Poisson's ratio

Asawarachan, 2014). As an extension of the former Disney studies, our research hoped to measure the unrealistic proportions of female and male characters in these movies in comparison to an average adult by calculating waist-to-hip and waist-to-chest ratios of female and male characters, respectively.…

reasons for this phenomenon. Erwin Bulte, Nico Heerink, and Zhang Xiaobo teamed up and wrote an article for the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, named China 's One-Child Policy and 'the Mystery of Missing Women ': Ethnic and Male-Biased Sex Ratios. Bulte, Heerink, and Xiaobo go into detail of the large numbers of missing women over the course of time ranging in the millions. Nevertheless, they give two possible reasons for the gender gap and their theory of the missing women is…

Choosing to participate in the market can be daunting on its own. Prior to evaluating your investment options, you should first determine your investment horizon, investable assets, risk tolerance and financial goals. Clearly defining your investment goals will help you determine an investment strategy best suited for you, and sometimes steer you to certain assets. When building your portfolio, you have likely run a cross two popularly referenced labels; growth stocks and dividend stocks. While…

It is impossible to not scroll through a magazine or your daily dose of Internet surfing through your social media networks and have beautiful women pop up on your feed. Not just beautiful women, but women with incredibly voluptuous and fit bodies. There is so much pressure to achieve that “hour glass” shape body that even celebrities such as the infamous Kardashian’s have contributed to this extra pressure on women to have a tiny waist by promoting “waist trainers.” As a result, not only do…

When it comes to the study of Economics, it can be very hard to implement a policy without being subjective. Different economic models and economic theories bring different points of views on climate change. Different models give us a different insight on climate change and whether we should still place importance on climate change for the good of human kind or for the good of the governance of the country. Economics is the study of how people choose to use and allocate their resources. As…

marking the site at the mid-axillary plane (CDC, 2007). Using measuring tape, one will measure the circumference from the right ilium around to the left ilium. The tape will remain parallel to the floor, and it will not compress the skin. The waist-hip ratio will be calculated by taking the value from the waist circumference measurement and dividing it by the measurement of the hip circumference. The hip circumference will be measured twice by using measuring tape around the largest…

Strategy and criteria for measuring recent changes in health and social care. Measurement is critical part of testing and implementing changes, measure tell a team whether the changes they are making lead to improvement. This should not be confused with measurement. Changes do not lead to improvement, but all improvement require change. The ability to develop, test and implement changes is essential for any individual, group or organisation that wants improve continuously. Regulatory bodies…

only indicates whether it is fairly priced relative to some benchmark which could include a group of comparable companies or its industry (Ferris & Petitt, 2013). The relative valuation method relies on the use of multiples which is principally a ratio between two financial…

And scientists have some numbers to prove it. Psychologist Devendra Singh of the University of Texas studied people's waist-to-hip ratio (WHR). Women with a WHR of 0.7—indicating a waist significantly narrower than the hips—are most desirable to men. And an analysis of hourglass figures of Playboy models and Miss America contestants showed that the majority of these women boast a…

The aim of this project is to develop an Electrocardiography (ECG) amplifier circuit from scratch. The main challenges include amplifying the desired week signal in the presence of noise from other muscles and electrical sources. As this semester was about transistors we had to use transistors at some stage in this project. The project was successfully designed and built in two ways: one with solely using operational amplifiers and other using transistors as differential amplifiers.…