In this paper we describe our development of an interactive touch tabletop user interface for a landscape design tool. The user interface provides a view of the data, which combines the affordances of a multi-touch tabletop display with a vertical screen for real-time feedback. While the table metaphor fits well with the concepts of a top down view of land-scape, approachable from any direction...

Rapid prenatal diagnosis of common chromosome aneuploidies have been successful through quantitative fluorescent PCR (QF-PCR) assays and small tandem repeat (STR) markers. The purpose of our study was to investigate the clinical feasibility for rapid prenatal detection of Down syndrome using the quantitative fluorescent PCR in uncultured amniocytes. DNA was extracted from uncultured amniotic fl...

Projected-capacitive touch has grown more than 100-fold in revenue since the iPhone® was introduced in 2007, and it shows no signs of slowing down. This article describes many of the design and application challenges that must be faced when integrating projected-capacitive touch into a device, with a particular focus on the importance of the controller's signal-to-noise ratio. A similar version...

We studied the effect of tactile double simultaneous stimulation (DSS) within and between hands to examine spatial coding of touch at the fingers. Participants performed a go/no-go task to detect a tactile stimulus delivered to one target finger (e.g., right index), stimulated alone or with a concurrent non-target finger, either on the same hand (e.g., right middle finger) or on the other hand ...

The aim of this study was to quantify how elite high jumpers used their free limbs in a competitive high jump and to estimate the contribution that these made to vertical take-off velocity. This was achieved by analysing the competitive performances of six elite male high jumpers using 3D motion analysis and assessing limb function using the relative momentum method. The mean peak relative mome...

Abstract Objectives The aim of this study was to investigate the effect lncRNA-SNHG15 in bladder carcinoma using cell lines experiments and relationship between clinical characteristics expression analyzed. Methods Bladder cancer tissues near-cancer were collected. real-time PCR (RT-PCR) used detect lines. downregulated by interference (siRNA), as detected RT-PCR, that determine efficiency inte...