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Medical examiner response to the drug overdose epidemic in King County Washington: “Real...
As the overdose epidemic overwhelmed medicolegal death investigation offices and toxicology laboratories, the King County Medical Examiner's Office responded with "real‐time" fatal overdose surveillance to expedite death certification and information dissemination ...
Evaluating the sensitivity, stability, and cross‐reactivity of commercial fentanyl...
Illicit fentanyl has flooded the United States' drug market, increasing the risk of overdose and poisonings throughout the general population and accidental exposure among law enforcement officers confiscating the increasing number of seizures. Fentanyl test strips (FTS) are...
Identification of document paper using hybrid feature extraction
Document forgery is a significant issue in Korea, with around ten thousand cases reported every year. Analyzing paper plays a crucial role in examining questionable documents such as marketable securities and contracts, which can aid in solving criminal cases of document forgery....
Research on detection techniques for pattern modifications of playing cards used in...
We investigated pattern‐modified marked cards used in fraudulent gambling cases in Korea. These cards are printed with modifications to some of the repeated marks on the back, revealing the hand on the front and enabling fraudsters to deceive their victims. We proposed a method f...
A comprehensive ATR‐FTIR spectroscopic analysis for the identification and differentiation...
Lip balm may be encountered as physical evidence in cases involving sexual assaults, homicides, and kidnappings. Lip balm can be used as corroborative evidence by providing a potential link between the victim, accused, and the crime scene. For lip balms to be used as evidence, it...
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Subnuclear renal tubular vacuoles in alcohol use disorder
Subnuclear vacuoles in the proximal renal tubules have been reported as a histologic sign of ketoacidosis. Originally described in diabetic ketoacidosis, renal vacuoles can be found in other ketogenic states such as alcoholic ketoacidosis (AKA), starvation, and hypothermia, under...
A retrospective analysis of cardiovascular deaths: A 5‐year autopsy study of 1045 cases in...
This study aims to identify the macroscopic and microscopic changes that occur in the heart in different causes of cardiovascular death and sudden cardiac death in autopsy cases and evaluate the difficulties that a forensic practitioner may encounter during autopsies. All forensi...
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Repeatability and reproducibility of comparison decisions by firearms examiners
In a comprehensive study to assess various aspects of the performance of qualified forensic firearms examiners, volunteer examiners compared both bullets and cartridge cases fired from three different types of firearms. They rendered opinions on each comparison according to the A...
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