Mass disasters represent a challenging forensic task when victims need to be identified. A wide variety of multiple scenarios force a systematic classification of disasters. The retrieval of human remains, leading to the ...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a relevant attribute of blood was detected by Karl Landsteiner (1901). His observations allowed the explanation of the underlying basis of “transfusion disease”. Precipitin detection ...

Disasters like terrorist attacks, earthquakes, hurricanes, and volcano eruptions are usually unpredictable events that affect a high number of people. We propose an approach that could be used as a decision support tool ...

This work presents a new method for assisting in the identification process of missing persons in several contexts, such as enforced disappearances. We apply a Bayesian technique to incorporate non-genetic variables in the ...

We address the problem of picking up, stabilizing, and transporting casualties in response to mass-injury disasters. Our proposed methodology establishes the itinerary for collecting, on-site stabilization, and transporting ...

This thesis had how subject the organization of health services to production of the care to the people victims of disasters. The object of investigation was the implementation of health care services, for the offer and ...

Our work starts from the idea that the journalistic discourse is manufacturer and producer of meanings about social reality. With this, we try to understand what are the meanings related in the journalistic discourse in ...