Sentence examples for spike of a from inspiring English sources

The miniature spike of a kitten heel ended in a flat disc, so that it looked like a shoe balanced on an upside-down drawing pin.

The 2004 film, which sees Kim Jong-il played by a puppet and killed after he is impaled on the spike of a bavarian helmet, grossed over $50m at the box office.

The spike of a magnetic brush on a magnetic roll and the shape change of the magnetic brush due to changes in the magnetic field are well expressed by the simulation.

These spike timing relations that we observed in the retina may thus provide a powerful neural code for rapid image processing: they transmit information about visual objects independent of contrast; they are robust to retinal noise; and most importantly, they provide information in the shortest time possible, namely with the first spike of a neural population.

But today, in its place, the West Pier Trust is building a vertical pier, a 162m spike of a tower with a glass-enclosed sky bar – evidence that changing tastes are as much a factor in the loss of our heritage as greed or stupidity.

Mr. Watanabe's clothes treaded between sport and dance, with sheer black organza jackets fastening tightly over stretch jersey tank tops and bicycle shorts, and shoes that were an ingenious blend of sneaker and ballet slipper (sometimes with the spike of a kitten heel).

Truccolo et al. find that the spiking of a single neuron could be better predicted by the spiking history of ensemble [ 24, 25].

Li, C.Y., Poo M-m., Dan Y.. Burst spiking of a single cortical neuron modifies global brain state.

Between the rows, spikes of a thick weed called hog cress poked up.

The process of assigning spikes of a multichannel signal into clusters, called spike sorting, is one of the important problems in such analysis.

The tower was designed by a local architect, and in its original incarnation it had an ungainly roof that suggested the spikes of a crown.