This article presents a directly 3-D printed soft monolithic robotic finger with embedded pneumatic sensing chambers (PSC) as position and touch sensors. The was fabricated using low-cost open-source fused deposition modeling printer that employs an off-the-shelf flexible commercially available thermoplastic polyurethane. A single hinge PSC optimized finite element hyperelastic material model t...

The knowledge of floral structure, biology and pollination behavior are pre-requisite for understanding the system its manipulation developing a proper crossing in which is largely lacking small millets. variability structure was studied various finger millet genotypes. inflorescence consisted cluster variable number spikes called fingers. Each has two opposite rows spikelets. A spiklete contai...

The motor system may generate automated movements, such as walking, by combining modular spinal motor synergies. However, it remains unknown whether a modular neuronal architecture is sufficient to generate the unique flexibility of human finger movements, which rely on cortical structures. Here we show that finger movements evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of the primary motor...

Without finger pricking, no self-measurement of blood glucose (SMBG) is possible. However, the number of scientific studies dealing with this topic, which is highly relevant for patients, is surprisingly small. This is in sharp contrast to the number of papers about blood glucose meters and SMBG in general. This article highlights a number of aspects that are relevant when it comes to finger pr...

Butterworth (1999; 2005) proposed that several component abilities support our numerical representations and processes: an innate capacity to represent small numerosities (indexed by subitizing), fine motor ability (indexed here by finger tapping), and the ability to mentally represent one’s fingers (indexed by finger gnosia). In the current paper, we evaluated the predictive power of these com...

We describe the RA scanner, a novel system for the examination of patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. The RA scanner is based on a novel laser-based imaging technique which is sensitive to the optical characteristics of finger joint tissue. Based on the laser images, finger joints are classified according to whether the inflammatory status has improved or worsened. To perform the clas...

146 words; Main text: 4,724 words Finger Counting Habits 3 Our ability to precisely quantify arbitrarily large sets of objects is a key cultural achievement. At the root of this ability may be an evolutionarily inherited “number sense” that allows us to tell rapidly and effortlessly the precise numerosity of small sets. But this basic sense of quantity is assisted by acquired counting skills as...

background: as an early step in the development of a decision aid for idiopathic trigger finger (tf) we were interested in the level of decisional conflict experienced by patients and hand surgeons. this study tested the null hypothesis that there is no difference in decisional conflict between patients with one or more idiopathic trigger fingers and hand surgeons. secondary analyses address th...