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BACK 2 LIFE
<p>Back 2 Life is a collection of novellas featuring a woman named Vennie Rodriguez and her two adult daughters, Socs and Sara. The woman owns a struggling beauty shop in Albuquerque's South Valley, and one day, she uncovers the body of a toddler buried in the playground across the street from her …
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The neuromuscular efficiency of lower back muscles in low back pain
BACKGROUND: The etiology of low back pain (LBP), one of the most prevalent and costly diseases of our time, is accepted to be multi-causal, placing functional factors in the focus of research. Thereby, pain models suggest a centrally controlled strategy of trunk stiffening in LBP. However, …
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Putting Myself Back Together
<p><em>Putting Myself Back Together</em> is a collection of works created from poetry that is created from memories and phrases. The work is autobiographical in nature as it deals with my life and loved ones who have passed away. I have found the poems alone are not enough to fully represent or …
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Sistema de back Up
The aim of this work is to characterize a Back Up system though examples, definitions and concepts. We propose a Back Up system that will be partially implemented. We use a minicomputer Mitra 15 wth 8k words of 16 bits. This system may be used in any other computer with the necessary adaptions.
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The back stroke buddy
… submerging their heads, and floating on their backs. As a swim teacher, one can verbally instruct students through the first two problem areas, but in order to float on one's back, there are methods required to facilitate this skill. The most widely used approach is for a swim teacher to …
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Development of back-to-back converter with power transfer control using raspberry Pi
… electronic converters are applied to implement a back-to-back converter with resistive load using Raspberry Pi single board computer as the microcontroller and Hysteresis Band as the controller. MATLAB-Simulink is used to develop the control scheme of the back-to-back converter and incorporate it …
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Low back pain and risk factors for low back pain in car drivers
The cause of low back pain in populations of professional drivers is uncertain. A literature review revealed factors that seem to be associated with low back pain (e.g. physical factors: exposure to whole body-vibration, prolonged sitting posture, frequent lifting, pushing and pulling, lack of …
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Trunk loading and back pain
… accepted as a risk factor for the development of back pain (BP). An altered activity pattern including extended response and activation times as well as increased co-contraction of the trunk muscles as well as a reduced range of motion and increased movement variability of the trunk are evident in …
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Lashing Back At the Wind
… of an impulse for violence, which leads back to limited agency for the scapegoated target of this violence. I use the theories of existentialist philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus to construct stories that put characters in conflict with the inherent meaninglessness of …
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Fitting into Boston's Back Bay
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.
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Office of Back of House
Office of Back of House (OoBoH, pronounced “ooh-boo”), is an architectural practice that operates at the intersection of ducts, conduits, scaffolding, custodial carts, mechanical rooms and sheds. OoBoH conducts design experiments in and around these maintenance objects and spaces typically …
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Back annotation for conceptual structures
… the model contained in the conceptual graph. The Back Annotator which is described in this thesis lets the user correct any misinterpretations by making changes to the graphical display such as additions, deletions, modifications, and movement
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Does an individualized back education programme change nurses' knowledge and practice about back injury prevention
Back injury has predominantly been a problem which has affected a large cross-section of nursing staff involved with direct patient care. While back injury prevention has been instituted in hospitals for sometime, the percentage of nurses with back injury remains high. Within a major teaching …
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Low Back Position Awareness in People With and Without Recurrent Non-Specific Low Back Pain
… investigates position awareness of the low back, measured using an electrogoniometer, in participants with and without recurrent non-specific low back pain (NSLBP). The ability to appreciate body position and movement makes an essential contribution to control of posture and functional …
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I'm going back to work: perceptions and experiences of back rehabilitated clients regarding their worker roles
… worker roles after they have been through a back rehabilitation programme. The pressure and competitiveness of modern day society to achieve competence and to survive has proven to be stressful, both for the injured and uninjured, the unemployed and employed. Back rehabilitation and the …
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Development of three phase back to back converter with current flow control using raspberry Pi microcontroller
… losses. The overall HVDC system is call back-to-back converter. Therefore, this project is to design and to develop a back-to-back converter with Proportional-Integrative-derivative (PID) control current that could be applied for the resistive load. The basic structure of the PID …
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Design, implementation, and verification of a multipurpose, flexible, three-phase back-to-back voltage-source inverter
… and verified a multi-purpose,three-phase back-to- back voltage source inverter for grid connected applications. This inverter features extensive hardware protection, opto-isolation between the power stage and the controller, and reconfigurable I/O routing. The converter is designed for …
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Back to Back Active Power Filter for Multi-Generator Power Architecture with Reduced dc-link Capacitor
… on the size of the line reactor in ac mains. A back to back active power filter is proposed in this dissertation to replace the phase-shift transformer in the multi-generator power architecture. The proposed front-end does not include phase-shift transformer and the size and the weight of the …
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