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Between the hammer and the anvil: An unusual power hammer fatality
Power hammers are mechanised forging devices that constitute a pivotal part of steel manufacturing. Power hammer‐associated injuries are a rare occurrence. We report a noteworthy case of a 52‐year‐old man who sustained a high‐energy penetrating injury while working with a power (...
Contextual bias in forensic toxicology decisions: A follow‐up empirical study from China
The impact of contextual bias has been demonstrated repeatedly across forensic domains; however, research on this topic in forensic toxicology is very limited. In our previous study, experimental data from only one context version were compared with the actual forensic biasing ca...
Pediatric poisoning management: How clinical practice can benefit from forensic approach
Pediatric population represents the most vulnerable and at risk for unintentional poisoning, with children younger than 6 years old accounting for nearly half of poison exposures. Poisoning is a time‐dependent emergency. The need to reach a scientific agreement on diagnostic prot...
Commentary on: Ali Z, Troncoso JC, Redding‐Ochoa J. Fat embolism syndrome associated with...
Likelihood ratios for changepoints in categorical event data with applications in digital...
We investigate likelihood ratio models motivated by digital forensics problems involving time‐stamped user‐generated event data from a device or account. Of specific interest are scenarios where the data may have been generated by a single individual (the device/account owner) or...
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Targeted recovery of male cells in a male and female same‐cell mixture
DNA mixture deconvolution in the forensic DNA community has been addressed in a variety of ways. "Front‐end" methods that separate the cellular components of mixtures can provide a significant benefit over computational methods as there is no need to rely on models with...
Considerations for age estimation accuracy: Method‐derived outcomes and practitioner...
Recent research observed 92% accuracy for age‐at‐death estimations by U.S. forensic anthropologists. The present study compares this case report level accuracy to method level accuracy for the most commonly used methods in U.S. casework, drawing from the Forensic Anthropology Dat...
Advances in postmortem fingerprinting: Applications in disaster victim identification
Postmortem fingerprinting is the fastest and most reliable way to scientifically identify unknown decedents from mass fatality incidents. In disaster victim identification (DVI), fingerprints, DNA, and dental examinations are the three primary methods of identification. Additiona...
Towards maintaining canine training aid integrity: Effects of environmental factors and...
There are many factors that may affect the longevity of or guide the use of canine training aids. Literature to date has mainly focused on identifying the headspace volatiles associated with training aids or odors and only minimal research exists into how different variables may ...
Isolation and characterization of reference standard candidates for cocaine and...
The area of forensic chemistry has been growing and developing as a line of research due to the high demands of public safety that require increasingly reliable results due to their importance in criminalistics. In this way, the development of new technologies that help this area...
Concentration units used to report blood‐ and breath‐alcohol concentration for legal...
This technical note reviews the plethora of concentration units used to report blood‐alcohol concentration (BAC) and breath‐alcohol concentrations (BrAC) for legal purposes in different countries. The choice of units sometimes causes confusion when scientific papers originating f...
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An exploratory view into allelic drop‐out of sequenced autosomal STRs
As massively parallel sequencing is implemented in forensic genetics, an understanding of sequence data must accompany these advancements, that is, accurate modeling of data for proper statistical analysis. Allelic drop‐out, a common stochastic effect seen in genetic data, is oft...
A study on the estimation of area of origin of swing cast‐off pattern
In bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA), a field of forensic science, there has been active discussion on the estimation of the area of origin of impact spatter. However, there is no established methodology to quantitatively analyze the area of origin of a swing cast‐off pattern. To...
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