Presents findings of the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey on body measurements and angular measurements of the hip and knee joints of the U.S. population, 1-74 years of age, by age, sex, and race, 1971-75. Smoothed percentile distributions of selected body measurements (triceps and subscapular skinfolds, and upper arm girth) attained at specific chronoIogic ages from 2 to ...

Human physique classification by somatotype assumes that adult humans are geometric similar to each other. However, this assumption has yet to be adequately tested in athletic and nonexercising human populations. In this study, we assessed this assumption by comparing the mass exponents associated with girth measurements taken at 13 different sites throughout the body in 478 subjects (279 athle...

This experiment was conducted to assess the effect of chicken genotype on the growth performance, feed intake and feed conversion efficiency of the progenies resulting from purebred (Giriraja (Gr) X Giriraja (Gr)), straight (Gr male X Alpha female), reciprocal (Alpha male X Gr female) and Alpha male X White Leghorn (WL) female crosses. Data obtained on body weight, body length, breast girth, ke...

The present study investigated basic statistics for biometric traits as well as non-genetic factors that may affect these traits in the Moghani breed of sheep. The data-set was computed by using biometric records of the Moghani sheep breeding and raising station over a period of 15 years (1996 to 2012). Year of birth, month of birth, birth type and lamb's sex and dam permanent environment were ...

Let G = (V,E) be any d-regular graph with girth g on n vertices, for d ≥ 3. This note shows that G has a maximum matching which includes all but an exponentially small fraction of the vertices, O((d − 1)−g/2). Specifically, in a maximum matching of G, the number of unmatched vertices is at most n/n0(d, g), where n0(d, g) is the number of vertices in a ball of radius b(g − 1)/2c around a vertex,...

Patterns of gray whale growth in body length and weight with age are evaluated using published values foetal post-natal dimensions at reported ages, supplemented previously unpublished measured lengths 88 mid-gestation foetuses, 82 first-summer calves 30 secondsummer whales taken the summer/autumn Chukotkan native subsistence fishery. Gompertz models fitted to age, predicting mean birth mid-Jan...

A series of supersonic wind tunnel tests on an ogive-cylinder body were performed to investigate the pressure distribution, the boundary layer profiles, and the flow visualization at various angles of attack. All tests were conducted in the trisonic wind tunnel of the Imam Hossein University. The theoretical shock angle at different model positions compared well with those we obtained via Schi...