«With the Institute for Glycomics I'm also interested in developing this into a tool to
measure the electrical fields outside a single isolated biomolecule, like the dipole moment, as a new way to help understand how they behave,» he said.
In the new work, published June 10 in the journal Scientific Reports, Zhao, Reid and colleagues used a highly sensitive probe to
measure electrical fields in the corneas of isolated eyes from three different lab mouse models with different types of diabetes: genetic, drug - induced and in mice fed a high - fat diet.
Not exact matches
Also there is evidence of molecular mechanisms in the cell membranes that can amplify small changes in the
field to produce large changes in neural activity.13 On the other hand, earlier tests of Kohler's theory found that interference with
electrical gradients over the cortex had no effect on behavioral
measures (see note 11 for reference to these studies).
Thanks to Swarm's precise measurements along with those from Champ — a mission that ended in 2010 after
measuring Earth's gravity and magnetic
fields for more than 10 years — scientists have not only been able to find the magnetic
field generated by ocean tides but, remarkably, they have used this new information to image the
electrical nature of Earth's upper mantle 250 km below the ocean floor.
Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which
measures the anatomy and structural integrity of the brain, and magnetoencephalography (MEG), which
measures magnetic
fields created by the brain's
electrical activity, were used to track potential age - related differences as groups of younger and older adults performed a memory task.
Electrical sensors
measure both the angle and the force applied by the user on the ankle, and a computer modifies the strength of the magnetic
field accordingly.
In a performance check, the scientists
measured the amount of
electrical current running through the films in low and high magnetic
fields.
Electrical conductivity, a
measure of how strongly a given material conducts the flow of electric current, is generally understood in terms of Ohm's law, which states that the conductivity is independent of the magnitude of an applied electric
field, i.e. the voltage per metre.
«The equipment currently used to
measure electric
field strength has some significant downsides,» explains Andreas Kainz from the Institute of Sensor and Actuator Systems (Faculty of
Electrical Engineering, TU Wien).
Gow's method of investigating how the human brain perceives and distinguishes among elements of spoken language combines electroencephalography (EEG), which records
electrical brain activity; magnetoencephalograohy (MEG), which the
measures subtle magnetic
fields produced by brain activity, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which reveals brain structure.
This law is widely obeyed in weak applied
fields, which means that most material samples can be ascribed a definite
electrical resistance,
measured in Ohms.
«When
electrical currents are created in such a system of flows, they can cause a magnetic
field which in turn increases the
electrical current and so forth — and finally the magnetic
field becomes so strong that we can
measure it on the surface of Earth,» says Alessandro Toschi.