Publications by authors named "C SAUTIER"
Herein, we report the death of a man, approximately thirty years old, victim of a short-range shot to the thorax from a PIEXON JPX4, a hand weapon classed category D in France, said to be non-lethal. External examination of the lesion revealed characteristics similar to those of ballistic injuries. The autopsy found an intercostal wound that reached the pulmonary parenchyma and the pulmonary artery, with severe hemothorax.
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- Forensic science faces challenges in distinguishing between same-source and different-source hypotheses using various trace evidence, typically approached with Bayesian methods for quantifying evidence.
- This text explores both direct and indirect methods for estimating the likelihoods of distance between traces, highlighting the benefits of indirect methods, including better robustness and the use of vectorial distances to maintain information.
- Empirical evaluations using hand odor profiles demonstrate that indirect methods significantly outperform direct methods in terms of sensitivity, specificity, and robustness, particularly when dimensionality reduction is not applied.
Today, there is a real political urge to see the sharing of ballistic data intensify across Europe mostly due to recent events such as terrorist attacks. However, technical constraints remain and two main options are being discussed. The first one relies on a centralized common database, implying a vendor monopoly for all Europe and a unified protocol among member states.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBecause weight loss is common in colonic Crohn's disease and is poorly correlated with disease activity, we analyzed food intake in 63 patients without malabsorption, 30 patients with weight loss (9.2 +/- 4.2 kg), and 33 patients without weight loss.
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