AIM To develop discriminant functions for sex estimation on medieval Croatian population and test their application on contemporary Croatian population. METHODS From a total of 519 skeletons, we chose 84 adult excellently preserved skeletons free of antemortem or postmortem changes and took all standard measurements. Sex was estimated/determined using standard anthropological procedures and a...

One of the greatest limitations to the application of the revised Fully anatomical stature estimation method is the inability to measure some of the skeletal elements required in its calculation. These element dimensions cannot be obtained due to taphonomic factors, incomplete excavation, or disease processes, and result in missing data. This study examines methods of imputing these missing dim...

The diagnosis of sex and age-at-death from the adult human skeleton is very important in the field of physical and forensic anthropology for the identification of a human body. Three studies of the diagnosis of the patella reporting an accuracy of approximately 85% have been published; however there is no study about diagnosis of the age-at-death on the basis of morphology of the patella. The p...

Age estimation is useful in forensic investigations to aid in the process of identifying unknown victims as well as living individuals. In many countries age estimation is commonly used to assist immigration authorities in deciding whether refugees or illegal migrants have reached that designated age that separates a juvenile from an adult. This is particularly important for the protection of u...

In the development of robot-assisted rehabilitation systems for upper limb rehabilitation therapy, human electromyogram (EMG) is widely used due to its ability to detect the user intended motion. EMG is one kind of biological signal that can be recorded to evaluate the performance of skeletal muscles by means of a sensor electrode. Based on recorded EMG signals, user intended motion could be ex...

Estimation of age-at-death for skeletonised forensic remains is one of the most significant problems in forensic anthropology. The majority of existing morphological and histological techniques are highly inaccurate, and show a bias towards underestimating the age of older individuals. One technique which has been successful in forensic age estimation is amino acid racemization in dentine. Howe...

introduction: treatment ofcleft lip and palate patients requires a multidisciplinary plan. these patients usually have a hypoplastic maxilla due to the prior surgical scars. orthognathic surgery to advance the maxilla in these patients is not very efficient; therefore, orthopedic interventions during an appropriate age seems to be essential.   case report: in this article, two cleft lip and pal...

skeletal involvement is the second most common site of metastases after lymph nodal metastases in patients with prostate cancer. the skeletal metastases from prostate cancer are osteoblastic in nature and show increased tracer avidity on the bone scan. focal tracer avid lesion in skeleton especially in skull requires the careful examination by further investigation. the patients with skull meta...

this case report illustrates the presence of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (dish) in a fighting bulldog. the dog was referred to the veterinary teaching hospital, university of agriculture faisalabad pakistan, with the presenting complaint of slowly progressing staggering gait, inability to stand on hind limbs and muscle stiffness in lumbo-sacral region. hematological, serobiochemica...

background with increasing incidence of traumatic fractures, the use of orthopedic intervention such as traction has increased. inappropriate traction care may cause substantial morbidity and delay the patient rehabilitation. objectives this study was conducted to evaluate the quality of care for patients with traction in the orthopedic unit of kashan's shahid beheshti hospital, kashan, iran. p...