Tanner score refers to the stage of puberty development in a young person. Tanner 1 is preadolescent and means there are no signs of puberty. ... Tanner 4 means that puberty growth and changes are nearing adult stage. Tanner 5 is adult level maturity. How much will a girl grow after ge...
long in the toothOld; showing signs of old age. Although currently used of people, this expression originally applied exclusively to horses. It refers to the seemingly longer length of an older horse’s teeth, due to gum recession. To be honest I am getting quite long in the tooth and th...
Qualitative results examine the prevalence, experiences, and perpetrators of food insecurity, as well as strategies used by families to mitigate food insecurity. Food insecurity in this study refers to the inconsistent or limited access to adequate amounts of safe and nutritious foods to sustain ...
Likelihood refers to the probability of the occurrence of an observation under the given parameter estimates. The −2 log-likelihood, an index obtained by multiplying the logarithm of this value by −2, was used as a measure of how well the estimated model fit the data. Moreover, this ...
The average menarche age among South Korean women has decreased over time. Early menarche in women causes a higher incidence of obesity owing to the continuous fat accumulation induced by prolonged exposure to estrogen and adrenal steroids. Identifying t
Rapid refers to when a child increases by two major reference percentiles of weight from the day of birth to the 4th year of life, slow refers to when a child drops by two major percentiles and stable refers to when a child remains within two major percentiles in this period. In ...