You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Forensic Ecogenomics: The Application of Microbial Ecology Analyses in Forensic Contexts provides intelligence on important topics, including environmental sample provenance, how to indicate the body decomposition timeline to support postmortem interval (PMI) and postmortem submersion interval (PMSI) estimates, and how to enhance identification of clandestine and transit grave locations. A diverse group of international experts have come together to present a clear perspective of forensic ecogenomics that encapsulates cutting-edge, topical and relevant cross-disciplinary approaches vital to the field. - Considers the effects of decomposition on bacterial, fungal and mesofaunal populations in pristine ecosystems - Examines the role of the microbiome, necrobiome and thanatomicrobiome in postmortem interval estimations - Focuses on the application of different analytical techniques across forensics to enhance/expand the crime scene investigation toolkit - Written by a wide range of international experts in their respective fields
Biochar Application: Essential Soil Microbial Ecology outlines the cutting-edge research on the interactions of complex microbial populations and their functional, structural, and compositional dynamics, as well as the microbial ecology of biochar application to soil, the use of different phyto-chemical analyses, possibilities for future research, and recommendations for climate change policy. Biochar, or charcoal produced from plant matter and applied to soil, has become increasingly recognized as having the potential to address multiple contemporary concerns, such as agricultural productivity and contaminated ecosystem amelioration, primarily by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere ...
Biochar Application: Essential Soil Microbial Ecology outlines the cutting-edge research on the interactions of complex microbial populations and their functional, structural, and compositional dynamics, as well as the microbial ecology of biochar application to soil, the use of different phyto-chemical analyses, possibilities for future research, and recommendations for climate change policy. Biochar, or charcoal produced from plant matter and applied to soil, has become increasingly recognized as having the potential to address multiple contemporary concerns, such as agricultural productivity and contaminated ecosystem amelioration, primarily by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere ...
A riveting true-crime history of London's first modern police force as told through its most notorious murder cases. The idea of "Scotland Yard" is steeped in atmospheric stories of foggy London streets, murder by lamplight, and fiendish killers pursued by gentleman detectives. From its establishment in 1829 through the eve of World War II, Scotland Yard—the world’s first modern, professional, and centrally organized police force—set new standards for policing and investigating. Scotland Yard advanced ground-breaking use of forensics—from fingerprints to ballistics to evidence collection—made the first attempt at criminal profiling, and captivated the public on both sides of the Atlantic with feats of detective work that rivaled any fictional interpretation. Based on official case files, contemporary newspaper reporting, trial transcripts, and the first-hand accounts of the detectives on the beat, Scotland Yard tells the tales of some of history’s most notorious murders—with cases that proved to be landmarks in the field of criminal inquiry.
Forensic Microbiology focuses on newly emerging areas of microbiology relevant to medicolegal and criminal investigations: postmortem changes, establishing cause of death, estimating postmortem interval, and trace evidence analysis. Recent developments in sequencing technology allow researchers, and potentially practitioners, to examine microbial communities at unprecedented resolution and in multidisciplinary contexts. This detailed study of microbes facilitates the development of new forensic tools that use the structure and function of microbial communities as physical evidence. Chapters cover: Experiment design Data analysis Sample preservation The influence of microbes on results from autopsy, toxicology, and histology Decomposition ecology Trace evidence This diverse, rapidly evolving field of study has the potential to provide high quality microbial evidence which can be replicated across laboratories, providing spatial and temporal evidence which could be crucial in a broad range of investigative contexts. This book is intended as a resource for students, microbiologists, investigators, pathologists, and other forensic science professionals.
Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral? Why don't animals dig up all the graves? Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried? Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. Here she offers her factual, hilarious and candid answers to thirty-five of the most interesting, sharing the lore and science of what happens to, and inside, our bodies after we die. Why do corpses groan? What causes bodies to turn strange colours during decomposition? and why do hair and nails appear longer after death? The answers are all within . . .
“언젠가 죽을 여러분, 이리 모여 봐요!” 죽으면 우리 신체엔 어떤 일들이 벌어질까? 죽음 전문가가 들려주는 죽음, 시체, 부패에 관한 경이로운 이야기 자라나는 아이들에게 ‘죽음’에 관해 어떻게 설명할 수 있을까. 어느 날 갑자기 사랑하는 반려동물이 죽거나 할머니가 눈앞에서 사라진다는 것의 의미를 이해할 수 있을까. 우리 문화는 죽음을 입 밖에 꺼내는 일조차 금기시했기에 제대로 애도할 수도, 무엇을 느껴야 할지도 몰랐던 것 아닐까. “무지개다리를 건넜다” “좋은 곳으로 떠났다”라고 표현하는 데 그쳐도 괜...
أعتبر كل الأسئلة المُتعلقة بالموت أسئلة جيدة، لكن الأسئلة الأكثر مباشرة وإثارة تأتي من الأطفال -على الآباء والأمهات تسجيلها من الآن- لقد تخيّلت قبل أن أشرع في الإجابة على الأسئلة المُتعلقة بالموت، أن الأطفال سيملكون أسئلة طاهرة وبريئة ونقيّة. لكن، لا. يملك الصغار في الكثير من الأحيان شجاعة أكبر ومنظورًا أعمق من الراشدين. فلم يشعروا بالخجل حيال التحدث عن الأمعاء والدم. وقد تساءلوا ب...
Biochar prepared from agricultural biomass has received considerable attention because of the huge availability of ago-waste at zero cost, flexibility, high efficiency, renewability, faster contaminant removal rate, ability to treat concentrated effluent and reduction of sludge production after the treatment. This book on biochar is a comprehensive account of preparation of biochar from agricultural waste. It provides a roadmap in development of future strategy for pollution abatement and sustainable waste management. This book contains up-to-date information on biochar and its role in environment protection. The book covers useful information and applications of biochar to research scholars, academicians, agronomists, scientists and environmentalist working in the field of environment protection, bioremediation, waste management and climate change mitigation.