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Dismantling Binary Assumptions in Sex Estimation: Uplifting Trans and Gender Diverse Identities in Forensic Anthropology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Forensic anthropology is a study within the field of physical anthropology that seeks to apply osteological expertise to legal and criminal situations. One of a forensic anthropologists’ most important jobs is to build a biological profile, consisting of
Holbeck, Audrey
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Using MALDI‐FTICR Mass Spectrometry to Enhance ZooMS Identifications of Pleistocene Bone Fragments Showing Variable Collagen Preservation

open access: yesRapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rationale Recent advances in high‐throughput molecular analyses of collagen peptides, especially ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry), have permitted breakthroughs in the analysis of archaeological material that is highly fragmented, a factor that hinders morphological identification.
Pauline Raymond   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic Admixture History and Forensic Characteristics of Guizhou Sui People Inferred From Autosomal Insertion/Deletion and Genome-Wide Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Insertion-deletion (Indel) serves as one of the important markers in forensic personal identification and parentage testing, especially for cases with degraded samples.
Meiqing Yang   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enemies: uneasy accompaniments in late life Ennemis : accompagnements de fin de vie difficiles

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Against a phenomenological orientation to ageing as path or course, a contrastive frame is offered around a figure termed the enemy. Four distinctive ethnographic fragments are utilized: (1) a Polish‐Jewish migrant to Canada in her late eighties who listens continually to the radio and worries over the malign forces in the world that the radio ...
Lawrence Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

Forensic Similarity for Digital Images [PDF]

open access: yesIEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (2019) Volume: 15, Pages: 1331 - 1346, 2019
In this paper we introduce a new digital image forensics approach called forensic similarity, which determines whether two image patches contain the same forensic trace or different forensic traces. One benefit of this approach is that prior knowledge, e.g. training samples, of a forensic trace are not required to make a forensic similarity decision on
arxiv   +1 more source

Forensic and Expert Social Anthropology

open access: yesOpen Anthropological Research, 2022
Social anthropologists have acted as expert witnesses in legal proceedings for many decades, however there has persisted a tension between social anthropologists’ readiness to accept the assignation of ‘expertise’, and the typical manner in which courts ...
James W. W. Rose
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Recent advances in forensic anthropology: decomposition research

open access: yesForensic Sciences Research, 2018
Decomposition research is still in its infancy, but significant advances have occurred within forensic anthropology and other disciplines in the past several decades. Decomposition research in forensic anthropology has primarily focused on estimating the
Daniel J. Wescott
doaj   +1 more source

The Potential Conflict between Forensic Ethnic Identification and Societal Interpretation in America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Forensic anthropology is the application of the history, structure, and development of mankind in a forensic setting and serves as a bridge between societal and anthropological views on race.
Cartales, Jerielle
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A mathematical model for scientifically defining the class characteristics of the human anterior maxilla—Part 1: The dental arch

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Bitemark recognition reliability in forensics has been criticized for lacking objectivity and empirical support. Despite doubts about classifying these injuries as bitemarks, pattern injuries must still be legally documented and analyzed. Forensic odontology can benefit from aesthetic dentistry by adopting metric analysis methods to define ...
Kenneth Aschheim   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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