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The impact of fentanyl on DUIDs and traffic fatalities: Blood and oral fluid data
Fentanyl has emerged as the most prolific drug in the ongoing opioid epidemic and has greatly impacted traffic safety in recent years. This study aimed to evaluate fentanyl prevalence and concentrations in blood and oral fluid in driving under the influence of drugs (DUID) cases ...
Evaluation of portable gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) for the analysis of...
Potent synthetic opioids including fentanyl and its analogs are frequently encountered in the field and require detection and identification by first responders to maintain the safety of drug abusers, first responders, health‐care providers, and the public at large. Due to the lo...
A novel method for sorting and reassociating commingled human remains using deviation...
This study provides an innovative and novel method for sorting commingled human remains at the sacroiliac joint using deviation analyses. Virtual models were created at the University of Tennessee‐Knoxville Donated Skeletal Collection from 69 os coxae and 66 sacra using an EinSca...
A statistical approach to aid examiners in the forensic analysis of handwriting
We develop a statistical approach to model handwriting that accommodates all styles of writing (cursive, print, connected print). The goal is to compute a posterior probability of writership of a questioned document given a closed set of candidate writers. Such probabilistic stat...
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A statistical approach to aid examiners in the forensic analysis of handwriting
We develop a statistical approach to model handwriting that accommodates all styles of writing (cursive, print, connected print). The goal is to compute a posterior probability of writership of a questioned document given a closed set of candidate writers. Such probabilistic stat...
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An exercise in scientific problem‐solving: Illustrating the utility of the principles of...
In forensic science, scientific problem‐solving is characterized by the recognition of traces as part of iterative reasoning processes to assign meaning to those traces in order to interpret and reconstruct events. Through a set of fundamental principles, the Sydney Declaration p...