Backgrounds: Syndactyly is failure of differentiation in which the fingers fail to separate into individual appendages. It most common congenital hand anomaly, with an incidence 1 2,000 2,500 live births. Surgical separation as early 6 month-old indicated when syndactyly involves digits unequal length (i.e., ring and little fingers). Early also required complex cases acrosyndactyly. The timing ...

Mechanisms underlying the emergence and plasticity of representational discontinuities in the mammalian primary somatosensory cortical representation of the hand are investigated in a computational model. The model consists of an input lattice organized as a three-digit hand forward-connected to a lattice of cortical columns each of which contains a paired excitatory and inhibitory cell. Excita...

We have examined 50 persons with sclerosteosis in the Afrikaner community of South Africa and 15 individuals with van Buchem disease in Holland. The clinical and radiographic manifestations of these conditions are very similar, the only notable differences being greater severity and syndactyly in the majority of the patients with sclerosteosis. The Afrikaners have Dutch antecedants and it seems...

let $g$ be a finite group and $gamma(g)$ the prime graph of $g$‎. ‎recently people have been using prime graphs to study simple groups‎. ‎naturally we pose a question‎: ‎can we use prime graphs to study almost‎ ‎simple groups or non-simple groups? in this paper some results in‎ ‎this respect are obtained and as follows‎: ‎$gcong s_p$ if and only‎ ‎if $|g|=|s_p|$ and $gamma(g)=gamma(s_p)$‎, ‎whe...

in this paper, we investigate the existence of a positive solution of fully fuzzy linear equation systems. this paper mainly to discuss a new decomposition of a nonsingular fuzzy matrix, the symmetric times triangular (st) decomposition. by this decomposition, every nonsingular fuzzy matrix can be represented as a product of a fuzzy symmetric matrix s and a fuzzy triangular matrix t.