OBJECTIVE This study examined the influence ofpencil grasp on handwriting legibility during both short and long writing tasks in 46fourth-grade students who were typically developing. Matched samples were used to controlfor variability. METHOD Regular classroom writing assignments were scoredfor word and letter legibility, and scores were compared using a mixed repeated-measures analysis of v...

[Purpose] The aim of this study was to examine the test-retest reliability of pinch strength testing in elderly subjects with thumb CMC OA. [Subjects and Methods] A total of 27 patients with unilateral right-thumb CMC OA (mean ± SD age: 81.3 ± 4.7 years) were recruited. Each patient performed three pain-free maximal isometric contractions on each hand on two occasions, one week apart. Three dif...

Two commonly used approaches for building a virtual reality (VR) world are the model-based approach and the image-based approach. Recently, the image-based approach has received much attention for its advantages of being easier to build a VR model and of being able to provide photo-realistic views. However, traditional image-based VR systems can not produce the stereo views that can give the us...

Stal and Hollier [5] described the nasal support structure as a tripod with lateral displacement in the unilateral cleft lip and loss of tip definition. The cleft side tip defining point is inferiorly displaced with a wide intra alar distance. Early repair with an intra dermal suspension suture with limited alar dissection is advised through an infra cartilagenous incision. The repair has the a...

We propose a cavity-QED scheme that can deterministically generate EinsteinPodosky-Rosen polarization-entangled photon pairs. A four-level tripod atom successively couples to two high-Q optical cavities possessing polarization degeneracy, assisted by a classical π-polarized pump field. The stimulated Raman adiabatic passage process in the atom-cavity system is used to produce the polarization-e...

S. Rebić,* D. Vitali, C. Ottaviani, P. Tombesi, M. Artoni, F. Cataliotti, and R. Corbalán INFM and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Camerino, I-62032 Camerino, Italy INFM and Dipartimento di Chimica e Fisica dei Materiali, Università di Brescia, I-25133 Brescia, Italy European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, via N. Carrara, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy INFM and Dipartimento di F...

TRIPOD is free and open source software for rapidly developing computer vision applications. With such software, robot vision systems can be developed, tested and validated. This paper presents a step-by-step tutorial where live video is thresheld to display the corresponding binary image. This simple exercise serves to illustrate the realization of a robot vision system. A LEGO Mindstorms Visi...