ASSTRACT.--Intraspecific variation in plumage was used to test the null hypotheses that geographic variation in 280 species of elevationally restricted Andean forest birds is independent of elevation and is not a function of patchy geographic distribution. Both null hypotheses were rejected. At most taxonomic levels, geographic variation in plumage was correlated positively with both the mean o...

BACKGROUND The state of Florida continues to report significant gender, ethnic and racial disparities in trauma incidence, access to care and outcomes in the adult population. Our objective was to assess pediatric injury profiles and ethnic/racial disparities of specific injuries in a Regional Trauma Center (TC) in South Florida. METHODS Retrospective data from November 2011 to December 2015 ...

/ Spatially explicit models that combine remote sensing with geographic information systems (GIS) offer great promise to land managers because they consider the arrangement of landscape elements in time and space. Their visual and geographic nature facilitate the comparison of alternative landscape designs. Among various activities associated with forest management, none cause greater concern t...

We are interested in producing a 3D deformable model of the human hand, for use in a tracking application. Statistical methods can be used to build such a model from a set of training examples; however, a key requirement for this is the collection of landmark coordinate data from these training examples. To produce a good model, hundreds of landmarks are required from each example; collecting t...