Introduction: Hand and wrist stability are critical for optimal upper extremity function. Instability occurs when injury or a pathological condition alters balance, typically in the basketball players and handball players. Injury also can occur whenever the ligaments are subjected to tensile forces that exceed their physiological capacities. For example, thumb is stable in ext...

Objective: To study of relationship between alopecia areata and finger print dermatoglyphic types in 100 patients with alopecia areata and in 100 controls. Methods: A case control analytical study was done on fingerprints of patients with alopecia areata. The control cases were older than 50 years old without any history of alopecia areata. Dermatoglyphical trials of total fingers were al...

background: to evaluate safety and efficacy of percutaneous release of trigger finger in multiple digits involvement in comparison with  single digit involvement.   method: a number of 100 patients (131 fingers) were treated by percutaneous release and divided into two groups: single digit (group a) and multiple digits (group b). they were followed up for one year. success rate, pain, complicat...

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...

finger vein is one of the most fitting biometric for identifying individuals. in this paper a new method for finger vein recognition is proposed. first the veins are extracted from finger vein images by using entropy based thresholding. in finger vein images the veins are appeared as dark lines. the method extracts veins as well, but the images are noisy, that means in addition to the veins the...

finger reckoning is one of the five types of signification(dalala),which al – jahiz mentioned in his book, al–bayan wa al–tabyin . by this he meant a particular representing numbers by means of the outstretched or bent fingers and their various positions .finger reckoning can be traced in some prose and verse writings and traditional(hadith) sources; for example, in a recorded speech through wh...

With the expansion of data sharing and always-online devices, social networks have become an increasingly important aspect of society. Groups such as the SMR Foundation are constantly on the lookout for new tools to analyze these networks, particularly their behaviors over time. ViralViz is a visualization tool meant to aid in the study of the diffusion of content through social networks. It op...

Background: Tagging gene and gene product mentions in scientific text is an important initial step of literature mining. In BioCreative 2 challenge, the conditional random fields model (CRF) was the most prevailing method in the gene mention task. In this paper, we analyze two best performing CRF-based systems in BioCreative 2. We examine their key claims and propose enhancement based on the an...