Abstract：
:This paper investigates the effects that different summary statistics (minimum, median, mean, or maximum), temporal sampling resolutions (duration between sampling events), and sample sizes (number of individuals sampled per sampling event) had on the accuracy and precision of the regression coefficients of a typical thermal summation model used to calculate minimum post-mortem interval (PMI). No significant differences were found in the values of the developmental constants calculated from different summary statistics of the duration of development. Sample size was found to affect the precision of measurement of the duration of development but had little overall influence on thermal summation constant (K) and developmental threshold (D0) calculations (and therefore, subsequent PMI estimates), but temporal sampling resolution had a direct influence on the accuracy of K and D0 calculations. These data suggest that when numbers of experimental maggots are limited, it is more important to sample more frequently using smaller sample sizes than to sample less frequently with large sample sizes. Furthermore, we suggest that the median is the most representative summary measure of the duration of development and should be used preferentially.
journal_name
Int J Legal Medjournal_title
International journal of legal medicineauthors
Richards CS,Villet MHdoi
10.1007/s00414-008-0243-5subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-09-01 00:00:00pages
401-8issue
5eissn
0937-9827issn
1437-1596journal_volume
122pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:When a forensic DNA sample cannot be associated directly with a previously genotyped reference sample by standard short tandem repeat profiling, the investigation required for identifying perpetrators, victims, or missing persons can be both costly and time consuming. Here, we describe the outcome of a collaborative s...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-012-0788-1
更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We hypothesized that miRNAs present in vitreous humor could be a sort of "biological black box," storing information about physiological and environmental circumstances at death. As a proof of concept, we analyzed the vitreous humor miRNA signature to explore its forensic potential applications, such as determining th...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-012-0811-6
更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Abstract DNA typing of four tetrameric repeat loci (HUMVWA, HUMTH0I, D21SII and HPRT) was carried out in a Chinese Han population from Shanghai (East China) and one from Guangzhou (South-East China) using a quadruplex PCR amplification and detection of the fluorescent-labeled alleles on the ALF DNA sequencer. All loci...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s004140050187
更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The problems of testing patients or the deceased using classical blood group systems for identity or paternity purposes after multiple transfusions are well known. In a paternity case where the putative father received multiple transfusions it was possible to determine some classical blood group systems. The investiga...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF01371333
更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Mixture DNA profiles commonly appear in forensic genetics, and a large number of statistical methods and software are available for such cases. However, most of the literature concerns mixtures where the contributors are assumed unrelated and the genetic markers are unlinked. In this paper, we consider mixtures of lin...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-015-1288-x
更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This study presents the application of Y-chromosomal STR polymorphisms to male identification in the case of a serial rapist and woman murderer in Poland. Since August 1996 a rapist from Swinoujscie (northwest Poland) committed at least 14 rapes. In the year 2000 he brutally raped 8 young girls and murdered a 22-year-...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-002-0320-0
更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Anthropologists are constantly seeking to improve methods for age estimation in the human skeleton. A new method was introduced about a decade ago that assesses the morphological changes that take place in the acetabulum as an individual ages. The pelvis is usually well preserved in forensic cases, which makes this me...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-015-1299-7
更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-017-1664-9
更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-008-0223-9
更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The accuracy of most age determination methods in adults is unsatisfactory and therefore more precise methods are required. Teeth provide several useful points about an individuals age. With advancing age secondary dentine is deposited along the wall of the dental pulp chamber leading to a reduction in the size of the...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-004-0492-x
更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:To examine the prevalence of hepatitis G virus (HGV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections in deceased injection drug users and for comparison of the detection rates of HGV and HCV RNA in liver tissue with detection rates in postmortem serum samples, RT-PCR was performed in 50 drug abuse-related fatalities. HGV RNA w...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s004140050195
更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Bee and wasp stings represent an uncommon cause of death. In a retrospective study of all fatalities due to venomous animals in Sweden during a 10-year-period, we found 19 fatalities due to wasps, 1 due to bees but none due to snake bite. This gives an annual incidence of 0.2 per million inhabitants. Most of the decea...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF01626039
更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：AIM:To determine the frequency of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)-related injuries and factors involved in their occurrence, data based on forensic autopsy and postmortem computed tomography (PMCT) during implementation of the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR were studied. METHODS:We retrospectiv...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-017-1673-8
更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Reports on penetrating ballistic head injuries in the literature are dominated by case studies of suicides; the penetrating ammunition usually being .22 rimfire or shotgun. The dominating cause of injuries in modern warfare is fragmentation and hence, this is the primary threat that military helmets protect the brain ...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-014-1073-2
更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Many studies related to three-dimensional facial reconstruction have been previously reported. On the other hand, no extensive work has been found in the literature about hand reconstruction as an identification method. In this paper, the feasibility of virtual reconstruction of hand skin based on (1) its skeleton and...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-007-0204-4
更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:When blood reaches an extracorporeal surface, a drying process is initiated. Properties of this drying process may be crucial for the correct assessment of case-specific time lapses, however, there is a lack of systematic studies concerning the drying times of blood. We present a study on drying properties of small bl...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-012-0734-2
更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Volatile substances are used widespread, especially among young people, as a cheap and easily accessible drug. Tetrachloroethylene is one of the solvents exerting effects on the central nervous system with experiences of disinhibition and euphoria. The case presented is that of a 27-year-old female, found dead by her ...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-015-1143-0
更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:To investigate the genetic variation and forensic efficiency of 19 X-STR loci in the Zhuang and Mulao minorities, we calculated allele frequencies, forensic parameters, and haplotype frequencies of 405 Zhuang and 234 Mulao unrelated healthy individuals from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China. Furthermore, we an...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-019-02004-5
更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We measured the quantity of D-aspartic acid (degree of racemization of aspartic acid) in the enamel of different types of teeth from the same individual. We studied the correlation between the degree of racemization and the time of formation of each particular tooth, as well as the applicability of the degree of racem...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-004-0506-8
更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The hypothesis that antitussives containing ethylmorphine are abused by alcoholics and drug addicts and that this may lead to fatal poisonings where ethylmorphine causes or contributes to death was investigated. For this purpose 14 cases were analysed where a blood ethylmorphine concentration above the therapeutic lev...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s004140050253
更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The craniofacial superimposition technique is still an important way of identifying skulls when there is no reference sample for a forensic DNA analysis, when DNA typing from remaining tissue samples has failed, or when antemortem dental records are not available. Through the widespread use of digital photography, the...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-010-0494-9
更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In sauna-associated deaths, the vitality of heat exposure is of great importance. Two case reports address this. First, we present the case of a 77-year-old man who was found dead in the sauna of his family home. When found, the sauna door was closed, and the sauna indicated a temperature of 78 °C. The body had alread...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-021-02504-3
更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00
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journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-015-1219-x
更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The morphological structure and immunohistochemical reactions of 100 pituitaries from cases of SIDS children (58 males and 42 females, average age 5.34 +/- 3.12 months) were studied. Controls consisted of 19 pituitaries from children (14 males and 5 females, average age 5.63 +/- 2.52 months) with a clearly identifiabl...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi：10.1007/BF01225414
更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The polyvinyl alcohol method (PVAL) is known as an effective technique to thoroughly collect traces of gunshot residue (GSR) from different surfaces, e.g., from hands or gunshot wounds. Despite obvious advantages over other methods using adhesive tapes, PVAL is still not widely accepted and applied in routine case wor...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-019-02166-2
更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A single gunshot (or multiple) does (do) not necessarily lead to immediate loss of consciousness or rapid neurological deficits, so the victim may be able to repeatedly pull the trigger before achieving the lethal effect. Despite multiple gunshot wounds can lead to the suspicious participation of other person to the d...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-019-02085-2
更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Recently, Verzeletti et al. (Am J Forensic Med Pathol 31:27-33, 2010) developed a new components method for the estimation of age-at-death from the sternal end of the fourth rib. This approach consists of the assignment of numerical scores for several age-related morphological characteristics, which are then inserted ...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-012-0735-1
更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Gabapentin (GBP) (Neurontin®, Horizant®, Gralise®) is a widely prescribed medication used primarily for the treatment of epilepsy and neuropathic pain. GBP has a favorable adverse effect profile in therapeutic dosing with the most common reported effects being dizziness, fatigue, drowsiness, weight gain, and periphera...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-015-1193-3
更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Allele frequencies for 15 autosomal STR loci (N = 290) and haplotype data for 17 Y-STR loci (N = 157) were determined for an admixed population from Belize. There were no detectable departures from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium expectations at any autosomal STR loci except for the D8S1179 locus (p = 0.002). The combined ...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-014-1082-1
更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In this study, a total of 191 cases with STR exclusions out of 591 paternity cases were analysed using 2 STR sets, i.e. (set a) 5 STRs in 462 cases with 150 exclusions and (set b) 9 STRs in 129 cases with 41 exclusions. Set (a) was associated with four exclusions on average while set (b) showed five exclusionary loci ...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s004140000174
更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00
