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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Death investigation"”.
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The psychodynamics of death investigation : a case study of the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontaria, Canada
This thesis is a case-study of the Office of the Chief Coromer for Ontario. Six coroners working in the Metropolitan Toronto Region were asked to comment on their work through unstructured qualitative interviews. Analysis of the data was conducted using principles of psychodynamics. Various themes …
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Post-mortem Lodox® as a potential substitute for histologic confirmation of pneumonia in sudden infant death investigation
… diagnosis of pneumonia in the medicolegal investigation of sudden unexpected infant death, avoiding the need to perform an internal examination. However, interpretation of the Lodox® is not standardised, and this modality has not yet been validated or tested against the recognised best …
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The meaning of Being as a nurse involved in the work of death investigation. A North American view and its implications to practice in England.
… and space) as a nurse involved in the work of death investigation in the USA. The objectives were to: reveal the hidden meaning of Being; transfer the findings into an English context by examining what nurses could offer beyond their current role boundaries in an area not currently practised to …
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Understanding Skeletal Injury Patterns in Falls From Heights
… the ages of 18 and 92 years that had a cause of death related to a fall. Demographic variables and information regarding the death event were collected to ensure a holistic framework for interpretation. Multiple image modalities were used to identify the presence or absence of fractures per bone, …
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Naming the dead: the identification of the unknown body in England and Wales 1800-1934
… new perspectives on, the histories of sudden death investigation, the modern bureaucratic state, forensic medicine, the place of the dead, and personal, social and legal identities. It situates and studies identification procedure within the context of the inquest, but argues that this inquiry …
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Historical Development and Contemporary Dilemmas of a Police Surgeon
The requirement for investigation into death has been present since the mists of time. From the process of identification of the person and determination of the cause of death the Coroner’s service that operates in England today has slowly emerged. Along the evolutionary path of death investigation …
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Exploring the Utility of Dental Pathological Conditions in Dental Radiographic Comparisons
… matches when CDAs are conducted in medicolegal death investigation (MDI), 2) to determine if respondents' expertise and experience would affect their ability to make correct matches, and 3) to investigate which DI were most/least beneficial in making correct matches. To test these hypotheses, 60 …
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The effect of clothing on decomposition and scavenging in two forensically significant habitats in Cape Town, South Africa
… in the country. A crucial aspect of the forensic death investigation involves estimating the postmortem interval, which is influenced by biogeographic factors specific to the region. To ensure the collection of forensically relevant data, the experimental design incorporated single, clothed …
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Investigating the effectiveness and efficiency of forensic pathology practice in Western Cape, South Africa
… approximately 10% of cases were closed (cause of death was determined) on the day of the post-mortem, 65% within 14 days and 80% closed within a 30 day period. Certain requested ancillary investigations delayed the finalisation of cause of death; for example, only 8.33% of carbon monoxide testing …
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Dating Death: Forensic taphonomy and the postmortem interval
… challenging factors to establish in a suspicious death investigation. Unfortunately, as time passes current methods lose accuracy and only allow investigators to approximate how long ago death occurred. Bodies interred in clandestine graves prove particularly challenging due to an abundance of …
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Molecular and cellular aspects of the SREBP pathway
… between sterol feedback and statin mediated cell death was investigated in depth in HeLa cells. Down regulation of SREBP processing by sterols significantly enhanced the efficacy of statin mediated cell death. Investigation of sterol feedback in additional cancer cell lines showed that sterol …
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Characterisation of cardiac protein changes post death: pilot study
… is an important consideration in medicolegal death investigation. There are various approaches used in the estimation PMI also known as time since death. Methods such as temperature measurement, evaluation of muscle contraction, lividity and decomposition rate are applied to estimate PMI. …