The significance of the settling of blood into dependent and soft tissues as evidence for death by throttling and choking (author's transl)]

14 fresh cadavers of adult persons were placed with the head or body tilted in atypical positions 3 to 65 hours after death. The persons concerned were neither asphyxiated nor had they suffered cranial trauma. Hypostasis in the head and neck occurred more rapidly and intensively the deeper the cranial parts of the body were placed. In the simulated cadaver positions, artificial ecchymoses were observed in only a few places, mainly in the eyelids, the conjunctiva, the galea and the temporal muscles except when the head was vertically downwards. Just as with the postmortem haematomas, the hypostatic settling to the plane of the heart was decisive.     

Dissecting coronary artery aneurysm: a report of two cases

Two cases of sudden, unexpected death resulting from coronary artery dissection have been reported. Since sudden and unexpected death falls within medical examiners' jurisdiction, the systematic autopsy examination of such cases offers an opportunity to evaluate this entity as well as other rare causes of natural death. A review of the literature concerning the subject has been presented.     

A survey of public sector use of federally generated innovations

Several agencies of the U.S. Government make available technical information in hopes that it will be used by the public and/or private sector. This paper is a study of the awareness and/or use of such technical information by the managers in small city and/or county governments. Five technical sources were used in the survey. In general it was found that the managers of city, county and special districts in Central California had very limited knowledge about the five information sources.