Sentences with phrase «circuitry on»

Recent investments made by 3M New Ventures include minority stakes in Perceptive Pixel Inc., a developer of advanced multi-touch solutions; Printechnologics GmbH, a printed electronics specialist providing innovative solutions for electronic circuitry on paper or foil; and txtr GmbH, an innovative eReading technology company.

And in Maryland, Baltimore County Public Schools elementary students learn about robotics, computer programming, coding, and circuitry on the Mobile Innovation Lab, which travels to schools for a week at a time.

One option might be to integrate lasers with silicon circuitry on silicon wafers by means of porous glass layers that are activated by organic laser dyes.

The challenge for the Duke team was to find the right shapes and dimensions for the metal circuitry on the metamaterials so they could precisely dictate how the electrons move around, which in turn controls how the incoming radiation is bent.

«It took us nine months to redo the circuitry on the Voyager spacecraft to make it much less susceptible to radiation effects.»

Not exact matches

Because the same scientific tools used to analyze circuitry and so on are used to analyze «creation».

On the assumption that neural circuitry is hardwired early in life and thereafter fixed, there is no reason to think that stroke victims experiencing serious disabilities should see any marked improvement.

The circuitry is all laid out but the switches have not been turned on.

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.

It is addictive and functions on the basis of ready - made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.

A close analysis of the brain scans revealed vastly different neural circuitry behind problems that seem similar on the surface.

But scientists were stumped on how to best integrate the cell grafts into the brain's complex circuitry, where they would be more targeted and do the most good.

In today's minicams, the image sensors and support circuitry are on separate microchips, and most of the power goes on communication between the chips.

One framed artwork, however, connects Shatz to her childhood, and the earliest influences on her own brain circuitry.

They compared the effect of both drinks on brain activity in the dorsal striatum, a key part of the brain's reward circuitry.

A study released this week in Cell reports on fruit fly neural circuitry that is affected by the drosophila equivalent of NPY — dNPF.

For his part, Collins, who has led NIH since 2009 and been kept on by the Trump administration, pointed to an array of promising NIH activities, including the development of new technologies to provide insights into human brain circuitry and function through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disease.

If silver - based inkjet printing can be made affordable, Hodges says it will be a natural follow - on to Bare Conductive's hand - drawn and paintable circuitry.

To confirm the link, Lavie connected test subjects to a transcranial magnetic stimulator, which focuses a magnetic field on a selected region of the brain — the parietal cortex in this case — and temporarily disrupts the neural circuitry there.

Sophisticated genetic circuitry spliced into cells could lead to cancer therapies, tissue generation on demand

And because the molecular circuitry can also be printed into fabrics, there is potential to add these to bandages and clothing worn by medical staff, which would change colour on contact with superbugs.

Finally, the researchers tested this circuitry in live animals, artificially turning on the motor neurons in anesthetized mice and then looking to see how the auditory cortex responded.

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.

Semiconductors, which are used extensively in electronic circuitry, can have their electrical conductivity turned on and off — an obviously useful capability.

Based on previous studies, researchers have hypothesized that recreational noise exposure might damage the circuitry between sensory hair cells in the inner ear and their auditory nerve targets that deliver information to the brain.

Maternal behavior is based on complex neurological circuitry.

If lamprey software can help people with spinal injuries, it will be in the shape of animal brain circuitry realised on a chip wired into a human being — a kind of cyborg sandwich.

As genetic circuitry shapes up, scientists hope the new device will make it easier for them to program cells to do things such as watch for disease, monitor pollution, or even turn on medicine output.

Fearing objects or contexts can be learned; in animals this is being studied as fear conditioning, which depends on the emotional circuitry of the brain.

It is based on a model of the brain circuitry found in the mammalian visual system by Torsten Wiesel and the late David H. Hubel, both then at Harvard University, in the late 1950s and early 1960s (work for which they would later be awarded a Nobel Prize).

The researchers were able to zero in on the Broca's area as well as related brain circuitry specifically linked to speech, using regional cerebral blood flow as a measure of brain activity, since blood flow is typically coupled with neural activity.

A lot of our work may be relevant to things like trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder because the neural circuitry of PTSD is built on the circuitry of fear learning and fear regulation.

«Our goal in the project was to close the gap in knowledge that exists on role of serotonin in the brain cortex, particularly as it concerns brain circuitry, its electrical activity and function,» said Roberto Fernández Galán, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

«Our study suggests that a focal brain intervention, deep brain stimulation, may have an impact on the circuitry of symptoms that serve to maintain anorexia and make it so difficult to treat.»

«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.

Why does stress cause a latent effect on neural circuitry?

He has joined the Mosers at the Trondheim Kavli Institute, which is now buzzing with six additional research groups, each working on different aspects of neural circuitry and coding.

New research suggests that to meet those demands, the octopus allocates some of that motor control to neural circuitry embedded in the arms themselves, instead of relying on the brain alone.

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.

HP originally envisioned the technology as a way to create computer displays in car or train windows, but Xtreme Energetics wants by 2010 to begin including this circuitry in its solar panels to improve their ability gather sunlight — another take on the thin - film model.

«Microchip circuitry may be as invisible as the network of nerves on a dragonfly's wing,» Grossman writes.

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.

Unfortunately, he says, the fMRIs failed to reveal the inhibitory circuitry involved; to try to get to the bottom of that, he plans to repeat the study using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves placing many electrodes on a skintight rubber cap placed over a subject's head that allows researchers to observe communication between different parts of the brain.

Developing memristive circuits that simulate the architecture of the brain on a chip might enhance our understanding of our own circuitry, or even help to develop next - generation artificial intelligence.

However, it has been established that the ability of deep - brain stimulation to modify brain functions depends on the application of stimulation at specific sites in the complex neuronal circuitry underlying these functions.2 - 5

«It has gotten all of us to focus on circuitry,» he says.

Lately he has focused on higher brain functions, particularly in the neural circuitry and genetics of creativity, artistic talent, psychopathology, criminal behavior, and level of consciousness.

Traditionally, research into the neurobiological substrate of drug addiction has focused on the mesolimbic dopamine reward circuitry.

The laureates were selected for their groundbreaking research that has advanced our understanding of matter on an ultra-small scale, the basic circuitry of the human brain, and the nature of quasars.