Utilizing AFIS searching tools to reduce errors in fingerprint casework.

abstract：:The ability to accurately determine injury dimensions is an essential property of forensic documentation. The current standard for injury documentation is photography using a scale to approximate the injury dimensions in the image. The technical qualities of the photograph, such as orthogonality, depth of the field an...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Koller S,Ebert LC,Martinez RM,Sieberth T

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was performed to acquire urine, serum and oral fluid samples in cases of suspected driving under the influence of drugs of abuse. Oral fluid was collected using a novel sampling/testing device (Dräger DrugTest System). The aim of the study was to evaluate oral fluid and urine as a predictor of blood samples po...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Toennes SW,Kauert GF,Steinmeyer S,Moeller MR

更新日期：2005-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A urine screening in fatalities with an unnatural or unknown cause of death (13-40 years of age) was carried out to evaluate the proportion of undetected drug-related cases. Ten out of 160 fatalities without a hint of drug consumption were classified as drug-related according to the definition of the Bundeskriminalamt...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Schulz-Schaeffer W,Elwers W,Schmoldt A

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 26-year-old male was found naked and excited in the backyard of his neighbor's house. He was carried to a nearby hospital, and returned home with his family, but took a sudden turn for the worse and died. In a judicial autopsy, the ethanol concentration of blood was found to be 0.58 milligrams, and methamphetamine (...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Katsumata S,Sato K,Kashiwade H,Yamanami S,Zhou H,Yonemura I,Nakajima H,Hasekura H

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the beginning of 2015, sixty-two capsules containing red-brown crystals seized in a historical city in Brazil were sent to this forensic laboratory for drug testing analysis. The material was identified as being Brephedrone, a new psychoactive substance and a bromine synthetic cathinone that is related to serotonin...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Machado Y,Coelho Neto J,Barbosa PEN,Lordeiro RA,Alves RB

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ingestion of an unknown quantity of U 46 D-Fluid (500 g dichlorophenoxyacetic acid/l) in a suicide is described. Although 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4 D) is widely used as a herbicide, intoxications are relatively rare. Quantitation of 2,4-D was performed by diethyl ether extraction from acidified samples (v...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Keller T,Skopp G,Wu M,Aderjan R

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The study of post mortem vitreous magnesium (Mg) is less common than sodium (Na), chloride (Cl) and potassium (K) in the forensic literature. There is no accepted normal range for post mortem vitreous Mg and the relationship between post mortem vitreous Mg levels and post mortem interval (PMI), other electro...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Tse R,Garland J,Kesha K,Morrow P,Lam L,Elstub H,Cala AD,Palmiere C,Stables S

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Within a maritime alcohol and drug testing programme, a case showing an unphysiological urine ethanol concentration (235 mmol/L, 10.8 g/L) was found. The sample contained low levels of the ethanol metabolites ethyl glucuronide (EtG) and ethyl sulphate (EtS) which confirmed prior drinking, but also tested pos...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Helander A,Hagelberg CA,Beck O,Petrini B

更新日期：2009-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The population of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles (133,000) shows a very high prevalence of end-stage renal disease (approximately 1 per 1,000). These patients are often treated chronically with haemodialysis. As the drinking water on the island is prepared by distillation of sea water, the haemodialysis fluid used to b...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： de Wolff FA,Berend K,van der Voet GB

更新日期：2002-08-14 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：:The ability to link criminal activity and identity using validated analytical approaches can be of great value to forensic scientists. Herein, the factors affecting the recovery and detection of inorganic and organic energetic material residues within chemically or physically enhanced fingermarks on paper and glass su...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Love C,Gilchrist E,Smith N,Barron L

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Obtaining a genetic profile from pieces of evidence collected at a crime scene is the primary objective of forensic laboratories. New procedures, methods, kits, software or equipment must be carefully evaluated and validated before its implementation. The constant development of new methodologies for DNA testing leads...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Martins C,Ferreira PM,Carvalho R,Costa SC,Farinha C,Azevedo L,Amorim A,Oliveira M

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fingermarks, footwear marks, blood and semen are amongst the most commonly encountered types of evidence at crime scenes. Previous work has extensively investigated fingermark and blood enhancement techniques and a sequence developed to maximise evidence recovery; however, there is limited research as to the effect of...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Simmons R,Deacon P,Phillips DJ,Farrugia K

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the European project, Impaired Motorists, Methods of Roadside Testing and Assessment for Licensing, otherwise known as IMMORTAL (Deliverable R4.2), the University of Glasgow was required to analyse 1396 oral fluid samples, collected from drivers, for a wide range of drugs. A previously described method to i...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Wylie FM,Torrance H,Seymour A,Buttress S,Oliver JS

更新日期：2005-06-10 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：:We report a possibly first forensic autopsy case of death following a spontaneous recovery from cardiopulmonary arrest (CPA) after clinical declaration of death: 'Lazarus phenomenon'. A 65-year-old male with congenital deafness and dumbness was found unconscious in his room at a public home. During pre-hospital and cl...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Maeda H,Fujita MQ,Zhu BL,Yukioka H,Shindo M,Quan L,Ishida K

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports in the literature suggest that diagnostic differences in craniofacial morphology between blacks and whites arise very early in development. These reports, however, have not been consistent regarding which traits are diagnostic and have failed to provide forensic anthropologists with a reliable method of assess...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Weinberg SM,Putz DA,Mooney MP,Siegel MI

更新日期：2005-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Ethanol and heroin are both depressant drugs on the central nervous system, and combined use is known to be dangerous due to pharmacodynamic interactions, leading to an even higher risk of respiratory depression and death. In addition, previous studies have suggested a pharmacokinetic interaction between e...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Thaulow CH,Høiseth G,Andersen JM,Handal M,Mørland J

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catecholamine (CA) levels in rat adrenals increase significantly over the first day post-mortem, but then decrease. This suggests that adrenal CA synthesis is active after death and stress the possibility that tissue levels of CAs may increase post-mortem. This has to be considered when evaluating post-mortem tissue C...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Holgert H

更新日期：2003-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of skeletal trauma is an important aspect of forensic case work. Yet most major pathology references devote limited attention to this topic. The aim of this paper is to analyze beveling in gunshot entrance wounds, from a series of 27 cases with a total of 39 wounds. Assessment was made by measuring the ex...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Quatrehomme G,Işcan MY

更新日期：1998-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Traces of the improvised explosive urea nitrate can be characterized by a sensitive colorimetric reaction with p-dimethylaminocinnamalaldehyde (p-DMAC, UN-1 reagent). As recently shown, the dark red product has a structure of a protonated Schiff base. The unprotonated free base, previously postulated in the literature...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Rozin R,Almog J

更新日期：2011-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Early in 2009, a state policing agency raided a clandestine drug laboratory in a suburb of a major city in Australia. During the search of the laboratory, a small glass jar labelled "Gamma Source" and containing a green powder was discovered. The powder was radioactive. This paper documents the detailed nuclear forens...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Keegan E,Kristo MJ,Colella M,Robel M,Williams R,Lindvall R,Eppich G,Roberts S,Borg L,Gaffney A,Plaue J,Wong H,Davis J,Loi E,Reinhard M,Hutcheon I

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a technique for the gross examination of postmortem eyes of children who are suspected to have been the victims of deliberate trauma. By removing the anterior segment (cornea, iris, lens and pars plicata of the ciliary body) en bloc by a coronal incision through the pars plana just anterior to the...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Gilliland MG,Folberg R

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Existing works on pellet dispersion ballistics are confined to some data-based models derived from statistical analysis of observed patterns on targets but the underlying process causing the dispersion lacks due attention. The present article delves into the relatively unexplored areas of dispersion phenomena, and att...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Nag NK,Sinha P

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes an innovative application of a well-established method of age determination. The conventional method of aspartic acid racemization (AAR) is based on estimation of the d-l-aspartic acid ratio in slow turnover tissues, such as tooth tissue, to reflect the age of an individual. This method has been r...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Arany S,Ohtani S

更新日期：2011-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Albumin concentration in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma was determined in 44 cadavers divided into three groups on the basis of death agony duration. The same was determined in a control group of 42 patients with no demonstrable neurological disease. Following Schuller's method, the evaluation of the blood CSF b...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Mangin P,Lugnier AA,Chaumont AJ,Offner M,Grucker M

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A very serious case of DFSA (drug facilitated sexual assault) is presented, in which a six-year-old girl died following sedation with γ-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB). She had been sexually abused by a relative. Samples of cardiac blood, bile, vitreous humour, liver, kidney, brain tissues and hair were analysed by a LC-MS/...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Mehling LM,Johansen SS,Wang X,Doberentz E,Madea B,Hess C

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we report the chemical analyses of various non-pathological, tuberculosis and syphilis infected bone samples from different burial environments by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), in the framework of a general study of diagenesis. Dating human skeletal remains is one of the most importan...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Nagy G,Lorand T,Patonai Z,Montsko G,Bajnoczky I,Marcsik A,Mark L

更新日期：2008-02-25 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：:Debrisoquine hydroxylase (CYP2D6) is involved in the metabolism of many toxicologically important drugs. The gene encoding for this enzyme displays a polymorphic distribution in all populations examined. We report a study on 46 cases, where analyses of the CYP2D6 gene were conducted on postmortem femoral blood in orde...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Druid H,Holmgren P,Carlsson B,Ahlner J

更新日期：1999-01-04 00:00:00