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cage
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cage
1. Engineering a skeleton ring device that ensures that the correct amount of space is maintained between the individual rollers or balls in a rolling bearing
2. Informal the basket used in basketball
3. Informal the goal in ice hockey

Cage
John. 1912--92, US composer of experimental music for a variety of conventional, modified, or invented instruments. He evolved a type of music apparently undetermined by the composer, such as in Imaginary Landscape (1951) for 12 radio sets. Other works include Reunion (1968), Apartment Building 1776 (1976), and Europeras 3 and 4 (1990)

CAGE - Early system on IBM 704. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).


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Niehoff also has one for the rib cage and how it affects the lower back.
Messages are sent to the muscles that surround the rib cage to contract and help lift the rib cage at a faster rate.
When Dr Sharma states in point 9 that "a decrease in diaphragm activity and an increase in activity of the lower ribs are incompatible," we do not know if he is referring to EMG activity of the intercostal or other muscles attaching to the lower rib cage or to movement of the lower rib cage.
 
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