Perspectives in Human Growth, Development and MaturationParasmani Dasgupta, Roland Hauspie One morning in 1969, out of the blue, I received a letter which both distressed and astonished me. It was from a Prof. S. R. Das in Calcutta, who requested me to accept, for eventual analysis, a mountain of anthropometric data he had accumulated, as he was ill and did not expect to survive to analyse it himself. The data provided the astonishment; twenty-two anthropometric characters recorded every six months or a year, over a period of 14 years, in a mixed longitudinal study of some 560 children, aged six months to twenty years. Most were in families with siblings also in the study, and every child was measured every time by S. R. Das himself. The archive was unique, combining the personal anthropometry of R. H. Whitehouse in the Harpenden Growth Study and the family approach of the Fels Growth Study. This was a study of which neither I, nor anyone of my acquaintance, had heard. Even in India, Prof. Das' work was scarcely known. It turned out Das was a scholarly man, quiet and unassuming, absolutely committed to his Sarsuna-Barisha Growth Study,just the obverse of the professional showman. Clearly this was not a request I could refuse, although I already had in hand enough projects to occupy Siva himself. |
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Contents
The Measurement of Human Growth A Historical Review | 3 |
Individual Physical Growth Models and Biological Parameters of Japanese | 17 |
Smoothing Centile Curves of Height of Basque Boys and Girls by the Application of the LMSMethod | 33 |
A New International Growth Reference for Young Children | 45 |
Fels and TannerWhitehouse Skeletal Ages of School Children 713 in Oaxaca Mexico | 55 |
Assessment of Childhood and Adolescents Body Composition A Practical Guide | 67 |
Genetic and Environmental Factors | 77 |
Genetics of Complex Traits with Particular Attention | 79 |
How Genetic Are Human Body Proportions? | 205 |
The SarsunaBarisha Longtitudinal Growth Study Dynamics of Growth | 223 |
Linear Components of Growth Among Rural Indian Children | 237 |
Growth Stunting Among Children Aged Birth to Five Years in PeriUrban Kathmandu Nepal | 251 |
Ethnic and Sex Differences in the Skelic Index among Fijian and Samoan Children | 269 |
Skeletal Maturity in Children of Mixed American and Japanese Parentage as Assessed by Tw2Method | 281 |
Biological Aspects of Growth | 299 |
Somatotypes of Budapest Children | 301 |
Subcutaneous Adipose tissue Distribution in 7 to 16Year Old Boys of Calcutta in Relation to SocioEconomic Level | 91 |
Dentofacial Morphology Growth and Genetics A Study of Australian Aborigines | 109 |
Riddles in Human Development Patterns A Few Family Case Study | 123 |
Nutrition in Venezuela at the End of the Millennium | 129 |
Thoughts on Secular on Trends in Growth and Development | 137 |
Secular Trends and Longterm Serial Growth Studies | 147 |
Secular Trends in Body Height Indicator of General Improvement in Living Conditions or of a Change in Specific Factors? | 159 |
Patterns of Growth And Scholastic Performance A Case Study of the Associated Factors | 169 |
Mental Ability and Cognitive Thinking in Relation to Sex Pubertal Stage and SocioEconomic Background | 179 |
Population Differences in Growth | 203 |
Differential Rate of Growth of the Human Body Parts | 313 |
ShortTerm Growth | 321 |
Relations Between Head Growth and Psychomotor Development in LowBirthWeight Children | 333 |
Growth in Length and Weight of Thalassemic Children in West Bengal India A MixedLongitudinal Study | 341 |
Appendices | 351 |
Life sketch of Sudhir Ranjan Das | 353 |
List of Publications of Sudhir Ranjan Das | 357 |
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