{"title":"Sensitivity and Specificity of Various Techniques for the Trace Elemental Analysis on Teeth: A Critical Review","authors":"Monika Singh, J. Sehrawat, Vishal Sharma","doi":"10.17063/bjfs7(4)y2018230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17063/bjfs7(4)y2018230","url":null,"abstract":"Trace elements play an important and complex role in the human metabolism and, although present in only minute concentrations, can be either beneficial or detrimental to health. Qualitative and quantitative analyses of the trace elements from human teeth are performed using various methods. Atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) and Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (or mass spectroscopy) (ICP-AES, MS) are the most popular methods for trace element analysis Previous studies have set the framework for developing methods aimed at elemental analysis from bones and teeth but there are areas in which the field still needs to progress. Research must be undertaken to expand the techniques to include more precision, non-destructiveness and accuracy and high detection limit, including additional human bones and teeth, non-human bones and teeth, non-skeletal materials, and to trace present and past life behaviours like migration pattern, nutrition status and occupational or environmental exposure, human provenance and reconstruction of migration pathways as well substance abuse in human skeletal remains and in living beings.","PeriodicalId":9123,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Forensic Sciences, Medical Law and Bioethics","volume":"20 1","pages":"230-251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90428631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. A. Wayhs, M. Reis, K. Mariotti, W. Romão, B. Vaz, F. Barreto, R. S. Ortiz, R. Limberger
{"title":"NBOMe Designer Drugs: GC-MS and LC-QTOF/MS Detection on Blotter Paper by Brazilian Federal Police (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)","authors":"C. A. Wayhs, M. Reis, K. Mariotti, W. Romão, B. Vaz, F. Barreto, R. S. Ortiz, R. Limberger","doi":"10.17063/BJFS7(3)Y2018193_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17063/BJFS7(3)Y2018193_2","url":null,"abstract":"The NBOMes are classified as new psychoactive substances and have recently become popular as drugs of abuse, being associated with several intoxication cases and even deaths, leading to its ban in several countries. Until now, the most widely used analytical instrument among forensic laboratories in Brazil is GC-MS. In this study, this instrumentation was employed for routine analyzes of twenty blotter paper seizure by Brazilian Federal Police (BFP) in the southernmost state of the country. However, to acquire more information about these samples, LC-QTOF/MS was used as a supplementary analysis to determinate degradation products, metabolites and unknown compounds. The GC-MS analysis detected only 25B-NBOMe, while the LC-QTOF/MS analysis detected 25B-NBOMe, 2C-B and MDMA. The compounds found in these analyzes are quite different from that found 194 Brazilian Journal of Forensic Sciences, Medical Law and Bioethics 7(3):193-204 (2018) C. A. Y. Wayhs et al. in the national profile of seizures by BFP, suggesting that another rout or supplier act in this region. For research and drug intelligence purposes the use of more versatile, sensitive and specific analytical tool provides a greater number of information that could be employed as a valuable strategy in the drug trafficking combat.","PeriodicalId":9123,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Forensic Sciences, Medical Law and Bioethics","volume":"85 1","pages":"193-204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75749071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Silva, Fernando Carvalho dos Santos, Marcelo Mari de Castro, P. Bordoni, L. Bordoni
{"title":"Identificação Papiloscópica em Cadáveres Carbonizados – Considerações Médico Legais e a Importância da Integração Pericial","authors":"A. Silva, Fernando Carvalho dos Santos, Marcelo Mari de Castro, P. Bordoni, L. Bordoni","doi":"10.17063/BJFS7(3)Y2018205_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17063/BJFS7(3)Y2018205_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9123,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Forensic Sciences, Medical Law and Bioethics","volume":"19 1","pages":"205-222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83481663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decipherment Of Disappeared Ink: A Case Study","authors":"Deshpande Hemantini, Mulani Khudbudin","doi":"10.17063/BJFS7(3)Y2018156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17063/BJFS7(3)Y2018156","url":null,"abstract":"The disappeared or invisible inks are fluids used to for secret writing. These types of inks are revealed by heat, chemical reaction and UV light. Disappearing inks are acid base indicators showing different colours at different pH. Writing with this type of ink disappears after about 65 h. These inks could be used for forging the documents such as agreements, cheques, property documents and other important documents. Many destructive and nondestructive methods are available for forensic decipherment of these disappeared writing. In present communication, a simple nondestructive method is applied for decipherment of disappeared signatures on share transfer agreement and other related documents.","PeriodicalId":9123,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Forensic Sciences, Medical Law and Bioethics","volume":"33 1","pages":"156-161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73368020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interpretação do Padrão das Manchas de Sangue em um Caso de Homicídio em Local Inidôneo","authors":"V. W. Botteon","doi":"10.17063/bjfs7(3)y2018162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17063/bjfs7(3)y2018162","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9123,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Forensic Sciences, Medical Law and Bioethics","volume":"443 1","pages":"162-171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73101367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brenno Victor dos Santos Nascimento, Marcus Vinícius da Silva, Gabriel Cunha Brito, Erasmo de Almeida Júnior
{"title":"Investigação do Sexo e Idade através de Mensurações em Ossos Occipitais de Crânios Secos de Adultos","authors":"Brenno Victor dos Santos Nascimento, Marcus Vinícius da Silva, Gabriel Cunha Brito, Erasmo de Almeida Júnior","doi":"10.17063/bjfs8(4)y2019178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17063/bjfs8(4)y2019178","url":null,"abstract":"A Medicina Legal tem grande importância no processo de identificacao humana, principalmente quando os especialistas da area recebem para analise apenas a porcao cefalica do corpo. O objetivo deste estudo e verificar o dimorfismo sexual e a predicao da idade atraves de mensuracoes em ossos occipitais de crânios secos de adultos. Os autores estudaram uma amostra de 149 crânios secos, sendo 90 masculinos e 59 femininos, que pertenceram a individuos com idade acima de 20 anos, e com sexo e idade conhecidos com total seguranca. Foram realizadas as seguintes mensuracoes: distância entre os forames condilares (ifc); distância entre o forame condilar direito e o basio (fcd-b); distância entre o forame condilar esquerdo e o basio (fce-b), alem de uma area triangular formada por estas medidas lineares (atz). Todas as variaveis passaram por uma analise de variância a fim de se testar a existencia de efeito do sexo, alem de que sua normalidade residual foi avaliada pelos coeficientes de assimetria, de curtose e pelo teste de Shapiro-Wilk. De acordo com a analise estatistica, houve indice de acerto de 69,6% por regressao logistica. Foram tambem verificadas estatisticas basicas como a media e intervalo de confianca atraves do teste t e tambem utilizado o metodo da regressao linear multipla para a predicao da idade, constatando que o modelo apresentou resultados significantes em duas variaveis. (p=0,0105). Os resultados permitiram a elaboracao de metodologia estatistica para o diagnostico do sexo e idade em observacoes futuras.","PeriodicalId":9123,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Forensic Sciences, Medical Law and Bioethics","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80810653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. F. R. Nava, C. A. A. Ventura, L. Casique, A. Castañón
{"title":"La hermenéutica-dialéctica como método de análisis cualitativo en enfermería","authors":"V. F. R. Nava, C. A. A. Ventura, L. Casique, A. Castañón","doi":"10.17063/BJFS7(2)Y2018123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17063/BJFS7(2)Y2018123","url":null,"abstract":"The hermeneutic-dialectical analysis is a method that a nursing researcher uses consciously or unconsciously during the process of qualitative data analysis. This method begins as a proposal by Jurgen Habermas in his dialogue with Gadamer in order to show him that the universality of hermeneutics is in reason when the subject is capable of criticizing tradition and authority with an overview to transform reality. In isolation, the concept of hermeneutics has suffered a semantic metamorphosis in historical events; being an art or theory in explaining, translating or interpreting biblical, philosophical and legal texts, until it becomes a philosophical school characterized by the idea: “Truth is the fruit of interpretation. Alternatively, dialectic considers the art of conversation, dialogue, difference, opposition, discrepancy, controversy or argumentation. Dialectic is a branch of philosophy that confirms conflict between two judgments, generating these a final product named the resulting process. Because of this, when considering the advantages and disadvantages of both methods, Habermas remarks that his proposal of Hermeneutic-Dialectic analysis seeks the interpretation of hermeneutics with the critical application of dialectic, that within the qualitative data analysis in nursing, can be used to discover resemblances, inconsistencies, as well as being interpretative and critical in generating knowledge inside the nursing profession.","PeriodicalId":9123,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Forensic Sciences, Medical Law and Bioethics","volume":"135 2 1","pages":"123-136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77036535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abuso Sexual em Adultos: Casuística do Posto Médico-Legal de Ribeirão das Neves - Minas Gerais","authors":"P. Bordoni, N. R. Gomes, R. Horta, L. Bordoni","doi":"10.17063/bjfs7(2)y2018137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17063/bjfs7(2)y2018137","url":null,"abstract":"Sexual violence is present throughout the world, affects both sexes and occurs in \u0000all cultures and social classes. Women are the main victims of sexual abuse (SA), \u0000considered a major public health problem. In cases of SA, the medical examiner has the role \u0000of searching for objective medical evidence, in addition to participating in the integrated \u0000network of victim care. The objective of this research was to analyze the forensic reports of \u0000SA in a specific geographic context, to better understand the characteristics of the victims \u0000and the forensic findings. The forensic reports of SA victims who were 18 years of age or \u0000older examined in Ribeirao das Neves Institute of Forensic Medicine between 2015 and 2016 \u0000were analyzed. All of them were female, totaling 11.6 % of the 242 forensic reports of SA \u0000completed in the period. The average age was 28 years, vaginal intercourse was the most \u0000common practice and in half the cases the abuse was committed by strangers. Most had no \u0000genital lesions and none had anal lesions. There were extragenital lesions in half of the \u0000cases. In most reports the recent occurrence of vaginal intercourse could not be \u0000demonstrated. These data add epidemiological information for better understanding the \u0000profile of the SA adult victim, and may contribute to the establishment of possible intervention \u0000and prevention measures.","PeriodicalId":9123,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Forensic Sciences, Medical Law and Bioethics","volume":"34 1","pages":"137-155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82446561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"O Tratamento da Dependência Química e os Direitos Humanos","authors":"D. Silva, Marciana Fernandes Moll, C. Ventura","doi":"10.17063/bjfs7(2)y2018113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17063/bjfs7(2)y2018113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9123,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Forensic Sciences, Medical Law and Bioethics","volume":"17 1","pages":"113-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73825159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Bordoni, Alice de Sá Gontijo Silva, Ana Carolina Fernandes Monteiro, Luciana de Resende Neiva, Talita Alvarenga Petrini Carvalho, W. Marinho, L. Bordoni
{"title":"Mortalidade de Mulheres em Idade Fértil por Causas Externas: Análise de 2274 Necropsias do IML-BH","authors":"P. Bordoni, Alice de Sá Gontijo Silva, Ana Carolina Fernandes Monteiro, Luciana de Resende Neiva, Talita Alvarenga Petrini Carvalho, W. Marinho, L. Bordoni","doi":"10.17063/BJFS7(1)Y201752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17063/BJFS7(1)Y201752","url":null,"abstract":"Female mortality presents important peculiarities in relation to the male, especially when studying the deaths due to external causes (DDEC). These are the third most important cause of death among women in Brazil. Considering the importance of DDEC for the criminal forensic sciences as well as the deficiency of national information involving necroscopic studies with these causes of death in women of reproductive age group (RAG), this research aimed to evaluate its epidemiological profile at the Forensic Medicine Institute of Belo Horizonte (FMI-BH). A descriptive and retrospective study was carried out in which the RAG women autopsied in the FMI-BH were evaluated in the period from 2006 to 2012. The 2,274 RAG autopsy reports in the period corresponded to 5.39% of the total necropsies and to 24.8 % of female autopsies performed in FMI-BH. This sample accounted for 67.8% of the total number of women victims of violent death necropsied in the same period. The mean age was 29.4 years, the majority had brown skin and 79.6% were single, widowed or legally separated. The most frequent circumstance of death was homicide (42%) and suicide the second (33%). Alcohol was found in 25.1% of the cases. In the positive cases for the toxicological examination, cocaine and marijuana were the most found substances. Together, these data better define the epidemiological profile of deaths due to external causes in women of childbearing age, contributing in the elaboration of intervention and prevention strategies.","PeriodicalId":9123,"journal":{"name":"Brazilian Journal of Forensic Sciences, Medical Law and Bioethics","volume":"8 1","pages":"52-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88833310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}