Colchicine poisoning: case report of two homicides

Deaths resulting from the oral ingestion of colchicine are occasionally associated with suicides and therapeutic toxicity. However, homicidal deaths in which this drug is used are extremely rare. Two homicides in which colchicine was used are reported.     

The use of the LightCycler for the detection of Y chromosome SNPs

A novel methodology based on PCR monitoring on-line with fluorescent formats using the LightCycler for Y chromosome SNP typing is proposed. The main advantages of the system are the time necessary for the analysis (which is around 20 min), the robustness and the accuracy of the method and especially its sensitivity, which permits the detection of the male component in male-female mixtures up to 1:300 for some of the SNPs.Singleplexes of four different SNPs (M9, sY81, SRY-1532 and SRY-2627) as well as two duplexes (M9 and sY81 on the one hand and SRY-1532 and SRY-2627 on the other) were efficiently implemented. A simultaneous amplification and analysis of the four SNPs is also possible. It seems difficult with the current methodology to implement more than a quadruplex.     

Initiation of formal death investigation procedures among the Northern Plains Indians: a necessary adjunct in the study of American Indian sudden infant deaths

The high rate of infant mortality among native peoples in the Aberdeen Service Area of the Indian Health Service (primarily North and South Dakota) prompted a multi-institutional study of this problem. The study investigators assumed that local coroners or medical examiners would be able to perform suitable death scene investigations. However, during the design portion of the study it became apparent that, with one exception, none of the participating Indian Nations had a death investigator or even a legal mandate to provide death investigation. To allow the study to go forward, and ultimately to better the community health within its service area, the Aberdeen Area Indian Health Service submitted a draft enabling coroner legislation/resolutions to the area tribes. By November of 1996, 6 of the 19 Indian Nations enacted enabling coroner legislation. To facilitate both the study and general death investigation within the area, the Aberdeen Area Indian Health Service since 1993 has held five 2-day death investigation training programs covering a variety of death investigation topics which were attended by 68 participants. Without further recognition of the need for tribal death investigation and additional funding, these gains in tribal death investigation will probably be transitory.     

论洗钱犯罪的控制和预防

<正> 我是专门研究金融犯罪和贪污贿赂犯罪的,今天我想谈谈这些犯罪中的一个热点问题:“洗钱犯罪的控制和预防”。 一、洗钱犯罪的特点及其危害 所谓洗钱(Money Laundering)犯罪,是指“将脏钱洗净”或“将钱漂白”,使犯罪所得的收益得以隐瞒和伪装,使之具有表面的合法性,从而逃避法律制裁。它与传统犯罪形式相比,可以说是一种新型的企业型犯罪,特别是随着现代高科技的发展,洗钱犯罪亦日趋纷繁复杂,主要体现在以下几方面: 1.它是一种“精英犯罪”(Crime by Elite)或称“重要人物的犯罪(Significant Person'sCrime),虽然,具体的洗钱所得的巨额利润基本上都是由一些有权有势的有组织犯罪集团的     

緬甸的农业信貸,农民的稅务負担和市塲剥削

1.农业信贷和緬甸农村 的高利贷剝削 一九四七——一九五四年,緬甸政府在广大农民群众的压力下,通过了一系列限制对农民进行高利貸剝削的法令。例如,一九四七年五月,通过了关于延期偿付一九四五年十月十六日以前的农业債务的法令。这个法令使     

菲律宾工业发展問題

美帝国主义者一向自詡它对其过去殖民地的經济发展事业立过巨大功績,他們断言,菲律宾在美国統治下,其国民經济似乎获得蓬勃发展。可是,这些成績都是虚假的。二十世紀,在菲律宾出現了許多工业企业,可是这絕沒有改变菲律宾經济的殖民地性质。第二次世界大战前夕,在菲律宾有二十到三十家現代工业企业,可是这些企业除了极少数以外,它們大都是那些加工用于出口的农业原料的工厂和生产某些食品以及生活必需品的工厂。美国和其他外国資本家甚至并没有作过在菲律宾建立重工业基础的尝試。在菲律宾群島建立重工业而且遭到許多由殖民制度人为所造成的、不可克服的障碍。     

外国对緬甸的援助情况

在緬甸八年計划后四年的公共資本支出中,有百分之五十以上是依靠外援的,整个八年計划的支出有将近三分之一是依靠外援的。虽然外援实际支付的数額在头四年比較少,真正援助的果实在后四年才得到,但緬甸早在一九五四年就开始考虑对外援的需要,以后两年