Ciekawostka: Only one in two billion people will live

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When home is a dangerous place: the cost of falls among older people living in the community.. Falls among older people are common, and they may have consequences such as fractures and injuries. Falls may also reduce older people's independence and wellbeing and increase demand for both healthcare and social care services. This research aims to investigate whether older people living in the community who experience poor housing conditions face a greater risk of falls than those living in better-quality housing after controlling for other risk factors. In particular, we aimed to (i) identify housing-related drivers of falls, and (ii) estimate associated costs. Using data from the English Lon…

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Facing One Billion Challenges: A rights-based approach to slum upgrading. There are currently one billion people living in slums today facing poor sanitation, high levels of violence and overcrowding. Forced evictions and slum demolition has been a common practice, despite being deemed a gross violation of human rights. Slum upgrading has increasingly become recognized as an effective urban poverty strategy that can best address the livelihoods of slum dwellers. This research will explore how a rights-based approach (RBA) to slum upgrading can improve outcomes. The first section will discuss definitions and characteristics of slums, illustrating their deep complexities. Following, slum upgr…

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Socially Assistive Robots for Older Adults and People with Autism: An Overview. Over one billion people in the world suffer from some form of disability. Nevertheless, according to the World Health Organization, people with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to deficiencies in services, such as health care, rehabilitation, support, and assistance. In this sense, recent technological developments can mitigate these deficiencies, offering less-expensive assistive systems to meet users’ needs. This paper reviews and summarizes the research efforts toward the development of these kinds of systems, focusing on two social groups: older adults and children with autism.. Source: Electronics.…

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You Only Live Twice is a 1967 spy film and the fifth film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. The film's screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, and was loosely based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel You Only Live Twice. It is the first of three Bond films to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, and is the first Bond film to discard most of Fleming's plot, using only a few characters and locations from the book as the background for an entirely new story. You Only Live Twice stars Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, who is dispatched to Japan after American and Soviet spacecraft vanish mysteriously, each nation blaming the other amidst the Cold War. Bond travels to a rem…

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album, ... in Death of Steve Sylvester (1988). Billion Dollar Babies is the second most-represented album in Alice Cooper's live sets, behind only Welcome

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