranges. Locations of stations are shown in Figure 2.