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unusual facts about Spike-triggered average


Premovement neuronal activity

Spike-triggered averaging is a way to measure the activity of one cortical motor neuron, on a group of lower motor neurons in the spinal cord.


A Sense of Wonder

Moving Hearts – group, performer on "A Sense of Wonder" and "Boffyflow and Spike"

Alfred Hsing

Hsing has appeared on TV shows and films such as CSI: NY, Spike TV's Deadliest Warrior, and even in a Bollywood movie called Aakhari Decision.

Associative Sequence Learning

A conceptually similar model proposed by Christian Keysers and David Perrett, based on what we know about the neural properties of mirror neurons and Spike-timing-dependent plasticity is the Hebbian Learning Account of Mirror Neurons.

Battlecars

Each player has one or more "battlecars" that are equipped with machine guns, flamethrowers, spike droppers and the like, with much taken from the cinematic James Bond mythology of modified vehicles.

Betacoronavirus

The betas in subgroup 'a' differ from all others in the genus in that they have a shorter spike-like protein called hemagglutinin esterase (HE).

Cabot, Bristol

Spike Island is the narrow strip of land between the Floating Harbour to the north and the tidal New Cut of the River Avon to the south, from the dock entrance to the west to Bathurst Basin in the east.

Carex rainbowii

Sylvaticae; compared to C. sylvatica, it has denser female spikes, and is distinguished by its hyaline female glumes and the fact that the uppermost spike is often androgynecandrous.

CECS

Canine Epileptoid Cramping Syndrome, a disease affecting dogs and also known as Spike's Disease

Cleaver Heath Nature Reserve

Heswall Dales is regarded as the second best example (after Thurstaston Common) of lowland heath in Merseyside, hosting localised species including Western Gorse Ulex gallii, Many-stalked Spike Rush Eleocharis multicaulis and Green-ribbed Sedge Carex binervis.

Coltan

There has been a significant drop in the production and sale of coltan and niobium from African mines since the dramatic price spike in 2000, based on dot com speculation and multiple ordering.

Dacentrurus

Part of the British Museum of Natural History collection was specimen BMNH 46321, a pair of spike bases found in the Kimmeridge Clay by William Cunnington near the Great Western Railway cutting near Wootton Bassett.

Dave Colwell

There were a number of Colwell's associates playing on this album, including Steve Conte (New York Dolls), Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden), Robert Hart (The Jones Gang), Edwin McCain, Bekka Bramlett, Danny Bowes (Thunder), Spike (The Quireboys) and Jaz Lochrie.

Dave Polsky

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - Feeling Pinkie Keen, Over a Barrel, Too Many Pinkie Pies, Spike At Your Service (story), Keep Calm and Flutter On (teleplay), Games Ponies Play, Daring Don't, Rarity Takes Manehattan

Driving the Last Spike

"Driving the Last Spike" was featured on the live album The Way We Walk, Volume Two: The Longs, and the live DVD The Way We Walk - Live in Concert.

E. palustris

Eleocharis palustris, the common spike-rush, creeping spike-rush or marsh spike-rush, a plant species growing in wetlands throughout the Boreal Kingdom

Garry Hoy

Although the name, date, and location were changed to protect his privacy, this death was featured in the American television show 1000 Ways to Die on Spike TV.

Golden Spike National Historic Site

Golden Spike National Historic Site is a U.S. National Historic Site located at Promontory Summit, north of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

Gordon Stevenson

Following a move to New York, he married Mirielle Cervenka, also known as "Spike" (older sister of Exene Cervenka of the band X), and became the bass player for Lydia Lunch's band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks between November 1977 to June 1978, one of several No Wave bands featured on the album No New York.

Italian for Beginners

The film won the Jury Grand Prix Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, the Golden Spike Award for the best film of the year at the Seminci film festival in Valladolid, Spain, and the Audience Award at the Warsaw International Film Festival in Poland.

Jon Taffer

Jon Taffer (born November 7, 1954) is a bar consultant, television personality, and author, best known as host of the reality series Bar Rescue on Spike.

Katy Cavanagh

She had recurring roles as Mel in the award-winning series The Cops, as Detective Sergeant Dawn "Spike" Milligan in Dalziel and Pascoe and as Shirley Lawson in 1 episode Shameless before taking on the role of Julie Carp in Coronation Street, first appearing on screen on 25 April 2008.

Last Spike

Golden spike, the final spike of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States, driven in 1869

Luken Communications

On April 16, 2012, Luken Communications and Jim Owens Entertainment announced that the companies had teamed to relaunch The Nashville Network as a digital broadcast television network set for a late summer 2012 launch (TNN previously existed as a cable channel started by Gaylord Entertainment Company in 1983, and is now known as Spike under Viacom ownership).

Mark 14 torpedo

Only in May 1943, after the most famous skipper in the Sub Force, Dudley W. "Mush" Morton, turned in a dry patrol, did Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, Commander Submarine Force Pacific (COMSUBPAC), accept the Mark VI should be deactivated, but waited to see if Bureau of Ordnance commander Admiral William "Spike" Blandy might yet find a fix for the problem.

Michael Barrymore

In January 2008, Barrymore took the role of comedian and writer Spike Milligan in the stage play Surviving Spike.

Mobile Golf

Players can play as a variety of characters including Mario, Princess Peach, Yoshi, and Foreman Spike.

Nathan Guy

Guy's great-grandfather was chairman of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company when the last spike was driven on the company's line at Otaihanga, an event re-created on 19 February 2011 when Guy drove the last spike at the new Waikanae Railway Station opening ceremony.

Negativ

In 2006 Negativ made his film debut, he plays the main character Spike in the movie Bolletjes Blues.

P. G. Downes

Prentice G. "Spike" Downes (1909-1959) was an American school teacher and author, who travelled by canoe to explore the Great Barren Lands and learn the ways of the Cree and Dene people.

Roselle, New Jersey

Jesse Holley (born 1984), signed by the Cincinnati Bengals as an undrafted free agent in 2007, he was winner of the Spike TV reality show 4th and Long.

Sarita Choudhury

She played a lesbian virgin in Spike Lee's She Hate Me and acted as Anna Ran in Lady in the Water, a 2006 thriller/fantasy film written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

In a YouTube video on the SMBC website, Zach Weinersmith addressed accusations that the comedian Sarah Silverman stole a joke from one of his strips at a Spike video game awards ceremony, in addition to pleading with Sarah Silverman to go on a date with him.

Spike Edney

Spike Edney is also the musical director of the official Queen tribute band the Queen Extravaganza, which is currently touring the United Kingdom having previously toured North America.

Spike McRoy

He got his nickname Spike from his great uncle, a Ty Cobb fan, who sent McRoy a miniature Detroit Tigers uniform when he was born.

Spike Spiegel

Mecha designer Kimitoshi Yamane liked the English biplane torpedo-bomber Fairey Swordfish; Yamane’s preferences lead to the naming of Spike Spiegel’s ship: the Swordfish II.

TAI/AgustaWestland T129

AGM-114 Hellfire, BGM-71 TOW, Hydra 70, Spike-ER, UMTAS, OMTAS, anti-tank and anti-armor missiles and Sura D/Snora.

The Ancient Art of War in the Skies

In this air combat simulation, the player makes aerial assaults against opponents such as Lord Kitchener, Ferdinand Foch, Kaiser Wilhelm II, fictional enemy Helmut von Spike, or even Sun Tzu.

The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco

Meanwhile, Spike researches the Shanshu Prophecy about a vampire becoming human and thinks that he, not Angel, may be the vampire who will become human.

The Staple Singers

The song "Respect Yourself" was used by Spike Lee in the soundtrack to his movie Crooklyn, made in 1994.

Thomas Underwood

Two years later, he joined a Canadian Pacific Railway construction gang and was working in Craigellachie, British Columbia at the time of the last spike was driven to complete the transcontinental railroad.

Throttle Body Motorcycle Club

The club, led by Jerry Hammack (songwriter, producer, engineer, bass, keys, drums, guitars, vocals) includes a revolving door of members ranging from the top of the rock world - Lenny Kravitz alumni Zoro on drums, Vanessa Paradis and Yanni alumni Osama Afifi on bass, The Handsome Family, Freakwater and Stan Ridgway alumni Steven Dorocke on guitar as well as Swallow and Spike alumni, Rod Moody on guitar and Radio National's Aaron Taylor, also on guitar.

Tom and Jerry in War of the Whiskers

Characters include Tom, Jerry, Butch, Spike, Tyke, Robot Cat, Eagle, Lion, Nibbles, Monster Jerry, and Duckling, who use more than 75 weapons to beat each other with.

Tom Borland

Thomas Bruce "Spike" Borland (February 14, 1933 – March 2, 2013) was an American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1960 through 1961 for the Boston Red Sox.

UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs. Guillard

This event served as a lead-in to the premiere of The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights on Spike.

Volleyball spiking

Well known beach professionals such as Karch Kiraly used the volleyball spike to score devastating points on their opponents as well as wow the crowd with the Spike's air of theatricality.

Voltage spike

While generally referred to as a voltage spike, the phenomenon in question is actually an energy spike, in that it is measured not in volts but in joules; a transient response defined by a mathematical product of voltage, current, and time.

Wadhurst

Irfan Orga (1908–70), exiled Turkish writer, lived at Spike Island, Wadhurst, 1961–70

You Want This

Thomas, Donald Boyce, George Brown, Richard Westfield, Robert "Kool" Bell, Robert "Spike" Mickens, Ronald Bell, Richard Dean Taylor, Frank Wilson, Pam Sawyer, Henry Cosby, Deke Richards


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