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		<title>Dimensions of Health of Breathing and Walking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to know how skills fit can affect your health? Notice how breathing and walking. These two things can be an indicator of health.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Generally, the adult takes about 10-14 breaths per minute, but others may breathe 20 times per minute or more. This can cause symptoms of numbness in the fingers, lips, heart palpitations, fatigue, inability to concentrate, and bowel syndrome.</p>
<p>Usually, they are breathing the air we breathe too quickly through the mouth. This results in increased levels of carbon dioxide in the blood and oxygen is released in the muscles and organs.</p>
<p>&#8220;The fast breathing is basically a bad habit, which is often due to seasonal stress, pain, back or neck, emotional trauma or surgery,&#8221; says Fiona Troup physiological. He proposed to count how many breaths throughout the body relaxed. Beware if the amount in excess of 20 times.</p>
<p><strong>Gait</strong><br />According to U.S. researchers Finally, the walking speed is an indicator of health as well as smoking and hypertension. The data of 34,000 adults 65 years or more, scientists at the University of Pittsburgh found 2.6 meters per second velocity was associated with an average life expectancy.</p>
<p>Those who have the highest survival rate was able to walk 3.3 meters per second or faster. &#8220;Walking strengthens bones and protects against osteoporosis. But go fast requires more strength and muscle mass, which in turn increases your metabolism and weight management,&#8221; says Professor Brewer, University of Pittsburgh Medical experts told the Daily e-mail.</p>
<p>Brewer said the professor, increase running speed is better than walking alone.</p>
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		<title>Respiratory Drive and Measure Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Know how to fit fitness can affect your health? Notice how you breathe and walk.These two things can be indicators of health.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Respiratory drive&nbsp;and measure&nbsp;health</strong></p>
<p>Know how to&nbsp;fit&nbsp;fitness can&nbsp;affect your&nbsp;health?&nbsp;Notice how&nbsp;you&nbsp;breathe&nbsp;and&nbsp;walk.These two&nbsp;things can&nbsp;be indicators&nbsp;of health.<br />In general,&nbsp;adults&nbsp;about 10-14&nbsp;breaths&nbsp;per&nbsp;minute, but&nbsp;other breathing&nbsp;20 times&nbsp;perminute or&nbsp;more&nbsp;will do.&nbsp;The fingers, lips, heart&nbsp;palpitations, fatigue,&nbsp;inability to concentrate,&nbsp;and the symptoms&nbsp;of colon&nbsp;can&nbsp;symptoms of&nbsp;numbness.<br />In general, they breathe&nbsp;breathe&nbsp;through your mouth&nbsp;very&nbsp;strong&nbsp;wind.&nbsp;This increasein carbon dioxide&nbsp;concentration&nbsp;in the blood&nbsp;causes,&nbsp;and released&nbsp;oxygen&nbsp;into the muscles&nbsp;and organs.</p>
<p>&#8220;The&nbsp;breathing&nbsp;is&nbsp;rapid, especially&nbsp;a bad&nbsp;habit&nbsp;that is&nbsp;often under high&nbsp;pressure, back or&nbsp;neck&nbsp;pain, emotional&nbsp;trauma or&nbsp;surgery, the&nbsp;result&nbsp;of&nbsp;age,&#8221;&nbsp;said&nbsp;FionaTroup, a noncommissioned officer.&nbsp;He relaxed&nbsp;the&nbsp;body,&nbsp;how to breathe,&nbsp;as proposed.&nbsp;Was 20&nbsp;times&nbsp;the safe&nbsp;level.<br />move<br />Is, according to&nbsp;U.S. researchers, walking speed&nbsp;reflects&nbsp;the conclusions of yourhealth&nbsp;habits&nbsp;and&nbsp;blood&nbsp;pressure&nbsp;in smokers.&nbsp;Numbers&nbsp;of 34 000&nbsp;adults&nbsp;aged 65years&nbsp;was associated&nbsp;scientist at the&nbsp;University&nbsp;of Pittsburgh&nbsp;from&nbsp;2.6 meters&nbsp;per second&nbsp;velocity with an&nbsp;average&nbsp;life&nbsp;expectancy.</p>
<p>With&nbsp;the&nbsp;highest&nbsp;survival&nbsp;rate&nbsp;of 3.3&nbsp;meters&nbsp;per second&nbsp;or faster&nbsp;capable of&nbsp;running it.,&nbsp;Says&nbsp;Professor&nbsp;Brewer,&nbsp;University&nbsp;of Pittsburgh&nbsp;Medical&nbsp;experts told&nbsp;the DailyMail.</p>
<p>Professor&nbsp;Brewer&nbsp;said&nbsp;to hasten&nbsp;slowly&nbsp;is more efficient&nbsp;than walking.</p>
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		<title>Man Moves Robotic Arm with Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a nice human interest story. It will leave you with a good feeling that science is advancing so much.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tim Hemmes is part of an experiment at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a quadriplegic paralyzed in a motorcycle accident.</p>
<p>For the study, researchers put a robotic arm by his wheelchair and he makes the arm move by thought. Hemmes says, &#8221; It wasn&#8217;t my arm, but it was my brain, my thoughts. I was moving something. I don&#8217;t have one single word to give you what I felt at that moment. The word doesn&#8217;t exist.&#8221;</p>
<p>There&nbsp;are electrodes that are&nbsp;tiny are implanted in the brain. the electrodes go into electrical signals from brain cells that command movement. These signals skip the paralyzed spine and send the signals to the robotic arm.</p>
<p>There is a project known as BrainGate and some of the researchers put electrodes on the brains of paralyzed people and their minds can do things such as move a robotic arm or work a computer.</p>
<p>Michael McLoughlin of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory which made the robotic arm as part of a $100 million project for the research agency for the Pentagon, DARPA.</p>
<p>In Pittsburgh some quadriplegic&nbsp; people who volunteered will use their brains to move to move the robotic arm in more complicated ways.</p>
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		<title>Walk Your Way for Better Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have got a gentle walking routine going youre on the correct track. however if youre conjointly stopping to smell the roses, you may wish to skip it and develop your pace.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><p>If you have got a gentle<a href="http://trifter.com/europe/united-kingdom/walking-for-beginners-tips/" target="_blank"> walking</a> routine going youre on the correct track. however if youre conjointly stopping to smell the roses, you may wish to skip it and develop your pace. a replacement study reported within the Journal of the AmericanMedical Association reports that speed will increase longevity in older adults.</p>
<p>The researchers verified 9 totally different&nbsp;<a href="http://trifter.com/europe/united-kingdom/walking-for-beginners-tips/" target="_blank">&nbsp;walking</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;studies starting in 1986 and completed in 2000. It included thirty four,485 adults, sixty-five years or older, and followed them for between six to twenty one years. The researchers discovered that walking speed was related to variations within the likelihood of survival in the least ages, and in each sexes, however was particularly necessary once the themes passed the seventy five year mark.</p>
<p>Stephanie Studenski of the University of Pittsburgh who conducted the study in conjunction with her colleagues said: &#8220;In this older adult population the link of gait speed with remaining years of life was consistent across age teams, however absolutely the variety of expected remaining years of life was larger at younger ages.</p>
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<p><p>Perhaps whats even more telling is that the researchers findings were as accurate as longevity indicators for such factors as smoking history, blood pressure, body mass index, and hospitalization.</p>
<p>The authors suggested there are powerful reasons why walking speed may predict survival rates:&#8221;<a href="http://trifter.com/europe/united-kingdom/walking-for-beginners-tips/" target="_blank">&nbsp;walking</a>&nbsp;requires energy, movement control, and support, and places demands on multiple organ systems, including the heart, lungs, and circulatory, nervous, and musculoskeletal systems. Slowing gait may reflect both damaged systems and a high energy cost of&nbsp;<a href="http://trifter.com/europe/united-kingdom/walking-for-beginners-tips/" target="_blank">&nbsp;walking</a>.</p></p>
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		<title>Scientists Create Artificial Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists create artificial brain.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On June 3rd, scientists anounced that they had created an artificial brain with a 12 second memory.</p>
<p>This is a huge move forward in terms of scientific development. Just think of what they can do with this. Granted, 12 seconds is pretty short, even for short term memory. However, since scientists were even able to create an artificial brain is proof that even more advancements are possible. The brain consists of a little under 60 neurons.</p>
<p>The scientists at the University of Pittsburgh discovered this by accident. They were originally working on studying how a normal brain uses neurons and how it is able to store data. However, they realized that they could stimulate the neurons with electricity. The electricity would travel around for about 12 seconds before dissipating. </p>
<p>But hey. Who would have thought that this was even possible? This is a great advancement and should not be taken lightly.</p>
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		<title>How Good Writers Keep Readers Reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most of my undergraduate students at the University of Pittsburgh were&nbsp;poor writers.&nbsp; They took my composition class because it was a requirement.&nbsp; I taught the class because it was part of the contract I signed as a graduate student to get my fellowship which allowed me to go to school for free and paid me a generous monthly stipend.&nbsp; This was between 2003 to 2006.</p>
<p><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:CathedralfromAlumni.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2009/09/21/cathedralfromalumni_1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p>I had to make sure my students had an understanding of the basics of composition.&nbsp; You would think that college students would have a good understanding of composition.&nbsp; They don&#8217;t.&nbsp; Sometimes I wondered how some of them made it into college; their writing was so poor.</p>
<p>So, I went over the basics with them: spelling, grammar, punctuation, formatting, conciseness and so on.&nbsp; Still, their writing was missing something and it had to do with content.&nbsp; They had trouble with clarity and with filling up the page.</p>
<p>For their writing assignments I always gave them a subject and a word length.&nbsp; Often times many of them turned in papers with repetitious content.&nbsp; This produced a lot of confusing papers.&nbsp; They were writing to&nbsp;meet the word length.&nbsp; The papers were boring for me to read.&nbsp; How did I deal with this&nbsp;lack of clarity in the&nbsp;articles my students turned in?&nbsp; I gave them a single challenge.</p>
<p><strong>Every sentence had to contain a new piece of information.</strong></p>
<p>The writing of my students immediately improved.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a piece of advice that every writer can use.</p>
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		<title>Our Society and Its Manko</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The habitus of today&#8217;s society is overwhelming. Habitus, as you may or may not know it from Pierre Bourdieu&#8217;s sociologist approaches, is the way we humans perceive the world. It defines our &ldquo;class status&rdquo;, our tastes, and the way we exist, basically. Now, there are different segments concerning the named topic. Social, economic and cultural values are all a part of it. Economic as in money, trade and value, social as in connectivity bonds with so called &ldquo;friends&rdquo;, &ldquo;colleagues&rdquo;, family, or simply partners.</p>
<p>The cultural part of the habitus basically refers to the culture we acquire during our life span. For example, museum visits, or going to the opera adds to our cultural stigma. Economic and cultural habitus are linked; meaning the acquirement of cultural goods is usually only possible with the use of money. One may also say, very simplified, that our social surroundings and family already define a person&#8217;s habitus. A farmer will most likely not enjoy having a tea party with the bourgeoisie, nor will the opposite ever occur.</p>
<p>Having shortly introduced you to the &ldquo;habitus&rdquo;, stated by Bourdieu, it is time for the main topic for this short essay. The economic and cultural habitus, as declared before, are linked in the utmost manner. In today&#8217;s society even more so. Simplified: our society is dominated by economic values. Materialism and capitalism rule our world like never before.  Never before has the act of owning luxurious goods been as dominant.</p>
<p>A short example, which involves the small telephone we call &ldquo;cell phone&rdquo;.</p>
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<p>This little gadget is a miniature, portable telephone, which ought to enable us, the consumers, to be able to communicate with everyone contained in our social network. I do not want to criticize this feat in any way whatsoever, for it can be a very useful tool. It can be life saving, as well as a documentary tool (audio/video/photographic), yet it is predominantly used for communicational purposes, as well as information seeking purposes. Nothing against that.</p>
<p>So, you may ask, what am I striving at? The thing is, as mentioned before, our society has been invoked with a materialistic mentality. Many people, in the &ldquo;middle class society&rdquo; and &ldquo;high society&rdquo; mostly, have the economic means to buy a new cell phone every day. Of course that is absurd. No one in his or her right mind would do that. It takes about a week to understand how these little things actually WORK. So, of course no one does that. Even if they could, they wouldn&#8217;t. A lot of people do buy a cell phone every year, or whenever they feel like their present possession may not be at the highest standard. &ldquo;Highest standard&rdquo;, what does that mean? Most widgets possible? Easiest way to be handled? Most secure against accidents?</p>
<p>Basically, it would mean that the latest technologies have been used in these little machines. So basically, the concept of these machineries is totally put in question. Communicational requirements are no longer top priority. Health, security, safety, and guarantee (of over one year) are no longer issues. The better the machines, the more fragile they seem to get, and of course, the more widgets it has, the longer it takes to understand them, the longer the person is exposed to it, which leads to, you guessed it, health issues. The <a href="http://www.emaxhealth.com/34/23403.html" target="_blank">University of Pittsburgh</a> (Pennsylvania, United States of America) stated that cell phones, when under extreme exposure, may lead to certain health factors, meaning consequential diseases or illnesses.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Disregarding the fact that the health factor is partly scary, the main critique is not the high technology invoked in these machines. It is the mass consumption and materialistic mentalities of the majority of the people in our society. Is it, in fact, a replacement to a certain emotion called &ldquo;happiness&rdquo;, or something else? Do people try to stack as many luxurious goods in their home to replace something? Goods that are not existentially necessary?</p>
<p>It is a fact that our society does not have to question existentiality, nor even think about it. Our society is a luxury society, where materialism replaces certain &ldquo;holes&rdquo;.</p>
<p>To cut things short, the shimmering light of &ldquo;money&rdquo;, concerning their work, the materialistic mentality, and of course the consumerism, blinds people. When someone would come up to me and tell me about a job offer they have received, the first thing said is the amount of money they&#8217;d get, not what the job is specifically about. And that depresses the hell out of me. Certain values do not have the correct priority anymore. That is the way our present society runs.</p>
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