Gender, body size and social relations in American high schools.

Social Forces;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......any above-average (and even average) body size (Allon 1981; Anderson et al. 1992; Dejong...Brownell 2001). In this way, divergence from body size ideals creates a major disadvantage in...1998). These social consequences of body size, then, suggest that the long-term implications...

GRADIENT OF FISH PREDATION ALTERS BODY SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS OF LAKE BENTHOS.

Ecology;  February 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......fish produced consistent, predictable body size distributions of benthos in which large...Generalizations addressing patterns of body size distributions within and among ecosystems...words: benthic-pelagic links; benthos; body size distribution; fish bioenergetics; Micropterous...

Weighty matters: Body size, diet and specialization in aphidophagous...

European Journal of Entomology;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Key words. Body size, prey size, prey density, capture efficiency...to have no relationship with ladybird body size. However, these arguments possess a...Because of this relationship, ladybird body size also provides an important trade-off...

Differences in body size among chuckwalla (Sauromalus obesus) populations.

Ecology;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...INTRODUCTION Body size is perhaps the most important factor...organisms (Miles and Dunham 1992), and body size in turn is influenced by phylogeny...studies of life-history characters, and body size in particular, often focus on identifying...

Energetic constraints and the relationship between body size and home...

Ecology;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......relationship between home range size and body size in mammals concluded that we presently...assumed that allometric relationships with body size were linear across all species. Many...variation that is allowable for a given body size. For example, the relationship between...

Increasing human body size and its physical and environmental...

Townsend Letter;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......various factors related to increasing body size and its impact on chronic disease and...presented little-known findings on human body size in an article entitled, How Human Size...presented at that time indicated that larger body size, both height and weight, resulted in...

Temporary shift of body size in hooded crows Corvus corone cornix of NW...

Folia Zoologica;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......through selection and directional evolution of body size. In NW Italy a notable climatic episode...periods 1986-88 and 1997-2000 we measured the body size and mass of 808 adult hooded crows. Body size measurements of specimens collected from...

The influence of body size on linear measurements used to reflect cervical...

Physical Therapy;  December 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......Duckro PN, Baumer K. The influence of body size on linear measurements used to reflect...might be confounded by variability in body size when comparisons are made between subjects...patient B is 28.0 cm. If the difference in body size is taken into account in the ROM measure...

Body size-related coexistence: an approach through allometric constraints...

Ecology;  June 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......large enough to support their existence. Body size, or the degree of concentration, affects...1959, Lawton 1990). The influence of body size at the community level is generally explained...A quantitative relationship between body size and guild structure has been introduced...

Black and white adolescent females' perceptions of ideal body size.

Journal of School Health;  March 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......themselves as thinner.[15,17] Perception of body size as it relates to actual size may be a...the obese.[18] Singh[19] concluded that body size and fatness and its distribution play...relationship between racial preferences for body size and cultural differences in body ...

Scientists Discover Sequence of Canine DNA Key to Diversity in Dog Body...

Targeted News Service;  April 5, 2007 ;     277 words ......DNA key to the great diversity in the body size of dogs, from Chihuahuas to Grant Danes...a gene that has been implicated in body size in other organisms including mice and...which exhibit the greatest diversity in body size of any terrestrial vertebrate, the authors...

Comparative Food Habits and Body Size of Five Populations of Elaphe...

Copeia;  August 2, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The comparative diet and body size of the Four-Lined Snake (Elaphe quatuorlineata...about the relationships between snake body size and prey preferences (Shine, 1991...from free-ranging individuals) and body size (especially highlighting sexual size...

Measurement of body size and shape perception in eating-disordered and...

British Journal of Psychology;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......include a distorted evaluation of personal body size (DSM-IV,, 1994), and this is also a key...body image dysfunction: a perceptual body size distortion and a 'cognitive-evaluative...when an observer is unable to gauge her body size accurately, and the cognitive distortion...

A youthful blush; The science of spring.(Why young leaves turn red)(Brief...

The Economist (US);  October 12, 2002 ;     310 words ...Yah! Boo! Sucks! You can't see me Young leaves, as well as old ones, are often coloured...impact as their elderly cousins, but young leaves are often flushed red, too, particularly...discovered that in as many as 62% of them, young leaves tend to be coloured anything from pale...

The development of sexual differences in body size in Odonata in relation...

European Journal of Entomology;  July 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ......sexual size dimorphism Abstract. Adult body size is the result of important environmental...in adults. INTRODUCTION Differences in body size between males and females are common...fecundity selection acting on female body size usually produces femalebiased SSD through...