Sentences with phrase «electrical devices lower»

Cell phones and electrical devices lower melatonin levels if they are too close to one

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It uses a small device that generates low - voltage electrical pulses to stimulate nerves, and thus provides targeted pain relief without opiates or surgical intervention.

When the recipient operates the device, it applies a continuous electrical current — at varying frequencies and intensities — to specific regions in the lower spinal cord where there are dense bundles of nerves that control the hips, knees, ankles and toes.

Disease diagnostics Zheng, a fourth - year electrical engineering PhD candidate at Caltech in Pasadena, is developing a low - cost, portable imaging device and software that can inexpensively turn a computer or smart phone into a high - resolution digital microscope.

«Right now, we're in the range of tens to hundreds of microamperes [the basic unit for measuring an electrical current], which is too low to power most electronic devices,» Guha said.

The improvements could allow the rectennas — which convert electromagnetic fields at optical frequencies directly to electrical current — to operate low - power devices such as temperature sensors.

Avoiding electrical currents, spintronic devices have a potential for ultra-fast and low - energy - dissipation operation.

That, however, is just «one piece of the puzzle,» Chen says: In order to be useful for thermoelectric devices, a material must combine low thermal conductivity with high electrical conductivity.

A temporary bioelectronic device implanted on the lower spinal cord will transmit electrical impulses, mimicking brain signals, from below the spinal injury to the legs.

But now, after taking part in a clinical trial of a new device designed to quell the electrical storms in his brain, Hughes hopes he may never be laid low by a migraine again.

Compared to currently approved treatment using an electrical cord connected at an abdominal site, this new method has a low risk of developing infectious diseases due to the power cable behind the ear and is anticipated to improve patients» quality of life; for example, patients with this new device can soak in a bathtub as most Japanese people do when taking a bath.

Primary responsibility will be to work under direction of the Principal Investigator (PI) to complete testing and training protocols; evaluate and research participants for interventions, working with neuromuscular electrical stimulation and exercise using upper - and lower - extremity exoskeleton devices and treadmill training; and perform other related research tasks.

Some patients find so much relief from the TENS therapy that they have a similar device, called Interstim, surgically implanted in their lower backs so that they have constant electrical stimulation to treat urgency - frequency syndrome as well as urinary retention when other treatments have failed.

Typically, produce low voltages useful in operating low power electrical devices — personal electronics, pumps, and other stand alone devices.

I think you're on the right track with leveraging low - tech whenever it is superior, but you fail to realize that solar energy is really very low - tech... it's just a big diode - the simplest electrical device in the world.

inspect low - voltage systems, electrical de-icing tapes, swimming pool wiring, or any time - controlled devices.