Challenges of accreditation in forensic fields concerned with human identification: a survey of European facial examiners.

Unlabelled: Forensic anthropology and forensic facial image identification are areas with two aspects in common: (i) the use of anthropological knowledge concerning human variation in their analyses and (ii) low numbers of accredited forensic units. While the low numbers are often explained by the uniqueness of human identification cases, given the high level of scrutiny in the forensic sciences, interest in and efforts to achieve accreditation have become increasingly prominent. Therefore, this study aimed to obtain accreditation-relevant information about the working environment in facial image comparison units by surveying facial examiners across Europe.

Exploring and retrieving sequence and metadata for species across the tree of life with NCBI Datasets.

To explore complex biological questions, it is often necessary to access various data types from public data repositories. As the volume and complexity of biological sequence data grow, public repositories face significant challenges in ensuring that the data is easily discoverable and usable by the biological research community. To address these challenges, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) has created NCBI Datasets.

Oestrogen and progesterone concentrations in intrapartum cows with insufficient cervix dilation.

The cervix is an important organ that has to dilate sufficiently at delivery to allow the foetus to transition to extrauterine life. Insufficient dilatation of the cervix (IDC) is a frequent cause of dystocia in cattle. The mechanisms underlying cervical opening and the pathogenesis of IDC are still widely unclear.