Calories

Calories

A calorie is a unit of measurement used to quantify the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of pure water by 1 degree Celsius. It is also used to estimate the amount of energy needed by an adult woman based on her weight and height, with daily calorie intake recommendations ranging from 1,800 to 2,400 depending on age and activity level.From: Safe Work Practices for Wastewater Treatment Plants [2018], A Monte Carlo simulation to estimate fatigue allowance for female order pickers in high traffic manual picking systems [2021]

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Published in Jon M. Quigley, Shawn P. Quigley, Continuous and Embedded Learning for Organizations, 2020

Jon M. Quigley, Shawn P. Quigley

Leading indicators are predictive measurements. There are attributes, typically to inputs, that, when present, will allow us to predict in advance the outcome. For example, consider being on a diet; a leading indicator for weight loss would be caloric intake, below a certain number coupled with an exercise regimen that burns some defined number of calories. When set up correctly, that is the calories burned is greater then caloric intake over time, we can predict weight loss.

A Monte Carlo simulation to estimate fatigue allowance for female order pickers in high traffic manual picking systems

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Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2021

Omar Al-Araidah, Gul Okudan-Kremer, Elif Elcin Gunay, Chih-Yuan Chu

PK (2019a, 2019b) provided an online weight percentile calculator for the 18 years or older US males and females based on data from a 2015–2016 health survey by the National Center for Health Statistics. The calculators allow the user to compute the weight percentile based on gender (PK 2019a) or based on age group and gender (PK 2019b). Table 2 illustrates some of the estimated weights and percentiles for US females using the (PK 2019a, 2019b) calculators. It is worth mentioning here that the estimated amounts of calories needed by an adult woman assume the reference woman to be about 57Kg (13th percentile) in weight and 1.63 metres in height (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture 2015), and accordingly estimates of 1,800–2,400 calories per day are needed to maintain calorie balance based on age and activity level.

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