Background: Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a new and rapid technique to validate body composition. Several studies have used this technique to evaluate body compositions, such as muscle mass, in diabetic patients, but the results are very different. This may due the differences between diabetic patients and control group. Therefore, this study aimed to compare the muscle mass of diab...

Objective: Nowadays the value of bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) in the estimation of body adiposity both on a clinical basis in the individual and epidemiologically in large populations is of great interest. The current study determine accuracy of BIA compared with body mass index (BMI) measurement for estimating body composition in a group of normal weight employee women with a sedenta...

Identity1 is the percentage sequence identity of the templates in the threading aligned region with the query sequence. Identity2 is the percentage sequence identity of the whole template chains with query sequence. Coverage represents the coverage of the threading alignment and is equal to the number of aligned residues divided by the length of query protein. Normalized Z-score is the normaliz...

Perceptual and acoustic representations of vowel data were compared directly to evaluate the perceptual relevance of several speaker normalization transformations. The acoustic representations consisted of raw F0 and formant data. The perceptual representations were obtained through an experimental procedure, with phonetically trained listeners as subjects. The raw acoustic data were transforme...

purpose although the contribution of physique and body composition in soccer performance was recognized, these parameters of physical fitness were not well-studied in adolescent players. aim of this study was to investigate physique and body composition across adolescence. methods male adolescents (n=297 aged 12.01–20.98 y), classified into nine one-year age-groups, child (control group, n=16 a...