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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"time of death"”.
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Estimation of Time of Death (TOD) of White-Tailed Deer: a Comparison of Three Indicators
Establishment of time of death (TOD) is of great importance to wildlife officers. The ability to accurately estimate when an animal died would allow officers to tell whether legal shooting hours or seasons had been violated. This would increase their efficiency in enforcing harvest limits set by …
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POST-MORTEM INTERVAL ESTIMATION THROUGH METABOLOMICS OF PINEAL GLAND
This study investigates metabolomic profiling of post-mortem pineal glands using 1H-NMR spectroscopy. Significant diurnal variations in metabolites correlated with the post-mortem interval, offering a novel approach for time-of-death estimation.
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Landscape and population ecology of ring-necked pheasants
… private and public lands managed for the benefit of wildlife. While the benefits of different management approaches at the field- and landscape scale are well-recognized, how to prioritize actions is less clear. Much of this difficulty arises from a lack of information about the mechanisms linking …
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Foreign object insertion in sexual homicide cases : an exploratory study
Foreign object insertion into the vagina of a murder victim is a rare occurrence. When it is encountered it is often seen as an indicator of a sexual murder, or regarded for signature analysis purposes. Due to its rare occurrence it is often only documented in literature in case-study form. In this …
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Power and Pressure: Frailty as a Measure of Cumulative Stress Among Ancient Maya Royals from Belize
Health is a reflection of total physical, mental, and social well-being that can be disrupted by stressors (environmental, nutritional, social). Frailty is an accumulation of this stress and leaves skeletal biomarkers which provides evidence of ongoing stress and survived stress event at time of …
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Death, Power, and the Body: A Bio-political Analysis of Death and Dying
… to Michel Foucault, life has become the focus of an infinite amount of both micro and macro management strategies, the point of which being to optimize health and to prolong life. Foucault labeled such strategies as " bio-power." While bio-power exists on many levels of society, my focus has …
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The Distribution of opiates, cocaine and their metabolites in skeletal muscle tissue and vitreous humour as an aid to post-mortem toxicological interpretation.
… concentrations vary greatly and as a consequence of post-mortem change and redistribution may not reflect the concentration at the time of death. Tissues that are located away from central drug reservoirs and that lack esterase activity, e.g. muscle and vitreous humour (VH), have the potential to …
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Wildlife Decomposition in West Central Montana: A Preliminary Study Conducted to Provide Field Investigation Material and Training for Wildlife Officers
… many poaching investigations is the discovery of carcasses in advanced stages of decomposition with little information to indicate time of death (TOD). To address TOD issues of carcasses found in a state of decomposition, and to provide training materials and field tools for investigating …
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Wildlife Decomposition in West Central Montana: A Preliminary Study Conducted to Provide Field Investigation Material and Training for Wildlife Officers
… many poaching investigations is the discovery of carcasses in advanced stages of decomposition with little information to indicate time of death (TOD). To address TOD issues of carcasses found in a state of decomposition, and to provide training materials and field tools for investigating …
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Influence of diet on black soldier fly (hermetia illucens linnaeus) (diptera: stratiomyidae) life history traits
… are naturally found consuming a wide range of decomposing organic material and therefore has a potential to be used as an agent for waste management. Larvae reared from waste are high in fat and protein, making them valuable as animal feed. Included in the natural diet of black soldier fly …
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A Connecticut Yankee At The Gates Of Heaven: A Study Of The Rites Surrounding The Death Of A Christian In The Connecticut Conference, United Church Of Christ, At The Beginning Of The Twenty-First Century
… examines the rites that members and churches of the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ perform when a member of the community dies. A distinction between a “funeral” and “memorial service” is established, with a funeral defined as a rite provided by the Church at the death …
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The Status of Iowa Sleep-Related Infant Mortality: An Evaluation of Safe Sleep Education Delivery, Policy, and Practice in Birthing Hospitals
… infant mortality, including sudden infant death syndrome, asphyxia, and undetermined or unknown causes, is the third leading cause of death nationally and in Iowa (Harris, 2014; Malloy & Ramirez, 2013). Evidence exists for increasing rates of bed sharing, a major risk factor for …
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The Status of Iowa Sleep-Related Infant Mortality: An Evaluation of Safe Sleep Education Delivery, Policy, and Practice in Birthing Hospitals
… infant mortality, including sudden infant death syndrome, asphyxia, and undetermined or unknown causes, is the third leading cause of death nationally and in Iowa (Harris, 2014; Malloy & Ramirez, 2013). Evidence exists for increasing rates of bed sharing, a major risk factor for …
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The Effect of Leucogenenol on Classical Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy of Friend Virus Disease
… These experiments determined the effects of the immunostiumulants leucogenenol and Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) in combination with Methotrexate chemotherapy on Friend Virus Disease. Procedure. FV infected mice were treated with various combinations of the chemo-and immunotherapeutic …
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Natural language processing for precision clinical diagnostics and treatment
In this thesis, I focus upon application of natural language processing to clinical diagnostics and treatment within the palliative care and serious illness field. I explore a variety of natural language processing methods, including deep learning, rule-based, and classic machine learning, and …
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Effect of Postmortem Time and Preservation Fluid on the Tensile Material Properties of Bovine Liver Parenchyma
The liver is one of the most frequently injured abdominal organs in motor vehicle collisions. Although previous studies have quantified the tensile failure properties of human liver parenchyma at 48hrs postmortem, it is currently unknown how the material properties change between time of death and …
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Stoep funerals : a Challenge to Pastoral Care
… mismanage their defunct members especially at times of funerals. In the absence of a pragmatic pastoral method of how to deal with defunct members when they die, the church has devised a church policy which adds to the already experienced pain and grief of mourners. The criteria in the policy …
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UMFC #66 A Comprehensive Case Report
<p>University of Montana Forensic Case #66 has been used as a teaching tool for many years. Little written information is available on the origin of this case. Information on the date of recovery is not available, nor are the circumstances surrounding the recovery. My goal in this report is to …
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UMFC #66 A Comprehensive Case Report
<p>University of Montana Forensic Case #66 has been used as a teaching tool for many years. Little written information is available on the origin of this case. Information on the date of recovery is not available, nor are the circumstances surrounding the recovery. My goal in this report is to …
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Sex-Based Differences in Mortality and Metabolic Disease in Subadult Skeletal Assemblages of Tell Hisban
… these risk factors in ancient communities is often hindered by the invisibility of some variables in the archaeological record and the methodological limitations of skeletal analysis. These both have impacted the complete understanding of the causes of infant mortality in the 19th century AD …
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