The goal of this project is to make it easier to measure objects in day to day life. This is normally difficult to do because a ruler or tape measure is required, which is difficult to come by in many situations. Money Measure works by allowing you to use a smartphone camera to measure things. By taking a photo of an object next to a common US dollar bill, Money Measure can measure the distance...

BACKGROUND Previous studies of epidermal kinetics in psoriasis have relied on invasive biopsy procedures or the use of radioactive labels. We previously developed a non-invasive method for measuring keratin synthesis in human skin using deuterated water labeling, serial collection of tape strips and measurement of deuterium enrichment in protein by mass spectrometry. This powerful method can be...

BackgroundEndotracheal intubation is a common lifesaving procedure. An in situ endotracheal tube (ETT) must be secured position to avoid displacement and potentially life-threatening complications. Adhesive tapes form the most intraoperative ETT stabilization methods. Limited published data are available guide clinical decision regarding taping method. We performed an interventional study aimin...

CONTEXT Postural stability diminishes with longer activity, which may increase the risk of injury. Tape can increase stability, but this effect diminishes after exercise. OBJECTIVE To investigate the influence of ankle taping on postural stability during soccer-specific activity. PARTICIPANTS 10 male, injury-free, semiprofessional soccer players. INTERVENTION A 45-min treadmill protocol r...

In order to investigate the effects of the hypnotic state a standardized hypnosis session was conducted with 144 subjects in a controlled laboratory study. The induction of a hypnotic trance in the German version of the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility (HGSHS:A by Shor and Orne, 1962) was tape-recorded and used as the treatment. The HGSHS:A seems to be a reliable measure of sugges...

The IBM Virtual Tape Server provides a revolutionary tape storage solution that emulates tape drives using a disk cache, providing up to 256 virtual tape-drive images and stacking the virtual tape volumes onto a maximum of 12 physical tape drives. The high ratio of virtual to physical drives, combined with the stacking of virtual volumes, provides tape storage that is both costand space-efficie...

Lateral tape motion (LTM) is a function of tape path and tape properties, design parameters such as speed, tension, and friction between tape and tape path components. This investigation deals with the LTM of a tape moving over the surface of a cylindrical guide. Starting from the equation of motion for a moving tape on a cylindrical guide surface, the effects of friction, tape properties and d...

Impedance tube method is widely used to measure acoustic properties of materials. Although this yields reliable for soft textured materials, uncertainty levels measured hard including biocomposites, can be quite large, mainly due uncertain mounting conditions. Here, the effects conditions on biocomposites in an impedance are investigated. First, nominally identical biocomposite samples with a d...