The purpose of this paper is twofold. First to present a brief survey of some of the basic results related to the univariate moment problem, including Prékopa's dual approach for solving the discrete moment problem. Second we propose a new method for solving the continuous power moment problem when some higher order divided differences of the objective function are nonnegative. The proposed met...

Microscopic images of leaves, collected from Mona Island dry forest (which is located between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic), were analyzed. For each leaf side an image was obtained at two magnifications (200x and 400x). This resulted in four samples of images showing a wide variety of textures and stomata patterns. For each group of images we used the gray-level co-occurrence method t...