Computerized reconstruction of fragmentary skeletal remains.

abstract：:Downstairs falls frequently occur within domestic environments and are mainly associated with elderly and intoxicated individuals, often feature multiple injuries on various parts of the body. In most cases it is not possible to determine the cause of the fall and/or death solely by means of external examination. In t...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Preuss J,Padosch SA,Dettmeyer R,Driever F,Lignitz E,Madea B

更新日期：2004-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to estimate the age of cadavers by histomorphometry of the femur. Seventy-two Japanese males ranged from 43 days to 92 years old and 26 females ranged from 2 to 88 years old were used. The thickness of sections was adjusted at 50 to 70 microns by grinding with sand paper. The sections were...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Watanabe Y,Konishi M,Shimada M,Ohara H,Iwamoto S

更新日期：1998-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Around 27,000 people were killed in the province of Asturias during the Spanish Civil War, with several thousands killed after the war ended. There are currently over 2,000 known mass burial locations throughout Spain, but many more are unknown. Geophysics is a useful tool employed to help in the active attempts to do...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Rubio-Melendi D,Gonzalez-Quirós A,Roberts D,García García MDC,Caunedo Domínguez A,Pringle JK,Fernández-Álvarez JP

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of population subdivision on the determination of kinship of any two persons is investigated in this paper. Expressions of the joint genotype probabilities and likelihood ratios on kinship testing are reported. Two real cases are analysed using the Hong Kong Chinese population data and the Spanish data. Var...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Fung WK,Carracedo A,Hu YQ

更新日期：2003-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of subjects in drug rehabilitation programs, cocaine and cocaine metabolite levels were determined in the hair of 75 subjects who had produced cocaine-positive urine results. The hair was analyzed after being washed with the 3.75 h wash procedure developed by this laboratory. In addition, results of testing...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Cairns T,Hill V,Schaffer M,Thistle W

更新日期：2004-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Careful examination of foot impressions can provide important evidences and clues in a crime scene investigation. The present study is conducted on a cross-sectional sample of 1040 adult male Gujjars inhabiting the sub-Himalayan region of North India. The study describes the utility of individualizing characteristics ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Krishan K

更新日期：2007-07-04 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：:One hundred and ten pairs of blood and semen samples and their stains were studied to type glyoxalase 1 (GLO 1) isoenzymes using agarose-starch medium. A good agreement was observed between the phenotypes expressed in blood and semen samples of the same donor. No GLO 1 activity however could be demonstrated in the vag...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Sharma A,Arora VK,Bhalla V

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hypothesis for the physical mechanism responsible for backspatter during cranial gunshot wounding is that air is ejected by the collapse of the temporary cavity formed around the bullet path. Using bovine and ovine heads and simulant materials, evidence of this ejection was sought by measuring the velocity of the ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Lazarjan MS,Geoghegan PH,Taylor MC,Jermy MC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports on the relationships between the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) and the cause of death - which is of course common knowledge for forensic scientists! Our special aim was to gain unselected data for generalizing conclusions. The blood of 2465 consecutive cases (86% of all 2852 sudden unexpected an...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Kubo S,Dankwarth G,Püschel K

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hairy maggot blow fly, Chrysomya rufifacies (Diptera: Calliphoridae), is a forensically important fly often encountered on human and other vertebrate remains in temperate and tropic regions throughout the world including Australia, Asia, Central America and North America. C. rufifacies was reared under controlled ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Flores M,Longnecker M,Tomberlin JK

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of dental age (DA) and skeletal age (SA) methods in order to estimate chronological age (CA) in individuals with Down syndrome (DS), contributing to the Forensic Dentistry and making the identification of these individuals age possible. For this, 278 images of individuals were...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Hala LA,Moraes MEL,Villaça-Carvalho MFL,de Castro Lopes SLP,Gamba TO

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:V. M. E. was evacuated when he was a young boy in 1939. He left an aunt and cousins in Spain (G. E. family). He was adopted in Belgium by the D. family and thus his new name became V. D. He has been unable to remember his childhood before his adoption, a symptomatology compatible with amnesia for personal identity, pr...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Puig P,Barceló A,Lahoz R,Niubó À,Jiménez J,Soler-López M,Donovan MJ,Navarro J,Camps J,Garcia-Caldés M,Etxeberria F,Miró R

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agilent GC-MS MSD Chemstation offers automated library search report for toxicological screening using total ion chromatogram (TIC) and mass spectroscopy in normal mode. Numerous peaks appear in the chromatogram of biological specimen such as blood or urine and often large migrating peaks obscure small target peaks, i...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Choe S,Kim S,Choi H,Choi H,Chung H,Hwang B

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification and the quantitative estimation of cannabis constituents is important for forensic purposes. High resolution gas-chromatography gives better results than gas-liquid chromatography with packed columns, as it shows a better resolution and higher number of constituents. Different quantitative values we...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Barni Comparini I,Centini F

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study it is demonstrated that human odor collected from items recovered at a post-blast scene can be evaluated using human scent specific canine teams to locate and identify individuals who have been in contact with the improvised explosive device (IED) components and/or the delivery vehicle. The purpose of th...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Curran AM,Prada PA,Furton KG

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of condom traces has recently been added to the standard forensic examination protocol of sexual assault and rape cases. Several recent studies have thus focussed on the detection of condom components and classification of the chemical profiles using statistics, obtaining very promising results. The purpo...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Burnier C,Massonnet G

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：:There are many techniques available for the recovery of fingermarks at scenes of crime including the possibility of taking casts of the marks. Casts can be advantageous in cases where other destructive recovery techniques might not be suitable, such as when recovering finger marks deposited on valued or immobile items...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Shalhoub R,Quinones I,Ames C,Multaney B,Curtis S,Seeboruth H,Moore S,Daniel B

更新日期：2008-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Tramadol is an opioid drug metabolised in phase I by cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes, of which CYP2D6 is mainly responsible for the O-demethylation of tramadol, but is not involved in N-demethylation. Defects in the genes encoding drug metabolising enzymes (DMEs) may lead to adverse drug effects, even to death. To aid i...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Levo A,Koski A,Ojanperä I,Vuori E,Sajantila A

更新日期：2003-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The article is devoted to the comparative analysis of effectiveness of the most widely used methods for medico-legal examination of the hyoid bone and laryngeal cartilages, i.e. palpation, radiography and complete preparation. A consecutive study of 137 cases of hanging (including 20 cases of roentgenological analysis...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Khokhlov VD

更新日期：1997-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) is an increasingly popular drug of abuse that causes stimulation, euphoria, anxiolysis or hypnosis, depending on the dose used. Low doses of the drug are used recreationally, and also implicated in drug-facilitated sexual assaults. Because of the unusually steep dose-response curves, accide...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Kankaanpää A,Liukkonen R,Ariniemi K

更新日期：2007-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of synthetic cannabinoids (SC) has been widespread in certain groups of drug users for many years. In the scientific literature many intoxication cases and a number of fatalities after the use of synthetic cannabinoids were reported. In this paper three death cases are described with involvement of the synthet...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Angerer V,Jacobi S,Franz F,Auwärter V,Pietsch J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight Y-chromosome STRs were investigated in a male population sample from Córdoba region (Argentina). Complete Y-chromosomal STRs haplotypes were obtained in 100 individuals, among which 91 different haplotypes were observed. The most common haplotype was shared by 4% of the sample, while 86 haplotypes were unique. T...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Fondevila M,Jaime JC,Salas A,Lareu MV,Carracedo A

更新日期：2003-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissue (FF-PET) is an invaluable resource for retrospective molecular genetic studies, but the extraction of high-quality genomic DNA from FF-PET is still a problematic issue. Despite the range of DNA extraction methods currently in use, the association of phenol-chloroform extract...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Farrugia A,Keyser C,Ludes B

更新日期：2010-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In analogy to our previously published procedure for the differentiation of regioisomeric fluoroamphetamines a method was developed, to differentiate ring positional isomeric fluorocathinones by product ion spectrometry of ions generated by chemical ionization (CI) under GC-MS conditions using methane as reagent gas. ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Westphal F,Junge T

更新日期：2012-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Cars are often sampled for DNA to help identify occupants and their possible location(s) within the car. While DNA from the frequent driver is likely to accumulate over time, DNA from previous and/or subsequent occupants, and those whose DNA has inadvertently been transferred to the car, may also contribute to any sam...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Boyko T,Szkuta B,Mitchell RJ,van Oorschot RAH

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic hair-growth compounds have been illegally used in diverse products to enhance the short-term efficacy of these products. In this study, a rapid and simultaneous method for the determination of hair-growth compounds in adulterated products based on ultra high pressure liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectro...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Park HN,Lee JH,Park SK,Baek SY,Lee YM,Kang H

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two cases of human consumption of seeds from Argyreia nervosa (Hawaiian Baby Woodrose), which resulted in one fatality due to falling from a building and one surviving witness. The principal psychoactive constituent of the seeds, lysergamide (LSA), was recovered from blood and urine samples by mixed-mode c...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Klinke HB,Müller IB,Steffenrud S,Dahl-Sørensen R

更新日期：2010-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The investigation of deaths due to the inhalation of volatile substances may be complicated by a lack of scene and autopsy findings. Mechanisms of death may not be determinable at autopsy, and there may be very few markers of inhalant abuse. A 21-year-old man is reported who died from the combined effects of methadone...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Byard RW,Gilbert JD,Terlet J

更新日期：2007-09-13 00:00:00