I guess the installer of this flexible metal conduit (FMC) figured securing and supporting the conduit was “optional.” I saw many runs of FMC simply strewn about the water pipes and other piping ...

These are devices where cables are used as actuators. By sending these cables through a flexible conduit, they serve a similar function to the tendons in our body that actuate our fingers.

Signaling via phosphorylation-regulated protein-protein interactions often involves flexible or unstructured ... temporally regulated, multistep conduit for signal transduction in the cell cycle.