Utilities now receive updates on transmission lines 30 times a second instead of every two seconds.

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In his lab Pister has scaled his network to some 800 motes sending error-free data every two seconds.

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The company estimates that its name is broadcast on Twitter once every two seconds, mostly by teens tweeting incessantly about their ooVoo activity.

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"Every two seconds someone dies of hunger, " Criolo said.

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"The prompts come back every two seconds and it will tell me things like whether I'm flying level, whether I'm banking to the right, banking to the left, in a descent or in a climb, " he said.

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By contrast, conventional monitoring technologies like supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) measure every two to four seconds without precise time synchronization.

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He recommended high-risk patients should be taught how to cough effectively, starting with a single cough every one to two seconds in bouts of five coughs.

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Men only think about sex once every two hours - not every seven seconds, as is commonly believed, according to a survey of 5, 000 adult males.

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Shot points occur every 10-15 seconds, and after each one the hydrophones record a 24-bit signal every two milliseconds.

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Producing a motorcycle every 18 seconds, the Gurgaon factory (Hero Honda has two others) is the epitome of Japanese efficiency seamlessly transplanted into an Indian setting.

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