The timekeeping element is a pendulum that swings freely, except that once every half minute it receives an impulse from a gently falling lever.
In a four-stroke-cycle engine with eight cylinders, the crankshaft receives an impulse at some point along its length every quarter revolution.
Or, equivalently, if a neuron receiving an impulse has a jump in potential v − h ⟶ v, (15).
By continuity, we extend the formula at θ = 0 by 0 ⟶ 0, which means that a neuron which receives an impulse at the time of spike emission will not have a phase shift.
In the brain, the first second the brain receives an impulse that a catastrophe has occurred, the message transmits to other areas of the cortex.
Client-states were absorbed, southern Britain was conquered, the Romanization of the West received a powerful impulse, public works were executed in Rome and Italy, and the organization of the imperial bureaucracy made rapid strides.
Last year they received a fresh impulse from the harrowing Roman Polanski movie, "The Pianist," and no guide will fail to take you to the grim Umschlagplatz (meaning, literally, Place of Reshipment, or Trading Center) where the pianist escaped as his family was shipped off to Treblinka.
In recent years, research activities about fire events in tunnel have received a significant impulse, especially after several accidents.
Clinical islet transplantation has recently received a strong impulse from the results obtained with the introduction of the Edomonton group.
