We review seven methods for adult height prediction (AHP) based on bone age, ranging from the BayleyPinneau method, published in 1952, to the BoneXpert method, published in 2009. These models are based on four different methods for bone age assessment including Greulich Pyle, Tanner Whitehouse, Fels, and the automated BoneXpert method. The aim of this chapter is to convey an understanding of th...

We present a novel surface reconstruction algorithm which can directly reconstruct surfaces with different levels of smoothness in one framework from height fields using 3D discrete grid ray tracing. Our algorithm exploits the 2.5D nature of the elevation data and the regularity of the rectangular grid from which the height field surface is sampled. Based on this reconstruction method, we also ...

We define the notion of height-deterministic pushdown automata, a model where for any given input string the stack heights during any (nondeterministic) computation on the input are a priori fixed. Different subclasses of height-deterministic pushdown automata, strictly containing the class of regular languages and still closed under boolean language operations, are considered. Several such lan...

During oogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster, the cells in the follicular epithelium of the ovary undergo a transition from a cuboidal to a squamous shape. In this issue, Gomez et al. (2012. J. Cell Biol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201207150) show that the kinase Tao promotes the endocytosis of the cell adhesion molecule Fasciclin 2 from the lateral surface of the cell and is critical for the...

At the core of political economy theory is the claim that income drives political preferences, yet empirical estimates of income’s effect on political behavior range widely. Drawing from a tradition in economic history and anthropology, we propose the use of height as a proxy for economic well-being. Using data from the British Household Panel Study, we find that taller individuals are more lik...

Height of convective layer in planetary atmospheres with condensable and non-condensable greenhouse substances A. M. Makarieva, V. G. Gorshkov, and T. Pujol Theoretical Physics Division, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, St.-Petersburg, Russia Department of Physics, University of Girona, Girona, Catalonia, Spain Received: 25 October 2003 – Accepted: 8 December 2003 – Published: 16...