Human physique classification by somatotype assumes that adult humans are geometric similar to each other. However, this assumption has yet to be adequately tested in athletic and nonexercising human populations. In this study, we assessed this assumption by comparing the mass exponents associated with girth measurements taken at 13 different sites throughout the body in 478 subjects (279 athle...

BACKGROUND Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) is commonly used in medical applications, but scientific studies of its efficacy and the mechanism by which it causes loss of fat from fat cells for body contouring are lacking. This study examined the effectiveness and mechanism by which 635–680 nm LLLT acts as a non-invasive body contouring intervention method. METHODS Forty healthy men and women ag...

Objective: To find a cut off level of mid abdominal circumference in North Indian subjects to use as a predictive tool for diagnosing individuals with raised serum triglyceride levels. Methods: This was a cross-sectional hospital based study conducted over a period of three years at Vivekananda Polyclinic and Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. Not known cases of dyslipedimia were in...

The detection and mapping of segregating quantitative trait loci (QTL) that influence withers height, hip height, hip width, body length, chest width, chest depth, shoulder width, lumbar width, thurl width, pin bone width, rump length, cannon circumference, chest girth, abdominal width and abdominal girth at weaning was conducted on chromosomal regions of bovine chromosome one. The QTL analysis...

Purpose: to find out the features of hip girth (distal) both limbs young boys and girls Bukovynian higher educational institutions, depending on sport type.
 Materials methods: 115 students education institutions aged from 16 21 years old participated in study, 78 (67.82%) them were 37 (32.18%) girls. The main group was 75 (65.22 %) I-II courses Faculty Physical Culture Human Health (the Y...

90 nulliparous white female college students, selected from 2 undergraduate introductory courses at Kansas University, participated in a cross-sectional study designed to compare the fat distribution of oral contraceptive (OC) users to that of nonusers matched for height and weight. The subjects ranged in age from 18-26 years. The 30 OC users had been using the same brand of OCs for an averag...

DISCLAIMER: Everything that follows is of a preliminary nature. We give a new invariant for finitely generated groups, called the girth. Several results which indicate that the girth of a group might possibly be a quasi-isometry invariant are proved. We also compute the girth in several instances and speculate on the relation of girth to the growth of groups.

a set $wsubseteq v(g)$ is called a resolving set for $g$, if for each two distinct vertices $u,vin v(g)$ there exists $win w$ such that $d(u,w)neq d(v,w)$, where $d(x,y)$ is the distance between the vertices $x$ and $y$. the minimum cardinality of a resolving set for $g$ is called the metric dimension of $g$, and denoted by $dim(g)$. in this paper, it is proved that in a connected graph $...

A number of combinatorial problems are treated using properties of abelian nilpotentand idempotent-generated subalgebras of Clifford algebras. For example, the problem of deciding whether or not a graph contains a Hamiltonian cycle is known to be NP-complete. By considering entries of Λ, where Λ is an appropriate nilpotent adjacency matrix, the k-cycles in any finite graph are recovered. Within...

For an arbitrary (3,L) QC-LDPC code with a girth of twelve, a tight lower bound of the consecutive lengths is proposed. For an arbitrary length above the bound the resultant code necessarily has a girth of twelve, and for the length meeting the bound, the corresponding code inevitably has a girth smaller than twelve. The conclusion can play an important role in the proofs of the existence of la...