Body Measurements and Human Nutrition

Body composition measurements for nutrition research.

INTRODUCTION: THE BASIS OF MEASUREMENTS ‘A proper evaluation of the individual living body and its functional characteristics is not possible from the simple classification system of the butcher.. . ’. With these remarks Keys & Brozek (1 953) dismissed the contributions of anatomists to body composition measurements and introduced the concepts that still sustain modern investigators in this fie...

Electrical measurements on the human body

Human Body Tracking with Auxiliary Measurements

This paper presents two techniques for improving human body tracking within the particle filtering scheme. Both techniques explore the use of auxiliary measurements. The first technique uses optical flow cues to improve the sampling distribution. The second technique involves the detection of individual body parts, namely the hand, head and torso; and using these detection results to provide ad...

Human Body Tracking with Shape Estimation and Auxiliary Measurements

Human body tracking has important potential applications in a number of areas that IMSC is engaged in. Human body tracking is an alternative non-invasive human motion capture technology, which is useful for human animation. Human body tracking is also useful for understanding human body structure and human movement. The technology can also potentially be used as user interface for interactive v...

Heritability parameters for some body measurements in Turkish Arabian foals

The aim of the present study was to estimate genetic parameters of body measurements in TurkishArabian foals. Records of wither height, front cannon circumference, heart girth, and body length were usedfor body measurements at birth, 6 months of age, 1-year-old and 2-year-old. Heritability of bodymeasurements of Turkish Arabian foals was estimated by using records of foals sired by stallions wh...