They send these signals by means of an axon, which is a thin protoplasmic fiber that extends from the cell body and projects, usually with numerous branches, to other areas, sometimes nearby, sometimes in distant parts of the brain or body.

This is in contrast to dipole parts of the EM field close to the source ( the near-field ), which varies in power according to an inverse cube power law, and thus does not transport a conserved amount of energy over distances, but instead dies away rapidly with distance, with its energy ( as noted ) either rapidly returning to the transmitter, or else absorbed by a nearby receiver ( such as a transformer secondary coil ).

History began early in the Levant, as compared to numerous other parts of the world ; some of the earliest civilizations were located nearby.

If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body.

This can be a major problem, as other parts of the spacecraft in shadow develop a negative charge from nearby plasma, and the imbalance can discharge through delicate electrical components.

Charlemagne is thought to have spent considerable time in Paderborn and nearby parts.

Sound waves may also reflect off parts of the stadium or nearby buildings.

These effects are often undesirable, in the first case amounting to unwanted transmission of energy which may adversely affect nearby equipment or other parts of the same piece of equipment ; and in the second case, unwanted pickup of noise which may mask the desired signal being carried by the cable, or, if the cable is carrying power supply or control voltages, pollute them to such an extent as to cause equipment malfunction.

** In England, the city of Winchelsea on Romney Marsh is destroyed ; nearby Broomhill is also destroyed ; course of the nearby river Rother diverted to Rye ; cliff collapses at Hastings, blocking the harbour ; parts of Norfolk are flooded ; decline of the port of Dunwich in Suffolk is accelerated.

Tate and her friends became interested in the filming of Adventures of a Young Man, which was being made nearby with Paul Newman, Susan Strasberg and Richard Beymer, and obtained parts as film extras.

In a computer graphic system, this can be very efficient, since it is not necessary to calculate the colors ( using lighting, texturing and such ) for parts of the more distant scene that are hidden by nearby objects.

The term Patayan is used by archaeologists to describe the prehistoric Native American cultures that inhabited parts of modern day Arizona, California and Baja California, including areas near the Colorado River Valley, the nearby uplands, and north to the vicinity of the Grand Canyon.

On May 3, 1999 parts of southern Oklahoma City and nearby communities suffered one of the most powerful tornadoes on record.

Wilkes-Barre was spared from any major flooding by the levees built on the river banks of the city, however nearby boroughs that were unprotected by levees such as West Pittston, Plymouth and parts of Plains Township were affected by extreme flooding and the subsequent water damage.

Although the industrial base has been in decline in recent years, Brașov is still a site for manufacturing agricultural tractors and machinery, hydraulic transmissions, auto parts, ball-bearings, helicopters ( at the nearby IAR site in Ghimbav ), building materials, tools, furniture, textiles, shoes and cosmetics.

The Anglo-Bavarian Brewery was built in the 1860s and still dominates the western parts of Shepton Mallet ; fairly nearby is a former workhouse and then hospital, the Norah Fry Hospital, which was built in 1848 and has now been converted into housing.

The southern part of the Canadian Cascades, particularly the Skagit Range, is geologically and topographically similar to the North Cascades, while the northern and northeastern parts are less glaciated and more plateau-like in character, resembling nearby areas of the Thompson Plateau.

The 6th arrondissement is the 2nd most expensive district of Paris, the most expensive parts of the arrondissement being Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarter, the River side districts and the areas nearby the Luxembourg Gardens.

There are at least two species — the Red Acouchi ( Myoprocta acouchy ) in the Guianan Subregion of Amazonia and nearby parts of Brazil, and the Green Acouchi ( Myoprocta pratti ) in western Amazonia.

However, there have been many significant challenges facing Istro-Romanians in preserving their language, culture and ethnic identity, including emigration from communism and migration to nearby cities and towns after World War II, when the Paris Peace Treaty with Italy that was signed on February 10, 1947 took Istria away from Italy ( which had previously gained Istria after World War I ) and awarded it to Yugoslavia, the parent country of present-day Croatia and Slovenia, who split Istria in two parts amongst themselves, while Italy retained the small portion near Trieste.

Though housing in the neighborhood is slightly cheaper than in fashionable nearby parts of Manhattan, prices for apartments here rose a great deal during the boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s — as much as 500 percent in a decade.

It consists of two parts, the mainland area on the Jussieu Peninsula and a number of nearby islands.

In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body.

The other two campuses, which serve parts of Huntley are located in nearby Algonquin and Lake in the Hills.

During the nearby battle at Limestone, Tennessee, his troops captured approximately 300 soldiers from the 100th Ohio Infantry ( US ), along with their Enfield rifles and ammunition.

The Enfield Falls Canal circumvents the Enfield Falls and its nearby shallows.

The archer is intended to commemorate Finchley's ancient association with hunting in the nearby Royal Forest of Enfield.

Other nearby stations include Waltham Cross, Theobalds Grove, Enfield Lock, Cuffley.

Four residence halls at nearby the Eagle Hill School are also named for the four towns-Greenwich, Prescott, Dana and Enfield.

During the mid-19th century, a system of locks on the Shubenacadie River in Enfield assisted small vessels in navigating from the Bay of Fundy to nearby Shubenacadie Grand Lake as part of the Shubenacadie Canal.

Frankum ran into the rooftop car park and held a car owner at gunpoint, demanding that she take him to Enfield, a nearby suburb.

Thirdly the river provided power for numerous water mills-well known examples being the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield and nearby Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills, Wright's Flour Mill ( London's last surviving working mill ) at Ponders End and the Three Mills at Stratford.

Enfield Lock was the main station for the Royal Small Arms Factory until its closure in the late 1980s, and now serves the large housing development on the site known as Enfield Island Village, as well as the nearby Innova Science and Business park.

A railway line connected Edenderry to nearby Enfield until 1963.

Soon the little shop became much too small and they moved to a much larger factory building nearby ( formerly a window glass factory ), and started mass producing the Aster for a period of a few years, in which time its staff grew twentyfold.

It is claimed that the saloon, named after the nearby Black Stump Run and Black Stump Creek, was an important staging post for traffic to north-west New South Wales and it became a marker by which people gauged their journeys.

In 1808, the Babbage family moved into the old Rowdens house in East Teignmouth, and Benjamin Babbage became a warden of the nearby St. Michael's Church.

Sullivan soon became a powerful starmaker in the entertainment world himself, becoming one of Winchell's main rivals, setting the El Morocco nightclub in New York as his unofficial headquarters against Winchell's seat of power at the nearby Stork Club.

A third grade project growing out of the day to day life of the nearby Hudson river became one of the most celebrated units of the school, a unit on boats, which under the guidance of its legendary teacher Miss Curtis, became an entrée into history, geography, reading, writing, arithmetic, science, art and literature.

Shortly after the depletion of the gas in 1900 the automobile industry set up factories in the nearby large cities, and Fairmount became a bedroom community, restoring some of its lost prosperity.

When Peripatetic philosopher Eudemus became ill with Quartan fever, Galen felt obliged to treat him " since he was my teacher and I happened to live nearby.

At the same time, Catalan and Galician became the standard languages in their respective territories, developing important literary traditions and being the normal languages in which public and private documents were issued: Galician from the 13th to the 16th century in Galicia and nearby regions of Asturias and Leon, and Catalan from the 12th to the 18th century in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencia, where it was known as Valencian.

In the Georgian era, patronage of such seaside places ( such as nearby Brighton ) gave it a new lease of life so that, when the time came with the reform of English local government in 1888, Hastings became a County Borough, responsible for all its local services, independent of the surrounding county, then Sussex ( East ); less than one hundred years later, in 1974, that status was abolished.

He became interested in an Arapaho woman whose name, Waa-Nibe, is approximated in English as " Grass Singing " Her tribe was camped nearby the rendezvous.

When in 1276 they became the souvereign of the town also, they moved their residence there, while the administration of the diocese was done from nearby Köslin ( Koszalin ).

A photograph of firefighter Chris Fields emerging from the rubble with infant Baylee Almon, who later died in a nearby hospital, was reprinted worldwide and became a symbol of the attack.

Though Pachomius sometimes acted as lector for nearby shepherds, neither he nor any of his monks became priests.

It seems also that nearby area became infested with malaria.

Kruger won another presidential election in 1898, but the following year British forces were gathering on the borders of the Boer Republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State and fearing Britain's imminent annexation, the Boers launched a preemptive strike against the nearby British colonies in 1899, a strike which became the Second Boer War.

Sambia became part of the Soviet Kaliningrad Oblast, named after the nearby city of Kaliningrad ( historically or ), and the new authorities expelled its German inhabitants.

As the magazine's popularity grew, the bedroom became too small and production moved to a nearby Jesmond office.

The young Lipscomb participated in other projects, such as Morse-coded messages over wires and crystal radio sets, with five nearby friends who became physicists, physicians, and an engineer.

The city became a provincial capital in 693, after the Arab invaders conquered Istakhr, the nearby Sassanian capital.

After World War II, the state of Hesse was established ( see Greater Hesse ), and Wiesbaden became its capital, though nearby Frankfurt am Main is much larger and contains many Hessian government offices.

In May 2012, Lehigh became the recipient of a gift of 755 acres of property in nearby Upper Saucon Township from the Donald B. and Dorothy L. Stabler Foundation.

Panticapaeum subdued nearby cities and by 480 BC became a capital of the Kingdom of Bosporus.

In March 1942, MacArthur, his family and his staff left nearby Corregidor Island in PT boats and escaped to Australia, where MacArthur became Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area.