1. Transient director patterns upon flow start-up of nematic liquid crystals (an explanation for stress oscillation damping)

   • Dennis J. Ternet
   • Ronald G. Larson
   • L. Gary Leal

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 307 - 316

2. Thermodynamic admissibility of the pompon model for branched polymers

   • Hans Christian Öttinger

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 317 - 321

3. Van Gurp-Palmen-plot: a way to characterize polydispersity of linear polymers

   • Stefan Trinkle
   • Christian Friedrich

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 322 - 328

4. Uniaxial elongational viscosity of PS/a small amount of UHMW-PS blends

   • Akinari Minegishi
   • Akihiro Nishioka
   • Kiyohito Koyama

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 329 - 338

5. The modified imbedded disc retraction method for measurement of interfacial tension in polymer melts

   • Milica Rodic
   • Andrew N. Hrymak

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 339 - 349

6. Modeling of steady and time-dependent responses in filled, uncured, and crosslinked rubbers

   • Prashant G. Joshi
   • Arkady I. Leonov

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 350 - 365

7. Elastic properties of a dilute surfactant solution in the shear induced state

   • Maik Nowak

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 366 - 372

8. Non-Newtonian viscous oscillating free surface jets, and a new strain-rate dependent viscosity form for flows experiencing low strain rates

   • Stephen E. Bechtel
   • Nivine T. Youssef
   • Kurt W. Koelling

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 373 - 383

9. Influence of molecular structure on secondary flow of polyolefin melts as investigated by laser-Doppler velocimetry

   • Helmut Münstedt
   • Martin Schwetz
   • Michael Schmidt

   SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 384 - 394

10. Increased torque transducer sensitivity via oversampling

    • Dagmar van Dusschoten
    • Manfred Wilhelm

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 395 - 399

11. An introduction to elastomer molecular network theory – Arthur S. Lodge (1999) Bannatek Press

    • R. J. J. Jongschaap

    BOOK REPORT Pages: 400 - 400

12. Some comments on “computational analysis of techniques to determine extensional viscosity from entrance flows” [Rheol Acta 39:138–151 (2000)]

    • Evan Mitsoulis
    • Savvas G. Hatzikiriakos
    • Dimitris Vlassopoulos

    LETTER TO THE EDITOR Pages: 401 - 402