Characterizing the morphometric parameters of noble metal nanoparticles for sensing and catalysis is a persistent challenge due to their small size and complex shape. Herein, we present an approach to determine the volume, surface area, and curvature of non-symmetric anisotropic nanoparticles using electron tomography and design-based stereology without the use of segmentation tools or modeling...

Stereology in the term placenta of the donkey, Thoroughbred and pony: A comparative study M. Villani a,∗, S. Wilsher b, A. Carluccio c, A. Contri c, M.C. Veronesi a a Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche Veterinarie, Sez. Clinica Ostetrica e Ginecologica Veterinaria, University of Milan, Italy b Department of Veterinary Medicine Equine Fertility Unit, University of Cambridge, Newmarket, Suffolk, UK...

A version of the Rao-Blackwell theorem is shown to apply to most, but not all, stereological sampling designs. Estimators based on random test grids typically have larger variance than quadrat estimators; random s-dimensional samples are worse than random r-dimensional samples for s < r. Furthermore, the standard stereological ratio estimators of diierent dimensions are canonically related to e...