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- audio chain begins when an analog audio signal is converted into electrical ... An analog signal is converted to a digital signal at a given sampling ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 03:54, 29 July 2022
- ==Nerve signal transmission== The basic route of nerve signals within the efferent somatic nervous system involves a sequence that begins in the ...6 KB (933 words) - 16:29, 14 October 2022
- *Signal processors – These circuits serve to manipulate, interpret ... #039;s input transforms a broadcast signal (received by an antenna or ...15 KB (2,062 words) - 16:04, 13 February 2024
- Not only is the bugle a simple instrument, but as a signal device ... ===Bugle as a signal device=== The first verifiable formal use of a ...10 KB (1,584 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- of several means, including an electrical signal, optical signal, or mechanical ... by a remote-controlled electrical signal that causes an electric match ...6 KB (877 words) - 03:53, 7 December 2022
- In general, an amplifier (or simply amp) is a device that changes, usually increases, the amplitude of a signal. The "signal" is usually ...18 KB (2,580 words) - 09:26, 18 June 2021
- the predicted directionality of the WIMP signal in order to prove the existence ... is one of the predicted signatures of a WIMP signal, Drukier, A., K ...10 KB (1,576 words) - 23:22, 3 May 2023
- Digital video is a type of video recording system that works by using a digital video signal rather than an analog one. (The terms camera, video ...13 KB (1,891 words) - 14:39, 29 January 2024
- system kept recording a repeating signal of unknown origin. Since ... being used depends on the weakness of the signal and the amount of detail needed. ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 22:45, 7 December 2022
- into the blood or interstitial fluid to signal or nourish other cells or ... the plasma membrane after an extracellular signal triggers the cell. Unlike ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 04:40, 7 April 2021
- FM can bring great improvement in terms of signal to noise ratio if the signal ... broadcaster in Alpine, New Jersey. The signal (at 42.8 mHz) could be heard ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 23:55, 12 February 2024
- will receive a vital "survival signal." The other thymocytes ... with the antigen receive an apoptosis signal that causes their death; ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 18:36, 24 October 2022
- removal dead neurons, and participate in signal transmission in the nervous ... sources (usually neurons), modifying the signal and passing it on to several ...15 KB (2,279 words) - 07:55, 24 January 2023
- either a low-voltage hardwire or narrowband RF signal, which is used to interact with a response device. The most common security sensors indicate the ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 04:34, 17 June 2023
- with power, control systems, electronics, signal processing, and telecommunications ... may use electrical circuits, digital signal processors, and microcontrollers ...26 KB (3,608 words) - 15:50, 13 February 2024
- as the transmitter. Although the radio signal returned is usually very ... than the targets and received a vague signal, whereas some modern systems ...32 KB (4,862 words) - 22:43, 7 December 2022
- is detected, which triggers an inhibitory signal to the extraocular muscles ... of the hair cells and thus produces a sensory signal. Most of the utricular ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 20:01, 16 February 2021
- Engineers were focused on how to transmit a signal without distortion ... Source separation in digital signal processing involves several signals ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:30, 7 January 2024
- that move vertically. This stronger motion signal forces us to perceive vertical motion. Functionally, we perceive a moving pattern as a rigid ...4 KB (677 words) - 02:22, 1 January 2022
- in luminance processing produce a signal that tricks the motion perception system into perceiving motion where there is none. Researchers do not ...4 KB (637 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- of representing an object, an image, or a signal (usually an analog signal ... in the number of possible values of the signal at a given time, as well ...28 KB (4,011 words) - 14:37, 29 January 2024
- shift (Doppler shift) of the received signal that is measured, but the phase shift (when the received signal arrives). Velocity measurements of ...10 KB (1,666 words) - 19:27, 2 August 2023
- Analog Circuits: Equivalent circuits (large and small-signal) of diodes ... response, group delay, phase delay. Signal transmission through LTI ...28 KB (3,902 words) - 16:01, 13 February 2024
- the action potential—an electrical signal that is generated by means ... properties of dendrites to isolate signal specificity. Increased neural ...15 KB (2,188 words) - 02:26, 25 August 2020
- in wristwatches, provide a stable clock signal for digital integrated circuits ... quartz crystal creates an electrical signal with a precise frequency ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 15:39, 7 December 2022
- valve diodes were used in analog signal applications, and as rectifiers ... This allows the diode to operate at signal frequencies, at the expense ...25 KB (3,818 words) - 17:12, 22 July 2020
- made louder by an amplifier and a speaker. The signal that comes from the guitar may also be electronically altered with effects such as reverb or ...20 KB (2,960 words) - 00:14, 13 February 2024
- (gazelles assume characteristic poses as a signal to initiate mating), or the ... . Perhaps the most elaborate food-related signal is the dance language of ...17 KB (2,393 words) - 17:12, 9 January 2024
- Once the odorant has been bound to a matching receptor(s), a neural ... that odorants are detected and a neural signal is initiated. ...23 KB (3,591 words) - 10:31, 11 March 2023
- wire, but also as an audio tone, a radio signal with short and long tones ... communication. Ability to use a visual signal also meant that Morse code ...27 KB (4,108 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- a "clean" power supply for signal or control circuits. Audio ... ==== Signal coupling ==== Because capacitors pass AC but block DC signals ...30 KB (4,519 words) - 19:31, 25 November 2023
- ==Signal and preparation for winter sleep== Hibernating animals have something in their blood called HIT, or Hibernation Inducement Trigger. Recent ...14 KB (2,055 words) - 15:45, 25 January 2023
- | Water || Signal Red || Signal Red || A || || || || || ... | Halon || Emerald Green || Pre-03- Signal red with a green panel ...15 KB (2,294 words) - 19:52, 26 March 2024
- * a transmitter that takes information and converts it to a signal * a transmission medium over which the signal is transmitted ...40 KB (5,781 words) - 02:52, 19 April 2023
- plant matter. However, when a chemical signal is secreted, they assemble ... the plasmodial slime molds. They release signal molecules into their environment ...12 KB (1,726 words) - 21:15, 30 January 2023
- The RNA polymerase enzyme begins synthesis at a specific start signal on the DNA (called a promoter) and ends its synthesis at a termination ...18 KB (2,706 words) - 17:57, 4 November 2022
- like lighthouses, bell towers, clock towers, signal towers, and minarets were used to communicate information over greater distances. Tall lighthouses ...15 KB (2,136 words) - 16:19, 29 April 2024
- Nelson claimed he could not see the signal flags conveying the order ... from East to E.S.E.; bore away; made the signal for Order of Sailing, and ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 15:08, 2 February 2024
- sexton of the Old North Church, to send a signal by lantern to colonists in ... . Longfellow also depicts the lantern signal in the Old North Church as ...20 KB (3,121 words) - 01:31, 23 November 2022
- lining) of blood vessels use nitric oxide to signal the surrounding smooth muscle to relax, thus dilating the artery and increasing blood flow. The ...12 KB (1,673 words) - 02:25, 16 November 2022
- converts incident light into an electrical signal. Finally, the recorder converts ... * Gain to amplify signal strength in low-light conditions ...34 KB (5,130 words) - 18:53, 25 November 2023
- fairly useful; further out than that the signal is too weak, and thermal ... using a Sonar Projector consisting of a signal generator, power amplifier ...46 KB (7,281 words) - 01:12, 4 February 2023
- A modem (from modulate and demodulate) is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates ...43 KB (6,933 words) - 19:24, 9 November 2022
- regulated by quartz crystals to create a signal with a very precise frequency ... regulated by quartz crystals to create a signal with a very precise frequency ...18 KB (2,543 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- given the importance of odor as a signal in many other mammalian species ... to the formation of animal groups near the signal's source, and can be ...20 KB (3,009 words) - 02:59, 24 November 2022
- * A low signal-to-noise ratio (informally, the ratio of useful information ... Information_explosion|200569013|Information_overload|210765700|Signal ...13 KB (1,868 words) - 22:50, 5 February 2023
- range of effects on a cell, transduct the signal by secondary messenger systems ... html Endogenous Neuroactive Extracellular Signal Transducers]. ...16 KB (2,070 words) - 16:26, 11 November 2022
- The neurons that possess these receptors signal this binding by sending action potentials down their axons to the antennal lobe in the brain ...6 KB (965 words) - 05:21, 31 July 2023
- and reception of each GPS radio signal gives the distance to each ... types of data in the primary navigation signal. The first is the almanac ...54 KB (8,113 words) - 20:37, 29 December 2023
- digital audio into an analog video signal for storage on video tape ... A device that turns an analog audio signal into PCM audio, which in ...19 KB (3,102 words) - 00:20, 8 January 2024
- which holds that no information-carrying signal can ever propagate faster than c, because the phase velocity is not the same as the group velocity ...21 KB (3,222 words) - 03:01, 8 December 2022
- for a discussion of clock rate). Clock signal frequencies ranging from ... on assumptions about a synchronization signal. This signal, known as a ...48 KB (7,311 words) - 23:56, 3 December 2023
- Marconi's mastery of long-distance signal transmission by radio ... his company, the Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company (later Marconi's ...27 KB (3,973 words) - 00:54, 7 March 2023
- subsequently translated into an electrical signal. To serve this function, ... a filter which is highpass for the audio signal, and lowpass for the bias ...49 KB (7,389 words) - 10:39, 10 March 2023
- modulated (FM) radio, so that an audio signal can avoid "static"–that ... the radio to only receive the strongest signal when multiple signals appear ...35 KB (5,160 words) - 22:45, 7 December 2022
- with the problem of getting a telegraphic signal to carry over more than a ... battery would not carry a telegraphic signal over long distances, and ...13 KB (1,964 words) - 12:03, 6 September 2022
- Acoustics, Physical Acoustics, and Signal Processing in acoustics *Animal Bioacoustics: study of how animals make, use and hear sounds; includes ...7 KB (998 words) - 07:44, 14 June 2023
- are vital organelles in sensation and signal transduction across a wide ... of the flagellum, in both motility and signal transduction. ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 17:34, 28 March 2024
- from merchant ensigns in order to signal that the yacht is not carrying ... There is a system of international maritime signal flags for numerals ...25 KB (3,938 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- Lucerna St. #1, in Mexico City. The video signal was transmitted at a frequency ... addition, recording and reproducing a HDTV signal was a significant technical ...44 KB (6,466 words) - 15:48, 25 January 2023
- quot; of the sensor, it sends an alarm signal to the Fire alarm control panel. ... inactive. Most smoke detectors should signal a low battery condition, ...15 KB (2,419 words) - 14:59, 27 April 2023
- of the cable, limits the speed at which a signal travels through the conductor ... equipment for each fiber. These comprise signal reforming, error measurement ...19 KB (2,734 words) - 21:23, 26 February 2023
- gland, serve in many respects as a counter-signal to insulin. When blood glucose ... above, insulin is the principal control signal for the conversion of glucose ...15 KB (2,341 words) - 18:24, 30 August 2021
- impedance and frequency, impeding the signal. It is common for a small compressed air system (similar to a small home aquarium pump) to be employed ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 22:03, 29 January 2023
- attempt at being rescued by starting a signal fire (lit by Piggy's ... with him the boys who were tending to the signal fire, so the ship sailed ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 12:13, 8 May 2023
- The British fleet was sailing, as they would fight, under signal 72 ... At 11:45, Nelson sent the famous flag signal, "England expects that ...36 KB (5,789 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- resistance-capacitance (RC) delays in signal transmission are growing ... The RC delays in signal transmission were also noted in a report titled ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 17:22, 16 April 2023
- *Radio clocks receive time signal broadcasts from a radio transmitter ... Computers depend on an accurate internal clock signal to allow synchronized ...26 KB (3,970 words) - 22:10, 7 January 2024
- scanning an image to produce a time series signal representation. That representation ... format, is 50 Hz. A typical NTSC broadcast signal's visible portion has ...27 KB (3,983 words) - 05:35, 27 February 2023
- spine of the Cape Peninsula, from Signal Hill in the north, through Lion's Head, Table Mountain, Constantiaberg, Silvermine Nature Reserve ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 00:36, 13 January 2023
- an undesirable component that obscures a signal. On the other hand, noises ... * Acoustic signal processing: The detection, classification, imaging ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 15:34, 4 February 2023
- remote control, the presence of a carrier signal can be used to trigger a ... spool on the boat. An aircraft was used to signal directions to the shore station ...20 KB (3,126 words) - 03:59, 8 December 2022
- articles. She founded the magazine The Union Signal, and was its editor from 1892 through 1898. Among her other honors Willard was the first woman ...7 KB (1,021 words) - 06:43, 1 April 2024
- * Smoke signal * Tobacco ==Notes== == References == * Bowman, C., et al. [http://erj.ersjournals.com/cgi/content/full/27/3/446 Shedding new light ...7 KB (1,034 words) - 21:19, 30 January 2023
- to infection, allowing the more resistant signal crayfish to invade parts of Europe. Crayfish plague is not indigenous to Europe, rather it was ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 00:19, 15 January 2023
- optical fibers can be used to provide signal amplification by splicing ... a cladding layer. To confine the optical signal in the core, the refractive ...31 KB (4,772 words) - 00:56, 18 November 2022
- gates opened at dawn and closed at dusk at the signal of the city bell. The north gate remained closed and was reserved for the king's escape ...7 KB (1,106 words) - 01:11, 11 November 2022
- his Son." However, this will only signal the revelation of the man of sin: ... and will silence anyone who refuses to signal their allegiance by receiving ...17 KB (2,693 words) - 06:20, 31 July 2023
- The WCTU publishes a quarterly journal entitled The Union Signal; the journal's main focus is as a digest of current research and information ...8 KB (1,107 words) - 23:22, 17 May 2023
- Stanilus F. Danko of the United States Army Signal Corps developed the Auto-Sembly process in which component leads were inserted into a copper foil interconnection ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 22:58, 30 November 2022
- be using. Trying to transmit a powerful signal over a wide range of wavelengths ... for, as scientists have no idea how a signal sent by aliens might be modulated ...28 KB (4,265 words) - 00:00, 25 March 2024
- perception occurs. From the thalamus, the signal travels to the somatosensory ... Since pain is defined as a signal of present or impending tissue damage ...18 KB (2,786 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- of Moran's men for Moran himself, and gave the signal to McGurn's men and they approached the warehouse. At the warehouse, two men dressed ...8 KB (1,287 words) - 00:55, 23 December 2022
- called an action potential (an electrical signal that is generated by utilizing ... indefinitely, in cases where the synaptic signal leads to the formation of ...36 KB (5,328 words) - 04:33, 11 March 2023
- registration peptides on each end; and a signal peptide is also attached to each ... ##Signal peptides are cleaved inside the RER and the chains are now ...18 KB (2,575 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- form myelin, and participate in signal transmission in the nervous system. In the human brain, glia are estimated to outnumber neurons by about ...10 KB (1,539 words) - 23:55, 3 December 2023
- stages (capacitors), controlled by a clock signal. "CCD" refers to the way the image signal is read out from the chip. Under the control ...19 KB (2,914 words) - 01:46, 4 December 2023
- classified into analog, digital and mixed signal (both analog and digital ... ICs, typically microprocessors, digital signal processors (DSPs), and microcontrollers ...29 KB (4,001 words) - 06:15, 6 March 2024
- ritual music performed at Confucian shrines to signal the end of a concert. It is always placed on the west side of any musical ensemble. There are ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- objects or actions ritually blessed by a priest to signal their association with the Sacraments and so to incite reverence during acts of worship). Thus ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 04:01, 18 August 2023
- which then sends an electrical signal to the posterior pituitary to release the hormone(s) into circulation. The hormones released by the posterior ...11 KB (1,456 words) - 06:20, 24 November 2022
- * Signal and image compression * Creation of digital photographic enlargements * Seismology * Fractal in soil mechanics * Computer and video game ...19 KB (2,648 words) - 06:39, 1 April 2024
- Marconi sent and received his first radio signal in Italy up to six kilometres ... * Signal Corps in the American Civil War == Notes == == References== ...24 KB (3,473 words) - 05:33, 27 February 2023
- of the electron beam with a received video signal (or another signal derived ... accurately proportional to the applied signal, by using electrostatic deflection ...37 KB (6,021 words) - 16:18, 3 December 2023
- torches hidden inside their jars. At Gideon's signal, every man blows his trumpet and breaks his jar. The surprised Midianites are thrown into a ...9 KB (1,479 words) - 22:57, 28 August 2021
- state depends on the presence of an ER targeting signal sequence on the protein being synthesized. ===Free ribosomes=== Free ribosomes are "free ...21 KB (3,152 words) - 09:20, 10 August 2022
- tumor suppressor and oncogene activities, signal recognition particle assembly ... If a virus contains a nucleolar targeting signal (NOS) in its genome ...21 KB (3,018 words) - 00:41, 17 November 2022
- region, and to relay a powerful Voice of America signal throughout the continent. In 1976, the United States Coast Guard erected an Omega navigational ...9 KB (1,372 words) - 20:43, 13 May 2023
- Arthur Korn had previously built the first successful signal-conditioning ... In 1927, Baird transmitted a long-distance television signal over ...26 KB (3,809 words) - 20:54, 1 May 2024
- aground. When Nelson feigned not to notice the signal 43 from Admiral Parker, to stop the battle and kept the signal 16 hoisted to continue the engagement ...24 KB (3,787 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
