Sentences with phrase «measuring calling activity»

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Doctors at the Mayo Clinic have developed a concept called NEAT (for non-exercise activity thermogenesis), which involves measuring energy expenditure during everyday activities.

In a speech to a conference organised by Google, the internet search engine provider, Mr Cameron called for a new measure to assess people's general well - being, or GWB, similar to gross domestic product (GDP), which analyses a country's economic activity.

Calls for ethics legislation — varying measures have been approved virtually every year Cuomo has been governor — come as still more investigations are underway into the state's economic development programs in upstate New York and Mayor Bill de Blasio's political activities in New York City.

He called on the management of the station to always employ precautionary measures in all its activities and not wait until being sanctioned by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) before being regulated.

Using a method called two - photon microscopy, they routinely measure the activity of hundreds of neurons with single cell resolution.

Activity in the PFC region of the mens» brains was measured throughout the test using a unique neuroimaging technique called functional near infrared spectroscopy or fNIRS.

At the same time, the activity of hundreds of nerve cells was measured with so - called microelectrode arrays.

But despite having fewer links, the activity of these two regions seemed more coordinated — a measure called functional connectivity — among those who preferred to take their chances, compared with those who would rather play it safe.

Given that collecting, processing, analyzing, and reporting quality data are costly in time and resources2 — resources that are often taken from direct patient care when these activities involve physicians and other clinicians — there has been an increasing call to rein in the proliferation of measures by identifying a small set of high - priority measures.

Sejnowski and Muller wanted to see the broader picture, however, and turned to large - scale recordings, called intracranial electrocorticograms (ECoGs), that can measure activity in many areas of the brain at once.

The researchers also measured the activity of participants» brains with a tool called near - infrared spectroscopy, which measures changes in blood flow to particular areas of the brain.

The scientists video - recorded the families» reactions to the various calls and measured certain key behaviors, such as whether the elephants defensively bunched together, whether they listened and smelled for the stranger, and how much time they spent doing these activities.

One answer is to measure the brain's electrical activity using a common tool we call the electroencephalogram (EEG).

The researchers use a technique called «optical metabolic imaging» to measure the activity level of the organoids.

For this research brain activity is also being recorded using a technique called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), which uses light to measure changes in blood concentration in the prefrontal cortex, it is a non-invasive and highly portable technique meaning it can be easily interchanged between car and simulator.

By attaching electrodes to the heads of infants and toddlers and measuring brain activity, Nathan Fox of the University of Maryland has discovered that the brains of timid children are more active on the right side — specifically, in a region called the right frontal cortex.

He will show how the robot — called a Seaglider — can measure the wind speed, listen in to the sounds made by fishes and whales, and pick up human activities, such as marine traffic and seismic surveys.

This species showed a significant decline in calling activity over four years, but in the fifth year the calling rate recovered to the original level (a dynamic which is common in many species, but often difficult to measure).

This method measures the activity of protein - cutting enzymes called endoproteases, which are made by tumors to help recruit blood vessels and invade surrounding tissues so the cancer can grow and spread.

One extension of MRI called functional MRI can spot which brain areas are most active, but until now there hasn't been a high - resolution method for detecting enzyme activity — essentially a measure of what genes are turned on inside a cell.

To compare hearing ability in former musicians to people who never played an instrument, researchers measured the electrical brain activity produced by a type of auditory processing called «neural timing,» which enables people to respond to split - second changes in sound such as the transition from a consonant to a vowel.

During the study, a single electrode measured activity in a single frog neuron while the researchers used a computer to generate various parts of frog calls — from a complete call down to a single short sound or tone from the call.

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

They focused on the so - called N400, a distinct pattern of electrical brain activity that can be measured by electrodes placed on the scalp.

To do this, the researchers implanted a four - by - four - millimeter chip composed of 96 electrodes into a subdivision of the PPC called the anterior intraparietal area (AIP), to measure the neural activity of a tetraplegic human who volunteered to take part in a brain - machine interface clinical trial.

Another measure used to rate hurricane activity, called Accumulated Cyclone Energy, or ACE, takes into account the winds of a storm throughout its lifetime.

While these decisions were being made, activity in 3 brain areas was measured: the area where the pros and cons are weighed in decision - making processes called the orbitofrontal cortex; the area where generosity and prosocial behavior are processed called the temporoparietal junction; and the happiness associated area called the ventral striatum.

«Low - Calorie Diet Slows Aging in Mice in Study,» claimed a recent headline.17 According to the article, «Putting elderly mice on a very low - calorie diet for as little as four weeks reversed many of the changes in the activity of various genes that had occurred during normal aging...» The resesearchers were not looking at actual signs of disease, nor were they measuring lifespan, but instead focused on the analysis of 11,000 different genes using a method called microarray technology in which Spindler has large financial holdings.

Then in a sub-sample of people... we're working with a company called Jawbone (who make the Jawbone Up devices) and what these devices measure is activity and from that we can look at the sleep / wake cycle.

Using a technology called functional Near - InfraRed Spectroscopy (fNIRS), which uses infrared light to track changes in blood oxygen in different parts of the brain to provide a measure of what brain regions are becoming more activated (consuming more oxygen) during certain tasks, the investigation will compare the brain patterns of children with ASD and typical children who have similar imitation scores and eyetracking patterns, to determine whether children with ASD process the same imitation tasks differently from typically developing children, at the level of their brain activity.

More information about the 2009 BMW X5: The 2009 X5, which is called a sports activity vehicle by BMW, combines some of the best attributes of a sport wagon and an SUV, offering better handling than most SUVs yet some measure of off - road ability and toughness.

The Kemp's Ridley sea turtle sets itself apart from other turtle populations in several ways: They're the smallest of all the Gulf of Mexico turtle species, measuring only about 2 feet when fully grown; they're the world's most endangered sea turtle; and they're known for their synchronized nesting activities, called arribadas, in which hundreds or thousands of females come ashore on the same day to lay their eggs.

And as WWF points out, they and many others are calling for «urgent and strong measures, including fishing bans, to be adopted and enforced at the United Nations level in order to protect these areas from fishing activities.»

They calculated the so - called shape asymmetries from the seismic data and found each coefficient was essentially zero at activity minimum and rose in precise spatial correlation with rising surface activity, as measured using Ca II K data from Big Bear Solar Observatory.

According to BTI, in developing client feedback systems, law firms need to collect feedback in several areas, including what the client thinks is most important; whether the client is using other law firms and if so, whether the firm is the client's primary firm or one of their secondary firms; how the firm performs as compared to those other firms; how much of the client's «wallet share» the firm currently has; the firm's weaknesses, points of value and differentiation; and how the firm measures up on what BTI calls the 17 activities that drive client relationships.

The system runs its own native token called CPC, which on its most basic level is meant to measure the level of economic activity of the platform.

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Although better known for the ban in Title X-funded projects on nondirective counseling and referral for abortion on request, the measure also called for a physical and financial «wall of separation» between an agency's publicly funded family planning program and its privately funded abortion activities.