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Extracellular recording electrodes were used to measure the compound action potentials (CAPs) in a cockroach leg nerve. CAPs are the summations of all present action potentials (APs) in the individual axons of the nerve. When an AP is conducted along an axon, sodium channels open and positively charged sodium ions enter the axon. Therefore the inside and the outside voltage changes. The voltage changes in the extracellular fluid were measured. A depolarisation of the axonal membrane causes a local

MGC 2016 Name: Kellyanne Scott-Smith Student Number: a1703467 Word Count: Title A study measuring oxygen production of Spinacea oleracea using an oxygen electrode in response to varying light intensity and the effect of Diuron on rate of photosynthesis Introduction Photosynthesis is a fundamental process that utilises light to produce energy. The energy is initially captured in the form of ATP and NADH in the Light Reaction. The Calvin Cycle then uses stored energy from ATP and NADH to produce energy

Since 1895, located in Cleveland, Ohio, the Lincoln Electric Company “ the world’s largest manufacture of welding machines and electrodes” was able to create the ideal organization throughout several aspects of the company’s culture. Its founders, first John C Lincoln and James Lincoln, who later joined the company as the General Manager, had one duty to get done; to ask his employees to elect a committee that would give him advice in regards to the company’s operations. Since then, an organization

There are different advantages and disadvantages of peripheral nerve electrodes: Advantages: Nerve electrical activity can be recorded with the help of same electrodes, Electrical characteristics don 't seem to be suffering from changes in muscle length throughout the movement, Reduction of dangerous electrochemical processes. Disadvantages: Chance of damage to nervesdue to implantation of electrode, Implantation also requires sensitive surgical process, which depends upon the availability

metal through the action of an electrical discharge of short duration and high current density between the tool and the workpiece [18-19]. (EDM) is a non-traditional type of precision processing using an electrical spark-erosion process between the electrode and the working piece of electrically conductive immersed in a dielectric fluid [20]. Since it has more special gains, the (EDM) has been widely applied in modern metal industry for producing complex cavities in moulds and dies, which are difficult

positive and negative recording electrodes were used, with the negative recording electrode at position ‘D’ and the positive recording electrode at position ‘E’ (refer to Figure 1). The extracellular bipolar recording takes the difference between what the negative electrode picked up and what the positive electrode picked up. The first, positive deflection of the CAP was caused by the extracellular negative charge of the action potential recorded by the negative electrode subtracted from the positive

Participants were 15 athletic males (age: 19.7 ± 1.2 years, height: 1.78 ± 0.1 m, weight: 72.5 ± 11.3 kg). The textile electrodes were embedded into compression tights (Fig. 1A) to measure muscle activities of Rectus Femoris (RF). The conductive electrodes were woven by silver fibres and each of the electrodes was of 3 cm * 1 cm in size (Fig. 1B). The wires to connect electrodes and hardware were well-fixed in between two layers of the apparel fabric to avoid interference and artefact. sEMG data

calculate the theoretical potential of those electrochemical cells using the Nernst equation. Of the electrochemical cells used, there were two different types, voltaic and concentration. Voltaic cells are composed of two half-cells with differing electrodes and solutions that result in a spontaneous flow of electrons from one half-cell to the other half-cell until equilibrium is met. In Voltaic cells, this flow of electrons is driven by redox reactions and the reduction potential of the half-cells

out by supplying a constant potential to the working electrode and resulting current measured as a function of time. At the surface of the working electrode, the redox reaction of the analytes takes place by the application of potential, whereas output current is proportional to the analytes concentration. Furthermore, the response of current is directly proportional to the number of analyte moles that oxidize or reduce at the working electrode surface as given by Faraday’s law: I_t=dQ/dt=nF dN/dt

specific dyes mixture. Hypothesis: If all dyes are present in this mixture, then the dyes in the mixture should travel the same direction as the dyes in it towards the positive electrode because the negatively charged dyes travel towards the positive electrode while the positively charged dyes travel towards the negative electrode. Materials and Methods: Material: Agarose gel (2%) on gel tray, TBE running buffer 1X, 350 mL, 5 micropipettes, metric ruler, electrophoresis chamber, power supply. The dyes: