Operationalizing the structural vulnerability profile within the medical examiner context.

The medicolegal death investigation process in the United States, historically focused on personal identification and determination of cause and manner of death, has evolved in recent decades to include space for advocacy centered around public health. Particularly, in the domain of forensic anthropology, practitioners have begun to incorporate a structural vulnerability perspective on human anatomical variation, with the goals of articulating the social determinants of ill health and early death and ultimately influencing public policy. This perspective has explanatory power far beyond the anthropological sphere.

Homicide Using an Air Weapon.

The debate over the lethality and ownership of modern, high-powered weapons has recently grabbed the headlines. High-velocity air weapons, advertised as starter guns for children, can cause lethal injuries despite non-lethal appearing wounds. Presented is a rare case of a modern, high-powered air weapon used in a homicide.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PASSIVE GLENOHUMERAL TOTAL ROTATION AND THE STRENGTH OF THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ROTATOR MUSCLES, A PRELIMINARY STUDY.

Background: There is little research on how the amount of shoulder joint range of motion, specifically glenohumeral rotation, may be related to the muscle strength of the rotator cuff muscles. A long held belief is that a joint with excessive range of motion needs sufficient muscular strength for stability. However, no studies have examined this concept.

The influence of muscle length on one-joint shoulder internal and external rotator muscle strength.

Background And Purpose: Kendall suggests testing the rotator cuff muscles in their maximally shortened position, since one-joint muscles are thought to be strongest. We found little evidence to support this concept. The purpose of this study was to determine if the shoulder internal rotator (IR) and external rotator (ER) muscles are strongest when placed in their shortened length position.

Novel mutations in the RAD3 and SSL1 genes perturb genome stability by stimulating recombination between short repeats in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Maintaining genome stability requires that recombination between repetitive sequences be avoided. Because short, repetitive sequences are the most abundant, recombination between sequences that are below a certain length are selectively restricted. Novel alleles of the RAD3 and SSL1 genes, which code for components of a basal transcription and UV-damage-repair complex in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, have been found to stimulate recombination between short, repeated sequences.