Research Article

Modeling Metabolism and Disease in Bioarcheology

Figure 3

(a) Distance (cm) along a hypothetic hair (blue) that grows continuously for 52 weeks to a length of 20 cm as though there were no quiescence periods; now the quiescence periods are superimposed and marked (red). (b) Incremental weekly growth of the hypothetic hair (blue) with quiescence periods (red), mathematically obtained as the derivative of (a). (c) Observable incremental weekly growth for 39 weeks out of the year, periodic but not a sinusoid though a sinusoid of periodicity 39 weeks fits very well (not shown). (d) Distance (cm) along the observable hair for 39 weeks for an observed length of approximately 16 cm for the year, mathematically obtained as the integral of (c).
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