OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between grip and pinch strength and independence in activities of daily living (ADL) in stroke patients. METHODS Medical records of 577 stroke patients from January 2010 to February 2013 were retrospectively reviewed. Patients' grip and pinch strength of both hemiplegic and non-hemiplegic hands and the Korean version of Modified Barthel Index (K-MBI) ...

Introduction: The purpose of this in-vitro study was to compare shaping ability of NiTi rotary Mtwo and FlexMaster with stainless steel hand K-Flexofile in curved root canals of extracted teeth. Materials and Methods: Mesiobuccal canals of 45 mandibular molar teeth were balanced into three groups of 15 each, with respect to the Schneider angle, canal access angle, height, dis-tance and radiu...

Introduction. Let G be a reductive Lie group with maximal compact subgroup K and let Γ be a cocompact discrete subgroup of G. We consider the induced representation IndΓ (C), which is the canonical representation on the space L2(Γ\G). The duality theorem of Gelfand [6] states that there is a Frobenius reciprocity as follows: for any irreducible unitary representation π of G it holds HomG,cont(I...

introduction: rotary nickel-titanium (niti) instruments are thought to allow shaping of narrow, curved root canals more efficiently and more effectively than stainless steel hand instruments. however, the continued search for even more effective and safer instruments has resulted in new rotary systems being introduced on a regular basis. the aim of this study was to compare shaping parameters o...

In the past few years, home appliances have been influenced by latest technologies and changes in consumer trends. One of most desired gadgets this time is a universal remote control for gestures. Hand gestures are best way to appliances. This paper presents novel method recognizing hand smart using imaging sensors. The proposed model divided into six steps. First, preprocessing done de-noise v...

In this paper we compute the second Stiefel-Whitney class of the quadratic form trA/k(ax ), where A is a central simple algebra over a perfect field k of characteristic different from two, a ∈ A is a fixed element, and trA/k is the reduced trace. We show that this class is related on the one hand to the class of A in the Brauer group, and on the other hand to corestrictions of quaternion algebr...