Plant and Crop Sciences Division, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough LE12 5RD, United Kingdom (A.B., S.K., B.T., F.N.d.C.G., M.R.D.); Rothamsted Research, Harpenden AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom (D.A.W., F.G., S.G.T., S.J.P., E.C., A.L.P., P.H.); and Institüt für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, D–48153, M...

Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom (C.N., J.F., H.D.J., C.S., T.K.P., M.D.W., R.A.C.M., P.R.S.); School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, Berkshire RG6 6AH, United Kingdom (J.D.); Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE–750 07 Uppsala, Sweden (A.A.M.A., P.A.); and INRA, UR 1268 Biopolymères, Interactions et Assemblag...

A quick and valid method for evaluating percentage body fat is based on the use of skinfold callipers. However, limitations associated to their use and characteristics led the authors to improve a traditional calliper (Harpenden) and to integrate it with a software application. Such a measuring system, LipoTool, is meant to have better accuracy and reliability, including data processing and dig...

After initial treatment for breast cancer, lymphedema often affects the trunk as well as the arm. Evaluation of truncal swelling by the clinical "pinch test" of the posterior axillary fold is unreliable. Our aim was to develop an objective measurement, using modified Harpenden skinfold calipers. Standard Harpenden skinfold calipers exert a pressure of 12.6 g.mm-2, which rapidly squeezes edema f...

French Associates Institute for Biotechnology and Agriculture of Dryland, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben Gurion 84990, Israel (A.F.); Max Planck Institute for Plant Molecular Physiology, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (A.N.N., M.L., P.A.P., A.R.F.); Department of Plant Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel (R.A., ...

Department of Energy–Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI, U.S.A.; Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada; Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, U.S.A.; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Canada; Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College, London, U.K.; Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiol...

Alexei A. Lapkin,1 Adam Walker,2 Neil Sullivan,3 Bhupinder Khambay,4 Benhilda Mlambo,1 Smain Chemat1 1 Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom, [email protected] 2 Bioniqs Ltd., Biocentre, York Science Park, Heslington, York, YO10 5DG, United Kingdom 3 SensaPharm Ltd, Unit 124i, BIC, Wearfield, SR5 2TA...

A linear mixed model, with non-stationary mean and covariance, for soil potassium based on gamma radiometry K. A. Haskard, B. G. Rawlins, and R. M. Lark Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, UK British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK Received: 29 January 2010 – Accepted: 2 March 2010 – Published: 16 March 2010 Correspondence to: R. M. Lark (murray.lark@bbs...

1 Plant & Invertebrate Ecology Department, and 2 Biomathematics & Bioinformatics Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts AL5 2JQ, UK; 3 School of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK; 4 School of Biological Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK; 5 Bio-protection & Ecology Division, PO Box 84, Lincoln Universit...

Indirect estimation of total body fat has been employed increasingly in recent years in an attempt to assess various aspects of body composition. In the most widely used method skinfold thickness is estimated by means of Harpenden calipers (Edwards, Hammond, Healey, Tanner & Whitehouse, 1955; Fletcher, 1962); these require a certain amount of practice in use. Since the instrument measures a ski...