Y-chromosome STR haplotypes in Somalis.

abstract：:Allele frequencies and haplotypes for 12 Y-chromosomal STR loci included in the Powerplex System (Promega, Madison, USA) were determined in a sample of 113 unrelated males of Belgian origin. Ninety-nine different haplotypes were observed with an overall haplotype diversity of 0.997. ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： De Maesschalck K,Vanhoutte E,Knaepen K,Vanderheyden N,Cassiman JJ,Decorte R

更新日期：2005-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A collaborative exercise was carried out by the European DNA Profiling Group (EDNAP) in order to evaluate the distribution of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) heteroplasmy amongst the hairs of an individual who displays point heteroplasmy in blood and buccal cells. A second aim of the exercise was to study reproducibility of...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Tully G,Barritt SM,Bender K,Brignon E,Capelli C,Dimo-Simonin N,Eichmann C,Ernst CM,Lambert C,Lareu MV,Ludes B,Mevag B,Parson W,Pfeiffer H,Salas A,Schneider PM,Staalstrom E

更新日期：2004-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The article presents research on the methods of crash velocity determination based on the Compact car class. The database used in the research is provided by the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) and includes numerous frontal crash tests, which allowed the determination of the mathematical model p...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Kubiak P,Mierzejewska P,Krukowski M

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved capillary gas chromatographic method for the analysis of illicit diamorphine preparation is reported. The method was able to resolve the impurities and more frequent adulterants and contaminants present in street heroin preparations with a diamorphine detection limit of 0.2 ng in split-less mode. ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Chiarotti M,Carnevale A,de Giovanni N

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the introduction of limit values for blood alcohol and breath alcohol concentrations of 0.5 g/kg and 0.25 mg/L, respectively, as provided under s. 24 a of the German Road Traffic Act the question is whether also breath alcohol concentrations can be back calculated to the time of the traffic offence in cases ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Jachau K,Sauer S,Krause D,Wittig H

更新日期：2004-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Tooth wear is frequently used as a method of ageing skeletal remains. Fundamental to this method is the ability to measure the amount of tooth wear. The Brothwell chart based on the Miles method of ageing, uses simple ordinal scoring and is frequently used by archeologists. The purpose of the present investigation was...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Santini A,Land M,Raab GM

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In forensics and archaeology, it is important to distinguish human from animal remains and to identify animal species from fragmentary bones and bloodstains. We report blind tests in which a protein radioimmunoassay (pRIA) was used to identify the species of six bone fragments lacking morphological specificity and 43 ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Lowenstein JM,Reuther JD,Hood DG,Scheuenstuhl G,Gerlach SC,Ubelaker DH

更新日期：2006-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of biological and chemical tests have been developed over the years to determine whether a person was drowned. This study focuses on the potential of a microbiological test for detecting common bacterial markers of water faecal pollution such as faecal coliforms (FC) and faecal streptococci (FS) as possible i...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Lucci A,Campobasso CP,Cirnelli A,Lorenzini G

更新日期：2008-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and seventy nine cases of acute poisoning constituting 1.1% of all admissions to the medical unit over 3 years were analysed. Eighty-three per cent of the patients were under 30 years of age and 72% were males. The common agents were: OP insecticides in 51%, kerosene oil in 12%, rat poison in 8% and drugs ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Senanayake N,Karalliedde L

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this follow-up study the collaboration between two research groups from the USA and the Netherlands was continued to expand the framework of chemical attribution for the homemade explosive erythritol tetranitrate (ETN). Isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) analysis was performed to predict possible links between ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Bezemer K,McLennan L,Hessels R,Schoorl J,van den Elshout J,van der Heijden A,Hulsbergen A,Koeberg M,Busby T,Yevdokimov A,de Rijke E,Schoenmakers P,Smith J,Oxley J,van Asten A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 76-year-old male with a previous history of heart arrhythmia and decompensation was treated for a complicated thoraco-abdominal trauma. Accidentally, a pleural drain was inserted in his heart through the ventricular septum, perforating the left ventricle, the drain tip being buried in its posterior wall. This injury...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Rajs J,Rotmil PL

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this research is to assess the vulnerabilities of a high resolution fingerprint sensor when confronted with fake fingerprints. The study has not been focused on the decision outcome of the biometric device, but essentially on the scores obtained following the comparison between a query (genuine or fake)...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Espinoza M,Champod C,Margot P

更新日期：2011-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Postmortem radiographic examinations of animals are often performed in judicial investigation to rule out gunshot and fractures due to cruelty. Literature describing postmortem changes seen on radiographs of animals is rarely available. Serial thoracic radiography of six recently euthanized dogs was performed in an in...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Heng HG,Selvarajah GT,Lim HT,Ong JS,Lim J,Ooi JT

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The validity of the determination of particle size distribution for forensic soil identification was studied using 73 soil samples collected from a 20 km x 15 km area. Soil particles were first divided into two fractions by wet sieving with a sieve with a 0.05 mm aperture size. Dry sieving was used to analyze the coar...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Sugita R,Marumo Y

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence of rare disease may be useful in the identification of unknown remains. Osteodystrophy is a condition commonly associated with chronic renal failure. The presence of renal osteodystrophy and medical artifacts associated with the treatment of kidney failure in human remains may provide information about the in...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： London MR,Libbey NP,Shemin DG,Chazan JA

更新日期：1994-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A new solid phase extraction method was studied to extract methadone from small amounts of biological samples, by using little disposable columns prepacked with reverse phase sorbents. Two different commercial kinds of reversed phase columns prepacked with octadecylsilane (ODS) were tested; the results were compared t...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Chiarotti M,Offidani C,de Giovanni N

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The melting behavior of 28 high density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe samples manufactured and supplied by 13 different manufacturers in India was examined by 'differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)' to find out if this parameter could be used in differentiating between these HDPE pipe samples which are chemically the sam...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Sajwan M,Aggarwal S,Singh RB

更新日期：2008-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In Finland about one-half of the fatal traffic accidents are investigated by special Boards of Inquiry. The cumulating data serves multidisciplinary sciences, juridical and insurance purposes and legislation. The participating physicians benefit from the systematic work of the Boards in many ways. As an example of the...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Karkola K

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to inadequacies in historical hair examinations, the use and perceived value of microscopic hair evidence has reduced. Many reports have heavily criticised the use of pattern-based evidence including hair evidence as being unreliable, with police forces focussing on more individualising evidence. Hair evidence has...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Wilkinson L,Gwinnett C

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most important factors for calculating the accumulated degree days (ADD), which is used to estimate the postmortem interval (PMI) is the accurate estimation of the scene temperature after death. As the estimation method used up to now, they applied to the linear regression analysis using the temperature of ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Jeong SJ,Park SH,Park JE,Park SH,Moon TY,Shin SE,Lee JW

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dental age assessments are widely used to estimate age of immature skeletal remains. Most methods have relied on fractional stages of tooth emergence and formation, particularly of the permanent dentition, for predicting the age of infants and very young children. In this study, the accuracy of regression equations of...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Cardoso HF

更新日期：2007-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Venlafaxine is an extensively used antidepressant drug; it is considered to be quite safe and only a few pure cases of fatal poisoning have been reported. Here we describe a fatal case of venlafaxine self-poisoning including detailed tissue distribution of the drug and its metabolite O-desmethylvenlafaxine and the exa...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Vignali C,Morini L,Chen Y,Stramesi C,Groppi A

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conversion of levamisole to aminorex in horses was first described in 2009 and, for the first time, confirmed in humans two years later by our laboratory. Aminorex and levamisole interfere with serotonin metabolism and both are proven cause of potentially fatal idiopathic pulmonary hypertension (IPH). Because most...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Karch SB,Defraia B,Messerini L,Mari F,Vaiano F,Bertol E

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from the literature suggest that cases of sepsis complicated by right ventricular (RV) dysfunction have poorer prognosis. In these cases progressive hypoperfusion associated to increasing, injury-related, pulmonary vascular resistance account for RV ischemia. In the present analysis, we wanted to evaluate whether...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Fracasso T,Jentgens L,Pfeiffer H,Sauerland C,Mangin P,Schmeling A

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the heat-induced alterations in human bone tissue observed using scanning electron microscopy and microradiography. Femoral bone samples were taken from persons varying in age from 1 year to 97 years at the time of their death. The bone was heated at selected temperatures in the range 200-1600 de...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Holden JL,Phakey PP,Clement JG

更新日期：1995-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Histological methods can be used forensically to estimate age-at-death based on patterns of change in osteon shape, size, and population density, all of which result from the continuous process of bone remodelling. The present study examines the applicability of three existing histological age-at-death estimation meth...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Maggio A,Franklin D

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article studies teenage homicide victims in Metro-Dade County, Miami, FL, U.S.A., between the years 1973 through 1982. A total of 263 cases were selected. Cases were then analyzed with respect to age, race, sex, cause of death, scene circumstances, alcohol and drugs detected at autopsy. A discussion follows that ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Copeland AR

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Writer characterization from images of handwriting has remained an important research problem in the handwriting recognition community that finds applications in forensics, paleography and neuropsychology. This paper presents a study to evaluate the effectiveness of an implicit shape codebook technique to recognize wr...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Bennour A,Djeddi C,Gattal A,Siddiqi I,Mekhaznia T

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have indicated that metal particles remain on bone after sharp force injury or gunshot and that their detection by scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (SEM-EDS) could greatly help in tool identification. However, the presence of metal particles on bone surfaces in th...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Pechníková M,Porta D,Mazzarelli D,Rizzi A,Drozdová E,Gibelli D,Cattaneo C

更新日期：2012-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The establishment of approaches for the differentiation of the ink entries of seals on paper can provide evidence to authenticate the related documents and can play a key role in judicial expertise. The identification and discrimination method for 38 red ink entries of seals on paper has been investigated using laser ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Wang XF,Zhang Y,Wu Y,Yu J,Xie MX

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00