Title | Perspectives in Human Growth, Development and Maturation [electronic resource] / edited by Parasmani Dasgupta, Roland Hauspie |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2001 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9801-9 |
Descript | XVI, 364 p. online resource |
Methodological Aspects of Growth Studies -- 1 The Measurement of Human Growth: A Historical Review -- 2 Individual Physical Growth Models and Biological Parameters of Japanese -- 3 Smoothing Centile Curves of Height of Basque Boys and Girls by the Application of the LMS-Method -- 4 A New International Growth Reference for Young Children -- 5 Fels and Tanner-Whitehouse Skeletal Ages of School Children 7โ13 Years in Oaxaca, Mexico -- 6 Assessment of Childhood and Adolescents Body Composition: A Practical Guide -- Genetic and Environmental Factors -- 7 Genetics of Complex Traits with Particular Attention to Fat Patterning -- 8 Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Distribution in 7- to 16-Year Old Boys of Calcutta in relation to socio-economic level -- 9 Dentofacial Morphology, Growth and Genetics: A Study of Australian Aborigines -- 10 Riddles in Human Development Patterns: a Few Family Case Study -- 11 Nutrition in Venezuela at the End of the Millennium -- 12 Thoughts on Secular Trends in Growth and Development -- 13 Secular Trends and Longterm Serial Growth Studies -- 14 Secular Trends in Body Height โ Indicator of General Improvement in Living Conditions or of a Change in Specific Factors? -- 15 Patterns of Growth and Scholastic Performance โ A Case Study of the Associated Factors -- 16 Mental Ability and Cognitive Thinking in Relation to Sex, Pubertal Stage and Socio-Economic Background -- Population Differences in Growth -- 17 How Genetic Are Human Body Proportions? -- 18 The Sarsuna-Barisha Longitudinal Growth Study: Dynamics of Growth -- 19 Linear Components of Growth Among Rural Indian Children -- 20 Growth Stunting among Children, Aged Birth to 5 Years, in Peri-Urban Kathmandu, Nepal -- 21 Ethnic and Sex Differences in the Skelic Index among Fijian and Samoan Children -- 22 Skeletal Maturity in Children of Mixed American and Japanese Parentage as Assessed by the TW2-Method -- Biological Aspects of Growth -- 23 Somatotypes of Budapest Children -- 24 Differential Rate of Growth of the Human Body Parts -- 25 Short-term Growth -- 26 Relations between Head Growth and Psychomotor Development in Low-Birth-Weight Children -- 27 Growth in Length and Weight of Thalassemic Children in West Bengal, India: A Mixed-Longitudinal Study -- Appendices -- Life sketch of SudhirRanjan Das -- List of publications of Sudhir Ranjan Das