Interpol Says The Metaverse is Vital to the Future of Law Enforcement
The metaverse can be wielded as a crucial tool in the hands of law enforcement agencies for training, crime prevention, and forensic analysis according to a new document released by Interpol. The report by the international organization seeks to delve into the possibilities of the metaverse,…#interpol #xr #virtualreality #augmentedreality (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

On-Chain Sleuth Ties Ethereum Foundation To Gatecoin Hack
In a detailed thread on social media platform X, on-chain forensic analyst TruthLabs, known as @BoringSleuth, and supported by former Ethereum advisor Steven Nerayoff, has levied substantial allegations against the Ethereum Foundation. According to TruthLabs, there is transactional evidence…#ethereum #stevennerayoff #ethereumfoundation #truthlabs #gatecoin #gatecoinhack #trailoftransactions #dao #daohack #16ether (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The nurse-police assistance crisis team (N-PACT): a new role for nursing - Petreca VG, Barros JT, Hoblock C, Burgess AW.
This study aimed to gain insights into forensic nurses' perspectives and approaches to behavioural crisis situations, comparing them to disciplines traditionally involved in first-line behavioural crisis response. DESIGN: This study used a des... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 18, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Occupational Issues Source Type: news

On-Chain Sleuth Ties Ethereum Foundation To Gatecoin Hack
In a detailed thread on social media platform X, on-chain forensic analyst TruthLabs, known as @BoringSleuth, and supported by former Ethereum advisor Steven Nerayoff, has levied substantial allegations against the Ethereum Foundation. According to TruthLabs, there is transactional evidence…#ethereum #stevennerayoff #ethereumfoundation #truthlabs #gatecoin #gatecoinhack #trailoftransactions #dao #daohack #16ether (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

"Did you fall asleep?" - Younger and older drivers' recollection of prior sleepiness while driving - Cai AWT, Manousakis JE, Singh B, Francis-Pester E, Rajaratnam SMW, Lenn é MG, Howard ME, Anderson C.
Determining causality and driver culpability in fall asleep crashes requires extensive forensic examination, with post-crash interviews forming a critical part of the process. To date, there is no evidence regarding whether drivers' recollection of sleepin... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 16, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Where's Noa? A forensic analysis of her kidnapping and what it says about Israel's hostage crisis
NBC News foreign correspondent Raf Sanchez examines the case of 26-year-old Noa Argamani, who became one of the faces of the hostage crisis after video of her abduction from the Supernova festival spread across social media. Despite the release of more than a hundred hostages in November in a deal…#rafsanchez #noaargamani #supernova #noas (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Misplaced evidence, missed opportunities: protocols for handling ballistic evidence in pediatric patients - Marlor D, Crandall M, Elman M, Stewart S, Cruz-Centeno N, Kim D, Ginger-Wiley M, Juang D.
BACKGROUND: Gun-related injury is now the number one cause of death in pediatric trauma patients. Many hospitals lack dedicated forensic nurses or updated protocols for handling ballistic evidence. Evidence not collected, handled improperly, or misplaced m... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Pediatric intensive care unit forensic cases study: 7 years profile in a tertiary hospital in Indonesia - Fadhlurrahman MIN, Manela C, Efrida E, Windasari N, Ihsan I, Firdawati F.
The pediatric forensic case study encompasses all pediatric cases with potential legal implications, including violence, poisoning, and drowning. While many of these cases receive initial treatment in emergency departments (ED), certain patients are admitt... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Methamphetamine-related forensic autopsy cases in a Japanese prefecture over a 7-year period: characteristics of deaths and blood concentrations - Inokuchi G, Chiba F, Hoshioka Y, Saito N, Yoshida M, Nagasawa S, Yamagishi Y, Makino Y, Torimitsu S, Yamaguchi R, Tsuneya S, Inoue H, Motomura A, Yajima D, Iwase H.
In this report, we review 104 cases of MA-related death handled by our departments between January 2014 and ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

DiatomNet v1.0: a novel approach for automatic diatom testing for drowning diagnosis in forensically biomedical application - Zhang J, Vieira DN, Cheng Q, Zhu Y, Deng K, Zhang J, Qin Z, Sun Q, Zhang T, Ma K, Zhang X, Huang P.
Background and Objective: Diatom testing is supportive for drowning diagnosis in forensic medicine. However, it is very time-consuming and labor-intensive for technicians to identify microscopically a handful of diatoms in sample smears, especially under c... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Drowning, Suffocation Source Type: news

In response to the subject of forensic diagnosis of a human death caused by exposure to low-temperature water - Chudakov AY, Tolmachev IA, Khrustaleva YA, Bozhchenko AP.
BACKGROUND: Examining corpses recovered from the water often poses challenges in forensic medical evaluation. AIM: To propose a clarifying set of differential diagnostic features characteristic of a fatal cold injury in low-water temperature condit... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Drowning, Suffocation Source Type: news

Lethal event in diving with self-contained underwater breathing apparatus: a forensic study - Leonardelli M, Mele F, Calvano M, Macorano E, Duma S, De Gabriele G, Introna F.
INTRODUCTION: In fatal accidents during scuba diving, it is necessary to differentiate a death from primary drowning from a secondary drowning death that is primarily due to other etiopathogenetic factors. The inhalation of water can only be the end point ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Drowning, Suffocation Source Type: news

Role of diatom flora in the forensic diagnosis of drowning cases from some water bodies in the Delta region - Zalat AA, El-Sheekh MM, El-Shenody RA, El-Hashash MS.
In forensic studies of death issues, the body of victims have been found in the water, and by using the diatom test, it could be determined whether the cause of death is related to drowning or not. One more critical problem occurs, when the victim was kill... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Drowning, Suffocation Source Type: news

The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the trends and characteristics of natural and unnatural deaths in an urban Sri Lankan cohort viewed through retrospective analysis of forensic death investigations from 2019 to 2022 - Gunawardena SA, Dassanayake N, Keerawelle BI, Kanthasamy S, Ranganatha H, Gunawardana JW.
BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a severe impact on global health. Apart from the disease itself, the strict restrictions and lockdowns enforced to minimize its spread have also substantially disrupted personal and publi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Drowning, Suffocation Source Type: news

The possibilities and limitations of comparative diatomaceous analysis for confirming or excluding the site of an incident - Case studies - Bogusz M, Bogusz I, Żelazna-Wieczorek J.
Diatoms (Bacillariophyta) are unicellular photosynthetic organisms commonly occurring in aquatic habitats on Earth. Their autecology makes them almost perfect indicators of environmental conditions and so have high potential for use in forensics. Both eury... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Drowning, Suffocation Source Type: news