BACKGROUND Ankle tape is widely used by athletes to prevent ankle sprain. Although there is growing evidence that ankle tape improve joint position sense, but yet it is not clear even if tape improve joint position sense after muscle fatigue, because fatigue impair joint position sense and raise the risk of ankle sprain. The aim of this study is to examine the effect of ankle tape on joint posi...

1. Overview This paper talks about monotonicity of P and NP by using monotone circuit and Log Space Transducer (LST). We can reduce Deterministic Turing Machine (DTM) to monotone circuit value problem by using LST. Therefore DTM has nonmonotonicity of the degree that LST can compute it. But Nondeterministic Turing Machine (NTM) have nonmono-tonicity that LST cannot compute it. Therefore We cann...

On January 31, 2001, we witnessed jointly with a number of medical aides a most remarkable event. Our son was starting his fifth epileptic seizure of that morning after a high dose of stesolid, in addition to his regular doses of luminal and dilantin, when we decided to play the alpha tape. The seizure ceased immediately, in its tracks. Eyes and face returned to normal. The cycle repeated itsel...

In this paper, we analyzed the performance of various robotically-accessed tape libraries for supercomputing workloads. We used an event-driven simulator to conduct the performance analysis, and we considered the workloads at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). The simulation results showed that tape libraries with ...

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) published the latest results from the spring 2001 sports season with injuries to the ankle being in the top three most prevalent in softball, spring football, and men’s and women’s lacrosse. However, injuries to the ankle are no fault of the sport, but rather due to the structural properties of the ankle mortise, which make it more susceptible...

This paper presents a new design of a low cost, unlubricated, self-deploying, self-locking hinge whose properties can be easily modified to meet different requirements. A particular implementation is considered, providing a hinge that is 135 mm long, 30 mm high and 45 mm wide, with a deployment moment varying between 0.1 and 0.3 Nm and a locking moment of 13 Nm. Stiffness tests have been carrie...

BACKGROUND The recovery of RNA from the upper epidermis by tape stripping yields variable RNA mass but has not been evaluated for its dependence on anatomical location. Gene expression at different body locations and the origin of RNA recovered by tape stripping have not been investigated. OBJECTIVES To characterize the recovery of RNA from different anatomical locations by tape stripping; to...