Sentences with phrase «of electrical flow»

A new Panasonic dual module casing reduces weight from previous hybrid battery packs and also allows it to increase efficiency of the electrical flow.

Making more than 1 quart / liter: The Silvonic Pro uses the SWAP method of switching the polarity of the rods every 5 minutes and this change in direction of electrical flow creates enough motion in the water to prevent agglomeration or clumping of the nanoparticles.

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Electricity can be described as «the flow of electrical power,» as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) puts it.

The spinal cord may be best understood as a thick data cable that processes and transmits the constant stream of electrical impulses that flow between your brain and the rest of your body, enabling motion and sensation.

Created by startup Halo Neuroscience, which is backed by top investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, the gizmo, «beams a flow of electrical pulses to the brain's motor cortex,» Christina Farr writes.

By offering them banking and credit options, the company could be capturing the entire transaction flow for purchases from weekly grocery shopping, to the purchase of electricals and books.

In much the same way that power lines are affected, long connected structures can experience large voltage differentials from one area to the next, leading to the flow of unwanted electrical current.

Using electrical measurements he collected during the eel attacks, Catania came up with an equation to estimate the amount of electric current flowing from the eel into his arm.

In the electrical currents that flow in the microcircuits of today's gadgets, the electrons behave like particles and follow classical, predictable laws of heat transfer.

Researchers are proposing a new technology that controls the flow of heat the way electronic devices control electrical current.

Researchers are proposing a new technology that might control the flow of heat the way electronic devices control electrical current, an advance that could have applications in a diverse range of fields from electronics to textiles.

Now a transistor that controls the flow of atoms, rather than electrons, could be used as a model to probe the mysterious electrical property of superconductivity.

The satellite, which swoops on an egg - shaped orbit to within 350 kilometers of Earth's surface, detected electrical impulses from electrons coursing upward within charged sheets that shadow the downward flowing auroral electrons.

Turns out, it serves another purpose: A lack of water flowing over the gills decreases electrical activity there that can betray the cuttlefish's presence to foraging sharks, a new study suggests.

Cardiac arrest — an electrical malfunction in the heart that causes an irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia) and disrupts the flow of blood to the brain, lungs and other organs — is a leading cause of death.

Shannon perceived an analogy between Boole's logical propositions and the flow of current in electrical circuits.

Researchers at Harvard, for example, are perfecting an organic flow battery that can store a full day's production of electricity from solar or wind farms, a development that could play a key role in integrating variable electrical generating sources into the grid.

The Earth's magnetic field is generated by the flow of liquid iron, an electrical conductor, in the Earth's outer core, between 3000 and 5000 kilometres beneath the surface.

They do this by, for instance, measuring the electrical flows within the barriers to determine the functionality of these barriers — or by simulating lung - air interaction using clouds of artificial fog.

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.

They found that when a negative electrical potential is applied to skin on various parts of the arm, creating a current, that stretch of skin exhibits a low resistance to a subsequent current flowing through the skin.

In TDCS, electrical current flows continuously between electrodes placed on different parts of the scalp, activating neurons in one area and quieting them in another.

As a read head moves above bits of magnetic data, changes in the magnetic orientation of those bits alter the electrical resistance of electrons flowing through the sensor, translating the magnetic data into a stream of electrical pulses.

«Such organic flow batteries will be game - changers for grid electrical energy storage in terms of simplicity, cost, reliability and sustainability,» said Prakash.

Chua's equations suggested that a memristor's electrical resistance, or conductivity, would not be constant, like a lightbulb's, but dynamic, and determined by the history of the current that had flowed through the device.

Finally, Yoichi Ando and colleagues at the Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industry in Tokyo, Japan, report that in nonsuperconducting LSCO and YBCO, the electrical resistance is smaller for current flowing in the direction in which the stripes are thought to run.

Many people picture electrical conductivity as the flow of charged particles (mainly electrons) without really thinking about the atomic structure of the material through which those charges are moving.

Last year in Science, Ajay K. Sood and Shankar Ghosh of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and colleagues reported inducing an electrical signal by flowing water over single - walled nanotubes (Science, 14 February 2003).

While a conventional, all - solid battery requires electrical connectors for each of the cells that make up a large battery system, in the flow battery only the small region at the center — the «neck» of the hourglass — requires these contacts, greatly simplifying the mechanical assembly of the system, Chiang says.

The researchers flipped the spins of the hydrogen nuclei to control electrical current flowing though the OLED, making the current stronger or weaker.

If the direction of the magnetic fields is rapidly switched back and forth (i.e., high frequency) then electrical currents only flow along the outer edge of the metal, which is where the biofilm is.

Two techniques used in adults — functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which can measure blood flow; and electroencephalography (EEG), which measures electrical activity in the outer layers of the brain — have their drawbacks.

Imaging scans would reveal the additional blood flow and electrical activity as thousands of neurons flare in response.

An even bigger puzzle is how the huge current of a lightning bolt ever begins to flow when air is an electrical insulator.

Above a certain critical temperature, the electrons can move relatively easily through the material enabling the flow of electrical current.

His work suggests that deep - brain stimulation — whether electrical or optical — may be most effective when it targets not the neurons themselves but the connections between cells, thereby affecting the flow of activity between brain regions.

Neurons generate an electrical spike when the flow of ions across the cell membrane rises above a set threshold.

This so - called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) triggers the flow of small electrical currents in neural circuits beneath the coils.

Instead of wind, tidal flows turn the turbine, converting the kinetic energy of moving seawater into electrical energy.

On September 19, nine days after champagne flowed in the LHC control room, a faulty electrical connection between two magnets caused a helium leak that put the whole device out of commission.

Current treatment methods used are transcranial direct current simulation (tDCS)-- which is application of a low intensity direct (constant) current between two electrodes on the head, and transcranial alternating current simulation (tACS)-- which sees a constant electrical current flow back and forth.

Using a device engineered by Nan Marie Jokerst, Ph.D., a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, the researchers showed that UVB caused calcium to flow into the skin cells, but only when the TRPV4 ion channel was present.

Memristors are electrical components that limit or regulate the flow of electrical current in a circuit and can remember the amount of charge that was flowing through it and retain the data, even when the power is turned off.

The key to the invention is the creation of an empty chamber on the seabed into which water can flow, generating electrical power as it passes through turbines.

The findings relate to a type of cell connection that allows electrical and chemical messages to flow from nerve to muscle cells, enabling motion.

To salvage some of that energy, the team added a regenerative braking system: when the driver's foot is removed from the accelerator, the electrical connections are reconfigured so that instead of electricity going from the batteries to turn the motor, the motor generates electricity that flows back through the inverter to recharge the batteries.

Now, an international group led by Prof. Danny Porath of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem reports reproducible and quantitative measurements of electricity flow through long molecules made of four DNA strands, signaling a significant breakthrough towards the development of DNA - based electrical circuits.

When Anderson and Waters combined those readings with the radar data, they could chart maps of the electrical power flowing into and out of the ionosphere.

Unlike heart attacks (myocardial infarctions), which are typically caused by clogged coronary arteries reducing blood flow to the heart muscle, sudden cardiac arrest is the result of defective electrical activity of the heart.

Nevertheless, so far no one has been able to demonstrate reliably and quantitatively the flow of electrical current through long DNA molecules.