(n.) The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws.
Example Sentences:
(1) The obtained results are used to study the relation between the acoustic characteristics of these vowels and the corresponding articulatory dimensions.
(2) "Acoustic" craters were produced by two laser pulses delivered into a saline-filled metal fiber cap, which was placed in a mechanically drilled crater.
(3) These later results suggest that dopamine agonists increase sensorimotor reactivity measured with acoustic startle by acting on sensory rather than motor parts of the reflex arc.
(4) We present numerical methods for studying the relationship between the shape of the vocal tract and its acoustic output.
(5) Our experience shows that the most accurate indications are provided by acoustic stapedius reflex, brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) and vestibular investigation.
(6) The hypothesis that the standard acoustic startle habituation paradigm contains the elements of Pavlovian fear conditioning was tested.
(7) The angular distribution of the scattered acoustic field from an inosonifying source will directly relate to the distribution of surface fibrillatory changes.
(8) These echoes, however, are not associated with acoustic shadowing.
(9) The range of acoustic scatterer sizes, however, corresponds quite well to the dimension of observed and quantified histologic structures.
(10) In the series of 50 acoustic neurinomas (AN) the internal auditory canal (IAC) diameter and the diameter difference between the tumor and non-tumor side are compared with the sizes of the AN.
(11) More importantly, motor and cardiovascular responses to startle may be separated through discrimination of afferent stimuli suggesting either differences in neural pathways for acoustic and tactile stimuli or a differential dependency of the various responses on stimulus characteristics.
(12) The startle-elicited increase in blood pressure was significantly elevated in SHRs and at the same time the acoustic startle response was depressed as compared to WKY rats.
(13) During the period of the study, 163 patients with primary intracranial neoplasms were seen and thus acoustic schwannomas accounted for 3.7%.
(14) Length of testing time was significantly decreased with the use of acoustic stimulation.
(15) Glutamate-immunoreactive neurons were present throughout the acoustic thalamus, including the regions containing the retrogradely labeled neurons.
(16) Acoustic probe-based assays can enhance assay and laboratory efficiency through testing for multiple analytes in a single sample or increasing available binding surface area (by using probe and well surfaces simultaneously), and by eliminating quenching.
(17) A Rhesus monkey was trained to discriminate between 2 acoustic signals, preceded by visual cues, that instructed which of 2 movements to make.
(18) Observations were recorded by three distinctly different methods of measurement: the surgeon, the MD-2 Impedance Analyzer, and the Acoustic Otoscope immediately before and after induction of anesthesia.
(19) Although unilateral acoustic neuromas in children are rare, they do occur.
(20) The relationship between incident sound level and acoustic attenuation for four types of earplug and four types of earmuff have been investigated using freshly prepared and instrumented cadaver ears.
Phenomena
Definition:
(pl. ) of Phenomenon
Example Sentences:
(1) There was no correlation between serum LH and chronological or bone age in this age group, which suggests that the correlation found is not due to age-related parallel phenomena.
(2) The results indicated that the role of contact inhibition phenomena in arresting cellular proliferation was diminished in perfusion system environments.
(3) But what about phenomena such as table tipping and Ouija boards?
(4) phenomena) and Facilitation Gradients (measuring E.T.
(5) Pathological changes may, thus, be initially confined to projecting and intrinsic neurons localized in cortical and subcortical olfactory structures; arguments are advanced which favor the view that excitotoxic phenomena could be mainly responsible for the overall degenerative picture.
(6) Ca2+ has a central role in various cellular phenomena involving membrane fusion.
(7) This phenomena is strongly marked in spastic and mixed types of drowning and is absent in aspiration and reflex types.
(8) The central concept of the theory is that of multilevelness of developmental phenomena.
(9) The momentum flux theory describes such phenomena most appropriately.
(10) When the alternatives are considered, it seems most consistent with Piaget's ideas to regard both cognitive and affective phenomena as problem-solving organizations.
(11) We conclude that CJD-related neuropathological phenomena do not accumulate gradually through the incubation period but develop relatively abruptly and in complete form.
(12) Functional reorganization of interconnections between the limbic and thalamo-cortical brain structures is supposed to underly phenomena observed.
(13) The occurrence of H-Ig and the decline of serum IgD in aged Senieur persons indicate that these are, at least partly, true phenomena of ageing and not always the consequence of disease.
(14) Electrographically, the motor phenomena corresponded with the occurrence of periodic synchronous discharges (PSD) (in one-to-one manner).
(15) Possible mechanisms of the phenomena described are discussed.
(16) These phenomena support that DSPM may be a calcium antagonist.
(17) However the mechanisms responsible for these phenomena are unclear.
(18) From the standpoint of computational vision, these phenomena are difficult to process, yet nonretarded persons perceive them effortlessly and without error.
(19) There are a number of observations which suggest that malnutrition and decreasing pulmonary function are parallel phenomena in chronic lung disease.
(20) Its expression is developmentally regulated, and it is sensitive to phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C. These are properties expected for a molecule responsible for the phenomena observed in experiments on in vitro guidance of retinal axons.