Evidentiary discrepancies in sexual assault casework within the US
2020
In recent years, a significant number of investigations have discovered up to 200 000 unsubmitted sexual assault kits (SAKs) in the US. While the public outcry was largely directed towards DNA analysis,...
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Recent advances in forensic anthropology: decomposition research
2018
Decomposition research is still in its infancy, but significant advances have occurred within forensic anthropology and other disciplines in the past several decades. Decomposition research in forensic...
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Bullet ricochet mark plan-view morphology in concrete: an experimental assessment of five bullet types and two distances using machine learning
2023
Bullet ricochets are common occurrences during shooting incidents and can provide a wealth of information useful for shooting incident reconstruction. However, there have only been a small number of...
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The Doppelgänger phenomenon and death: a peculiar case of homicide by a subject with first-episode psychosis
2021
The Doppelgänger phenomenon refers to the experience of a direct encounter with one’s self, characteriswed by: (i) the perception of a figure with one’s own identical physical features; or (ii) the...
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Combining the third molar mineralization to further improve the accuracy of the Kvaal’s method in dental age estimation of subadults in northern China
2023
The morphological changes based on deposition of secondary dentin and mineralization of the third molar have been proven to be related to chronological age. However, Kvaal’s method on the theory of...
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Prediction of chronological age and its applications in forensic casework: methods, current practices, and future perspectives
2023
Estimating an individual’s age can be relevant in several areas primarily related to the clinical and forensic fields. In the latter, estimation of an individual’s chronological age from biological...
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Rapid on-site identification of hazardous organic compounds at fire scenes using person-portable gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)–part 2: water sampling and analysis
2017
Building and factory fires pose a great risk to human and environmental health, due to the release of hazardous by-products of combustion. These hazardous compounds can dissipate into the environment...
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Evaluating OpenFace: an open-source automatic facial comparison algorithm for forensics
2018
This article studies the application of models of OpenFace (an open-source deep learning algorithm) to forensics by using multiple datasets. The discussion focuses on the ability of the software to...
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Simultaneous determination of free methamphetamine, pethidine, ketamine and tramadol in urine by dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction combined with GC–MS
2017
A simple and rapid dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction (DLLME) technique coupled with gas chromatography–ion trap mass spectrometry (GC–MS) was developed for the extraction and analysis of methamphetamine...
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DNA recovery and analysis from skeletal material in modern forensic contexts
2018
The generation of a DNA profile from skeletal remains is an important part of the identification process in both mass disaster and unidentified person cases. Since bones and teeth are often the only...
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Operation makalu air crash: influence of cognitive and human factors on decision-making
2021
Two onboard crew members lost their lives in the fatal Makalu Air Cessna Grand Caravan 208B domestic cargo flight crash on May 16, 2018. The Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) procedure comprises...
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Fatalities caused by novel opioids: a review
2017
Drugs related to morphine represent not only large range of important therapeutic applications for the relief of moderate to severe pain but also give rise to a relatively large series of novel opioids...
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One image is worth more than a thousand words: producing an atlas of medical signs for teaching clinical and forensic toxicology
2021
Clinical and forensic toxicology are critically involved in the acquisition of basic skills to correctly suspect intoxication, collect biological and non-biological materials for toxicological analysis,...
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Epidemio-toxicological profile of suicide cases: analysis from a forensic unit in Brazil
2021
The suicide phenomenon involves complex interactions between psychological, biological, cultural and socio-environmental factors. This study aimed to assess the epidemiological and toxicological profiles...
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Rapid on-site identification of hazardous organic compounds at fire scenes using person-portable gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)—part 1: air sampling and analysis
2017
Recent advancements in person-portable instrumentation have resulted in the potential to provide contemporaneous results through rapid in-field analyses. These technologies can be utilised in emergency...
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Research advances in forensic diatom testing
2017
In forensic practice, it is difficult to determine whether a dead body in the water resulted from drowning or from disposal after death. Diatom testing is currently an important supporting technique...
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Novel synthetic opioids – toxicological aspects and analysis
2017
Over the past few years, there has been an emerging number of new psychoactive drugs. These drugs are frequently mentioned as “legal highs”, “herbal highs”, “bath salts” and “research chemicals”. They...
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National assessment of emergency staff level of practice in the management of forensic evidence
2023
The emergency room is the most likely location where victims of violent crime would be encountered by the healthcare system, as the emergency staff is the first to evaluate the victim or culprit, exposing...
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Accuracy comparison of tooth volume and mesiodistal diameter measurements for sex dimorphism based on cone-beam computed tomography: a study for the northern Chinese population
2023
Sex estimation based on teeth could help to narrow the scope for individual identification. According to the different teeth morphology among both genders, we plan to establish a sex estimation method...
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Analytical data supporting the “theoretical” postmortem redistribution factor (F t): a new model to evaluate postmortem redistribution
2016
The concepts of postmortem redistribution (PMR, F) factor, and “theoretical” PMR (F t) – based upon a drug's characteristic L/P ratio – have been defined to express the direct relationship between postmortem...
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Work-related stress amongst legal medical doctors: the need for systematic psychological support. An Italian perspective
2023
Legal medical doctors (LMDs) expertise encompasses a wide range of responsibilities. Work-related stress amongst LMDs is an extremely relevant factor, which affects the quality of LMDs life and work....
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Children’s outcomes in road traffic accidents: challenges for personal injury assessment
2023
Children represent a specific group of road traffic accident (RTA) victims. Performing a personal injury assessment (PIA) on a child presents a significant challenge, especially when assessing permanent...
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Multiple regression analysis of the craniofacial region of Chinese Han people using linear and angular measurements based on MRI
2017
The purpose of this study was to measure the craniofacial region of Chinese Han people in the linear and angular dimensions, and to analyse the effects on sex, age and body parameters (height and weight)....
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Violent offences of methamphetamine users and dilemmas of forensic psychiatric assessment
2017
Methamphetamine (MA), an extremely addictive synthetic stimulant, has quickly spread to become the most frequently used illicit drug in China. People with a history of chronic and heavy MA use have...
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