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  2. Holmes and Rahe stress scale - Wikipedia

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    The Holmes and Rahe stress scale (/ reɪ /) [1], also known as the Social Readjustment Rating Scale, is a list of 43 stressful life events that can contribute to illness. The test works via a point accumulation score which then gives an assessment of risk. The American Institute of Stress, for instance, regards a score of 300 or more as an "80% ...

  3. Home appliance - Wikipedia

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    A home appliance, also referred to as a domestic appliance, an electric appliance or a household appliance, [1] is a machine which assists in household functions [2] such as cooking, cleaning and food preservation. The domestic application attached to home appliance is tied to the definition of appliance as "an instrument or device designed for ...

  4. Home rule in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Home rule provided for municipalities by constitutional amendment in 1902; for counties in 1970 (more limited than for municipalities). [8] 102 home rule municipalities, plus two consolidated city-counties that are home rule, and two home rule counties. [9] [10] [8] All tax increases in Colorado must be voter-approved. Connecticut: Yes [11] Yes ...

  5. Compact Cassette tape types and formulations - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of replay equalization is to compensate for high-frequency losses during recording, [28] which, in case of ferric cassettes, usually start at around 11.5 kHz. The choice of time constant is a somewhat arbitrary decision, seeking the best combination of conflicting parameters — extended treble response, maximum output, minimum ...

  6. Motor unit - Wikipedia

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    Motor unit. In biology, a motor unit is made up of a motor neuron and all of the skeletal muscle fibers innervated by the neuron's axon terminals, including the neuromuscular junctions between the neuron and the fibres. [1] Groups of motor units often work together as a motor pool to coordinate the contractions of a single muscle.

  7. Multiple-criteria decision analysis - Wikipedia

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    In this example a company should prefer product B's risk and payoffs under realistic risk preference coefficients. Multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) or multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is a sub-discipline of operations research that explicitly evaluates multiple conflicting criteria in decision making (both in daily life and in settings such as business, government and medicine).

  8. Adult development - Wikipedia

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    Adult development encompasses the changes that occur in biological and psychological domains of human life from the end of adolescence until the end of one's life. Changes occur at the cellular level and are partially explained by biological theories of adult development and aging. [ 1 ] Biological changes influence psychological and ...

  9. Home video game console - Wikipedia

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    A home video game console is a predesigned piece of electronic hardware that is meant to be placed at a fixed location at one's home, connected to a display like a television screen or computer monitor, and to an external power source, to play video games on using one or more video game controllers. This differs from a handheld game console ...