Capturing human motion is a key problem in computer vision, because of the wide range of applications that can benefit from the acquired data. Motion capture is used to identify people by their gait, for interacting with computers using gestures, for improving the performance of athletes, for diagnosis of orthopaedic patients, and for creating virtual characters with more natural looking motion...

In bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology the most reliable skeletal element for sex estimation is pelvis; nevertheless, when it missing, other postcranial elements must be used. The main goal of this research to provide sectioning points assessment from humeral femoral head diameters three prehispanic two contemporary Mexican populations. Using a sliding caliper, total 386 (45.3% female 54.6...

Abstract Purpose: Skeletal staining is a way to study the effect of many chemical or herbal substances on development of bones and cartilages in order to record the level of probable deformity.This article aimed to present a modified protocol to make all skeletal studies on laboratory animals possible. Materials and Methods: The important notes about skeletal staining were fixing by ethan...

Altered external mechanical loading during spaceflights causes negative effects on muscular and cardiovascular systems. The aim of the study was estimation of the cortical cytoskeleton statement of the skeletal muscle cells and cardiomyocytes. The state of the cortical cytoskeleton in C57BL6J mice soleus, tibialis anterior muscle fibers, and left ventricle cardiomyocytes was investigated after ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computerized tomography (CT) are promising reference methods for quantifying whole body and regional skeletal muscle mass. Earlier MRI and CT validation studies used data-acquisition techniques and data-analysis procedures now outdated, evaluated anatomic rather than adipose tissue-free skeletal muscle (ATFSM), studied only the relatively large thigh, or fou...

PURPOSE We aimed to establish a practical method to evaluate skeletal age using cervical vertebrae. METHODS The study consisted of hand-wrist and cephalometric radiographs of 324 subjects (167 girls, 157 boys; age range, 7.3-17.2 years). Skeletal ages of the subjects were calculated from hand-wrist radiographs, and cervical vertebral bodies were measured using cephalometric radiographs. A sin...