For cosmetic reasons, hand prostheses are provided with cosmetic gloves. Their pleasing appearance, however, is accompanied by poor mechanical behavior, resulting in a negative influence on prosthesis operation. Glove stiffness is high and nonlinear, and internal friction in the glove material causes energy dissipation (hysteresis). In this article, two methods for reducing hysteresis in cosmet...

OBJECTIVES Nail salon owners in New York City (NYC) are required to provide their workers with gloves and it is their responsibility to maintain healthy, safe working spaces for their employees. The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency with which nail salon workers wear protective gloves. METHODS A Freedom of Information Law request was submitted to New York Department of Stat...

Using a tactile variant of the negative-priming paradigm, we analyzed the influence of Gestalt grouping on the ability of participants to ignore distracting tactile information. The distance between participants' hands, to which the target and distractor stimuli were simultaneously delivered, was varied (near/touching hands vs. hands far apart). In addition, the influence of touching hands was ...

Gloves afford hand protection by minimizing skin contact. The effectiveness of medical gloves to protect against permeation of the monomers, methyl methacrylate (MMA), ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDMA), and 1,4-butanediol dimethacrylate (1,4-BDMA), was assessed focusing on permeation rates and degradation of glove materials caused by monomer contact. Fifteen different brands of gloves were...

This study was performed to determine the changes in electromyographic activities in the shoulder and forearm muscles when using the bare hands, well-fitting gloves, and gloves that are one size smaller or one size larger for simulated assembly operations. Sixteen asymptomatic seated workers with normal hands and no obvious deformities, skin diseases, or allergies were recruited. The subjects w...

We assessed the frequency of glove perforation during major and minor orthopaedic surgeries, in order to determine the efficacy of double gloving. A total number of 1528 gloves (622 inner and 906 outer) used in 200 procedures (100 major-100 minor), and 100 pairs of unused gloves were examined. Glove perforation rate, incidence among surgical team, location of perforation and duration of surgery...

© 2008 The Authors JEADV 2009, 23, 317–368 Journal compilation © 2008 European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology 3 Hsieh MY, Huang PH. The juvenile variant of papular-purpuric ‘gloves and socks’ syndrome and its association with viral infections. Br J Dermatol 2004; 151: 201–206. 4 Feldman R, Harms M, Saurat JH. Papular-purpuric ‘gloves and socks’ syndrome: not only parvovirus B19. Dermato...

Intervention Patients were allocated to standard mass closure of the abdomen with the surgeon using^ number-1 polydioxanone suture with either blunt-tipped (n = 46) or cutting (n=39) needles. Immediately before closure, the surgeon put on new gloves. After closure, gloves were examined both by inflating them with air and then immersing them in water and by filling them with water. During the se...