Sentences with phrase «circuitry from»

Redesigned LED lighting control circuitry from linear 12V drivers to 12 / 24V switching topologies, both using dedicated controllers and manually with 8 - bit microcontrollers.

With a name like Squishy Circuits, it was clearly invented with kids in mind — but that didn't stop this novel method of DIY circuitry from being a hit with adults at Maker Faire too.

Not exact matches

Using ingenious analogies from electrical circuitry, Pike attempts to make divine power sharing intelligible and compatible with divine «veto» power.

Thousands of dollars of circuitry sat inert before us, and the man from Nielsen whispered urgently into his radio, then turned a hangdog face to tell us the system wouldn't work because a 300 - year - old maple was blocking satellite reception, which prompted my nature - centric Captain Planet - loving kids to scream «CUT IT DOWN!»

Imaging various sections of white matter from different angles can help researchers focus on the brain circuitry important for proper neuron communication.

Imaging various sections of white matter from different angles can help researchers focus on the underlying brain circuitry important for proper neuron communication.

This gives just enough time for light signals from the baseball to hit the batter's eye, work through the circuitry of the retina, activate successions of cells along the loopy superhighways of the visual system at the back of the head, cross vast territories to the motor areas, and modify the contraction of the muscles swinging the bat.

The semi-autonomous arms extend out in front of the body from the hips and are strapped to a backpack - like harness that holds the control circuitry.

«The microchip technology also allows us to extract signals from the brain in order to reverse - engineer brain circuitry and decode the information that is in the subject's mind.

They make myelin, the fatty coating around axons — long, threadlike fibers that relay neural impulses from one cell to the next, activating the circuitry that endows us with the physical and emotional capacity to fully embrace the world.

«It is exciting to find a correlation between brain circuitry and gene expression by combining high quality data from these two large - scale projects,» says David Van Essen, Ph.D., professor at Washington University in St. Louis and a leader of the Human Connectome Project.

But then Russo and two fellow graduate students, Brett Walker and Michael Bell, realized its potential in schools, from light - up textbooks to DIY circuitry projects for kids as young as elementary school age.

«It is very important to shrink the circuitry, and the Bristol group has shown the quantum community that this can be done using well - established techniques from classical photonics,» he says.

These findings offer tantalizing hints that even gender behavior differences once attributed solely to nurture — women are more emotionally attuned, while men are more physically aggressive — stem in part from variations in our neural circuitry.

But if the researchers can make the magnetic behavior stick around, the material could have uses ranging from medical imaging to exotic electronic circuitry.

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that acts within certain brain circuitries to help manage functions ranging from movement to emotion.

This is consistent with findings, from a large literature of studies on depression and reward circuitry, that depression is characterized by less activity in the brain's reward system.

Now, a preclinical study, from the lab of Olivier Berton, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of Psychiatry, in collaboration with Sheryl Beck, PhD, a professor in the department of Anesthesiology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, found that bullying and other social stresses triggered symptoms of depression in mice by activating GABA neurons, in a never - before - seen direct relationship between social stimuli and this neural circuitry.

«Our goal was to identify the circuitry responsible for waking the brain up during sleep apnea, which is distinct from the part of the brain that controls breathing,» said Saper, who is also the James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School.

So claim a team of researchers from RMIT University, the University of Sydney and University of Technology Sydney, who have devised an entirely new way of implementing large - scale interferometers that will dramatically miniaturise optical processing circuitry.

The technology helped NASA identify a steep Martian mesa known as «Von Braun» as a promising site for Spirit to explore, but also indicated that the upward journey would prevent the rover's solar panels from accessing Mars's weak winter sun to charge its batteries and keep its essential circuitry heaters going.

We are still a long way from understanding the required neural circuitry for string - pulling, however.»

«Together, these findings fit a functional perspective on morality revealing dishonesty to be plastic and rooted in evolved neurobiological circuitries, and align with work showing that oxytocin shifts the decision - maker's focus from self to group interests,» Shalvi says.

Switching a material's structural configuration from one phase to another is the fundamental, binary characteristic that underlies today's digital circuitry.

There is just one snag: Many psychiatric diseases in humans may well result from circuitry found only in humans.

Once thought of as mere packing peanuts whose job it was to keep neurons from jiggling when we jog, astrocytes are now understood to provide critical hands - on support and guidance to neurons, enhancing their survival and shaping the shared connections between them that define the brain's labyrinthine circuitry.

Electronic circuits can be built from Josephson junctions, especially digital logic circuitry.

The insects fly themselves, but circuitry embedded into their nervous systems transmits commands from remote human operators

It is the circuitry in the players that will vary from country to country: from the digital video information recorded on the CD, it will reconstruct an analogue signal matching the local TV standard — for example, the NTSC system in the US and Japan, and PAL in Australia and Britain.

The reward system's circuitry is similar in all vertebrates, from fish, frogs and falcons to fishermen and fashion models.

«We know from animal models that there are critical periods during early development when cells are rapidly dividing and forming the circuitry through which cells will communicate with each other to form various tissues of the body,» said Retha Newbold, a reproductive biologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in North Carolina.

«This recently discovered commonality also shows that we can gain fundamental insights into the circuitry of the brain from investigations of the fly,» says Alexander Borst.

Nanocomp's carbon nanotube sheets are designed to act as a «Faraday cage» that can block out external static electrical fields from sensitive circuitry.

The tiny straw - shaped molecules are stronger than steel, flexible, and conductive and have been touted as the right stuff for everything from chemical sensors to wires for nanoscale computer circuitry.

The lines of scientific inquiry will range from vision, language, and child development to neural circuitry and social intelligence.

Now in its 6th highly successful year, the European Summer School covers fundamental concepts and examines issues in the field today, from the molecular circuitry that governs the behaviour of stem cells, to breaking therapies.

What she learns from this animal can shed light on the neuronal circuitry of humans.

The researchers screened 480 natural compounds and identified leelamine, derived from the bark of pine trees, as a drug that can cause this major traffic jam in the cancer cell's circuitry.

«This new data indicate that latency is far from an accident — it is encoded in the virus's circuitry and is an evolutionarily advantageous strategy, likely increasing the odds of infection by a substantial amount,» Leor Weinberger, a coauthor and researcher at the Gladstone Institutes, a nonprofit focused on biomedical research, said in a statement.

How does it map on to the circuitry we know, from the neurons, the chemicals and electrical synapses?

Both interested in how the minds works, Rumbaugh moves up from the level of molecules and the synapse, while Miller works back from the opposite end — circuitry and behavior.

Remodeling its circuitry with each new experience — our brain makes us who we are, enabling us to perceive beauty, teach our children, remember loved ones, react against injustice, learn from history, and imagine a different future.

In fetuses, neurons from deep in the brain migrate and connect to neurons in the cortex, forming circuitry that supports thought, judgment, planning, and other higher - order functions.

«These new data indicate that latency is far from an accident — it is encoded in the virus's circuitry and is an evolutionarily advantageous strategy, likely increasing the odds of infection by a substantial amount.»

Each person on the antenna must attach a lock to the switch that turns on and off the drive motor circuitry, so that the antenna is disconnected from its primary source of energy.

While other investigators are pursuing the creation of replacement RGCs from stem cells, these researchers are identifying ways to integrate the new cells into the eye's light processing circuitry.

Researchers from Dartmouth College unraveled the neural circuitry that is involved in suppressing and initiating cravings.

Stuff they might want to do and then continuing to pull from the circuitry that gets our group flared up when we're together — to get that into the narrative as much as we can.

The skillset that was once taught in home ec classes intertwines with other more technical skills as students design and create robots from the circuitry to the embellishment.

For example, technology and science lessons have benefitted from the ability to zoom in on physical objects, such as circuitry or practical demonstrations.