02996nam a2200193   4500001000700000100004100007101000800048200020400056210004300260215002000303300026600323330192400589606003302513606003402546606003102580606002302611606003002634710013802664391626  a20130418d2012       y0pory50      ba  aeng  aEstimation of biological parameters for human identification in cases of missing persons, mass disasters, and human rights violationsbRecurso eletrónicoefinal reportfErin H. Kimmerle... [et al.]  a[South Florida, etc.]ced. do a.d2012  a1 CD-ROMd12 cm  aResearch report submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice, Award n. 2008-DN-BX-K163. Ficheiro de 170 MB em formato PDF (393 p.). Disponível também através de: https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/Abstract.aspx?id=262767. Acedido a 18 de Abril de 2013.  aAbstract. List of abbreviations. Acknowledgements. Section I: Executive summary. Osteological methods for identification. Scope of the problem: challenges to identification. Access to antemortem data, interviewing witnesses and data storage. Individual and population estimation. Geo-referencing mobility. Section II: Introduction. Categories of human identification. Literature review. Section III: Materials and methods. African research: focus in Nigeria. Nigerian demographic sample for age estimation. Research in missing person protocols: Fieldwork in Asaba, Nigeria. Statistical methods. Methods for testing craniometric variation among populations. Population parameters for sex estimation. Age estimation: juvenile tooth development. Nigerian age ribs and pubic symphyses. Hyoid age estimation and implications for inflicted trauma patterns. Elemental and isotope analysis. Section IV: Results. Human identification: morbidity and mortality in Nigeria. Human identification: Nigerian fieldwork. Craniometric variation among African and diaspora populations. Population parameters for sex estimation. Population parameters for age estimation. Juvenile tooth development – population variation in aging. Adult age estimation – issues of “coverage” and “probability density functions”. Testing for population variation.  Nigerian parameters for age estimation. Hyoid age estimation and implications for inflicted trauma patterns. Elemental and isotopic analyses. Chemical methods for identification of African populations and secular trends. Section V: Conclusions. Discussion of findings. Implications for policy and practice. Implications for future research. Section VI. Dissemination of research findings. Published protocols resulting from grant research. Publications resulting from grant research. Presentations resulting from grant research. Section VII. Works cited. Section VIII: Appendixes.  aIDENTIFICAÇÃO DE PESSOAS  aIDENTIFICAÇÃO BIOLÓGICA  aDESAPARECIMENTO DE PESSOAS  aDESASTRE DE MASSAS  aCRIME CONTRA A HUMANIDADE  aESTIMATION OF BIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS FOR HUMAN IDENTIFICATION IN CASES OF MISSING PERSONS, MASS DISASTERS, AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS