When one finger changes its force, other fingers of the hand can show unintended force changes in the same direction (enslaving) and in the opposite direction (error compensation). We tested a hypothesis that externally imposed changes in finger force predominantly lead to error compensation effects in other fingers thus stabilizing the total force. A novel device, the "inverse piano", was used...

Performance rock climbing places high demands on the hand and may lead to specific injuries. In a "one-finger-pocket" hold, the interphalangeal joints remain in 20-40 degrees flexion. To increase the maximum force of the holding finger by the quadriga effect, the interphalangeal joints of the adjacent fingers become almost maximally flexed. Holding a "one-finger-pocket" with the ring or small f...

An audio finger print is a small set of features that uniquely identifies a song. An audio fingerprint can be used for broadcast monitoring, audience measurement, meta-data collection. The general framework for building an audio fingerprint includes a frontend and a finger print modeling block. This paper details various uses and properties of an audio fingerprint and also the various stages in...

The fat-finger problem has emerged to a routine problem when interacting with especially small touch devices. Thereby, the target is smaller than the size of the finger contact area and interactions may result in incorrect input. Developers tried to respond to this and created new interfaces and tools. In this paper, I would like to present four approaches to address the problem. The stylus is ...

Microgeodic disease is a disease of unknown etiology that affects the fingers and toes of children, with ≥ 90% of cases involving the fingers alone. We present a rare case of microgeodic disease affecting an index finger and two toes simultaneously in a 7-year-old girl. X-ray and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed multiple small areas of osteolysis in the middle phalanges of the left index...

We investigated the ability of cerebellar patients and unskilled subjects to control finger grip position and the amplitude of finger opening during a multijoint overarm throw. This situation is of interest because the appropriate finger control requires predicting the magnitude of back forces from the ball on the finger throughout the throw and generating the appropriate level and rate of chan...

A meta-analysis was performed to understand the role of zinc finger domains in proteins of resistance (R) genes cloned from different crops. We analyzed protein sequences of seventy R genes of various crops in which twenty six proteins were found to have zinc finger domains along with nucleotide binding sites - leucine rice repeats (NBS-LRR) domains. We identified thirty four zinc finger domain...

We used the modified one finger laparoscopy technique on 100 patients and found it to be successful in 87% of cases. No major complication occurred during or after such operations. However, we think that this technique is accompanied by three important problems: 1) The CO2 gas is lost f1"om the subumbilical incision, 2) A secondary fascial layer is present in some patients, and 3) There i...

the aim of the this work was to determine the finger patterns, finger ridge count (frc), total finger ridge count (tfrc), and asymmetry of finger ridge count (afrc) of an iranian girl (aged 13 years) affected with congenital cutis laxa (ccl).the fingerprints of the first phalanx of both hands were taken by using the standard method (stamp ink). the fingerprints were classified according to the ...