A variety of factors influence the formation of calcium oxalate kidney stones, including gender, diet, and urinary excretion of calcium, oxalate, and uric acid. Several of these factors may be related to body size. Because men on average have a larger body size and a threefold higher lifetime risk of stone formation than women, body size may be an important risk factor for calcium oxalate stone...

MACMILLEN, RICHARD E., AND TOHN E:. NELSON. Bioenergetics and body size in dusyurid marsupials. Am. j. Physiol. 2 17(4) : 1246-l 251. 1969.-Basal. metabolic rate, weight-specific conductance, and body temperature were determined in 12 species of the Australian marsupial family Dasyuridae. Animals varied in size from a 7.2-g Antechinus muculatus to a 5,U 50-g Surcophilus harrisii, and came from ...

An endurance treadmill exercise test protocol of two minute stages of increasing speed and gradient has been designed and evaluated for children under 10 years of age. There was a significant relation between test protocol time and oxygen uptake measured in ml/kg/min in tests performed on 20 subjects. One hundred and sixty exercise tests performed in a semi longitudinal study of healthy primary...

BACKGROUND A few studies have analyzed the role of lifetime anthropometric measures on laryngeal cancer risk. PATIENT AND METHODS This relation was investigated using a multicentre case-control study from Italy, conducted between 1992 and 2000, and including 460 incident, histologically confirmed laryngeal cancer cases, and 1088 controls admitted to the same network of hospitals as cases for ...

New research has revealed that the activity of the insulin-signaling pathway in the prothoracic gland of Drosophila modulates ecdysone release and thereby influences both the duration and rate of larval growth.

Criteria that define optimum body size of replacement heifers are required by commercial dairy producers to evaluate replacement heifer management programs. Historically recommended body size criteria have been based on live BW measurements. Numerous research studies have observed a positive relationship between BW at first calving and first lactation milk yield, which has served as the impetus...

OBJECTIVE To assess body size perception among African American women using cultural definitions of body size terms. METHODS Sixty-nine African American women classified Body Image Scale figures as overweight, obese, and too fat, and independently selected the figure they considered closest to their current body size. RESULTS Body size classifications of figures did not vary by participant ...

ARTICLES Organic Fluorine Chemistry: C. G. Krespai.................................. Expanding rapidly, the science of these compounds has assumed both theoretical and practical importance. The Biological Synthesis of Cholesterol: K. Bloch .............................. Predation, Body Size, and Con-mposition of Plankton: J. L. Brooks and S. I. Dodson ... The effect of a marine planktivore on l...

There is a general inverse relationship between the natural logarithm of tooth area (a body size indicator) of some fossil mammals and paleotemperature during approximately 2.9 million years of the early Eocene in the Bighorn Basin of northwest Wyoming. When mean temperatures became warmer, tooth areas tended to become smaller. During colder times, larger species predominated; these generally b...

The opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author and are not to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views or endorsement of the Navy Department. In a population on young, healthy Navy men dissatisfaction with height and weight varied directly with deviation from preferred ("ideal") height and weight. Satisfaction with intellectual level generally varied inversely with intelli...