background: ratio of second and fourth digit (2d:4d) is known to be germane in analyzing utero concentrations of testosterone and estrogen in human and other vertebrates. 2d:4d had been linked several traits like athletes’ abilities, reproductive success, risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease (cvd). metabolic syndrome (mets) is a clustering of several cardiovascular risk factors. waist ci...

introduction emerging hypotheses suggest a causal role for prenatal androgen exposure in some cases of autism spectrum disorders (asd). the ratios of the lengths of the bones of the 2nd to the 4th digits (2d:4d) are purported to be markers for prenatal androgen exposure and to be established early in gestation. ratio of second and fourth digits (2d:4d)  is usually used as a proxy for prenatal t...

We report an experimental study of the backscattering of a sound wave of frequency f by a surface vibrating harmonically at frequency F (F << f) and amplitude A in the regime where the Doppler effect overcomes bulk nonlinear effects. When the duration to of the analyzed time series of the scattered wave is small compared to the vibration period, the power spectrum of the backscattered wave is p...

Longwave oscillatory Marangoni convection in a planar binary liquid layer is studied. Finite-amplitude regimes with perturbations of temperature and solute concentration of order unity are considered. Both thermocapillary and solutocapillary effects are taken into account. Oneand two-dimensional patterns on a rhombic lattice are studied and their stability to the perturbations which do not nece...

multi-dimensional representation and analysis because of the unique relationships between the vertical and horizontal distributions of excavated materials and their spatio-temporal distribution. Until very recently, however, archaeologists have predominantly applied only two-dimensional (2D) forms of representation to understand the complex spatial distribution of archaeological materials. Curr...

A system for analyzing left ventricular (LV) electromechanical asynchrony based on transesophageal 3-dimensional echocardiography (3-DE) and semi-automatic endocardial contour detection is described. Eighteen consecutive patients underwent 3-DE. Using TomTec 4DLV software, a 3-dimensional endocardial surface was reconstructed throughout the cardiac cycle. Matlab software generated color-coded p...