They worked out the ratio of the length of the index finger to the length of the ring finger for each child, and compared it with those of 34 of the children's healthy siblings, 88 of their fathers, 88 of their mothers, and a number of unrelated controls that were matched for sex and age.
Participating passengers are asked to scan their passport photo page and have a print taken of their index finger.
During this exam, a flexible tube containing a small transducer about the size of your index finger is guided down your throat.
Villa was in the team despite sustaining a hairline fracture of his right index finger while celebrating the first of his hat-trick goals against Russia, and the Sweden defense kept him under wraps until the 38th minute, when Isaksson had to stop a low shot.
When I was small, I would sit on his lap, staring at the stump of his left index finger, rounded and smooth, the top two knuckles so cleanly severed it seemed he'd been born without them.
The guitarist was recognised as much for his powerful, gruff vocals as his musicianship and was known for playing with picks on both the thumb and index finger of his right hand.
Andy Grove noticed an occasional tremor in the index finger of his right hand. it was 1999, when Grove was 63 and had just stepped down as the chief executive of chipmaker Intel.
Andy Grove noticed an occasional tremor in the index finger of his right hand. it was 1999, when Grove was 63 and had just stepped down as the chief executive of chipmaker Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ).
In a recurring bit of business, one dancer's index finger pointed or poked at another dancer. (Think of the Pillsbury Dough Boy or, perhaps, the Three Stooges.) It seemed meant to be cute but often looked creepy.
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Horsup works in northern hairy nosed wombat conservation, which at the time involved holding a piece of wombat excrement between his index finger and thumb.
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The contact in a good handshake should be the web of skin between the thumb and index finger.
We didn't have to change our usual or "traditional" finger positioning, meaning we were able to keep our right thumb in the bottom left corner of the pad and use our index finger to navigate. (Even if our thumb moved slightly up on the pad it still worked.) Best of all, while using that finger positioning we rarely zoomed in on something by mistake.
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He looks transported with excitement, and lifts his pale, slender index finger in a gesture of friendly beckoning.
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Yes, it's as small as you'd expect it to be, which means it's usually a better idea to left click with a tap instead of trying to squeeze your thumb and index finger on there.
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The boy stuck out his index finger and motioned to one of the men.
To sign up, you take a personality test that Fisher designed, which asks you questions about everything from feelings about following rules to your understanding of complex machinery and the length of your ring finger, relative to your index finger.
The main control surface is wide enough, in fact, that we could comfortably put three fingers on the top of the mouse, using the middle to control the mouse wheel and DPI sensitivity adjustment rocker (a nice touch in and of itself) without ever moving our index and ring finger from the all-important trigger buttons.
They also estimated the students' exposure to the hormone before they were born by measuring the ratios of their index fingers to their ring fingers (a long ring finger indicates high testosterone exposure) and by measuring how accurately they could determine human emotions by observing only people's eyes, which also correlates with prenatal exposure to testosterone.
They found the age range for heart attacks in men where the index finger was relatively long was 35 to 80 years of age, but in those with relatively long ring fingers it was 58 to 80.
They might even move their index finger to click over to Bing or choose among dozens of other search engines.
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He had at least a dozen bruises of varying ages on his back, and infections to his ear, scalp and index finger.
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The one was on his index finger was shattered and is now gone, nothing now but a soft patch of skin.
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