Diaphysator: An online application for the exhaustive cartography and user‐friendly statistical analysis of long bone diaphyses.

The cross‐sectional geometry (CSG) of long bone diaphyses is used in bioanthropology to evaluate their resistance to biomechanical constraints and to infer life‐history‐related patterns such as mobility, activity specialization or intensity, sexual dimorphism, body mass and proportions. First limite...

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Publicado en:American Journal of Physical Anthropology Vol. 169; no. 2; pp. 377 - 385
Autores principales: Santos, Frédéric, Lacoste Jeanson, Alizé
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jun2019
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          Lacoste Jeanson, Alizé
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          Université de Bordeaux – CNRS – MCC, UMR 5199 PACEA, 33600 Pessac France
          Laboratory of 3D Imaging and Analytical Methods, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics, Charles University, Praha Czech Republic
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        Physical anthropology
        Bone shafts
        Body mass index
        Sexual dimorphism
        Biomechanics
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        correlation
        cortical area
        cortical thickness
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      ab: The cross‐sectional geometry (CSG) of long bone diaphyses is used in bioanthropology to evaluate their resistance to biomechanical constraints and to infer life‐history‐related patterns such as mobility, activity specialization or intensity, sexual dimorphism, body mass and proportions. First limited by technical analytical constraints to the analysis of one or two cross sections per bone, it has evolved into the analysis of cross sections of the full length of the diaphyseal part of long bones. More recently, researchers have developed analytical tools to map the cortical thickness of entire diaphyses to evaluate locomotor signatures. However, none of these analytical tools are easy to use for scientists who are not familiar with computer programming, and some statistical procedures–such as mapping the correlation coefficients of the diaphyseal thickness with various parameters have yet to be made available. Therefore, we developed an automated and open‐source application that renders those analyses (both CSG and cortical thickness) in a semiautomated and user friendly manner. This application, called "Diaphysator", is associated with another free software ("Extractor", presented in Dupej et al. (2017). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 164, 868–876). Diaphysator can be used as an online application (https://diaphysator.shinyapps.io/maps) or as a package for R statistical software. Along with the mean maps of cortical thickness and mean CSG parameter graphs, the users can evaluate the correlations and partial correlations of both CSG parameters at every cross section along the diaphyseal length, and cortical thickness data points of the entire diaphysis, with any factor such as age, sex, stature, and body mass.
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