Perspectives in human growth, development and maturation / edited by Parasmani Dasgupta and Roland Hauspie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dasgupta, Parasmani.

Hauspie, Roland.

Das, S. R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human growth.

Human population genetics.

Physical anthropology.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xvi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2001]

Summary:

This volume presents a collection of twenty-seven contributions, covering the whole of the research area in human growth and development. It is highly international in the provenance of both authors and subjects, from Kathmandu to Caracas, Oaxaca to Alice Springs. There are papers on the history of the study of human growth, on the modelling of individual growth curves, the construction of population growth reference curves, growth as a measure of population well-being, secular trend, and the much neglected subject of the relation between mental and physical development.

Contents:

Methodological Aspects of Growth Studies 1

1 The Measurement of Human Growth: A Historical Review / L.D. Voss 3

2 Individual Physical Growth Models and Biological Parameters of Japanese / T. Shohoji, T. Sumiya 17

3 Smoothing Centile Curves of Height of Basque Boys and Girls by the Application of the LMS-Method / J. Rosique, L. San Martin, J.R. Fernandez-Lopez, I. Salces, E. Rebato, A. Vinagre, C. Susanne 33

4 A New International Growth Reference for Young Children / M. de Onis, C.G. Victora, C. Garza, E.A.J.R. Frongillo, T. Cole 45

5 Fels and Tanner-Whitehouse Skeletal Ages of School Children 7-13 Years in Oaxaca, Mexico / M.E. Pena Reyes, R.M. Malina 55

6 Assessment of Childhood and Adolescents Body Composition: A Practical Guide / A. Pietrobelli, M. Heo, M.S. Faith 67

Genetic and Environmental Factors 77

7 Genetics of Complex Traits with Particular Attention to Fat Patterning / D.C. Rao, P.P. Majumder 79

8 Subcutaeneous Adipose Tissue Distribution in 7- to 16-Year Old Boys of Calcutta in relation to socio-economic level / E. Rebato, J. Rosique, A. Pietrobelli, M. Chatterjee, S. Chatterjee, R. Saha, P. Dasgupta 91

9 Dentofacial Morphology, Growth and Genetics: A Study of Australian Aborigines / T. Brown, G. Townsend 109

10 Riddles in Human Development Patterns: A Few Family Case Study / R.D. Singh 123

11 Nutrition in Venezuela at the End of the Millennium / M. Lopez-Blanco 129

12 Thoughts on Secular Trends in Growth and Development / P.B. Eveleth 137

13 Secular Trends and Longterm Serial Growth Studies / A.F. Roche, B. Towne 147

14 Secular Trends in Body Height - Indicator of General Improvement in Living Conditions or of a Change in Specific Factors? / M. Henneberg 159

15 Patterns of Growth and Scholastic Performance - A Case Study of the Associated Factors / K.V. Rao, N. Balakrishna, S. Veena 169

16 Mental Ability and Cognitive Thinking in Relation to Sex, Pubertal Stage and Socio-Economic Background / G. Tanner-Lindgren 179

Population Differences in Growth 203

17 How Genetic Are Human Body Proportions? / B. Bogin, M. Kapell, M.I. Varela Silva, B. Orden, P.K. Smith, J. Loucky 205

18 The Sarsuna-Barisha Longitudinal Growth Study: Dynamics of Growth / R.C. Hauspie, P. Dasgupta 223

19 Linear Components of Growth Among Rural Indian Children / S. Rao 237

20 Growth Stunting among Children, Aged Birth to 5 Years, in Peri-Urban Kathmandu, Nepal / T. Moffat 251

21 Ethnic and Sex Differences in the Skelic Index among Fijian and Samoan Children / T. Satake, K. Hattori, E. Kanazawa 269

22 Skeletal Maturity in Children of Mixed American and Japanese Parentage as Assessed by the TW2-Method / K. Kimura 281

Biological Aspects of Growth 299

23 Somatotypes of Budapest Children / O.G. Eiben, A. Nemeth 301

24 Differential Rate of Growth of the Human Body Parts / M. Prokopec 313

25 Short-term Growth / M. Hermanussen 321

26 Relations between Head Growth and Psychomotor Development in Low-Birth-Weight Children / W. Furmaga-Jablonska, H. Chrzastek-Spruch, M. Kozlowska, A. Orzechowski 333

27 Growth in Length and Weight of Thalassemic Children in West Bengal, India: A Mixed-Longitudinal Study / J. Banerjee, S. Saha, I. Dasgupta, D.K. Bhattacharyya, P. Dasgupta 341.

Notes:

"A tribute to Professor Sudhir Ranjan Das"--P. [i].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1402000006

OCLC:

47716483