Sentences with phrase «into electrical potentials»

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It is also relevant here that one would have to take into account not only neurons but also, glial cells since these contribute potentials to the electrical field of the brain.

One of the more common concerns of child safety is the potential for electrocution or serious injury when an object, such as a key or metal paper clip, is inserted into an electrical outlet.

On Earth, the brightest auroras (the high - altitude glows often called the northern and southern lights) are generated when electrons in outer space near Earth are accelerated by large electrical potentials, or voltages, along the lines in our planet's magnetic field and slam into gas molecules in the upper atmosphere above polar regions.

Researchers, led by Joshua Mayourian at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, used mathematical modeling to simulate electrical interactions between these stem cells and heart cells to develop insight into possible adverse effects, as well as to hypothesize new methods for reducing some potential risks of this therapy.

«If we are able to convert light, which is electromagnetic energy, into motion, or convert motion into electrical energy, then we have the potential to make molecular devices much smaller,» he said.

Potential insights into how such «natural metamaterials» work excites Daniel Wasserman, an electrical engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.

Beyond looking at the dynamics of creating the droplets and how ordered materials behave when the torus transforms into a sphere, Fernandez - Nieves and colleagues are also exploring potential biological applications, applying electrical fields to the droplets, and sharing the unique structures with scientists at other institutions.

A sound enters the ear and triggers a stream of action potentials, which nudge the waves of electrical activity coursing through the cortex into a particular chaotic pattern, or attractor.

Action potentials, also known as nerve impulses, are electrical messages sent from our brains to other organs and muscles; for instance, nerves in the brain transmit action potentials through neural networks to direct our arm muscles to contract in order to call into action our hands to lift or hold an item, a primary research focus at the Columbia Motor Neuron Center, to which both the Zhang and Wichterle labs are affiliated.

My aim is to understand how these molecular components organize into biological functional complexes that control fundamental processes such as signaling and sensing, energy conversion and electrical action potential propagation.

It is not an engine that converts heat to work, with efficiency limited by temperatures of reservoirs (see The Energy Advocate, November, 1997), but rather one that converts the electrical potential energy of the atoms into an electric current directly.

Although private investors are investing in long - distance high - voltage transmission lines, these need to be incorporated into a carefully planned national grid, the electrical equivalent of President Eisenhower's interstate highway system, in order to unleash the full potential of renewable energy wealth.

The potential energy of water in an elevated lake that is rushing down a river does not contain «heat» per se, but, if we dam the river and divert the water pressure to run a hydroelectric generator, we can transform the river energy into electrical energy and then use that to power an electric heater.

Or, we could use that hydro - generated electricity to power a pump and pump that water up into a water tower, turning the electrical energy back into potential energy.

In reality a powerline network is significantly more secure than a Wi - Fi network simply because a potential attacker would need to physically connect into your electrical network using similar or identical hardware and then attempt to defeat the encryption.