Rapid progress in the ability to develop and utilize zinc-finger proteins with customized sequence specificity have led to their increasing use as tools for modulation of target gene transcription in the post-genomic era. In the present paper, a series of in vitro binding assays and in vivo reporter analyses were used to demonstrate that a zinc-finger protein can effectively specify a base at e...

This paper describes the potential of evaluating odor intensities in a gas chromatographic effluent by cross-modality matching with the finger span (GC-O-FSCM). A simple prototype is described that allows the precise measurement and acquisition of the distance between the thumb and another finger during the analysis. The stimulation of panelists at the sniffing port with ethyl butyrate shows a ...

4 A prototype Peltier thermoelectric cooling unit has been constructed to cool a cold finger on an 5 electron microprobe. The Peltier unit was tested at 15W and 96W, achieving cold finger 6 temperatures of -10°C and -27°C respectively. The Peltier unit did not adversely affect the analytical 7 stability of the instrument. Heat conduction between the Peltier unit mounted outside the vacuum 8 and...

In this paper, we introduce durational rules in text-to-FingerBraille. Finger Braille is one of the communication methods for the deaf blind and it seems to be the medium most suited to real-time communication and for expressing the feelings of the speaker because of its prosody existing similarly to spoken languages. First, we analyzed duration between two Braille codes in Finger Braille and f...

This paper presents the design and analysis of a novel variable-stiffness robotic gripper, RobInLab VS gripper. The purpose is to have gripper that strong reliable as rigid grippers but adaptable soft grippers. achieved by designing modular fingers combine jamming material core with an external structure, made flexible materials. allows finger softly adapt object shapes when capsule not active,...

Artificial finger joints lack the long-term clinical success seen with hip and knee prostheses. In part, this can be explained by the challenges of rheumatoid arthritis, a progressive disease which attacks surrounding tissues as well as the joint itself. Therefore, the natural finger joints' biomechanics are adversely affected, and consequently, this imbalance due to subluxing forces further ch...