Methadone determination in puparia and its effect on the development of Lucilia sericata (Diptera, Calliphoridae).

abstract：:The importance of temperature data in minimum postmortem interval (minPMI) estimations in criminal investigations is well known. To maximise the accuracy of minPMI estimations, it is imperative to investigate the different components involved in temperature modelling, such as the duration of temperature data logger pl...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Hofer IMJ,Hart AJ,Martín-Vega D,Hall MJR

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In forensic science, the determination of diatoms bears several goals, for example to estimate the post mortem interval (PMI), to determine the cause of death of a corpse found in water as well as to further locate the suspected drowning site. However, to identify diatoms using morphological method beyond the genus le...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Li Z,Liu X,Yu Y,Huang H,Li X,Ji Q,Li K,Yu Y,Li D,Mao Z,Pu Y,Chen P,Chen F

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for identifying human skeletal muscle by detection of human myoglobin using a double-sandwich ELISA was developed. When an extract was prepared from 0.1 g skeletal muscle homogenized with 10 ml PBS, this method was able to detect human myoglobin in extracts diluted 10(4)-fold. There was no difference in the d...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Kitao T,Miyaishi S,Ishizu H

更新日期：1995-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of ruptured septic myocardial infarct with death from cardiac tamponade in an intravenous drug addict with left-sided infective endocarditis and septic coronary artery embolism is described. To the best of our knowledge, there is no previous report of such a case in the literature. Although uncommon, infective ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Dickens P,Ho J,Wong KY

更新日期：1995-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In prosecution, Belgian judiciary currently uses outdated yield figures (28.1g per plant, sold at € 3/g at grower level) for fining illicit indoor cannabis plantations. Using state-of-the-art cultivation techniques, our growth experiments showed that yield is better expressed in g/m(2) cultivated surface area rather t...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Vanhove W,Surmont T,Van Damme P,De Ruyver B

更新日期：2012-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bavarian State Bureau of Investigation in Munich has the exclusive responsibility for investigation of criminal acts. One considerable expertise is that of hair analysis. According to the legal system in Germany, there is a special interest when some clients' hair tested positive for illicit drugs. An accused with...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Uhl M

更新日期：2000-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Usefulness of portable, handheld breath analysers equipped with electrochemical sensor was assessed. Breath- and blood-alcohol concentrations in drunken drivers were taken from 370 expert opinions elaborated at the Institute of Forensic Research between January 1st 2002 and February 28th 2007. The results of second an...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Zuba D

更新日期：2008-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The Forensic Anthropology Service of the Medical Examiner's Office of Porto Alegre was created in September 1997 to examine human skeletons, establish identification and identify lesions that may explain death. From September 1997 to December 2006, 344 skeletons were examined (mean: 37 examinations/year), and 322 were...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Vaz M,Benfica FS

更新日期：2008-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Allele frequency data and forensic efficiency parameters for 10 STR loci: D3S1358, vWA, D16S539, D2S1338, D8S1179, D21S11, D18S51, D19S433, TH01 and FGA, were estimated from a sample of 207 unrelated individuals in Lodz region of Poland. ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Jacewicz R,Berent J,Prośniak A,Kadłubek M,Szram S

更新日期：2003-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Raman spectroscopy has been used for the development of a universal method for the identification of traces of all major body fluids. Multidimensional spectroscopic signatures, which account for the intrinsic sample heterogeneity and variations between donors, have been described for blood, semen, saliva, vaginal flui...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： McLaughlin G,Lednev IK

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 50-year-old man was found hanged on the concrete dam of a water reservoir. The ligature, a braided rope made of synthetic fibres, was attached to a lamp on the dam crest. The length of the rope between the fastening point and the noose was about 4m. At autopsy, stretchmark-like intimal tears of the carotid arteries ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Kramer L,Große Perdekamp M,Geisenberger D,Pircher R,Pollak S,Schmidt U

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adhesion molecules identified in recent years can help improve the diagnosis of the wound age, especially of injuries with a short survival time. This is also indicative of the vitality of the wounds. The material investigated in the study originated from 465 skin wounds. The samples were taken from human autopsy ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Dressler J,Bachmann L,Strejc P,Koch R,Müller E

更新日期：2000-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:This study of recreational deaths in the "land of sun and fun" has pointed out several useful factors. Firstly, accidental deaths are more common than naturals. Secondly, the most common accidental death is drowning while swimming. The latter is not usually at public facilities, but rather at unsupervised uninstitutio...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Copeland AR

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 24-year-old male died suddenly following the intravenous injection of what was believed to be the ring-derivate amphetamine 'ecstasy' (MDMA). Toxicological analyses of the victim's blood and the injected material, however, failed to reveal MDMA, but showed instead low levels of bufotenine, a tryptamine derivative al...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Kostakis C,Byard RW

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the prosecution and defence of drink-driving cases, forensic practitioners are often required to engage in various blood-alcohol calculations, such as whether or not the statutory limit was exceeded (e.g. 80mg/100mL, 0.08g/100mL or 0.80g/L). For this purpose, most forensic scientists utilize the Widmark equatio...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Maskell PD,Jones AW,Heymsfield SB,Shapses S,Johnston A

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) and its degradation products are analyzed to discriminate between residues originating from PETN explosions and residues obtained under other circumstances, such as natural degradation on textile, or after handling intact PETN. The degradation products observed in post-explosion sam...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Brust H,van Asten A,Koeberg M,van der Heijden A,Kuijpers CJ,Schoenmakers P

更新日期：2013-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven Y-specific STR loci (DYS19, DYS389I, DY5389II, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392 and DYS393) were studied in five populations from the Iberian Peninsula: Andalusia, Valencia, Basque Country, Galicia and Northern Portugal. Haplotype and allele frequencies of these seven Y-chromosome STRs were estimated. Observed haplotype d...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： González-Neira A,Gusmão L,Brión M,Lareu MV,Amorim A,Carracedo A

更新日期：2000-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this work was to study the efficiency of automatic fibre searching with the Maxcan fibre finder (Cox Analytical Systems, Sweden) in comparison to manual searching. The influence of some parameters (color, thickness, background noise) on the results of a fibre search was considered. Eighteen experimental tap...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Monard Sermier F,Massonnet G,Buzzini P,Fortini A,Gason F,De Wael K,Rovas P

更新日期：2006-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A decline in 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine (MDMA) use in Adelaide, Australia from 2009 to 2010 was confirmed by us previously. Reports suggested that the shortage in MDMA supply was associated with an increased prevalence of other synthetic stimulants, but quantitative measurements were unavailable. To obtain...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Chen C,Kostakis C,Irvine RJ,White JM

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The alarming increase of drug mortality rates in Germany was followed by research projects to enlighten the causes of this increase. The results of the Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin studies 1991-92, led to the conclusion that specific risk constellations have to be considered in the process of improving the drug counsell...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Zenker HJ,Zenker C,Lang P

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of our study was to test the diagnostic value of iron (Fe) in fresh water drowning by investigating the postmortem levels of hemodilution in drowning cases compared to control cases. Twenty-six typical fresh water drowning cases were selected from 128 immersion cases autopsied in our Department of Forensic Pat...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： de la Grandmaison GL,Leterreux M,Lasseuguette K,Alvarez JC,de Mazancourt P,Durigon M

更新日期：2006-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Can a mineral paper be called paper? Until now all known writing supports have been ancient stones and tablets, parchment, and paper of vegetable origin, such as papyrus and fiber pulp paper. Some years ago polymeric banknotes appeared in Australia, and in 2004 mineral paper (stone plus polymer) emerged as an ecologic...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Ezcurra M

更新日期：2012-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:During a stabbing, apparel fabrics are usually damaged and may be penetrated. Despite numerous studies considering forces required to penetrate skin and human stabbing performance, none have systematically evaluated which variables affect severance appearance from a textile science perspective using a human stabbing p...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Cowper EJ,Carr DJ,Horsfall I,Fergusson SM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population studies were carried out on the Y-specific short tandem repeat (STR) systems DYS19, DYS389I + II, DYS390 and DYS393 in a Western German population sample. Determination of the allele frequencies revealed for all these systems, unimodal distribution. The number of observed alleles varied: five for DYS19, six...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Junge A,Madea B

更新日期：1999-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Medicolegal (coroner's) autopsies are an important source of epidemiological data. A large proportion of them comprise sudden natural deaths and an analysis of such cases has never been undertaken at the University Hospital of the West Indies, the only teaching hospital in Jamaica. In a retrospective study, 841 cases ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Escoffery CT,Shirley SE

更新日期：2002-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the use of benchtop NMR spectroscopy in the analysis of solids and liquids used and/or produced during the HI reduction of pseudoephedrine was evaluated. The study focused on identifying organic precursors and phosphorus containing compounds used in and/or produced during the manufacturing process. Samp...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Bogun B,Moore S

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reported here is a very rare case in which the bruises were caused to the lower anterior region of the right thigh by the impact of the rim of a scooter's seat made up of a slightly flexible plastic sheet covered with artificial leather. The bruises depicted the pattern of the subjacent lower end of the femur and the ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Wankhede AG

更新日期：2009-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the fifty-seven cases of cot death studied two-thirds were younger than 3 months, which is also the peak age of infantile hypoglycaemia. Findings from routine necropsy and histology were scarce; in eleven cases they could be regarded as potentially fatal. About half of the infants had had a mild virus-type infectio...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Hirvonen J,Jantti M,Syrjala H,Lautala P,Akerblom HK

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hair, larvae and cardiac muscle, the only biological samples present on a skeletonized human body found in a rural area, were used for forensic toxicological analyses in order to determine possible causes of death. Since no information about the victim or the circumstances of death was available (except for the place ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Basilicata P,Pieri M,Simonelli A,Faillace D,Niola M,Graziano V

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary results concerning the use of liquid crystals (LC) in fingerprinting are given. These were based on thin layers of liquid crystals, changing colours (observed in linear polarized light) due to dissolved organic matter, transferred from fingers' surfaces. The possibility is shown of using LC to illustrate n...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Bładek J,Moszczyński J

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00