A 3D analysis of spatial habitat metrics about the confluence of Negro and Solimões rivers, Brazil

Ecohydrology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Gualtieri ◽  
Reza Abdi ◽  
Marco Ianniruberto ◽  
Naziano Filizola ◽  
Theodore A. Endreny
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Author(s):  
Douglas L. Dorset

The quantitative use of electron diffraction intensity data for the determination of crystal structures represents the pioneering achievement in the electron crystallography of organic molecules, an effort largely begun by B. K. Vainshtein and his co-workers. However, despite numerous representative structure analyses yielding results consistent with X-ray determination, this entire effort was viewed with considerable mistrust by many crystallographers. This was no doubt due to the rather high crystallographic R-factors reported for some structures and, more importantly, the failure to convince many skeptics that the measured intensity data were adequate for ab initio structure determinations.We have recently demonstrated the utility of these data sets for structure analyses by direct phase determination based on the probabilistic estimate of three- and four-phase structure invariant sums. Examples include the structure of diketopiperazine using Vainshtein's 3D data, a similar 3D analysis of the room temperature structure of thiourea, and a zonal determination of the urea structure, the latter also based on data collected by the Moscow group.


2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (12) ◽  
pp. 787-796
Author(s):  
O. Furat ◽  
B. Prifling ◽  
D. Westhoff ◽  
M. Weber ◽  
V. Schmidt

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Brandao ◽  
P. Figueiredo ◽  
P. Goncalves ◽  
J. P. Vilas-Boas ◽  
R. J. Fernandes

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (S1) ◽  
pp. 996-997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn A. Larabell ◽  
Mark A. Le Gros

2021 ◽  
pp. 106100
Author(s):  
Pourya Kargar ◽  
Abdolreza Osouli ◽  
Timothy D. Stark
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Author(s):  
Matías Reolid ◽  
Francisco J. Cardenal ◽  
Jesús Reolid

AbstractThe aim of this work is to obtain diverse morphometric data from digitized 3D models of scientifically accurate palaeoreconstructions of theropods from eight representative families. The analysed polyvinyl chloride (PVC) models belong to the genera Coelophysis, Dilophosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Allosaurus, Baryonyx, Carnotaurus, Giganotosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus. The scanned 3D models were scaled considering different body-size estimations of the literature. The 3D analysis of these genera provides information on the skull length and body length that allows for recognition of major evolutionary trends. The skull length/body length in the studied genera increases according with the size of the body from the smallest Coelophysis with a ratio of 0.093 to ratios of 0.119–0.120 for Tyrannosaurus and Giganotosaurus, the largest study theropods. The study of photogrammetric 3D models also provides morphometric information that cannot be obtained from the study of bones alone, but knowing that all reconstructions begin from the fossil bones, such as the surface/volume ratio (S/V). For the studied theropod genera surface/volume ratio ranges from 35.21 for Coelophysis to 5.55 for Tyrannosaurus. This parameter, closely related to the heat dissipation, help in the characterization of the metabolism of extinct taxa. Accordingly, slender primitive forms of the Early Jurassic (i.e. Coelophysis and Dilophosaurus) had relatively smaller skulls and higher mass-specific metabolic rates than the robust large theropods of the Cretaceous (i.e. Giganotosaurus and Tyrannosaurus). This work presents a technique that, when applied to proper dinosaur models, provides extent and accurate data that may help in diverse study areas within the dinosaur palaeontology and palaeobiology.


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