Maps, scales and other tools tell of Europeans’ attempts to make sense of race, geography and the novel plants and landscapes in the New World. A 1960 photograph shows a “body box" used to measure ...

The number on the scale does not tell the whole story. Your body weight does not account for your body fat, muscle mass and bone density, and will not tell how much of it is due to water retention or ...

Background: Numerical rating scales (NRS), and verbal rating scales (VRS) showed to be reliable and valid tools for subjective cancer pain measurement, but no one of them consistently proved to be ...

This report describes efforts to develop and test scales for measuring attitudes toward the medical care of chronically and terminally ill patients and their families. The following satisfaction ...

This may not give you the best reading of your body composition. Few health metrics are as contentious as body mass index, or BMI. A ratio of height to weight, BMI is used widely in the medical field ...

University of Illinois Physics Professor Paul Kwiat and members of his research group have developed a new tool for precision measurement at the nanometer scale in scenarios where background noise and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species can damage biomolecules if these lack sufficient antioxidant protection. Maintaining and up-regulating ...