prehension

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PREHENSION. The lawful taking of a thing with an intent to, assert a right in it.

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Joint Angle ([degrees]) Grasp LP TP PP HK PT CP HF Thumb Rotation 20 90 90 0 0 90 0 Thumb Flexion 90 65 65 90 90 65 0 Index Flexion 70 70 70 70 0 45 0 Middle Flexion 80 0 80 80 80 55 0 Ring Flexion 80 0 80 80 80 65 0 Little Flexion 80 0 80 80 80 65 0 CP = cylindrical prehension, HF = hand flat, HK = hook, LP = lateral prehension, PP = palmar prehension, PT = pointer, TP = tip prehension.

Novel postural control algorithm for control of multifunctional myoelectric prosthetic hands

She critically assesses the authenticity of prehension and hafting traces, asking questions such as: "At which stage are hafting traces formed?

Veerle Rots. Prehension and hafting traces on flint tools: a methodology

However, a prehension is also a process of appropriation of an element of, or derived from, an actual entity, which changes the internal constitution of the prehending subject.

A critique of Dopfer and Potts's evolutionary realism

CNCSIS Final Report of Romanian project Autonomous prehension system to support handicapped human beings or access into dangerous areas.

Robotic arm modelling and analysis

The manner in which this possibility is felt by the nascent occasion, the subjective form of its prehension, is not necessarily how it was felt by that past occasion.

A functionalist reinterpretation of Whitehead's metaphysics

Laterlization of the approach movement and the prehension movement in infants from 4 to 7 months.

Discovery of motor development: a tribute to Esther Thelen

The infant starts with random and thrashing arm movements, settling down to the thumb and index finger at about 12 months, prehension as it is called.

Gesell's infant growth orientation: a composite

The metacarpophalangeal joint will slowly pass into hyperextension and radial deviation to accommodate prehension.

Our thumbs

Like Tamburlaine's sword, the map is now a kind of mental hand-prop, an organ of imaginative prehension.

The body and geography

The poem thus demonstrates Auden's prehension of the paradoxical notion that we can come to know our increasingly indeterminate reality by exploring the non-verifiable realities of fictions.

Thank you, fog: W.H. Auden as presiding genius

Expression of magnus tonic neck reflexes in distal muscles of prehension in normal adults.

The comparative psychology of Paul Schiller

No longer capable of maintaining its object at the remove of representation, seeing grasplit so greedily as to absorb it into the opacity of the perceiving body itself--thus subsuming sight within a broader field of fundamentally tactile prehension.