Assessment of Waist-to-Hip Ratio Attractiveness in Women: An Anthropometric Analysis of Digital Silhouettes

The low proportion of waist to hip size in females is a unique and adaptive human feature. In contemporary human populations, the waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is negatively associated with women’s health, fecundity, and cognitive ability. It is, therefore, hypothesized that men will prefer women with low WHR. Although this prediction is supported by many studies, considerable disagreement persists about which WHR values are the most attractive and the importance of WHR for attractiveness of the female body. Unfortunately, the methods applied thus far are flawed in several ways. In the present study, we investigated male preferences for female WHR using a high precision assessment procedure and digitally manufactured, high quality, anthropometrically informed stimuli which were disentangled from body mass covariation. Forty men were requested to choose the most attractive silhouette consecutively from six series (2 levels of realism × 3 levels of body mass), each consisting of 26 female images that varied in WHR (from .60 to .85 by .01). Substantial inter-individual variation in the choices made was observed. Nevertheless, low and average WHR values were chosen more frequently than above-average values or values below the normal variation of the trait. This preference pattern mirrors the relationship between WHR and mate value, suggesting that the preferences are adaptive

Use of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy after Endovascular Revascularization in a Patient with Diabetic Foot Syndrome Complicated by Sepsis

Pacjent lat 60, przyjęty do szpitala z powodu ostrego niedokrwienia kończyny dolnej prawej z martwiczymi zmianami po stronie grzbietowej i zewnętrznej stopy. Zmiany martwicze o szybko postępującym charakterze - owrzodzenia III/IV stopień według klasyfikacji Wagnera. Pacjent choruje na cukrzycę typu drugiego oraz na nadciśnienie tętnicze. Chory pali papierosy w ilości 1,5 paczki dziennie od 40 lat, prowadzi siedzący tryb życia. Leczenie zachowawcze polegało na miejscowym zastosowaniu maści z antybiotykiem o szerokim spektrum działania. Chorego poddano operacji rewaskularyzacyjnej i leczeniu opatrunkiem podciśnieniowym. Niewłaściwa pielęgnacja opatrunku V.A.C. i niekorzystne warunki zewnętrzne w oddziale chirurgicznym przyczyniły się prawdopodobnie do rozwoju zakażenia miejscowego i posocznicy co w konsekwencji było przyczyną amputacji kończyny

Life History of Female Preferences for Male Faces: A Comparison of Pubescent Girls, Nonpregnant and Pregnant Young Women, and Middle-aged Women

Although scientific interest in facial attractiveness has developed substantially in recent years, few studies have contributed to our understanding of the ontogeny of facial preferences. In this study, attractiveness of 30 male faces was evaluated by four female groups: girls at puberty, nonpregnant and pregnant young women, and middle-aged women. The main findings are as follows: (1) Preference for sexy-looking faces was strongest in young, nonpregnant women. (2) Biologically more mature girls displayed more adultlike preferences. (3) The intragroup consistency for postmenopausal women was relatively low. (4) In terms of the preference pattern, pregnant women were more similar to perimenopausal women than they were to their nonpregnant peers. (5) Preference for youthful appearance decreased with the age of the women. I argue that the life history of female preferences for male faces is, to a large extent, hormone-driven and underpinned by a set of evolutionary adaptations

Comparisons of means of many populations

Testing hypotheses on the equality of means is very common. Methods of comparing simultaneously many populations with regard to their means are less popular than the methods of comparing two populations. For this reason, the paper deals only with the latter case. Several tests used for the verification of hypotheses on the equality o f many means are described. If such a hypothesis is rejected with these tests, we can find the so-called homogenous groups. An example is given showing how to use the tests and how to interpret the results obtained

Fertility, offspring survival, and the adaptive value as related to morphological traits - methodological and interpretation problems

A great deal of research has been carried out in order to find a relationship between somatic traits and fertility, offspring survival rate and adaptive value. However, the results of these studies lack consistency. The reason behind these discrepancies is the use of inadequate statistical methods and the application of unreliable principles of interpretation. The purpose of this paper is to indicate the methods of data analysis and result interpretation, which permit optimum utilisation of the information contained in a given sample and make it possible to draw the correct conclusions

Teaching and learning polish sign language through vision virtuelle method

This paper presents the application of the Vision Virtuelle method ininstruction within the scope of the fluency and expressiveness of communicating inPolish Sign Language. It also presents the advantages resulting from the fluent useof the sign language and situations in which such a communication style is crucialto the quality of communication

Use of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy after Endovascular Revascularization in a Patient with Diabetic Foot Syndrome Complicated by Sepsis

Pacjent lat 60, przyjęty do szpitala z powodu ostrego niedokrwienia kończyny dolnej prawej z martwiczymi zmianami po stronie grzbietowej i zewnętrznej stopy. Zmiany martwicze o szybko postępującym charakterze - owrzodzenia III/IV stopień według klasyfikacji Wagnera. Pacjent choruje na cukrzycę typu drugiego oraz na nadciśnienie tętnicze. Chory pali papierosy w ilości 1,5 paczki dziennie od 40 lat, prowadzi siedzący tryb życia. Leczenie zachowawcze polegało na miejscowym zastosowaniu maści z antybiotykiem o szerokim spektrum działania. Chorego poddano operacji rewaskularyzacyjnej i leczeniu opatrunkiem podciśnieniowym. Niewłaściwa pielęgnacja opatrunku V.A.C. i niekorzystne warunki zewnętrzne w oddziale chirurgicznym przyczyniły się prawdopodobnie do rozwoju zakażenia miejscowego i posocznicy co w konsekwencji było przyczyną amputacji kończyny

Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder but Ugliness Culturally Universal? Facial Preferences of Polish and Yali (Papua) People

Previous studies suggest that human facial attractiveness is culturally universal. As they were conducted among Western populations and populations strongly influenced by the Western culture, it is not obvious if the preferences would also be the same in populations isolated from this culture. It is also not certain if the agreement would be the same in the case of attractive and unattractive faces. In the presented study participated 103 people from the Yali tribe (Papua, Indonesia) and 99 Poles. Their task was to choose the most attractive and unattractive face of the opposite sex from a set of 4 pictures (one attractive, one unattractive and two average faces of Polish people chosen in a pre-test). We showed significant cross-cultural differences in attractiveness preferences and similarities in choices of unattractive faces. We speculate that across cultures unattractiveness could be assessed on the basis of the same cues to health and biological quality. Attractiveness criteria seem to be more complex, specific to each population, and dependent on the population's ecological conditions and morphological characteristics