AIM To investigate tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) position and shape using ultrasound (US) and correlate the findings to outcome. MATERIAL AND METHODS The results of TVT surgery were investigated in 72 women with urodynamic stress urinary incontinence. The main outcome parameters were US tape position in relation to the urethra and dynamic changes in TVT shape at rest and during straining. ...

banberz, banbor, and sabziabad neighborhoods are three residential districts on the peripheryof ilam city, and are facing a lot of problems namely social, economic, and physical, particularly in housing sectorincluding low quality, poor housing, limited-quantity housing. in order to assess the sustainability of housing, 75indicators and to rank districts, spss software (exploratory factor analy...

OBJECTIVE To compare the short-term effectiveness of precut kinesiology tape (PCT) to a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) as adjuvant treatment to exercise physiotherapy in improving pain and function in patients with shoulder impingement. DESIGN Randomized, controlled assessor-blind parallel-design trial with 3 groups. SETTING Academic-community hospital. PATIENTS One hundred p...

neighborhoods within the hierarchy of urban structure are one of the smallest socio-physical building blocks of cities. traditional neighborhoods of iranian historic cities benefited from strong social relations which were flourished over the years and were manifested in the neighborhoods centers. in the modern era, the new master plans and the complementary local plans have disintegrated these...

Based on the structural and experimental studies of more than 300 insect species from different lineages, we have developed and characterized a bioinspired polymer material with the ability of multiple glue-free bonding and debonding. The material surface is covered with a pattern of microstructures, which resembles the geometry of tenent hairs previously described from the feet of flies, beetl...

All tape drives have a buffer memory in which incoming data are stored. When a write command This paper describes a method for fast backups is accepted, as much data as possible is transferred and restores on tape drives. By using a tight into the buffer and the (slower) physical writing synchronization between disk and tape accesses, on the tape starts. When the last byte of data from the tota...

The friction coefficient is an important parameter in designing magnetic tape transports. We have introduced laser surface texturing to reduce the friction coefficient between guides and magnetic tape. The surface features enhance the formation of an air bearing and hence, reduce the friction coefficient. INTRODUCTION Lateral tape motion (LTM) is defined as the time-dependent motion of the tape...

Fugitive tetrachloroethylene (PCE, perc) emissions from dry cleaners operating in apartment buildings can contaminate residential indoor air. In 1997, New York State and New York City adopted regulations to reduce and contain perc emissions from dry cleaners located in residential and other buildings. As part of a New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) study, indoor air perc levels were d...

In this talk, I will introduce our recent work on a distributed estimation framework of the inverse covariance matrix, also called the concentration matrix, in Gaussian graphical models. Traditional centralized estimation often requires iterative and expensive global inference and is therefore difficult in large distributed networks. In this work, we propose a general framework for distributed ...

We explore natural classes of finitely generated semigroups that have word problem decidable by synchronous or asynchronous two-tape finite state automata. Synchronous two-tape automata decide regular word problems and asynchronous automata decide rational word problems. We argue that asynchronous two-tape automata are a more suitable choice than synchronous two-tape automata and show that the ...