background: the goal of the present work was to determine frequencies of different finger patterns of a population in hamadan (one of the western cities of iran) in 1997. methods: in a cross-sectional study, the .prints of the first phalanx of both hands of 717 randomly selected hamadan students (i88 men, 529 women) have taken, by using standard method (stamp ink). the fingerprints were classif...

introduction: the human anthropometric characteristics are surveyed in anthropology. anthropology is used in archeology, rehabilitation and legal medicine. the purpose of this study was to determine femur which has a special place in the science of anthropometry. methods: to measure the femur, both direct and indirect methods was used. the direct method of measuring the 113 femur in dissection ...

V.R. Preedy (ed.), Handbook of Anthropometry: Physical Measures of Human Form in Health and Disease, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1788-1_1, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 Abstract Sample size estimation is a fundamental step when designing clinical trials and epidemiological studies for which the primary objective is the estimation or the comparison of parameters. One may be interested i...

background fungi have been extensively isolated and investigated from skin in various parts of the world. determining the mycoflora of normal people is important when the role of skin is considered as a reservoir for microorganisms. objectives the current study aimed to investigate the incidence of fungal flora on interdigital spaces of the human foot. patients and methods samples were collecte...

Anthropometric measurement data can be used to design a variety of devices and processes with which humans will interact; however, collecting these data is a very time-consuming process. In order to facilitate the rapid and accurate collection of anthropometric data, a novel system is under development which makes use of multiple Microsoft Kinect sensors to estimate body sizes. The Kinect is an...