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Forensic Sciences, Volume 3, Issue 1

2023 March - 14 articles

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Articles (14)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
12,272 Views
13 Pages

Forensic anthropologists build a biological profile—consisting of sex, age, population affinity, and stature estimates—to assist medicolegal stakeholders in the identification of unknown human skeletal remains. While adult age-at-death es...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,826 Views
10 Pages

The Code of Ethics and Conduct for Forensic Specialists: A Framework from The Portuguese Association of Forensic Sciences

  • Áurea Madureira-Carvalho,
  • Nelson G. M. Gomes,
  • Diana Dias-da-Silva,
  • Rui M. S. Azevedo,
  • Luís Marques Fernandes,
  • Ricardo Jorge Dinis-Oliveira and
  • Inês Morais Caldas

Forensic sciences aggregate a series of scientific and technological domains that aid the judiciary and judicial system. Despite the highly specialized and qualified professionals taking a role in forensic practice, this paradigmatic integration of l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,260 Views
20 Pages

The Effects of Physiological Stress on the Accuracy of Age-at-Death Estimation in The Hamann–Todd Collection

  • Allyson M. Simon,
  • Colleen M. Cheverko,
  • Melissa A. Clark,
  • Tempest D. Mellendorf and
  • Mark Hubbe

Age-at-death estimation is influenced by biological and environmental factors. Physiological stress is intertwined with these factors, yet their impact on senescence and age estimation is unknown. Stature, linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH), and antemort...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,897 Views
24 Pages

Although there are known limited skeletal traits that can be used to estimate age-at-death, an increasing body of literature is addressing this topic. This is particularly true in journals dedicated to forensic anthropology and past population studie...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,491 Views
5 Pages

Historically, serial homicide has been defined in various ways by experts. Recently, there have been renewed efforts to arrive at a consensus definition, yet these efforts have not yet been resolved. At the heart of the controversy appears to be the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,655 Views
26 Pages

While a myriad of effective techniques exist to aid in symphyseal age estimation for those 40 years and younger, few offer similar levels of efficacy for those beyond that threshold. Through the application of a novel technique, this study sought to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,094 Views
14 Pages

The Colección Osteológica Subactual de Santiago: Origin and Current State of a Documented Skeletal Collection from Chile, Latin America

  • Ofelia Meza-Escobar,
  • Jacqueline Galimany,
  • Rocío González-Oyarce and
  • Nicole Barreaux Höpfl

13 February 2023

This manuscript aims to introduce the Colección Osteológica Subactual de Santiago (COSS), a documented skeletal collection from Santiago, Chile, consisting of 1635 individuals living in low socioeconomic areas of the capital during the...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,283 Views
11 Pages

Involving Forensic Students in Integrative Learning—A Project Proposal

  • A. Teixeira,
  • A. Azevedo,
  • D. Pérez-Mongiovi,
  • I. M. Caldas and
  • J. Costa-Rodrigues

In our experience, university students enrolling in health science and forensic science degrees show difficulty in retaining and integrating basic scientific knowledge learned in their first academic year. Furthermore, in the forensic sciences case,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
11,713 Views
24 Pages

Forensic authorship profiling aims to extract socio-demographic information about the authors of anonymous texts based on linguistic features found in their written texts. One aspect of such a profile that is not usually considered is an analysis of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7,384 Views
11 Pages

Intravenous-Therapy-Associated Circulatory Overload: A Retrospective Study of Forensic Cases

  • Guangtao Xu,
  • Ruibing Su,
  • Junyao Lv,
  • Long Xu,
  • Xin Jin,
  • Deqing Chen,
  • Bo Hu and
  • Xiaojun Yu

Background and Objective: Intravenous therapy is widely used in clinics to deliver medications and fluids to patients, and overuse may cause intravenous-infusion-associated circulatory overload (IACO) and death. However, forensic data on deaths from...

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