The mammalian lung develops through branching morphogenesis. Two primary forms of branching, which occur in order, in the lung have been identified: tip bifurcation and side branching. However, the mechanisms of lung branching morphogenesis remain to be explored. In our previous study, a biological mechanism was presented for lung branching pattern formation through a branching model. Here, we ...

The "B-finger" of transcription factor IIB (TFIIB) is highly conserved and believed to play a role in the initiation process. We performed alanine substitutions across the B-finger of human TFIIB, made change-of-charge mutations in selected residues, and substituted the B-finger sequence from other organisms. Mutant proteins were examined in two minimal promoter systems (containing only RNA pol...

We use techniques of logic-based relational machine learning to automatically detect spatial patterns common to 21 previously described examples of zinc finger DNA complexes. We demonstrate that such patterns can be found and thus the proposed methodology may potentially serve to achieve better understanding of zinc finger DNA binding. Keywords— Structural Genomics, Machine Learning, Data

Diversity of human finger vein images is shown by extracting their patterns from the right and left index fingers and middle fingers of 506 person and the usefulness of finger veins patterns for personal identification is shown by evaluating the false acceptance and false rejection rates.

This article presents a directly 3-D printed soft monolithic robotic finger with embedded pneumatic sensing chambers (PSC) as position and touch sensors. The was fabricated using low-cost open-source fused deposition modeling printer that employs an off-the-shelf flexible commercially available thermoplastic polyurethane. A single hinge PSC optimized finite element hyperelastic material model t...

The extensor digitorum communis muscle plays an important role in hand dexterity during object manipulations. This multi-tendinous muscle is believed to be controlled through separate motoneuron pools, thereby forming different compartments that control individual digits. However, due to the complex anatomical variations across individuals and the flexibility of neural control strategies, the s...

In this paper, we propose a new finger biometric method. Infrared finger images are first captured, and then feature extraction is performed using a modified gaussian high-pass filter through binarization, local binary pattern (LBP), and local derivative pattern (LDP) methods. Infrared finger images include the multimodal features of finger veins and finger geometries. Instead of extracting eac...

Recently, the development of prosthetic hand systems for hand amputees has attracted wide research interests. otion-related myoelectric potentials measured from the surface of upper part of forearms were mostly employed to construct the interface between amputees and prostheses However, finger motions could not be recognized from surface EMG (Electromyogram) signals. the basic idea of this stud...

In this paper, a simulation-based method is proposed for optimal placement of vibration sensors for the purpose of fault detection in a centrifugal pump. The centrifugal pump is modeled to investigate the effect of vane tip fault on fluid flow patterns numerically. Pressure pulsations are investigated at different locations at the inner surface of the pump before and after the presence of the f...

Objective The aims of the present study were to determine the normal values of TPD in the six trigeminal sites (the forehead, cheek, mentum, upper lip, lower lip, and the tongue tip) and to investigate the effect of the site, sex, and test modality on the TPD perception. Material and Methods Forty healthy volunteers consisting of age-matched men (20) and women (20) with a mean age of 27.1 yea...