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How Hurricane Katrina influenced the design of hurricane protection and risk reduction systems and national approaches to risk and resilience: Part 1. Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans: A forensic assessment, risk and reliability analysis, and key lessons learned

Water Policy, 2021
A systems perspective is presented of what happened during and after Hurricane Katrina (2005) and the potential for reducing the likelihood of large losses in the future.
Lewis E. Link
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Forensic Science or Forensic Sciences? Conceptual analysis

, 2023
Science and justice need to interact to solve different situations. This interaction, however, needs to occur efficiently to avoid generating even more doubts. Scientific evaluation in the legal context must be understood and achieve its purpose. For this, much has been discussed about the nature and purpose of forensic scientific assessment.
Rodrigues, Caio Henrique Pinke, Amaral, Maria Eduarda Azambuja, Mariotto, Lívia Salviano, Castro, Jade Simões, Mascarelli, Marina Enriquetto, Velho, Jesus Antonio, Bruni, Aline Thais   +6 more
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Creating crime scene 3D model with body wear camera footage

Archives of Forensic Medicine and Criminology, 2023
The aim of this study is to develop a methodology for creating 3D images of crime scenes based on footage from cameras used by emergency services.
Krzysztof Maksymowicz, Łukasz Szleszkowski, Aleksandra Kuzan, Wojciech Tunikowski   +3 more
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Emerging Trends in Pharmacotoxicological and Forensic Sample Treatment Procedures

Applied Sciences, 2023
One of the most discussed topics concerns the sample preparation before the analysis and, therefore, all the operations necessary to eliminate the interferents, clean up the specimens, and extract the analytes of interest, reducing the matrix effect ...
Valentina Greco, Alessandro Giuffrida, Marcello Locatelli, Fabio Savini, Ugo de Grazia, Luigi Ciriolo, Miryam Perrucci, Abuzar Kabir, Halil Ibrahim Ulusoy, Cristian D’Ovidio, Imran Ali   +10 more
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Rapid On-Site Detection of Illicit Drugs in Smuggled Samples with a Portable Electrochemical Device

Chemosensors, 2022
The smuggling of illicit drugs urges the development of new tools for rapid on-site identification in cargos. Current methods rely on presumptive color tests and portable spectroscopic techniques.
Marc Parrilla, Amorn Slosse, Robin Van Echelpoel, Noelia Felipe Montiel, Amelia R. Langley, Filip Van Durme, Karolien De Wael   +6 more
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Simultaneous Determination of Selegiline, Desmethylselegiline, R/S-methamphetamine, and R/S-amphetamine on Dried Urine Spots by LC/MS/MS: Application to a Pharmacokinetic Study in Urine

Frontiers in Chemistry, 2019
Objective: Chiral analysis is a crucial method to differentiate selegiline intake from drug abuse. A dried urine spot (DUS) analytical method based on spotting urine samples (10 μL) onto dried spot collection cards, and followed by air-drying and ...
Lizhu Chen, Lizhu Chen, Yingjia Yu, Gengli Duan, Xin Wang, Baohua Shen, Ping Xiang   +6 more
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A comparative study of different animal hairs: A microscopic analysis

Journal of Advanced Pharmaceutical Technology & Research, 2022
Hair is a feature that is only found in mammals. In all species, it is an epidermal protrusion composed of an outer cuticle, middle cortex, and inner medulla. Hair's primary purpose in mammals is to aid with thermoregulation.
A Annika Rajaselin, Vishnu Priya Veeraraghavan, A Abirami Arthanari, R Gayathri, S Kavitha, J Selvaraj, Y Dinesh   +6 more
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Failure Investigation of under Construction Prestressed Concrete Bridge in Chitwan, Nepal

Infrastructures, 2022
On 6 April 2021, a 200 m-long under-construction prestressed concrete bridge failed in the Chitwan District in central Nepal. Two of the four bridge spans collapsed without any notable evidence of dynamic force application.
Rabindra Adhikari, Pratyush Jha, Lalit Bhatt, Dipesh Thapa, Davide Forcellini, Dipendra Gautam   +5 more
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The Magnitude, Clinical Presentation and Consequences of Patients with Burn Injuries Admitted to Tertiary Care Hospital, Kurunegala, Sri Lanka: A Prospective Analysis

Arab Journal of Forensic Sciences & Forensic Medicine, 2020
This prospective analysis is based on clinical forensic examinations and clinical case records of the victims who sustained burns and were admitted during a one-year period since 2017.
Udukubhura D. G. Dissanayaka, Amal N. Vadysinghe, Yapa M. G. I. Banda, Thenuwara H. I. Gayathree   +3 more
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The Production and Evaluation of an Electrochemical Sensors for Strychnine and Its Main Metabolite Strychnine N-Oxide for Their Use in Biological Samples

Molecules, 2022
Strychnine (STN) and its major metabolite Strychnine N-Oxide (SNO) were examined electrochemically. Both parent compounds and its major metabolite showed electroactivity on glassy carbon electrodes using CV and DPV techniques.
Bakhtiyar Qader, Issam Hussain, Mark Baron, Rafael Estevez-Brito, John Paul Cassella, Jose Gonzalez-Rodriguez   +5 more
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