Team:Chiba/Project/Delay Switch

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Constructing A Delay Switch Since 2008

In principle, there are three ways to delay the activation of chemical communications;

1. Silencing the Speakers: Rate of signal accumulation down-regulated, for instance, by slowing down the signal generators.
2. Desensitize Receivers: Switching threshold elevated, for instance, by using insensitive receiver/ reporter systems.
3. Partial Blocking: Decreasing the by chewing the signal up.

Inter-species communications! We decided to go for the strategy inspired by Japanese-classic experience; Whenever we speak to somebody in English, we often experience a certain delay in activating the communication. We though this is exactly what we pursued in. See Exp #4. Same applies to the reverse, too. When somebody speaks to us, we definitely need some time (sometime infinite) to get activated. This is all in spite that he/ she was loud and clear enough. The less affinity (perception) we have to English, the longer we need to activate them.See exp #5.

Experiments (2008)

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Results (2008)

In conclusion, we tried (and are trying) to device a series of delay-switches by designing the "switching consortia". We got limited, by certain success in generating delay switches.

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Experiments (2009)

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Results (2009)