scholarly journals Evidence of interpersonal violence or a special funeral rite in the Neolithic multiple burial from Koszyce in southern Poland – a forensic analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Konopka ◽  
Anita Szczepanek ◽  
Marcin M. Przybyła ◽  
Piotr Włodarczak
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Forensic Analysis ◽  
Southern Poland ◽  
Funeral Rite ◽  
A Site

Abstract This study uses anthropological and forensic medical analyses to determine the cause of fractures found in the remains of 15 individuals buried at a site associated with the Globular Amphora Culture (2875-2670 BC). The intent was to determine the mechanism underlying the injuries and to indicate the types of tools that might have inflicted the blows. The fractures were diversified in their forms, but the majority of the injuries appear to have been inflicted by a flint axe, which is frequently found in graves of the Globular Amphora Culture. Apart from the forearm being severed in one of the victims, all the remaining skeletons showed from 1 to 4 injuries involving solely the skulls. The grave might contain victims attacked by invaders who executed the captives, or else the feature is ritual in character and it reflects the beliefs of the Neolithic community.

scholarly journals Skylight Fall Case Study: Conspicuity and Perceptual Set

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 558-562
Author(s):  
Benjamin R. Stephens ◽  
Margaret J. Tutaj ◽  
Elizabeth R. Cox ◽  
Morgan Kivler ◽  
George S. Pearl
Keyword(s):  
Similar Case ◽  
Forensic Analysis ◽  
Hazard Identification ◽  
Detection Technique ◽  
Site Visit ◽  
Current Case ◽  
Fall Incident ◽  
Hazard Detection ◽  
A Site

We report forensic analysis of a case study of a skylight fall incident. We also replicated a hazard detection technique in the current case that we had previously employed in a similar case. In the hazard detection method, participants were asked to rate how hazardous each of eight photographs of a site visit scene appeared, and to identify any hazards present. Hazard ratings varied significantly across scenes, but no participant identified skylights as a hazard, replicating our previous findings and confirming site visit assessments. Flat-panel warehouse skylights were not conspicuous and/or were not identifiable, confirming forensic analysis. These results suggest that assessment of hazard identification using a quick hazard detection technique may be valid and efficient across variations in incident characteristics.

A cobaltite-framboidal pyrite association from the Kupferschiefer: possible implications for trace element behaviour during the earliest stages of diagenesis

1999 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Large ◽  
Z. Sawłowicz ◽  
J. Spratt
Keyword(s):  
Trace Element ◽  
Chemical Environment ◽  
Mining District ◽  
Southern Poland ◽  
Pyrite Framboids ◽  
Framboidal Pyrite ◽  
A Site

AbstractCobaltite-cemented pyrite framboids are reported from the base of the Kupferschiefer in the Lubin-Sieroszowice mining district in southern Poland. In the framboids, cobaltite occurs interstitial to the pyrite crystals. The cobaltite-cemented framboids are confined to within a few cm either side of the boundary between the Weissliegendes sandstone and the Kupferschiefer laminated organic-rich shales. Textural relations and distribution of the cobaltite is interpreted as indicating that the framboids acted as a site of preferred cobaltite precipitation and that the cobaltite precipitated in response to the changing chemical environment at the Weissliegendes/Kupferschiefer contact. It is proposed that the texture may have formed as a result of desorption of Co and/or As which had been adsorbed onto the monosulphide precursors to the framboidal pyrite. Desorption during the transition to pyrite resulted in cobaltite saturation within the framboid and subsequent precipitation. The source of the Co and As was probably oxyhydroxides which exist in the upper oxic part of the Weissliegendes.

scholarly journals Selected Oxfordian brachiopods from Zalas (Cracow Upland, Poland)

2017 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-440m
Author(s):  
Urszula Radwańska
Keyword(s):  
Southern Poland ◽  
A Site

AbstractSmall brachiopods of the families Craniidae Menke, 1828 and Thecidellinidae Elliott, 1958 were selected from the Oxfordian sequence which lies transgressively upon a Variscan rhyodacite laccolite exposed at Zalas in the Cracow Upland, southern Poland, a site which is well-known due to various kinds of ubiquitous fossils. The craniids include three species: Craniscus bipartitus (Münster in Goldfuss, 1837), Craniscus tripartitus (Münster in Goldfuss, 1837) and Craniscus antiquior (Jelly, 1843), and the thecidellinids - two species: Rioultina zalasensis sp. nov. and Rioultina wapiennensis Krawczyński, 2008. The species described herein indicate tropical or subtropical waters, and a moderately (?) deep character of the sea basin at Zalas.

scholarly journals Criminological Analysis and Filtering of Sites with Aggressive Content

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (29) ◽  
pp. 482-488
Author(s):  
Nguyen Huy Binh
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Current Problem ◽  
Forensic Analysis ◽  
Cyber Bullying ◽  
Logical Analysis ◽  
The Internet ◽  
A Site ◽  
Criminological Analysis

The work carried out a study of the current problem of minimizing risks and damage from aggressive impacts on the Internet, in social networks. The methodology of system and forensic analysis has been used. Using methods of mathematical and information-logical analysis, comparative and cognitive analysis of counteraction to aggressive impact on the visitor or owner of the site (moderator of the forum) is carried out. Methods of aggressive behavior (disinhibition, trolling, cyber-bullying and astroturfing), their local and global goals - up to the capture and management of communicative resources for the purpose of affecting the user - have been analyzed. Aggressiveness on the site has become a public problem, legally not only in Vietnam, but also in many countries, including Russia, France, South Korea, etc. Hosting distances itself from an important problem for it as well. The aggressiveness of a site is classified by the site's aggressiveness scale. Criminological identification of aggression and aggressor is a complex and multidimensional problem. Was carried out systemic and practical, criminological analysis of aggressive behavior on sites. Was possible to formulate and propose measures, approaches to filtering and combating aggressive behavior on the site, as well as to formalize it mathematically, for subsequent research. The analysis will help to counter the aggressor and support the victim.

Eels Under Standing Wave Conditions

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 492-495
Author(s):  
O.L. Krivanek ◽  
J. TaftØ
Keyword(s):  
Standing Wave ◽  
Wave Conditions ◽  
Set Up ◽  
A Site ◽  
Complex Crystal

It is well known that a standing electron wavefield can be set up in a crystal such that its intensity peaks at the atomic sites or between the sites or in the case of more complex crystal, at one or another type of a site. The effect is usually referred to as channelling but this term is not entirely appropriate; by analogy with the more established particle channelling, electrons would have to be described as channelling either through the channels or through the channel walls, depending on the diffraction conditions.

Head Size and DNA Content in Bacteriophage T4

1972 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 200-201
Author(s):  
Fred Eiserling ◽  
A. H. Doermann ◽  
Linde Boehner
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Dna Content ◽  
Bacteriophage T4 ◽  
Head Size ◽  
Virus Particles ◽  
Altered Protein ◽  
A Cell ◽  
Bacterial Viruses ◽  
A Site ◽  
Protein Shell

The control of form or shape inheritance can be approached by studying the morphogenesis of bacterial viruses. Shape variants of bacteriophage T4 with altered protein shell (capsid) size and nucleic acid (DNA) content have been found by electron microscopy, and a mutant (E920g in gene 66) controlling head size has been described. This mutant produces short-headed particles which contain 2/3 the normal DNA content and which are non-viable when only one particle infects a cell (Fig. 1).We report here the isolation of a new mutant (191c) which also appears to be in gene 66 but at a site distinct from E920g. The most striking phenotype of the mutant is the production of about 10% of the phage yield as “giant” virus particles, from 3 to 8 times longer than normal phage (Fig. 2).

Forensic applications of IR infrared microscopic internal reflection spectroscopy

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 1528-1529
Author(s):  
Edward G. Bartick ◽  
John A. Reffner
Keyword(s):  
Specular Reflection ◽  
Forensic Analysis ◽  
Attenuated Total Reflection ◽  
Internal Reflection ◽  
Standard Size ◽  
Ir Microscopy ◽  
Ir Analysis ◽  
Plastic Explosives ◽  
Internal Reflection Spectroscopy ◽  
Reflectance Measurements

Since the introduction of commercial Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) microscopic systems in 1983, IR microscopy has developed as an important analytical tool in research, industry and forensic analysis. Because of the frequent encounter of small quantities of physical evidence found at crime scenes, spectroscopic IR microscopes have proven particularly valuable for forensic applications. Transmittance and reflectance measurements have proven very useful. Reflection-absorption, specular reflection, and diffuse reflection have all been applied. However, it has been only very recently that an internal reflection (IRS) objective has been commercially introduced.The IRS method, also known as attenuated total reflection (ATR), has proven very useful for IR analysis of standard size samples. The method has been applied to adhesive tapes, plastic explosives, and general applications in the analysis of opaque materials found as evidence. The small quantities or uncontaminated areas of specimens frequently found requiring forensic analysis will often be directly applicable to microscopic IRS analysis.

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