... of falls after stroke. Functional performance measured in following ways: 1) 10 m walk on level ground at maximum velocity. 2) Walking endurance (self-adopted speed, limit of 600 m) 3) Stair climbing (self-adopted speed with or without hand rail, limit 90 stairs) (Richard, Malouin and colleagues) This test can be carried out over any reasonable distance 5-10m. Patients asked to walk with their preferred ... etc. Walking test is more reliable than other performance based measures in elderly persons, such as timed chair stands and weight lifting. The correlates of four performance based mea...

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... , or traveling at 500000 kilometers per second, the two measurements would be the same. This has a very unusual consequence. Consider this experiment. A person A is observing a train traveling close to the speed of light. Person B is traveling in the train. Person B sends a beam of light from the floor to the ceiling and it reflects back down. If the ceiling is two meters ... true because of the last experiment mentioned. But, as was shown by Einstein, the difference between classical and relativistic physics becomes noticeable only at speeds, which are close to the speed of light. So, t...

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... definition states that a criminal is anyone who violates the law. According to the offender definition, I am a criminal because I have broken numerous laws including driving without a license, driving faster than the speed limit, engaging in underage drinking, smoking illegal substances and stealing from a restaurant. The major drawback to the criminal definition is that everyone has violated the law, so the seriousness and the ... acts of criminality that I do commit are based on the crimes of those of whom I am attached too. Because my parents speed while driving, I also speed while d...

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... on line quality and testing. In the UK for example, 66 percent of the homes and offices has an ADSL connection. ADSL provides a downstream speed of 512Kb, 1MB or 2MB, with an upstream link of 512 KB. 1.2.2 Cable One example of the delivery of digital information to your home ... are undergoing trials at the moment and have not been produced for the market yet. The 1-way type of Satellite Broadband provides a fast download speed of up to 60 times that of a modem, namely 3MB. This is only one way off course and therefore your computer still has to be ... the need to use opto-electrical tra...

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... developments in microprocessors since the 286 chip. The 286 CPU are no longer sold and are very rarely found in commercial use today because of its running speed, which is between 10MHz to 20MHz. This processor has a 24-bit address bus, and is able to address up to 16 million different address locations. ... uses only 8086 code (8086 was the previous CPU). When it was in protected mode the CPU is able to access beyond the 1mb address limit and employed its added features, which were intended for multi-tasking operations such as Windows, but this CPU is not powerful enough to carry out th...

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... is often expressed relative to an individual's maximum ability (e.g., % of maximum oxygen consumption, % of maximum force a muscle group can generate). However, intensity can also be expressed in absolute terms (e.g., running speed, bench press weight). In order for a muscle (including the heart muscle) to get stronger or for the aerobic system to increase its capacity, the absolute exercise intensity must increase over ... 1. Saturated  - mostly found in animal products such as meats, dairy, and butter. However, coconut and avocado are plant-based foods that contain saturated fats. Soli...

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... of wireless application designed for real estate professionals, including real-time property listings, financial analysis programs and mapping applications. Because in the Real Estate industry, time and speed are the keys to make money from earning client's business. If the benefits of such flexibility are not immediately apparent, then consider the time-savings that you ... e-mail, real-time messaging, collaboration databases, searching, reference materials, each represent revenue for information sharing. Because today time-constrained customers demand value add service with speed and a...

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... they are cheap and the price is dependent thus does not satisfy the burden of showing this is an offer. The ad also did not limit the number of possible offerees who could accept and it would be unreasonable for Bob to assume that it created the power of acceptance in all ... A homicide exists if Don caused the death of Victor. In this case, while Don was driving the boat, which he had no experience, and changing speed rapidly, making the boat go from "side to side" attempting to "cause Victor to fall", as a result of his actions, he ... the boat in a reckless manner that would suggest ...

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... inexpensive, and easy to install. CAT 5 cable carries the bits, therefore, it is a Layer 1 component. Shielded twisted-pair (STP) include shielding to reduce crosstalk as well as to limit the effects of external interference and means that the wiring includes a wire braid inside the cladding or sheath material, as well as a foil wrap around each individual wire pair. The ... reflected inward thousands of times. Fiber-optic cables emit no external signals, which eliminates the possibility of electronic eavesdropping. Fiber-optic cabling is a good medium for high-bandwidth, high-speed, lon...

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... faster on smooth, uniform pavement than it can through mud, sound is fairly similar. Sound travels contrarily different through different media and therefore the speed of sound alwa ys varies. For example, in dry 20 degree Celsius air, at normal atmospheric pressure, a sound wave will travel at around ... may experience is called refraction . Refraction occurs when the waves change in direction as they pass from one medium to another. A change in the speed of the wave and therefore a change in wavelength will always follow refraction. For example, just recall a time whenever you were in a...

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... AOL Time Warner's principal activities consist of six businesses: AOL, Cable, Filmed Entertainment, Music, Publishing and Networks. The AOL business consists of worldwide Internet services, music properties and high-speed broadband services. The Cable business provides cable television to almost 10.9 million subscribers. The Film Entertainment segment produces and distributes motion pictures, television shows, animation, home video products and licenses ... is affordable to all people just like the telephone. President David Gang says: "Consumers have become much more demanding about the...

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... had each consumed a quantity of alcohol. On the way home there was a minibus taxi which was travelling in front of Praveen's vehicle. This vehicle was travelling at a speed which was well below the speed limit and this had prompted Mr Singh to pass the taxi. In doing so, he had collided with oncoming traffic causing damage to both the vehicles and to Ms ... was the respondent. Bridge, a first time offender, had been driving with an excessive concentration of alcohol in his blood, namely, 0,12g/100ml of blood. He was narrowly over the legal limit, which is 0,08g/100ml of blood. While in ...

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... hardest parts of the project for me since I'd never done Windows programming, but the program was actually not very complex. For aiming, the program just takes the speed of the mouse and matches the speed of the robot's aiming motors to it. (What it sends through the serial port is just a number telling the PIC how many clock cycles to wait between ... current. It turned out to be fine with no adjustment; if it had charged too fast, I would have added a small resistor, like 1 or 2 ohms, between the charger and battery to limit the current. (A small resistor would also have let me measur...

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... beer foam all over my face. The strong smell of the malted beverage rushed into my nostrils. Up ahead between the four lane the median turned into a mountain. Ignoring the "Speed checked by radar" signs; and believing there was no way a cop could detect my velocity; I pulled into the fast lane preparing to pass another string of traffic. While gazing into ... I came to the conclusion that I should just slow down and face the consequences. I mean I didn't want to be the next display on The Worlds Greatest Police Chases VII. Reducing my speed brought the flashing car back into view. I pra...

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... use that capability to deliever movies on demand." By using the internet as its backbone, the cable companies can provide a efficent distribution medium if the customers have a high speed connection. But there are issues that could hinder the VOD system the cable compaines would like to install including bandwidth useage, compression techonlogy of large movie files, and storage of ... cruseade against the P2P networks, using proprogranda, technology and legal actions at their disposal. The RIAA recently sent warnings to many U.S. corporations and universities warning them that their high...

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... the best audience accuracy and is the only mass media with a built-in payment channel available to every user without any credit cards or PayPal accounts or even an age limit. Mobile is often called the  7th Mass Medium and either the fourth screen (if counting cinema, TV and PC screens) or the third screen (counting only TV and PC). Print ... roles may be combined (and indeed, may reside in a single person, especially in the case of shareware). Software publishers often license software from developers with specific limitations, such as a time limit or geographical region. The terms ...

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... Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. From the perspective of world history, urbanization is a modern trend and the second half of the 20th Century was distinguished by the phenomenon great speed. The difference in the 21st century is that urbanization is taking place more in emerging economies. It is well known that housing finance does not stand apart from economic development ... to develop a strategy for a broad-based application of mortgage laws in order to make it possible not only for the people to have affordable housing but also to facilitate the speed of economic growth. It is only t...

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... adjust the amount of money withheld for income taxes, so that Americans will keep more of their paychecks right away. (Applause.) By speeding up the income tax cuts, we will speed economic recovery and the pace of job creation. If tax relief is good enough for Americans three years from now, it is good enough for Americans today. (Applause.) An additional ... expand sooner, to hire new people faster, and to build a stronger foundation for the recovery. We also know that middle-income families need additional relief. So today I'm asking Congress to speed up three other tax reductions pro...

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... that few people other than a handful of tinkerers had even set foot in one. In 1903, the year the Ford Motor Company went into business, the city of Detroit fixed a speed limit of eight miles per hour for almost a mile around city hall. Convicted speeders paid $100, which was about two months' wages for an average American worker. But the "average American ... went out of business and the other ones were not profitable enough to expand their business. Henry Ford changed that when he introduced the assembly line. This both increased production speed and decreased cost. This idea of mass ...

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... business infrastructures. Technology and Ethics Business today involves areas of profitability that didn't exist as little as twenty years ago. Technologies appear in society increasing in kind and speed. These new methods and sciences are accompanied by assumptions about their inherent benefit to mankind. But shortly after they appear questions often arise due to unintended and unforeseen ... to considerable debate within the technical community and its" ethics experts. (26) Reflecting public concern, especially about threats to privacy, computer professionals have developed codes of con...

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... business infrastructures. Technology and Ethics Business today involves areas of profitability that didn't exist as little as twenty years ago. Technologies appear in society increasing in kind and speed. These new methods and sciences are accompanied by assumptions about their inherent benefit to mankind. But shortly after they appear questions often arise due to unintended and unforeseen ... to considerable debate within the technical community and its" ethics experts. (26) Reflecting public concern, especially about threats to privacy, computer professionals have developed codes of con...

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... it lacks in high volume capacity, it makes up for this limitation with ease of use features, "Rapid Application Development" technology, and portability. Microsoft Access 2000 has a 2-gigabyte file size limit for an entire database (MDB file). Although you may be able to append hundreds of thousands of records into MS Access database tables, performance will noticeably began to decrease when ... are claims that 50 or more users can use Microsoft Access concurrently with no problems, this is not always recommended. As mentioned previously, the structural design of Microsoft Access will l...

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... banks now compete on how long it takes to attend to a customer at the counter through the use of computers. Information technology is the heart of this new efficiency and speed. The new generation of banks in the country have centred their operations on computers and have already reaped handsome profits from this new innovation. Some banks have taken computerisation to ... investors to provide bandwidth and sell it commercially. Finally, many of the areas crucial to the financial sector such as the clearing and trade processes are not automated, which will limit the efficacy of Internet...

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... for travelers because it's easier to claim rewards. "It can take up to a year on some carriers to get free trips because they limit the number of seats available to frequent fliers redeeming awards," he said. "We don't limit our seats. If the seat isn't reserved, you get it." 6 Managers at Southwest Airlines are constantly reinventing processes while keeping in mind the ... want multiple seating-classes, meals, in-flight films or designated seats? The answer is, quite simply, no. Fundamentally, there is only one factor that makes people choose flying over driving: speed. People fly to s...

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... in the solar system. Even interstellar travel will become a practical reality, since travel at huge speeds will no longer be energy prohibited. Now, would those ships be prohibited by the speed of light? Some physicists believe that it is possible to make space-time itself. This means to surround the spaceship with local space time in such way that light barrier ... -time. 2. Discover how to attain the ultimate achievable transit speeds to dramatically reduce deep space travel times. This implies discovering a means to move a vehicle at or near the actual maximum speed limit for motion t...

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