This report describes the case of a 42 years old male patient whose one right hand finger was partially lost as a result of occupational trauma. A modified impression technique was used for impression making and wax pattern was fabricated using the normal hand of the same patient. A special type of wax was formulated to make a pattern which was easily molded and carved. Two indexed casts were u...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of finger sucking habit among three-six-year-old children from kindergartens of Kerman, Iran. METHODS: This descriptive, cross-sectional study used census sampling to select 1000 children from 40 kindergartens. Data was collected by a checklist and clinical examination.  Chi-square test in SPSS16 was used for statisti...

Anatomical landmark of A1 pulley is important especially in minimal invasive surgery. The lengths and landmarks of A1 pulleys were evaluated in 510 preserved cadaver digits. The cadavers were 25 females and 26 males aged at the time of death ranged from 48 to 89 years. Measurements of A1 pulley lengths were made and used to predict the landmarks of the proximal pulley margins, which are related...

Existing methods for learning from structured data are limited with respect to handling large or isolated substructures and also impose constraints on search depth and induced structure length. An approach to learning from structured data using a graph based propositionalization method, called finger printing, is introduced that addresses the limitations of current methods. The method is implem...

For this experiment a visual illusion was created in which the participant's finger looked and felt as though it was being stretched to twice its normal length until it snapped and the tip came off. It was then stabbed with virtual weapons while skin conductance was measured. Sometimes the fingertip moved under the participant's own control and sometimes it moved independently. Curiously, detac...

Microsatellite markers from a transcriptome sequence library were initially isolated, and their genetic variation was characterized in a wild population of the mud crab (Scylla paramamosain). We then tested the association between these microsatellite markers and the growth performance of S. paramamosain. A total of 129 polymorphic microsatellite markers were identified, with an observed hetero...

The paper deals with the motion design of legged robots and dextrous hands. We show the possibilities and limitation of conventional stratified control approach through the relative simple example of hexapod robot and offer some proposals for a more robust motion planning solution. The precision of the algorithms was improved by step length modification and the applicability was increased by ti...

OBJECTIVE Know the results of percutaneous release of trigger digits by using full handle knife 15 degrees. MATERIAL AND METHOD The author identified 510 cadaveric digits to find the anatomical landmark of Al pulley that relates to the knuckle and measurements of A1 pulley lengths. The proximal margin of the Al pulleys on the perpendicular line from the knuckle to the palm was in the same lin...

Evidence suggests that tactile sensitivity may differ between women with sexual arousal difficulties and women with normal sexual functioning. Tactile sensitivity was examined on the distal portion of the dominant hand index finger and on the lower lip in women with female sexual arousal disorder (FSAD) (n = 17) and in normally functioning women (n = 17). The two groups did not differ significa...

Research conducted by evolutionary psychologists and biologists shows that subtle individual differences in body morphology can be related to surprising and important differences in human behavior and reproductive success. The authors summarize recent work on these effects as they relate to fluctuating asymmetry, facial attractiveness, finger digit morphology, sexually dimorphic differences in ...