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Alcohol in Decomposed Bodies: Postmortem Synthesis and Distribution

February 16, 2019August 17, 2017 by admin

Abstract

Blood alcohol (ethanol) concentrations in decomposed bodies can mean drinking during life and/or endogenous production after death. The correct interpretation is important in medicolegal cases. This retrospective study of 286 autopsied medical examiner cases was undertaken to evaluate alcohol concentrations and distribution in various fluids and tissues in decomposed bodies. Cases with alcohol present were classified as endogenous production, ingestion, or unable to determine based upon one or more of the following criteria: the presence of ethanol in only one of more than one body fluids, an atypical distribution of ethanol in body fluids, reliable scene or historical information, the presence of C3 alcohols in body fluids.

Alcohol was classified as endogenously produced in 55 cases. The presence of alcohol was attributed to ingestion in 130 cases. No alcohol was detected in 39 cases. We were unable to determine the source of the remaining 62 alcohol concentrations.

The highest blood alcohol concentration derived from endogenous...

Crafting a Closing Argument

December 19, 2018August 17, 2017 by admin

How can trial lawyers develop persuasive and effective closing arguments that will resonate with jurors? Here is a step-by-step guide to developing and organizing winning closing arguments that will give jurors all the tools they need to decide a case in your client's favor. Published in the Litigation magazine, Volume 33, No. ...

Diagnostic Problems in Anal Pathology:

February 15, 2019August 17, 2017 by admin

Abstract

Anal squamous cell carcinoma and its precursor lesions are increasing in incidence in the United States and Europe. This trend predates human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome and has been associated with persistent high-risk human papilloma virus (HPV) genotype infection, previous lower genital tract dysplasia/carcinoma, high frequency anoreceptive intercourse, heavy cigarette smoking, immunosuppression in solid organ transplant and immune disorders, and human immunodeficiency virus seropositivity. Screening protocols for at-risk patients are under active investigation and pathologists are often asked to assess anal canal and perianal biopsies for the presence of dysplasia and/or invasive carcinoma. Because underdiagnosis and overdiagnosis of anal cancer and precancer may lead to inappropriate treatment, it is important for the pathologist to be aware of current screening strategies, specific risk lesions, and the role of pathology in initial diagnosis and evaluation of anal biopsy and/or resection specimens. Standardized histologic criteria and uniform terminology should be used for reporting all anal...

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Shattered: Forensic Glass Analysis

January 20, 2019August 17, 2017 by admin

Introduction

Glass has been shown to be very useful evidence because it is open encountered in criminal investigations. For example, when a burglar breaks a window pane, small fragments of glass are open showered onto his or her hair, clothing, or shoes, and these fragments can later be found on the suspect as transfer evidence. is chapter describes the many different types of glass commonly found at crime scenes and explains how glass fragments can be placed in specific classes through the use of optical and nonoptical analysis methods. In addition, the chapter describes how to individualize a glass fragment by making a fracture match.

Types of Glass

Glass is a solid that is not crystalline but rather has an amorphous structure. e atoms of an amorphous solid have a random, disordered arrangement, unlike the regular, orderly arrangement that is characteristic of crystalline solids. Another characteristic property of glass is that it softens over a wide temperature range rather than melting sharply at a well-defined temperature...

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Armed Forces Autopsy

January 20, 2019August 17, 2017 by admin

About the Military Health System

The Military Health System (MHS) is one of America’s largest and most complex health care institutions, and the world’s preeminent military health care delivery operation. Our MHS saves lives on the battlefield, combats infectious disease around the world, and cares for 9.4 million beneficiaries in one of the nation’s largest health benefit plans.

The missions of the MHS are complex and interrelated:

• To ensure America’s 1.4 million active duty and 331,000 reserve-component personnel are healthy so they can complete their national security missions. • To ensure that all active and reserve medical personnel in uniform are trained and ready to provide medical care in support of operational forces around the world. • To provide a medical benefit commensurate with the service and sacrifice of more than 9.4 million active duty personnel, military retirees and their families.

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Exploring the Drugs-Crime Connection within the Electronic Dance Music and Hip-Hop Nightclub Scenes

December 19, 2018August 17, 2017 by admin

ABSTRACT

This report explores how the cultural ethos, behavioral norms, activities, and individual and group identities (subcultural phenomena), inherent to the electronic dance music (EDMtrance, house, and techno music) and the hip hop/rap (HH) nightclub scenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania impact the relationship between alcohol, drugs, and crime, with additional attention to victimization (the ADC+V relationship). These two music scenes provide a major source of leisure and entertainment activity for many young adults today, yet the subcultures surrounding them are disparate and have been linked to diverse social problems, including alcohol and illegal drug abuse, criminal activity and victimization. This understudied, but increasingly popular social phenomenon has the potential to expand the scope of the drugs - crime debate to settings and populations not previously studied, and also to account for increasingly salient issues in contemporary society. We also elaborate on how the ADC+V relationship varies by two dimensions: the demographic make-up of...

PDE Constrained Optimization

February 14, 2019August 17, 2017 by admin

Characteristics of PDE Constrained Optimization Problems

• All problems are PDE constrained optimization problems - there are many, many more.

• Evaluation of objective function and constraint functions involves expensive simulations (in the previous examples solution of partial differential equations (PDEs)).

• THE optimization problem does not exist. Instead each problem leads to a family of optimization problems which are closely linked. (Hierarchy of optimization problems obtained by refinement of discretization.)

• The robust and efficient solution of such optimization problems requires the integration of application specific structure, numerical simulation and optimization algorithms.

Book of Inquisition

December 19, 2018August 17, 2017 by admin

In a letter to this Office you referenced a provision in recently-enacted legislation, R-356, which states: (c)opies of death certificates may be issued to members of the deceased's family or their respective legal representatives. Others who demonstrate a direct and tangible interest may be issued copies when information is needed for the determination of a personal or property right. Other applicants may be provided with a statement that the death occurred, the date, and county of death. However, when fifty years have elapsed after the date of death, these records become public records and any person may obtain copies upon submission of an application containing sufficient information to locate the record. You stated that the Book of Inquisition maintained by your office contains the same information provided on death certificates in addition to autopsy results, results of toxicological studies, and the cause of death. You questioned whether the...

Independent Contractor or Employee?

February 15, 2019August 17, 2017 by admin

Advantages and disadvantages of using independent contractors

Businesses that opt to treat workers as independent contractors rather than employees enjoy significant benefits. Most importantly, there is a significant financial motivation for using independent contractors in place of employees. Even if companies end up paying independent contractors more per hour than they pay employees, they can save untold dollars in payroll taxes, workers’ compensation premiums and employee benefit programs. Second, businesses can limit their exposure to lawsuits and resulting liability under state and federal employment laws because such laws are interpreted, in most cases, to apply only to employees. Examples of potential claims that could be avoided by treating workers as independent contractors include:

• claims brought for overtime compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act and comparable state wage and hours law; • claims for discrimination, harassment and retaliation under Title VII, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans With Disabilities Act and others;...

Shoe | Foot | Tire Impression Evidence

February 13, 2019August 17, 2017 by admin

Latent and/or patent impressions of feet, shoes, or tires have to exist at every crime until perpetrators master levitation into and out of the scenes. This type of evidence, like most represented in this bibliography is affected by topics addressed in other sections. Probably most affected by good crime scene search planning is the preservation of shoe and tire impressions. One of the first protocols learned by crime scene technicians is the establishment of a single path of access/egress for the crime scene. The purpose of the path is to avoid destroying questioned impressions or adding to those in other parts of the scene. Impression may be made of a variety of matrices addressed in sections on Blood and Body Fluids and Geoarchaeology and Soil Science. Assessment of the crime scene prior to the search for and discovery of impression evidence may benefit from research addressed in Criminal and Cultural Behavior...

House of Suzuki Inc., vs. U.S. Suzuki Motor Corp.

February 17, 2019August 17, 2017 by admin

Synopsis: Pursuant to N.J.S.A 56:10-16 et seq, petitioner filed a petition of protest with the Motor Vehicle Franchise Committee over respondent's establishment of a competing motorcycle dealership within its area of service. The administrative law judge found that there were several motorcycle dealerships surrounding petitioner and that despite petitioner's excellent service and reputation its share of a steadily declining motorcycle business was dropping. The judge found that approximately 30 percent of petitioner's business was generated within a six mile radius of the proposed new dealership. In addition, petitioner's already pre- carious financial condition would be further damaged by the opening of a new dealership which would have at its disposal respondent's beneficial financing plan for new agencies. The judge noted that if petitioner did go out of business the customers whom it had served would be left without adequate service. The judge noted that pursuant to...

Atomic Force Metrology and 3D Modeling of Micro-Trenching In Etched Photomask Features

December 19, 2018August 17, 2017 by admin

We present a study of the micro-trenching caused by different quartz etch processes during the fabrication of phaseshift photomasks.. Six different photomasks with quartz etches 320nm – 720nm deep were measured nondestructively by Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) to explore the details of micro-trenching that occurs at the base of vertical walls. Results of etch profiles obtained using AFM metrology are correlated with electromigration (EM) modeling of alternating aperture phase shift masks for use with KrF 4X reduction steppers. The metrology and EM modeling results clearly differentiate each of the generic etch processes and predict the process window changes resulting from modeled micro-trenching relative to an ideal etch case. In particular, the ICP + wet etches show 50 percent less micro-trenching relative to three of the four RIE-only etch processes. Comparisons of micro-trenching lengths measured during these experiments with the results of trenching bias across different etched space widths as reported by McCallum, et al. (1) suggest that micro-trenching is a universal phenomenon...

Meteorological and Air Dispersion Modeling Methodology

February 14, 2019August 17, 2017 by admin

B.1 Model Selection

The selection of an air dispersion model depends on many factors, such as, the nature of the pollutant (e.g., gaseous, particulate, reactive, inert), the characteristics of emission sources (point, area, volume, or line), emission source and receptor relationship, the meteorological and topographic complexities of the area, the complexity of the source distribution, the spatial scale and resolution required for the analysis, the level of detail and accuracy required for the analysis, and averaging times to be modeled. Several models approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) and other groups are available to quantify pollutant impacts from the diesel particulate matter (diesel PM) sources near and in the West Oakland community. These models include: ISCST3, AERMOD, ASPEN, CALPUFF, UTM-TOX, and CAMx. For this study we have selected the CALPUFF model. Below, we describe each model and discuss its application...

The Checkered Flooring Freemason Information

February 18, 2019August 17, 2017 by admin

The mosaic pavement of the lodge is discussed in the lecture of the first degree. This is commonly described as the checkered carpet which covers the floor of the lodge. The lecture says that the mosaic pavement “is a representation of the ground floor of King Solomon’s Temple” and is “emblematic of human life, checkered with good and evil.” In the account of King Solomon’s Temple in the Bible, the ground floor is said to be made of pine or fir, depending on which translation of the Bible that you read (1 Ki 6:15). It is hard to imagine that pine or fir flooring would be particularly mosaic in nature. However, it can be agreed that the mosaic pavement represents the ground floor of King Solomon’s Temple in the Entered Apprentice degree because that ceremony symbolically takes place in that location. While these facts may not be particularly intriguing,.. ..

Less Is More: The Lure of Ambiguity, or Why Familiarity Breeds Contempt

February 16, 2019August 17, 2017 by admin

Familiarity leads to liking; familiarity breeds contempt. The first proposition is supported by decades of research in psychology, whereas the second is supported by everyday experience: the disintegration of friendships, the demise of business relationships, and the prevalence of divorce. It is certainly the case that the more that is known about others, the more they are liked, on average. On countless occasions, individuals decide someone is not preferred after only minimal interaction, curtailing the acquisition of further information through subsequent interaction; if someone is preferred, on the other hand, this liking leads to acquisition of more information over repeated interactions. This selection process creates a positive correlation between knowledge and liking across the set of one’s acquaintances, but it may also lead individuals to believe that more knowledge causes greater liking within any given acquaintanceship. We propose that the relationship between...