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A Radiographic Assessment of Pediatric Fracture Healing and Time Since Injury by Malone, Christina A., Sauer, Norman J., Fenton, Todd W.

“…:  Past studies and pediatric bone physiology indicate that younger individuals may heal at a faster rate. Additionally, in adults upper limb fractures heal…”
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Investigating reverse butterfly fractures: An experimental approach and application of fractography by Isa, Mariyam I., Fenton, Todd W., Antonelli, Lillian S., Vaughan, Patrick E., Wei, Feng

“…•Butterfly fractures initiated in tension regardless of wedge orientation.•Incomplete cracks branched from the tensile initiation site.•Small, irregularly…”
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Effects of input energy and impactor shape on cranial fracture patterns by Isa, Mariyam I., Fenton, Todd W., Goots, Alexis C., Watson, Elena O., Vaughan, Patrick E., Wei, Feng

“…This study documents relationships between input energy, impactor shape, and the formation of fractures in human crania. Parietal impact experiments (n = 12)…”
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Human Identification via Lateral Patella Radiographs: A Validation Study by Niespodziewanski, Emily, Stephan, Carl N., Guyomarc'h, Pierre, Fenton, Todd W.

“…This research examines the utility of patella outline shape for matching 3D scans of patellae to knee radiographs using elliptical Fourier analysis and…”
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Characteristics and Prediction of Cranial Crush Injuries in Children by Baumer, Timothy G., Nashelsky, Marcus, Hurst, Carolyn V., Passalacqua, Nicholas V., Fenton, Todd W., Haut, Roger C.

“…:  This study documents four clinical cases of fatal crush injuries to children between 1.5 and 6 years of age with correlations between modeled stress and…”
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Assessing Impact Direction in 3‐point Bending of Human Femora: Incomplete Butterfly Fractures and Fracture Surfaces by Isa, Mariyam I., Fenton, Todd W., Deland, Trevor, Haut, Roger C.

“…Current literature associates bending failure with butterfly fracture, in which fracture initiates transversely at the tensile surface of a bent bone and…”
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Experimental investigation of cranial fracture initiation in blunt human head impacts by Isa, Mariyam I., Fenton, Todd W., Goots, Alexis C., Watson, Elena O., Vaughan, Patrick E., Wei, Feng

“…•Fractures initiated peripheral to the impact site in 10/12 experiments.•Fractures can initiate at multiple locations at or peripheral to the…”
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Blunt force trauma in the human mandible: An experimental investigation by Goots, Alexis, Isa, Mariyam I., Fenton, Todd W., Wei, Feng

“…There exist sparse data associating known points of mandibular impact with resultant fracture patterns. These data may provide an important foundation for…”
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The Role of Interface on the Impact Characteristics and Cranial Fracture Patterns Using the Immature Porcine Head Model by Deland, Trevor S., Niespodziewanski, Emily, Fenton, Todd W., Haut, Roger C.

“…The role of impact interface characteristics on the biomechanics and patterns of cranial fracture has not been investigated in detail, and especially for the…”
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Identifying Southwest Hispanics Using Nonmetric Traits and the Cultural Profile by Birkby, Walter H., Fenton, Todd W., Anderson, Bruce E.

“…:  Due to the increasing number of Southwest Hispanics in the United States, as well as the overwhelming number of foreign nationals that die every year trying…”
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Skull-Photo Superimposition and Border Deaths: Identification Through Exclusion and the Failure to Exclude by Fenton, Todd W., Heard, Amber N., Sauer, Norman J.

“…:  We report on the application of video skull‐photo superimposition as an identification method in a case from Ajo, Arizona in which five individuals died…”
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The Role of Interface Shape on the Impact Characteristics and Cranial Fracture Patterns Using the Immature Porcine Head Model by Vaughan, Patrick E., Vogelsberg, Caitlin C. M., Vollner, Jennifer M., Fenton, Todd W., Haut, Roger C.

“…The forensic literature suggests that when adolescents fall onto edged and pointed surfaces, depressed fractures can occur at low energy levels. This study…”
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Osteological and molecular identification of brucellosis in ancient Butrint, Albania by Mutolo, Michael J., Jenny, Lindsey L., Buszek, Amanda R., Fenton, Todd W., Foran, David R.

“…Ancient skeletal remains can harbor unique information about past civilizations at both the morphological and molecular levels. For instance, a number of…”
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Fracture Characteristics of Entrapped Head Impacts Versus Controlled Head Drops in Infant Porcine Specimens by Powell, Brian J., Passalacqua, Nicholas V., Fenton, Todd W., Haut, Roger C.

“…In many forensic cases, the job of forensic pathologists and anthropologists is to determine whether pediatric death is due to an abusive act or an accidental…”
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Classification of Porcine Cranial Fracture Patterns Using a Fracture Printing Interface by Wei, Feng, Bucak, Serhat Selçuk, Vollner, Jennifer M., Fenton, Todd W., Jain, Anil K., Haut, Roger C.

“…Distinguishing between accidental and abusive head trauma in children can be difficult, as there is a lack of baseline data for pediatric cranial fracture…”
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Age dependent mechanical properties of the infant porcine parietal bone and a correlation to the human by Baumer, Timothy G, Powell, Brian J, Fenton, Todd W, Haut, Roger C

“…An infant less than 18 months of age with a skull fracture has a one in three chance of abuse. Injury biomechanics are often used in the investigation of these…”
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Fracture Patterns on the Infant Porcine Skull Following Severe Blunt Impact by Powell, Brian J., Passalacqua, Nicholas V., Baumer, Timothy G., Fenton, Todd W., Haut, Roger C.

“…:  The objective of this study was to document patterns of fracture on infant porcine skulls aged 2–28 days (n = 57) because of a single, high energy blunt…”
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Age-Dependent Fracture Characteristics of Rigid and Compliant Surface Impacts on the Infant Skull-A Porcine Model by Baumer, Timothy G., Passalacqua, Nicholas V., Powell, Brian J., Newberry, William N., Fenton, Todd W., Haut, Roger C.

“…:  This study documents skull fracture characteristics on infant porcine specimens under known impact conditions with respect to age and interface. A single…”
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The Buhl Burial: A Paleoindian Woman from Southern Idaho by Green, Thomas J., Cochran, Bruce, Fenton, Todd W., Woods, James C., Titmus, Gene L., Tieszen, Larry, Davis, Mary Anne, Miller, Susanne J.

“…In January 1989 highway workers encountered human skeletal remains in a gravel quarry in south-central Idaho near the town of Buhl. Excavation revealed the…”
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A Fast and Safe Non-Bleaching Method for Forensic Skeletal Preparation by Fenton, TW, Birkby, WH, Cornelison, J

“…Over the last three decades, forensic anthropologists increasingly have consulted on fleshed human remains cases in which the examination of skeletal elements…”
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