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1 online resource (381 p.) |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to Blood Traces: Interpretation of Deposition and Distribution -- CHAPTER 1 Physical Evidence Record -- 1.1 Generation of Physical Evidence Record -- 1.1.1 Scene as a Recording Medium -- 1.1.2 Creation of Blood Traces -- 1.2 Capturing the Physical Evidence Record: Crime Scene Analysis -- 1.2.1 The Stages of Crime Scene Investigation -- 1.2.1.1 Scene Protection and Security -- 1.2.1.2 Evidence Recognition -- 1.2.1.3 Evidence Documentation |
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1.2.1.4 Evidence Recovery, Packaging, and Transportation -- 1.3 Reconstruction of Past Incidents from the Physical Evidence Record -- 1.3.1 Definition -- 1.3.2 Art or Science, or Both? -- 1.3.3 Importance of the Scientific Method -- 1.3.4 Reconstruction vs. Reenactment -- 1.3.5 Holistic Philosophy: Blood Trace Configuration Interpretation Is Only One Aspect of Reconstruction -- References -- CHAPTER 2 Historical Perspective -- 2.1 Edgar Allen Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: History in Fiction -- 2.2 Hans Gross -- 2.3 History of Research in Blood Traces |
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2.4 Detective Charlie Chan: History in Film -- 2.5 Paul Kirk -- 2.6 Herbert MacDonell -- 2.7 Bloodstain Pattern Analysis Committees and Organizations -- References -- CHAPTER 3 Characteristics of Liquids Including Blood -- 3.1 Physical Properties and Fluid Mechanics of Liquids -- 3.1.1 Surface Tension and Weber Number -- 3.1.2 Density -- 3.1.3 Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluids -- 3.1.4 Viscosity and Poiseuille's Equation -- 3.1.5 Flow Stability, Reynolds Number, and Rayleigh Number -- 3.1.6 Viscoelasticity -- 3.1.7 Caveats -- 3.2 Physical Characteristics of Blood |
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3.2.1 Definition and Description of Blood -- 3.2.2 Factors that Influence Droplet Deposit Periphery -- 3.2.3 Factors that Influence Droplet and Deposit Size -- 3.2.4 Sedimentation and Hematocrit -- 3.3 Optical Properties of Blood Deposits -- 3.4 Physiological Characteristics of Blood -- 3.4.1 Hemostasis and Clotting -- 3.4.1.1 Postmortem Clotting -- 3.4.1.2 Lack of Clotting -- 3.5 Use of Blood Substitutes in Training and Simulations -- References -- CHAPTER 4 Detection, Visual Enhancement, Identification, and Source Attribution of Blood Deposits and Configurations |
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4.1 Optical Visualization of Blood Trace Deposits -- 4.2 Catalytic Tests -- 4.3 Protein Stains -- 4.4 Blood Typing and DNA Technology -- 4.5 A Limitation of Laboratory SOPs -- 4.6 Ongoing and Future Research -- 4.7 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Terminology, Typology, and Taxonomy -- 5.1 History of Terminologies Applied to Blood Trace Configurations -- 5.2 A Typology for Blood Trace Deposits -- 5.2.1 Contact Transfers -- 5.2.1.1 Figure(s): Static Contact Transfers -- 5.2.2 Noncontact Deposit Configurations -- 5.2.3 Arc ("Cast-off") Deposit Configurations -- 5.2.4 Arterial Deposit Configurations |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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5.2.5 Droplet Trail Deposit Configurations |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pizzola, Peter A
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Kammrath, Brooke W
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| ISBN |
9781119764700 |
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111976470X |
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