AIM To evaluate hand muscle weakness detected through dynamometry as an indicator for change in motor nerve function detected by Voluntary Muscle Testing (VMT) of ulnar and median nerves. DESIGN The research was carried out as part of the INFIR Cohort Study among 303 subjects newly diagnosed with MB leprosy in two centres in UP state, northern India. METHODS To assess grip strength, key pin...

The generalization of the pinch technique to all orders in perturbation theory is presented. The effective Green’s functions constructed with this procedure are singled out in a unique way through the full exploitation of the underlying Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin symmetry. A simple all-order correspondence between the pinch technique and the background field method in the Feynman gauge is establ...

This paper describes the use of a neonatal sphygmomanometer cuff as a simple, inexpensive pinch meter. Normal values for key pinch, pulp pinch and side pinch in the dominant hand of healthy Nepali people are provided. The pinch meter was also used to test pinch strength in hands affected by leprosy and normal hands. Some patients with leprosy who have no objective weakness on voluntary muscle t...

BACKGROUND Data on the physical strength capabilities are essential for designing safe and usable products and are useful in a wide range of clinical settings especially during treatment of disease affecting the function of the hand. The purpose of this study was to determine peak lateral pinch strength, key pinch strength, tip-to-tip pinch strength and three-jaw pinch strength exertions in a h...

Repetitive, high-force pinch grip exertions are common in many occupational activities. The goal of the current study was to quantify the relationship between lateral pinch grip span (distance between thumb and index finger) and lateral pinch grip strength. An experiment was conducted in which 40 participants performed maximal lateral pinch grip exertions at 11 levels of grip span distances (0,...

The main goal of this study is to evaluate possible reuse routes effluents from adairy plant. First, the water flow in plant was evaluated. All consumed and generated by industrial process were quantified characterized. In addition, quality parameters required for different activities assessed. Secondly, a treatment system using membrane bioreactor nanofiltration reactor, previously conducted a...

retrofit of heat exchanger networks for energy saving and/or debottlenecking is one of important aspects of process engineering. pinch technology, as the most efficient tool for the analysis of these networks, has been applied to hundreds of such projects and shown satisfactory results. however, all the existing methods for debottlenecking, using pinch technology, are either based on assumed he...

The separation of the binary mixture water-acetic acid by direct distillation is not suitable for industrial applications because of the presence of a tangent pinch on the pure water end. The problem is overcome via heterogeneous azeotropic distillation adding a third component, the entrainer, generally immiscible with water. With particular reference to terephthalic acid production process, we...