Sentences with phrase «of electrical»

A team of electrical engineers led by E. Fred Schubert of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, approached the problem by creating a new class of highly porous nanomaterials.

Dong - Ho Cho, a professor of the electrical engineering and the director of the Center for Wireless Power Transfer Technology Business Development at KAIST, said: «It's quite remarkable that we succeeded with the OLEV project so that buses are offering public transportation services to passengers.

Deep brain stimulation is not the only form of electrical stimulation that could help restore movement after a spinal cord injury.

Antennas are made of electrical conductors and, although they come in a wide variety of configurations, they often take the form of straight metal wires or wire coils.

De Montjoye is joined on the paper by his thesis advisor, Alex «Sandy» Pentland, the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Erez Shmueli, a postdoc in Pentland's group; and Samuel Wang, a software engineer at Foursquare who was a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science when the research was done.

On one level, there's the dynamics of electrical currents that constitute the main signaling method of the brain's nerve cells.

A voltage applied between the electrodes induced a type of electrical attraction between the gold pads and the metal rods, causing the rods to bridge adjacent gold squares.

«NMR is a very powerful tool, but its measurements rely on amplification of electrical signals at radio - frequencies.

Unlike traditional chips that process combinations of 0s and 1s as binary code, neuromorphic chips process spikes of electrical current that fire in complex combinations, similar to how neurons fire inside a brain.

It is not clear how the lights are produced, but Friedmann Freund of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, thinks that when rocks in the crust are squeezed, chemical bonds break to produce a pulse of electrical charge that travels up to the surface.

Adding to our discussion of the many uses of the term «feedback» (24/31 December 2011), he says its purpose is to remind those working on the lines «that disconnecting a community's set of electrical appliances opens one to experiencing the full effects of collapsing fields» — that is, to voltages generated on the apparently disconnected wire when devices...

Dr Samer Aldhaher, a researcher from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London, said: «There are a number of scenarios where wirelessly transferring power could improve drone technology.

What's more, by controlling the timing of an electrical stimulus, Malenka and UCSF researchers conclusively demonstrated that they could cause more AMPA receptors to appear on the outer membrane of a receiving neuron — or, conversely, to disappear.

But the FAA also took another highly unusual, and perhaps illuminating, step: it decided to investigate its own certification process, asking in particular how it could have guaranteed as airworthy an aircraft whose electrical system has suffered a dangerous battery failure so soon, and which also has a history of electrical fires and circuitry failures, some even during the certification process itself.

«He may not have as much policy experience in Washington as some of his predecessors have had,» says Eric Grimson, who works with Suresh as head of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

«Whispering gallery mode resonators, which are basically optical resonators, have been intensely studied for at least 20 years,» said Srinivas Tadigadapa, professor of electrical engineering.

«It could have tremendous impact for our understanding of electrical synapses in the central nervous system,» he says.

To get an understanding of the quality of their spheres, Tadigadapa's doctoral student Chenchen Zhang and recent doctoral graduate Eugene Freeman worked with Alexander Cocking, a doctoral student in the lab of Penn State laser expert Zhiwen Liu, professor of electrical engineering.

In addition to Contreras - Vidal, researchers on the project are first author Trieu Phat Luu, a research fellow in neural engineering at UH; Sho Nakagome and Yongtian He, graduate students in the UH Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

These include two types of short - term memory training, physical exercise, mindfulness meditation, learning a musical instrument, wearing a nicotine patch and a form of electrical stimulation of the brain.

Chai is wearing a suit full of electrical stimulators that force his arms into the same position as mine.

The perceptron contained a network of artificial neurons, which could be simulated on a computer or physically built with two layers of electrical circuits.

Lamm and his group recently sought the answer to answer this question by combining measures of electrical activity in the brain (via electroencephalogram) with functional magnetic resonance imaging to show blood flow patterns in 25 participants getting rounds of shocks on their hands.

«Everything we do as faculty requires communication skills,» stresses Wendi Heinzelman, dean of graduate studies for arts, sciences, & engineering and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Rochester.

«The autonomous HydroCamel II integrates state - of - the - art technologies, including high - level maneuvering in six degrees of freedom and an ability to dive almost vertically,» says Prof. Hugo Guterman of the BGU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and head of LAR.

A research team in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering and the EIIRIS at Toyohashi University of Technology developed 5 - μm - diameter needle - electrodes on 1 mm × 1 mm block modules.

Professor Paul Mitcheson, from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London, explains: «Imagine using a drone to wirelessly transmit power to sensors on things such as bridges to monitor their structural integrity.

The study, led by Ken Shepard, Lau Family Professor of Electrical Engineering and professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, is published online Dec. 7 in Nature Communications.

Timothy Lu, an MIT associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and of biological engineering, is also an author of the paper, which appears in the Nov. 2 issue of Scientific Reports.

For most physicists the memorable peak of 19th - century physics is the theory of electrical and magnetic fields, capped by James Clerk Maxwell's mathematical synthesis of 1864.

Twenty years of electrical recording in anesthetized laboratory animals provided ample evidence that many cortical cells, particularly in primary sensory cortical regions, continue to respond selectively during anesthesia.

They in turn transmit messages to the brain as a pattern or code of electrical activity.

This year, discover teamed up with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (ieee, and the National Science Foundation to bring leading energy experts to Capitol Hill, where they briefed Washington insiders and charted the scientific, technological, and political challenges that lie ahead on the road to a new energy economy.

Now in its fourth round of awards, ARPA - E allocated $ 156 million to 60 projects grouped in five focus areas: Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO), Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies for Energy (REACT), High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage (HEATS), Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI) and Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (Solar ADEPT).

Aalto University, School of Electrical Engineering, Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Post Office Box 13000, FI - 00076 Aalto, Finland.

By contrast, capacitors, which are common in electronics, are short - term stores of electrical energy that charge almost instantaneously but hold little energy.

S: One area is in the transmission and storage of electrical energy.

Zheng wants to wrap up his studies either late this year or in early 2012, at which time he hopes to focus on a start - up he formed with his advisor, Changhuei Yang, a Caltech professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering.

Superconductivity is at the heart of intensive research in physics, in particular because of its remarkable electronic properties, such as the absence of electrical resistance.

«This is great news for us,» said Jian - Ping Wang, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Minnesota.

Henderson, who holds the John and Jene Blume - Robert and Ruth Halperin Professorship, and Krishna Shenoy, PhD, professor of electrical engineering and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, share senior authorship of the paper.

Senior author Jelena Vuckovic, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, has been working for years to develop various nanoscale lasers and quantum technologies that might help conventional computers communicate faster and more efficiently using light instead of electricity.

Together with researchers from Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) Pontedera, Università degli Studi in Milan and Scuola Superiore Sant» Anna in Pisa, Francesco Greco from the Institute of Solid State Physics at TU Graz presents a novel method in Advanced Science which raises the transmission of electrical impulses from human to machine to the next level using printed tattoo electrodes.

One very interesting property that emerged is a rhythm of electrical activity called gamma oscillations.

That could lead to new materials like nanowires, which could help to make miniature versions of electrical components like batteries, and better drugs.

As signals are sent from one cell to the next, rhythmic patterns of electrical activity, commonly known as brain waves, are generated.

Getting stuff done was foremost in the mind of electrical engineer Brian Otis when he left his tenured position at the University of Washington in Seattle in 2012 to work for Google.

Co-authors of the paper are Rice graduate students Huilong Fei and Gonglan Ye, postdoctoral researcher Nam Dong Kim, alumni Errol Samuel and Zhiwei Peng, and Pulickel Ajayan, chair of the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering and a professor of chemistry at Rice; Juncai Dong and Dongliang Chen of the Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing; research associate M. Josefina Arellano - Jiménez and José Yacamán, chairman of the Department of Physics, at the University of Texas at San Antonio; and graduate students Zhuan Zhu and Fan Qin and Jiming Bao, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, at the University of Houston.

But whereas the latter blankets large swaths of the brain with a whiteout storm of electrical activity — leading to temporary, and occasionally permanent, memory impairment — TMS is more of a focused tickle of the circuitry.

Now, a pair of scientists based in France and Switzerland have discovered another odd fullerene property: They change the amount of electrical current they conduct when they are squeezed.