Organisational tensions

It is a sort of molecular sociology Non-covalent interactions define the intercomponent bond, the action and reaction, in brief, the behaviour of the molecular individuals and populations their social structure as an ensemble of individuals having its own organisation their stability and their fragility their tendency to associate or to isolate themselves their selectivity, their elective affinities and class structure, their ability to recognize each other their dynamics, fluidity or rigidity of arrangements and of castes, tensions, motions and reorientations their mutual action and their transformations by each other. 

Intermediate filaments are about lOnm in diameter, and are more stable (strongly bound) than actin filaments. Like actin filaments they function in the maintenance of cell shape by bearing tension. Intermediate filaments organise the internal tridimensional structure of the ceU, anchoring organelles and serving as structural components of the nuclear lamina (a dense fibrillar network inside the nucleus) and sarcomeres. They also participate in some cell-cell and cell-matrix junctions. 

Just engineering can provide non-violent means of meeting humanitarian needs and of preventing the build-up of tensions, both of which are presently associated with the temptations of preventive or pre-emptive military action. Such non-violent interventions could be initiated by states, but they could also be initiated by commercial organisations or charitable bodies either internationally or locally. These latter possibilities are free from the restrictions which international law currently places on state interventions. 

As discussed in Section 4.1, the specific adsorption of the ionic porphyrins at the liquid/liquid interface manifests itself by changes in the distribution of ions at the interface as well as in the interfacial tension. However, these two parameters do not provide direct information on the organisation of the adsorbed species in terms of lateral interactions and average molecular orientation. These aspects will be reviewed in Section 4.2 based on SHG and photocurrent Ught polarisation anisotropy studies of metalloporphyrins at the polarised water/IX2E interface. 

The majority of studies of spread polymer layers have been concerned with polymers at the air/water interface. Even where one component of the polymer film may be soluble in the aqueous sub-phase, the high surface tension of water generally results in a pancake layer being formed, i.e. there is little stretching of the molecules into the sub-phase. Although in recent years the interpretation of surface pressure isotherms has become a little more quantitative, there is currently no general theory of organisation of polymers at the air/water... 

For example, within organisation science, the study of practice has emerged, illuminating a degree of tension between studies of workplace activity without evaluation of practice, and normative accountability, what counts or could be evaluated as competent or exemplary practice (Gherardi, 2009). However, the study of practice has, as one its main aims, a theoretical framework within which to understand practice in a general sense, rather than to inform practitioners in one specific discipline. 

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