Bartsocas-Papas Syndrome: Unusual Findings in the First Reported Egyptian Family by E. M. Abdalla, H. Morsy

“…We report the first Egyptian family with Bartsocas-Papas syndrome comprising three cases; our proband who was a female infant with severe craniofacial and limb anomalies typical of Bartsocas-Papas syndrome, a similarly affected female fetus which died in utero at the 7th gestational month, and a 16-year-old mentally retarded uncle who presented with some of the typical features of Bartsocas-Papas syndrome, including syndactyly, thumb hypoplasia, and microphthalmia. This male patient actually did not present with pterygia, however, we find his clinical description noteworthy.…”
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Utility of Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Light Chain Amyloidosis Caused by Lymphoplasmacytic Lymphoma (Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia) by Maroun Bou Zerdan, Jason Valent, Maria Julia Diacovo, Karl Theil, Chakra P. Chaulagain

“…Atrial fibrillation led to the discontinuation of ibrutinib in one patient, and acalabrutinib caused significant thumb hematoma needing dose reduction in another patient. …”
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Rupture of Extensor Pollicis Longus Tendon Caused by Scaphoid Nonunion Advanced Collapse Wrist by Takahito Kojima, Masataka Yasuda, Shunpei Hama, Makoto Fukuda, Kenta Minato

“…He could not actively extend the left thumb interphalangeal joint and visited our institution for an examination. …”
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Evaluation of Finger Prints in Relation to Academic Performance of Students in Anatomy at Islam Medical and Dental College, Sialkot by Muhammad Junaid, Riaz Ahmad, Naureen Waseem, Aftab Ahmad, Aaqiba Rasheed, Rana Muhammad Zeeshan, Ayesha Riaz

“…Ethical clearance was obtained before study. Thumb prints were collected along with questionnaire. …”
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Synovial Sarcoma of the Hand by Hovsep Ohan, Greg Minassian, Asaad H. Samra, Matthew J. Zdilla

“…The mass was located at the palm and extended from the mid-third metacarpal to involve all digits except the thumb. The mass was determined to be monophasic synovial sarcoma on histopathologic exam. …”
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Food manipulation and processing in wild western gorillas of Central African Republic: implications for studying behavioural variability by Shelly Masi, Ellen JM Meulman, Françoise Aubaile, Sabrina Krief, Angelique Todd, Emanuelle Pouydebat

“…In this regard, relative to other great apes, gorillas are interesting because, like humans, they possess an elongated thumb that enables precision grips and finer manipulative actions, particularly important for bimanual coordination. …”
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Synergistic grasp analysis: A cross-sectional exploration using a multi-sensory data glove by Subhash Pratap, Kazuaki Ito, Shyamanta M. Hazarika

“…The correlation coefficients for finger pairs presented median values ranging from 0.5 to nearly 0.9, indicating varying degrees of inter-finger coordination, with the thumb-index and index-middle pairs exhibiting particularly high synergy. …”
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A Case of Trapezium Avascular Necrosis Treated Conservatively by Evangelos Petsatodis, Konstantinos Ditsios, Panagiotis Konstantinou, Iosafat Pinto, Lazaros Kostretzis, Ioannis Theodoroudis, Mayia Pilavaki

“…A 38-year-old man complaining of a 4-month history of mild pain on the base of his right thumb. MRI scan was performed. The clinical presentation and the imaging findings indicated avascular osteonecrosis of the trapezium. …”
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Electro-tactile modulation of muscle activation and intermuscular coordination in the human upper extremity by Hy Doan, Shahabedin Tavasoli, Gang Seo, Hyung-Soon Park, Hangue Park, Jinsook Roh

“…ETS was applied to either the thumb or middle fingertip which had greater contact with the handle, grasped by the participant, and supported a target force match. …”
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Epidemiology and Incidence of Orthopedic Fractures in the Military of the Republic of Korea by Sung Jin An, Sang Hyun Lee, Gi-Ho Moon

“…When the location of fractures was analyzed more specifically, the percentage of fractures was the highest in the phalanx (thumb and fingers), followed by the ankle and metacarpal bones. …”
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Effect of Epidermal Growth Factor in a Patient with Diabetic Hand by Derya KAYA, Gökhan VATANSEVER, Murat Celal SÖZBİLEN, Meltem IŞIKGÖZ TAŞBAKAN

“…Herein, we report the case of a 38-year-old man with type 1 diabetes and restless leg syndrome who presented to our out-patient clinic with a necrotic wound on his right thumb. Despite attempts of needle aspiration, surgical procedures, and oral antibiotics, the wound worsened and underwent necrosis. …”
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Reach&Grasp: a multimodal dataset of the whole upper-limb during simple and complex movements by Dario Di Domenico, Inna Forsiuk, Simon Müller-Cleve, Simone Tanzarella, Florencia Garro, Andrea Marinelli, Michele Canepa, Matteo Laffranchi, Michela Chiappalone, Chiara Bartolozzi, Lorenzo De Michieli, Nicolò Boccardo, Marianna Semprini

“…., hand opening/closing, wrist pronation/supination and flexion/extension, tridigital grasping, thumb abduction, cylindrical and spherical grasping) and more complex ones (i.e., reaching and grasping). …”
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Parents’ awareness towards preventive and interceptive orthodontic treatment by Samah Alfuriji, Adeem Alofi, Maram Albalawi, Ghaida Alnaqa, Kwlood Alrufayyiq, Maha Alharbi, Dania Aljeaid, Shug Albarrak

“…Regarding oral habits, parents were most aware of thumb sucking (91.03%), followed by tongue thrusting (84.22%). …”
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A Culture-Proven Case of Community-Acquired Legionella Pneumonia Apparently Classified as Nosocomial: Diagnostic and Public Health Implications by Annalisa Bargellini, Isabella Marchesi, Patrizia Marchegiano, Luca Richeldi, Roberto Cagarelli, Greta Ferranti, Paola Borella

“…The description of this culture-proven case of Legionnaires’ disease has major clinical, legal, and public health consequences as the complexity of hospitalised patients poses limitations to the rule-of-thumb surveillance definition of nosocomial pneumonia based on 2–10-day incubation period.…”
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A Multi-Layered Origami Tactile Sensory Ring for Wearable Biomechanical Monitoring by Rajat Subhra Karmakar, Hsin-Fu Lin, Jhih-Fong Huang, Jui-I Chao, Ying-Chih Liao, Yen-Wen Lu

“…Applications include grip strength monitoring and pulse rate detection from the thumb, capturing pulse transit time (PTT), an essential cardiovascular biomarker. …”
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Orthopaedic Aspects of Marfan Syndrome: The Experience of a Referral Center for Diagnosis of Rare Diseases by Fernando De Maio, Alessandro Fichera, Vincenzo De Luna, Federico Mancini, Roberto Caterini

“…In 88 patients (60.2%), the associated “wrist and thumb sign” was present; in 58 patients (39.7%), pectus carinatum deformity; in 44 patients (30.1%), pectus excavatum; in 49 patients (33.5%), severe flatfoot; in 31 patients (21.2%), hindfoot deformity; in 54 patients (36.9%), reduced US/LS ratio or increased arm span-height ratio; in 37 patients (25.3%), scoliosis or thoracolumbar kyphosis; in 22 patients (15%), reduced elbow extension (170° or less). …”
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Integrating PCA and DEA techniques for strategic assessment of network security by Reza Rasinojehdehi, Seyyed Najafi

“…It not only enhances the precision of our evaluation but also ensures that the number of DMUs remains well-suited to the analysis. As a rule of thumb, the number of DMUs should be at least three times larger than the sum of the numbers of inputs and outputs to maintain DEA's discriminating power. …”
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Organic Glass-Forming Liquids and the Concept of Fragility by Alba-Simionesco, Christiane

“…To distinguish them from other systems described in this issue, some specific properties such as the range of their glass transition temperature ($T_g$), their ability to vitrify and some rules of thumb to locate $T_g$ are presented. The most remarkable property of these liquids is how fast in temperature their viscosity or structural relaxation time increases as approaching $T_g$. …”
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Total Organic Carbon Content Prediction in Lacustrine Shale Using Extreme Gradient Boosting Machine Learning Based on Bayesian Optimization by Xingzhou Liu, Zhi Tian, Chang Chen

“…Then, the performance of the XGBoost model was tested using K-fold cross-validation, and the hyperparameters of the model were determined using a Bayesian optimization method to improve the search efficiency and reduce the uncertainty caused by the rule of thumb. Next, through the analysis of prediction errors, the coefficient of determination (R2) of the TOC content predicted by the XGBoost model and the core-measured TOC content reached 0.9135. …”
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Stiffness Determination of Backfill-Rock Interface to Numerically Investigate Backfill Stress Distributions in Mine Stopes by Guangsheng Liu, Xiaocong Yang, Lijie Guo

“…The results show that the newly proposed method leads to totally the same backfill stress distributions with models applying the interface stiffness by the method in FLAC manual based on a “rule-of-thumb” but will save at least 20%–30% calculation time to improve modeling efficiency under the same simulation conditions and will carry much clear physical meanings corresponding to the interaction between backfill and rock walls in mine stopes. …”
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