BACKGROUND Valid skinfold thickness (SFT) equations for the prediction of body fat are currently unavailable for South Asian women and would be a potentially robust field tool. Our aim was to assess the validity of existing SFT equations against deuterium (2H2O) dilution and, if invalid, to develop and validate an SFT equation for % fat mass (%FM) in Sri Lankan women. METHODS H2O dilution was...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether categories of obesity based on BMI and an anthropometry-based estimate of fat mass percentage (FM% equation) have similar discriminative ability for markers of cardiometabolic risk as measurements of FM% by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) or bioimpedance analysis (BIA). DESIGN AND METHODS A study of 40-79-year-old male (n = 205) and female (n = 388) Finns...

The eikonal equation is instrumental in many applications in several fields ranging from computer vision to geoscience. This equation can be efficiently solved using the iterative Fast Sweeping (FS) methods and the direct Fast Marching (FM) methods. However, when used for a point source, the original eikonal equation is known to yield inaccurate numerical solutions, because of a singularity at ...

Frequently, a need exists to compute the postdetection (recovered data) signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) in a given frequency modulated (FM) or double frequency modulated (FM/FM) transmission link; alternately certain postdetection SNR requirements are established, and the link’s parameters must be correspondingly specified. In either case, relationships that clearly relate postdetection SNR to lin...

BACKGROUND Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) can be valuable in evaluating the fat-free (FFM) and fat masses (FM) in patients, provided that the BIA equation is valid in the subjects studied. The purpose of the clinical evaluation was to evaluate the applicability of a single BIA equation to predict FFM in pre- and posttransplant patients and to compare FFM and FM in transplant patients wi...

The literature describes tracking devices that allow a single detector coupled to a spinning FM reticle to determine target location. The spinning FM reticles presented were limited to single parameter reticles of frequency vs angle, frequency vs radius, or phase. This study presents these parameters with their capabilities and limitations and shows that multiple parameters can be integrated in...

Analysis of algorithms occasionally requires solving of rst-order two-dimensional linear homogeneous partial di erence equations. We survey solutions to special cases of the linear recurrence equation (am + bn + c)Fm;n = (dm + en + f)Fm 1;n + (gm + hn + i)Fm 1;n 1 in terms of known functions and establish equivalences between unsolved cases. The article also reviews solution techniques used to ...

We show that the widely used parabolic approximation to the Equation of State (EOS) of asymmetric nuclear matter leads systematically to significantly higher core-crust transition densities and pressures. Using an EOS for neutron-rich nuclear matter constrained by the isospin diffusion data from heavy-ion reactions in the same sub-saturation density range as the neutron star crust, the density ...

We have developed a liquid-environment frequency modulation atomic force microscope FM-AFM with a low noise deflection sensor for a wide range of cantilevers with different dimensions. A simple yet accurate equation describing the theoretical limit of the optical beam deflection method in air and liquid is presented. Based on the equation, we have designed a low noise deflection sensor. Replace...

For any positive integer m let Fm = 2 2 + 1 be the mth Fermat number. In this short note we show that the only solutions of the diophantine equation Fm = ( n k ) are the trivial ones, i.e., those with k = 1 or n− 1.