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Lesioni perineo – vaginali da attivita’ sportiva: diagnosi differenziale con child sex abuse
No full textIdoneita’ psico-fisica in tema di licenze per armi da sparo: spunti medico-legali sulla normativa vigente e proposta di un protocollo operativo di accertamento sanitario
No full textPerineal - vaginal injuries in children: accident or abuse?
No full textA large number of conditions have been mistaken for abuse. Differentiating accidental injuries from inflicted injuries is important
in the management of injured children. In this work, the authors describe two cases of accidental perineal-vaginal injury in children. In case 1, a
4-year-old girl suffered a vaginal tear caused by violent stretching during play; in case 2, a 3-year-old girl had minor lacerations of labia minora and
majora. The intervention of a multi-specialist team including a forensic pathologist and forensic psychiatrist was the key factor in being able to
exclude abuse by third parties in the described cases.. This leads to the appropriate recommendations to be adopted in the forensic medicine setting
First report of adult Podarcis siculus (RAFINESQUE-SCHMALTZ, 1810) predation by Tarentola mauritanica (LINNAEUS, 1758)
No full textImpatto del traffico stradale sulle migrazioni riproduttive di Bufo lineatus presso i “Laghi di Conversano”(Puglia)
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Assessing chronological age of unaccompanied minors in Southern Italy
Full text linkThe increasing volume of, and subsequent complexities resulting from, migratory flows in the broader context of globalization has led to a range of problems, not only the protection of human rights and disease control but also the identification of those with the right to apply for refugee status and the age assessment of unaccompanied minors. Italy is a magnet for immigration from other countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea because the Italian coasts are within easy reach. In Italy, as in other western countries, unaccompanied asylum seekers deemed to be younger than 18 years face a very different path through the immigration system from that experienced by adults. Generally, adults are subject to immediate deportation or detention in jail. Minors are processed through the juvenile system, where detection is not mandatory; they will often have access to educational programs and may be granted a residency permit. The Section of Legal Medicine of the University of Bari was approached by immigration police authorities and judges to explore the possibility of examining unaccompanied asylum seekers, who claim do be younger than 18 years, to assess their age. A group of forensic pathologists and odontologists performed this evaluation relying on the skeletal maturation as seen on radiographs of the wrist and the pelvis for iliac crests and on an orthopantomograph, together with background information and clinical examination of each individual. Case studies are presented. This article does not attempt to give a definitive account of the different scientific methods for the assessment of age. It is important to understand some of the methods that may be used in an attempt to assess developmental maturity and from which it may be possible to ''read off'' an approximate chronological age. © 2011 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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