stimulation
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The industry uses the terms “enhanced recovery” and “well stimulation techniques” to describe these controversial methods to extend the life of an oil well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
She argued that once a threshold of basic safety, nutrition, love, and stimulation was met, the particular details of the style had a very small effect on a child’s personality or intelligence.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
When muscle tissue is injured or exposed to mechanical stimulation, HGF is released.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
Clinical psychologist Cathy Grant said electrical stimulation briefly stopped Tilly from naming objects, helping surgeons identify tissue that needed to be protected.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Yet, much as they professed to enjoy the stimulation and convenience of an urban neighborhood, they took relatively little advantage of it.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
Electrical stimulations are important first steps towards the team's bigger goal of triggering learning in the biocomputer's neurons so they can eventually adapt to perform tasks.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025
It turned out that both were equally as sensitive to the strong stimulations.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2023
Scientists demonstrated that the jellies could acquire the ability to avoid obstacles through associative learning, a process through which organisms form mental connections between sensory stimulations and behaviors.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2023
Knowing where to direct brain stimulations also does not resolve the question of what frequency to use, scientists said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2022
It is well known that for this purpose it is advisable to begin the influence with some slight fatiguing stimulations.
From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg
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