The use of numerical information and statistical methods is increasing sharply among forensic scientists publishing research and presenting analytical results for peer and judicial review. The importance of their work should not be obscured by the tendency for complex statistical analyses to confuse and mislead. Some considerations that would assist in our statistical communication include: sou...

Copyright: © 2013 Kshemada K, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Forensic sciences focussed on investigations of unnatural deaths and crimes have indisputably made significant contribution ...

Forensic evidentiary samples routinely contain DNA from multiple contributors. The interpretation of these mixtures can be a challenging task for the DNA scientist. Several approaches are discussed (no calculationqualitative statement; probability of exclusion; likelihood ratio estimates; presumptive genotype assignment based on peak heights), which have been employed to assess the significance...

a REQUIMTE, Department of Chemical Sciences, Laboratory of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Porto University, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-313, Porto, Portugal. b National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, North Branch, Jardim Carrilho Videira, 4050-167, Porto, Portugal. c CENCIFOR – Forensic Science Center, Largo da Sé Nova, s/n, 3000-213, Coimbra, Portugal. ...

In recent years, research and case experience have greatly augmented knowledge regarding the effects of extreme heat on skeletal remains. As a result of this effort, enhanced interpretation is now possible on such issues as the extent of recovery, reconstruction, trauma, individual identification, size reduction, thermal effects on histological structures, color variation, the determination if ...