ArticleAmerican journal of biological anthropology2025
Compartmentalization Index: Description and Applications in Anthropological Studies.
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- Compartmentalization Index: Description and Applications in Anthropological Studies.American journal of biological anthropology · 2025Article
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objectivesThe cross-sectional area occupied by mineralized tissues is so high in non-adult individuals that linear methods provide limited information about its variation along their bones. This issue can be addressed using the compartmentalization index, a non-linear index that amplifies differences in cross sections with more than 90% of the mineralized area. MATERIALS AND
methodsWe selected five femur diaphyseal cross sections of 35 non-adult Homo sapiens individuals from perinatal to 5 years old. Then we measured the percentage of mineralized area of each section and calculated the corresponding compartmentalization index. Subsequently, the distribution of both measurements was graphically tested. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: As expected, variations of femur diaphyseal mineralized areas are visually magnified using the compartmentalization index for values exceeding 90%, but the significance of statistical comparisons between groups is not affected. This makes the index particularly useful for exploring subtle variations in the early stages of growth and development. In addition, we found that using either the compartmentalization index or direct percentage measurements is equally effective for cross sections with lower mineralized area, as the data distributions are comparable. This also allows applying the compartmentalization index in research focused exclusively on adult individuals.
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