background: despite a general consensus regarding the impacts of early excision and grafting (ee and g) of burned hand on the reducing of treatment cost and hospital stay, there are some controversial issues about its eff ect on the outcome of hand function.th is study conducted to compare the results of the ee and g and delayed skin grafting in deep hand burns regarding the hand functional out...

Sticky fingers for migration R oaming cells send out sticky fi ngers to probe for good attachment points, say Catherine Galbraith, Kenneth Yamada, and James Galbraith (NIH, Bethesda, MD). The fi ngers’ sideways movements give cells a wider fi eld of vision than do forward and reverse movements alone. These sideways movements were picked up by the authors as ripples in the plasma membrane at the...

shadow loss, and the sheet resistance and absorption losses associated with planar layers that facilitate lateral carrier transport to the grid fi ngers. [ 22,23 ] For high effi ciency silicon heterojunction (HIT) solar cells, contact design requires a trade-off between grid fi nger resistance and the sheet resistance and transmission losses of the transparent conducting oxide (TCO)/ amorphous ...

RESULTS: Mean follow-up was 14.2 7.8 months. Preoperative uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA) was counting fi ngers in all patients. Mean fi nal logMAR (Snellen equivalent) UDVA and corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA) were 0.15(20/28) 0.13 and 0.11(20/26) 0.10, respectively. The improvements in UDVA and CDVA were statistically signifi cant (P .0001 and P .002, respectively). All patie...

Introduction: Fingertip pulse oximeters are commonly used as non-invasive modes of measuring oxygen saturation (SpO2) and heart rate (HR) in critical care units. In these cases, a shorter duration of time required obtaining the measurement and time to stabilization is crucial. Objective: Our aim was to compare two new generation pulse oximeters with respect to latency in the fi rst reading and ...

b c d e f Fig. 4. Example of the algorithm's performance. a, b Phase 1, hand reorientation; c to f hand approach and grasp execution: c a rst contact with the object is made, d,e two i n termediate positions. The nal position is shown in f and in Figure 5. Fig. 5. Two views of the nal position of the hand and the object shown in Figure 4f. 88 D. Reznik and V. Lumelsky. Sensor-based motion plann...

Cartesian sti ness is usually described by a 6 6 matrix which is vital in the study of rigid body grasping by multiple robot ngers. In this thesis, a closed form expression is derived for evaluating the grasped object sti ness based on the contact geometry and sti ness properties of individual robot ngers. The kinematics of manipulation by elastic ngers is also developed which describes the in ...

(b) (c) (d) (e) (f) Fig. 4. Example of the algorithm's performance. (a), (b) Phase 1, hand reorientation; (c) to (f) { hand approach and grasp execution: (c) a rst contact with the object is made, (d),(e) two intermediate positions. The nal position is shown in (f) and in Figure 5. Fig. 5. Two views of the nal position of the hand and the object shown in Figure 4(f). References 1] C. Laugier, A...