Shear Transformation Zones: State determined or protocol dependent? Oleg Gendelman, Prabhat K. Jaiswal, Itamar Procaccia, Bhaskar Sen Gupta and Jacques Zylberg EPL, 109 1 (2015) 16002 Published online: 21 January 2015 DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/109/16002