Forensic investigations are often reliant on physical evidence to reconstruct events
surrounding a crime. However, there remains a need for more objective approaches to …

The success of construction projects is a fundamental issue for most governments, users
and communities. In the literature that deals with construction project success and causes of …

Next to natural disasters fires cause some of the greatest losses to property and human life
around the world. Arson, the deliberate setting of a fire to destroy property or to take a …

A method to predict the crystal structure of equiatomic ternary compositions based only on
the constituent elements was developed using cluster resolution feature selection (CR-FS) …

Partial least-squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) and support vector machine (SVM)
techniques were applied to develop a crystal structure predictor for binary AB compounds …

A paper-based optical nose was fabricated by dropping bimetallic silver and gold
nanoparticles on a paper substrate. The nanoparticles were synthesized by both natural …

The classification of ignitable liquids, such as gasoline, is critical crime scene intelligence to
assist arson investigations. Rapid field gasoline classification is challenging because the …

Diesel fuel samples were analyzed using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–
MS) and chemometric procedures to associate and discriminate samples for potential use in …

Mass spectrometry (MS) is a powerful technique that can provide the biochemical signature
of a wide range of biological materials such as cells and biofluids. However, MS data usually …

Developments in forensic mass spectrometry tend to follow, rather than lead, the
developments in other disciplines. Examples of techniques having forensic potential born …