Informal Settlements, Environmental Degradation, and Disaster Vulnerability
... Potential Homeless : 1.1 mil- lion ; • Total Urban Potential Casualties : 40,000 . Izmir and Neighboring Provinces The city of Izmir and its hinterland has 90,000 Potential Casualties , the highest of any city in Turkey , and over half ...
Auditory Evoked Potentials
... potentials or spikes ) that propagate along their axons ( nerve fibers ) as shown in Figure 1.6 . The sound - induced electrical activity in a single neu- ron represents changes both in the value of the mem- brane potential , that is ...
Wörterbuch der Elektronik, Datentechnik, Telekommunikation und Medien
... Potential nf Potential nn → Potenzial nn Potentialanalogie nf Potentialausgleich nm Potentialausgleichserde nf Potentialbarriere nf → Potentialberg nm Potentialberg nm = Potentialbarriere nf , Potentialwall nm ; Potentialgebirge nn ...
Physiology, E-Book
... potential, where it maintains the ionic gradient for Na+ across the cell membrane.) ACTION. POTENTIALS. The action potential is a ... Potentials Terminology Characteristics of Action Potentials Ionic Basis of the Action Potential.
A Handbook of Physics Measurements
... Potential Differences . Electromotive forces and potential differences can be determined by comparison with a standard cell . Consider a circuit containing a constant battery , an adjustable rheostat Rh , and a uniform homogeneous wire ...
The Journal of Biological Chemistry
... potentials ; even weak polarization brings about a change of some tenths or a whole of 1 millivolt . The displaced potential , however , rapidly returns to its normal value . This holds not only for the final value which is reached ...
Transactions of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers
... potential extremely high , ordinary methods cannot be used , and much must depend on the analysis of visual phenomena . Fig . 1 shows a simple insulator , having a wet upper surface and a dry lower surface , with an applied potential P ...
The Nineteenth Century and After
... potential . And this coincided with pre- conceived views . The right side , more materially operative and initiative , it was to be inferred , would represent the Positive elec- trical potential ; while the left side , reposeful ...
Training Manual
... Potential means electrical level as used with reference to water or other liquids . Potential may be thought of as analogous to pres- sure of gases , head or level of liquids , temperature of heat . Elec- tricity always tends to flow ...
Wireless World and Radio Review
... potential at this point due to + Mat B is similarly 2M The resultant potential at P due to both A and B co - acting is therefore 1 V = dr + dr r T 0 0 = 12 2M log This is the potential at all points on the cylinder O. In a similar ...
X-rays and radium in the treatment of diseases of the skin
... Potential Difference , Electromotive Force , Voltage . The term differ- ence of potential has been explained above . Electromotive force , or E.M.F. , is a term given to the cause , no matter what its nature is , which is capable of ...
Psychological Monographs
... potential energy and dispositions suppose a perma- nent state , and a potential element or tendency to some effect . Both tend to actualization , exercise , kinetism , when the neces- sary conditions are fulfilled . Lift a pendulum ...
The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science
... potential and the potential required to maintain a current in a gas * . These experiments show that above the critical pressure , the potential required to maintain a current is less than the sparking potential , the difference ...
The Street Railway Journal
... potential between street surface and pipe the cadmium test point is driven in , and the potential is measured at several points as it approaches the pipe , from which data potential curves can be laid out . Another condition common to ...
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA
... potential function at P and differentiate this function partially in the required direction . Potential Function as Measure of Work.- By definition , the work done in moving a unit of mass along a path S against a force Fis equal to the ...
Electrical World
... potential circuit . This meter has its potential circuit so adjusted as to bring its current in phase with the poten- tial across it instead of 90 deg . out of phase , as in the case of the ordinary watt- hour meter . Standard watt ...
Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen
... potential . § 3. Now I think that I have convincingly proved the incorrect- ness of the second thesis in the preceding paper , and as I gladly and with full conviction range myself with the " tastbaarheids- menschen , " ( those who want ...
Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity
... potential measured . A metal sheet , measuring about 50 centimeters on a side , was then suspended beneath the collector at a distance of 13 centimeters and connected to the wire of the collector , making certain that the position of ...
English Mechanics and the World of Science
... potential , and Y is raised to a state of high potential . And the portion P of the main conductor having received electricity is at high potential relatively to QR , which has given up electricity . Hence a gradient of potential is ...
1st World Conference on Biomass for Energy and Industry
... Potential growth rate In accordance with Monteith [ 8 ] , potential growth rate ( Gp ) is assumed to be linear with the amount of photo- synthetically active radiation that is intercepted by the crop . The extent in which the crop can ...