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School-based management: leadership hand in hand
<p>This study, conducted in order to determine the effectiveness of the school-based management team, occurred at the Reeds Road Elementary School. An action research design, using both surveys and interviews, assisted in obtaining the data necessary to make an appropriate determination of the …
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Hand-Eye
This integrated article thesis has two distinct chapters: The first chapter is a case study on a selection of works by German artist Sigmar Polke using Hal Fosters writing on the historical and neo-avant-gardes. The study traces the way Polke revisits the first avant-garde project and comprehends …
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Hand gesture recognition and hand tracking for medical applications
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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Hand-in-hand? A playwright’s journey into learning-disability theatre.
… propose, instead, a concept which I have called ‘hand-in-handedness,’ a shared-agency approach of learning-disabled and non-learning-disabled participants/practitioners working together and supporting each other which also encompasses a symbolic vision of connectedness. This is bolstered by my …
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3D hand tracking.
The hand is often considered as one of the most natural and intuitive interaction modalities for human-to-human interaction. In human-computer interaction (HCI), proper 3D hand tracking is the first step in developing a more intuitive HCI system which can be used in applications such as gesture …
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Whole-hand input
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.
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Study of the loading of the hand during hand tool operation
Measurement and prediction of the loading of the hand is important for developing functional biomechanical models and for designing ergonomical tools, work equipment and manual handling activities. The loading of the hand was investigated in this study by focussing on the following objectives: (1) …
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A virtual hand assessment system for efficient outcome measures of hand rehabilitation
Hand rehabilitation is an extremely complex and critical process in the medical rehabilitation field. This is mainly due to the high articulation of the hand functionality. Recent research has focused on employing new technologies, such as robotics and system control, in order to improve the …
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Hand grip performance with the bare hand in the extravehicular activity globe
… have complained of difficulty in grasping tools, hand fatigue, and hand/forearm pain during extravehicular activities. This study was conducted to examine hand grip performance with a bare hand and in a spacesuit glove at two different pressures, with three hand positions and two elbow positions. …
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Playing Jonah's Hand: Poems
Playing Jonah's Hand: Poems is a collection of poems with a critical introduction. The introduction consists of two independent essays, both of which examine intersections between poetry and Christian theology. In the first essay I identify the imaginative faculty as the primary source of agency …
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Creatress: A Woman's Hand
<p>Using stylized and abstracted sculptural interpretations of She—Great Mother, Mother Nature, Earth Goddess, Creatress, Gaia, female sexuality, and the feminine aspects of nature; a wide range of differing chemicals and temperatures for the development of various clay bodies; and a vivid color …
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Navy SEAL Prosthetic Hand
… mainly on myoelectrically controlled electric hands despite a majority of upper extremity amputees actively choosing body powered devices. Myoelectric hands utilize a small electric pulse generated in muscles when flexing as a signal to the hand to close. Finger flexion in these devices is …
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Monitoring Hand Use and Hand Role of Stroke Survivors at Home Using Egocentric Video
Capturing hand function performance at home is essential to measuring the ultimate impact of novel interventions after stroke. Wearable technologies have been used to capture upper limb use ratios outside of clinical environments, however, wrist-worn devices measure arm use rather than hand use, …
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Hand range of motion, strength, dexterity, and pain as predictors of hand functional performance
… performance in persons with diseased or injured hands using Nonlinear Causal Resource Analysis; (b) resources limiting performance; and (c) whether changes in resources would predict changes in performance. Twenty-one subjects were measured for hand ROM, grip and pinch strength, dexterity, pain, …
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Time Estimation And Hand Preference
… examines the effect of participants' gender and handedness on the perception of short intervals of time. The time estimation task consisted of an empty production procedure with forty trials at each of four intervals of one, three, seven, and twenty seconds. The four target intervals represent a …
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Hand injuries in young children.
The proportion of hand injuries in Swedish children is the second highest in relation to other parts of the body. The incidence of hand injuries in these children has not yet been estimated. In addition, aetiologies, injury patterns and costs among Swedish children have not been presented on a …
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Cutaneous innervation of the hand
With the increase of hand pathologies in the last decade, the need to better understand the anatomy of the hand is becoming more vital. The cutaneous innervation of the hand is classically described to be supplied by palmar cutaneous branch of the median nerve (PCBMN), common digital nerves (CDNs), …
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A robot for hand rehabilitation
This thesis describes the design of a robot for hand rehabilitation and is based on earlier work done in the MIT Newman Lab for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation. The goal of the new robot described here is to provide rehabilitative therapy to the hand. MIT MANUS is an active therapy device …
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