Sentences with phrase «for electrical current»

Another problem is that new cars have much larger demands for electrical current, so batteries must produce more juice but with the same physical volume.

The therapists» hands, when placed on certain points of the clients» body will act like conductors for an electrical current.

Also, calcium is the main conductor for electrical current in the body, and magnesium is necessary to maintain proper calcium levels in the blood.

Inside these structures, conductive channels for electrical currents form which are extremely narrow at just about 10 nm and surprisingly robust against external disturbance.

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The work is still in it's early stages — «Any effort to use electric current for stimulating the brain outside the laboratory or clinic could be dangerous and should be strongly discouraged,» Green cautions — but there are already places where the idea of electrical stimulation is being tested out in the real world.

According to a fascinatingly nerdy deep dive into the subject in the New Yorker, the current mania for the word «hack» all started way back in the 1950s at MIT, where members of the model railroad club were already warning those «hacking on the electrical system turn the power off to avoid fuse blowing.»

Some estimate the electrical power required to expand Bitcoin from its current size exceeds that required to power the entire country of Denmark... for a year.

Well, for starters, most panko is made from a simple white bread (which is cooked with electrical currents, so it doesn't develop a crust).

By Sarah Olmsted Published By Roost Books Fall 2012 Description: For children, potential is limitless, curiosity is an electrical current, and every moment is open to the possibility of the unexpected.

The current offices have major structural defects, significant parts of the roof are collapsing, significant leakages in most offices, damp and mouldy walls, electrical defects have been discovered and pointed out by the Fire Service for urgent attention (please see «CO7A» attached), the building lacks disability access, is decrepit and outdated, requiring extensive work and expense to make it habitable and reflective of the office of the Electoral Commission.

A noninvasive technique for brain stimulation, tDCS is applied using two small electrodes placed on the scalp, delivering short bursts of extremely low - intensity electrical currents.

The internal resistance, or opposition to electrical current flow, may be different for a human arm than for an animal with scales or fur, like a crocodile or a dog, Catania notes.

«One way to know is by understanding how electrons move around in these materials so we can develop new ways of manipulating them — for example, with light instead of electrical current as conventional computers do.»

According to Sir Nevill Francis Mott's prediction in 1937, the mutual repulsion of charged electrons, which are responsible for carrying electrical current, can cause a metal - insulator transition.

UNSW Sydney chemists have invented a new, cheap catalyst for splitting water with an electrical current to efficiently produce clean hydrogen fuel.

Researcher Hiromi Nakamura said she spent the last six years looking for a way to create taste using electrical currents.

«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 most celebrated quantum materials are the high - temperature superconductors discovered in the 1980s, so named for their ability to conduct electrical current without resistance at temperatures well above those of traditional superconductors.

The normal insulation for ordinary electrical wiring, polyethylene, is unsuitable for very high - voltage direct current because the cables tend to rupture.

Non-invasive brain stimulation techniques aimed at mental and neurological conditions include transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for depression, and transcranial direct current (electrical) stimulation (tDCS), shown to improve memory.

That would eliminate the need for external magnetic fields and would offer another avenue for dissipationless transport of electrical current.»

More than 100 gigawatts of geothermal power (one tenth of the current U.S. electrical generation) could be developed for $ 1 billion during the next 40 years — at the full cost of one carbon - capturing coal - fired power plant or one - third the cost of a new nuclear generator.

The Weyl fermions are only dispersed in the material to a minimal extent, meaning they can conduct electrical current almost without loss — this is of great significance for electronics.

NiO is a promising material for spintronic devices, where signals are transmitted not by electrical currents but rather by spin waves, consisting of propagating disturbances in the ordering of magnetic materials, in a domino - like fashion.

High electrical conductivity and large accessible surface area, which are required for ideal electrode materials in energy devices, are opposed to each other in current materials.

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

Finally, Yoichi Ando and colleagues at the Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industry in Tokyo, Japan, report that in nonsuperconducting LSCO and YBCO, the electrical resistance is smaller for current flowing in the direction in which the stripes are thought to run.

Using electrophysiological methods to measure electrical currents through cell membranes, the research group at the Institute for Physiology and Pharmacology, led by Marjan Slak Rupnik, showed that dextromethorphan extends the periods of electrical activity in beta cells.

Using an onboard source of energy (such as a battery, ultracapacitor, solar panel or any combination thereof), the electrodes will send an electrical current into the plasma, causing the plasma to push against the neutral (noncharged) air surrounding the craft, theoretically generating enough force for liftoff and movement in different directions (depending on where on the craft's surface you direct the electrical current).

Participants were randomized into four different interventions that would analyze how effectively an acupuncture technique known as electroacupuncture — in which embedded needles deliver weak electrical currents — reduces incidents of hot flashes as compared to the epilepsy drug gabapentin, which was previously shown to be effective in reducing hot flashes for these patients.

The best known is microRNAs, tiny molecules that are responsible for turning on or off our genome like an electrical current switch.

«This demonstrates the feasibility of detecting the magnitudes and locations of electrical currents on a global basis,» says Robert Robinson, program director for magnetospheric physics at the National Science Foundation.

For an eight - week period, participants received gabapentin (900 mg) daily, gabapentin placebo daily, electroacupuncture (twice per week for two weeks, then once weekly), or «sham» electroacupuncture, which involves no actual needle penetration or electrical curreFor an eight - week period, participants received gabapentin (900 mg) daily, gabapentin placebo daily, electroacupuncture (twice per week for two weeks, then once weekly), or «sham» electroacupuncture, which involves no actual needle penetration or electrical currefor two weeks, then once weekly), or «sham» electroacupuncture, which involves no actual needle penetration or electrical current.

Electronic transistors, which act as miniature switches for controlling the flow of electrical current, underpin modern - day microelectronics and computers.

But when light hits certain materials the energy turns into an electrical current instead, which we can then harness for power.

For ultrafast operation of such nano - devices, generation of spin current in picoseconds — one trillionth of a second — a time - scale that is difficult to achieve using electrical circuits, is highly desired,» Cahill added.

«Thermal spin generation has a potential for higher efficiency than spin generation by electrical currents.

Halas, Rice's Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and professor of chemistry, bioengineering, physics and astronomy, and materials science and nanoengineering, said hot electrons are particularly interesting for solar - energy applications because they can be used to create devices that produce direct current or to drive chemical reactions on otherwise inert metal surfaces.

It's the mass migration of such holes that creates the large electrical currents responsible for generating the low - frequency magnetic pulses that make their way to detectors on Earth's surface, they say.

As a result, the engineered quantum dots feature nearly complete suppression of Auger effect's heat loss, and this allows for redirecting the energy released by the electrical current into the light - emission channel instead of wasteful heat.

Each ECT session delivered a 0.5 millisecond electrical pulse for 1 second, with a frequency of 100 Hertz and 40 milliamp current 3/4 about 5 percent of the total electrical charge given to a human patient.

Electrical currents that flow through the MLTI region are responsible for the auroras that can be seen close to the north and south poles.

Now, for the first time, a team of scientists led by Professor Simon Schultz and Dr Luca Annecchino at Imperial College London has developed a robot and computer programme that can guide tiny measuring devices called micropipettes to specific neurons in the brains of live mice and record electrical currents, all without human intervention.

An experimental treatment that sends electrical currents through the spinal cord has improved «invisible» yet debilitating side effects for a B.C. man with a spinal cord injury.

One of the difficulties involved in developing thermo - electric systems that convert heat into electric current is the need for materials exhibiting high electrical conductivity but low thermal conductivity, which is only possible with complicated crystal structures.

«We believe we are the first to investigate the idea of using this concept for implantable medical devices that use direct electrical current, long thought to be unsafe.»

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After destabilising a worm's electrical current once, it is as if each end of the worm makes its own decision — with a preference for the wrong part — as to whether it will develop a head or a tail whenever it is cut, says Levin.

The electrical signaling bottleneck between current microelectronic chips has left light communication as one of the only options left for further technological progress.

For example, deep brain stimulation (DBS)-- delivering an electrical current into the brain to modify nerve activity — has become a standard therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD), and it is now being adapted to treat a range of other conditions including depression and obsessive - compulsive disordFor example, deep brain stimulation (DBS)-- delivering an electrical current into the brain to modify nerve activity — has become a standard therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD), and it is now being adapted to treat a range of other conditions including depression and obsessive - compulsive disordfor Parkinson's disease (PD), and it is now being adapted to treat a range of other conditions including depression and obsessive - compulsive disorder.