This study uses object-extracting technique to extract – thumb, index, middle, ring, and small fingers from hands. The algorithm developed in this study can find precise locations of fingertips and finger-to-finger-valleys. The extracted fingers contain many useful geometry features. One can use these features to conduct the person identification. Geometry descriptor is used to transfer geometr...

Finger millet is extensively cultivated in the tropical and sub-tropical regions of Africa known to save lives small income farmers from starvation at times extreme drought. Therefore, this field experiment was carried out study integrated effect vermicompost inorganic fertilizer blended NPSB with urea on yield components finger millet. Treatments consisted four levels (25, 50, 75, 100%) three ...

We show that the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in elastoplastic solids takes the form of local perturbations penetrating the material independently of the interface size, in contrast with the theory for simple elastic materials. Then, even just beyond the stable domain, the instability abruptly develops as bursts rapidly moving through the other medium. We show that this is due to the resistance ...

Both subitizing, the ability to enumerate small sets without counting, and finger gnosis, the ability to mentally represent one’s fingers, have been found to predict calculation skill in children (Penner-Wilger et al., 2007, 2009). In the current paper, we examined whether these same relations hold for young adults. Consistent with the developmental data, both subitizing and finger gnosis were ...

It is difficult to generate the action of stably pinching paper or needle, etc. with the finger tips, which is one of the important functions to be realized by humanoid robot hands. In this paper, therefore, the authors firstly propose a small-sized and light-weight robotic hand designed according to the concept of extracting required minimum motor functions and implementing them to the robot, ...

Background Metacarpal 4-5 fusion (MF4) is a rare congenital hand malformation characterised primarily by ulnar deviation of the fifth finger, clinodactyly, shortening of the fifth metacarpal and reduced mobility of the fifth finger. A small number of familial cases have been described in the literature, consistent with X-linked recessive inheritance. In May 2013 causative mutations in the FGF16...

The cerebellum is thought to play a key role in the integration of sensory and motor events. Little is known, however, about how sensory and motor maps in the cerebellum superimpose. In the present study we investigated the relationship between these two maps for the representation of single fingers. Participants made isometric key presses with individual fingers or received vibratory tactile s...

normal and yet be severely stenosed. The normal passage of meconium and stools is not a reliable guide to the state of the anus, as a stenosed anus will often allow meconium and the soft stool of the newborn to escape. Similarly a rectal thermometer can usually be easily introduced into the rectum in these cases. The technique of anal examination in the newborn is easy. The anus should first be...