Abstract：
:This research assesses how weather conditions, such as temperature and rainfall, affect the fragmentation of burnt bone. The recovery of human remains from fatal fire scenes is often hampered by the fragmentary nature of the material, and through understanding how weather factors affect this fragmentation, it may be possible to adjust recovery timelines and protocols to maximise the quantity and quality of condition of the material recovered. These data are also valuable as a baseline for expected fragmentation, and expected differences in fragmentation, under different weather conditions. Sus scrofa (domestic pig) limbs were burned in a series of wood fires spaced over a period of eight months, from winter through fall, in a warm summer continental climate (Köppen-Geiger classification Dfb). Bone fragments were sorted by size and the proportional weights of each size category were compared to isolate any differences in fragmentation. Results suggest that in freezing conditions with remains recovery occurring the day after the fire, increased fragmentation is observed in younger remains but not in older remains. In older remains fragmentation is highest when temperatures fluctuate around 0 °C. It was observed that when remains recovery is delayed, fluctuating temperatures have a larger impact on fragmentation in the short term and freezing conditions are more significant in the longer term. Wet weather conditions increase levels of fragmentation.
journal_name
J Forensic Leg Medjournal_title
Journal of forensic and legal medicineauthors
Waterhouse Kdoi
10.1016/j.jflm.2013.03.016subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-07-01 00:00:00pages
489-95issue
5eissn
1752-928Xissn
1878-7487pii
S1752-928X(13)00067-Xjournal_volume
20pub_type
杂志文章abstract：BACKGROUND:Research has shown a higher prevalence of individuals lying dead unnoticed in their homes (domestic-setting corpses) in Amsterdam, compared to adjacent less urbanized cities and villages. OBJECTIVE:To determine if there is a difference in incidence of domestic-setting corpses in the four major cities in the...
journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2020.102008
更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Legal medicine addresses the interface between medicine and law in health care. The Australian College of Legal Medicine (ACLM) established itself as the peak body in legal and forensic medicine in Australia. It helped establish the Expert Witness Institute of Australia (EWIA), the legal medicine programme at Griffith...
journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2007.08.003
更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2007.12.018
更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2018.04.004
更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2012.06.001
更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2013.09.028
更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2012.05.002
更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2011.02.013
更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2012.12.002
更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2015.11.021
更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jcfm.2005.12.001
更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：AIMS:To evaluate premature mortality and causes of death from young adulthood to middle age in a cohort of drug users followed during almost four decades. DESIGN:Follow-up study of a consecutive cohort of patients with drug abuse/dependence. METHODS:A cohort of 561 drug abusers, admitted to a detoxification and short...
journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2011.01.003
更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2019.04.001
更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2013.03.015
更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2006.11.005
更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jcfm.2005.09.002
更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2008.05.020
更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This study uses statistical techniques to evaluate reports on suicide scenes; it utilizes 80 reports from different locations in Brazil, randomly collected from both federal and state jurisdictions. We aimed to assess a heterogeneous group of cases in order to obtain an overall perspective of the problem. We evaluated...
journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2014.06.004
更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2008.12.023
更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2013.09.020
更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2016.09.006
更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：INTRODUCTION:There are several studies about M1 type vehicle-pedestrian collision injury pattern, and based on them, there has been several changes in automobiles for pedestrian protection. However, the lack of sufficient studies about injury pattern in motorbikes-pedestrian collisions leads to a lack of optimization d...
journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2016.07.009
更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2015.02.016
更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The forensic significance of genital injury following rape and sexual assault has been the subject of considerable academic and research interest, in terms of the contribution it may provide to the body of evidence in criminal proceedings. This essay takes a critical look at such research, in the context of modern und...
journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2015.06.007
更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2019.101864
更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A rodent model was used to evaluate the association between hypothermia and basal vacuolization in renal tubular epithelial cells. 28 Sprague Dawley rats were anaesthetized in non-stressful conditions and placed two at a time into a cooling chamber. Body core temperatures dropped to a minimum of 7-10 °C, causing death...
journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2013.10.014
更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The presence of insects on human cadavers has potential judicial value in medicolegal cases. This research emphasized the important role of insects in postmortem decomposition. It was conducted to investigate the composition and abundance of insects from human corpses during autopsies in legal medicine. It was impleme...
journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2017.12.016
更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Assessment of suspected cardiac injuries in a trauma setting is a challenging and time-critical matter, with clinical and imaging findings having complementary roles in the formation of an accurate diagnosis. In this article, we review the supporting literature for the pathophysiology, classification and evaluation of...
journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2017.08.013
更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:These days we have fast paced traffic on our roads to help us keep up with our fast paced life. But every boon has a down side and our high velocity traffic is no exception. Here is a case report of a blunt abdominal injury following a road traffic accident. Externally the deceased had only a few grazed abrasions on t...
journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2013.10.007
更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The aim of this research was to generate a standard formula for estimating stature in the Bangladeshi population from hand anthropometric measurements. Arbitrarily selected a total of 150 male and 150 female healthy subjects within the age range 18-60 years participated in this study. Stature and nine hand parameters ...
journal_title：Journal of forensic and legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jflm.2019.05.006
更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00
