1. Shear rheology of polymer solutions near the critical condition for elastic instability

   • Michael J. MacDonald
   • Susan J. Muller

   Original Contribution Pages: 97 - 109

2. Modeling spurt and stress oscillations in flows of molten polymers

   • Kolapo P. Adewale
   • Arkady I. Leonov

   Original Contribution Pages: 110 - 127

3. Stick-slip transition in capillary flow of linear polyethylene: 3. Surface conditions

   • Shi-Qing Wang
   • Patrick A. Drda

   Original Contribution Pages: 128 - 134

4. Solitary waves on the surface of a viscoelastic fluid running down an inclined plane

   • Bhabani Shankar Dandapat
   • Anadi Shankar Gupta

   Original Contribution Pages: 135 - 143

5. Extensional viscosity from entrance pressure drop measurements

   • Mahesh Padmanabhan
   • Christopher W. Macosko
   • M. Padmanabhan

   Original Contribution Pages: 144 - 151

6. Isothermal elongational behavior of liquid-crystalline polymers and LCPs based blends

   • Franco P. La Mantia
   • Massimo Paci
   • Pierluigi L. Magagnini

   Original Contribution Pages: 152 - 159

7. The effect of parallel combined steady and oscillatory shear flows on blood and polymer solutions

   • Georgios Vlastos
   • Dietmar Lerche
   • Manfred Pohl

   Original Contribution Pages: 160 - 172

8. Generalized Maxwell model for the viscoelastic behavior of a soda-lime-silica glass under low frequency shear loading

   • Lucas Duffrène
   • René Gy
   • Joseph Perez

   Original Contribution Pages: 173 - 186

9. Stability of the T _∞FT < T _∞α relation between Vogel temperatures of flow and glass transition against determination variants

   • Mario Beiner
   • Sven Reissig
   • Ernst-Joachim Donth

   Original Contribution Pages: 187 - 196

10. Finitely extensible bead spring chains in time-dependent shear flows

    • Wilfried Carl

    Short Communication Pages: 197 - 201

11. Announcements

    Announcement Pages: 202 - 203