This paper describes the use of a neonatal sphygmomanometer cuff as a simple, inexpensive pinch meter. Normal values for key pinch, pulp pinch and side pinch in the dominant hand of healthy Nepali people are provided. The pinch meter was also used to test pinch strength in hands affected by leprosy and normal hands. Some patients with leprosy who have no objective weakness on voluntary muscle t...

BACKGROUND Data on the physical strength capabilities are essential for designing safe and usable products and are useful in a wide range of clinical settings especially during treatment of disease affecting the function of the hand. The purpose of this study was to determine peak lateral pinch strength, key pinch strength, tip-to-tip pinch strength and three-jaw pinch strength exertions in a h...

Repetitive, high-force pinch grip exertions are common in many occupational activities. The goal of the current study was to quantify the relationship between lateral pinch grip span (distance between thumb and index finger) and lateral pinch grip strength. An experiment was conducted in which 40 participants performed maximal lateral pinch grip exertions at 11 levels of grip span distances (0,...

A dynamic hohlraum is created when an annular z-pinch plasma implodes onto a cylindrical 0.014 g/cc 6-mm-diameter CH2 foam. The impact launches a radiating shock that propagates toward the axis at w350 mm/ns. The radiation trapped by the tungsten z-pinch plasma forms a w200 eV hohlraum that provides X-rays for indirect drive inertial confinement fusion capsule implosion experiments. We are deve...

Measurements of profiles of soft x-ray emissivity with 1.5 mm radial resolution are combined with high resolution electron density and temperature measurements in the edge region of the Alcator C-Mod tokamak to facilitate transport analysis of medium-Z impurities during Hmodes. Results from detailed modelling of the radiation and transport of fluorine are compared with the experimental measurem...

measuring and comparing grip and pinch strengths with their normative data is a valid method to detect intensity of the numerous damages of hand. this research was carried out with the aim of establishing normative data of grip strength and three types of pinch strengths (tip, key and palmar) in healthy iranian adults.in this cross-sectional study, the study population was formed of 1008 people...

Fusion gain Q and triple product nTτ are derived for the sheared-flow-stabilized (SFS) Z pinch by including input power associated with driving plasma flow additional advective loss of thermal energy. Plasma impurities contribute to radiative losses increasing electron population. The presence increases required parameters, characterized product, achieve fusion gain. analysis is applied deuteri...