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In one study, experimenters measured the facial width-to-height ratio of 192 Masters of Business Administration students, 115 of whom were men.
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Although the trial has several limitations, children in the low sugar group scored significantly lower across multiple measures of obesity, including BMI, weight, skinfold-thickness measurements, waist-to-height ratio, and fat mass.
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New York's 432 Park Avenue, potentially the city's tallest residential building when completed in 2016, may also be one of the city's skinniest, with a width-to-height ratio that could require more complicated dampening techniques.
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All models were required to have a body mass index -- a ratio of height and weight -- above 18, the minimum limit considered healthy by the World Health Organization.
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The name alone is enough to raise eyebrows, but wait until you see the special features: a biorhythm calculator, a fatness function that calculates a user's height-to-weight ratio, a calendar for keeping track of your menstrual cycle and a calorie-counting function.
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The studies measured the participants' body mass index (BMI), a ratio of their height and weight, but it wasn't able to take into account their body fat composition, or how much of their overall body weight was made up of fat versus muscle.
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Therefore, the researchers wanted to determine how penis size interacts with the two other physical variables, height and shoulder-to-hip ratio, to affect female ratings of attractiveness.
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The lowest percentage of workless households was in 2006, at the height of the global financial bubble, when the ratio stood at 17.3%.
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Body Mass Index (BMI) is defined as the ratio of weight (in kg) to height (in meters) squared and is an inexact measure of body fat, though it supposedly establishes cutoff points of normal weight, overweight, and obesity.
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BMI, the ratio of weight in kilograms to the square of height in metres, is a common, if imperfect, gauge of whether someone is over- or underweight.
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