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An episode of performance anxiety preceding a public event, which may affect speakers, stage actors—hence the alternate, term ‘stage fright’—and soloist musicians; it may respond to anxiolytics

jitters

'Butterflies' Psychology An episode of nervousness or anxiety that often precedes a public event; jitters is a type of performance anxiety which may affect actors in a stage production–stage fright or soloist musicians; it may respond to anxiolytics

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We retrospectively reviewed the recordings of 129 subjects (85 women; 44 men; mean age, 43.8 [+ or -] 15.3 years (19-82 years) who were studied using a 37-mm CNE for quantitative jitter analysis in voluntary activated periocular muscles by trained electromyographers.

All jitter analyses were done off-line from these traces.

Jitter values on voluntary active periocular muscles of healthy subjects with conventional (37 mm) concentric needle electrode

(4) An effective jitter estimation for improving the trade-off between buffering delay and packet loss is proposed.

Enhanced timing recovery using active jitter estimation for voice-over IP networks

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So eat a ritual meal, say your magic mantra, and enjoy the super-charge some jitters can give.

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In a follow-up post, the Golden Globe-winning actress compared her first day of shooting to the first-day jitters students usually experience.

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The jitters, however, interfere primarily with Hubble's ability to track guide stars -- extraterrestrial "signposts" that help orient the telescope for observations.

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The objective of the design is to guarantee the structural safety of both the jitter sources and the isolator itself in severe launch environments without requiring an additional holding and release mechanism and while effectively isolating the RWA-induced micro-jitter.

Experimental Validation of Fly-Wheel Passive Launch and On-Orbit Vibration Isolation System by Using a Superelastic SMA Mesh Washer Isolator

Jitter recorded with concentric needle (CN) electrodes has been studied in healthy controls and in myasthenia gravis (MG) patients.[sup][2],[3],[4],[5],[6],[7],[8] It has been shown that CN and SFN electrodes yield comparable jitter results in most studies.

Quantitating Changes in Jitter and Spike Number Using Concentric Needle Electrodes in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients

The scheduler may be suffered from the variation in time called "release jitter", the causes of jitter can identify several possible which are variation time by interrupt timing behaviour, scheduler overhead, and task placement [5], [12].

Effective scheduling algorithm and scheduler implementation for use with time-triggered co-operative architecture

Nevertheless, just as most high-performance scopes have an FFT capability and can display frequency domain information, many scopes also measure jitter, present eye diagrams, and develop histograms of user-selectable measurement criteria.