Height innovation data for a two-month period from NOGAPS was analyzed to obtain height prediction and observation error covariances. Different methods of weighting the data in least squares approximations were investigated using the second order autoregressive correlation function, both with and without an additive constant (varying with pressure level). Based on the properties of the derived ...

The results of ventilatory function tests (FVC, FEV1, and FEV %) depend to a great extent on age and height. In epidemiological investigations, the main purpose of which is to analyse the influence of environmental factors on lung function in the population, it is therefore necessary to use multiple regression methods. This form of statistical analysis is difficult and laborious when there is n...

Previous meta-analysis of genome-wide association (GWA) studies has identified 180 loci that influence adult height. However, each GWA locus typically comprises a set of contiguous genes, only one of which presumably modulates height. We reasoned that many of the causative genes within these loci influence height because they are expressed in and function in the growth plate, a cartilaginous st...

In order to assess the effects of malnutrition on the growth of lung function, 376 Indian schoolchildren aged 6-12 yrs were studied. Peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) was measured with a Wright peak flow meter, and nutritional status assessed by calculation of the percentage predicted height for age (HFA) and weight for height (WFH) using Harvard standards. After standardizing for height and sex...

INTRODUCTION A diagnosis of lung function impairment in childhood is highly dependent on the respective reference values. Population differences in the pulmonary function of children have been frequently reported. The AIM of this study was to derive normal spirometric reference values for Bulgarian children and adolescents and to compare these results with other data set including our own refer...

 The Mordell-Weil theorem states that the group of rational points‎ ‎on an elliptic curve over the rational numbers is a finitely‎ ‎generated abelian group‎. ‎In our previous paper, H‎. ‎Daghigh‎, ‎and S‎. ‎Didari‎, On the elliptic curves of the form $ y^2=x^3-3px$‎, ‎‎Bull‎. ‎Iranian Math‎. ‎Soc‎.‎‎ 40 (2014)‎, no‎. ‎5‎, ‎1119--1133‎.‎, ‎using Selmer groups‎, ‎we have shown that for a prime $p...

one of the most important problems in geodesy is the unification of height datum. generally in geodesy; there are two types of height systems, the geometrical height based on ellipsoid and the physical height based on gravity-defined surface (zhang et al, 2009).local height datum is determined according to mean sea level (msl). in regarding to mismatch of mean sea level and geoid, on the one ha...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether normal variation of adult height is associated with clinical characteristics in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), including disease activity (DAS28), impairment of joint function (mechanical joint score, MJS) and overall disability (health assessment questionnaire, HAQ). METHODS A cohort (134 males, 287 females) of consecutively recruited RA patients of Northern Eur...