(n.) One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.
(n.) One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car.
(n.) The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus.
(n.) A substance or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod.
(n.) A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director.
(n.) Same as Leader.
Example Sentences:
(1) The orientation of the dilating balloon in the inlet and outlet portions of the left ventricle, change of the catheter-dilator is controlled due to a loop of the conductor connecting the right and left parts of the heart.
(2) The adrenergic fibres form developed plexuses different in the density of disposition of nerve conductors on the arteries of different segments of the spinal cord.
(3) (Peter Adamik) The Order of Merit (OM) awarded to individuals of greatest achievement in the fields of the arts, learning, literature and science, goes to the conductor Sir Simon Rattle , and to the heart surgeon Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub.
(4) The Audiant Bone Conductor has been heralded as an aid for use in conductive hearing loss; however, its possible use in unilateral sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) has also been proposed.
(5) The driver refused to stop at her village despite her repeated pleas and instead drove her, the only passenger on the bus, to a remote farmhouse where he and the bus conductor were joined by five friends.
(6) The extracellular potentials of single frog muscle fibers in homogeneous unbounded volume conductor at different temperature are calculated.
(7) The electrical conduction of the ECG from the fetal heart to the maternal abdomen has been modelled by using volume conductor models based on the measured actual geometry.
(8) This can be deduced from the facts that the inhibition by valinomycin is relatively insensitive to pH, is considerably greater in Na(+)- than in K(+)-containing buffers, and is not enhanced by the addition of proton conductors.
(9) The changes in the integral of the extracellular action potentials (EAPs) generated by an infinite homogeneous fibre in an infinite homogeneous and isotropic volume conductor were studied at different radial distances (yo) from the fibre axis, depending on the propagation velocity (v), duration (Tin) and asymmetry of the intracellular action potential (IAP).
(10) These stationary potentials can spread widely in a volume conductor and can even be detected in a non-stimulated subject making a close contact to the generator source.
(11) These phenomena were attributed to the complex spread of the bioelectrical potentials in the nonhomogeneous volume conductor formed by the tissues of the temporal bone.
(12) No conductor telling me when to come in, no legato or staccato to follow.
(13) It has been suggested that many attributes of gastrointestinal electrical activity cannot be adequately explained by classic "core-conductor" or "cable" models of excitation and conduction.
(14) The antennas are made of thin coaxial cables with a radiation gap or gaps on the outer conductor.
(15) We are thankful for the efficient therapy of the semi conductor Ga As Laser and the possibility that we have through the use of such an instrument to reduce the supply of the anti inflammatory medicines in patients that experience pain.
(16) Following reestablishment of the main blood flow a positive electrical potential (3--4 V) was fed on the prosthesis by means of a current conductor.
(17) Fields H3, H4, H5 send no afferent conductors to the post-commissural fornix.
(18) Out of interest, we were contacted by another reader this week who wrote to say that a train conductor she met on holiday last year, who lived in York, was saying how delighted he was that his rail company had upped the "commission rate he received on tickets sold on the train to people unable to produce a proper ticket".
(19) Myelinated nerve fiber excitation is determined from a core-conductor nerve model, whose nodal currents are described by the Frankenhaeuser-Huxley kinetics and the aforementioned field providing the applied potentials.
(20) Considering the brain as a volume conductor, the ways of revealing the ocular movement artefacts in the frontal EEG leads have been suggested.
Ensemble
Definition:
(n.) The whole; all the parts taken together.
(adv.) All at once; together.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although a clean step response or the ensemble average of several responses contaminated with noise is needed for the generation of the filter, random noise of magnitude less than or equal to 0.5% added to the response to be corrected does not impair the correction severely.
(2) The ensemble electromyogram (EMG) patterns associated with different walking cadences were examined in 11 normal subjects.
(3) The barrelfield is the cortical "map" of the ensemble of vibrissal follicles on the mouse whiskerpad.
(4) He admitted the increased profile afforded him by appearances in movies such as Captain America , its forthcoming sequel The Winter Soldier and 2012's $1.5bn superhero ensemble piece The Avengers had helped him get a foot on the ladder as a film-maker.
(5) The effect of changes in the thermodynamic parameters on the equilibrium ensemble provides a further sensitivity check to the predictions.
(6) Ensemble averaging of a large number of unfiltered spectra was used as the "gold standard" in the evaluation, i.e., as the output of an ideal filter which reveals the exact nature of the underlying Doppler spectrum after speckle has been eliminated.
(7) The derived filter is automatically calculated from a large group (library) of similar GBPS which are representative of all studies acquired according to the same protocol in a defined patient population (the ensemble).
(8) The flexibility of the Man alpha (1-3)Man linkage is demonstrated, confirming the existence of an ensemble of conformations for this linkage.
(9) Ensemble averages from the latter group of patches revealed macroscopic Na+ currents with a biexponential decay phase.
(10) The conformational ensemble of the peptide is observed to narrow as it becomes bound through its cationic mid-region to SDS micelles, with the accompanying advent of local extended structure.
(11) The changes in distribution occur within the same ensembles of nerve cells that are necessary for the acquisition and performance of various learning tasks in several species.
(12) In the experimental analog, genetic selection or screening applied during recursive ensemble mutagenesis should force the evolution of an ensemble of mutants to a targeted cluster of related phenotypes.
(13) the vector sum of the ensemble of units, is the signalled orientation on a particular trial.
(14) Ensemble averages of small-channel activity in numerous sweeps were very similar in time course to the T currents recorded in the whole-cell mode.
(15) For conservative systems, the net flux conserves the total intra-channel cation population for an ensemble of channels.
(16) The arterial supply of this ensemble of the medial basal hypothalamus is common from the hypophyseal arteries, via the primary plexus and the specific vascular loops of the median eminence.
(17) The images due to the ensemble of spectral lines can be separated in principle by deconvolution of the data with the PSF before reconstruction.
(18) This week, Reich and his musicians performed three nights of concerts with the Philip Glass Ensemble at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, at a festival in honor of the 50 th anniversary of Nonesuch Records.
(19) The perpendicular component of the rf electric field creates a frequency shift resulting in phase synchronization of the ion ensemble.
(20) These findings emphasize the role of cellular properties as compared to synaptic wiring in the production of cyclic motor patterns by ensembles of neurons.