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He was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence, and introduced the use of questionnaires and surveys for collecting data on human communities, which he needed for genealogical and biographical works and for his anthropometric studies.
Otmar von Verschuer ( rear ) supervises the measurement of two men's head circumference as part of an anthropometry | anthropometric study of heredity.

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An anthropometric survey of Dinka men, war refugees in Ethiopia, published in 1995 found a mean height of.

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The standard anthropometric measurement for young women is.
Francis Galton, often referred to as " the father of psychometrics ," devised and included mental tests among his anthropometric measures.
The Uyghurs are a population with Eastern and Western Eurasian anthropometric and genetic traits.
While fingerprint identification was an improvement on earlier anthropometric systems, the subjective nature of matching, despite a very low error rate, has made this forensic practice controversial.
Fingerprint identification emerged as an important system within police agencies in the late 19th century, when it replaced anthropometric measurements as a more reliable method for identifying persons having a prior record, often under a false name, in a criminal record repository.
Through years of postmortem examinations and anthropometric studies of criminals, the insane, and normal individuals, Lombroso became convinced that the " born criminal " ( reo nato, a term given by Ferri ) could be anatomically identified by such items as a sloping forehead, ears of unusual size, asymmetry of the face, prognathism, excessive length of arms, asymmetry of the cranium, and other " physical stigmata.
This provided typical dimensions for the typical items of furniture for which the dwelling designer should allow space, and provided anthropometric data about the space needed to use and move about furniture.
Actual chair dimensions are determined by measurements of the human body or anthropometric measurements.
The two most relevant anthropometric measurement for chair design is the popliteal height and buttock popliteal length.
This anthropometric measurement is used to determine the seat depth.
Additional anthropometric measurements may be relevant to designing a chair.
Changes in life styles, nutrition and ethnic composition of populations lead to changes in the distribution of body dimensions ( e. g. the obesity epidemic ), and require regular updating of anthropometric data collections.
A basically anthropometric division of body types into the categories endomorphic, ectomorphic and mesomorphic derived from Sheldon's somatotype theories is today popular among people doing weight training.
Nazi Germany relied on anthropometric measurements to distinguish Aryans from Jews and many forms of anthropometry were used for the advocacy of eugenics.
During the 1920s and 1930s, though, members of the school of cultural anthropology of Franz Boas began to use anthropometric approaches to discredit the concept of fixed biological race.
On a micro evolutionary level anthropologists use anthropometric variation to reconstruct small-scale population history.
For instance John Relethford's studies of early 20th-century anthropometric data from Ireland show that the geographical patterning of body proportions still exhibits traces of the invasions by the English and Norse centuries ago.
Scientists working for private companies and government agencies conduct anthropometric studies to determine a range of sizes for clothing and other items.

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He helped found the field of anthropometric history.

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In the late nineteenth century, anthropometric studies led to a proposition of racial groups, one of which was termed " Australioid " by Thomas Huxley in an essay ' On the Geographical Distribution of the Chief Modifications of Mankind ' ( 1870 ), in which he divided humanity into four principal groups ( Xanthochroic, Mongoloid, Negroid, and Australioid ).
Thornton was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Skylab 2, 3, and 4 missions, and principal investigator for Skylab experiments on mass measurement, anthropometric measurements, hemodynamics, and human fluid shifts and physical conditioning.

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The US Military has conducted over 40 anthropometric surveys of U. S. Military personnel between 1945 and 1988, including the 1988 Army Anthropometric Survey ( ANSUR ) of men and women with its 240 measures.
* Klose K. J., Jacobs P. L., Broton J. G., Guest J. G., Needham-Shropshire B. M., Lewohl N., Nash M. S., Green B. A ( 1997 ) " Evaluation of a training program for persons with SCI paraplegia using the Parastep-I ambulation system, Part 1: Ambulation performance and anthropometric measures ", Arch.
This information is significant to anthropometric historians, who usually equate the height of populations with their overall health and standard of living.
* Ad-hoc sizes have changed with time, often due to " vanity labelling ", an inflation in body dimensions associated with a size, to avoid confronting aging customers with uncomfortable anthropometric truths.
He earned his Ph. D in Moscow under the supervision of anthropologist F. G. Debets in 1961 with a dissertation on The Origin of the Greeks, a work based on anthropometric studies of a sample of present-day Greek people.
He had already been exchanging letters with Francis Galton regarding the use of fingerprinting to identify criminals, either instead of or in addition to the anthropometric method of Alphonse Bertillon, which Henry introduced into the Bengal police department.
For Occupational Physiology and Ergonomics the Department is equipped with a laboratory for anthropometric measurements, energy expenditure, functional testing of the cardiopulmonary system and heat stress, and physical activity examination using integrated electromyography.

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In addition, the 1952 study collected comparable data from 4,585 students at ten other colleges and universities scattered across the country: Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan, North Carolina, Fisk, Texas, University of California at Los Angeles, Wayne, and Michigan.
John C. Cavadini has challenged this notion by attempting to take the Spanish Christology in its own Spanish / North African context in his important study, The Last Christology of the West: Adoptionism in Spain and Gaul, 785 – 820.
The youngest son of William Edward Parkinson ( 1871 – 1927 ), an art master at North East County School and from 1913 principal of York School of Arts and Crafts, and his wife, Rose Emily Mary Curnow ( born 1877 ), the young Parkinson attended St. Peter's School, York, where in 1929 he won an Exhibition to study history at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge.
Introductory educational psychology is a commonly required area of study in most North American teacher education programs.
A study of climate records has shown that El Niño events in the equatorial Pacific are generally associated with a warm tropical North Atlantic in the following spring and summer.
Bill to study art at Black Mountain College in his home state of North Carolina.
" A Quiet Opening: North Koreans in a Changing Media Environment " a study commissioned by the U. S. State Department and conducted by Intermedia and released May 10, 2012 shows that despite extremely strict regulations and draconian penalties North Koreans, particularly elite elements, have increasing access to news and other media outside the state-controlled media authorized by the government.
Programs and fellowships for the study of Objectivism have been supported at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Texas at Austin and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Studies of this kind outside of Europe are even rarer, so it is difficult to make generalizations, but one small-scale study that compared transnational police information and intelligence sharing practices at specific cross-border locations in North America and Europe confirmed that low visibility of police information and intelligence sharing was a common feature ( Alain, 2001 ).
Following high school, he enrolled at North Texas State College, planning to study geology so that he could secure work in the oil fields if music did not pay.
According to a study by Alternatives to Combat Child Labour Through Education and Sustainable Services in the Middle East and North Africa Region ( ACCESS-MENA ) 30 % of school children living in border villages of Yemen had been smuggled into Saudi Arabia.
In particular, it houses the Erasmus collection, one of the richest resources in North America for the study of works written or edited by the great Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam.
study found warmth exceeding 1961 – 1990 levels in Southern Greenland and parts of North America during the Medieval climate anomaly ( defined for this purpose as 950 to 1250 ) with warmth in some regions exceeding temperatures of the 1990 – 2010 period.
Another study revealed there are three major types of lions, one North African – Asian, one southern African and one middle African.
An influential study in 1989 by Peter Newman and Jeff Kenworthy compared 32 cities across North America, Australia, Europe and Asia.
The study has been criticised for its methodology but the main finding that denser cities, particularly in Asia, have lower car use than sprawling cities, particularly in North America, has been largely accepted-although the relationship is clearer at the extremes across continents than it is within countries where conditions are more similar.
The 18th century Joseon dynasty historian Yu Deukgong advocated the proper study of Balhae as part of Korean history, and coined the term " North and South States Period " to refer to this era.
Researchers at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are currently undergoing a study to determine if estrogen replacement therapy can improve cardiovascular health and prevent depression in perimenopausal women between the ages of 45 and 55.
This proposes a five-part conceptual framework for the study of environmental history in the Canadian North.
The history of North America is the study of the past, particularly the written record, oral histories, and traditions, passed down from generation to generation on the continent in the Earth's northern hemisphere and ( chiefly ) western hemisphere.
" regional image campaign was launched to promote North East England as a great place in which to work, study, visit and invest.
Early 19th century North American foresters went to Germany to study forestry.
Anthropologist C. Loring Brace in a recent study on cranial metric traits however, was also able to identify a " clear link " to North African populations for early Natufians based on his observation of gross anatomical similarity with extant populations found mostly in the Sahara.

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