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	Balance -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A balance (also beam balance or laboratory balance) is used to accurately measure the (The property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field) mass of an object.
		While the word "weigh" or "weight" is often used, any balance scale actually measures mass, which is not dependent upon the ((physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity) force of (A solemn and dignified feeling) gravity, as opposed to a scale with a spring, which measures weight.
		Balance can also refer to the amount of signal from each channel reproduced in a (Reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound) stereo (A storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded) recording.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/balance.htm (463 words)

	Design Notes: Balance Symmetry
		It is necessary to balance many things in a composition: visual interests (this lesson), unity and variety, figure and ground, realism and abstraction as well as many logistical concerns (time, space, cost, etc.).
		Balance is a skill that everyone uses almost all of their waking hours.
		Balance is usually a desirable characteristic of a composition.
	daphne.palomar.edu /design/bsymm.html (1633 words)

	The 6th Sense, Balance
		The so-called sixth sense was thought to be an extra sense hence the term Extra Sensory Perception or ESP. It is now known that we have three other senses, balance, proprioception, and a sense of direction.
		The sense of balance is one most of us take for granted, yet in the traditions of every martial arts discipline, mastery of balance played a primary role in developing fighting skills.
		Balance is controlled by a combination of three senses; the vestibular, vision, and proprioception.
	www.chinastrategies.com /6thsense.htm (1581 words)

	11/03 BioMechanics: Making sense of Balance
		To maintain balance, a person must sense these forces and execute muscle responses that offset them, a skill that is achieved by the coordinated efforts of sensory and motor systems.
		Balance training exercises should progressively become more challenging, while teaching appropriate and safe response strategies, so a patient can learn to control his or her center of gravity under any situation.
		A resistance band wrapped around the hips and pulled by the therapist is a simple way to apply an external force that challenges the patient to control his or her center of gravity.
	www.biomech.com /db_area/archives/2003/0311.cover.bio.shtml (2020 words)

	Researchers discover gene that contributes to sense of balance
		Louis, March 24, 2003 -- Researchers have discovered a gene that appears to be critical for maintaining a healthy sense of balance in mice.
		"Loss of balance is a significant problem in the elderly because it can lead to dangerous falls and injuries," says one of the study's principal investigators, David M. Ornitz, M.D., Ph.D., professor of molecular biology and pharmacology at the School of Medicine.
		Balance is determined and regulated by the vestibular system, which is housed in the inner ear.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-03/wuso-rdg032403.php (558 words)

	AllRefer.com - sense (Anatomy And Physiology) - Encyclopedia
		sense, faculty by which external or internal stimuli are conveyed to the brain centers, where they are registered as sensations.
		The four commonly known special senses (sight, hearing, smell, and taste) are concerned with the outer world, and external stimuli are received and conducted by sensory receptors concentrated in the eye, ear, olfactory organ, and the taste buds.
		The sense of balance, or equilibrium, is related to the flow of endolymph, a fluid found in the inner ear.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/sense.html (261 words)

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		A delicate balancing act To understand what goes wrong when we feel dizzy, we need to know about the vestibular system by which we keep a sense of balance amid all our daily twisting and turning, starting and stopping, jumping, falling, rolling, and bending.
		A missing nystagmus reaction is a strong argument that the balance organs are not acting correctly.
		Proper balance depends on information from the labyrinth in the inner ear, from other senses such as sight and touch, and from muscle movement.
	www.pueblo.gsa.gov /cic_text/health/dizzy/dizzy.txt (6066 words)

	Balance & Reach
		Balance and reach exercises are a bit more challenging than lunges for most people, due to the element of balance involved.
		When you do a balance and reach exercise, the "target" you are reaching for is generally within one inch of the floor and use of the other leg for counterbalancing when reaching with your arms isn't allowed.
		Balance on your left foot and reach your right foot forward along the floor as far as you can without losing your balance or touching your foot to the floor.
	www.teamoregon.com /publications/balance.html (2115 words)

	Equilibrioception (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Balance can be upset by Meniere's disease an inner ear infection by a head cold or a sinus infection or a number of other conditions.
		This starts fluid swirling in circles inside your ear When you stop turning it takes a minutes for the fluid to lose momentum until then the sense from your inner conflicts with the information coming from your vision causing dizziness and disorientation.
		Most astronauts find that their sense of balance impaired when in orbit because there is enough gravity to keep the ear's fluid in This causes a form of motion sickness called space sickness.
	www.freeglossary.com /Sense_of_balance (243 words)

	Balance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		homeostasis, the biological balance within a human or other animal's body
		Balance is a 1989 Academy Award winning short film by Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein.
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balance (107 words)

	sciforums.com - sixth sense
		While sixth sense could be any sense that has yet to be discovered, the sixth sense in the traditional terminology is ued to describe areas such as telepathy (mind reading), tele-/psycho-kinesis (moving objects with ones mind) and the general 'unexplainable'.
		The sense of balance does't really allow you to improve the degree to which you can feel it by any simple physical means.
		However, one may also argue that this "sense" is merely a complicated mechanism within the brain which uses the information from the other five senses to create a subconsious idea of balance and direction.
	www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?t=20093 (1128 words)

	-- Balance
		Balance is how a body, young or old, keeps from falling down.
		Our balance is an amazing ballet of our muscles, joints, nerves, senses and brain working in split second harmony.
		If you cannot keep your balance, or if one side is much better than the other, your sense of balance needs work.
	www.bodyzone.com /articles/article.html?id=4&pf=1 (578 words)

	How can I improve my sense of balance? : Exercise
		Balance is the most overlooked element of fitness and should rank right up there with strength and endurance, but gets overlooked until you have a problems.
		Balance is controlled by an array of body systems that track sensory information from nerves and muscles.
		Staying as fit as you can will help preserve your sense of balance, but here are some specific exercises to add to your workout.
	www.answerbag.com /q_view.php/28967 (439 words)

	Perspectives on the Study of Work-Life Balance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The aim of this background paper is to introduce the topic of work-life balance, to explain why it is of contemporary interest, to identify some of the key conceptual and empirical issues and to open up the topic for debate.
		In the English language, balance is also a verb; as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it “to off-set or compare; to equal or neutralise, to bring or come into equilibrium”.
		Individual factors affecting perceptions of work-life balance include orientation to work and in particular the extent to which work (or home) is a central life interest and aspects of personality including need for achievement and propensity for work involvement.
	www.ucm.es /info/Psyap/enop/guest.htm (8869 words)

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		The study found that elderly people kept their balance almost as well as younger people when the platform remained relatively steady, but were less steady when the platform began swaying in various directions.
		Older people got better at maintaining their balance the longer they were tested, suggesting that they could benefit from training, he said.
		The take-home message for seniors: their sense of balance can be improved.
	www.healthtrek.net /fitter_article2.html (586 words)

	[OT] Dizziness, balance, falling
		I actually fell over twice, bringing down bits of nearby furniture with me. I noticed that during this period of poor balance that I was starting to compensate by learning to use my eyes more and my sense of balance less, and by changing the way I walked.
		Was this because all the old folk with a poor sense of balance had stopped cycling, or was it because the practice of cycling helped to slow down or stop the degeneration of their sense of balance?
		I suspect we old folk could keep a good sense of balance for longer, and avoid falls etc. better, if we did a little balance practising now and then, just to keep the innervation and brain circuits from degenerating.
	www.talkaboutsupport.com /group/alt.support.menopause/messages/289443.html (418 words)

	Balance Awareness Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Balance Awareness Week emphasizes the importance of balance and refers to it as the “sixth sense”.
		When the vestibular system is not functioning properly, the messages it sends to the brain about spatial position are in conflict with those provided to the brain simultaneously by the eyes and the proprioceptors (which sense position through, for example, the soles of the feet).
		Balance Awareness Week was designed to help elevate the recognition of balance as an important sense so that people needing treatment and support can receive the help they need.
	www.vestibular.org /sixth.html (375 words)

	Why should golfers train for balance? - PGATOUR.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		We normally associate loss of balance and injuries caused by falls with those people who are way beyond 50.
		Although the feet remain stationary while hitting, golfers they must have or develop a sense of balance to perform at their best.
		Balance is closely related to strength in the legs and hips.
	www.golfweb.com /u/ce/multi/0,1977,6837987,00.html (653 words)

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		I'm talking mostly about maintaining a sense of balance in our lives, achieving a level of physical, emotional, and spiritual health which allows us to enjoy a fully functional life and to achieve our highest potential in all aspects of our lives.
		The Balance Beam's formal purpose is to promote the awareness of various health issues that affect Stanford students and college students in general through a weekly newsletter.
		Things that knock us off balance are going to happen, it's the nature of life; but we do have control over an amazing amount in our lives.
	www.stanford.edu /group/bbeam/intro.html (742 words)

	nystagmus and relationship to balance
		A person's sense of "balance" is derived from three different sources of neurological information that all feed into the brain.
		These are nerve fibers that tell the balance and equilibrium control center of your brain, known as the cerebellum, where your arms, legs, and other body parts are.
		Even if you can't sense where your arm or leg is, you could still get it to do what you want by looking at it and directing it to the right place.
	www.medhelp.org /forums/neuro/archive/4580.html (714 words)

	C-SPAN's Balance of the Absurd (washingtonpost.com)
		The book is about a libel case brought against her in Britain by David Irving, a Holocaust denier, trivializer and prevaricator who is, by solemn ruling of the very court that heard his lawsuit, "anti-Semitic and racist." No matter.
		This is the man C-SPAN turned to for "balance." It told Lipstadt that since it was going to air her lecture, it would do one of Irving's, too.
		He was described to a T. In the end, Lipstadt had to choose between promoting her own book -- a terrific read, by the way -- and giving Irving the audience of his dreams and a status equal to her own.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A35346-2005Mar14.html (830 words)

	Facts About Balance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Among other things, your sense of balance helps you stay upright, to move without falling, and to know where you are in relation to the direction of gravity.
		The cochlea is the organ of hearing, and the three semicircular canals and two other structures called the utricle and the saccule contain the balance sense organs.
		The sense organs of the saccule and utricle detect straight-line movements of the head.
	www.vestibular.org /facts.html (599 words)

	torsion balance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Torsion Balance Supplies has 100 years experience in the manufacture of Precision Balances.
		… Torsion balances are used to measure small electric, magnetic, and gravitational forces.
		… Almost all measurements of G have used variations of the torsion balance technique pioneered by Cavendish.
	www.haibinzhizao.com /torsion-balance.html (387 words)

	Yearning for Balance Views on Consumption Introduction
		People express a strong desire for a greater sense of balance in their lives - not to repudiate material gain, but to bring it more into proportion with the non-material rewards of life.
		Americans want change, both to achieve more balanced lives and a cleaner environment for their children, but they are nervous about the implications of taking action and skeptical that others are willing to be part of the solution.
		This yearning for balance is apparent in the survey results: 67% agreed with the statement "I would like to have more balance in my life." Young adults aged 18-29 (78%) and people with children at home (74%) seem particularly eager to achieve a sense of balance.
	www.iisd.ca /consume/harwood.html (8875 words)

	PagaNet News: Opposites In Balance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In this case, the balance was designed into them by people before the vessels were ever built, somewhat like the human body where we strive to walk upright guided by our own inbred sense of balance.
		A sense of harmony, where we can be at peace and where there is no strife, is a silent prodding desire within us, like some utopic goal that is always just outside our grasp.
		Finding a balance of polarity within ourselves, especially when confronted with the outside world's view, is difficult at best for many.
	www.paganet.org /pnn/v07/i1/feature_sample1.html (1861 words)

	The balance barometer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		We have to be attuned to our balance barometer in order to put stress in check before it can wreak havoc on us physically and mentally.
		The sense of urgency that encompasses our daily activities can cause our level of stress to increase on a daily basis.
		Maintaining our balance means knowing our limits, planning our time, setting our agendas, and taking control of our schedules via active decision making.
	www.blackwomenshealth.com /august_gotaminute.htm (421 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Many in Loudoun Strive to Keep Sense of Balance
		In the epic battle for Loudoun County's future, the two sides are too often caricatured as hick farmers whose time has passed and suburban newbies eager to turn the countryside into one vast Sterling/Gaithersburg/Bowie.
		Neither stereotype comes close to capturing the sense of balance that Loudoun had achieved in recent years.
		They thought they had found a balance in county restrictions that limited growth in the rural west while creating density in the east.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A61339-2005Mar23?language=printer (658 words)

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