various dermatoglyphic parameters like finger print pattern, atd angle, absolute ridge count & ab, bc ,cd, and ad ridge counts were observed in 150 cases of congenital cardiac disease, comprising of 72 cases of ventricular septal defects (vsd), 60 cases of atrial septal defects (asd), 9 cases of coarctation of aorta (coa) & 9 cases of tetralogy of fallot’s (tof). same dermatoglyphic parameters ...

OBJECTIVE To understand the epidemiology, sites, and mechanism of finger injuries in children and to consider safety measures. SETTING Accident and emergency department of a children's hospital in Glasgow. METHODS A prospective study was carried out with a specifically designed questionnaire. Altogether 283 children presenting with isolated finger injuries were identified over six months. A...

Skin conductance (SC) is one of the most commonly used measures in psychophysiological studies involving emotional arousal and is traditionally measured at the fingers or the palms (i.e., the palmar locations) of the hand. Palmar skin conductance recording positions are, however, not always preferred for ambulatory recordings in real-life situations. This study quantifies the responsiveness and...

A 65 year old male retired farmer presented with an inability to fully straighten the ring finger and little finger of his right hand. This had progressed over the past two years and he had recently noticed a “rope like” swelling in his palm. He had no history of trauma and no medical history of note, except that he had smoked until 10 years earlier and had a 90 pack year history. His father ha...

The piano-playing-like finger-tapping movement has been analyzed with a precision image-based motion analyzer (PRIMAS). 32 healthy subjects (148 recordings) and 10 Parkinsonian patients (25 recordings) were tested. The tracking of fingers during the whole movement increased the level of information obtained from the finger-tapping test compared to visual observation or to measurement with simpl...

finger patterns and ridge-counts in a random sample of iranian muslims consisting of 100 males and 100 females are described. the most common finger patterns found were loops, having a frequency of 54.4% u.l., 3.4% r.l. in males and 51.2% u.l. and 4.8% r.l in females. the frequencies of arches and whorls in both sexes were 4% and 38.5% respectively. bimanual and sex differences were indistinct....

The fat-finger problem has emerged to a routine problem when interacting with especially small touch devices. Thereby, the target is smaller than the size of the finger contact area and interactions may result in incorrect input. Developers tried to respond to this and created new interfaces and tools. In this paper, I would like to present four approaches to address the problem. The stylus is ...

This paper addresses issues pertaining to hand prostheses with functional finger joints actuated by remaining natural fingers. These offer improved options for rehabilitation of hand impairments with partial disabilities. A prosthetic finger mechanism with three joints, offering greater dexterity and based on the like-unlike configuration presented earlier is used to realize the implementation ...

In this research, first, kinematic and dynamic equations of a 4-DOF 3-link robotic finger are derived using Denavit-Hartenberg convention and Lagrange’s formulation. To model the muscles, several springs and dampers are placed between the finger links. Then, two advanced controllers, namely adaptive-robust and adaptive-neural, which can control the robotic finger in presence of parametric uncer...

The vein structure is stable over time and can be manipulated for identifying human. The sclera portion of the human eye has blood vessel pattern which is unique for each human being. So, the sclera vein pattern can be used for a useful biometric feature. A few research works has been done over finger vein pattern recognition. Finger vein is an important biometric technique for personal identif...