the cu, pb, zn, ag-au deposit of amensif is located on the northern flank of the western high atlas. this deposit is hosted in lower cambrian carbonate bars and is structurally controlled by ne-sw to e-w trending fault structures and is spatially associated with the permian 273 ma azegour granite. ore reserves are around 0.5 mt and grades are 3.21% zn, 0.58% pb, 0.86% cu with 83.31 ppm ag and 0...

We show a procedure for constructing a probabilistic atlas based on affine moment descriptors. It uses a normalization procedure over the labeled atlas. The proposed linear registration is defined by closed-form expressions involving only geometric moments. This procedure applies both to atlas construction as atlas-based segmentation. We model the likelihood term for each voxel and each label u...

We describe our submission to the MICCAI 2013 SATA Challenge. The method is based on multi-atlas based label propagation, its major characteristic being that is uses the concept of an atlas forest to represent an atlas. This results in an efficient scheme, which requires only a single registration to label a target. Fusion of the probabilistic label proposals from each atlas is done by averagin...

Shelter staff and veterinarians routinely make subjective dog breed identification based on appearance, but their accuracy regarding pit bull-type breeds is unknown. The purpose of this study was to measure agreement among shelter staff in assigning pit bull-type breed designations to shelter dogs and to compare breed assignments with DNA breed signatures. In this prospective cross-sectional st...

The effects of breed, slaughter weight and ageing time on the meat quality of the three most important Spanish breeds were considered. Two hundred and twenty-five lambs of Rasa Aragonesa-local meat breed-, Churra-local dairy breed- and Spanish Merino were used. Animals (75 of each breed) were slaughtered at three different live weights (10-12, 20-22 or 30-32 kg), and the meat was aged for 1, 2,...

Data were weights of F1 calves and weaning weights of top-cross progeny from sires and maternal grandsires of 13 breeds. Three analyses were performed on each trait to obtain estimates and standard errors of breed effects needed to calculate across-breed EPD and accuracies. Model (R) for records of F1 progeny contained fixed effects for birth year and date of birth, sex, age and breed of dam, a...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 Background and Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1 Manual image segmentation 2.2 Automatic image segmentation 2.3 Multi-atlas image segmentation 2.4 Label Fusion 2.5 Atlas selection 2.6 Automatic Optimum Atlas Selection (OAS) 3 Materials and Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

this study estimated the magnitude of sexual dimorphism in a relict sheep from catalunya (ne spain), called fardasca,using geometric morphometric techniques. for these analyses, a total of 18 skull specimens (2 adult males and 16 females) were studied. our results suggest that the breed is not cranially dimorphic, so sex determination using landmarks described here as criteria is likely to yiel...