The need for documented procedures and protocols are important in every specialist group to ensure a consistent service to the community. They provide guidance to members of the specialist group about responsibilities and appropriate practices, and confidence to the community that the services are of the highest possible standard. In a Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) incident, by enabling ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between plasma zinc values and the severity of dengue viral infection (DVI) and DVI-caused hepatitis. METHODS A prospective cohort study was conducted during 2008-2010 in hospitalized children aged <15 years confirmed with DVI. Complete blood count, aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), and zinc values (mcg/dL) were determine...

Free-ranging cervids acquire most of their essential minerals through forage consumption, though occasionally seek other sources to account for seasonal mineral deficiencies. Mineral sources occur as natural geological deposits (i.e., licks) or as anthropogenic mineral supplements. In both scenarios, these sources commonly serve as focal sites for visitation. We monitored 11 licks in Rocky Moun...

DVI System International is software that operates on the PC-Windows platform. It is capable of managing aspects of identification in day-to-day cases and major disasters, where it has particular advantages when victims of several nationalities are involved. The system uses Interpol forms as standard protocols for input and transfer of antemortem and postmortem information. Following the Thai T...

Most, if not all, DVI previewers and printer drivers provide a facility for selecting a subset of the pages of a document; this subset is specified using the contents of the \count0 to \count9 registers that w outputs to identify each page of the file. This makes it easy to preview just pages 7, 8 and 9, but what if you know you want to look at the page with the paragraph about Katzenellenbogen...

The D antigen is a mosaic comprising at least 30 epitopes. Partial Rh D phenotypes occur when there is absence of one or more of these epitopes, with the remainder expressed. The DVI phenotype is the most common of the partial D phenotypes, lacking most D antigen epitopes (ep D) (epD1, 2, 5-8 using the 9-epitope model or epD 1-4, 7-22, 26-29 using the 30-epitope model). DVI mothers may become i...

Abstract Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) is an important process in the aftermath of disasters to provide answers for families and communities victims. Australian forensic practitioners contribute such processes internationally under difficult post-disaster circumstances. The aim study was better understand challenges experienced by international DVI operations. Participants (N = 20) inclu...

In t h s paper I give an abbreviated history of the current scheme for using color with Rokicki's dvips program up to the end of 1993. The real story begins in early 1990, when a local user asked if I could add to the fledgling FoilTEX project support for color to take advantage of our new color printers. This started a major effort, in collaboration with Tom Rokicki, to find an efficient and s...