Feedback signal
(noun)
the measurement of the actual level of the parameter of interest in a feedback loop
Examples of Feedback signal in the following topics:
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Closing the Feedback Loop
- If done early, this feedback loop ensures that a correct decision is ultimately made.
- feedback' exists between two parts when each affects the other..."
- Feedback signal: The measurement of the actual level of the parameter of interest.
- Feedback mechanism: The action or means used to subsequently modify the gap.
- Explain the role of the feedback loop in decision making and the different types of feedback associated with it
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Role of Financial Markets in Providing Feedback to Management
- Financial markets can provide feedback to management by showing signals of the demand to supply funds to that enterprise.
- These various audiences can provide feedback to management, such as when the stock price rises or declines.
- It is governed by positive and negative feedback resulting from the cognitive and emotional factors among market participants.
- Here a group may be providing feedback to management.
- Describe how financial markets can provide feedback to a company's management
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Feedback: Visual and Verbal Cues
- Your audience can provide you with immediate feedback; pay attention to the visual and verbal cues they give you in the moment.
- Feedback could be as formal as handing out a presentation evaluation following your speech or presentation.
- If you tell a joke or a funny anecdote, you expect laughter as your feedback.
- You audience may give you visual, non-verbal cues that signal how they may be receiving your message.
- Define feedback and describe how you can receive audience feedback in the moment
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Control of Hormone Secretion
- The endocrine system relies on feedback systems to regulate hormone production and secretion.
- When these drop below the ideal value the hypothalamus is signaled to begin secreting thyroid-releasing hormone again.
- Positive feedback mechanisms control self-perpetuating events, that is, they encourage deviation from the mean.
- Positive feedback systems are much less common although they do exist.
- During birth, as the baby moves through the birth canal, pressure receptors within the cervix signal the hypothalamus to stimulate the pituitary to secrete oxytocin.
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Homeostatic Control
- Regulation of blood pressure is an example of negative feedback.
- Blood vessels have sensors called baroreceptors that detect if blood pressure is too high or too low and send a signal to the hypothalamus.
- Temperature control is another negative feedback mechanism.
- The hypothalamus then signals several effectors to return the body temperature to 37 degrees Celsius (the set point).
- The effectors may signal the sweat glands to cool the skin and stimulate vasodilation so the body can give off more heat.
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Humoral, Hormonal, and Neural Stimuli
- Insulin causes blood glucose levels to drop, which signals the pancreas to stop producing insulin.
- This is an example of a negative feedback loop.
- As blood concentrations of T3 and T4 rise, they inhibit both the pituitary and the hypothalamus in a negative feedback loop.
- Here, neuronal signaling from the sympathetic nervous system directly stimulates the adrenal medulla to release the hormones epinephrine and norepinephrine in response to stress.
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Mechanisms of Hormone Action
- Cellular recipients of a particular hormonal signal may be one of several cell types that reside within a number of different tissues.
- Different tissue types may also respond differently to the same hormonal signal.
- As a result, hormonal signaling is elaborate and hard to dissect.
- This is an example of a homeostatic negative feedback loop.
- Relay and amplification of the received hormonal signal via a signal transduction process.
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Types of Cytokines Participating in Immune Response
- Cytokines are small cell-signaling protein molecules secreted by numerous cells and used extensively in intercellular communication.
- They provide the signaling pathways that orchestrate the complex immune responses of the human body.
- Cytokines are similar to hormones, which are also chemical messengers, but hormones have considerably more variation in molecular structure and are involved more in tissue signaling than cellular signaling.
- Subsequent cascades of intracellular signalling then alter cell functions.
- They are glycoproteins involved in the signaling of many types of immune system functions.
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Control of Homeostasis
- Homeostasis is typically achieved via negative feedback loops, but can be affected by positive feedback loops, set point alterations, and acclimatization.
- The receptors sense changes in the environment, sending a signal to the control center (in most cases, the brain), which, in turn, generates a response that is signaled to an effector.
- Homeostasis is maintained by negative feedback loops within the organism.
- The direction is maintained, not changed, so this is positive feedback.
- The birth of a human infant is the result of positive feedback.
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Chemoreceptor Regulation of Breathing
- Chemoreceptor regulation of breathing is a form of negative feedback.
- A chemoreceptor, also known as chemosensor, is a sensory receptor that transduces a chemical signal into an action potential.
- In response, the chemoreceptors detect this change, and send a signal to the medulla, which signals the respiratory muscles to decrease the ventilation rate so carbon dioxide levels and pH can return to normal levels.
- There are several other examples in which chemoreceptor feedback applies.
- In cases where oxygen intake is too low, feedback increases ventilation to increase oxygen intake.