The fingernails of Mary Sullivan: developing reliable methods for selectively isolating endogenous and exogenous DNA from evidence.

abstract：:The scientific community and the judicial system are different components of society with different structures and functions. Nevertheless, science can contribute relevant and useful information to judicial deliberations if the inherent limitations of that information are understood. These limitations stem from the wa...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Bird SJ

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The American alligator inhabits bodies of fresh water in Florida and other southeastern states. Although attacks on pets are frequent, alligator attacks on humans are relatively rare because of the animal's natural fear of man. Because of the rarity of attacks on humans, the pathologic findings and pathophysiology of ...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Harding BE,Wolf BC

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been a challenge to extract DNA from bones previously soaked in water, burned, or buried for a long time, due to the reduced quality and quantity of DNA in the bone samples. The dramatic degradation of the DNA and the presence of PCR inhibitors in the collagen significantly complicate the process of DNA identif...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Ye J,Ji A,Parra EJ,Zheng X,Jiang C,Zhao X,Hu L,Tu Z

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the turn of the millennium, the authors summarize the evolution of a clinician's duty to protect third persons from a patient's violent acts over the past half century, with special emphasis on jurisprudential developments in the last decade. Four evolutionary periods are identified: Pre-Tarasoff, Inception, Divers...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Felthous AR,Kachigian C

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bloodstain pattern analysis, the blood droplet volume and surface impact velocity play an important role, and many related experimental studies have been carried out. If an appropriate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model that could solve bloodstain patterns, especially spine formation bloodstain patterns, can ...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Park CS,Ihm CH,Cho NS,Chung NE

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classification of ignitable liquids in accordance with voluntary consensus-based standards published by ASTM International has become increasingly specific, relying upon both the chemical composition and the boiling point range of submitted ignitable liquids. This classification system includes among others, specific ...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Dolan JA,Stauffer E

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "Blue Whale Challenge" is a dangerous Internet phenomenon. As per media reports, it involves a series of life-threatening tasks imposed by a "curator" to "players," who must fulfill the whole list, and it ends with the suicide of the player. The authors report the data of five suspected cases of "Blue Whales" mana...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Lupariello F,Curti SM,Coppo E,Racalbuto SS,Di Vella G

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved method of grouping hair, based on the alleles of PGM observed by isoelectric focusing, has been described. The increased discriminating power of this system (0.77) compared to that obtained by the starch gel technique (0.55) provides a new and more sensitive means of typing hair. ...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Burgess RM,Sutton JG,Whitehead PH

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collection of DNA for genetic profiling is a powerful means for the identification of individuals responsible for crimes and terrorist acts. Biologic hazards, such as bacteria, endospores, toxins, and viruses, could contaminate sites of terrorist activities and thus could be present in samples collected for profiling....

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Timbers J,Wilkinson D,Hause CC,Smith ML,Zaidi MA,Laframboise D,Wright KE

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the works of Broca and Krogman to modern-day Jantz and Buikstra, the orbit has been used for both quantitative and qualitative sex and race estimation. This study evaluates the practical value of these estimations. Orbital height and breadth were measured to determine the orbital index and assess differences betw...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Husmann PR,Samson DR

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three Southwest European populations: Galicia (NW Spain), a mixed Spanish population from the rest of Spain (outside Galicia), and a population sample from the Coimbra area (Centre of Portugal) have been studied for the Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor (LDLR), Glycophorin A (GYPA), Hemoglobin G Gammaglobin (HBGG), D7S...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Rodriguez-Calvo MS,Bellas S,Souto L,Vide C,Valverde E,Carracedo A

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive and reliable method for extraction and quantification of benzoylecgonine (BZE) and cocaine (COC) in urine is presented. Propyl-chloroformate was used as derivatizing agent, and it was directly added to the urine sample: the propyl derivative and COC were then recovered by liquid-liquid extraction procedure...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Chericoni S,Stefanelli F,Da Valle Y,Giusiani M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Timing of oviposition on a corpse is a key factor in entomologically based minimum postmortem interval (mPMI) calculations. However, there is considerable variation in nocturnal oviposition behavior of blow flies reported in the research literature. This study investigated nocturnal oviposition in central England for ...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Barnes KM,Grace KA,Bulling MT

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histopathologic features of New Mexico 2009 H1N1 fatalities have not been representative of those reported nationwide. We retrospectively reviewed medical records of all New Mexico 2009 pandemic influenza A (pH1N1) fatalities (n = 50). In cases in which autopsy was performed (n = 12), histologic sections and culture r...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Brooks EG,Bryce CH,Avery C,Smelser C,Thompson D,Nolte KB

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand how time and temperature could affect latent fingerprints, wooden pallets were used to construct five units that each housed ten 60-watt incandescent light bulbs. Fingerprints were deposited on the top, middle, and base of the globes. The bulbs were powered on (except the control bulb in each unit) for 1...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Colella O,Miller M,Boone E,Buffington-Lester S,Curran FJ 3rd,Simmons T

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two case studies are presented involving fatal falls of adult females from a height. One involved a launch at low speed from a balcony, and one involved a launch at high speed from the top of a cliff. Crime scene evidence obtained on the balcony itself provided a strong indication of homicide, but subsequent investiga...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Cross R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No follow-up studies exist on how minors who commit sexual homicides adjust once released back into the community. This is an important question given the extreme nature of their crimes, lack of recidivism data, and the expectation that one-half of them will be freed from prison by mid-life. Likewise, no studies exist...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Myers WC,Eggleston CF,Smoak P

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) syndrome is a hyperimmune disorder characterized by lymphohistiocytic infiltrations, elevated cytokine levels in the blood, macrophage activation, and hemophagocytosis, frequently presenting with a febrile septic picture. This unusual disease is more common in infancy and c...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Chute DJ,Rawley J,Cox J,Bready RJ

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcoidosis is a multisystem disease of uncertain etiology characterized by multifocal areas of discrete and confluent granulomatous inflammation that may rarely be responsible for sudden and unexpected death. Two cases are reported to demonstrate disparate pathological features in fatal cases, one involving cardiac s...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Byard RW,Manton N,Tsokos M

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological evidence analysis from contact traces is adversely affected by low quantity and quality of DNA. Proteins in these samples contain potentially individualizing information and may be particularly important for difficult surfaces such as brass, where DNA may yield incomplete profiles. In this study, touched un...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Sterling SA,Mason KE,Anex DS,Parker GJ,Hart B,Prinz M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal remains discovered at a construction site in Georgia display classic "butterfly" fractures on several long bones. Although this fracture pattern is usually associated with perimortem trauma, in this case taphonomic indicators demonstrate that they can also occur on dry defleshed bone. Variations in bone color...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Ubelaker DH,Adams BJ

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jet-propelled personal watercraft (PWC) or jet-skis have become increasingly popular. The means of propulsion of PWC, which is a jet of water forced out of small nozzle at the rear of the craft, combined with a high risk of falling off of the seat and into close proximity with the water jet stream, raise the potential...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Freeman MD,Everson TM,Kohles SS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since forensic facial approximations are used to promote recognition of a deceased person, an accurate forensic facial approximation (FFA) should be easily recognized as the person to whom the skull belonged (target individual). However, the accuracy of FFAs has been previously assessed by the direct comparison of an ...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Stephan CN

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Historically, when predicting the ancestry of human skeletal remains, forensic anthropologists have not fully considered the variation within human populations, but instead have relied on a typological, experience-based approach. Unfortunately, reliance on observer experience has produced a method that is as much an a...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Hefner JT

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first report regarding the characterization of the new synthetic cannabinoid 4F-MDMB-BINACA. 4F-MDMB-BINACA was first analytically confirmed in seized drug material using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LC-QTOF), and nuclear m...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Krotulski AJ,Mohr ALA,Kacinko SL,Fogarty MF,Shuda SA,Diamond FX,Kinney WA,Menendez MJ,Logan BK

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac rhabdomyomas are rare lesions forming part of the tuberous sclerosis complex that may be responsible for sudden death. As well as remaining clinically occult for variable periods of time, they may, along with other manifestations of tuberous sclerosis, be quite difficult to detect clinically and pathologically...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Byard RW,Smith NM,Bourne AJ

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlled and uncontrolled fluid intake studies were conducted on series of volunteers over the 6 or 12 h of the study periods. Urine specimens were obtained from each subject randomly or at specified times relative to fluid ingestion. Creatinine analysis performed by a modification of the Abbott TDx procedure demons...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Needleman SB,Porvaznik M,Ander D

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study analyzed apical translucency and periodontal recession on single-rooted teeth in order to generate age-at-death estimations using two inverse calibration methods and one Bayesian method. The three age estimates were compared to highlight inherent problems with the inverse calibration methods. The res...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Prince DA,Konigsberg LW

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The foot measurements are important in forensic field as they can be used as body height predictors for an individual. The morphology of human feet shows the variations and therefore the aim of this study was to find the relation between stature and foot measurements and to generate population-specific equations. We m...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Uhrová P,Beňuš R,Masnicová S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The movement toward private sector involvement in our correctional services and programs is growing. Before our focus is turned completely to privatization of these services, it would be prudent to analyze the "policy impact of such change. It is evident that the diverse and incompatible policies guiding the governmen...

journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences

authors： Johnson TA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00