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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Car sales in India have remained weak in the current fiscal year ending this month due to higher ownership costs and an economic slowdown.
However, in the current weak economic climate, firms with lots of spare capacity find it hard to pass on costs, so rising labour costs are more likely to squeeze profits than to push up inflation.
"Due to the current weak market, we wanted to offer attractive prices to our customers to boost their morale, " the spokesman said, explaining the decision to cut its car prices despite an increase in input costs.
"But any disruption to business is the very last thing that the UK economy needs in its current extremely weak state, " he added.
This, more than weak growth or the current level of public debt, is what has given the major ratings agencies cause for concern.
They now threaten the weak interim government's current seat, north-west at Baidoa.
Those two charts showed that the current recovery was very weak compared to the boom of the early 1980s.
High interest rates--along with wide fiscal and current account deficits and a weak global economy--have squeezed economic expansion to its lowest rates in a decade.
"A current of moving air moves a weak little old mosquito far and wide, " he said.
Current promised Social Security benefits are weak and marginal compared to what would be gained through a lifetime of real savings and investment.
In the current gloomy investment outlook, with weak stockmarkets and low interest rates, tobacco companies' shares offer temptingly high yields, as do the bonds that American states have issued, backed by the income they are due to receive from their big tobacco settlement.
But rates will only be held at current low levels if the economy remains weak.
The carmaker predicted that profit in the current quarter would be unchanged from a weak fourth quarter in 2010.
Mireya Moscoso, the current president, is widely regarded as weak and ineffectual, and her party's candidate is trailing badly.
The result of robust exports and weak imports linked to anemic domestic spending is its perennial current account surpluses, which, along with earlier high saving by households and now by businesses, allow it to finance its huge government deficits internally, with foreigners owning only 5%.
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And, in the current economic environment with slowdown in Europe, weak macro economic environment in the U.S. and slowing growth in emerging markets like China and India, many in the airline industry anticipate low sales for these super jumbos to continue over the near term.
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The blue-chip benchmark retreated in previous sessions amid weak job-market and manufacturing data, closing at a current-year low on Monday.
But if growth remains very weak despite the recent rise in asset prices, then the current market optimism may prove short-lived.
The firm said it expected its profits to rise to 50bn yen in the current financial year, with the yen forecast to remain weak.
But paradoxically, should the euro have a troubled birth and prove to be a weak currency, that could also be troublesome: sterling's current strength might then persist, forcing up the relative costs of manufacturing in Britain.
Mr Cable warned the UK could not blame its current flagging growth on the turmoil in the eurozone or a weak US economy as many of its problems were "home-grown".
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With unemployment remaining stubbornly high, a massive inventory of homes stuck in the foreclosure pipeline of many big banks, and gas prices pushed up by record oil and commodity prices, economists are beginning to revise their economic forecasts and are questioning how much longer the consumer can continue to bear the current environment. (Read Analysts Slash Jobs Forecast Amid Weak Data).
Either Greece's relatively weak and small private sector has to be supercharged such that it starts generating current account surpluses that would allow the country to service the enormous debts - which seems unlikely to happen any time soon.
He thinks the weak performance is likely to result in a write down for Dreamworks, potentially in the current quarter.
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If you get a manager who comes into the dressing-room who is in any way weak, or who wasn't the best trainer or the most dedicated, the current players will see that as an excuse to not be the best trainers or most dedicated themselves.
The weak dollar also helped give a boost to commodities, which are seen as safe investments amid the current financial market turmoil.
After a year of imprudent policies coupled with low world prices for the country's staple exports (bananas, coffee and sugar), Mr Arzu will leave Guatemala with high fiscal and current-account deficits, slowing economic growth, a sharp depreciation in the quetzal, weak banks and depleted reserves.
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The bigger point that Mr Cable is making here is that Mr Osborne has defined his strategy in terms of the current, structural deficit: that is, borrowing that is not due simply to the weak state of the economy and that is NOT used for public investment.
The economy has been hurt by high interest rates and a weak external environment, which has led to a collapse in private investment, coupled with large fiscal and current-account deficits.
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