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Occupant Responses of Relaxed and Braced 5th Percentile Female and 50th Percentile Male Volunteers during Low-Speed Frontal and Frontal-Oblique Sled Tests
… the occupant responses of relaxed and braced 5th percentile female and 50th percentile male volunteers during low-speed frontal and frontal-oblique sled tests designed to simulate pre-crash braking and low-severity crash events. A study comprised of 160 low-speed sled tests was performed with 20 …
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Establishment of Physical Assessment Percentile Ranks for Junior Alpine Ski Competitors
… Performance Establishment of Physical Assessment Percentile Ranks for Junior Alpine Ski Competitors Chairperson: Dr. Steven Gaskill STATEMENT OF PROBLEM: While there is adequate literature on elite alpine skiers there is limited reporting relating to fitness in junior alpine skiers or the validity …
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Establishment of Physical Assessment Percentile Ranks for Junior Alpine Ski Competitors
… Performance Establishment of Physical Assessment Percentile Ranks for Junior Alpine Ski Competitors Chairperson: Dr. Steven Gaskill STATEMENT OF PROBLEM: While there is adequate literature on elite alpine skiers there is limited reporting relating to fitness in junior alpine skiers or the validity …
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Development and Full Body Validation of a 5th Percentile Female Finite Element Model
… models are often developed to represent a 50th percentile male occupant (M50). However, in order to address the effects of size and sex-related geometrical changes, there is interest in developing models of other driving cohorts. As part of the Global Human Body Models Consortium (GHBMC) …
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Relationships of Student Behaviors with Class Percentile Rank of Iowa High School Seniors
… and rules, were significantly related to class percentile rank with P-values of .0001, .0001, and .0187, respectively. Conclusions. It was evident that student behaviors do significantly relate to class percentile rank. Nearly one-third of the variability of class percentile rank was explained …
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Development of 90th Percentile Norms for Ipsilateral Acoustic Reflex Thresholds: A Feasibility Study
… have established and validated 90<sup>th</sup> percentile normative data for use with the contralateral acoustic reflex threshold. Much of the literature on the acoustic reflex threshold has focused on the contralateral acoustic reflex threshold; however, surveys have found that many clinicians …
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Development of a Full-Body CAD Dataset for a Computational Model of the 5th Percentile Female
… often developed to represent an average (50th percentile by height and weight) male occupant. However, a 2011 study from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute marked the first year that there were more licensed female drivers than male drivers in the United States. In …
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An Explorational Study of Educational Leaders' Attitudes, Opinions, Understanding, and Application of Student Growth Percentile (SGP) Data
<p>Student Growth Percentiles have recently become popular as a way to report student progress over time. Because of the perception that they are relatively simple to understand, they have also become a popular tool to use when evaluating teachers and school-based administrators, even though this …
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Therapy development of group contingency management in methadone treatment: Pilot 1 - the application of a percentile schedule to enhance attendance behaviors and cocaine abstinence
… of the group as a whole. An algorithmic shaping percentile schedule was used to establish the outcome criteria determining group access to prize bowl drawings. Both the shaping schedule and hypothesized positive social support secondary to interdependent group contingencies aimed to initiate …
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Investigating the Thoracic Biomechanical Responses of Rear Seated 50th Percentile Male Anthropomorphic Test Devices and Post Mortem Human Surrogates During Frontal Motor Vehicle Collisions
… ATDs, i.e., the Hybrid III and THOR-50M 50th percentile male ATDs, and 50th percentile male post mortem human surrogates (PMHS) seated in the rear seat of modern vehicles, which have various seat geometries and restraint types, during frontal MVCs. Emphasis is placed on comparisons between the …
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Sex-Based Differences in Calcaneal Injury Tolerances Under High-Rate Loading
… representing three anthropometries: 50th percentile male (6), 75th percentile female (6), and 5th percentile female (5). Care was taken to preserve anatomically correct geometry as the legs were cut to equal lengths, the tibia and fibula were potted in Dyna-Cast®, flesh and ligaments were …
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Estimating the Difference of Percentiles from Two Independent Populations.
… first consider confidence intervals for a normal percentile, an exponential percentile and a uniform percentile. Then we develop confidence intervals for a difference of percentiles from two independent normal populations, two independent exponential populations and two independent uniform …
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An exploratory study of the relationship between in-training examination percentiles of anesthesiology residents and the vermunt inventory of learning styles
… residents' In Training Examination (ITE) percentile ranks and learning styles and domains with the variables of gender, ethnicity, and postgraduate year (PGY). The ITE is a national examination given annually as a measure of cognitive achievement. The learning style instrument was the …
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Interscholastic Sports Academic Performance and Attendance of Middle School Student Athletes and Nonathletes.
… included number of days absent from school, percentile score on Math End-of-Grade tests, percentile score on Reading End-of-Grade tests, final grade in math courses, and final grade in reading courses. Grouping variables were students in the same cohort with data obtained from 7<sup>th</sup> …
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The School Health Environment and Student Outcomes Related to Childhood Overweight in Southwest Virginia
… from school surveys while LWP score, student BMI percentile and fitness (mile run, PACER) measures were obtained from school data. The School Physical Activity and Nutrition questionnaire was used to measure student nutrition, PA behaviors and knowledge, and the home food environment was measured …
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A Longitudinal Examination of the Influences of Family Processes and Demographic Variables on Adolescent Weight
… variables, and adolescent Body Mass Index (BMI) percentile over four years. Due to the inclusion of siblings in the sample, the data are non-independent. Longitudinal multilevel modeling was used to adjust for this non-independence. The final model indicated that frequency of family meals, sex, …
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Using HeadSprout Early Reading with a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An examination of phonological awareness, participant engagement, and participant enjoyment
… participant’s PA scores increased from the 16th percentile at pre-test to the 35th percentile post program. Four of five measures of PA increased, segmenting nonwords decreased to the 2nd percentile post program. Momentary time sampling procedures revealed the participant was engaged with the …
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Exploring Maternal Factors Linked to Weight Status in Salvadorian Infants
… status, <em>> 85th </em><em>weight-for-length percentile (WFL) for sex. </em><strong>Results: </strong>In this sample of mothers (<em>N</em>=88), 94.3% were born in El Salvador, 92.1% were married, and the mean age was 28.5 years (<em>SD </em>= 5.9 years); 43% of the total sample of infants had …
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Fault detection in a continuous production line using adaptive control chart limits
… This method utilizes S Charts with 95th and 99th percentile limits calculated from historical data as upper limits and no lower limits to accommodate the low variance nature of many processes. This method's efficacy was tested by calculating the fraction of points from numerous long periods of …
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