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Genetic characterisation of 13 rapidly mutating Y-STR loci in 100 father and son pairs from South and East Turkey

open access: yesAnnals 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Targeting Missing Persons Most Likely to Come to Harm Among 92,681 Cases Reported to Devon and Cornwall Police

open access: yesCambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing, 2020
Given the information available to Devon and Cornwall Police at the time when they received a missing person report, which knowable variables indicated increased odds of the person coming to serious harm?
Ryan Doyle, G. Barnes
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Distinguishing suicides of persons reported missing from those not reported missing: a retrospective Scottish cohort study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Background: Understanding what distinguishes the suicide of individuals reported missing (missing-suicides) from those of individuals not reported missing (other-suicides) may have preventative and/or operational utility and inform our knowledge of ...
Gibb, Graham   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Property Law: The Estates of Missing Persons [PDF]

open access: yes, 1966
This comment compiles and critically analyzes the various statutory provisions enacted for the preservation and distribution of the property of missing and unaccounted-for persons.
Johansson, Pernilla
core   +2 more sources

Monitoring the missing: Trends in the phenomenon of disappearances in Italy, 2019–2022 [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

The importance and role of legal sciences in resolving the problems of missing persons in armed conflicts in the former SFRY and AP KiM [PDF]

open access: yesMegatrend Revija, 2021
In this paper, the authors accentuate constitutional and legislation governing human rights through the issue of missing persons in armed conflicts in the period from 1992 to 2000.
Lolić Sofija, Račić Julijana
doaj   +1 more source

DNA Methods to Identify Missing Persons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Since its discovery in 1985 by Alec Jeffreys, forensic DNA profiling has emerged as an immensely powerful technology. In this chapter, the development of genetic approaches to forensic human identification will be discussed in a variety of contexts ...
Evison, Martin
core   +1 more source

'To the end of the world':Space, place and missing persons investigations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Police investigations of major crimes are typically conducted in contexts where there is contested or ambiguous knowledge about what occurred and such challenges are also routinely faced in the investigation of missing persons. This article examines ways
Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO)   +21 more
core   +2 more sources

SIGPRO: A Real-Time Progressive Notification System Using MQTT Bridges and Topic Hierarchy for Rapid Location of Missing Persons

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
Currently, one of the main challenges that the world’s big cities are facing is the security problem of their citizens and specifically the disappearance of people (even more in Latin America countries).
Ana María Zambrano V   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Complementary Remote-Sensing Method to Find Persons Missing in Water: Two Case Studies

open access: yesForensic Sciences, 2023
This short communication discusses how a specific geoarchaeological remote-sensing (RS) method, such as analyzing satellite images through NDWI (Normalized Difference Water Index), can be used to aid in searching and locating persons missing in ...
Pier Matteo Barone   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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