The brain uses electrical current to communicate within itself and with other parts of the body.
They made the device from a photoactive plastic that converts infrared light into an electrical current.
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The latch works by running an electrical current down a signal wire, through two switches.
The solution was a lid of metal foil that vaporizes when an electrical current passes through it.
The switch's conductivity could be changed by manipulating the levels of electrical current.
Mroz took those numbers and figured out how to get the most out of the small amount of electrical current produced.
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The battery-operated device is switched on when the diver or surfer enters the water and the electrical current is generated continuously.
You see, each person's body provides a different amount of opposition to electrical current, so bioimpedance can be a unique biometric identifier.
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With no sight, it detects movement with a tiny sensor in its nose, which picks up the electrical current of its prey.
On Europa this induces an electrical current within the sub-surface ocean.
In their experiments, an electrical current was sent to the limbic system of a rat's brain whenever it moved to a certain area of its cage.
Photovoltaic panels use the sun's photons to make electrons hop around, producing electrical current, while solar thermal uses photons to move whole molecules--that is, to produce heat.
The connective cells, known as fibroblasts, are then isolated and an electrical current is used to force-feed them with the snippets of DNA that make factor VIII.
Bacteria oxidize the organic matter and, in the process, produce electrons that run from the anode to the cathode within the fuel cell, creating an electrical current.
Engineers had learned that a resistor, which restricts the flow of electrical current, is best made of certain materials and a capacitor, which stores electrical charge, of others.
Instead, the transistors operate on a gradient of electrical current.
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In MS the damage to myelin exposes channels on the surface of the axon, allowing potassium ions to leak out and thus dissipate the electrical current that carries nerve signals.
They used a technique called transcranial direct current stimulation, or tDCS. If you pass a weak electrical current through part of the brain, it temporarily and safely disrupts neural activity.
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If a conductive wire is run between the two, electrons released by the lead will run through it towards the lead dioxide, generating an electrical current as they do so.
All participants adapted to the different speeds, but the ones who received electrical current to the part of the brain corresponding to the leg that eventually changes its pattern adapted faster.
When Cluster II passes through these so-called polar cusps, instruments on board each of its satellites will measure the magnetic field, electrical current and number of charged particles within the tetrahedron.
The devices, which induce a seizure by delivering an electrical current to a patient's brain, are used to treat intractable cases of depression, as well as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other mental disorders.
RT, citing witnesses, said a man trying to cross a large puddle was initially electrocuted, and then four others who tried to come to his aid were then killed by the live electrical current.
"It gives you the ability to print very fine metal patterns that could be used in biosensors or security features where you need to print a pattern and pass an electrical current through it, " said Mr Bishop.
The subjects were randomized into five groups and received a mild, noninvasive electrical current, via a cap and electrodes, running either to or away from the part of the cerebellum that controlled either the faster or slower leg.
But the central point about both taps and transistors is that they allow a small signal the twist of a hand or the increase of a voltage to control a much larger one the rush of water or of electrical current.
The two electrodes, cathode and anode, are separated by a polymer electrolyte membrane which permits protons to cross to reach the cathode while the electrons are made to flow as part of a circuit to carry an electrical current.
Essentially, the process forms "trillions of holes to create insulating vacuums around the miles of nano-scale wires packed next to each other inside each computer chip, " which should aid electrical current in flowing around 35-percent faster while it eats up about 15-percent less energy.
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