background: construction work (building houses, roads, workplaces, and repairing and maintaining infrastructures) is a dangerous land-based job. this includes many hazardous tasks and conditions such as working at the following conditions: height, excavation, noise, dust, power tools and equipment. construction work has been increased in developed and underdeveloped countries over the past few ...

in many jurisdictions, psychiatric problems are intended for commutation. therefore, a forensic psychiatrist has an important role in detection of malingering. while several studies evaluate diagnostic tests, it is less known what symptoms are more likely to be imitated by malingerers.in a prospective study 45 malingerers, who were diagnosed according to interviews by two forensic psychiatrists...

Introduction: Forensic nursing makes the relation between medical profession and judicial system using the forensic science in prevention, intervention and treatment guidance. Increasing the nurses’ knowledge of forensic nursing will provide high quality, safe and holistic nursing. Objective: This study aimed to determine the level of emergency nurses’ knowledge about forensic nu...

§13.1 The Forensic Sciences §13.2 The Admissibility of Forensics-Only Science §13.2.1 “General Acceptance” in Forensic Science Should Not Be a Sufficient Condition for Admissibility §13.2.2 “General Acceptance” in Forensic Science Should Not Be a Necessary Condition for Admissibility §13.3 Trace Evidence and Identification §13.3.1 Matches, Non-Matches, and Hypotheses §13.3.2 Exclusions §13.3.3 ...

madam, forensic odontology essentially deals with criminal identification by their dental records and aiding to get them to task. with a spike in the mass disasters occurring in the modern world, the focus of this subject has expanded to include the identification of the victims of these natural or man-made calamities. although articles in the recent past suggest the importance of the forensic ...

in iran, department of forensic psychiatry is one of the special units of legal medicine organization concerned with individuals who demonstrate psychological and psychiatric problems. the duties of forensic psychiatrists in the department are, performing psychiatric examinations and determining mental competence of two major groups of referrals: individuals who are involved in a legal problem ...

introduction: poroscopy is a method of identification in which the characteristics of sweat pores are compared from different aspects. these pore openings are present along the friction ridges found on the distal end of digits, palms and soles in the hands and feet. materials amd methods: this study enrolled 100 iranian males from the fars family who resided in khorasan razavi province. the ave...

background: forensic odontology plays important role in identification of human remains in mass disasters such as air crash, tsunami, and accidents. palatal rugae act as an ideal requisite for human identification as they are present in all victims and are resistant to changes such as aging and trauma. the study aimed to analyze differences in shape and number of palatal rugae in population fro...

background orthopedic injuries are the most common types of injuries. to identify the main causes of injuries, collecting data in a standard manner at the national level are needed, which justifies necessity of making a minimum data set (mds). objectives the aim of this study was to develop an mds of the information management system for orthopedic injuries in iran. materials and methods this d...