But with the exception of professional athletes, few contact sports and physical education activities in our schools have any carryover in the adult life of the average American man or woman.

In one hour, an average healthy adult can metabolize about 75 % of an Australian unit of alcohol or 95 % of a United Kingdom unit.

While they do sometimes live solitarily, they are more commonly found in groups that average 10 – 20 individuals, with two to four adult males, four to seven adult females and the rest juveniles.

' Amnesty International ' notes that in a country where the average life expectancy is 61 or 62, this means many spend their entire adult lives in the army, frequently facing hard labor and meager wages.

Today's average adult from an industrialized nation is taller than a comparable adult of a century ago.

The average weight is for an adult male and for an adult female.

Females are noticeably larger, with the adult male weighing 136-252 g ( c, 5-9 oz ), around 155 g ( around 5. 5 oz ) on average ; the adult female weighs 154-314 g ( about 5. 5-11 oz ), around 184 g ( around 6. 5 oz ) on average.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, an average adult male will weigh and measure, while an average female will weigh and measure.

On average, an adult moose stands high at the shoulder, which is more than a foot higher than the next largest deer on average, the Elk.

Another measure of the difference between these two similarly named but very distinct awards is their per-capita frequency of award: from 1946 to 1961 the average annual incidence of award of the Medal of Freedom was approximately 1 per every 86, 500 adult U. S. citizens ; from 1996 to 2011 the average annual incidence of award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom was approximately 1 per every 20, 500, 000 adult U. S. citizens ( so on an annualized per capita basis, about 240 Medals of Freedom have been awarded per one Presidential Medal of Freedom ).

However, an average adult American is not expected to know " Fair in the cradle, foul in the saddle ", an old English proverb that is not part of the current American paremiological minimum.

The wingspan of an average adult male Pteranodon was.

Young Deerhounds can sometimes, depending on the individual, be quite destructive especially when they are not given sufficient exercise ; however, the average adult Deerhound may want to spend most of the day stretched out on the floor or a couch sleeping.

This combined experience, on a foundation of very average, I assure you, intelligence and background, has helped me do things many well-informed people would bet heavily against.

In fourteen recent test launchings, at ranges of five thousand miles, Atlas has been striking on an average within two miles of the target.

Carbondale is in the Herrin-Murphysboro-West Frankfort labor market, where unemployment has been substantially higher than the national average.

The graphite was National Carbon NC 60, which has a porosity of 50% and an average pore size of 30.

For the industry of this model, the effect of such public pressures in the past has been to hold the price well below the short-run profit-maximizing price ( given the wage rate and the level of GNP ), and even below the entry-limited price ( but not below average cost ).

Approaching this problem on a statistical basis is invalid, because the opponent has the same sources available and will be encountered not under average conditions, but under the conditions most advantageous to him.

`` La Dolce Vita '' has none of the senseless brutality or sadism of the average TV Western.

Compound comparisons typically compare two sets of groups means where one set has two or more groups ( e. g., compare average group means of group A, B and C with group D ).

However, the situation has not returned to the pre-1968 level and the number of successful hijackings continues to be high-an average of 18 per annum during the 10-year period between 1988 and 1997, as against the pre-1968 average of five.

Acadia's average class has 26 students, which helps to maintain an intimate learning environment for students.

Ajaigarh has an average literacy rate of 59 %, lower than the national average of 59. 5 %; with 61 % of the males and 39 % of females literate.

The whole country has hot summers with average temperatures around.

Since independence, Botswana has had the highest average economic growth rate in the world, averaging about 9 % per year from 1966 to 1999.

It has experienced rapid economic growth, even though its income level remains the lowest within the EU with an average monthly wage of 754 leva ( 386 euro ).

Further to the south, the Sudan-Guinea zone receives more than 900 millimeters ( 35. 4 in ) of rain each year and has cooler average temperatures.

On average, a mammal has a brain roughly twice as large as that of a bird of the same body size, and ten times as large as that of a reptile of the same body size.

The league average for on-base percentage has varied considerably over time ; in the modern era it is around. 340, whereas it was typically only. 300 in the dead-ball era.

This happens when a player has almost no walks or times hit by pitch, with a higher number of sacrifice flies ( e. g. if a player has 2 hits in 6 at bats plus a sacrifice fly, his batting average would be. 333, but his on-base percentage would be. 286 ).

But, while a sacrifice fly doesn't affect a player's batting average, it counts as a plate appearance and a lower on-base percentage, and a player on a hitting streak will have the hit streak end if he has no official at-bats but has a sacrifice fly.

" Cobb was a mean-spirited man, fiercely competitive and loathed by many of his fellow professionals, but his career batting average of. 366 has yet to be bested.

However, the binding to hemoglobin does serve as a record for average blood glucose levels over the lifetime of red cells, which is approximately 120 days.

* 35 mL — average amount of blood lost by a woman during menstruation.

* Glycosylated hemoglobin test – A blood test that measures the level of a particular variety of hemoglobin ( HbA1c ) which is itself a measure of a person's average blood glucose level for the 3-month period before the test.

Its concentration is an index of the average blood glucose level throughout the life of the red blood cell ( about 90 days in most cases ).

It is therefore a record of the average blood glucose level over that period, though it is biased toward more recent conditions during that period.

An average adult contains five to six quarts ( roughly 4. 7 to 5. 7 liters ) of blood, which consists of plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.

Human red blood cells take on average 20 seconds to complete one cycle of circulation.

The red blood cells of an average adult human male store collectively about 2. 5 grams of iron, representing about 65 % of the total iron contained in the body.

The nominate subspecies of this parakeet is 29 cm long on average, with a 48 cm wingspan, and weighs 100 g. Females tend to be 10-20 % smaller but can only be reliably sexed by DNA blood or feather testing.

Concentration of sertraline and desmethylsertraline in breast milk is highly variable and, on average, is of the same order of magnitude as their concentration in the blood plasma of the mother.

In the study, in three weeks there was an average weight reduction of 2. 3 kg, an average reduction in waist circumference of 1. 5 cm ( about one-half inch ), an average reduction in systolic blood pressure of 3 mm Hg, and a 72 % reduction in plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 ( which might translate into a reduced risk of heart attack and stroke.

Smaller voxels contain fewer neurons on average, incorporate less blood flow, and hence have less signal than larger voxels.

Reference ranges for blood tests | Reference ranges for the blood content of estradiol during the menstrual cycle-The ranges denoted By biological stage may be used in closely monitored menstrual cycles in regard to other markers of its biological progression, with the time scale being compressed or stretched to how much faster or slower, respectively, the cycle progresses compared to an average cycle.

Three cups of tea daily resulted in an average drop of 8. 1 mmHg in their systolic blood pressure, compared to a 1. 3 mmHg drop in the volunteers who drank the placebo beverage.