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The human hand can take on a huge variety of shapes and functions, providing its owner with a powerful hammer at one time or a delicate pair of forceps at another. The universal utility of the hand is even more enhanced by the ability to amplify the function of the hand by using tools. To understand and appreciate how the human brain controls movements of the hand, it is important to investigate both the healthy motor behaviour and dysfunction during everyday manipulative tasks. This book provides a contemporary summary of the physiology and pathophysiology of the manipulative and exploratory functions of the human hand. With contributions from scientists and clinical researchers of biomechanics, kinesiology, neurophysiology, psychology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, it covers the development of healthy human grasping over the lifespan, the wide spectrum of disability in the pathological state and links basic motor research with modern brain sciences.

Hand --- Hands --- Paw --- Paws --- Arm --- Left- and right-handedness --- Physiology. --- Pathophysiology.

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It is well known that the anatomy of our fingers, which consists of soft fingertips and hard fingernails, is well designed for grasping and manipulating objects. Mechanics and Control of Soft-fingered Manipulation introduces a new approach to the modeling of fingertips that have a soft pad and a hard back plate, similar to human fingers. Starting from the observation of soft-fingered grasping and manipulation, the book provides a parallel distributed model that takes into account tangential deformation of the fingertips. The model is supported with many experimental verifications and simulation results. Statics and dynamics in soft-fingered grasping and manipulation are also formulated based on this new model. Mechanics and Control of Soft-fingered Manipulation uniquely investigates how soft fingertips with hard back plates enhance dexterity in grasping and manipulation, theoretically and experimentally. This approach reveals the differences between soft-fingered and rigid-fingered manipulation. Researchers involved in object manipulation by robotic hands, as well as in human dexterity in object manipulation, will find this text enlightening.

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Plain radiography is still alive. In many institutions, including ours, conventional radiography has been replaced by digital systems including imaging-plate-based computed radiography and fat-panel detector-based digital radiography. Even for the education of radiation technologists, conventional flm-screen radiography has been de-- phasized, and their education is concentrated on digital systems. Spatial resolution of a conventional system is still far better than the current digital systems, although the dynamic range is wider in the latter system. Industrial flm radiography with small grain size and direct exposure has an even higher resolution, and such hi- resolution systems are something we lost in the transition from the conventional system to the current PACS-friendly system. I am pleased to know that Giuseppe Guglielmi and Wilfred Peh have published this textbook of high-resolution hand radiographs that cannot be obtained with any other techniques. Radiography has always been the most important modality in the evaluation of the hand, and, moreover, high-resolution industrial flms are extremely efective in the evaluation of the hand, particularly for assessing subtle erosions. Hands are not just one of the peripheries of the human body. Tey refect conditions of the whole human body. Not only the metabolic status, but also many congenital disorders are manifested in the hand. Radiographic fndings of the hand are ofen specifc, and contribute to the diagnoses a great deal. Tere have been several publications concerning the radiology of the hand, and they have been well accepted.

Hand -- Radiography -- Atlases. --- Hand -- Radiography. --- Wrist -- Radiography -- Atlases. --- Wrist -- Radiography. --- Hand --- Wrist Injuries --- Hand Injuries --- Arm Injuries --- Wounds and Injuries --- Upper Extremity --- Diseases --- Extremities --- Body Regions --- Anatomy --- Radiology, MRI, Ultrasonography & Medical Physics --- Diseases by Body Region --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Wrist --- Radiography. --- Radiography --- Carpus (Human anatomy) --- Wrist joint --- Hands --- Paw --- Paws --- Medicine. --- Radiology. --- Rheumatology. --- Orthopedics. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Diagnostic Radiology. --- Surgical Orthopedics. --- Arm --- Joints --- Left- and right-handedness --- Radiology, Medical. --- Orthopedic surgery. --- Orthopaedics --- Orthopedia --- Surgery --- Operative orthopedics --- Orthopedics --- Surgery, Operative --- Internal medicine --- Connective tissues --- Clinical radiology --- Radiology, Medical --- Radiology (Medicine) --- Medical physics --- Radiological physics --- Physics --- Radiation

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The WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care provide health-care workers (HCWs) hospital administrators and health authorities with a thorough review of evidence on hand hygiene in health care and specific recommendations to improve practices and reduce transmission of pathogenic microorganisms to patients and HCWs. The present Guidelines are intended to be implemented in any situation in which health care is delivered either to a patient or to a specific group in a population. Therefore this concept applies to all settings where health care is permanently or occasionally performed, such as home care by birth attendants.

Cross infection -- Prevention. --- Hand washing. --- Handwashing -- methods. --- Handwashing -- standards. --- Health facilities -- Standards. --- Hygiene. --- Hand washing --- Hygiene --- Cross infection --- Health facilities --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Public Health --- Investigative Techniques --- Infection --- Therapeutics --- Communicable Disease Control --- Bacterial Infections and Mycoses --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Health Care --- Environment and Public Health --- Public Health Practice --- Diseases --- Health Facilities --- Cross Infection --- Handwashing --- Methods --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Public Health - General --- Prevention --- Standards --- Methodological Studies --- Methodological Study --- Procedures --- Studies, Methodological --- Study, Methodological --- Method --- Procedure --- Hand Sanitization --- Hand Washing --- Scrubbing, Surgical --- Surgical Scrubbing --- Disinfection, Hand --- Hand Washings --- Sanitization, Hand --- Washing, Hand --- Washings, Hand --- Health Care Associated Infection --- Health Care Associated Infections --- Healthcare Associated Infections --- Infection, Cross --- Infections, Hospital --- Infections, Nosocomial --- Hospital Infections --- Nosocomial Infections --- Associated Infection, Healthcare --- Associated Infections, Healthcare --- Cross Infections --- Healthcare Associated Infection --- Hospital Infection --- Infection, Healthcare Associated --- Infection, Hospital --- Infection, Nosocomial --- Infections, Cross --- Infections, Healthcare Associated --- Nosocomial Infection --- Facilities, Health --- Facility, Health --- Health Facility --- Health Practice, Public --- Health Practices, Public --- Practice, Public Health --- Practices, Public Health --- Public Health Practices --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Parasite Control --- Control, Communicable Disease --- Control, Parasite --- Communicable Diseases --- Therapy --- Treatment --- Therapeutic --- Therapies --- Treatments --- Disease --- Infections --- Investigative Technics --- Investigative Technic --- Investigative Technique --- Technic, Investigative --- Technics, Investigative --- Technique, Investigative --- Techniques, Investigative --- Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health --- Health, Public --- Healthcare Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Health care facilities --- Health care institutions --- Health institutions --- Institutions, Health --- Medical care facilities --- Medical care institutions --- Medical facilities --- Body care --- Cleanliness --- Human body --- Personal body care --- Personal cleanliness --- Personal hygiene --- Washing of hands --- prevention & control --- therapy --- Care and hygiene --- Hand Sanitizers --- Staphylococcal Infections --- Community-Acquired Infections --- Catheter-Related Infections --- Infectious Disease Medicine --- Disease Eradication --- Community Health --- Health, Community --- Preventive Medicine --- Education, Public Health Professional --- Medical care --- Public health --- Medicine, Preventive --- Health --- Sanitation --- Hand --- Infection and Infestation --- Infections and Infestations --- Infestation and Infection --- Infestations and Infections --- Flatten the Curve of Epidemic --- Flattening the Curve, Communicable Disease Control --- Hand Disinfection --- standards. --- prevention & control.