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| Mountebanks Among Forensic Scientists | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Categories | |
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| The Academites | |
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| Careerists | |
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| Protocols, Palliatives, Prescriptions, Carminatives, and Nostrums | |
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| More Mountebanks | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Toxicologist | |
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| Document Examiner | |
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| Anthropologist | |
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| Forensic Dentist | |
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| Laboratory Technician | |
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| Forensic Chemist | |
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| Fingerprint Examiner | |
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| Serologist | |
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| Reining in Outlaw Forensic Experts | |
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| Forensic Capillary Gas Chromatography | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chromatography | |
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| Capillary Column Chromatography | |
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| Chromatographic Characterization | |
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| Large-Diameter Capillary Columns | |
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| Applications | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Forensic Identification of Illicit Drugs | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Scope of Illicit Drug Analysis | |
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| Classification of Illicit Drugs | |
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| Considerations in Developing a Scheme of Analysis | |
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| Analytical Methods | |
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| Selected Illicit Drugs | |
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| Clandestine Drug Laboratories | |
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| Microscopy and Microchemistry of Physical Evidence | |
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| Collection and Examination of Microtraces | |
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| A Catalog of Some Microtraces with Suggestion for Their Identification and Comparison | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| An Introduction to the Forensic Aspects of Textile Fiber Examination | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Fiber Classification | |
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| How Fibers Occur as Physical Evidence | |
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| Fiber Recovery | |
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| Fiber Identification | |
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| Fiber Comparison | |
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| The Significance of Fiber Evidence | |
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| The Future of Forensic Fiber Examination | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Forensic Mitochondrial DNA Analysis | |
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| Comparison of Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA | |
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| Organization of the Mitochondrial DNA Genome | |
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| Steps in a Mitochondrial DNA Analysis | |
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| Quality Assurance/Quality Control | |
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| Heteroplasmy | |
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| Interpretation Guidelines | |
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| Databases | |
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| Statistical Analysis | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| The Identification of Semen and Other Bodily Fluids | |
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| Identification of Semen | |
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| Identification of Vaginal Material | |
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| Identification of Saliva | |
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| Identification of Feces | |
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| Identification of Urine | |
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| Identification of Miscellaneous Body Fluids | |
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| Mup Mapping Protocol | |
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| The Lugol Technique | |
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| Amylase Mapping | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Firearms Identification | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Types of Firearms | |
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| Manufacture of Firearms | |
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| Construction of Firearm Ammunition | |
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| Historical Background | |
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| Processing of Firearms Evidence at Scenes of Crimes | |
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| Preliminary Examination of Firearms | |
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| Preliminary Examination of Fired Bullets and Cartridges | |
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| Examination of Fired Cartridges | |
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| The Drugfire and IBIS Systems | |
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| Estimation of the Range of Fire | |
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| Sawed-Off Shotguns | |
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| Silenced Firearms | |
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| Elemental Analysis of Bullets and Shotgun Pellets | |
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| The Restoration of Stamped Serial Numbers | |
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| Description of Rifling Characteristics Data Base.< | |