Special Techniques Useful in Tool Mark Comparisons

Tool mark comparisons in criminal investigations.

The Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool: A useful tool for pain assessment in intensive care units

Pain is a major concern in all intensive care units (ICUs). The proper assessment and management of pain is one of the main goals of patient care in ICUs. Improper evaluation of pain and its over or under treatment can cause significant problems in the process of patient management in ICU. Since most ICU patients are unable to communicate correctly with the ICU team and explain their level of p...

Photothermal Techniques: A Useful Tool to Analyze Edible Oils Pureness

Photothermal techniques are based on the thermal waves detection, such waves are generated when a modulated light strikes on a sample material, thermal waves then travel through the material, is the material is homogenous then thermal waves propagate freely and, only suffering an attenuation as a function of traveled distance, when the material has defects the waves will suffer not only attenua...

Photothermal Techniques: A Useful Tool to Analyze Edible Oils Pureness

Photothermal techniques are based on the thermal waves detection, such waves are generated when a modulated light strikes on a sample material, thermal waves then travel through the material, is the material is homogenous then thermal waves propagate freely and, only suffering an attenuation as a function of traveled distance, when the material has defects the waves will suffer not only attenua...

International comparisons: useful or odious?

Guest editorial International comparisons: useful or odious? Comparisons are odious, according to Shakespeare, but seldom are they odious to epidemiologists unless they involve unlike categories. The two new papers providing data on injuries to children and teenagers in Australia' and England and Wales2 painstakingly follow the format and data conventions set forth by Fingerhut et al in an earl...