OBJECTIVES To investigate the performance of patients with Huntington's disease (HD) while manipulating objects using a precision grip. METHODS The grip forces developed by the fingers were studied while subjects lifted an object of unpredictable weight in the hand. The ability to stabilize grip force after externally imposed weight change was also studied. RESULTS Patients used higher grip...

Relative weights of heart, spleen, pancreas, and liver and the relative lengths of the small intestine and the cecum were taken from 40 farm-bred and 43 wild juvenile red-legged partridges (Alectoris rufa Linnaeus) in central Spain. Expressed as a ratio to head and body length, farm-bred partridges had lighter hearts (17% lighter), spleens (78%), and livers (29%) and shorter small intestines (1...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES We investigated whether there was a statistically significant difference in patient need for postoperative analgesia based on adjusted body weight between heavier and lighter women who underwent laparoscopic tubal ligation with bupivacaine injection at the skin incision. METHODS We examined 49 records of women who underwent laparoscopic tubal ligation at Oklahoma Sta...

Three racial groups of mothers and their newborn babies-- North European 75, Negro 75, and "Indian" Asian 37--were matched for parity, gestational age, sex, maternal age, maternal smoking habits, and social class. Multiple anthropometric measurements, including skinfold thickness, limb circumferences, and various linear measurements were made on the mothers and their infants to determine the ef...