introduction: the purpose of the present study was to evaluate anthropometric characteristics of weight, sitting & standing height, cormic index and bmi in the adult residents of qazvin, iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 300 adult inhabitants aged 18-55 years (180 males and 120 females) of qazvin, iran were evaluated. the participants were selected randomly and without any physical ...

BACKGROUND Obesity is common in the U.S. and many individuals turn to commercial programs to lose weight. Our objective was to directly compare weight loss, waist circumference, and systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP, DBP) outcomes between commercially available weight-loss programs. METHODS We conducted a systematic review by searching MEDLINE and the Cochrane Database of Systematic ...

Ah&met--1. Metabolic rate (cm3 Odhr and log cm3 Odhr) of Vivipaw con~ec~oide~ is dependent on weight and log weight at levels of minimum and intermediate activity in males and minimum activity in females. 2. Weight specific oxygen consumption and log weight specific oxygen consumption of I’. contectoides is dependent on weight and log weight at levels of intermediate and maximum activity in mal...

For a given function u(x) on an interval [a,b] we want to find an approximation p(x) where • either p is a polynomial: p ∈Pn = span{1,x, . . . ,xn} • or p is a trigonometric polynomial: p ∈Tn = span{1,cosx,sinx, . . . ,cos(nx),sin(nx)} We can measure the error in two ways: • (weighted) mean square error ‖u− p‖L2 w 2 = ́ b a (u(x)− p(x)) 2 w(x)dx with a weight function w(x) (e.g., w(x) = 1) • max...

INTRODUCTION Eating a diet high in fruits and vegetables as part of an overall healthful diet can help lower chronic disease risk and aid in weight management. Increasing the percentage of Americans who consume enough fruits and vegetables every day is part of the Healthy People 2010 objectives for the nation. Assessing trends in consumption of these foods is important for tracking public healt...

The effective (geometric mean) return of a periodically rebalanced portfolio always exceeds the weighted sum of the component geometric means. Some approximate formulae for estimating this effective return are derived and tested. One special case of these formulae is shown to be particularly simple, and is used to provide easily computed estimates of the benefits of diversification and rebalanc...

Transfinite mean value interpolation has recently emerged as a simple and robust way to interpolate a function f defined on the boundary of a planar domain. In this paper we study basic properties of the interpolant, including sufficient conditions on the boundary of the domain to guarantee interpolation when f is continuous. Then, by deriving the normal derivative of the interpolant and of a m...

This letter presents an improved version of diffusion least mean ppower (LMP) algorithm for distributed estimation. Instead of sum of mean square errors, a weighted sum of mean square error is defined as the cost function for global and local cost functions of a network of sensors. The weight coefficients are updated by a simple steepest-descent recursion to minimize the error signal of the glo...