Sentences with phrase «bursts of activity in»

«That's a challenge,» says Justin Molito, director of organizing for the WGA's East Coast branch, who nonetheless is «encouraged and excited» by the burst of activity in the space and has even adopted some of the tactics of collective action that the newer guilds are using.

Her team also saw a burst of activity in the nucleus cuneiformis, which is a part of systems thought to help us control pain through thought alone.

Round four: it arrives at the drop of a hat, followed by an intense burst of activity in response to the referees» comments.

But 2013 has been a bust for long - range forecasters who had predicted a stronger - than - usual burst of activity in the tropical Atlantic.

However, the study of early career markers over the past 7 to 10 years has demonstrated increasing interest in research careers by medical students, steady growth of the MD - PhD pool, and a new burst of activity in the «late bloomer» pool of MDs (individuals who choose research careers in medical school or in residency training), fueled by loan repayment programs that were created by the NIH in 2002.

The sound provoked a burst of activity in the brain's nerve cells.

The Malaysian Chinese filmmaker had a burst of activity in the mid-00s, most notably including the superb «Goodbye, Dragon Inn,» but all we've had since 2009's «Face» (itself fairly disappointing) are a selection of shorts little - seen outside his homeland.

Painted in 1977, Untitled XXV is one of a remarkable series of large canvases that Willem de Kooning produced during a sudden burst of activity in the mid-1970s.

Not exact matches

For starters, you'll notice that after those monthly meetings, there's a burst of high energy that can result in high volume sales activity.

But a burst of new activity in early 2014 has given the industry some welcome signs of momentum.

For the financial markets, those risks are compounded by the unbalanced «risk - on» exposure that investment managers and institutions adopted early this year, encouraged by a short - lived burst of economic activity, and faith in a central - bank backstop.

Given the strange restrictions under which their makers must work, the constructions already produced are marvels of ingenuity, although a creature so constituted is probably more plausible as a sensitive observer of sunsets than as the creative agent who, in a surprisingly short burst of intense activity, produced Process and Reality.

From a Wine vs. Stein battle of the crafts to a Night in Tuscany cooking class, the 2017 events calendar at Natirar is bursting with epicurean activities.

It's perfect for squeezing in quick bursts of activity throughout the day.

If the nesting instinct kicks in while you're pregnant, you might experience bursts of activity and a strong urge to clean and organize your home.

Send one to school with a child who participates in after school sports activities and will need a burst of energy late in the day.

Their activity may happen in short bursts of time and not be all at once.

I've had a burst of Montessori happenings at my house recently since baby girl is needing more useful activities to channel her toddler energy in the right direction.

Much of the the turn around is credited to the burst of economic activity radiating out from the medical campus, with its buildings visible in the distance.

The burst of attention - grabbing activity from a typically subdued figure has prompted new interest in Ms. Mark - Viverito's future.

Theories abound, but one popular idea — favoured by the authors of this study — is that it reflects the action of attention which appears to sample neural activity in rapid bursts.

Recordings of neural activity in the frontal cortex of the rats showed that, like humans with schizophrenia, these rats also lacked the low frequency burst of brain activity (delta wave) during the timing task.

They also lacked a low frequency burst of brain activity (the delta brain wave) that occurs right at the start of the trial in healthy subjects.

Such counterparts are dependably seen in the wake of comparably energetic cosmic explosions, including both stellar - scale cataclysms — supernovae, magnetar flares, and gamma - ray bursts — and episodic or continuous accretion activity of the supermassive black holes that commonly lurk in the centers of galaxies.

In this study, 58 study participants were subjected to 40 seconds of a noninvasive procedure called theta - burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, which temporarily dampens activity in specific regions of the braiIn this study, 58 study participants were subjected to 40 seconds of a noninvasive procedure called theta - burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, which temporarily dampens activity in specific regions of the braiin specific regions of the brain.

Sleep spindles are half - second to two - second bursts of brain activity, measured in the 10 - 16 Hertz range on an EEG.

When warned their breathing was about to be restricted, the most resilient participants — SEALs and adventure racers, among others — showed a burst of blood - flow activity in an area of the brain that registers sensations in the body, called the insular cortex.

The violent activity triggers huge bursts of star formation that can churn out new stars 100 times faster than in an undisturbed galaxy like our own Milky Way.

When patients are in a medically induced coma, the brain is quiet for up to several seconds at a time, punctuated by short bursts of activity.

Watching the sun in ultraviolet wavelengths of light from space — above our UV light - blocking atmosphere — reveals constant activity, including bursts of light, particles, and magnetic fields.

«Immediately after the rat is exposed to the smell there is a burst in activity of 20 Hz waves in a specific connection between an area in the entorhinal cortex, lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC), and an area in the hippocampus, distal CA1 (dCA1), while a similar strong response was not observed in other connections,» Igarashi explains.

Ceramics and fire residue showed the cave had been visited off and on going back to the second millennium B.C., but in the eighth and ninth centuries, there was a sudden burst of activity.

Most plants show evidence of recent bursts of this mobile DNA activity, «But Amborella is unique in that it does not seem to have acquired many new mobile sequences in the past several million years,» stated Sue Wessler of the University of California - Riverside.

In deep, slow - wave sleep, recordings of the brain's electrical activity show sparse bursts of big, slow waves.

Nicholas Steinmetz and colleagues found that some mice expressing the genetically - encoded calcium sensor GCaMP6 display brief bursts of electrical activity, commonly observed in epileptic patients and animal models.

The results offer insights into how bursts of neuronal activity that last only milliseconds trigger lasting changes in the brain, and open new fields of exploration for efforts to understand how the brain works.

This may help us to understand how processes such as learning and memory formation, which require long - term changes in the brain, arise from the short bursts of electrical activity through which neurons signal to each other,» Greenberg said.

We already knew that light can stimulate nerve activity, and two years ago Nicholas Smith at Osaka University, Japan, showed that 8 - millisecond bursts of laser pulses could synchronise the pulsing of heart cells in culture.

Devoted proponents of a Paleo lifestyle not only subsist primarily on meat and eschew carbs; they also exercise in short bursts of activity intended to mimic escaping prey.

«Many neurons — including those in the hippocampus — showed a sudden burst of activity shortly after eye movements in sleep, typically observed when these cells are «busy» processing new images.»

Strangely, many excitatory PYR cells fire infrequently, in single bursts of activity.

In one patient, the FO electrodes revealed frequent bursts of electrical activity called spikes, often associated with seizures, most which were not detectible by scalp EEG.

«Role for enhancers in bursts of gene activity.»

Knockdown of sodium channel Na < sub > V 1.6 blocks mechanical pain and abnormal bursting activity of afferent neurons in inflamed sensory ganglia.

Scientists have found that the biological clock that sparks a burst of morning activity in fruit flies plays extra duty in resetting a second clock, which jumpstarts activity in the evening.

A new Brown University study stands to substantially refine what they thought was going on: what really matters is not a sustained elevation in beta wave power, but instead the rate of specific bursts of beta wave activity, ideally with perfect timing.

Two groups of researchers have independently discovered the long sought dual body clocks in the brain of fruit flies that separately govern bursts of morning and evening activity.

Three different activity measures were used to quantify the magnitude of the saccade - related bursts of SC neurons for movements towards the center of their movement field as a function of their rostral - to - caudal location in the SC motor map: A) number of spikes in the burst, B) mean firing rate and C) peak spike density.

Exercising in short bursts of activity — known as high - intensity interval training (HIIT)-- actually allows you to exercise less while burning more fat than regular workouts!

Buchman and his colleagues tried to estimate the intensity of the participants» activity by looking at whether their movements were spread out evenly throughout the day or clustered in short bursts suggestive of vigorous exercise.