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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Hand size"”.
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Evaluation of wrist posture during the operation of four electromechanical mice
… effect of mouse support height, mouse type, and hand length on the wrist posture of computer mouse operators. Mouse support height was defined as the distance from the floor to the horizontal surface on which the mouse is supported and divided into three levels: 95%, 100%, and 105% of the seated …
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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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Clarinet Thumb-rest Function: The Pedagogy of Positioning and Electromyography Evidence
… implications for the pedagogy of clarinet right-hand support. Surface EMG recordings of superficial muscles that control the right thumb, wrist, and arm were taken during held note and finger exercises trials at three different thumb-rest position heights. Hand size and experience level were …
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Factors which can affect the preferences of the elderly for hand pruners
Preferences for four types of hand pruners were solicited from an active elderly population and these preferences were analysed in relation to anthropometric and demographic characteristics of sample members. Participants at senior multipurpose centers included thirty-four females and sixteen males …
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Sensitive manipulation
… has been developed and mounted on the robot's hand. These sensors are biologically inspired and present more adequate features for manipulation than those of state of the art tactile sensors. The robot's limb was built with compliant actuators, which present low mechanical impedance, to make …
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Effects of training with an increase in training bar diameter on strength and functional endurance within older adults
… of functionality or lifestyle. It was hypothesized that aging adults (≥50 years of age) who completed a 6-week RT program using a thick training bar attachment would increase upper limb muscle strength and endurance (primary outcome measure: handgrip strength; secondary outcome measures: …
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Gesture recognition with application to human-robot interaction
… of a robot. Near-mode interaction uses static hand poses to control a graphical user interface. For upper-body gesture recognition, features are extracted from skeletal data. The extracted features consist of joint angles and relative joint positions and are extracted for each frame of the …
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Visuospatial integration and cognitive archaeology: the relationship between body, material culture and human brain
La aparición de la industria lítica es un momento crucial en el linaje humano. La arqueología experimental, objecto de esta tesis, cuenta entre sus objetivos el conocer el posible uso y función de las herramientas de piedra. Los experimentos se basan en reproducir las condiciones manejo de los …