The fascial pubovaginal sling for stress urinary incontinence is effective and durable. Various techniques and materials have been developed, including polypropylene tension-free vaginal tape. Contrary to other synthetic slings, tension-free vaginal tape reportedly has a low complication rate.1,2 We report on a case of long-term urinary retention after tension-free vaginal tape surgery, which r...

BACKGROUND Elastic tape has been widely used in clinical practice in order to improve upper limb (UL) sensibility. However, there is little evidence that supports this type of intervention in stroke patients. OBJECTIVE To verify the effect of elastic tape, applied to the paretic shoulder, on joint position sense (JPS) during abduction and flexion in subjects with chronic hemiparesis compared ...

Recovering evidential data from magnetic tapes in a forensically sound manner is a difficult task. There are many different tape technologies in existence today and an even greater number of archive formats used. This paper discusses the issues and challenges involved in the forensic acquisition and analysis of magnetic tapes. It identifies areas of slack space on tapes and discusses the challe...

We explore natural classes of finitely generated semigroups that have word problem decidable by synchronous or asynchronous two-tape finite state automata. Synchronous two-tape automata decide regular word problems and asynchronous automata decide rational word problems. We argue that asynchronous two-tape automata are a more suitable choice than synchronous two-tape automata and show that the ...

We report the use of non-invasive tape stripping to sample psoriatic lesional and non-lesional skin in 96 patients. The procedure was well tolerated with any discomfort described as mild; we did not observe any cases of Koebner phenomena at any non-lesional tape-stripped sites. Tape-harvested epidermis was extracted for RNA, which was profiled by semiquantitative reverse transcriptase-PCR. This...

When a serpentine tape drive is used as a slow random access device, the I/O performance can be substantially improved by clever re-ordering of the I/O requests. This kind of re-ordering relies on a scheduling algorithm and a model of the access time. In this paper, we propose a low-cost access time model for serpentine tape drives, which is not a trivial task due to the complex data layout of ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of duct tape compared with placebo in the treatment of verruca vulgaris. DESIGN AND SETTING A randomized placebo-controlled trial in 3 primary schools in Maastricht, the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS One hundred three children aged 4 to 12 years with verruca vulgaris. INTERVENTIONS Duct tape applied to the wart or placebo, a corn pad (protection ring for cl...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effi cacy of Kinesio Tape (Kinesio USA, Albequerque, NM) for reducing hand edema in individuals with hemiplegia post stroke. METHODS Seventeen individuals who experienced acute stroke were screened for visual signs of edema and were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group received Kinesio Tape that was...