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Lifestyle Chemistries from Phones for Individual Profiling

Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Date Published

October 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

CRISPR-Cas9-Targeted Fragmentation and Selective Sequencing Enable Massively Parallel Microsatellite Analysis

Journal

Nature Communications

Date Published

February 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

High-Resolution Melt Analysis of DNA Methylation To Discriminate Semen in Biological Stains

Journal

Analytical Biochemistry

Date Published

February 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Reasons for Lack of Consensus in Forensic Pathologist Interpretation of Photographs of Patterns of Injury of the Skin

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

May 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Integrating the Microbiome as a Resource in the Forensics Toolkit

Journal

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Date Published

September 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Differentiation of Homologous and Regioisomeric Methoxy-Cathinone Derivatives by GC-MS, MS/MS and GC-IR

Journal

Forensic Chemistry

Date Published

November 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Program/Project Description

Blood Rheology in Shear and Uniaxial Elongation

Journal

Rheologica Acta

Date Published

December 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) as a Method for the Toxicological Analysis of Synthetic Cannabinoids

Journal

Talanta

Date Published

March 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Internal Validation of STRmix (TM) for the Interpretation of Single Source and Mixed DNA Profiles

Journal

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Date Published

July 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Quantitative Assessment of Similarity Between Randomly Acquired Characteristics on High Quality Exemplars and Crime Scene Impressions via Analysis of Feature Size and Shape

Journal

Forensic Science International

Date Published

January 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

An Label-Free Aptamer-Fluorophore Assembly for Rapid and Specific Detection of Cocaine in Biofluids

Journal

Analytical Chemistry

Date Published

November 2014

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

More Straightforward Derivation of the LR for a Database Search

Journal

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Date Published

2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Practical Guide for the Formulation of Propositions in the Bayesian Approach to DNA Evidence Interpretation in an Adversarial Environment

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

January 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Instructional Material (Programmed), Technical Assistance

Assessment of Ultra High Performance Supercritical Fluid Chromatography as a Separation Technique for the Analysis of Seized Drugs: Applicability to Synthetic Cannabinoids

Journal

Journal of Chromatography A

Date Published

April 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Raman Spectroscopy in Forensic Analysis: Identification of Cocaine and Other Illegal Drugs of Abuse

Journal

Journal of Raman Spectroscopy

Date Published

January 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Technical Assistance

Evaluating a Subset of Ancestry Informative SNPs for Discriminating Among Southwest Asian and Circum-Mediterranean Populations

Journal

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Date Published

July 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Mathematical Constraints on FST: Biallelic Markers in Arbitrarily Many Populations

Journal

Genetics

Date Published

May 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

High-Speed Video Analysis of Forward and Backward Spattered Blood Droplets

Journal

Forensic Science International

Date Published

July 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Rates of Loss and Replacement of Very Small Particles (VSP) on the Contact Surfaces of Footwear During Successive Exposures

Journal

Forensic Science International

Date Published

March 2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Program/Project Description

PACE: Probabilistic Assessment for Contributor Estimation-A Machine Learning-based Assessment of the Number of Contributors in DNA Mixtures

Journal

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Date Published

March 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Impact of Flashover Fire Conditions on Exposed Energized Electrical Cords/Cables

Journal

Fire Technology

Date Published

October 2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Does the Use of Probabilistic Genotyping Change the Way We Should View Sub-threshold Data?

Journal

Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Recovery of mtDNA From Unfired Metallic Ammunition Components With an Assessment of Sequence Profile Quality and DNA Damage Through MPS Analysis

Journal

Forensic Science International

Date Published

March 2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Program/Project Description

Interpreting Forensic DNA Profiling evidence without specifying the number of contributors

Journal

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Date Published

November 2014

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Statistical Skull Geometry Model for Children 0-3 Years Old

Journal

PLoS ONE

Date Published

May 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)