It is difficult to generate the action of stably pinching paper or needle, etc. with the finger tips, which is one of the important functions to be realized by humanoid robot hands. In this paper, therefore, the authors firstly propose a small-sized and light-weight robotic hand designed according to the concept of extracting required minimum motor functions and implementing them to the robot, ...

The purpose of this study was to find the correlation between vertical dimension of occlusion (VDO) and length of fingers. Anthropometric measurements of VDO, length of middle finger, length of little finger, and distance from tip of thumb to tip of middle finger of right hand were recorded clinically using modified digital vernier caliper. Correlation between VDO and length of fingers was stud...

The purpose of this study was to find the correlation between vertical dimension of occlusion (VDO) and length of fingers. Anthropometric measurements of VDO, length of middle finger, length of little finger, and distance from tip of thumb to tip of middle finger of right hand were recorded clinically using modified digital vernier caliper. Correlation between VDO and length of fingers was stud...

Viscous fingering occurs in the flow of two immiscible, viscous fluids between the plates of a Hele-Shaw cell. Due to pressure gradients or gravity, the initially planar interface separating the two fluids undergoes a Saffman-Taylor instability and develops finger-like structures. When one of the fluids is a ferrofluid and a perpendicular magnetic field is applied, the labyrinthine instability ...

BACKGROUND There are controversial evidences on the association between fingerprint traits and schizophrenia. We compared fingerprint traits of patients with schizophrenia and normal individuals in Iranian population. METHODS Finger tip dermal ridge of 290 patients with schizophrenia and 290 normal subjects were studied for four dermal traits. Data was analyzed with Pearson correlation and st...

Proteins related to the human transcription factor Sp1 are characterized by the presence of a highly conserved zinc finger domain consisting of three C2H2 type zinc fingers. Here we describe two Xenopus laevis cDNAs, which encode novel Sp1-related C2H2 type zinc finger transcription factors named XSPR-1 and XSPR-2. Structurally, XSPR-1 and XSPR-2 are closely related to the murine Sp5, which int...

This paper investigates the propagation of an air finger into a fluid-filled, axially uniform tube of elliptical or rectangular cross section with transverse length-scale a and aspect ratio α. Gravity is assumed to act parallel to the tube’s axis. The problem is studied numerically by a finite-element-based direct solution of the freesurface Stokes equations. In rectangular tubes, our results f...

Paragonimiasis is the infestation of lung flukes of the trematode genus Paragonimus. Because the symptoms and radiologic findings of paragonimiasis mimic those of tuberculosis, some patients with paragonimiasis are initially treated for tuberculosis. Although Paragonimus may also reach ectopic sites such as the peritoneum or brain, infection in the skin is rare. To our knowledge, paragonimiasis...

We present a hierarchical control framework to allow for robust manipulation and exploration of objects with unknown shape, mass, and friction. The framework is divided into 3 layers: joint-level, tactile servoing, and visual servoing. While the middle layer provides “blind” surface exploration skills, maintaining desired contact patterns, the visual layer monitors and controls the actual objec...

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...