Sentences with phrase «electric shocks in»

A research grant awarded to the University of Bristol and University of Lincoln was bestowed by DEFRA amid concerns that the use of electric shocks in dog training is both physically and psychologically damaging.

They might be a rare symptom for some women, but electric shocks in the legs can become a real everyday obstacle.They are experienced in the lower extremities, but in many cases, they originate in the lower back as a result of numerous conditions, such as disc herniation or diabetes.

PPG members at the Central Florida Force - Free Trainers have placed a public service announcement in their local, free - to - public, newspaper, Orlando Weekly to inform people that members of the Central Florida Force - Free Trainers and Veterinary Behavior Network are standing together to stop the use of electric shock in dog training.

In this position statement, PPG will combine decades of research with the opinions of certified animal behaviorists, and highlight the question of ethics to explain why using electric shock in the name of training and care is both ineffective and harmful.

It is Pet Professional Guild's (PPG) view that electric shock in the guise of training constitutes a form of abuse towards pets, and, given that there are highly effective, positive training alternatives, should no longer be a part of the current pet industry culture of accepted practices, tools or philosophies.

If we were listening to someone scrape their fingers on a chalkboard, that's aversive, and it might be enough to get us to stop what we were doing; If they gave us an electric shock in a chair, that's something that would be painful.

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The Times article cited a study published in the journal Psychological Science, which found that when happily married women held their spouses» hand while they received mild electric shocks, the parts of their brain associated with pain were less active than when they weren't holding their spouse's hand.

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Huffington pointed to a recent experiment that asked participants to either sit alone in a room for 15 minutes without devices or to spend that time receiving a slight electric shock.

That yes, there are abuses, and yes, maybe they've gone too far in certain areas, maybe there are too many kids on Ritalin, maybe electric shock --»

In Halabja, local officials said a 12 - year - old boy died of an electric shock from a falling electric cable.

We need to train ourselves to be alone with our thoughts precisely because it's hard (so hard, in fact, that one recent study found many people would rather give themselves an electric shock than do it).

In an instant, I remembered that particular fear that happens to young girls in strange cars like an electric shocIn an instant, I remembered that particular fear that happens to young girls in strange cars like an electric shocin strange cars like an electric shock.

Since many in the group were committed Christians, this comment sent a kind of electric shock around the circle.

In fact, to preserve the shock of this parable, he wires up an electric fence just a little way back.

I was told harshly, in anger, and I felt an electric shock - like jolt travel from head to toe - I rocked back on my heels and almost fell over.

Has been in a lot of pain and the next step is electric shock waves to alleviate the pain here in the next two weeks or so.

Paramedics, having just arrived in an ambulance, administered electric shock stimulation and then took Gathers to Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital in Marina del Rey, five miles away.

When I tried to cuddle, touch, kiss or even talk to her the heart breaking responses I would get were like an electric shock to the heart, what are you doing, why are you doing that, stop it, don't and the list went on again on till she was in the mood but by now I had, had enough.

It seems like an obvious safety feature — you have a socket that is live - so you put a plastic cover in the socket to stop your child getting an electric shock.

Additional features found on the UberScoot 1000w electric scooter include: an advanced suspension system that conquers rough terrain with one «Cam - Link» shock absorber in the front and adjustable twin shocks in the rear, easy one - touch chain tensioning that makes adjusting the chain a breeze, powerful front and rear disc brakes, 10» air filled street tires on aluminum alloy rims, a one - touch easy fold «Posi Lock» frame, quick - release seat, BMX style handlebars, headlight, tail light, rear mud guard and key ignition for added security.

Outlet covers prevent babies from the electric shock by putting fingers or other objects in outlets.

The play is set in 1974, when the UK faced economic crisis and a hung parliament: «This country is being kept alive on aspirin when what it needs is electric shock therapy.»

Opponents point out that in countries where police officers are already equipped with electric shock weapons, officers frequently abuse them by causing unnecessary pain to suspects which could be subdued in other ways (not necessarily representative example: the «don't tase me, bro!»

Also, electric shock weapons can endanger the life of suspects with heart conditions, in these cases, they are not as harmless as expected (Amnesty International claims US law enforcement officers killed over 500 people with them between 2001 and 2012).

There are discussions in some federal states to equip police officers with electric shock weapons (aka «tasers») to «close the gap between baton, pepper spray and handgun».

Authorities in the Hudson Valley have identified a 19 - year - old man who died after suffering an electric shock from utility wires at a site in Dutchess County.

All that and still time for the regular Politics Max round - up of political issues sent in by viewers and an explanation of why the seemingly loony policy of fitting electric shock collars to lying politicians could be law before you know it.

It caused brilliant auroras in the atmosphere and even delivered electric shocks to telegraph operators.

Using exquisitely precise methods to measure how memories are embedded in brain cells in mice, scientists have shown how fear - based memories prompted by the sound associated with an electric shock can be activated and erased.

Then, when researchers left people alone in a room with a device that let them jolt themselves with mild electric shocks, they discovered that most men are so desperate for distractions that they would rather zap themselves.

This result reminded Telford of the way that muscles jerk in response to electric shocks.

So they engineered fruit flies» genes to enhance or repress the activity of Rac in their brains and taught them to associate a smell with an electric shock.

In the 1960s, as a graduate - student researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, he discovered that dogs zapped with an electric shock and allowed to escape by jumping over a low barrier quickly learned to do so, but most shocked dogs given no escape option eventually gave up, even when a way to flee was introduced later.

A classic study in 1964 found that hungry rhesus monkeys would not take food they had been offered if doing so meant that another monkey received an electric shock.

In their experiment, participants were repeatedly shown a blue square while receiving mild electric shocks on the wrist, and learned to associate the two stimuli, so that afterwards they responded to the square with fear.

These form where electric current or the resulting shock wave in the body bursts capillaries in your skin.

F1 teams won't have forgotten the electric shock received by a BMW Sauber engineer in 2008 — shown on Youtube — when a KERS connection shorted to an F1 car's bodywork.

Her lab is tidy, containing her electric chair, in which I will be shocked, and a few odd little instruments, like a bike helmet that blows air on your face to make you anxious.

While subjects were in the scanner, the researchers administered a series of electric shocks to their wrists, each time warning them (by showing them either a blue or a red cue on a screen) whether the next shock would be mild or intense.

But in a second memory test, wherein the animals had to learn to associate a dark chamber with a mild electric shock, the treated Alzheimer's mice did not outperform their untreated counterparts.

Barnes lost the lower half of his right arm two years ago, after getting an electric shock while cleaning a vent hood in a restaurant.

In «A researcher reveals the shocking truth about electric eels» (SN: 10/14/17, p. 4), Mariah Quintanilla reported on a biologist who recorded the electrical current traveling through his own arm during an electric eel's attack.

Volunteers designated as «teachers» were asked by an experimenter to continue upping the intensity of what they thought were electric shocks to a «learner» — who was actually in league with Milgram — who erred time and again on a word - recall test.

In a 2006 study, people zapped with unpredictable electric shocks to the hand rated the pain as more unpleasant than when they knew what to expect.

In fact, he could sometimes remove entire portions of the brain, and the animal would still remember the association between, say, a black floor tile and an electric shock.

If the findings hold true in humans, rapamycin could provide considerable benefits to spinal cord injury patients, up to 80 percent of whom experience clinically significant pain that is described as burning, stabbing, and electric shock - like.

The Teslasuit is fitted with components that produce electric shocks that make your muscles twitch and is designed to help you immerse yourself more deeply in virtual reality video games

In one telling experiment, each of 55 participants was seated alone in a quiet, empty room with nothing to do — except they had access to a button that would deliver an electric shock to their ankle which they had previously described as «unpleasant.&raquIn one telling experiment, each of 55 participants was seated alone in a quiet, empty room with nothing to do — except they had access to a button that would deliver an electric shock to their ankle which they had previously described as «unpleasant.&raquin a quiet, empty room with nothing to do — except they had access to a button that would deliver an electric shock to their ankle which they had previously described as «unpleasant.»

Mice bred to have a malfunctioning form of CREB, Silva's study demonstrated, did not remember from one day to the next that they had already been taught to navigate a water maze or that they had previously been placed in a special cage where they received a mild electric shock.