{"title":"Anthropometric parameters and sexual maturation in 12- to 15-year-old Estonian boys.","authors":"Gudrun Veldre, Toivo Jürimäe","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aims of this study were 1. to fix main sexual maturation signs and anthropometric measurements, and 2. to investigate relations between maturational status and main anthropometric parameters (i.e. skinfolds, girths, lengths, breadths/lengths) in 12-15-year old boys. In total, 361 boys from Tartu, Estonia, were studied. Body height and weight, 9 skinfolds, 13 girths, 8 lengths and 8 breadths/lengths were measured. Pubertal stages were determined according to the criteria described by Tanner (1962). Self-assessment of pubic hair (PH1-PH5) was used. Genital development (G1-G5) was estimated by palpating the left testis and matching the size of wood ovoid of the Prader orchidometer. Finally, boys were asked about oigarche (= age at the first ejaculation of sperm). Most of the measured anthropometric variables were significantly different in boys of different chronological age and sexual maturity groups. By linear discriminant analysis, the safety of separation of the chronological age groups was higher than by sexual maturation variables. Nonlinear discriminant analysis allowed to separate sexual maturity groups by anthropometric variables up to 99% security. It was concluded that though the growth and development of a child is highly individual, on an average the anthropometric characteristics alter very constantly with the increase of age and biological maturation. Our results indicated that there were some significant differences in the anthropometrical parameters depending on the chronological age and biological maturation. Mostly length and breadth/length parameters change during the studied age period in respect to sexual development subgroups of boys. The skinfold thicknesses were not changed or even decreased.</p>","PeriodicalId":46008,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologischer Anzeiger","volume":"62 2","pages":"203-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24591370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distribution of surnames and linguistic-cultural identities of the Slovenian and German minorities of northeastern Italy.","authors":"Miro Tasso, Enzo Lucchetti, Paola Pizzetti, GianUmberto Caravello","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this study we have compared the structure of surnames of Slovenian and German (Carinthian) minorities of northeastern Italy with other municipalities of the neighbourhood. The analysis has been carried out by using estimates of the similarities between populations and the topological representation obtained by them, as well as the spatial autocorrelation. On the whole, this research shows some distinctions which depend on the territorial geography, especially in the mountainous area. Moreover, movements of individuals in the limited zones of the plain are evident, probably due to socioeconomic conditions, the moving of the people and their change of dwelling. Finally, it is probable that different Slovenian dialects generated characteristic structures of surnames which were well preserved in the most peripherical municipalities of the territory.</p>","PeriodicalId":46008,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologischer Anzeiger","volume":"62 2","pages":"185-202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24591369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Can there be age determination on the basis of the dental cementum also in older individuals as a significant context between histological and real age determination].","authors":"Sonia Pilloud","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of this study is to test the cementum annulation technique for its reliability used on individuals of higher ages. Two samples were taken. The first consists of teeth from 34 individuals with known ages between 57 and 90 years. A second sample of 24 teeth from younger individuals between 21 and 45 years was taken as control group. The results show, that there is a greater divergence between predicted and actual age in older persons. The present study shows how great this divergence is and drives attention to possible reasons. Furthermore, it is shown if there is a difference between men and women and between modern teeth and teeth from the 19th century.</p>","PeriodicalId":46008,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologischer Anzeiger","volume":"62 2","pages":"231-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24591372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marina L Sardi, Fernando Ramírez Rozzi, Héctor M Pucciarelli
{"title":"The Neolithic transition in Europe and North Africa. The functional craneology contribution.","authors":"Marina L Sardi, Fernando Ramírez Rozzi, Héctor M Pucciarelli","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The origin and mode of the process that led to food production in Europe and North Africa is a matter intensively discussed. It is not clear in the transition to the Neolithic in these regions if it results by a migration of peoples from the Near East, by changes in the behaviour of local populations, or by an interaction of both processes. Morphological changes in Europe and North Africa, from the Upper Palaeolithic to modern periods were assessed. A method based on the Functional Matrix Hypothesis was carried out, which implies that the bone shape is modified by the related soft tissues. Absolute and relative size and shape changes were estimated on two major--neural and facial--and eight minor--anteroneural, midneural, posteroneural, otic, optic, respiratory, masticatory and alveolar--functional cranial components (FCC). ANOVA and Canonical Correlation analyses indicate that neither a temporal trend nor a pattern characteristic of each region is evidenced. But a shift is observed between the Upper Palaeolithic groups and the later samples. Size is greater in the Upper Palaeolithics. Shape is modified because Upper Palaeolithics have greater midneural and masticatory FCCs, and smaller optic FCC. The greater masticatory volume is associated to wider faces in hunter-gatherers. Our study cannot enable to conclude if the morphological shift is caused by a replacement or by a change in the local populations, however, the morphological changes can be attributed to the reduced mobility and the masticatory stress since the Neolithic period.</p>","PeriodicalId":46008,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologischer Anzeiger","volume":"62 2","pages":"129-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24592074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Márta B Szmodis, Eva B Bodzsár, Iván Szmodis, János Mészáros
{"title":"Direct and indirect interrelations between anthropometric and physiological variables in athletic and non-athletic adolescent girls: a path-analytic study.","authors":"Márta B Szmodis, Eva B Bodzsár, Iván Szmodis, János Mészáros","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Our previous analysis of anthropometric and exercise test data of 62 athletic and 56 non-athletic girls (age range 10.5-15.5 years) showed that the intensity of habitual exercise failed to discriminate between the group means of the studied variables. However, the patterns of intervariable correlations differed between the subgroups categorized by physical activity. The present paper studies the problem of this difference further by using exploratory multivariate regression of aerobic power (VO2max) on 10 anthropometric variables and age. The VO2(max) regression was significant (Y(nonathletic) = 0.0194x(1) + 0.004x(2) - 0.371x(3) + 0.045x(4) - 0.177x(5) + 0.070x(6) - 0.271x(7) - 0.170x(8) + 0.015x(9) - 0.0005x(10) + 0.185x(11), SEE = 0.37, R2 = 0.71, F(11.44) = 9.63; Y(athletic) = 0.029x(1) + 0.063x(2) + 0.277x(3) - 0.030x(4) - 0.069x(5) + 0.151x(6) - 0.148x(7) + 0.001x(8) + 0.018x(9) - 0.019x(10) - 0.065x(11), SEE = 0.32, R2 = 0.71, F(11.50) = 11.30), but none or only one of the independent variables had a significant partial regression coefficient. The individual VO2(max) estimates were studied in both groups by using the other group's regression formula to rule out sample dependence. Both formulae gave good approximations of the observed values in spite of the dissimilar regression coefficients. The path analysis of the respective criterion-predictor correlation coefficients confirmed that the relationship of the predictor variables with VO2(max) involved quantitatively direct and indirect effects in the non-athletic and athletic groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":46008,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologischer Anzeiger","volume":"62 2","pages":"217-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24591371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin, Efraim Gazit, Leah Peleg, Mordechai Shohat, David Turner
{"title":"844ins68 in the cystathionine beta-synthase gene in Israel and review of its distribution in the world.","authors":"Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin, Efraim Gazit, Leah Peleg, Mordechai Shohat, David Turner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The 844ins68 allele in the cystathionine beta-synthase gene is always found in cis with the T833C mutation further indicating that its origin is monophyletic and that it might be a useful anthropogenetic marker. Its frequency was examined in 1087 randomly chosen subjects from Israel (twelve Jewish communities and Palestinians), and found to range from 0.034 to 0.125. The heterogeneity among the Jewish communities spans most of the range encountered among Caucasoid populations and is in accordance both with other genetic markers examined in the Jewish communities and with genetic distance and discriminant analyses. 844ins68 cannot distinguish between various European regions, because of the marked heterogeneity of the allele frequency distribution in Europe. This distribution of the insertion does not follow a recognised pattern of any known colonisation process. Its use as a reliable anthropogenetic marker discriminating between the major human groups may also be problematic until more populations are sampled.</p>","PeriodicalId":46008,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologischer Anzeiger","volume":"62 2","pages":"147-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24592075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emanuele Sanna, Maria Chiara Iovine, Giovanni Floris
{"title":"Evolution of marital structure in 20 Sardinian villages from 1800 to 1974.","authors":"Emanuele Sanna, Maria Chiara Iovine, Giovanni Floris","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper reports the data for endogamy, exogamy and consanguinity in 20 Sardinian villages from 1800 to 1974, divided into generational periods (25 years). The data are taken from the records of 48,262 marriages celebrated in the parishes of 20 Sardinian villages. The results for Spearman's rank correlation coefficient indicate significant positive correlations of endogamy with consanguinity (r(s) = 0.6551, percentage of consanguineous marriages; r(s) = 0.5477, Bernstein's alpha), with altitude (r(s) = 0.6386), with population size (r(s) = 0.2519), as well as a significant negative correlation of endogamy with time (r(s) = -0.4210). In addition, consanguinity shows a significant positive correlation with altitude (r(s) = 0.5717, percentage of consanguineous marriages; r(s) = 0.6295, Bernstein's alpha) and a significant negative correlation with time (r(s) = -0.2363, percentage of consanguineous marriages); the negative correlation between the mean level of consanguinity (alpha) and time is statistically not significant. In the single parishes, the levels of endogamy and consanguinity are generally higher in the mountain villages than in those situated in the hill and plain areas. Finally, it is hypothesized that, in the time period considered, the level of consanguinity and especially of endogamy were largely determined by isolation.</p>","PeriodicalId":46008,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologischer Anzeiger","volume":"62 2","pages":"169-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24592077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The lost \"pleistocene\" hominid remains of Weißenthurm, District Mayen-Koblenz: New and old information","authors":"S. Flohr, A. Berg, R. P. V. Zieten","doi":"10.1127/ANTHRANZ/62/2004/1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1127/ANTHRANZ/62/2004/1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46008,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologischer Anzeiger","volume":"62 1","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2004-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64055632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimation of human endurance time.","authors":"S S Verma, Y K Sharma","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A prediction formula has been evolved for estimation of human endurance time from aerobic and anaerobic fraction of the total oxygen utilization. The derivation of the formula is based on the assumption that fractional change in endurance time varies directly as the fractional change in aerobic fraction in the same direction and varies as the fractional change in anaerobic fraction in the opposite direction. The validity of the prediction formula has been tested on two sets of data. The first set is consisting of 31 observations on 13 Indian subjects and a second set of data is consisting of 7 observations on one subject collected from literature. The multiple correlations for these sets of data were 0.9650 and 0.9996, respectively. These multiple correlations were highly significant (p < 0.001). It has been concluded that aerobic and anaerobic fractions of total oxygen utilization are significant predictors of human endurance time.</p>","PeriodicalId":46008,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologischer Anzeiger","volume":"62 1","pages":"107-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2004-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24488982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}