Mobile alert app to engage community volunteers to help locate missing persons with dementia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 The prevalence of persons living with dementia and at risk of going missing is rising. In this study, we engaged persons living with dementia, care partners, police services, search and rescue organizations, and health and social service providers to ...
Noelannah Neubauer +3 more
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Forensic geophysics: ground penetrating radar (GPR) techniques and missing persons investigations. [PDF]
Forensic Sci Res, 2019 : Ground penetrating radar (GPR) investigations have the potential to non-destructively detect buried or hidden targets and are therefore often used in forensic research. This study presents a particular application of GPR methods to search for a missing
Barone PM, Di Maggio RM.
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An Innovative Technique for Identification of Missing Persons in Natural Disaster Based on Drone-Femtocell Systems. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2019 The recent development of the IoT (Internet of Things), which has enabled new types of sensors that can be easily interconnected to the Internet, will also have a significant impact in the near future on the management of natural disasters (mainly ...
Avanzato R, Beritelli F.
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Missing persons patterns from Mexico: evidence of a forensic emergency crisis. [PDF]
Forensic Sci Res, 2023 The relatives of missing persons in Mexico have denounced the slowness with which a court prosecution file is created by the justice administration system.
Quinto-Sanchez M, Huerta-Pacheco NS.
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Materials for the study of the locus operandi in the search for missing persons in Italy. [PDF]
Forensic Sci Res, 2022 Geographic profiling, or locus operandi, is a scientific approach that has been applied to forensic investigations for several years. However, it has never been applied to a phenomenon as complex as the search for missing persons.
Barone PM, Di Maggio RM, Mesturini S.
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Locked in grief: a qualitative study of grief among family members of missing persons in southern Sri Lanka. [PDF]
BMC Psychol, 2021 The psychological and social issues experienced by family members of missing persons are different from normal grief following the death of a loved one. The term “Ambiguous loss” describes this psychological phenomenon.
Isuru A, Bandumithra P, Williams SS.
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Missing Persons Alert: Finding the Lost "Person" in Patient-Oriented Research. [PDF]
J Patient Exp, 2022 After a decade of attempts at patient-oriented research, this article seeks to advance the approach, making individuals and communities active partners in health research.
Rao S.
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Alternative workflows for identifying transnational missing persons [PDF]
Forensic Science International: Synergy, 2023 Mass migration and migrant death at the U.S. southern border highlight the disconnectedness of the systems for transnational decedent identifications.
Molly A. Kaplan +8 more
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Mitochondrial Sequencing of Missing Persons DNA Casework by Implementing Thermo Fisher's Precision ID mtDNA Whole Genome Assay. [PDF]
Genes (Basel), 2020 The advent of massively parallel sequencing (MPS) in the past decade has opened the doors to mitochondrial whole-genome sequencing. Mitochondrial (mt) DNA is used in forensics due to its high copy number per cell and maternal mode of inheritance ...
Cuenca D +3 more
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Risk factors and missing persons: advancing an understanding of ‘risk’
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022 This study seeks to advance an understanding of ‘risk’ for persons going missing—a phenomenon also known as missingness. There is a need to clarify terms used to describe correlations or statistical associations between variables that are identified as ...
Lorna Ferguson
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