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Early Post-Mortem Changes and Stages of Decomposition in Exposed Cadavers
Exp Appl Acarol (2009) 49:21–36 DOI 10.1007/s10493-009-9284-9 Early post-mortem changes and stages of decomposition in exposed cadavers M. Lee Goff Received: 1 June 2009 / Accepted: 4 June 2009 / Published online: 25 June 2009 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 Abstract Decomposition of an exposed cadaver is a continuous process, beginning at the moment of death and ending when the body is reduced to a dried skeleton. Traditional estimates of the period of time since death or post-mortem interval have been based on a series of grossly observable changes to the body, including livor mortis, algor mortis, rigor mortis and similar phenomena. These changes will be described briefly and their relative significance discussed. More recently, insects, mites and other arthropods have been increasingly used by law enforcement to provide an estimate of the post-mortem interval. Although the process of decomposition is continuous, it is useful to divide this into a series of five stages: Fresh, Bloated, Decay, Postdecay and Skeletal. Here these stages are characterized by physical parameters and related assemblages of arthropods, to provide a framework for consideration of the decomposition process and acarine relationships to the body. Keywords Decomposition Á Forensic Á Acari Á Post-mortem changes Á Succession Introduction There are typically two known points at the beginning of the task of estimating a period of time since death: the last time the individual was reliably known to be alive and the time at which the body was discovered. The death occurred between these two points and the aim is to estimate when it most probably took place. -
Azura Dragonfaether FINDING LIGHT THROUGH YOUR SHADOW & Many More Articles Inside!
CoffeeTable Coven Issue 03 CoffeeTable CovenIssue 03/October 2018 Spotlight on: Azura DragonFaether Our Spotlight Feature with everyone's favourite Draconic Witch Finding Light Through Your Shadow Welcoming The Darkness Of Death Shutting the door to the spirit realm Cursing 101 & many more articles inside! 1 CoffeeTable Coven Issue 03 Featured Artist: IG: @angeldelisiart Email: [email protected] Shop: etsy.com/shop/AngelDeLisiArt 2 3 CoffeeTable Coven Issue 03 [email protected] 4 5 CoffeeTable Coven Issue 03 TABLE OF CONTENTS Astrological Forecast Page 8 Finding Light Through Your Shadow Page 36 Astronomy Reference Guide Page 12 Crystals and Stones for Divination Page 40 Editorial Letter Page 14 Spotlight On: Azura DragonFaether Page 46 InstaFeature: @witchingmama Page 18 So, You Want to Curse Someone? Page 54 Working with Negative and Positive A Modern Analysis of Energy Page 22 The Spiral Dance: Book Review Page 60 Welcoming The Darkness Of Death Page 24 October's Tarot Spread Page 62 Shutting The Door To The Daily Express: The Spirit Realm Page 32 A Short Story Page 68 6 7 CoffeeTable Coven Issue 03 AQUARIUS Stay in your lane PISCES Trial and error is the key this month. Going to learning and gaining October's Astrological against the grain won’t work out this time. experience. Everything is a lesson to make Sometimes what you think you want isn’t you more skillful. October will tempt you into buying things you don’t necessarily need. Forecast what you need at the moment. October will Halloween decorations are hard to resist, but By Carina Lizette bring a huge shift in your life; it may seem try to me more frugal. -
AVMA Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals: 2020 Edition*
AVMA Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals: 2020 Edition* Members of the Panel on Euthanasia Steven Leary, DVM, DACLAM (Chair); Fidelis Pharmaceuticals, High Ridge, Missouri Wendy Underwood, DVM (Vice Chair); Indianapolis, Indiana Raymond Anthony, PhD (Ethicist); University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska Samuel Cartner, DVM, MPH, PhD, DACLAM (Lead, Laboratory Animals Working Group); University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama Temple Grandin, PhD (Lead, Physical Methods Working Group); Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado Cheryl Greenacre, DVM, DABVP (Lead, Avian Working Group); University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee Sharon Gwaltney-Brant, DVM, PhD, DABVT, DABT (Lead, Noninhaled Agents Working Group); Veterinary Information Network, Mahomet, Illinois Mary Ann McCrackin, DVM, PhD, DACVS, DACLAM (Lead, Companion Animals Working Group); University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia Robert Meyer, DVM, DACVAA (Lead, Inhaled Agents Working Group); Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi David Miller, DVM, PhD, DACZM, DACAW (Lead, Reptiles, Zoo and Wildlife Working Group); Loveland, Colorado Jan Shearer, DVM, MS, DACAW (Lead, Animals Farmed for Food and Fiber Working Group); Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Tracy Turner, DVM, MS, DACVS, DACVSMR (Lead, Equine Working Group); Turner Equine Sports Medicine and Surgery, Stillwater, Minnesota Roy Yanong, VMD (Lead, Aquatics Working Group); University of Florida, Ruskin, Florida AVMA Staff Consultants Cia L. Johnson, DVM, MS, MSc; Director, -
SC-40-102 Animal Care Program Euthanasia Procedures
UC Davis Office of the Attending Veterinarian Standards of Care Policy: SC-40-102 Date: 10/31/20 Enabled by: The Guide, APHIS, AVMA, IACUC /AV Supersedes: IACUC Policy, ALL Previous versions Title: Euthanasia Procedures for the UC Davis Animal Care Program I. Purpose: The purpose of this policy is to establish minimum standards for euthanasia for species in the lab animal setting. II. Policy: All units providing animal care must meet or exceed these minimum requirements for euthanasia based on the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, the Ag Guide and the AVMA Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals. Research staff shall use the methods approved in their animal protocol. Veterinary Staff and Husbandry staff may use an AVMA approved method as described below, provided the appropriate training and certification have been completed. III. Procedure: Refer to the AVMA Guidelines on Euthanasia for approved euthanasia methods: http://www.avma.org/KB/policies/Documents/euthanasia.pdf The agents and methods of euthanasia appropriate for rodent species are available in the AVMA Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals: 2020 Edition or subsequent revisions of that document. Euthanasia is the procedure of killing an animal rapidly, painlessly, and without distress. Euthanasia must be carried out by trained personnel using acceptable techniques in accordance with applicable regulations and policies. The method used should not interfere with postmortem evaluations. Proper euthanasia involves skilled personnel to help ensure that the technique is performed humanely and effectively and to minimize risk of injury to people. Personnel who perform euthanasia must have training and experience with the techniques to be used. -
Are Enzymes Accurate Indicators of Postmortem Interval?: a Biochemical Analysis Karly Laine Buras Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Master's Theses Graduate School 2006 Are enzymes accurate indicators of postmortem interval?: a biochemical analysis Karly Laine Buras Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses Part of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Buras, Karly Laine, "Are enzymes accurate indicators of postmortem interval?: a biochemical analysis" (2006). LSU Master's Theses. 177. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/177 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Master's Theses by an authorized graduate school editor of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ARE ENZYMES ACCURATE INDICATORS OF POSTMORTEM INTERVAL? A BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in The Department of Geography and Anthropology by Karly Laine Buras B.S., Louisiana State University, 2001 May 2006 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank the members of my thesis committee for their continued encouragement and help throughout my program. My heartfelt thanks go out to Bob Tague, Mary Manhein, and Grover Waldrop for helping me along the way. I would especially like to thank Grover Waldrop for his contributions to my thesis expenses, as well as for the use of his lab for my research. I would not have been able to do any of this without his help. -
Critical Corpse Studies: Engaging with Corporeality and Mortality in Curriculum
Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education Volume 19 Issue 3 The Affect of Waste and the Project of Article 10 Value: April 2020 Critical Corpse Studies: Engaging with Corporeality and Mortality in Curriculum Mark Helmsing George Mason University, [email protected] Cathryn van Kessel University of Alberta, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/taboo Recommended Citation Helmsing, M., & van Kessel, C. (2020). Critical Corpse Studies: Engaging with Corporeality and Mortality in Curriculum. Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, 19 (3). Retrieved from https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/taboo/vol19/iss3/10 This Article is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It has been brought to you by Digital Scholarship@UNLV with permission from the rights-holder(s). You are free to use this Article in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s) directly, unless additional rights are indicated by a Creative Commons license in the record and/ or on the work itself. This Article has been accepted for inclusion in Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education by an authorized administrator of Digital Scholarship@UNLV. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 140 CriticalTaboo, Late Corpse Spring Studies 2020 Critical Corpse Studies Engaging with Corporeality and Mortality in Curriculum Mark Helmsing & Cathryn van Kessel Abstract This article focuses on the pedagogical questions we might consider when teaching with and about corpses. Whereas much recent posthumanist writing in educational research takes up the Deleuzian question “what can a body do?,” this article investigates what a dead body can do for students’ encounters with life and death across the curriculum. -
Hijikata Tatsumi's Sabotage of Movement and the Desire to Kill The
Death and Desire in Contemporary Japan Representing, Practicing, Performing edited by Andrea De Antoni and Massimo Raveri Hijikata Tatsumi’s Sabotage of Movement and the Desire to Kill the Ideology of Death Katja Centonze (Universität Trier, Deutschland; Waseda University, Japan) Abstract Death and desire appear as essential characteristics in Hijikata Tatsumi’s butō, which brings the paradox of life and death, of stillness and movement into play. Hijikata places these con- tradictions at the roots of dance itself. This analysis points out several aspects displayed in butō’s death aesthetics and performing processes, which catch the tension between being dead and/or alive, between presence and absence. It is shown how the physical states of biological death are enacted, and demonstrated that in Hijikata’s nonhuman theatre of eroticism death stands out as an object aligned with the other objects on stage including the performer’s carnal body (nikutai). The discussion focuses on Hijikata’s radical investigation of corporeality, which puts under critique not only the nikutai, but even the corpse (shitai), revealing the cultural narratives they are subjected to. Summary 1 Deadly Erotic Labyrinth. – 2 Death Aesthetics for a Criminal and Erotic Dance. – 3 Rigor Mortis and Immobility. – 4 Shibusawa Tatsuhiko. Performance as Sacrifice and Experience. – 5 Pallor Mortis and shironuri. – 6 Shitai and suijakutai. The Dead are Dancing. – 7 The Reiteration of Death and the miira. – 8 The shitai under Critique. Death and the nikutai as Object. – 9 Against the Ideology of Death. Keywords Hijikata Tatsumi. Butō. Death. Eroticism. Corporeality. Acéphale. Anti-Dance. Body and Object. Corpse. Shibusawa Tatsuhiko. -
Postmortem Image Interpretation Guideline 2015.Pdf
POSTMORTEM IMAGING INTERPRETATION GUIDELINE 2015 IN JAPAN Editor: Japan Radiological Society and Study Group of Japan Health and Labor Sciences Research 2015 Guideline for Postmortem Image Interpretation Ver. 2015 “Research for Implementation of Postmortem Imaging of Deaths Outside Medical Institutions” Edited by Scientific Research Group, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan Radiological Society Japanese 2015 ver. Published by KANEHARA & Co., LTD. (Tokyo) Japanese edition Chairpersons Naoya Takahashi Dep. Radiological Technology, Niigata University Eiji Oguma Dep. Radiology, Saitama Prefectural Children Hospital Vice-chairperson Hideki Hyodoh Center for Cause of Death Investigation Faculty of Medicine Hokkaido University Committee and cooperator: Yutaka Imai Dep. Radiology, Tokai University Noriaki Ikeda Dep. Legal Medicine, Kyushu University Satoshi Watanabe Dep. Legal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University Satoshi Hirasawa Dep. Radiology, Gunma University Morio Iino Dep. Legal Medicine, Tottori University Masanori Ishida Dep. Radiology, Sanraku Hospital Kensuke Ito Dep. Emergency, Kameda Medical Center Yohsuke Makino Dep. Forensic Medicine, The University of Tokyo Tomonori Murakami Dep. Radiology, Naagsaki University Hideyuki Nushida Dep. Legal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medical Minako Sakamoto Dep. Emergency, Kyorin University Yasuo Shichinohe Dep. Emergency, Hokkaido Medical Center Seiji Shiotani Dep. Radiology, Seire Fuji Hospital Seiji Yamamoto Director, Ai Information Center English version Editor in Chief H.Hyodoh Center -
Determination of Death
Yolo County Emergency Medical Services Agency Protocols Revised Date: September 1, 2018 DETERMINATION OF DEATH Adult Pediatric Purpose This policy provides criteria for Public Safety, Emergency Medical Responder (EMR), Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and Paramedic personnel to determine death in the prehospital setting. Definitions Rigor Mortis: The stiffening of the body after death that normally appears within the body around 2 hours after the deceased has died. The smaller muscles are affected first followed by the subsequent larger muscles throughout the body. Lividity or Livor Mortis: Discoloration appearing on dependent parts of the body after death, as a result of cessation of circulation, stagnation of blood, and settling of the blood by gravity. Apical Pulse: The pulse that can be heard by auscultation at the bottom left of the heart (apex). BLS (Public Safety, EMR, EMT) Obviously Dead CPR need not be initiated and may be discontinued for patients who meet the criteria for "Obviously Dead" One (1) or more of the following: • Decapitation • Decomposition • Incineration of the torso and/or head • Exposure, destruction, and/or separation of the brain or heart from the body • A valid DNR or POLST form or medallion in accordance with the YEMSA DNR Policy • Rigor Mortis – If the determination of death is based on RIGOR MORTIS, ALL of the following assessments shall be completed: 1. Assessment to confirm RIGOR MORTIS: • Confirm muscle rigidity of the jaw by attempting to open the mouth and/or • Confirm muscle rigidity of 1 arm by attempting to move the extremity 2. Assessment to confirm absence of respiration: • Look, listen, and feel for respirations • Auscultation of lung sounds for a minimum of 30 seconds 3. -
Keeping the Peace in Haiti?
KEEPING THE PEACE IN HAITI? An Assessment of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti Using Compliance with its Prescribed Mandate as a Barometer for Success March 2005 Harvard Law Student Advocates for Human Rights, Cambridge, Massachusetts & Centro de Justiça Global, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil March 2005 Keeping the Peace in Haiti? TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ____________________________________________________________ 1 INTRODUCTION __________________________________________________________________ 2 I. RECOMMENDATIONS ____________________________________________________________ 2 II. A BRIEF HISTORY OF HAITI _____________________________________________________ 4 III. RESOLUTION 1542: THE MINUSTAH MANDATE __________________________________ 12 III.A. Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration_____________________________ 12 III.B. Institutional Strengthening: Police Reform and the Constitutional and Political Process _______________________________________________________________ 13 III.B.1. Police Reform________________________________________________________ 13 III.B.2. The Constitutional and Political Process __________________________________ 14 III.C. Human Rights and Civilian Protection _____________________________________ 15 III.C.1. Human Rights________________________________________________________ 15 III.C.2. Civilian Protection____________________________________________________ 19 IV. FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS ______________________________________________________ 21 IV.A. Methodology ___________________________________________________________ -
SOP #301- Rodent Euthanasia
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE #301 RODENT EUTHANASIA 1. PURPOSE This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) describes acceptable procedures for rodent euthanasia. It ensures that animals are euthanized in the most humane way possible, minimizing pain and distress, while ensuring compatibility with research objectives. 2. RESPONSIBILITY Veterinary care staff, animal care staff, principal investigator (PI) and their research staff. 3. CONSIDERATIONS All animal euthanasia must be performed by appropriately trained personnel approved on the Animal Use Protocol. Euthanasia procedures should not be performed in the same room where rodents are housed. All euthanasia procedures must be continuously monitored by the person(s) performing the procedure, until confirmation of euthanasia is complete. Animals must not be left unattended until the procedure is complete. 4. MATERIALS 4.1. Isoflurane/CO2 euthanasia station (calibrated within the last 12 months) with adequate gas scavenging system or filter 4.2. CO2 euthanasia station 4.3. General anesthetic or commercial euthanasia solutions 5. EUTHANASIA OF ADULT RODENTS – CHEMICAL METHODS 5.1. CO2 asphyxiation under isoflurane anesthesia: 5.1.1. It is preferable to anesthetize rodents with isoflurane prior to exposure to CO2 to minimize pain and distress. 5.1.2. In order to minimize stress animals should be euthanized in their home cage. The maximum cage density must be respected. Never pool animals from different cages. 5.1.3. Neonatal animals (up to 10 days of age) are resistant to the hypoxia induced by high anesthetic gas concentrations and exposure to CO2, therefore, alternative methods are recommended. Isoflurane/CO2 may be used for narcosis of neonatal animals provided it is followed by another method of euthanasia (e.g. -
Forensics Letter (Round 4)
Hello Forensics students, To the seniors: I am so sorry this is how your high school career is ending; you have all worked so hard and deserve so much more! Whatever your plans are for the next chapter in your life I wish you all the best of luck and success! I have been very privileged to have gotten to teach you during your high school career and I will miss you all! To the juniors: I miss you all and I am sorry this is how the year is having to end and I hope so very much we will be back next year! I hope you have a great summer, but please remember to be responsible and take precautions to stay safe! I hope to see you next year! The final two weeks of doing school from home will occur from May 16th to June 3rd. We will be moving on to Chapter 11: Death: Meaning, Manner, Mechanism, Cause, and Time. Read through the chapter and then complete the Chapter 11 Review on the last two pages. This assignment is optional for seniors but it is required for juniors. You do NOT need to print anything out. Please put your name and answers to the test in a document or on a piece of paper. There are several options for turning in your work: 1. Use a google doc and share with me 2. Type answers into an email and send to me 3. Take pictures of your hand-written work and email to me o My email is [email protected] 4.