• 제목/요약/키워드: Environmental forensic

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과학수사지질학(Forensic Geology)의 출현: 새로운 지질학 영역의 구축 (Forensic Geology : New Pioneer in Geological Area)

  • 이옥선;김성용
    • 자원환경지질
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    • 제40권5호
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    • pp.705-711
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    • 2007
  • 우리가 생활하면서 부딪히는 수많은 판단들 속에서 특히 인간의 권리에 대한 사안은 민감하게 다루어진다. 특히 사실로 입증된 것만 인정하는 증거재환주의에 의해 물리적 증거의 확보 여부는 범죄수사과정에서 필수적임에 따라 과학수사의 중요성 및 수요는 증가하고 있다. 과학수사지질학은 지질학과 과학수사와의 융합 분야로, 과학수사를 위하여 지질학적 지식 및 기법을 바탕으로 물리적 증거를 비교 분석하여 범죄용의자와 범죄사건의 연관성을 파악함으로써 법정에서 유용한 자료로 활용된다. 1970년대 후반 과학수사지질학의 학문적 체계를 구축한 이래로 과학수사지질학의 연구대상은 암석, 광물, 토양, 퇴적물 등의 토양학적 증거에서 역사적 유물, 지뢰, 사체 등의 사회 문화적, 정치적, 군사적, 의학적 대상으로 확대되고 있다. 과학수사지질학의 역할이 단순 위치추적에서 고고학적 학설 증명, 역사적 사실 입증, 환경오염 원인 규명, 연대기적 식생 분포 및 인류학적 발생 규명 등으로 폭넓게 작용할 수 있음을 의미하고, 이는 발전된 지질학적 방법론을 적용할 수 있으며 다양한 과학수사지질학적 수요를 만족시킬 수 있다. 과학수사지질학의 연구 활동은 과학수사 전문기관을 중심으로 이루어지고 있으나, 우리나라 국립과학수사연구소의 과학수사 활동 분포에서 과학수사지질학적 비중은 극히 일부분으로 나타나고 있다. 따라서 전문 지질자원 연구기관을 중심으로 우리나라 지질학적 특성에 기반을 둔 연구방법 확보, 연구결과 활용사례 발굴 등 과학수사지질학의 역할 정립을 위한 체계적인 논의를 이끌어 낼 필요가 있다고 사료된다.

Forensic DNA methylation profiling from evidence material for investigative leads

  • Lee, Hwan Young;Lee, Soong Deok;Shin, Kyoung-Jin
    • BMB Reports
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    • 제49권7호
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    • pp.359-369
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    • 2016
  • DNA methylation is emerging as an attractive marker providing investigative leads to solve crimes in forensic genetics. The identification of body fluids that utilizes tissue-specific DNA methylation can contribute to solving crimes by predicting activity related to the evidence material. The age estimation based on DNA methylation is expected to reduce the number of potential suspects, when the DNA profile from the evidence does not match with any known person, including those stored in the forensic database. Moreover, the variation in DNA implicates environmental exposure, such as cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption, thereby suggesting the possibility to be used as a marker for predicting the lifestyle of potential suspect. In this review, we describe recent advances in our understanding of DNA methylation variations and the utility of DNA methylation as a forensic marker for advanced investigative leads from evidence materials.

GC/MS를 이용한 혈액 중 유기인제류 농약의 동시 분석에 관한 방법의 유효화 (Method Validation for the Simultaneous Analysis of Organophosphorous Pesticides in Blood by GC/MS)

  • 박미정;양자열;김기욱;박유신;정희선;이상기
    • Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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    • 제20권4호통권51호
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    • pp.297-302
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study was to provide the standard method for the analysis of organophosphorous pesticides such as chlorpyrifos, diazinon, malathion and parathion in blood. We performed method validation for these pesticides in blood according to EURACHEM (A focus For Analytical Chemistry in Europe) guide. For the analysis of the pesticides, we used solid-phase extraction ,column (Waters Oasis $HLB^{(R)}$. After the extraction, the supernatants were evaporated to dryness under the nitrogen stream. They were analyzed by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) after reconstituting with ethanol. Terbufos was used as an internal standard. To validate this method, we performed verification procedures with the following parameters: selectivity, linearity of calibration, accuracy, precision, limit of detection and quantification. Validation data according to Eurachem guide were adequate for our purpose for the analysis of chlorpyrifos, diazinon, malathion and parathion in blood.

Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in the Bio-geochemistry of Oceans

  • Kannan, Narayanan
    • 한국해양바이오학회지
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    • 제2권4호
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    • pp.201-208
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    • 2007
  • Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are anthropogenic contaminants found globally in water, ice, soil, air and sediment. Modern analytical techniques allow us to determine these chemicals in environmental matrices at parts per trillion levels or lower. Environmental forensic on PCBs opens up new avenues of investigation such as transport and fate of water masses in oceans, sedimentation, onset of primary production, migration of marine mammals, their population distribution and pharmacokinetics of drugs inside organisms. By virtue of persistence, bioaccumulation, bioconcentration and structure-activity relationship PCBs emerge as unconventional chemical tracers of new sort.

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ANSYS를 이용한 스캐폴딩 시스템 타워 구조 건전성 평가에 관한 법공학적 연구 (Forensic Engineering Study on Structural Integrity Evaluation of Scaffolding System Tower using ANSYS)

  • 김종혁;김의수;박우식;문병선;고재모;박남규;윤기봉;조성욱
    • 한국안전학회지
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    • 제28권6호
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    • pp.42-48
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    • 2013
  • Forensic engineering is the application of engineering principles covering the investigation of constructed facilities and systems that fail to perform as intended, causing personal injury or damage to property, environmental, economy etc. In the year 2012, two collapsed accidents of the large scaffolding system in national thermal power station occurred one after another, causing many casualties. In this study, we had performed to investigate the collapsed accident of scaffolding system occurred in the a thermal power station of two accidents. First, the investigation about the collapsed accidents site had performed to understand collapsed state and structures of the scaffolding system. Second, reviewing the materials concerning about the applied weight on the scaffolding system had performed. The applied weight is sum of the weights of the 15 workers, additional materials for coating work and dispersed and loaded shot ball on the foothold etc. the applied weight that calculated exceed more three times than the safe working load. Third, we had confirmed the install state of the materials of the scaffolding system by reviewing the quantity of the materials on the manual and the real system. Last, structural analysis had performed to evaluate structural integrity of the scaffolding system using Ansys. Through a series of this processes, the definite accidents causes of the collapsed scaffolding system revealed. Through these studies, the collapse accident that may occur in the scaffolding system in thermal power station can be minimized by performing specialized and systematic investigation on the accidents in terms of Forensic engineering.

법미생물 검사를 위한 식중독 세균(Bacillus cereus)의 동정 및 독소 유전자 검사법: 국립과학수사연구원 사례보고 (Identification of Food-Poisoning Bacteria (Bacillus cereus) and the Bacterial Toxin Genes for Application to Forensic Microbiology : A Case Report from National Forensic Service)

  • 조윤정;이민호;김효숙;엄기윤;김민희;김종배;이동섭
    • 과학수사학회지
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    • 제11권3호
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    • pp.210-217
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    • 2017
  • 법미생물 검사실에서는 식품의 미생물 분석이 요구되는 경우들이 있다. 국립과학수사연구원에 식품 미생물분석이 의뢰된 샘플들 중에서 Bacillus cereus 균이 분리되었던 일부 증례가 있었다. B. cereus는 식중독을 일으킬 수 있는 중요한 병원성 세균이다. 따라서 우리는 최근 미생물 검사를 위해 의뢰된 멸치액젓에서 B. cereus를 분리한 후, 16S rDNA 서열을 기반으로 하는 MSId 방법 및 real-time PCR 법에 따라 균을 동정 하였다. 또한 설사 독소 유전자 및 구토 독소 유전자 검출을 위한 PCR을 실시하고 B. cereus 분리 균주에서 nheABC, bceT 및 entFM 설사 독소 유전자의 존재를 확인하였다. 임상적으로 중요한 몇 가지 식중독 세균들은 식품 미생물 검사 시 주목해야 할 필요가 있다. 특히, 이러한 식중독 세균들 중에서 B. cereus는 환경저항성 및 내열성이 강한 내생포자를 형성하고, 내열성 독소를 형성할 수도 있기 때문에 조리된 음식을 섭취해도 식중독을 일으킬 수 있다. 본 연구를 통해서 B. cereus등의 임상적으로 중요한 세균을 구별하는 것이 식품미생물 검사 시 중요함을 강조하고, 또한 법미생물 검사실에 앞으로 의뢰될 식품미생물 분석 사례들을 위해 B. cereus의 식별 및 세균의 독소 유전자 검출을 위한 지침을 제공 하고자 한다.

Pesticide Poisoning Deaths Detected at the National Forensic Service Headquarters in Seoul of Korea: A Five-Year Survey (2005-2009)

  • Lee, Sang-Ki;Rhee, Jong-Sook;Jung, Jin-Mi;Lee, Han-Sun
    • Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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    • 제25권4호
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    • pp.263-271
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    • 2010
  • Objectives : The records of 447 pesticide poisoning deaths from the National Forensic Service (NFS) headquarters located in Seoul of Korea from 2005 to 2009 were retrospectively reviewed. Methods : The data of each case were analyzed by using the SPSS program. Results : The mean age was $57.8{\pm}14.8$ years and the range was 16-92 years. The numbers of deaths of males and females were 301 and 134, respectively. The largest number of cases occurred in people aged 50-59 years (n=92, 20.6%) followed by the age groups 40-49 years (n=91, 20.4%), 60-69 years (n=88, 19.7%), and 70-79 years (n=75, 16.8%). The total number of deaths among other age groups (10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 80-89, and 90-99 years) was 73, representing only 16.3%. Of all pesticide poisoning deaths, 96.2% were due to suicide, and 28.4% of the total number who died received medical treatment. The mostfrequent site of ingestion was the person's own residence (n=279, 62.4%). The most common classes of pesticide were bipyridylium herbicide (paraquat, 31.1%), organophosphate insecticide (21.7%), and carbamate insecticide (15.4%). The major pesticides having a high proportion of fatalities were paraquat (31.1%), methomyl (11.4%), glyphosate (9.1%), dichlorvos (5.6%), phosphamidon (4.6%), and methidathion (4.0%). Conclusions : This study showed that poisoning deaths due to pesticides are one of the major public health problems in Korea. Enforcement of regulations and safety education to prevent pesticide poisoning should be carried out by the government.

Cyanide Poisoning Deaths Detected at the National Forensic Service Headquarters in Seoul of Korea: A Six Year Survey (2005~2010)

  • Lee, Sang-Ki;Rhee, Jong-Sook;Yum, Hye-Sun
    • Toxicological Research
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    • 제28권3호
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    • pp.195-199
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    • 2012
  • The records of 255 cyanide poisoning deaths obtained from National Forensic Service (NFS) headquarters, located in Seoul of Korea, from 2005 to 2010 were retrospectively reviewed. The mean age was $41.88{\pm}13.09$ and range was 6~80 years (unknown in seven cases). The number of deaths of males and females were 200 and 53, respectively (unknown in two cases). The largest number of cases occurred in people aged 40-49 years (81 cases, 31.8%), followed by the age groups 30~39 years (51 cases, 20%), 50~59 years (44 cases, 17.2%) and 20~29 years (43 cases, 16.9%). The total number of deaths among other age groups (below 10, 10~19, 60~69, 70~79, over 80 years and unknown) were 36, representing only 14.1%. Of all cyanide poisoning deaths, 97.3% were due to suicide, and 14.5% of the total number who died received medical treatment. The most frequent site for ingestion was the person's own residence (120 cases, 47.1%) and the route of administration was mainly oral (252, 98.8%). From the total of 255 cyanide poisoning cases, white powders were submitted for analysis in 92 cases. Potassium cyanide and sodium cyanide occupied 51 and 41 cases, respectively. This study showed that poisoning deaths due to cyanide are one of the continuously reported public health problems in Korea. Enforcement of regulations and safety education to prevent cyanide poisoning should be carried out by the government.

Reliability-based Failure Cause Assessment of Collapsed Bridge during Construction

  • Cho, Hyo-Nam;Choi, Hyun-Ho;Lee, Sang-Yoon;Sun, Jong-Wan
    • 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국콘크리트학회 2003년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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    • pp.181-186
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    • 2003
  • There are many uncertainties in structural failures or structures, so probabilistic failure cause assessment should be performed in order to consider the uncertainties. However, in many cases of forensic engineering, the failure cause assessments are performed by deterministic approach though number of uncertainties are existed in the failures or structures. Thus, deterministic approach may have possibility for leading to unreasonable and unrealistic failure cause assessment due to ignorance of the uncertainties. Therefore, probabilistic approach is needed to complement the shortcoming of deterministic approach and to perform the more reasonable and realistic failure cause assessment. In this study, reliability-based failure cause assessment (reliability based forensic engineering) is performed, which can incorporate uncertainties in failures and structures. For more practical application, the modified ETA technique is proposed, which automatically generates the defected structural model, performs structural analysis and reliability analysis, and calculates the failure probabilities of the failure events and the occurrence probabilities of the failure scenarios. Also, for more precise reliability analysis, uncertainties are estimated more reasonably by using bayesian approach based on the experimental laboratory testing data in forensic report.

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수리지질학적 과학수사 기법에 의한 도로 터널이 지하수 변화에 미치는 영향 (Influence of Road Tunnel on Groundwater Change Determined Using Forensic Hydrogeological Technique)

  • 윤설민;함세영
    • 한국환경과학회지
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    • 제33권4호
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    • pp.269-277
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    • 2024
  • Scientific forensic techniques are used to verify environmental impact of groundwater pollution, surface water pollution, air pollution, noise, and vibration according to residents' complaints in connection with construction and civil engineering works. In this study, we investigated the contamination of groundwater and the lowering of the groundwater level in an area surrounding a tunnel excavation site for the Andong-Yeongdeok national road, using a forensic hydrogeological technique. We reviewed the groundwater level and water quality of well GW1 in the area surrounding the tunnel excavation site as well as tunnel construction information and then we analyzed the correlations among the obtained data. Before tunnel excavation, the water level of well GW1 was lower than the tunnel elevation. Considering the relationship between the precipitation, tunnel discharge, tunnel depth, and groundwater level of well GW1, the groundwater flowed from the tunnel to well GW1. Moreover, the tunnel discharge and groundwater levels were not related to each other. The pH of well GW1 was 8.4 before tunnel excavation. During excavation, the pH declined to 8.1-8.2 at the beginning, and increased to 8.8 at the end of the excavation. The fluorine concentration in well GW1 was 2.49 mg/L, 1.91-3.22 mg/L, and 1.7-2.67 mg/L, respectively, before, during, and after the excavation. The sulfate ion concentration was very high, over 2,000 mg/L, before and during the excavation; after the excavation, it was between 200 and 323 mg/L. Turbidity was 1.47, 10.5, and 4.51 NTU before, during, and after tunnel excavation, respectively. Therefore, the excavation of this tunnel is not related to the groundwater quality of well GW1.