background: the appropriate designing of school equipment for establishing a suitable sitting habit, is of major importance. unfortunately, benches and desks in iranian schools are not properly adjusted with anthropometric characteristics of students. the main theme of this research is preparing some guidelines for anthropometric designing and ergonomic adjustment of benches and desks. methods:...

Gender has been unmasked as a key determinant of body adiposity and endocrine homeostasis in the human fetus. Increasing evidence suggests that girls are more insulin resistant than boys at all ages from birth to adolescence[1-3]. Furthermore, type 2 diabetes in children is commoner in girls than in boys[4]. These gender based differences seen early in life could reflect differences in intrinsi...

The traditional individual 3D virtual humand modeling method has drawbacks of mass data and complex post-processing. It doesn’t suit the Web application. The research presented in this paper is to propose a novel real-time approach of 3D human parameterized modeling based on anthropometry. According to the principle in Anthropometry and Anatomy, the model surface is divided into several parts. ...

Introduction: The findings of cephalometry studies are widely applied in medical and engineering fields. Cephalometry measurements are affected by genetics‚ age‚ gender‚ and social‚ economic and geographic factors.This study assesses cephalometry of the neurocranium in male newborns in Kermanshah,Iran by an anthropometry method to confirm or reject the theory of brachycephalization (i.e., ...

Correspondence to L. Robert Varte, DIPAS, DRDO Lucknow Road, Timarpur Delhi-110054, India E-mail: robzvarte@ yahoo.com Received: Oct 7, 2014 Accepted: Mar 7, 2015 Cite this article as: Varte LR, Rawat S, Singh I, Majumdar D. Testing the furniture dimension match levels with anthropometry among Indian working women of defence laboratories. Int J Occup Environ Med 2015;6:122124. Testing the Furni...