Determining the number of test fires needed to represent the variability present within firearms of various calibers.

abstract：:Capillary electrophoresis, the modern approach to instrumental electrophoresis, is probably the most rapidly expanding analytical technique that has appeared in recent years. In the hands of forensic toxicologists, capillary electrophoresis (CE) represents a powerful new analytical tool, which has proved suitable for ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Tagliaro F,Smyth WF,Turrina S,Deyl Z,Marigo M

更新日期：1995-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aim of this work is to test the stability of mephedrone added to whole blood collected from alive and dead mephedrone free-users and stored at three different temperatures (-20, +4 and +20°C) with and without preservatives up to 6 months, trying to establish the best storage condition in order to reduce possib...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Busardò FP,Kyriakou C,Tittarelli R,Mannocchi G,Pantano F,Santurro A,Zaami S,Baglìo G

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since it is established that human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) affects testosterone production and release in the human body, the use of this hormone as a performance enhancing drug has been prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Nowadays, the only validated biomarker of a hCG doping is its direct quantification...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Strahm E,Marques-Vidal P,Pralong F,Dvorak J,Saugy M,Baume N

更新日期：2011-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The elemental objects of the research study are: determination of time periods corresponding to gunshot residue particles (GSR) deposition after the shot from selected pistols and a revolver, and evaluation of the deposited particles number. For several shooting experiments were used a pistol CZ model 85, caliber 9 mm...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Fojtásek L,Kmjec T

更新日期：2005-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Two sewing needles were found in a woman's cranial cavity by X-ray examination after she had sustained traffic injury. After investigation and analysis, it has been confirmed that the sewing needles were inserted by others when she was an infant, and not by the traffic injury. ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Meng X

更新日期：2001-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tryptase is a neutral protease of human mast cells, and an important indicator of mast cell activation and degranulation in anaphylactic events. The elevation of serum mast cell tryptase (SMCT) is used for postmortem diagnosis of anaphylaxis. We have quantified the SMCT levels of 122 forensic autopsy cases with variou...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Nishio H,Suzuki K

更新日期：2005-04-20 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：:In Japan, recent trends have seen wild silk preferred over cultivated silk because of its texture. Some cases of fraud have occurred where cultivated silk garments are sold as wild silk. Samples from these cases, morphological observation using light microscope and polarized microscope have been conducted in forensic ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Matsuyama Y,Nagatani Y,Goto T,Suzuki S

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Age estimation in adults is an important issue in forensic science. This study aimed to estimate the chronological age of Iranians by means of pulp/tooth area ratio (AR) of canines in digital panoramic radiographs. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The sample consisted of panoramic radiographs of 271 male and female sub...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Dehghani M,Shadkam E,Ahrari F,Dehghani M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following a recent meeting by the ENFSI and EDNAP groups on the 4-5 April, 2005, in Glasgow, UK, it was unanimously agreed that the process of standardization within Europe should take account of recent work that unequivocally demonstrated that chance of obtaining a result from a degraded sample was increased when sma...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Gill P,Fereday L,Morling N,Schneider PM

更新日期：2006-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoglycemia was long considered to kill neurons by depriving them of glucose. We now know that hypoglycemia kills neurons actively from without, rather than by starvation from within. Hypoglycemia only causes neuronal death when the EEG becomes flat. This usually occurs after glucose levels have fallen below 1 mM (18...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Auer RN

更新日期：2004-12-16 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 spectrophotometric method for the determination of carboxyhemoglobin (HbCO) in blood reported by Fretwurst and Meinecke was modified so as to give the same values of percentage HbCO (HbCO%) as those determined by the oxygen electrode method. Values of HbCO% of nine practical samples determined by both the oxygen e...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Katsumata Y,Aoki M,Sato K,Oya M,Yada S,Suzuki O

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty nine participants in the United Kingdom national external quality assessment scheme for drugs of abuse in urine reported details of their sample extraction technique by questionnaire. Laboratories were categorised by differences in technique and their analytical test results compared for samples containing D-amf...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Wilson JF,Smith BL,Toseland PA,Watson ID,Williams J,Thomson AH,Capps NE,Sweeney G,Sandle LN,Steering Committee for the United Kingdom National External Quality Assessment Scheme for Drug Assays.

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：:In this article, the authors present a case of intrauterine foetal death (IUFD). The post-mortem histologic examination revealed placental mesenchymal dysplasia (PMD), a rare human placental disorder. Moreover, cases of PMD are often misdiagnosed as partial mole. The mother was a 26-year-old Italian, whose pregnancy, ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Ventura F,Rutigliani M,Bellini C,Bonsignore A,Fulcheri E

更新日期：2013-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout the world, young children are worryingly found to be involved in both unintentional and intentional gun violence, rendering the forensic investigation of gun handling by children a highly important matter. The effectiveness of the PDT reaction for mapping iron traces on hands of children has been tested and...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Bar-Or KL,Almog J

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has raised the possibility that automotive brake pads can produce particles that are both compositionally and morphologically similar to gunshot residue (GSR). These studies, published in the early 2000s, coincided with the reduction or removal of unnecessary sources of lead from the automotive indus...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Tucker W,Lucas N,Seyfang KE,Kirkbride KP,Popelka-Filcoff RS

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of the synthetic route in methamphetamine profiling relies on the identification of key, route specific marker impurity compounds. Impurity profiling of recent crystalline methamphetamine ('ice'), seized by the Australian Federal Police at the Australian border in 2003-2004, identified route specific mar...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Qi Y,Evans I,McCluskey A

更新日期：2007-07-04 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：:Not much information is available on workplace drug testing (WDT) in Europe. There is no specific legislation and there are no generally accepted guidelines. Many companies establish a drug policy with little or no provisions for drug testing. Often, testing is performed on-site by occupational physicians, with little...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Verstraete AG,Pierce A

更新日期：2001-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The post-mortem redistribution of a number of psychiatric drugs was investigated. A portion of liver, the gastric contents and blood collected from heart and femoral sites was obtained from 13 cases and analyzed by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. Drugs detected included five selective serotonin reuptake inhib...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Rodda KE,Drummer OH

更新日期：2006-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of providing assistance to legal counsel in a matter that involved the analysis of firearms propellant by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry it was noticed that phenoxazine was reported as a component of 0.22 calibre propellant that contained diphenylamine as the stabiliser. The research was conducted ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Pigou P,Dennison GH,Johnston M,Kobus H

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen Y-chromosomal short tandem repeats (STRs), DYS19, DYS389-I, DYS389-II, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392, DYS393, DYS385, DYS388, DYS434, DYS435, DYS436, DYS437, DYS438, DYS439, DYS460, DYS461 and DYS462 were typed in Inuit (n=70) and Danish (n=62) population samples. ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Bosch E,Rosser ZH,Nørby S,Lynnerup N,Jobling MA

更新日期：2003-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent of aspartic acid racemization in human dentin can be used to assess chronological age of the individual. This novel chemical method of aging human remains has potential applications in forensic sciences. Six autopsy cases have been analyzed for D/L aspartic acid contents, and their ages at death calculated....

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Masters PM

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population study on the D1S80 locus in 100 northern Thais was performed using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and high resolution polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Sixteen alleles and 39 genotypes were observed with a heterozygosity of 82%. In contrast to other studies, the allele with 31 repeat units was found to...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Bhoopat T,Steger HF

更新日期：1996-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The proximal and distal parts of the femur show the differences between the sexes. Head diameter and the breadth of the epicondyle of the femur are known to distinguish males from females. The proximal end of the femur is studied to determine sex using discriminant analysis but; its distal end is not done. This study ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Kim DI,Kwak DS,Han SH

更新日期：2013-12-10 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：:Many studies in the forensic field have reported that analysis of DNA methylation is the most reliable method of predicting age. In a previous study, 5 CpG sites located in ELOVL2, FHL2, KLF14, C1orf132 and TRIM59 genes were tested for age prediction purposes in blood, saliva and buccal swab samples from Korean indivi...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Dias HC,Cordeiro C,Pereira J,Pinto C,Real FC,Cunha E,Manco L

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study is to investigate the value of whole body computed tomography (WB-CT) in bodies recovered from water by analysis of the imaging findings after drowning. METHODS:The bodies of 41 drowning victims and 9 persons who died from mechanical asphyxia by hanging underwent post-mortem whole body co...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Vander Plaetsen S,De Letter E,Piette M,Van Parys G,Casselman JW,Verstraete K

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00