Medical tape that provides secure fixation of life-sustaining and -monitoring devices with quick, easy, damage-free removal represents a longstanding unmet medical need in neonatal care. During removal of current medical tapes, crack propagation occurs at the adhesive-skin interface, which is also the interface responsible for device fixation. By designing quick-release medical tape to undergo ...

In prior work on multiprocessor fairness, efficient techniques with provable properties for reallocating spare processing capacity have been elusive. In this paper, we address this shortcoming by proposing a new notion of multiprocessor fairness, called quick-release fair (QRfair) scheduling, which is a derivative of Pfair scheduling that allows efficient allocation of spare capacity. Under QRf...

In the isolated cat papillary muscle, the time course of activation during isometric contraction was measured using instantaneous velocity of shortening after quick releases at constant contractile element length and controlled load. Activation rose and declined ahead of isometric force. This course of activation could be altered by the mode of the quick release. Undamped quick releases increas...