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Fingers
<p>Fingers should demonstrate my filmmaking ability and encourage future employers to hire me to direct a project. This paper will explore in details what methods were used during the production with focus on working within the means of the budget. In the following chapters, I will discuss Fingers, …
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Two Fingers: Michael's Struggle
… an account of the creative production of Two Fingers: Michael's Struggle, a twenty-nine minute documentary video that explores the life of Michael Alan Rasch who suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. It explains in detail the process of pre-production, production, and post-production of …
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Kinematics of the fingers during typing
When typing on a keyboard, the fingers may be in awkward postures, making repetitive motions, and exerting high forces which are risk factors of cumulative trauma disorders. In this experiment, the kinematics of the fingers while typing were investigated for 12 right-handed subjects (6 male and 6 …
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Now All the Fingers of This Tree
Now All the Fingers of This Tree is a work in two movements based upon a poem of the same name by E. E. Cummings. It is divided into two movements: The first movement is scored for nine part solo soprano, where one performer records each of the nine vocal lines. The second movement is an …
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Understanding the friction between human fingers and contacting surfaces
Friction tests were carried out to assess the friction between a human finger and contacting surface, in different conditions. Tests examined the effect of normal force, the area of contact, the effect of triangular and rectangular cross-section ridges and the effect of moisture. The tests found …
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Shear Effects on Buoyancy-Generated Turbulence and Salt Fingers
… the salt flux, and no strong signature of salt fingers was detected. Eddy diffusivities are estimated from control volume analysis and oceanographic microstructure methods.
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Supernumerary robotic fingers for single-handed grasping and manipulation assistance
… of wearable robot, namely Supernumerary Robotic Fingers (or SR Fingers for short), was developed to augment the capability of the human hand such that a variety of prehensile and manipulation tasks can be performed single handedly. These wearable robotic fingers may provide chronic hemiparetic …
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Scratching with all your fingers : exploring multi-touch programming in Scratch
Since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, many millions of people have used a multi-touch interface; but, due to the inaccessibility of most tablet software development kits, very few of these people have ever developed their own multi-touch interactions. This thesis discusses the challenges in …
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A Survey of Beta-Sheet Folding: WW Domains With Zinc Fingers and Membrane Peptides
This work describes the present state of folding research involving small, fast-folding protein systems. By perturbing a WW domain sequence with side-chain mutations, truncations, amide-to-ester exchanges, and loop rearrangements we find that loop structures can dictate the folding dynamics of this …
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The effect of elbow position and grip span on isometric grip strength and force distribution of fingers.
… grip strength and force distribution across the fingers. The results showed that elbow position, grip span and grip type have significant effects on resultant force and finger force. The forces were statistically higher at the fully extended elbow position than at the 30$\sp\circ$, 90$\sp\circ$ …
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Creation and validation of a numerical model for the analysis of bending patterns of flexural laparoscopic grasper fingers
… bending behavior of novel flexural laparoscopic fingers. These models predict behavior and stresses as a function of finger geometry and actuation force. A model is first created for a blade flexure concept and is used to prove the concept impractical, eliminating unnecessary fabrication and …
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Of nimble fingers and shy smiles: Effects of employment in transnational factories on the status of Filipino women workers
This study was designed to explore the effects of employment in TNC export-oriented factories on the status of Filipino women. The research questions focused on the work conditions of women workers in the TNC factories, changes in family dynamics and degree of workers' autonomy and independence as …
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Comparison of the Biological Attributes, First and Second Level of Detail of Friction Ridge Skin of the Palms and Fingers
<p>Since the case of Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, the Daubert criteria is nothing new to forensic science. Today's practices and techniques presented in a court of law are held to high scientific scrutiny. For nearly 100 years, expert witness testimony concerning fingerprint …
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Modeling and Optimizing IPMC Microgrippers
… shape of IPMC (Ionic Polymer Metal Composite) fingers. Using Comsol Multiphysics and modeFRONTIER, these fingers were modeled and optimized for both force exerted and deflection. Using the Comsol model, we were able to determine the tip deflection and force output of many different IPMC fingers …
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Effect of kinetic degrees of freedom in multi-finger force and moment stabilizing synergies.
… for pressing tasks involving different number of fingers (IM, IR, IL, MR, ML, RL, IMR, IML, IRL, MRL, IMRL; where I=Index, M=Middle, R=Ring, L=Little). Twelve healthy right-handed subjects (6 males and 6 females, 27 4.3 years) participated in the experiment. Subjects were explicitly provided a …
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Stability of Depletion Chamber Edges in Oil Sands Recovery Processes
… where the instabilities are evidenced by gas fingers that evolve above the top depletion chamber edge. The instability, triggered by dominant convective heat transfer, exhibits two types of fingers in the steam-only case: solution-gas fingers and thermally-stimulated oil viscous fingers, with …
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A haptic control system for functional electrical stimulation of paraplegic legs
… of touch, attached to a user's index and middle fingers. The haptic device allows the wearer to feel with the fingers what would normally be felt by the feet. Movement of the fingers is monitored and the positions of the two fingertips can be used to dictate the appropriate positions for the feet …
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