Sentences with phrase «smaller electrical signals»

These types of activities lead to much smaller electrical signals, and are at the level of typical brain activity.

This test detects the small electrical signals given off by the cells of the retina when they respond to light.

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Ko explains that noise can make small vibrations in the e-skin, which induce slight perturbations in the microdome array that send electrical signals.

Delicate bones in the middle ear, known as ossicles, convey the vibrations of the eardrum to the cochlea, the small, spiral chamber in the inner ear that converts acoustic signals to electrical.

When an insect happens into the plant's trap zone, it triggers minuscule hairs that send a tiny electrical signal, causing small amounts of water to shift.

«You need to look for some type of detonator, which is easier to find than the explosives themselves because most types of detonators have metal in them — a wire or a microchip, for example — that triggers a small spark or electrical signal,» Becker says.

A similar premise underlies one of Heller's prior inventions: a small device, ideal for diabetics, that instantly indicates blood - sugar levels with an electrical signal.

Three images, left to right, of the same thundercloud depict a less - than -10-milliseconds-long sequence of events: (left) formation within the cloud of a small channel, or «leader,» of electrical conductivity (yellow line) with weak emission of radio signals (ripples), to (middle) a burst of both dark lightning (pink) and radio waves (larger ripples), to (right) a discharge of bright lightning and more radio waves.

The design was specific to that of a biological synapse — a small gap that exists between adjoining neurons over which chemical and electrical signals are passed.

The answer to this question has been slow in coming, as the tufted cells are extremely small — much too small for sticking an electrode into them and capturing their electrical signals.

A team of Columbia Engineering researchers, led by Mechanical Engineering Professor James Hone and Electrical Engineering Professor Kenneth Shepard, has taken advantage of graphene's special properties — its mechanical strength and electrical conduction — and created a nano - mechanical system that can create FM signals, in effect the world's smallest FM radio trElectrical Engineering Professor Kenneth Shepard, has taken advantage of graphene's special properties — its mechanical strength and electrical conduction — and created a nano - mechanical system that can create FM signals, in effect the world's smallest FM radio trelectrical conduction — and created a nano - mechanical system that can create FM signals, in effect the world's smallest FM radio transmitter.

Various previous studies had shown that epigenetic remodeling of DNA by methylation or demethylation led to changes located in synapses, where one neuron communicates with another by chemical or electrical signals sent across a small gap.

At the same time, she measured electrical signals in neighboring neurons using microelectrodes that can record small voltage changes across a neuron's membrane.

This means it will be bombarded by high - energy cosmic rays, which can interfere with signals, or even build up enough of an electrical charge to cause small lightning strikes on the telescope.

After sweeping a very small magnetic field over the setup, the researchers found the Majorana particles» distinct quantized signal — the telltale fingerprint of a specific type of quantum particles — in the electrical traffic between the two materials.

They observed the brain signal in mice just before they indulged in high - calorie food pellets and found that delivering a small electrical pulse directly to the nucleus accumbens, the brain's reward center, prevented the mice from eating the fatty food.

A small electronic chip installed inside the air flow sensor translates the amount of this electrical current into a digital signal that is sent to the engine computer (PCM).

Atrial fibrillation (known colloquially as A-fib) can occur spontaneously in large and giant breed dogs, but not in small ones, for the simple reason that there has to be a certain amount of surface area for the heart's electrical signals to be misdirected within the atria.