Fingerprints are used since 19th century by Police forces to identify criminals and murderers. In 20th the evolution of science contributed develop forensic methods for revealing latent fingerprints. One most chemical method fingerprints on documents paper objects is made using Ninhydrin. This substance has great results but affecting characteristics ink or other scriptural substances. 21st cen...

Purpose. To develop a scale to measure (social) participation for use in rehabilitation, stigma reduction and social integration programmes. Method. A scale development study was carried out in Nepal, India and Brazil using standard methods. The instrument was to be based on the Participation domains of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), be cross-cultu...

Open-cage derivative C(60)(O)(4)(OH)(2)(NC(6)H(4)(t)Bu)(2) reacts with ICl to form a Baeyer-Villiger type product, which yields an intense green product upon treatment with HI.

Two papers examining mental incapacity among psychiatric in-patients are presented in the Journal this month – one investigation focuses on assessment reliability (Cairns et al, pp. 372–378) and one on the prevalence and predictors of incapacity (Cairns et al, pp. 379–385). The authors find that the MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Treatment (MacCAT– T) can be used reliably to assess ca...

2-Acyl-1,3-indandiones attracted the interest of chemists as early as forty years ago, since some of them exhibited remarkable physiological, in particular anticoagulant, properties and found use in practice as rodenticides [1—3]. Their chemical properties, however, have been scarcely studied. It is known for example that they exist in a diketoenol form. Nevertheless, existence of two struc­ tu...

A reformulated physical developer (PD) solution has been devised to replace the use of Synperonic® N for environmental reasons. The performance replacement proved promising in laboratory trials using planted fingermarks [1] however; this may not always represent how a reagent works on real world samples. This paper therefore explores effectiveness decaethylene glycol monododecyl ether (DGME)-ba...