Social evolution in honey bees has produced strong queen-worker dimorphism for plastic traits that depend on larval nutrition. The honey bee developmental programme includes both larval components that determine plastic growth responses to larval nutrition and nurse components that regulate larval nutrition. We studied how these two components contribute to variation in worker and queen body si...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between fat patterning, age and body composition, among urban South African children in Pretoria, Central. METHODS Samples for the study comprised 1136 participants (548 boys and 588 girls) and 581 black and 555 white drawn from 12 primary schools in Pretoria Central. Anthropometrical measurements include stature, body mass a...

backgroundit is not clearly specified that which of the components of body mass index (bmi) affect body image and which of them do not. given that having information in this regard is of special importance as a basis for future planning for adolescents, the present research aimed to compare body image in female and male adolescents and study its relationship with body mass index in high school ...

Body is center of many debates in sociology during last decades. Sociologists believe that human body is a project of identity. It seems that women pay more attention to their body; therefore, this study investigated the effective factors on body modification of Tehranian women. Body modification includes weight control, cosmetic services, using medicines and creams, and medical services. Among...

Recent research on bodily self-consciousness has assumed that it consists of three distinct components: the experience of owning a body (body ownership); the experience of being a body with a given location within the environment (self-location); and the experience of taking a first-person, body-centered, perspective on that environment (perspective). Here we review recent neuroimaging studies ...

A high strength, light weight "in-situ" Ti-Y composite is produced by deformation processing a cast body having Ti and Y phase components distributed therein. The composite comprises elongated, ribbon-shaped Ti and Y phase components aligned along an axis of the deformed body.

The Ayu has its four components namely :- Body, Mind, Sense and Consciousness. Thus wo can say that Ayurveda means "A systematic complete valid knowlodge of life science including tho gross and Astral form of Body." The whole object of Ayurveda and Yoga Centre round the knowledge of correlation among the four components and establishing a harmony among them forever".