Cough is commonly used as an outcome measure in clinical studies, although the subjective reporting of cough is unreliable when compared to objective measures. We describe an inexpensive new ambulatory cough meter that is based on a disused Holter monitor. The cough meter consists of a Holter monitor and a cough processor, designed on a computer to select the most appropriate filters. The cough...

A growing number of applications require high capacity, high throughput tertiary storage systems [1] [2]. We are investigating how data striping ideas apply to arrays of magnetic tape drives. Data striping increases throughput and reduces response time for large accesses to a storage system. Striped magnetic tape systems are particularly appealing because many inexpensive magnetic tape drives h...

Measured replay pukes, recorded on Metal Evaporated tape, show a strong asymmetry and dependence on the direction of tape movement. It is found that pulse height and pulse width are unequal for both directions of tape movement. This is attributed to the non longitudinal easy-axis direction which causes differences in headtape geometry for both directions resulting in a different transition widt...

STUDY DESIGN Meta-analysis. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of different types of ankle support on ankle and foot joint range of motion before and after activity using meta-analysis procedures. BACKGROUND The effects of ankle support on joint range of motion before and after exercise has been extensively studied, but the results among studies are not consistent. Obtaining knowledge from s...

An accurate noncontact method of characterizing Ag-BiSCCO tape is reported, using the trapped field, , of a field-cooled tape. The dimensions of the tape make it possible to calculate in closed form a very simple expression, relating trapped field to transport current. Short lengths of tape, 4 (cm), are used to experimentally confirm the model. The model applies to any length of tape for which ...

Method: A survey with quantitative and qualitative components was conducted amongst 120 participants between 10 years and 12 years of age. The participants were randomly selected from six public schools in an urban district of the province. A calibrated Goldline bathroom scale was used to measure body weight and a KDS Freo non-elastic measuring tape was used to measure height. A questionnaire c...

The friction coefficient is an important parameter in designing magnetic tape transports. We have introduced laser surface texturing to reduce the friction coefficient between guides and magnetic tape. The surface features enhance the formation of an air bearing and hence, reduce the friction coefficient. INTRODUCTION Lateral tape motion (LTM) is defined as the time-dependent motion of the tape...

INTRODUCTION The objective is to evaluate the accuracy of medication dosing and the time to medication administration in the prehospital setting using a novel length-based pediatric emergency resuscitation tape. METHODS This study was a two-period, two-treatment crossover trial using simulated pediatric patients in the prehospital setting. Each participant was presented with two emergent scen...

The purpose of this study was to determine the environmental stability and life expectancies of magnetic media used with certain high density, digital recording tape systems, specifically the IBM 3590 and both Quantum’s Digital Linear Tape (DLT) and Super DLT products. The goal of the study was to compare the tape stabilities and life expectancies of the corresponding tape media and tape storag...