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This new edition features a title index and a list of composers by nationality, making it a convenient and indispensable resource.

Piano music (4 hands) --- Piano duets

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This book, compiled by the world's leading authority on hand surgery, address the common conditions and complications encountered by orthopaedic surgeons of all levels but from the perspectives of master surgeons.

Hand --- Hands --- Paw --- Paws --- Arm --- Left- and right-handedness --- Surgery. --- Diseases --- Wounds and injuries. --- Hand Deformities --- Hand Injuries --- surgery

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Art --- photographs --- sculpture [visual works] --- language [general communication] --- video art --- performance art --- food --- singing [perfoming arts genre] --- hands [animal components] --- arms [animal components] --- sleeping --- lichaam (van de mens) --- Douillard, Carole --- Algeria

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This book demonstrates how the primate hand combines both primitive and novel morphology, both general function with specialization, and both a remarkable degree of diversity within some clades and yet general similarity across many others. Across the chapters, different authors have addressed a variety of specific questions and provided their perspectives, but all explore the main themes described above to provide an overarching “primitive primate hand” thread to the book. Each chapter provides an in-depth review and critical account of the available literature, a balanced interpretation of the evidence from a variety of perspectives, and prospects for future research questions. In order to make this a useful resource for researchers at all levels, the basic structure of each chapter is the same, so that information can be easily consulted from chapter to chapter. An extensive reference list is provided at the end of each chapter so the reader has additional resources to address more specific questions or to find specific data. .

Life sciences. --- Animal ecology. --- Evolutionary biology. --- Anthropology. --- Life Sciences. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Animal Ecology. --- Primates --- Hand --- Anatomy. --- Growth. --- Hands --- Paw --- Paws --- Arm --- Left- and right-handedness --- Evolution (Biology). --- Animals --- Zoology --- Ecology --- Human beings --- Animal evolution --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences

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This book looks at the common problems both human and robotic hands encounter when controlling the large number of joints, actuators and sensors required to efficiently perform motor tasks such as object exploration, manipulation and grasping. The authors adopt an integrated approach to explore the control of the hand based on sensorimotor synergies that can be applied in both neuroscience and robotics. Hand synergies are based on goal-directed, combined muscle and kinematic activation leading to a reduction of the dimensionality of the motor and sensory space, presenting a highly effective solution for the fast and simplified design of artificial systems. Presented in two parts, the first part, Neuroscience, provides the theoretical and experimental foundations to describe the synergistic organization of the human hand. The second part, Robotics, Models and Sensing Tools, exploits the framework of hand synergies to better control and design robotic hands and haptic/sensing systems/tools, using a reduced number of control inputs/sensors, with the goal of pushing their effectiveness close to the natural one. Human and Robot Hands provides a valuable reference for students, researchers and designers who are interested in the study and design of the artificial hand.

Computer Science --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Robots --- Neural networks (Computer science) --- Machine learning. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Robotics. --- Cognitive neuroscience. --- Control systems. --- Cognitive neuropsychology --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Learning, Machine --- Artificial neural networks --- Nets, Neural (Computer science) --- Networks, Neural (Computer science) --- Neural nets (Computer science) --- Robot control --- Cognitive science --- Neuropsychology --- Artificial intelligence --- Machine theory --- Natural computation --- Soft computing --- Robotics --- Automation --- Bionics --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Computer science. --- Neurosciences. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Control, Robotics, Mechatronics. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Informatics --- Science --- Robot hands. --- Hands, Robot --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Control engineering. --- Mechatronics. --- Mechanical engineering --- Microelectronics --- Microelectromechanical systems --- Control engineering --- Control equipment --- Control theory --- Engineering instruments --- Programmable controllers --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction