Sentences with phrase «using circuitry»

Except what he doesn't know is that some of his technology made it all the way to Russia — and to Ivan Vanko, who then uses the circuitry to turn himself into the evil Whiplash.
Riffing off both the aesthetic and conceptual characteristics of technology, artists in Technologism document technology's advancement in a plethora of ways: Ulla Wiggen's intricate paintings of circuit boards from the mid 1960s, see the development of an aesthetic inspired by the complex intersection of electrical wires, connectors and components, working to manipulate and rewire the physicality of technology; some thirty years later, John F. Simon's Art Appliances series of the 1990s uses the circuitry of small LCD screens to disrupt pictures and patterns, recreating them over; in Matte Rochford's video Progressively Degrading Test Pattern 2013, humble VHS tapes are copied and recopied, in a process of metaphysical reduction; while in Joshua Petherick's new work, one technology is employed to record another soon to be superseded, revealing new visual dimensions and the «ghosts in the machine».

Not exact matches

Because the same scientific tools used to analyze circuitry and so on are used to analyze «creation».
Using ingenious analogies from electrical circuitry, Pike attempts to make divine power sharing intelligible and compatible with divine «veto» power.
Plain old error - prone, inaccurate, inefficient human beings, with all their loose circuitry and worn gaskets, had to be used after all.
Much like addictive drugs, power uses these ready - made reward circuitries, producing extreme pleasure.
I remember my neighbouring lab made some practical improvements in the existing nanolithographic technique used in digital circuitry design and the people that made them (one PhD and two postdocs) moved to the semiconductor industry.
The chip also features a general - purpose processor that can be used in conjunction with the dedicated circuitry to execute other elliptic - curve - based security protocols.
Kepecs plans to use his model of confidence as a foothold for finding the seat of confidence in the brain and understanding its neural circuitry.
The use of MRI for research, rather than diagnostic, purposes is a relatively new development, and clinical investigators in the imaging community often do not understand the basic cellular and neural circuitry issues as well as they should, he says.
For his part, Collins, who has led NIH since 2009 and been kept on by the Trump administration, pointed to an array of promising NIH activities, including the development of new technologies to provide insights into human brain circuitry and function through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disease.
«It is very important to shrink the circuitry, and the Bristol group has shown the quantum community that this can be done using well - established techniques from classical photonics,» he says.
But if the researchers can make the magnetic behavior stick around, the material could have uses ranging from medical imaging to exotic electronic circuitry.
«It's like remote control of the brain circuitry to create a pair bond,» says Robert Liu at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and a member of the team using technology to play Eros.
«Once we learn the circuitry for attention, we plan to use that to drive learning in an efficient way,» Knudsen adds.
If the PC is left idle in the standby mode, it switches down to Suspend mode, with all high - voltage circuitry disconnected and the monitor using only 15 per cent of its normal power.
Davidson and Kalin also hope to discover ways to repair or reverse damage to neural circuitry without using drugs.
Semiconductors, which are used extensively in electronic circuitry, can have their electrical conductivity turned on and off — an obviously useful capability.
Davidson and Kalin use magnetic resonance imaging (mri), positron emission tomography (pet), and electrical sensing techniques to scour pockets of the brain where emotions dwell, then develop detailed schematics of the neural circuitry among them.
Then, using a powerful microscope that magnifies and lights up the electrical circuitry of the cells, they watched the chain of events that unfolded inside them.
In a novel animal study design that mimicked human clinical trials, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that long - term treatment using a small molecule drug that reduces activity of the brain's stress circuitry significantly reduces Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology and prevents onset of cognitive impairment in a mouse model of the neurodegenerative condition.
Dulac's study — which used genetic manipulation and surgery to create VNO-less female mice — reveals that the circuitry for male behaviors appears to be present in all mouse brains.
The growing therapeutic use of NO along with technological advances including the availability of miniaturized electronic circuitry allowed the MGH team to develop the system described in the current report.
The researchers used a variety of conductive threads that were dipped in physical and chemical sensing compounds and connected to wireless electronic circuitry to create a flexible platform that they sutured into tissue in rats as well as in vitro.
Karl Deisseroth, an optogenetics pioneer at Stanford University, has used the technique with animals to learn more about the nature of the disordered brain circuitry in Parkinson's.
The researchers were able to zero in on the Broca's area as well as related brain circuitry specifically linked to speech, using regional cerebral blood flow as a measure of brain activity, since blood flow is typically coupled with neural activity.
In addition, Sharma says, they fine - tuned an automated microscope used to take pictures of the circuitry that had formed in the wells and calculated the numbers of synapses formed among the cells.
Using a powerful gene - hunting technique for the first time in mammalian brain cells, researchers at Johns Hopkins report they have identified a gene involved in building the circuitry that relays signals through the brain.
We hope this new model that we've developed can be used to study the circuitry underpinning the brain's responses to food cues in health and in obesity.»
The DRC produces half the world's cobalt, used in batteries, and is also an important source of gold and the «three Ts» — tungsten, tin and tantalum — which are present in the capacitors and circuitry in phones.
Unfortunately, he says, the fMRIs failed to reveal the inhibitory circuitry involved; to try to get to the bottom of that, he plans to repeat the study using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves placing many electrodes on a skintight rubber cap placed over a subject's head that allows researchers to observe communication between different parts of the brain.
Other groups have used multiple color LEDs and complex control circuitry to make lights that turn redder as the power is turned down.
Paradoxically, results also provide evidence that even a limited history of substance use was related to less responsivity in the reward circuitry, as has been suggested by experiments with animals.
Radiologist Shumei Li at Guangdong No. 2 Provincial People's Hospital in Guangzhou, China, and her team scanned the brains of 30 healthy sleepers and 23 severe insomniacs using diffusion tensor imaging MRI, a technique that lights up the white matter circuitry.
If the researchers can use multiple diamond tips in different shapes and further control the process, «one can envision forming a predesigned ribbon network ready to serve as electrodes in a specific circuitry of a future device,» he says.
«Grape - derived compounds may promote resilience against depression, researchers find: New study used DNA epigenetic mapping to analyze novel inflammatory mechanisms influencing brain circuitry associated with depression.»
ARL created a generalized model using an energetic formulation approach, which was key in identifying two important mechanisms for enabling high bending motion in soft biological actuators: (i) tuning physical properties (mechanical and geometric) via exploiting the interplay between the materials and dynamic nonlinearities to augment the motion; and (ii) highlighting the electromechanical coupling between the electrical field and nonlinear structural stiffness through the distributive actuation circuitries.
Using our detailed insights into how the brain circuitry is organized, both globally and locally, makes it possible to describe brain function at a computational level.
PULLMAN, Wash. — A WSU research team for the first time has developed a computer algorithm that is nearly as accurate as people are at mapping brain neural networks — a breakthrough that could speed up the image analysis that researchers use to understand brain circuitry.
Scientists around the world have used optogenetics to reveal the brain circuitry underlying normal neural function as well as neurological disorders such as autism, obsessive - compulsive disorder, and depression.
For example, using a transgenic marmoset model of Alzheimer's disease, clinicians and basic researchers are working together to identify the changes in the brain's circuitry during mild cognitive impairment and very early stages of Alzheimer's.
Using a molecular method likely to become widely adopted by the field, researchers have discovered brain circuitry essential for alertness — and for brain states more generally.
In these instances, resistance usually develops when the cancer cell's circuitry bypasses the protein that the drug acts on, or when the cell uses other pathways to avoid the point on which the drug acts.
My laboratory uses the zebrafish to elucidate the genetic circuitry that controls regeneration of two organ systems in response to injury: the adult heart and the caudal fin appendage.
This finding could lead to soft robotics, liquid circuitry, shape - shifting fluids, and a host of new materials that use soft, rather than solid, substances.
Using mouse recombineering techniques, she is working to unravel the complicated circuitry of the hypothalamus and connected brain areas involved in food intake behavior, neuroendocrine, and autonomic responses to stress.
The extension to a much larger network of slime mold tubes could process nanoparticles and carry out sophisticated Boolean logic operations of the kind used by computer circuitry.
Genotypic differences established here can be used to monitor basal ganglia circuitry dysfunction in HD models with the potential to evaluate pathway - selective effects of pharmacological treatments.
A study published by The Journal of Neuroscience challenges the more traditional scientific belief that using touch to recognize objects depends on visual circuitry in the human brain.
These units use technology and circuitry, not hype.
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