this study describes length-weight relationships of five species (platycephalus indicus, pseudorhombus elevates, plicofollis tenuispinis, grammoplites suppositus, pomadays stridens) collected from persian gulf (khuzestan province, iran) during december 2009 to november 2011. a total of 2065 specimen were examined for this study. the relationship between weight and total length were estimated: w...

The aim of this study was to construct new Croatian growth charts for body height and weight of boys and girls aged 6.5 to 18.5 years and to investigate differences between our and pre-existing studies. Analysis was based on a multistage stratified sample representative for school children aged 6.5 to 18.5, 6046 boys and 5656 girls. Growth reference was constructed using LMS method. Present res...

Age of market weight of broilers has been continuously reduced by approximately one day per generation during the past 40 50 years due to an average increase of 50 g/year of body weight at 42 days of age (Gyles, 1989). Although non-genetic factors such as improved feeding and management contributed to this growth rate increase, genotypic selection for growth seems to be the major cause (Chamber...

background: obesity has become a serious problem for chinese han nationality. this research aimed to evaluate the prevalence of and trends in obesity among chinese korean nationality children and adolescents (1991–2010). methods: we used data from chinese national surveys on students’ constitution and health (cnssch). cnssch was utilized to monitor chinese students’ health condition and release...

the objectives of this study were to identify a suitable mathematical model for describing the growth curve of baluchi sheep based on monthly records of live weight from birth to yearling; and to evaluate the efficacies of nonlinear mixed effect model (nlmm) and the nonlinear fixed effect model (nlm) methodologies. growth models were fitted to a total of 16,650 weight–age data belonging to 2071...

the main aim of this project was the assessment, for the first time, anthropometrically, the nutritional status in school girls' population aging from 7 to 10 years in ahwaz city and ultimately compare their growth rate with other findings obtained from different part of iran and also with the proposed standards of nchs in this respect. this study was conducted on 1200 apparently healthy school...

introduction low birth weight (lbw) is the most common cause of neonatal death in developing countries. the objective of our study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors associated with low birth weight in ardabil, iranfrom 2010 to 2011.methods in a case–control study all live newborns were weighted without clothing using a standard calibrated scale. gestational age was calculated usi...

this study investigated the effects of the dietary supplementation of zizyphus mauritianaleaf meal (zlm) on the performance of yankasa lambs. twenty five lambs aged between 6 and 8 months were randomly divided into five groups of five animals each in a completely randomized design to receive supplementary diets containing 0, 10, 20, 30 and 40% zlm as replacement for cotton seed cake in concentr...