Showing papers in "Forensic Science International in 2016"

TL;DR: Development of newer and better methodologies for sex estimation as well as re-evaluation of the existing ones will continue in the endeavour of forensic researchers for more accurate results.

TL;DR: The article presents the detected cutting agents (adulterants and diluents), their evolution in time and space and the analytical methodology implemented by forensic laboratories, and discusses when, in the history of the illicit drug, cutting may take place.

TL;DR: The results show that some deaths are being attributed to synthetic cannabinoids, with the highest risk areas being behavioral toxicity resulting in excited delirium, trauma or accidents and as contributing factors in subjects with pre-existing cardiopulmonary disease.

TL;DR: This research demonstrates the importance of online marketplaces in the context of illicit drug trafficking and shows how the analysis of data available online may elicit knowledge on criminal activities.

TL;DR: Although the correlation between blood or oral fluid concentrations and psychoactive effects of THC needs a better understanding, blood sampling has been shown to be the most effective way to evaluate the level of impairment of drivers under the influence of cannabis.

TL;DR: A preliminary assessment of the development, and subsequent validation, of H. illucens is offered and additional criteria for identifying development of each specific instar is developed, which may aid in improving the accuracy and precision of larval age estimates for this species.

TL;DR: The death of an individual that was associated with the synthetic cannabinoid 5F-AMB was reported and cause and manner of death was certified as accidental death due to synthetic cannabinoid toxicity.

TL;DR: The qualitative distribution of drugs of abuse in seized materials confiscated in the Italian territory over the last two years is described and the threat for the public health is confirmed.

TL;DR: The presented case shows the health risks associated with MDMB-CHMICA use and the administration of this substance can lead to the number of organ failures, cardiac arrest and consequently death.

TL;DR: The forensic analysis of the received products allows the evaluation of the accuracy of digital data collected on the website, and the information from digital and physical/chemical traces are complementary to evaluate the practices of the online selling of illicit drugs on cryptomarkets.

TL;DR: Blood concentrations of new designer benzodiazepines in a population of drugged drivers as well as some other criminal offenders, and to relate this to clinical impairment, could be helpful in interpretation of blood concentrations of these drugs in blood.

TL;DR: To the author's knowledge, this is the first case report of a fatal intoxication involving U-47700 abused as a new psychotropic substances, considered to have a potency of approximately 7.5 times that of morphine.

TL;DR: A space-temporal interest point detector and descriptor called TRoF is introduced, custom-tailored for efficient (low processing time and memory footprint) and effective and effective (high classification accuracy and low false negative rate) motion description, particularly suited to the task at hand.

TL;DR: The medical examiner concluded that the cause of death was an acute intoxication with ocfentanil, a potent synthetic opioid and structure analogue of fentanyl abused as a new psychoactive substance in the recreational drug scene.

TL;DR: Butyrfentanyl seems to be prone to postmortem redistribution processes and concentrations in forensic death cases should be interpreted with caution.

TL;DR: A comprehensive proposal to create a dataset composed of modified videos for forensic investigation, in order to standardize existing techniques for detecting video tampering, and develop and designing this new video library for usage in video forensics.

TL;DR: Evidence indicated that self-administered intravenous injection was the most likely scenario, and that the deceased had been a habitual user of the "bath salt" drug for some time.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that qualitative identification of the species under analysis by measurement and comparison of peaks position is always successful even though quantitative analysis is, at present, difficult.

TL;DR: Five different designer drugs were identified in the powder material, including synthetic cannabinoids (AB-CHMINACA, AB-FUBINACA), synthetic cathinones (alpha-PHP, alpha-PVP and 4-CMC), all of these substances were also detected in the stomach content along with the prescription drugs.

TL;DR: Test the accuracy of cut-off value of 0.08 by measurement of third molar index (I3M) in assessing legal adult age of 18 years in Turkey and found it is a useful method to assess if a subject is older than 18 years of age or not.

TL;DR: According to the results, DNA stored on FTA cards is rather stable over a long time period and should be taken into account depending on the intended application especially if high quality DNA and long PCR amplicons are required.

TL;DR: This study supports the relative value of the proximal femur to estimate sex in skeletal remains, especially when other exceedingly dimorphic skeletal elements are not accessible for analysis.

TL;DR: The suggested value of I3M=0.08 can be used on Serbian population with high accuracy based on the correlation between the chronological age and normalized measures of the open apices and height of the third mandibular molar.

TL;DR: This technique is simple, rapid, selective and sensitive, and shows potential for the high-throughput quantitation of ATS as well as possibilities for adaptation with other techniques such as FIA or LC systems.

TL;DR: A survey was conducted of the use of speaker identification by law enforcement agencies around the world, and the most popular framework for reporting conclusions was identification/exclusion/inconclusive.

TL;DR: It is argued that a proper appreciation of decision tools not only reduces the number of individual assignments that the application of decision theory requires, but also shows how such assignments can be meaningfully related to constituting features of the real-world decision problem to which the theory is applied.

TL;DR: This was the first fatal case reported in Cyprus associated with new psychoactive substances and the first case reported to Early Warning System of the European Monitoring Center of Drugs and Drug Abuse, related to multidrug intoxication, attributed to the consumption of cathinones, designer benzodiazepines, and other drugs.

TL;DR: This paper describes how the microbiome of a living host changes and transmigrates within the body after death thus linking the microbiomeOf a living individual to post-mortem microbiome changes, and identifies how transmigration of bacterial species can potentially aid in post- autopsy interval estimations.

TL;DR: This study aimed at developing a LC-MS method to compare the efficiency of various sampling materials for the collection and subsequent analysis of organic gunshot residues (OGSR), finding that the tape was capable of recovering the highest amounts of OGSR.

TL;DR: An in-depth characterization of these compounds by NMR, EI-MS, ESI-MS/MS, IR- and UV spectroscopy was conducted, finding 5Cl-AKB48 and 4-pentenyl- AKB48 were found for the first time in commercially available products.