BiteStrip doesn’t need a large data memory, and the downloading and analysis phases, common to all current sleep recorders, are eliminated. Test results indicate the number of bruxing events detected per hour of sleep (bruxing index or BI). This indication appears as permanent numbers encoded onto the electro-chemical display for easy reading. The device itself can serve as the medical record of the test. Self-test letters indicate technical and clinical validity of the study. Sleep Bruxism (SB) is a serious medical disorder, characterized by involuntary grinding and clenching of teeth during sleep. It is often accompanied by unpleasant grinding sounds heard
Shaking the Habitual the album "unnavigable and unknowable, almost impossible to write about and even harder to listen to." "The Guardian"s Alexis Petridis felt that ""Shaking the Habitual"s problem is that the Knife seem to have dismissed the idea of making your point concisely as merely another affectation of a decadent and corrupt society", describing the album as "alternately utterly gripping and unbearably boring; incredibly bold and strangely flaccid, viscerally thrilling and hopelessly over-thought." In March 2014, "Shaking the Habitual" won the Nordic Music Prize. Credits adapted from the liner notes of "Shaking the Habitual". Shaking the Habitual Shaking the Habitual is the