Nowadays, robotic technologies are used in many fields, one of them is medicine. The breakthrough has enabled the development devices for rehabilitation therapies. exoskeletons can be found as device therapy, whose rigidity limits user's freedom movement, complicating his interaction with environment an easy and natural way. To overcome this current limitation, researchers invest effort soft de...

A microbiological safety cabinet was evaluated to determine conditions under which microorganisms might escape. Tests were conducted under three cabinet-closure conditions, various airflow velocities, and different laboratory operations, with 10(5), 1.1 x 10(5), and 10(6) microorganisms per cubic foot of cabinet space released per min for 5 min. The data revealed that (i) escape of a human infe...

In this paper, we introduce a scalable Video-on-Demand (VoD) system called GloVE (Global Video Environment) in which active clients cooperate to create a shareable video cache that is used as the primary source of video content for subsequent client requests. In this way, GloVE server’s bandwidth does not limit the number of simultaneous clients that can playback a certain video since that as l...

BACKGROUND The physician's hands are close to the X-ray field in C-arm fluoroscopy-guided pain interventions. We prospectively investigated the radiation attenuation of Proguard RR-2 gloves. METHODS In 100 cases, the effective doses (EDs) of two dosimeters without a radiation-reducing glove were collected. EDs from the two dosimeters-one dosimeter wrapped with a glove and the other dosimeter ...

BACKGROUND Medical gloves are an important piece of personal protective equipment that prevents exposure to antineoplastic agents. The permeability of medical gloves to antineoplastic agents is a crucial factor in the appropriate selection of gloves. However, the relationship between glove permeability and material type, thickness, and surface treatment is poorly understood. METHODS A continu...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether use of colored indicator gloves affects perforation detection rate and to identify risk factors for glove perforation during veterinary orthopedic surgery. STUDY DESIGN Prospective randomized controlled trial. SAMPLE POPULATION 574 double pairs of gloves worn during 300 orthopedic surgical procedures (2,296 gloves). METHODS Primary and assistant surgeons dou...

The study by Hartley and colleagues confirms the high rate of glove punctures that occurs during general surgical procedures (1). Most glove punctures are not immediately recognised; therefore, they pose a risk for prolonged cutaneous exposure to blood and, thus, to blood-borne disease that can be transmitted from patient to surgeon (2). Relatively few interventions in randomised clinical trial...

Many works have reported simulated performance benefits of stream reuse techniques such as chaining, batching, and patching to the scalability of VoD systems. However, the relative contribution of such techniques have been rarely evaluated in practical implementations of scalable VoD servers. In this work, we investigate the efficiency of representative stream reuse techniques on the GloVE syst...

Human hands are an important source of microbial contamination of foods. However, published data on the effectiveness of handwashing and glove use in a foodservice setting are limited. Bacterial transfer through foodservice quality gloves was quantified using nalidixic acid-resistant Enterobacter aerogenes (a nonpathogenic surrogate with attachment characteristics similar to Salmonella). Five t...

Effects of modifying the palm adapter geometry on ISO 10819 antivibration glove test results were investigated. 30 rigid acrylic adapters were designed, fabricated, and evaluated. The length of the adapters that met ISO 10819 requirements covered 70-80% of the width of the palm. The upper curvatures of the adaptors were greater than or equal to the radius specified in ISO 10819:1996. Glove vibr...