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The species of the genus Opuntia (prickly pear) are edible cacti, native to America; its leaves, transformed into spines, make its handling difficult. In this research, we measured the area of Opuntia cladodes using 3D photographs in order to avoid the handling of the spinous plant. The proposed in situ method is “non-destructive”, it generates immediate results, it is low cost, employs cutting edge technology, and solves the problems that occur with the leaf area measuring methods cited in the references when applied to this spinous plant. Unlike 2D images, 3D images consider the inclination and curvature of the sample to determine its area. By applying multiple linear regression, we can calculate the inclination from a sample to the center of the image. The measurement of cladodes allows us to evaluate the yield of a crop, decide the time for harvest, or survey and characterize wildlife specimens. To evaluate this strategy, we determined the area of 12 cladodes with the proposed method and five other strategies for comparison. The algorithm showed a 95% accuracy, as the best destructive strategies, but without damaging the plant; it also showed the best performance in terms of the time required for a result. The database with the generated 3D images, as well as the source code, can be downloaded for free from http://www.serconmur.com/area-foliar-3d.html. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The recovery of photographic collections is an important issue pending analysis in general in regard to photographic documentation. Even though they form a part of the cultural heritage, it is also true that socially speaking they do not receive the same consideration as other documents or artistic objects and so the general laws existing do not suffice and an official protocol should be established for their protection. To provide a model to follow regarding the foregoing, this article endeavors to analyze the recovery and documentary processing of the photographs of the War in Africa taken between 1921 and 1925 by Medical Captain Jose Bosch Diaz. More than three hundred 10x15 cm photographic plates have been studied, as documents which reflect the everyday life of the soldiers stationed on the Spanish possessions of the Rif, the activity of the army doctors, pictures of the towns and portraits of the inhabitants of the area. The recovery and analysis of this corpus represents a major contribution to the history of the Spanish Army and the War in Africa, as well as the history of Spanish photography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To study the morphological conformation of horses, external measurement techniques known as "zoometric techniques" have been used, which are laborious processes that make it difficult to obtain immediate results. Currently, there are other techniques such as photogrammetry, which has been used successfully in other countries, but its use in this country is unknown and therefore not used in veterinary medicine. In this study, we used a photogrammetric program for the morphometric study of horses through a modified methodology. The results obtained with this technique were compared with zoometric measurements and so the degree of variation between them was determined. To carry out the study, five horses of both sexes, located in the farm Las Palmas, La Florida district, Municipality of Villamaría, Caldas, were used. A series of labels with reference to anatomical regions of interest were placed in the forelimb and hind limb of each individual, and then each animal was placed in a previously prepared ground where three lateral plane photographs were taken which were then processed with Photomodeler Scanner 6.2 software. The results obtained with the software did not show significant differences in relation to the in vivo measurements obtained through zoometric techniques, resulting in an average margin of error of 0.24%, thus demonstrating the degree of accuracy when obtaining longitudinal measures from the horses' lateral plane. Based on studies applying photogrammetric techniques, this is recommended as an efficient, accurate and reliable software tool for the morphometric study of horses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DICOM standard (Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine) is a non-proprietary protocol for the medical exchange information. DICOM represents and defines the information of real world objects like a magnetic resonance image (MRI), a computerized axial tomography and a digital medical photography (VL photographic), through information object definitions called IOD. The present article describes a methodology to represent the IOD of a digital medical photography of visible light (VL Photographic Image) through XML Schema documents. These documents were used in the creation and validation of XML documents to represent digital medical photographies compiling clinical and technical information for their later implementation in a teledermatology application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two contrast media for direct lymphography in 24 healthy dogs not achondoplasic were evaluated. It used a hidrosoluble contrast media (sodium diatrizoato and meglumina) and another lyposoluble media (lonided adormidera's oil) in dose of 96 mg/I/kg tothethoracic member and 192mg/I/kg for a rear member. The images were evaluated indeed of contrast level and definition of structures for each contrast media. The definition degree for each contrast media both the members and central collector system were good, however its was better for the lyposoluble contras media, especially in the central collector system. Some dogs show embolous in the lungs vessel when lyposoluble media was used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this research was to determine sexual dimorphism in lip characteristic in Colombian male and female population through a photogrammetric study. Frontal facial photographs, in 1 to 1 scale, from 120 Colombian persons without congenital or acquired lip alterations were evaluated. Using frontal landmarks, longitudinal dimensions of Upper Lip Height (Sn-Stms), Vermilion Height of the upper lip (Stms-Ls), Lower Lip Height (Stmi-Sml), Vermilion Height of the lower lip (Stmi-Li) and mouth width (ch-ch). J image software was user for phogrammetric analysis (NIH). For Stadistical analysis U Mann-Whitney test was used with SPSS 17.0, in order to determine sexual dimorphism in lip characteristic. No significant sexual dimorphism was found for vermilion height of the upper lip (Stms-Ls) nor vermillion height of the lower lip (Stmi-Li). Significan sexual dimorphism was found for Upper Lip Height (Sn-Stms), Lower Lip Height (Stmi-Sml) and mouth width (ch-ch). All longitudinal measurements were larger in male than female. There was sexual dimorphism in lip measurements in a Colombian population, when evaluated using phoptogrammetric methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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