10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CEPHALIC INDEX»
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1
Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
30 (1985) 541–544 Shah, Y.G., Eckl, C.J., Stinson, S.K., Woods, J.R.: Biparietal
diameter/femur length ratio, cephalic index, and femur length measurements: not
reliable screening techniques for Down syndrome. Obstet. Gynecol. 75 (1990) ...
2
AAOS Atlas of Orthoses and Assistive Devices
Cranial width and length are used to calculate a proportional relationship,
specifically the cephalic index. On average, cranial width is approximately 78% of
the cranial length.8 Infants with deformational brachycephaly have an increased
...
John D. Hsu, John W. Michael, John R. Fisk,
2008
3
Caste and Race in India
Thus the Brahmin of UP. has a cephalic index of 73.29, while his cephalic length
and cephalic breadth are 187.56 and 137.42 respectively. The Kurmi, on the
other hand, with a cephalic index of 73.25 has the cephalic length of 184.05 and
the ...
Govind Sadashiv Ghurye,
1969
4
The Indian Human Heritage
Figure 2 provides mean values of cephalic index [= (Head Breadth/Head Length)
x 100] and nasal index [= (Nose Breadth/Nose Length) x 100] in various socio-
cultural and geographical subsets of the Indian peoples. It is clear from this figure
...
D. Balasubramanian, N. Appaji Rao,
1998
5
Forensic Anthropology and Medicine: Complementary Sciences ...
Example 1: Patterns of Variation in the Cranial Index For more than 150 yr, the
cranial index and the cephalic index were used as tools for investigating human
variation and to classify individuals into racial categories (6).* The cranial index is
...
6
The Myth of the Jewish Race
gin, which may result from an improvement in diet, is usually accompanied by a
decrease in cephalic index, for the head becomes longer without becoming
broader. However, this phenomenon has not been found in long-headed
populations ...
Raphael Patai, Jennifer Patai,
1989
7
Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
What is cephalic index I How cephalic index is measured ? Cephalic index =
Maximum breadth measured between the two parietal eminences Maximum
length measured from frontonasal angle to external occipital protuberance x 100
The ...
8
The Genera of Fishes Part III: From Guenther to Gill, ...
Cephalic index of males. — The cephalic index, that commonly employed
measurement derived from anthropometrical measurement of the head (which is
length times width divided by 100), has been secured to determine further the
racial ...
9
The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History ...
72 The Cephalic Index By the 1840s, with Anders Retzius's (1796–1860)
invention of the cephalic index, these social, political, and scientific
developments began to reshape the practice of racial classification. Retzius's
initial focus was his ...
10
The Equality of the Human Races
Among the true dolichocephalic races we find, in the lead position, the Greenland
Eskimos, who belong to the yellow race, with a cephalic index of 7 1 .40, the
smallest on the chart, that is, even smaller than those of the Australians and the ...
Joseph-Anténor Firmin,
2002
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CEPHALIC INDEX»
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BreakingNews 27/3/15 - Nigeria: Embracing Ancient Wisdoms …
We have to reject outright colonial anthropometry ---the cephalic index, the bigonial diameter, the bizygomatic diameter as indeed, all the rest. «Nigeria Master Web, Mar 15»
Mfantsipim's 2014 Founders' Day Marked
... intellectually as good as, and even better than the white man, given the same opportunities despite his so-called cephalic index (that in 1935, ... «Peace FM Online, Apr 14»
A Magnet for Pseudoscience
The Nazis and the South African apartheid apologists employed techniques, based on the so-called cephalic index, to demonstrate which ... «New York Times, Oct 12»
'Delusions of Gender' argues that faulty science is furthering sexism
Fine traces its roots to the mid-19th century, when the "evidence" for inequality included everything from snout elongation to "cephalic index" ... «Washington Post, Sep 10»
Changing Minds: Has Selective Breeding Restructured Some Dog …
The experimenters also calculated a cephalic index (CI) by dividing skull width by skull length and multiplying by 100. The higher the CI, the ... «Scientific American, Aug 10»