Sentences with phrase «high fire rate»

Doctors could use those proton pulses to destroy cancers — and a higher firing rate would make it easier to administer the treatment in small, individual doses.

High firing rates could also impair the ability of the brain to decode sensory stimuli, by causing an overwhelming response to even simple sensory stimuli; that could lead to autism and the withdrawal from social interactions.

«These R2 neurons have higher firing rates the more sleep - deprived the fruit flies were and firing of these neurons puts flies to sleep, suggesting that we've identified the key cells responsible for sleep drive,» says Wu.

More crucially, high firing rates now have the largest specific information due to their relative lack of sensitivity to noise.

Specifically, on - beat sounds on average are accompanied by higher firing rates cortically and subcortically than off - beat sounds, and this difference may explain why some beat interpretations are vastly more likely to be perceived than others.

Remnant weapons are extremely accurate, high firing rate armaments that use beam as ammunition.

Staples like the M16A1 and UMP - 45 are well implemented, complete with a red dot sight, stubby grip and extended magazines, while there are interesting newcomers such as the R0933 carbine, which is awesome up close and has a impressive 800rpm fire rate, and the R700LTR sniper rifle, which has a higher fire rate than most traditional bolt action snipers, though a lower bullet velocity which makes it harder to hit enemies at long range.

Not exact matches

Hannity fired back at Ziegler for suggesting his support of Trump was a ploy to score higher ratings.

The manager, Justin Tugman, says that a combination of higher interest rates and faster inflation bodes well for value strategies, and a potential trade war would «only add fuel to the fire.»

Despite plenty of punctures, spins and even a couple of small fires, the number of caution periods this year was incredibly low, which, combined with the reasonably high attrition rate, meant that it wasn't the most exciting race.

Smoke - detector neglect such as this is one reason the United States has the highest fire - death rate in the industrialized world.

At the same time, that shrinking, aging population, facing higher tax rates and lower property values, must pay for all the needed services — police, fire, health, education, road maintenance — both in the hollowed out city and the inefficiently sprawled out countryside.

If the new scores are higher, then the original ratings could not be used against the educators in firing or tenure decisions.

«In previous studies, we found specific cells in the medial septum that fire at higher rates when the mouse moves faster.

In the aftermath of 9/11, New York City fire department rescue and recovery workers exposed to the caustic dust at the site experienced high rates of lung injury and excessive loss of lung function.

«In the absence of sound, neurons fire randomly and at a high rate,» says Burger.

Ongoing disagreement among scientists over how to sustain high survival rates for salmon once the ocean warms up again placed the National Marine Fisheries Service in a cross fire last year.

Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn, which produces about 40 per cent of the world's electronics products, including iPhones, has recently come under fire over poor working conditions and high suicide rates at its plants in China.

After isolating sensory neurons from frogs and eels, Adrian showed that as the intensity of a sensory stimulus increases, so does a neuron's firing rate, which can peak as high as 200 spikes per second.

When she attached two electrodes to the neurons — one to stimulate the nerve, the other to record the response — she discovered that the neurons» firing rate was abnormally high.

However, during this period the mean firing rate is consistently higher in the self - timed task, in which the animal can not rely upon an external cue, than in the mapping task, in which such cue is available.

If deforestation is higher than the estimate used in this paper, then the relative effect of drought - induced fire would not be as large as stated here, and the decoupling of fire incidence from deforestation rates would not be as significant.»

Combined with fuel loads, higher evapotranspiration rates and resulting shifts in water balance may be the best predictor of increased fire risk and fire severity in the future under a changing climate (Littell and Gwozdz 2011; Abatzoglou and Kolden 2013).

A rapid - fire rate of high - power pulses gives a laser higher average power and can potentially be applied to a wider range of uses.

They found that these bundles had firing rates that were significantly higher in the late luteal phase, about a week before a woman's next period, compared to earlier in the menstrual cycle.

For both cells, peak firing rates occurred at about the same instant relative to movement onset regardless of the movement amplitude, but burst durations were shorter and peak firing rates were higher when the cell took part in the small saccades than when it participated in the large saccades.

Cells recorded in the rostral region of the SC (Fig. 5A) clearly showed much higher peak firing rates and shorter bursts for their preferred vector than the ones in the caudal SC (Fig. 5D), while cells found at intermediate locations (Fig. 5B and 5C) had intermediate firing rates and burst durations.

We demonstrate this intuition by applying three different information - based measures of stimulus encoding to experimental characterizations of sensory neurons, and demonstrate a transition from «high - slope» to «peak - firing - rate» encoding as neuronal variability increases, both for single neurons and in the context of a small population.

Another potential feedback might occur if reduced timber yields force loggers to compensate by enlarging the amount of area harvested, resulting in higher CO2 emissions through deforestation and associated fires, as well as increased rates of habitat fragmentation / degradation and species extinctions

(C and E) The specific information (solid line) in the low - and high - noise cases shown as a function of normalized firing rate.

We consider recent experiments correlating neuronal activity the medial temporal cortex (area MT) to performance during two - alternative discrimination tasks [4, 5], and show how the different tasks used in these studies either isolate the effects of «high - slope» encoding [5] or «peak - firing - rate» encoding [4].

Training at a heart rate of 162 and above is considered high intensity for this fire - fighter.

Chariots of Fire will thrill you and delight you and very possibly reduce — or exalt — you to tears... Chariots of Fire is for everyone; it's exactly what a popular film ought to be: superb work by first - rate people out to achieve the highest standards of excellence.

Towers are pretty standard with a three - upgrade system and each tower falling within standard categories such as AoE, Long - distance, High Power / Low Rate of Fire, Slowers, and so on.

Whether it's the low rumble of a tank's engine, or the cacophony of a high rate - of - fire LMG, everything sounds powerfully lethal — providing additional texture to the onscreen action.

At this rate «Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,» the 752 - page fourth volume, is likely to spawn the highest - grossing seven - hour film epic in history.

The Splash - o - matic is a Shooter with a high rate of fire but not a lot of attack power.

Even companies such as WNM Communications, which has come under fire for charging schools sky - high rates for basic connectivity, say they're hopeful.

But if principals were taking advantage of their pre-tenure freedom to fire at will, we'd expect to see the lower - value - added teachers leaving schools at much higher rates than their higher - value - added counterparts, and an increase in dismissals at the tenure decision point between the fourth and fifth years.

Hospitals wouldn't fire a doctor or nurse who focused on caring for the elderly or poor because his patients die at higher rates.

Gist, whose reform efforts led to the firings of all teachers and staff at one of the state's worst - performing schools, said test scores in the state need vast improvement, the graduation rate must grow and too few high school graduates — just more than half — are heading directly to college.

While they've made academic gains in struggling communities, KIPP and other large charter networks have come under fire recently for high student attrition rates, discipline issues and failing to meet states» standards.

The reason we in the US can not fire our way to the high test scores in Finland is because Finland has a very low child poverty rate — which is why their students have such high test scores.

In addition, there are also higher teacher turnover rates in such schools, and oftentimes such schools become «dumping grounds» for teachers who can not be terminated due to many of the tenure laws currently at focus and under fire across the nation.

The Fire pack includes factory fitted reinforced front winch bar and recovery points (2) rated to 50 kn, 100 amp power supply to the rear of the vehicle, fire protected fuel, electrical and brake lines and a tow bar and rear recovery points as well as enhanced rear body mounts to handle the continuous high weight, extreme operating environment and strength for the industry leading Falling Object Protection System (FOPS) that is installed on the vehicFire pack includes factory fitted reinforced front winch bar and recovery points (2) rated to 50 kn, 100 amp power supply to the rear of the vehicle, fire protected fuel, electrical and brake lines and a tow bar and rear recovery points as well as enhanced rear body mounts to handle the continuous high weight, extreme operating environment and strength for the industry leading Falling Object Protection System (FOPS) that is installed on the vehicfire protected fuel, electrical and brake lines and a tow bar and rear recovery points as well as enhanced rear body mounts to handle the continuous high weight, extreme operating environment and strength for the industry leading Falling Object Protection System (FOPS) that is installed on the vehicles.

The images on the iPad and Galaxy Tab are not as washed out as on the Kindle Fire and Xoom due to their larger Contrast Rating for High Ambient Light.

The all - new Fire HD 8 — the next - generation of Amazon's highest customer - rated tablet — offers a stunning 8» HD display with over 1 million pixels, a quad - core processor, up to 12 hours of battery life, 16 GB of storage with support for up to 256 GB more, plus Alexa — now only $ 79.99.

Developers around the world reporting high monetization rates with Kindle Fire and Amazon Appstore

Amazon releases new e-readers and Fire tablets every year, so their hardware has a high rate of adoption.

When the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 underwent the most comprehensive screen test ever by the renowned DisplayMate organization, they gave the display on Fire HDX 8.9 a much higher rating than the display on tablets like Nexus 10 and iPad Air.