Sentences with phrase «electrical responses in»

«We've shown show that this photo - induced doping arises from microscopically coupled optical and electrical responses in the GBN heterostructures, including optical excitation of defect transitions in boron nitride, electrical transport in graphene, and charge transfer between boron nitride and graphene,» Wang says.

Music has the power to increase intellectual ability by stimulating electrical responses in the brain, endorsing creativity, increasing receptivity to learning by bringing mind to a relaxed state, and capitalizing on instinctive body rhythms which stimulate conceptual ability.

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Half of the board of Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has walked off the job, including chairman John Cooper, after it flagged a change in direction, a number of redundancies and cost - saving initiatives in response to the tough climate for local contractors.

It is contemplated that a user that may be nervous or engaging in speaking falsehoods may exhibit different galvanic skin response» — a change in the electrical resistance of the skin that is a physiochemical response to increased sympathetic nervous system activity — «than a more confident, truth telling individual.»

Half of the board of Southern Cross Electrical Engineering, including its chairman John Cooper, has quit citing a difference in opinion over strategic direction as the company announced a number of redundancies and cost - saving initiatives in response to the tough climate for local contractors.

Increased plasma levels of oxytocin in response to afferent electrical stimulation of the sciatic and vagal nerves and in response to touch and pinch in anaesthetized rats.

The team tested the guinea pigs» hearing by monitoring the electrical activity in their brainstems in response to various noises.

When mature, these cells grow hairs that bend in response to sound, generating electrical signals.

Electrochromic materials dynamically alter how they transmit light in response to an applied electrical signal.

Electrical signals in a majority of amygdala neurons mirrored the animal's behavior — they fired more in response to the dangerous tone compared to the safe one.

It has been particularly difficult to measure changes in electrical functions of cells grown within Organ Chips that are normally electrically active, such as neuronal cells in the brain or beating heart cells, both during their differentiation and in response to drugs.

Touch receptors in your skin sense the insect and activate an electrical current that passes along nerves until it reaches your brain, which registers the fly's presence and instigates a response.

For more than a decade, he has embedded electrodes in slices of the hippocampus — which plays a role in learning and memory — and recorded neurons» responses to a wide range of electrical stimuli.

With these molecular clusters, we have complete control over their structure with atomic precision and can change the elemental composition and structure in a controllable manner to elicit certain electrical response.»

Using a technique called gas chromatography, Schiestl and colleagues in Sweden and Germany separated the components of the female bee extract that sexually arouses males, then measured the electrical response of male antennae to each compound to determine which ones are active.

In their study, Mazzolini and co-workers found that depending on the region of the cell being hit by the light, the electrical response of the nerve changes.

In order for birds and mammals to hear, hair cells in the cochlea — the auditory portion of the inner ear — vibrate in response to sounds and thereby convert sound into electrical activitIn order for birds and mammals to hear, hair cells in the cochlea — the auditory portion of the inner ear — vibrate in response to sounds and thereby convert sound into electrical activitin the cochlea — the auditory portion of the inner ear — vibrate in response to sounds and thereby convert sound into electrical activitin response to sounds and thereby convert sound into electrical activity.

The longitudinal study looked at the electrical brain responses of six - month - old infants to speech and the correlation between the brain responses and their pre-literacy skills in pre-school-age, as well as their literacy in the eighth grade at 14 years of age.

The discovery, reported in tomorrow's issue of Nature, relies on a phenomenon called colossal magnetoresistance — a large drop in a material's electrical resistance in response to an applied magnetic field — that has previously been seen only at very low temperatures.

Each simulation allowed the researchers to predict, down to the atom, how K - Ras would spin and orient itself in response to the membrane's composition, and the extent of electrical charges on each of its surfaces.

This time, they found that young men and young women responded differently, with males showing a greater increase in electrical activity in the brain in response to a TMS pulse.

«Ferroelectric» materials can switch between different states of electrical polarization in response to an external electric field.

During this split second of surprise, electrodes in the cap register a cascade of electrical impulses known as a P - 300 response.

His lab has spent several years working out the mechanism for how presynaptic cells release neurotransmitter in response to spikes of electrical activity known as action potentials.

Imaging scans would reveal the additional blood flow and electrical activity as thousands of neurons flare in response.

The post-synaptic density is a specialized area full of proteins needed for communication between neurons, so changes in its structure or capacity may explain the aberrant electrical responses.

Medical resident Jarod Roland, MD, tries out a device that detects electrical activity in his brain and causes his hand to open and close in response to brain signals.

For this proof of concept study, the scientists analyzed rodent cells» electrical activity for up to 30 days, reporting that the cells displayed characteristics and changes mimicking physiological responses described in literature.

While fabricating synthetic woods in a petri dish, a team led by Caltech's Chiara Daraio created a material that exhibited an electrical response to temperature changes in the lab.

The new material responded to electrical signals, bringing motion to these artificial muscles, so named because biological muscles similarly move in response to electrical signals (though Wang's materials are not intended for medical applications).

The comparatively loosely held bonding electrons, along with the free electrons present in metals, can move in response to these electrical forces, however.

When looking at a face, brain cells in the amygdala fire electrical impulses or «spikes» in response.

During functional analysis, some of the responses known to occur in the natural adult human heart were also elicited in hECTs through electrical and pharmacological interventions, while some paradoxical responses of hECTs more closely mimicked the immature or newborn human heart.

A new study from the Cava lab has revealed a unifying connection between seemingly unrelated materials that exhibit extreme magnetoresistance, the ability of some materials to drastically change their electrical resistance in response to a magnetic field, a property that could be useful in magnetic memory applications.

In people with Williams syndrome, which is characterized by a strong drive for social interaction, she says, one sees an opposite electrical brain response to similar linguistic tests than that seen in people with autisIn people with Williams syndrome, which is characterized by a strong drive for social interaction, she says, one sees an opposite electrical brain response to similar linguistic tests than that seen in people with autisin people with autism.

Libet also measured brain electrical activity immediately before a volunteer made a decision to press a switch in response to a visual signal.

These results show that pore size in the nanoring assembly controls the response to electrical stimulation.

The fMRI scan does this by detecting indirect changes in the brain's blood flow in response to changes in electrical signalling during the stimulus.

A new study authored by Marc Schieber, M.D., Ph.D., and Kevin Mazurek, Ph.D. with the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Neurology and the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, which appears in the journal Neuron, shows that very low levels of electrical stimulation delivered directly to an area of the brain responsible for motor function can instruct an appropriate response or action, essentially replacing the signals we would normally receive from the parts of the brain that process what we hear, see, and feel.

Simply put, the leaf electrical capacitance changes in response to variation in plant water status and ambient light.

After the vaccine is injected under the skin, electrical impulses are generated, producing small holes in cells, allowing the DNA to enter and initiate the immune response.

The electrical response was dependent upon the predominant metabolic processes active in the subsurface at a given point in time.

Across 21st Avenue, in the department of special education at Peabody College, Paul Yoder has applied event - related potential (ERP), a way of measuring how the electrical activity of the brain changes in response to thoughts or perceptions, to evaluate ways to help children overcome language delays.

The electrical activity in the legs — the way of measuring muscle response — goes to zero, which is why it feels so weird and achy when you eventually do stand up.»

Muscle fibers produce tensile force in this way in response to pulsed electrical signals sent from the central nervous system (CNS) along efferent nerves.

The fantastic attention to detail that made this 10 - speed so likeable is obvious in other systems as well, like the ZL1's magnetorheological dampers that now use two internal coils instead of one to reduce inertia and improve reaction times, as well as a dual - wire system that allows electrical current to not only go in but also be pulled out of the fluid - filled damper for 40 percent faster damping response.

The B - Class Electric Drive is Mercedes - Benz's quick response towards the challenges raised by the electrical vehicle market in Europe, a young but fast - growing area where...

Its operating principle involves applying mechanical pressure to a non-conducting crystal to produce an electrical impulse; in turn, this impulse is so fast that it significantly reduces the injector's response time.

Utilizes an Intoximeters electrochemical fuel cell sensor which generates an electrical response that is proportional to the Breath Alcohol Concentration in the provided, fixed volume sample.

Originally developed to test hearing in infants, this test records the electrical activity of the brain in response to sound stimulation.