Functional in sentence

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It took many years, but eventually we developed an electrochemical neuroprosthesis that transformed the neural network in the spinal cord from dormant to a highly functional state.

The electrochemical neuroprosthesis enabled a highly functional state of the spinal locomotor networks.

It used to be seven, but with functional MRIs, apparently it's four, and we were overachieving.

Now, if neurons are the functional information processing units of the brain, then the owners of these two brains should have similar cognitive abilities.

We're simply trying to recreate in this tiny chip the smallest functional unit that represents the biochemistry, the function and the mechanical strain that the cells experience in our bodies.

But it wasn't that simple, because by the time I got out of that unit, I was not functional at all.

So this is interesting to us, because the conscious and subconscious decision process implies that the stuff that you do take with you and end up using has some kind of spiritual, emotional or functional value.

And those differences can be biological, physical, functional, political, cultural, socioeconomic.

And we saw people who had a functional microscope but just didn't know how to even turn it on.

A Foldscope is a completely functional microscope, a platform for fluorescence, bright-field, polarization, projection, all kinds of advanced microscopy built purely by folding paper.

What you see here is all the possible components to build a functional bright-field and fluorescence microscope.

Five miracles, mostly delivered, and now you just need a clear vision of a better world filled with autonomous vehicles with seductively beautiful and new functional designs plus a lot of money and hard work to bring it home.

My hope and desire is that the tools and processes we develop in our research group can be used to bring highly functional prostheses to those who need them.

They're fully functional, field-tested, ready to roll out.

Another vocal development during puberty occurs when the homogenous tissue covering the folds specializes into three distinct functional layers: a central muscle, a layer of stiff collagen wrapped in stretchy elastin fibers, and an outer layer of mucus membrane.

It's only possible because of the development of high-speed 3D printing that for the first time will make functional, usable modules that will go into it.

But scrap dealers don't destroy components that are still functional.

My research team and I have tried to understand where this fear of math comes from, and we've actually peered inside the brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging, of people who are worried about math.

So, designers sometimes don't do things that are immediately functional, but they're functional to our understanding of issues.

The really cool advance with functional imaging happened when scientists figured out how to make pictures that show not just anatomy but activity, that is, where neurons are firing.

So functional MRI picks up on that blood flow increase, producing a higher MRI response where neural activity goes up.

So to give you a concrete feel for how a functional MRI experiment goes and what you can learn from it and what you can't, let me describe one of the first studies I ever did.

This is called functional shift.

It shows without ambiguity that there is structural change and functional change in the brain when you train the altruistic love.

And finally, to make these things really functional, we want a lot of them working together in order to do bigger things.

It has three functional components.

Now, just like when you were a kid and you'd break your pencil and try and tape it back together again, we can heal, but it might not be in the most functional way, and we'll get a scar.

Up until the very last few minutes of the surgery, which was very intense, a matrix of electrodes was implanted in my brain from this side, to be able to build a functional map of what the brain controls.

And right before the operation, we were able to discuss the functional map of my brain with the doctor, to understand which risks I was running into and if there were any I wanted to avoid.

At their core is indeed structural thinking, like a system: How can we arrange things in both a functional and experiential way?

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