Sentences with phrase «small circuits of»

Bacteria use small circuits of genes to manage routine tasks like copying their DNA or neutralizing a toxin.

Iacoboni is best known for his work studying mirror neurons, a small circuit of cells in the brain that may be an important element of social cognition.

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Having a presence on the trade show circuit was an integral part of the small company's marketing strategy starting in 2006, the year Cahsens established the business.

The opinion, issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, strikes down a legislative provision, first enacted in 1986 and renewed numerous times since, which sets a goal that 5 percent of federal defense contracting dollars each fiscal year must be awarded to certain entities, including small disadvantaged companies.

Occasionally, in small groups, someone's circuits are overloaded by anxiety or too much confrontation (in relation to the degree of trust present).

I think I like that size because (a) it reminds me of the small country churches my grandparents attended (and my grandfather would sometimes «speak» at, since they often couldn't afford a full - time clergy, so were at the whims of circuit riders), and (b) because that gives me a «monkeysphere» (a folksy explanation of Dunbar's number).

Another, smaller crowd clustered about Garlits» chief rival, Chicagoan Chris Karamesines, a mustached, sleepy - eyed man who looks like a character out of Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat and is known on the drag - racing circuit simply as «The Greek.»

However in Ricciardo's case, data showed that he had slowed down significantly in other parts of the circuit and was only marginally quicker than the minimum time, so has received a smaller penalty than would be usual.

He paid his way through Florida State by tending a small weekend circuit of courses in Jacksonville, St. Petersburg and Atlanta.

Those which turn up in races of less than three hours probably will carry the kind of optional equipment Duntov used at Daytona Beach — small racing windscreen in place of the standard, speed - cheating wrap - around windshield, a streamlined cockpit cover, modified camshaft and a rear - axle ratio to suit the circuit.

Of course things are very different in testing, but maybe that gives us a small reason to be optimistic when we get to more overtaking - friendly circuits, like the next two races in China and Bahrain.

Juan Manuel Fangio does, but it's a small circuit in his home town of Balcarce.

The Penn Circuit travels a purgatorial network of public parks and small private clubs where some of the locker rooms have no lockers and where the players never pass the pay phone without checking the coin - return box.

The basic circuit below has a switch made using a small piece of paper and 2 paper clips to break the flow of electricity which allows the bulb to be turned on and off.

Sydney Schreppler, a postdoctoral fellow in physics at University of California, Berkeley, seeks to hire a female graduate student mentee to contribute to her work on circuits that mimic the behavior of the world's smallest particles, known as superconducting qubits.

The newly developed photodetectors, the smallest photodetectors worldwide for optical data transmission, can be used for integrated optical circuits that significantly enhance the performance of optical communication systems.

In a traditional computer, a microprocessor is mounted on a «package,» a small circuit board with a grid of electrical leads on its bottom.

Creating light in small structures on the surface of a chip is crucial for developing fully integrated «photonic» circuits that do with light what is now done with electric currents in semiconductor integrated circuits.

Nearly all mass market devices rely on microchips of the chemical element silicon, on which manufacturers etch ever smaller transistors — essentially electrical switches that can be used to fashion logic circuits for computers.

About the size of «a hair on a bumblebee,» he says, with a circuit the size of a dime, it contains no optical lenses and works by allowing a small volume of fluid to flow across a microchip, which then sends images of the sample to a computer.

Schwarzkopf suggests that this is because the circuits in the visual cortex responsible for the illusion are the same size in everyone, but cover a greater proportion of a smaller visual cortex, causing a stronger effect.

In it, they describe a process by which nanodiamonds — tiny diamond particles 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a hair — curtail the electrochemical deposition, called plating, that can lead to hazardous short - circuiting of lithium ion batteries.

The Obama administration's neuroscience initiative highlights new technologies to better understand the workings of brain circuits on both a small and large scale.

«Now we have some evidence that small identical computational units — microcolumn modules — underlie the architecture of the cortical circuit, at least in layer V.»

While it takes a charge of more than 5000 volts to overcome the resistance of the air and create a spark, smaller unseen discharges can cause a wide range of problems in electronics equipment — from intermittent faults in circuits to the disruption of computer systems.

Bio-engineers are working on the development of biological computers with the aim of designing small circuits made from biological material that can be integrated into cells to change their functions.

The new facility should be able to produce millions of devices a year, he says, with shapes as small as a micrometer in size — 10 times larger than circuits in silicon microchips.

For instance, the advancement of the microcomputer industry depends on circuits with smaller and smaller features, but we must still use some form of light to print those features.

In 2007, John Rogers at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign and colleagues produced a printer small enough to print electronic circuits from conductive ink on the nanoscale.

But according to Michael McKeown, a developmental geneticist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, fru's presence in nine small clusters of fly nerve cells — including several previously mapped by Hall as «courtship centers» — may begin to give researchers «a handle on how the neural circuits that generate complex behaviors are put together.»

At the current rate of adoption, Harris said, all electrical circuits controlled by the utility could be closed to small - scale solar within six months.

Once they can keep the circuit going for long enough, perhaps a month, they hope to study, for example, how small sets of neurons «learn» after being stimulated repeatedly.

Immersed in a small tank of sugar water, the microbes settled on the electrode and got busy, extracting electrons from the sugar and dropping them directly on the electrode, which fed an external circuit: Voilà, electricity.

Now it seems that we have reached the physical limit of how small the electronic circuits can become and we need to find another principle for development.

This allows them to make use of the spin waves that are already present in the material due to thermal fluctuations, which requires a much smaller disturbance of the system and hence enables the spin waves to be used in an electric circuit.

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

Minds emerge when the activity of small circuits is organized across large networks so as to compose momentary patterns.

To accomplish this small daily miracle, the brain has developed a circuit that's rapid enough to detect the tiny lag that occurs between the moment the auditory information reaches one of our ears, and the moment it reaches the other.

We have generated small amounts of electricity just by getting the fabric damp — without the need for any additional circuits or components.

This is a very important step along the road to optical circuits, as small size, speed and low power consumption are key requirements for the realization of an efficient optical switching nano - device.»

And as chips continue to get smaller, with more circuits packed into smaller spaces, the amount of wasted heat grows.

«Our work suggests that the apparent complexity of protein networks is deceiving, and that a circuit involving a small number of proteins might control each cellular function,» said senior author Shohei Koide, PhD, professor of biochemistry & molecular biophysics at the University of Chicago.

After decades of eluding researchers because of chemical instability, key metal - oxide clusters have been isolated in water, a significant advance for growing the clusters with the impeccable control over atoms that's required to manufacture small features in electronic circuits.

To alter this behaviour, the team built a device made of 11 concentric rings of circuit boards etched with small metal - lined channels that prevent electromagnetic waves reflecting away.

In the functional sense, one can even think of it as a first equivalent of a small «integrated circuit» operating on single photons,» explains Dr. Wojciech Wasilewski (UW Physics), one of the authors of an article published in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters.

However, MIT neuroscientists have discovered a brain circuit that can trigger small regions of the brain to fall asleep or become less alert, while the rest of the brain remains awake.

They realised that as engineers try to pack ever more logic gates and other circuit elements onto silicon chips, they will eventually reach a point where the logic gates are so small that they are made out of only a...

Before coming to Stanford, he worked at the Salk Institute, UC San Diego, and Brandeis University on smaller - scale computational models of single neurons and small circuits.

This image of a single neuron (left), a minicolumn (middle) and a microcircuit (right) illustrates the incredible complexity of even small neural circuits.

It is attached to a small printed circuit board, about half the size of a credit card, which contains circuitry, sensors and other miniaturized components that control the movement and other aspects of the device.