An extensive literature uses anthropometric measures, typically heights, to draw inferences about living standards in the past. This literature's influence reaches beyond economic history; the results of historical heights research appear as crucial components in development economics and related fields. The historical heights literature often relies on micro-samples drawn from sub-populations ...

BACKGROUND Interactions between nutrition and infections in developing countries are complex, and analyses of the interrelations require data from longitudinal studies that span several years and a comprehensive framework facilitating the formulation of food and health policies. OBJECTIVE The effects of dietary intakes in the Philippines for birth outcomes, heights, weights, and morbidity dur...

The ultimate goal of our multi-article series is to demonstrate the Allometric Scaling and Resource Limitation (ASRL) approach for mapping tree heights and biomass. This third article tests the feasibility of the optimized ASRL model over China at both site (14 meteorological stations) and continental scales. Tree heights from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) waveform data are used ...

Athletic field managers often adjust agronomic practices according to the desires of coaches and athletes. One such practice adjusted is mowing height. In an attempt have athletes run faster, are persuaded reduce height, thereby reducing potential friction from surface on athlete. With newer bermudagrass [Cynodon datylon (L.) Pers.] hybrid dactylon Pers. × C. transvaalensis Burtt Davy] cultivar...

We study the problem of finding shortest tours/paths for “lawn mowing” and “milling” problems: Given a region in the plane, and given the shape of a “cutter” (typically, a circle or a square), find a shortest tour/path for the cutter such that every point within the region is covered by the cutter at some position along the tour/path. In the milling version of the problem, the cutter is constra...

Fires in mountain big sagebrush [Artemisia tridentata spp. vaseyana (Rydb.) Beetle] plant communities historically shifted dominance from woody to herbaceous vegetation. However, fire return intervals have lengthened with European settlement, and sagebrush dominance has increased at the expense of herbaceous vegetation in some plant communities. Management actions may be needed to decrease sage...

INTERVENTION AND MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: We compared the responses of these older adults on a questionnaire battery used by the Established Populationls for the Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly (EPFSE) project, to performance on mobility tasks of graded difficulty. Responses to the EPESE battcry included: (1) whether assistance was required to perform seven Katz activities of daily living (ADL...

Photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD) regimes within vegetation canopies are intrinsically heterogeneous in time and space. Photosynthesis responds to changes in the intensity and temporal variability of PPFD in a non-linear way. Therefore, it is important to quantify PPFD heterogeneity at short time scales in order to better understand and assess plant–atmosphere carbon exchange from the s...

We systematically determine ground-state and saddle-point shapes masses for 1305 heavy superheavy nuclei with $Z=98-126$ $N=134-192$, including odd-$A$ odd-odd systems. From these, we derive static fission barrier heights, one- two-nucleon separation energies, $Q_\alpha$ values g.s. to g.s transitions. Our study is performed within the microscopic-macroscopic method deformed Woods-Saxon single-...

We systematically determine ground-state and saddle-point shapes masses for 1305 heavy superheavy nuclei with $Z=98-126$ $N=134-192$, including odd-$A$ odd-odd systems. From these, we derive static fission barrier heights, one- two-nucleon separation energies, $Q_\alpha$ values g.s. to g.s transitions. Our study is performed within the microscopic-macroscopic method deformed Woods-Saxon single-...