In January 2000, American monitoring of a mobile-telephone number in Yemen, which acted as a switchboard for al-Qaeda, discovered that the terrorist group was about to hold a meeting in Kuala Lumpur.
Another team will use brain imaging to test a theory that abnormalities in the thalamus, a part of the central brain that acts as a switchboard for nerve signals, are an indication of head trauma, said Dr. Robert I. Grossman, dean and chief executive of the Langone Medical Center and a senior adviser on the study.
The previous target was Dyn, a company that controls a large number of domain name service infrastructure that acts as a switchboard for internet traffic, through which the attack brought down major internet services across Europe and the US including Twitter, Netflix and Spotify.
The lookup service also acts as a switchboard to connect a client looking for a service with that service.
Allison's strategy is for TIAA-CREF to act as a kind of switchboard connecting them with the highest-quality, lowest-cost options for investments, insurance, long-term care and stock brokerage.
MITF is therefore proposed to act as a self-regulating switchboard for diverse pathways originating in the cell membrane or the intracellular environment and regulating the activity of the melanogenic apparatus [ 5].
The InfraLynx acts as a radio switchboard, patching one frequency into another, bridging the signals so that anyone can talk to anyone else.
The RyR2 complex therefore acts as a molecular switchboard, transducing cellular signals to the Ca2+ release pore and thus adapting Ca2+ release kinetics to cellular demands.
The thalamus may be thought as a type of relay and is believed to act as the switchboard of information between a variety of subcortical areas and the cerebral cortex [ 12].
