How to Use conductance in a Sentence
conductance
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At the same time, clearing the lithium out of a device changes the conductance of all its neighbors.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2018
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The amount of electricity coming off our skin (called skin conductance) might change.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN, 19 Oct. 2021
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It was then stabbed with virtual weapons while skin conductance was measured.
—Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2012
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When the sensor picked up, for example, greater skin conductance—that is, the degree to which the skin can transmit an electric current—that was a sign that the body was more aroused and ready for fight or flight.
—Stephen MacKnik, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2022
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The sheath is the source of the conductance, Meysman and colleagues reported last year in Nature Communications.
—Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 19 Aug. 2020
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The glasses also took data on heart rates and skin conductance, which is how well the skin conducts electricity.
—Benjamin Plackett, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022
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Mobbs measured the skin conductance of his players by rigging them up to a device similar to a lie detector.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2014
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There are programs to measure and train skin conductance, breath rate, temperature, etc., and many require only your smartwatch or phone.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 21 Oct. 2021
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As the magnetic field changes, the material’s conductance jumps from value to value.
—Quanta Magazine, 4 Oct. 2016
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Dormio use sensors on an electronic glove to measure muscle tone, heart rate, and skin conductance to detect the shift from hypnagogia and actual sleep.
—Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2018
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Sufficiently high levels of lithium result in the transfer of an electron to molybdenum (which in turn alters the structure of the material) and a boost of its conductance.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2018
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Each of the objects responds to a different signal of biometric data: A bowl of sugar rises and falls, mimicking your breath rate; a tea bag bobs up and down to the beat of your heart; a phonograph slows and speeds up based on skin conductance.
—Liz Stinson, WIRED, 7 Apr. 2015
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However, when Ramachandran showed David photos of family members and strangers, his skin conductance remained at the same level for both.
—Meeri Kim, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2018
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The Hall conductance was experimentally measured (and averaged) over many cycles of the pump.
—Spyridon Michalakis, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
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It’s believed that changes in our skin conductance is a reflection of the level to which our autonomous nervous system is activated.
—Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
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One chart in the paper showed dots tracing a plateau at exactly the electrical conductance value that theory predicted.
—Tom Simonite, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
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Polygraphs are meant to do better by measuring a variety of biological signs (such as skin conductance and pulse) that supposedly track with lying.
—Theodor Schaarschmidt, Scientific American, 11 July 2018
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If every electron that attempted to hop into the superconductor succeeds, the conductance would double.
—Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 9 July 2019
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Responses were measured via skin conductance and activation of their facial muscles.
—Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
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The authors had predicted that successful matches would synchronize on multiple levels of expression: motor movements, gaze, and heart rate and skin conductance measures.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2022
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Given the importance of conductance precision, writing conductance values to NVM devices to represent weights in an analog neural network needs to be done slowly and carefully.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Nov. 2021
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As the participants watched, the researchers monitored their heart rates and their skin conductance levels (essentially, tiny fluctuations in their sweat levels, which could indicate a person’s fight-or-flight response levels).
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019
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One provided some validation for the condition by tracking heightened levels of skin conductance (a common measure of bodily arousal) when participants heard sounds that triggered them.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2019
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Their acrophobia was reduced, according to both questionnaires and skin-conductance measurements.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2011
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Skin conductance is often used as an empirical measure of arousal, detecting changes in electrical conductivity as the body produces sweat in response to exciting stimuli.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2016
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Semiconductors, used in computer circuitry and much more, use properties of both conductance and resistance to create logical gates that direct electrons.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Oct. 2020
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Smiles, laughter, eye gaze, or mimicry of signals weren't significantly associated with attraction, but rises and falls in the synchrony of couples' heart rate and skin conductance did correlate with rising and falling levels of attraction.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2022
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In terms of measuring conductance, the copper oxide was particularly sensitive to detecting 2,4-DNT.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Oct. 2019
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To the researchers' shock, perfectly doubled conductance happened in their samarium hexaboride experiment.
—Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 9 July 2019
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Chemical problems—such as an increase in calcium conductance, which might impair neuronal communication—also become more common in older brains, as do problems with gene expression and protein production.
—Robert Epstein, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2012
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