Snaps

Four Percent of American Youths are Requested to Post Sexual Snaps on Web

A new research has revealed that four percent of American youths online have been asked to send a sexually explicit photo of themselves over the Internet. Researchers at the University of New Hampshire's Crimes against Children Research Center have found that one in 25 youth who use the In...

UC design innovation: New hope for the hated hospital gown

...se crop pants feature a stretch-jersey waist that is comfortable (and expands and contracts to fit a variety of sizes). Each leg of the calf pants has snaps along the outside seam in order to accommodate braces or swelling. The shorter length of the calf pants also ensure that patients won't trip over the ...

Dr. Wilhelm, DMD MSD, Makes Clients Smile with New Easy Smile Dental Appliance

... without having to undergo time-consuming and sometimes intrusive reconstruction procedures. The Easy Smile is a resin-based, temporary appliance that snaps over a patient's teeth to change their appearance. It doesn't involve drills, cutting down of existing tooth structure, sedation dentistry or needles,...

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes ValveXchange's Pioneering Heart Valve Technology for Unique Long-term Management and Future Replacement Advantages

... implantation, it is released by a specific exchange tool in a foolproof manner. The exchange tool then is loaded with a new leaflet set which quickly snaps onto the docking station providing new-valve performance. "ValveXchange is designing the system for a wide variety of surgical options for the le...

Superior Sound Amplifies Quality of Life for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

... benefit from this type of device. The Baha system, by contrast, uses a titanium implant in the skull bone behind the ear. An external sound processor snaps onto the implant, transmitting sound vibrations from the outside world directly to the cochlea, bypassing damaged or problematic areas. This dire...

Bulk Powder Processing Solution BFM Fitting on Display This Week at Northwest Food Manufacturing & Packaging Expo

...s of a flexible sleeve with integral top and bottom stainless steel snap bands, and two matched formed spigots (welded in place). The BFM® sleeve snaps into place quickly and accurately using only an operator's hands, helping to ensure that the cleaning and sanitizing process is no longer a time consu...

TransMedia Group to Open Curtain on Innovative Hospital Bed Curtain that Will Save Millions in Maintenance

...oduct, "Simply 66." The name stems from its simply comprising overlapping 66-inch square panels fastened by a patent-pending, easily detachable row of snaps along the top part where hospital bed curtains meet the required safety mesh through which sprinkler water can pass in case of a fire. "This revoluti...

Briton Set for Pacific Solo Odyssey to Highlight Warming

...n reflections but evidence of Pacific flotsam. Savage plans to post text daily, video weekly, and her boat will be equipped with a camera that snaps a photo every forty-eight minutes during daylight. Her retreat into solitude was interrupted only once in the Atlantic when the Royal Navy del...

Death Rates Will Rise Because of Global Warming

... weather data related to the deaths of more than 6.5 million people in 50 US cities between 1989 and 2000. They found that during two-day cold snaps there was a 1.59% increase in deaths because of the extreme temperatures. However, during similar periods of extremely hot weather death rates went up...

School-Employed Voyeur Jailed Over Making Pornography

... He also drilled a large hole in the kindergarten floor to take pictures "upwards from the legs of female teachers". Mayne superimposed the snaps on to photographs of adults engaging in sexual activity to make a collection of 90 images, the Supreme Court of Tasmania was told. Students at th...

Snaps in Medical Products

SOMI Brace (Sternal Occipital Mandibular Immobilizer)

Description:...coated aluminum can be shaped to the wearer. Headband has nonstretch nylon forehead strap with Velcro closure and polyethylene occipital section that snaps onto orthosis occipital plate....
Company:AliMed, Inc.

QuickScreen Multi-Panel Dip Card

Description:...ur special slit-lid cup prevents splashing and spilling. To transport specimens to the lab, just remove the slit-lid cover and a hinged leak proof lid snaps into place. This is the most secure collection container on the market. Write the specimen donor's name directly on the device, and QuickScreen cards ...
Company:Phamatech, Inc.,

QuickScreen™ Multi-Panel Dip Card

Description:...ur special slit-lid cup prevents splashing and spilling. To transport specimens to the lab, just remove the slit-lid cover and a hinged leak proof lid snaps into place. This is the most secure collection container on the market. Write the specimen donor's name directly on the device, and QuickScreen™...
Company:Phamatech, Inc.,

MSP-2- Wrap Around Coat Apron with Wide Belt

Description:... A full protection apron with a plus. This wrap around features a unique 5 inch orthopedic adjustable belot that snaps on the apron to support the lower back, providing full body protection....
Company:MarShield

Apron Sleeves

Features:... Attached with snaps and Velcro Optional permanent attachment...
Company:Pulse Medical Inc.

Snaps in Medical Dictionary

Skin turgor

...by health care workers to assess the degree ... Skin with normal turgor snaps rapidly back to its normal position. ... Skin turgor ; Savannah Geor...nge shape and return to normal (elasticity. ... Skin with normal turgor snaps rapidly back to its ... Skin turgor is the skin's degree of ... P...

Snaps in Biological News

University of Leicester geologists demonstrate extent of ancient ice age

...d characterised by essentially greenhouse conditions with elevated atmospheric CO 2 and warm temperatures extending to high latitudes, and only brief snaps of frigid climate. However, during his doctoral studies in the internationally renowned Palaeobiology Research Group of the University of Leicester, D...

Lab-on-a-chip homes in on how cancer cells break free

... cell stretches way, way out across the chip and then, on command, the tail snaps toward the body of the cell." Cells survive this programmed-release proc...on time of the cell," Wildt says. "After this induction time, the cell then snaps back and contracts. We analyze the rate of the cell's contraction and then ...

Students invent protective pouch to enhance cell therapy

...rior of the vein. Next, the doctor would insert the inner stent, surrounded by the porous nylon mesh. The inner stent is made of nitinol, a metal that snaps back into its original shape after being compressed for insertion. The inner stent matches the interior diameter of the vein. When all of the pieces a...

Hot-spring bacteria flip a metabolic switch

... found that photosynthetic genes shut down shortly after nightfall, and N2-fixation genes switch on shortly thereafter. The nitrogenase enzyme complex snaps into action at about the same time, following the same pattern as the N2-fixation genes. Fixing N2 requires a lot of energy, which raises another p...

Snaps in Biological Technology

Researchers discover a potential on-off switch for nanoelectronics

...o the molecule's orientation in the junction, explained Quek. In the STM experiment, as you pull, just after the final strand of gold atoms breaks and snaps back, the vertical gap is not big enough for bipyridine, so it bonds at an angle. As the gap increases, the molecule jumps to a vertical configuration...

Penn researchers demonstrate a flexible, 1-step assembly of nanoscale structures

... Because the elastic deformation of the PDMS membrane is induced by solvent swelling, the diamond plate pattern in PDMS is stable in the wet state and snaps back to the original square lattice once the solvent evaporates. To capture the diamond plate before evaporation and, more important, to utilize this...

Purdue leads center to simulate behavior of micro-electromechanical systems

...o turn on and off radio frequency signals, are made of a thin metal membrane located on top of a dielectric contact. During operation, the membrane snaps on top of the contact, altering an electronic property called capacitance and switching off the radio signal, in effect turning off the device. Res...

New property found in ancient mineral lodestone

...a conductor again," Natelson said. "The transition is very sharp, and when the voltage is then lowered back below a lower critical value the magnetite snaps back into its insulating phase. We don't know exactly why this switching occurs, but we think further experiments will shed light on this and the natu...

Snaps in Biological Dictionary

Turgor

...th vomiting, diarrhea, or fever. ... Skin turgor is an abnormality in the skin's ability to change shape and return ... Skin with normal turgor snaps rapidly back to its normal position. ... turgor ( ) n. The state of being turgid. Biology. The normal fullness or tension produced by the fluid c...