STUDY OBJECTIVE The aims were to determine the relationship between spirometric indices and mortality among lifelong non-smokers, and to investigate whether the association of short stature with increased risk of death is explained by reduced levels of ventilatory function in shorter men. DESIGN The study was a nested (within cohort) case-control analysis of an 18 year prospective study of mo...

Abstract Height is the result of a complex process of growth that begins at birth and reaches the end in early adulthood. This paper studies the determinants of height from birth to maturity. A height production function is specified whose structure allows height to be the result of the accumulation of inputs (i.e., nutrition and diseases) over time. The empirical specification allows the causa...

We studied standing anteroposterior roentgenograms from 140 scoliosis patients and obtained a correction equation for body height by Cobb angle. This equation is applicable to patients with a double curve or special curve pattern as well as patients with a single curve. The repeatability of the method examined with this equation was higher than that with the previous correction method for body ...

antitussive or expectorant activity. Cough can also be reported in terms ofits intensity, loudness, duration, pressure, flow and volume relationships, cough “resistances” can be calculated to reflect the inertial, elastic and flow-resistive components of respiration, and changes in breathing mechanics in the upper and lower airways may be recorded.’ Under the same sponsorship as the Charlottesv...

It is noted that an efficient algorithm for calculating a p-adic height could have cryptanalytic applications. Elliptic curves and their generalizations are an active research topic with practical applications in cryptography [1], [2], [3]. If E is an elliptic curve defined over a finite field Fp, where p is prime, and if P and Q are points on the curve E such that Q = nP , then the elliptic cu...

Height, Health and Cognitive Function at Older Ages By Anne Case and Christina Paxson Research across a number of disciplines has highlighted the role of early life health and circumstance in determining health and economic outcomes at older ages. Nutrition in utero and in infancy may set the stage for the chronic disease burden that an individual will face in middle age (David J. Barker, 1998;...

In this paper I specify a height production function in order to study the determinants of height from birth to early adulthood in the Philippines. I use a rich longitudinal data set on Filipino children born in 1983 and followed for more than 20 years. The structure of the production function allows height to be the result of the accumulation of inputs over time. The results show that inputs f...

The problem of constructing an optimal rooted phylogenetic‎ ‎network from a set of rooted triplets is NP-hard. ‎In this paper‎, ‎we present a novel method called NCH‎, ‎which tries to construct a rooted phylogenetic network with the minimum number‎‎of reticulation nodes from an arbitrary set of rooted triplets based on the concept of the height function of a tree and a network. We report the pe...