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Improving witness interviewing for the investigation of disappeared persons due to armed conflict

Forensic Sciences Research, 2021
Investigating missing persons who are presumed dead in conflict contexts almost always involves witness interviews. Interviews can be critical both to locating burial sites and to positively identifying bodies that are located.
Derek Congram, Maria Mikellide, Matthew Vennemeyer   +2 more
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Genetic characterisation of 13 rapidly mutating Y-STR loci in 100 father and son pairs from South and East Turkey

Annals of Human Biology, 2018
Background: Rapidly mutating (RM) Y-STRs recently emerged as a useful genotyping tool that can counteract problems normally associated with traditional Y-STRs.
Ayse Serin, Mustafa Ay, Huseyin Sevay, Cemal Gurkan, Husniye Canan   +4 more
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ESPOZ - AN ELECTRONIC SYSTEM SUPPORTING THE POLISH POLICE IN THE SEARCH FOR MISSING PERSONS

Revija za kriminologiju i krivično pravo, 2020
The Police Academy in Szczytno has been carrying out a research project entitled "Development of a database and tools for semantic search for information and knowledge management in the area of missing persons and search for persons”, financed ...
Anna Świerczewska-Gąsiorowska, Monika Porwisz, Paweł Olber   +2 more
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Monitoring the missing: Trends in the phenomenon of disappearances in Italy, 2019–2022 [PDF]

Journal of Health and Social Sciences
Background: Missing persons represent a critical issue in Italy with significant social and forensic implications.
Methods: Data from the Extraordinary Commissioner for Missing Persons were analyzed for 2019–2022 by year, region, sex, age, and ...
Laura DONATO, Rossana CECCHI, Michele TREGLIA, Douglas H UBELAKER, Adriano DELLE DONNE, Pierluigi PASSALACQUA, Margherita PALLOCCI, Jessika CAMATTI, Anna Laura SANTUNIONE, Franco MINNELLA, Luigi Tonino MARSELLA   +10 more
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Recognizability of Demographically Altered Computerized Facial Approximations in an Automated Facial Recognition Context for Potential Application in Unidentified Persons Data Repositories

Biology, 2023
This study examined the recognizability of demographically altered facial approximations for potential utility in unidentified persons tracking systems. Five computer-generated approximations were generated for each of 26 African male participants using ...
Connie L. Parks, Keith L. Monson
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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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Carcinomas and Carcinoid Tumors of the Lungs and Bronchi in Children and Adolescents: The EXPeRT Recommendations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Primary lung carcinomas and bronchial carcinoid tumors (BC) are very rare malignancies in childhood. While typical BC and mucoepidermoid carcinomas are mostly low‐grade, localized tumors with a more favorable prognosis than in adults, necessitating avoidance of overtreatment, adenocarcinomas of the lung are often diagnosed at advanced disease ...
Michael Abele, Calogero Virgone, Michaela Kuhlen, Sabine Irtan, Yves Reguerre, Malgorzata Krawczyk, Ewa Bien, Tal Ben‐Ami, Maja Cesen, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Andrea Ferrari, Gianni Bisogno, Dominik T. Schneider, Abbas Agaimy, Constantin Lapa, Hubert Ducou le Pointe, Rainer Claus, Catherine Daniel, Ines B. Brecht, Daniel Orbach   +19 more
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Missing persons and peacebuilding: The transformative role of families of the missing

International Review of the Red Cross
This article investigates the critical and often overlooked role of families of missing persons in peacebuilding when the hostilities of armed conflict cease. The unresolved fate of missing persons creates ambiguous loss, a state of chronic psychological
Simon Robins, Jill Stockwell
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Les expériences politiques de l’absence : le processus de subjectivation de proches de disparus par migration en Tunisie

Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 2023
This article focuses on the political experience of absence in families of Tunisian harraga who disappeared by migration. This contribution is based on an ethnography conducted in Tunisia with associations of relatives of the missing and on remote ...
Sofia Stimmatini
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European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen, Calogero Virgone, Antje Redlich, Michael Abele, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Gianni Bisogno, Maja Mazic Cesen, Andrea Ferrari, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Ines B. Brecht, Charlotte Rigaud, Bilgehan Yalcin, Rainer Claus, Christian Vokuhl, Constantin Lapa, Jörg Fuchs, Segolene Hescot, Thomas Walter, Julien Hadoux, Daniel Orbach   +23 more
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