A wearable robot could prevent future falls among those prone to stumbles.
The new exoskeleton packs motors on a user’s hips and can sense blips in balance. In a small trial, the pelvic robot performed well in sensing and averting wearers’ slips, researchers report May 11 in Scientific Reports. Exoskeletons have the potential to help stroke victims and people with spinal cord injuries walk again (SN: 11/16/13, p. 22) — and even kick soccer goals (SN Online: 6/12/14). But this new model focuses on a more ordinary aspect of the human condition: falling on your face or your rear. “Exoskeletons could really help in this case,” says study coauthor Silvestro Micera, an engineer at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Most exoskeletons guide the movement of the wearer, forcing the person to walk in a particular way. But the new pelvic device allows the user to walk normally and reacts only when it needs to. A computer algorithm measures changes in a wearer’s hip joint angles to detect the altered posture that goes along with slipping. The robot then uses its motors to push the hips back into their natural position to, hopefully, prevent a fall. Read Article: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-pelvic-exoskeleton-stops-people-taking-tumbles Revenue can most easily be thought of as the top line of an income statement or profit and loss statement. Revenue is the total amount of income generated by the sale of goods or services related to the company's primary operations. If the company is a shoe retailer, the money it makes from selling shoes before accounting for any expenses is its revenue. If the company also has income from investments or from a subsidiary company, that income is not considered revenue; it does not come from the sale of shoes. Additional income streams and various types of expenses are accounted for separately. For the fiscal year ended January 28, 2017, JCPenney's (JCP) revenue was $12.55 billion. This is the proceeds from sales in the company.
Profit, conversely, is the infamous bottom line. This is called net profit, because it is the amount of income that remains after accounting for all expenses, debts, additional income streams and operating costs. JCPenney's profit was $1 million for the fiscal year. Read more: What is the difference between revenue and profit? | Investopedia http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/122214/what-difference-between-revenue-and-profit.asp#ixzz4gwN3KPYN What is 'After-Hours Trading 'After-hours trading refers to the buying and selling of securities completed outside of regular trading hours. Trading outside of the standard trading hours of 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time uses electronic communication networks (ECNs) to match potential buyers and sellers without using a stock exchange.
Read more: After-Hours Trading (AHT) http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/afterhourstrading.asp#ixzz4gqBmyS4Z Follow us: Investopedia on Facebook Engineering researchers have developed a revolutionary process for 3D printing stretchable electronic sensory devices that could give robots the ability to feel their environment. The discovery is also a major step forward in printing electronics on real human skin.
Read Article: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170510132651.htm As the minutes tick down to 4 p.m. each trading day, a crucial process plays out in the U.S. stock market. Bats Global Markets wants to shake up how it works.
Bats, recently acquired by CBOE Holdings Inc., is debuting a new way to execute orders during the daily closing auctions, according to a statement Monday. The plan is to siphon off trades that would normally be completed at exchanges owned by NYSE Group and Nasdaq Inc., the two primary places that corporations and ETFs can turn to to get listed in the U.S. Bats says its new system will cost traders less. The end-of-day auctions are increasingly important amid a shift to passive investment strategies. Index funds tend to aggregate clients’ trades and execute them then. This ends up being a good business for NYSE and Nasdaq, because traders tend to execute the orders on the exchange where a given stock is listed. Bats, given that it lists far fewer securities, loses out. It hopes to change that with its new system. Read Article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-08/an-exchange-wants-to-shake-up-how-end-of-day-stock-trading-works By gaining a clear understanding of how indices are created and how they differ, you will be on your way to making sense of the daily movements in the marketplace.
Here we'll compare and contrast the main market indices so that the next time you hear someone refer to "the market," you'll have a better idea of just what they mean. The Dow The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is one of the oldest, most well-known and most frequently used indices in the world. It includes the stocks of 30 of the largest and most influential companies in the United States. The DJIA is what's known as a price-weighted index. It was originally computed by adding up the per-share price of the stocks of each company in the index and dividing this sum by the number of companies—that's why it's called an average. Unfortunately, it is no longer this simple to calculate. Over the years, stock splits, spin-offs, and other events have resulted in changes in the divisor, making it a very small number (less than 0.2). Read more: An Introduction To Stock Market Indexes http://www.investopedia.com/articles/analyst/102501.asp#ixzz4gBVACwQp Follow us: Investopedia on Facebook A currency trader, also known as a foreign exchange trader or forex trader, is a person who trades, or buys and sells, currencies on the foreign exchange. Currency traders include professionals, employed to trade for a financial firm or group of clients, but they also include amateur traders who trade for their own financial gain either as a hobby or to make a living.
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Trading profits are viewed as income since profits are “taken off the table” on a regular basis (as opposed to investing, where positions are generally left alone for the long haul). Trading profits are achieved through buying low and selling high - and selling high and buying (to cover) low, in the case of short selling - and all trades are entered and exited within a relatively short period of time. This time period can vary from a few seconds to months or even years, depending on the trader’s style. The following chart lists the four primary trading styles - position, swing, day and scalp - with the corresponding time frames and holding periods for each. Type of Trades Time FrameHolding Period Position TradingLong TermMonths to years Swing TradingShort TermDays to weeks Day TradingShort termDay only - no overnight positions Scalp TradingVery short termSeconds to minutes - no overnight positions Read Article: An informative article explaining the main types of investment trades. |
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