Well in short Base Strength is how much weight you can move, Transitional Power is how fast you can move said weight and explosiveness is the maximum speed and distance you can move said weight with each single movement.
And, researchers say, weight lifting can stave off the sort of muscle wasting that forces older people to grab a chair handle for support when they rise.
This method of calculation means that Gallup is throwing out half of its sample (rather than, say, weighting the whole sample), and that is risky for the same reason that weighting for party is risky: it means that Gallup is relying on a key variable in the election — in this case turnout — remaining unchanged.
Given n items, each having, say, a weight and a length, and n identical bins with a weight and a length capacity, the 2-Dimensional Vector Packing Problem (2-DVPP) calls for packing all the items into the minimum number of bins.
The things we say have weight and, like some strange game of Tron, our physical lives are being sucked into the computer.
Mr. Pipas said the weight and engine size of S.U.V.'s was likely to come down, while the fuel economy average would probably increase.
Nevertheless, these great operatic tableaux built, as one critic has said, for weight and not speed were evidently able to carry their huge audiences to a catharsis of feeling.
One nurse explained this by saying: The weight and height chart is not quite right, because if you measure two above on weight [i.e. two standard deviations] and two above on length [i.e. two standard deviations], you would be perfect, but you aren't, then you are a bit overweight.
It springs from a lingering suspicion that the things women say have less weight, and are said in lighter and more ephemeral tones.
"I wanted to say something about weight, and I'm never allowed to do that," he said.
