A majority of laboratory-driven side impact injury assessments are made using post mortem human subjects (PMHS) under the pure 90-degree lateral mode. Because real-world injuries occur under pure and oblique modes, this study was designed to evaluate injury metrics and injury mechanisms with PMHS under the latter vector. Anthropometrical data were obtained and functional x-rays were taken. Spec...

Understanding of mechanical behaviors of the human body is a challenge to take appropriate medical decisions (e.g. patient's diagnosis or treatment). To achieve this objective, two modeling approaches were studied and confronted in order to highlight the benefits and limitations of each approach to clinical problems. The biomechanical model is including anatomical geometries, anthropometrical d...

OBJECTIVES this study is inserted in an Interdisciplinary Program of Research and aims to learn about the nutritional situation and life context of children under five in the rural environment of Arambaré/RS, Brazil, through an epidemiological cross-sectional descriptive study. METHOD the data of anthropometrical assessment (Weight/Age, Age/Height, Weight/Height) expressed in Z scores, whose ...

47 Abstract: We included in this study 1100 newborns whose gestational ages were between 26 and 42 weeks. Of these infants, 323(29.4%) were preterm. The others 777(70.6%) were term infants. In term newborns, the mean weight, length, head circumference and ponderal indexes of males were significantly higher than those of females (p<0.01, p<0.01, p<0.01, p<0.05, respectively); in preterm infants ...

The frequent use of veins in surgery, especially in the replacement of clogged arteries in the lower extremities, persuaded the authors to conduct research concerning the morphology of superficial veins in the human upper extremity. In a post-mortem study a group of 40 male subjects of 22-92 years of age was examined. The preparation of the region of the elbow fossa was performed in order to es...

The nutritional status of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) is related to morbidity and mortality and its monitoring is important in the maintenance of the health status. This is a cross-sectional study carried out in Brazilian National Health System in the Municipality of São Paulo. It describes anthropometrical characteristics: weight and height; indices of weight for height (W/H), height f...

The present study had as objectives (1) to compare the morphological and functional characteristics of the male judo players of the Brazilian Team A (n=7) with the judo players of Teams B and C (reserves; n=15), and (2) to verify the association between the variables measured. Thus, 22 athletes from the seven Olympic weight categories were submitted to: a body composition evaluation (body mass,...

The human model for ergonomic simulation has improved in terms of its reliability and appearance and yet there seems to be less attention paid to create a realistic and accurate flesh deformation around the joint. This study, a part of ongoing research, proposes a combination of manual and automatic (3D body scanner) measurements to create a database for flesh deformation prediction i.e. flesh ...

BACKGROUND indirect anthropometrical measurements of the height of the upper lip and length of the philtrum. AIM to describe the measurements of the height of the upper lip and length of the philtrum, extracted from video x-rays, in children with mixed dentition, relating these measurements to facial typology--medium and long-, to occlusion--Angle's class I and II--and to the rest position of...

Int J Exerc Sci 1(1) : 22-29, 2008. The purpose of this study was to determine if upper body segment length or mass contributes to vertical jump (VJ) displacement. Seventeen men (n=9) and women (n=8) who were active recreationally participated in this investigation. Subjects performed VJ for maximal displacement, and skeletal length measurements of the humerus (acromion following the lateral li...