1. PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS WITH A FAST Z-PINCH CAPACITOR DISCHARGE: THE GENERATION OF HIGH PRESSURES IN SOLIDS Preliminary experiments are being carried out to study the application of a fast capacitor Z-pinch discharge to the generation of high magnetic fields, dense vaporized metal plasmas, and high pressures. These experiments bear on aspects of the relatively well-known exploding wire techn...

Media studies as a field has traditionally been wary of the question of technology. Discussion of technology has often been constrained by concerns about technological determinism. In recent times there has been renewed interest, however, in the technological dimension of media. In part this is doubtless due to rapid changes in media technology, such as the rise of the internet and the digital ...

A new retrofit targeting procedure, based on pinch technology has been developed. The new procedure considers existing structure of a given network and finds the most compatible configuration with the network. To achieve this aim, the procedure uses a linear programming technique that maximize the compatibility. Good compatibility between old and new networks helps to make the best use of c...

The PINCH-1-integrin-linked kinase (ILK)-alpha-parvin (PIP) complex plays important roles in the regulation of glomerular cell behavior, including podocyte shape change, apoptosis, and mesangial fibronectin matrix deposition. In this study, we show that PINCH-2, a protein that is structurally related to PINCH-1 but encoded by a different gene, is coexpressed with PINCH-1 in podocytes. Treatment...

OBJECTIVE To examine the intra-rater, inter-rater, and inter-instrumental reliability of the digitalized pinch muscle strength dynamometer. METHOD Thirty normal subjects were examined for pinch strength, using both the Preston pinch gauge and the digitalized pinch dynamometer. The participants performed all pinch strength tests in the seated position as recommended by the American Society of ...

This paper presents a new user interface technology known as ThumbsUp, which we have designed and developed for use with mobile outdoor augmented reality systems. Using a simple pair of vision tracked pinch gloves and a new menuing system, a user is able to control an augmented reality system in outdoor environments under poor tracking conditions with a high level of accuracy. Highly interactiv...

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,...