PMID- 31606102
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20200102
LR  - 20200102
IS  - 1876-4452 (Electronic)
IS  - 1355-0306 (Linking)
VI  - 59
IP  - 6
DP  - 2019 Nov
TI  - Identification of some factors influencing soil transfer on shoes.
PG  - 643-653
LID - S1355-0306(18)30381-2 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scijus.2019.07.004 [doi]
AB  - In criminal activities, soil can be transferred from a crime scene to items 
      linked with a perpetrator; for example, shoes, cars or tools. Several parameters 
      will influence the quantity of soil transferred in a given scenario. The 
      knowledge of the most influential factors can help the expert to assess the 
      evidence using a logical approach at the activity level or to predict the amount 
      of soil that can be expected in a given scenario. The influence of five chosen 
      parameters, namely the shoe profile, shoe size, walker's weight, soil type and 
      soil humidity were assessed using Design of Experiment (DOE) in order to 
      understand their influence on soil quantity transferred on shoes. The Faced 
      Central Composite Design (FCCD) using a quadratic model was found to be highly 
      significant, thus they could be adequately used to model and to interpret the 
      amount of soil recovered from one shoe. These designs demonstrate that the 
      characteristics of the donor (soil type and soil humidity), as well as a 
      combination of these two factors have a very significant impact on the soil 
      transfer. The characteristics of the receptor (shoe profile, shoe size and 
      walker's weight) also have an impact on the transfer but to a lesser extent. 
      Globally, this research provides valuable information for the forensic scientist 
      both in investigative mode: evaluation of the soil quantity possibly transferred 
      on shoes, and in the evaluative steps: is the quantity of soil found on the 
      suspect shoes in accordance to the proposition/scenario given by the prosecution 
      and the defence?
CI  - Copyright (c) 2019 The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences. Published by 
      Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Werner, Denis
AU  - Werner D
AD  - Ecole des sciences criminelles, University of Lausanne, Batiment Batochime, 1015 
      Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland.
FAU - Burnier, Celine
AU  - Burnier C
AD  - Ecole des sciences criminelles, University of Lausanne, Batiment Batochime, 1015 
      Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland.
FAU - Yu, Yingchao
AU  - Yu Y
AD  - Institute of Evidence Law and Forensic Science, China University of Political 
      Science and Law, China.
FAU - Marolf, Andre R
AU  - Marolf AR
AD  - Ecole des sciences criminelles, University of Lausanne, Batiment Batochime, 1015 
      Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland.
FAU - Wang, Yuanfeng
AU  - Wang Y
AD  - Institute of Evidence Law and Forensic Science, China University of Political 
      Science and Law, China; Key Laboratory of Evidence Science, Ministry of 
      Education, China.
FAU - Massonnet, Genevieve
AU  - Massonnet G
AD  - Ecole des sciences criminelles, University of Lausanne, Batiment Batochime, 1015 
      Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland. Electronic address: Genevieve.Massonnet@unil.ch.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20190717
PL  - England
TA  - Sci Justice
JT  - Science & justice : journal of the Forensic Science Society
JID - 9508563
SB  - IM
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Experimental design
OT  - Forensic geology
OT  - Soil forensic
EDAT- 2019/10/14 06:00
MHDA- 2019/10/14 06:01
CRDT- 2019/10/14 06:00
PHST- 2018/12/28 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2019/07/08 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2019/07/14 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/10/14 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2019/10/14 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/10/14 06:01 [medline]
AID - S1355-0306(18)30381-2 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scijus.2019.07.004 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Justice. 2019 Nov;59(6):643-653. doi: 10.1016/j.scijus.2019.07.004. Epub 2019 
      Jul 17.