T he explosive growth of the college athletics " business " has dramatically altered these amateur games over the past decade. The multimillion dollar university sports enterprises often dwarf academic departments in terms of resources. Athletic departments are commanding more and more attention of college presidents and governing boards, and rightfully so! While many of the perennial top compe...

Patellar taping is a treatment adjunct commonly used in the management of anterior knee pain. The aim of this cross sectional study was to investigate the effects of medial glide patellar taping on sagittal plane lower-limb joint kinematics and knee pain during a unilateral squat in a symptomatic population complaining of anterior knee pain. Ten participants with a history of unilateral or bila...

/ This paper reports an assessment of various methods for sampling particulate surface contami^ nation for use in the field. The results from the study will be used to develop guidance for monitoring particulate surface contamination in the workplace. Three types of adhesive tape, two manual and two 'semi-automatic' wipe methods, and one Smair method were assessed. A field assessment of selecte...

Efficiently Scheduling Tape-resident Jobs Jing Shi, Chunxiao Xing, Lizhu Zhou Department of Computer Science and Technology Tsinghua University Beijing 100084, P.R.China [email protected], {xingcx, dcszlz}@tsinghua.edu.cn Tel: +86-10-62789150 Abstract Many large-scale data-intensive applications need to use tape library to manage large data sets, thus it is critical to study the onl...

Intra-urethral vaginal tape is a rare complication of tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) procedure. A 41year-old woman with intra-urethral vaginal tape after TVT procedure is presented. The presenting symptoms were urge incontinence and dysparonia. The patient has received anticholinergic drugs and vaginal estrogen, but the symptoms had not been resolved with both this regimen. The diagnosis was m...

This study reports the first experimental exploration of possible contagious yawning in monkeys. Twenty-two stumptail macaques (Macaca arctoides) were presented with video clips of either yawns or control mouth movements by conspecifics. At a group level, monkeys yawned significantly more often during and just after the yawn tape than the control tape. Supplementary analysis revealed that the y...

The mechanics of the "tape" over a flat-head is investigated. It has been recently shown that a thin, flexible tape, traveling over a flat recording head under tension contacts the head over the central area of the head. This phenomenon is due to the selfacting, subambient foil bearing effect. In this paper, as a first order of approximation, a simplified system is analyzed; where a uniform sub...

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of various eye protection measures during carbon dioxide laser laryngoscopy. DESIGN A standard medical mannequin was equipped with indicator paper over the eyes and subjected to multiple passes of direct carbon dioxide laser beam contact at 400-mm focal length with powers ranging from 2.5 to 4.0 W during simulated laser microlaryngoscopy. Several different ...

Intra-urethral Prolene tape erosion is a rare postoperative complication of tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) plasty. In cases reported in the literature, intra-urethral tape positioning has been diagnosed by urethroscopy as late as 3-12 months after the procedure. Introital ultrasound using a vaginal sector scanner allows for the non-invasive assessment of the position of the Prolene tape in rel...