Sentences with word «conductance»

Mobbs measured the skin conductance of his players by rigging them up to a device similar to a lie detector.

They made no predictions in the first study, but they were interested in a measure of «physiological linkage,» because a prior study showed that the skin conductance of two nurses was correlated only if they disliked one another.

Now that we know partial transmission processes can be important, researchers can build microscopic models and simulations to explore them in more detail, and engineers can design devices that enhance or take advantage of this aspect of thermal conductance for a variety of materials.»

Subjects who had expressed a high level of support for policies «protecting the social unit» showed a much larger change in skin conductance in response to alarming photos than those who didn't support such policies.

The latter are made of semiconductor materials (e.g., silicon and lead sulfide) whose electrical conductance increases when exposed to infrared radiation.

In studies of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator membrane protein, Forman - Kay found disordered cytoplasmic elements that provide the flexibility needed to integrate various inputs to drive the opening and closing of a membrane channel.

For reasons the researchers can not explain, skin conductance levels in the typically developing children rose during the session with the guinea pigs.

«Before this experiment, researchers had been proposing and modeling theories for metal - diamond thermal conductance for some twenty years, based on data as a function of temperature,» Cahill said.

Chemical functionalization with organic molecules covalently attached to adjacent graphene sheets as a promising yet challenging approach for the enhancement of thermal conductance between them.

So as not to be influenced by patients» discourse and analysis of their eating disorders, the researchers used a «skin conductance test,» which measures the subject's sweating rate when exposed to various images.

The temperature - related reduction of cv was mainly due to a decrease in photosynthesis and only to lesser extent because of more autotrophic respiration and less stomatal conductance as a response to an increasing atmospheric evaporative demand.

Park NX - Bio enables life science researchers to study with a correlative method in which both AFM and Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy (SICM) are integrated with Inverted Optical Microscopy (IOM).

This duality of heat conductance — stopping heat penetrating through in one direction and guiding away any that does in another — gives it a big edge over other insulators, says Hu.

Two functional effects of decreased conductance EPSP's: synaptic augmentation and increased electrotonic coupling

The decreased conductance EPSP's also augment the action of a previously ineffective sensory input and this augmentation is enhanced by the increase in electrical coupling.

Park Systems offers a high quality AFM product line replete with corresponding accessories, software, and complementary technologies such as Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy (SICM) to tackle a wide range of nanoscale research demands.

Another exciting consequence of their work is the discovery that quantized conductance states can be stabilized at room temperature when controlling the oxygen vacancies paving the way for novel quantum technology.

Researchers have compared such things as increase of heart rate, blood pressure and skin conductance when men and women are confronted with a crying or smiling baby.

Bound states of excitations can influence the thermal conductance properties of low - dimensional ferromagnets or the propagation speed of quantum information in magnetic wires.

In the 1980s, Thouless was able to explain a previous experiment with very thin electrically conducting layers in which conductance was precisely measured as integer steps.

[Skin conductance measurements from four children.

This allows computer - controlled stimuli to be applied to neurons in culture, and measures their effects on cell membrane conductance.

Each volunteer had his or her heart rate and blood pressure measured at rest, as well as coronary vascular conductance, a Doppler ultrasound measure of blood flow through the coronary blood vessels of the heart.

So my question is, can a battery conductance tester tell the difference between the loss of plate surface area due to permanent plate damage in the first case, and between the potentially reversible loss of active surface area due to sulfation?

For the first few minutes, the children read a book silently, giving researchers a baseline measure of skin conductance while carrying out a non-stressful, familiar task.

Chemical problems — such as an increase in calcium conductance, which might impair neuronal communication — also become more common in older brains, as do problems with gene expression and protein production.

With no natural energy band - gap, however, graphene's superfast conductance can't be switched off, a serious drawback for transistors and other electronic devices.

This manifests itself in a strange relationship between voltage and conductance at small scales.

Our studies suggest that direct activation of membrane chloride conductances is a general mechanism of action for biogenic amines in the modulation of C. elegans behavior.

Minerals ensure proper conductance of electric signals, something the heart does constantly.

A coupled photosynthesis - stomatal conductance model for leaves of C4 plants.

High - conductance voltage - and Ca2 + - activated K + (BK) channels encode negative feedback regulation of membrane voltage and Ca2 + signaling, playing a central role in numerous physiological processes.

Texas A&M researcher Roger Ulrich, for instance, has shown that people who watch a calming nature video after a stressful experience have markedly lower muscle tension, pulse, and skin conductance activity after less than five minutes.

Three electronically coupled motor neurons, which mediate inking behavior in Aplysia californica, receive both increased and decreased conductance excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSP's).

We have something that matches conductance for taste.

Two tandem C - terminal regulator of K + conductance (RCK) domains from each of four channel subunits form a 350 - kilodalton gating ring at the intracellular membrane surface.

To address this problem, Cho and his colleagues turned to scanning ion - conductance microscopy (SICM).

The instrumentalists receive a wrist band with skin conductance sensors that can in a sense measure the musician's emotional state.

«A pattern emerged: the Pt and Au (Pd) data were similar, but the excess conductance of every metal aside from Al were nearly identical at high pressure.

This is an artist's rendition of the high pressure thermal conductance experiment in a diamond anvil cell.

Researchers have found that the hippocampus of poor learners has less CREB (a protein involved in memory and learning) and more alpha5 subunit of GABAA receptor or GABRA5 (a protein that generates tonic inhibitory conductance in the brain) than good learners.

This means that mirroring superconductors have infinite conductance, while superinsulators have infinite resistance.