Abstract: Bone-mineral density (BMD) is a measure of the inorganic mineral content in bone, and one more informative assessments bone quality both clinical studies forensic investigations. Several factors, such as age, sex, disease, genetics, lifestyle, affect BMD measurements, normative standards must be applied for specific groups individuals. One most common disorders associated with low osteoporosis increased fracture risk, due to decrease strength an increase fragility. Medical...

The current study aims to test the value of mandibular size in sex estimation a contemporary Greek population. produced standards are expected enhance identification heavily decomposed remains forensic settings.<br/> Data from 70 mandibles collection have been analysed using discriminant function analysis.<br/> We selected individuals less than 66 years old (mean age for men= 55.3 +/- 8.8, women= 50.9 +/-15.8) order avoid biases measurements due alveolar absorbsion. A total 5 (chin height,...

Abstract: Forensic anthropologists are faced with many challenges one of which is setting the grounds for assessment an unknown individual's population affinity, essential element building a biological profile that can lead to positive identification. A heavy body literature dealing topic "race" – in early studies or "ancestry/population affinity" more recent articles effort provide reliable tools this challenging task. great and ongoing debate exists on whether type classification should be...

Numerous intrinsic and extrinsic factors influence bone remodelling rates have shown to affect the accuracy of histological aging methods. The present study investigates rib cortex from two Mediterranean skeletal collections exploring development population-specific standards for histomorphometric age-at-death estimation. Eighty-eight standard ribs samples, Cretans Greek-Cypriots, were processed histologically. Thirteen raw composite parameters assessed observer error tested. correlation...

Abstract Sex estimation from skeletal remains is crucial for the of biological profile an individual. Although most commonly used bones means sex are pelvis and skull, research has shown that acceptable accuracy rates might be achieved by using other elements such as vertebrae. This study aims to contribute development standards a Turkish population through examination CT scans seven cervical A total 294 individuals were included in this study. The obtained patients attending Bakirkoy...

Abstract Sex and stature estimation represent two pillars in the creation of biological profile, providing crucial demographic information that forensic anthropologists use for identification unknown skeletonized remains. This pilot study evaluates population data proposing a virtual sex method Hispanic using tibia. Ninety‐two CT scans from New Mexico Decedent Image Database were used to generate 3D models left tibia (forty‐seven males, forty‐five females). Tibial length, proximal distal...

Geometric morphometrics (GMM) have been applied to understand morphological variation in biological structures. However, research studying cortical bone through geometric histomorphometrics (GHMM) is scarce. This aims develop a landmark-based GHMM protocol depict osteonal shape the femoral diaphysis, exploring role of age and biomechanics microstructure. Proximal, midshaft, distal anatomical segments from diaphysis six individuals were assessed, with 864 secondary intact osteons eight...

Histomorphometry constitutes a valuable tool for age estimation. Histological interpopulation variability has been shown to affect the accuracy of estimation techniques and therefore validation studies are required test pre-existing methodologies. The present research study widely known histological methods on sixth rib femoral midshaft 19th century British population originating from Blackburn, England. An evaluation histomorphometric features eleven ribs five femora was performed used...

Abstract Objectives This study evaluated chronological changes in physiological stress and levels of habitual loading Ibizan populations from the Late Roman–Early Byzantine (LREB) to Islamic period (300–1,235 AD) using measures body size bone cross‐sectional properties compare Urban LREB, Medieval Islamic, Rural groups. It also explored effect diet, modeled stable isotopes, on behavior. Materials methods The sample comprised individuals three archeological populations: Roman‐ Early (300–700...

Population affinity estimation is an important step in the identification of unknown individuals. To ensure accurate results, validation studies newly developed methods must be performed using different target populations and skeletal elements. This research aimed to determine accuracy reliability population on a modern Spanish sample two online software applications. The consisted 114 adult individuals (51 males, 63 females) 38 measurements one angle from skull mandible. AncesTrees was used...

Sex estimation is considered one of the first steps in forensic identification process. Morphological and morphometrical differences between males females have been used as means for morphoscopic metric methods on both cranial postcranial skeletal elements. When dry elements are not available, virtual data can be a substitute. The present research explores 3-dimensional (3D) scans from Turkish population to test sex method developed by Purkait (2005). Overall, 296 individuals were this study...

Sexual dimorphic variation between populations must be taken into consideration when applying existing methods on unrelated samples.Validation studies are extremely important to avoid misclassification and ensure high quality standards.This paper presents a test of Southern European metric method Greek-Cypriots (N=132) Turkish (N=203).Three tibia measurements were taken, sex differences explored using Wilcoxon the parameters applied original discriminant functions.The results showed accuracy...

Cortical bone microstructure assessment in biological and forensic anthropology can assist with the estimation of age-at-death animal-human differentiation, for example. Osteonal structures within cortical are key feature under analysis, osteon frequency metric parameters providing crucial information assessment. Currently, histomorphological consists a time-consuming manual process which specific training is required. Our work investigates feasibility automatic analysis human images through...

The mandible provides valuable insights into its biological identity. However, the existence of several terminologies for mandibular measurements and inconsistent language can lead to misinterpretation, confusion, miscommunication.