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Extracting and Standardizing Medical Examiner Data to Improve Health

Date Published

March 2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Ultrahigh Speed Direct PCR: A Method for Obtaining Y-STR and STR Based Genotypes in Under 20 Minutes

Date Published

March 2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Thesis/Dissertation

Approaches to mitochondrial genome sequencing using the oxford nanopore minion device

Date Published

2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Thesis/Dissertation

FBI Subaward to the NIST project "Identifying Class and Individual Characteristics of Printer Marks on Additively Manufactured Firearm Components"

O2408-015-015-036498

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$130,000

Stage of Decay Estimation Exploiting Exogenous and Endogenous Image Attributes to Minimize Manual Labeling Efforts and Maximize Classification Performance

Date Published

September 2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Evaluation of the long-term stability of select phenylacetylindole, cycloalkylindole, quinolinyl, and carboxamide synthetic cannabinoids using LC–MS-MS

Journal

Journal of Analytical Toxicology

Date Published

October 2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Review of Several False Positive Error Rate Estimates for Latent Fingerprint Examination Proposed Based on the 2014 Miami Dade Police Department Study

Date Published

2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Application of the Optimized Summed Score Attributes Method for Sex Estimation

Journal

Forensic Anthropology

Date Published

March 2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Improving Telogen Hair Analysis by Predicting Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA Success for Massively Parallel Sequencing Using Microscopic and qPCR Methods

Date Published

December 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Thesis/Dissertation

Examining the Reliability of Morphological Traits for Sex Estimation

Journal

Forensic Anthropology

Date Published

February 2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Advances in Cranial Macromorphoscopic Trait and Dental Morphology Analysis for Ancestry Estimation

Date Published

2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Proteomic Analysis of Biological Fluids

Journal

Methods in Molecular Biology

Date Published

December 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Improving Aptamer Affinity and Determining Sequence–Activity Relationships via Motif-SELEX

Journal

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Date Published

March 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Selective Mortality in Middle-aged American Women With Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH)

Journal

PLoS ONE

Date Published

August 2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Standardizing Data From the Dead

Journal

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Date Published

2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Reference Material

Analysis of Biofluids by Paper Spray MS: Advances and Challenges

Journal

Bioanalysis

Date Published

February 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Modeling Bone Surface Morphology: A Fully Quantitative Method for Age-at-Death Estimation Using the Pubic Symphysis

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

April 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

An enhanced computational method for age-at-death estimation based on the pubic symphysis using 3D laser scans and thin plate splines

Journal

American Journal of Biological Anthropology

Date Published

July 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Commentary on: Alberink I, de Jongh A, Rodriguez C. Fingermark evidence evaluation based on automated fingerprint identification system matching scores: the effect of different types of conditioning on likelihood ratios. J Forensic Sci 2014; 59(1):70–81.

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

January 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Issue Overview

Theoretical and experimental investigation of forward spatter of blood from a gunshot

Journal

Physical Review Fluids

Date Published

June 2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Employing wavelet-based texture features in ammunition classification

Date Published

May 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Determining the Proper Evidentiary Basis for an Expert Opinion: What Do Experts Need to Know and When Do They Know Too Much?

Date Published

2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Lay understanding of forensic statistics: Evaluation of random match probabilities, likelihood ratios, and verbal equivalents.

Journal

Law and Human Behavior

Date Published

2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Microbial interactions of the necrobiome

Journal

The Microbiologist

Date Published

February 2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Do Observer Effects Matter? A Comment on Langenburg, Bochet, and Ford

Journal

Forensic Science Policy & Management: An International Journal

Date Published

August 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)