CHILD BEHAVIOR. By Frances L. Ilg and Louise Bates Ames. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1955. xi, 364 pp. $3.95. This book, in the words of Dr. Arnold Gesell who wrote the foreword, "incorporates and adapts" material from the syndicated newspaper column which has been written by the authors since 1951. Its apparent intent is to provide for parents a helpful guide to child rearing by dealing mor...

BACKGROUND Futsal started being played in 1930 and the number of futsal players has increased all over the world ever since. Nonetheless, despite the fact that Spain is one of the most relevant national teams worldwide, information on the incidence of injuries and their anthropometric characteristics is sparse in this country. AIM To analyse medical assistance provided to players in their pre...

In the recent decade, a decline in physical activity and beginning of a sedentary lifestyle among college students has been observed. Sedentary lifestyle and overweight issues are major public health, clinical, and economical problems in modern societies. The purpose of the study was to find out anthropometric measurements, body composition variables and somatotype differences in college level ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of body weight on fitness tests among the personnel of the Croatian navy. Forty two naval personnel (age 27 +/- 4.1 years; body mass 86.2 +/- 4.9 kg; height 184.6 +/- 7.4 cm; body fat percentage 17.3 +/- 5.2) participated in this study. In order to evaluate the fitness of the naval servicemen, we applied a testing procedure that included mea...


 El objetivo del estudio fue caracterizar la composición corporal y el somatotipo en jugadores de baloncesto nivel universitario Colombia según posición juego. La muestra 131 (edad: 21.5 ± 2.7 años) los equipos participantes juegos nacionales universitarios. Se tomaron 22 medidas antropométricas (cuatro básicas, ocho pliegues, tres diámetros siete perímetros); se determinó posiciones jueg...

The physiological characteristics of 10 male elite sport parachutists (31.6 +/- 3.69 years of age) were determined and compared to 10 male non-sport parachutist controls (30.2 +/- 4.31 years) and other selected elite athletes. The typical sport parachutist was a highly educated (16.4 +/- 2.41 years), first born (9 out of 10), and, more often than not, single individual. During their mean 10.8 y...

As coronary heart disease increases in incidence, the need for a better understanding of the factors involved in the origin of atherosclerosis, and especially of coronary artery disease, becomes more and more compelling. Statistical studies of human material and experimental studies on animals have furnished certain clues concerning coronary heart disease which required more intensive study in ...