Sentences with phrase «signals fired by»

Shenoy's lab pioneered the algorithms used to decode the complex volleys of electrical signals fired by nerve cells in the motor cortex, the brain's command center for movement, and convert them in real time into actions ordinarily executed by spinal cord and muscles.

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«We have a Signal 7 in Room 229,» Hollywood Fire Rescue units said of 92 - year - old Miguel Antonio Franco, using their code for a deceased person, according to emergency radio calls provided by the audio streaming website Broadcastify.

The S&P 500 was up over 300 points from the February and March lows largely in anticipation of «earnings season» but in the past two weeks, both the S&P and the NASDAQ have been hobbled by a «sell the news» behavioral quirk, which, for me, is a sure - fire signal that bigger investors are viewing Q1 / 2018 as the peak for the business cycle.

Republicans in Congress are signaling a willingness to ban the device used by the Las Vegas gunman that can mimic automatic fire — a shift from previous opposition to gun control legislation.

The preload was designed so that if a valid object were presented, the sum of the preload and the signal detected with the object present would equal the count produced by firing neutrons directly into the detectors — with no object in front of them.

Like ECOG, EEG relies on brain signals picked up by an array of electrodes that are sensitive to the subtle voltage oscillations caused by the firing of groups of neurons.

The exceptional cancer cells that escape the astrocytes do so by producing a protein called Serpin, which acts as a sort of antidote to the death signals fired at them by nearby astrocytes.

By allowing the current to continue, he could cause the neuron to fire, or — by cutting the signal off — stop it from firing altogetheBy allowing the current to continue, he could cause the neuron to fire, or — by cutting the signal off — stop it from firing altogetheby cutting the signal off — stop it from firing altogether.

Once the nanoparticles squeezed through the barrier and the mouse was exposed to a weak magnetic field, the critter's brain responded by firing electrical signals.

For this, electrical signals fire between neurons connected by «axons» — thread - like extensions of their outer surfaces which can be viewed as the «wire» in the electric circuit.

The resulting rhythmic signals produced by this transfer of cations are what support the synchronous contraction of our heart muscles and neuronal firing in parts of the brain, like the thalamus, which helps regulate our sleep - wake cycle, or circadian rhythm.

By about 350 BC, the Greeks had devised a code for signalling with fire beacons.

The algorithms, which tell computers how to learn from data, are used in computer models called artificial neural networks — webs of interconnected virtual neurons that transmit signals to their neighbors by switching on and off, or «firing.»

When these photoreceptors detect light, they send a signal to specialized neurons in the retina called retinal ganglion cells, or RGCs, which then transmit visual information to the brain by firing electrical pulses along the optic nerve.

By taking measurements on each side of a synapse leading into the cerebral cortex, the team could measure when neurons were firing, the strength of the signal and the signal - to - noise ratio.

Neurons, or nerve cells, in the brain communicate with each other by transmitting electric signals, or firing action potentials, through long processes named axons (which send out signals) and dendrites (which receive signals).

Other neurons in the culture began to fire one by one as they received an electrical signal from one of their neighbors.

Catania also discovered that a different, high - voltage, two - pulse signal fired out by the eel makes a fish within range twitch uncontrollably, giving away its position and allowing the eel to go after it with its conventional attack of series of high - voltage pulses.

Brain cells communicate with each other by firing off tiny chemical and electrical signals.

Now, astronomers from MIT and Arizona State University have peered right back to the «Cosmic Dawn» — the time when the first stars were beginning to fire up — by picking up an extremely faint radio signal that marks the earliest evidence of hydrogen, just 180 million years after the Big Bang.

Astronomers have now peered right back to the «Cosmic Dawn» — when the first stars were beginning to fire up — by picking up an extremely faint radio signal that marks the earliest evidence of hydrogen, just 180 million years after the Big Bang.

Neurons transmit chemical signals in a fleeting «kiss - and - run» process, which in large part determines how quickly neurons can fire, according to new studies by Howard Hughes Medical Institute...

Everything in your body, from the tissue that supports your skeleton to the neurons that fire signals from your brain to your feet run on the energy that's created by the food we eat, and I personally would prefer to have body tissue made from real, whole foods than tissue constantly bombarded by chemical byproducts of food processing from something that came out of a box and went through a factory full of chemicals and processes I'd never even see or hear about.

Your body adapts by activating more fibers in the muscles involved in a certain movement (meaning your nervous system adapted by firing signals to more muscle cells).

To fully enjoy your Kindle Fire you really need to have regular access to Wi - Fi, which is an Internet signal broadcast by an Internet Service Provider (ISP, where you get your Internet).

I have the internet on my computer but on my kindle fire there is a white x by the signal.

Lagging indicators claim to help traders make money by spotting trending markets, however, the problem is that they are «late» to the ball, meaning they fire off a buy or sell signal into a trending market after the market has already started to trend, and just as it is probably about ready for a counter-trend retracement.

Each day — with the exception of Sunday, Christmas Day and Good Friday — Edinburgh Castle fires the One O'Clock gun, a time signal historically used by ships in the area.

This feels most rewarding during multiplayer hunts, which you can organize before embarking, or by firing a signal flare during single - player mode.

Signal Boost Curated by Jordan Rockford & Rafael Soldi In partnership with Strange Fire Collective Artists: Juan Giraldo, Zora J. Murff, Lorenzo Triburgo In the last decade, social media platforms have quickly become engines for amplification, allowing organizing and sharing of messages on a global scale.

Higher frequency changes in the signal due to volcanoes, forest fires and other natural phenomenon can be filtered out, or ignored by the Kalman filter.

The satellite - based sensor MODIS can detect the signal of fire hot spots, also called thermal anomalies, because the signal measured by the sensor in space in the thermal infrared bands appears to be an anomaly compared to the signal emanated from the background land.

If the Browning - Ferris decision signals a coming shift by Canadian labour boards from traditional legal tests that focus on actual control (like hiring, firing and discipline) to tests which focus more on indirect or reserved control, then employers will face even greater challenges when dealing with temporary workers.