BACKGROUND Adhesive tape is commonly used to secure the endotracheal tube (ETT) in anesthesia and intensive-care settings. OBJECTIVE To determine the force required to extubate when the ETT is secured with adhesive tape or commercially available ETT holders. METHODS We orally intubated a simulation manikin with a standard 8.0-mm inner-diameter ETT, inflated the cuff to 20 cm H(2)O, and mea...

This paper describes the areal density (bits per unit area) roadmap goals for tape based magnetic recording (TAPE) and uses these goals as counterpoints for the areal density roadmap strategies for Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and NAND flash. Technology comparisons described in this paper will show that presently volumetric densities (bits per unit volume) for TAPE, HDD, and NAND are similar and that ...

STUDY DESIGN Prospective, randomized, double-blinded, clinical trial using a repeated-measures design. OBJECTIVES To determine the short-term clinical efficacy of Kinesio Tape (KT) when applied to college students with shoulder pain, as compared to a sham tape application. BACKGROUND Tape is commonly used as an adjunct for treatment and prevention of musculoskeletal injuries. A majority of ...

This paper studies the classification of recursive sets by the number of tape reversals required for their recognition on a two-tape Turing machine with a one-way input tape. This measure yields a rich hierarchy of tape-reversal limited complexity classes and their properties and ordering are investigated. The most striking difference between this and the previously studied complexity measures ...

There are several interesting observations to be made concerning the tape complexity of context-free languages. An early result given by Lewis et al. (1965) is that every context-free language can be recognized by an off-line deterministic Turing machine of O((log n) 2) tape complexity. This is still the best result known. Sudborough (1975) shows that if all linear context-free languages can be...

Implications for sports performance and athletic injury occurrence have been forcefully insinuated by proponents of a biorhythm theory based on date of birth. The theory postulates that variations in human abilities are governed by three consistently recurring cycles of 23, 28 and 33 day lengths. This study assessed the validity of biorhythms by analysing best performances in 610 top ranked Eur...

BACKGROUND There are controversial data about the relation between foot morphology and athletic injuries of the lower extremity. Studies in soldiers have shown some relationship, whereas those involving athletes have not shown any significant relationship. The reason for these differences is not clear. OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of various sports on sole arch indices (AIs). METHOD A ...