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the set of operations which establish, under specified conditions, the relationship between values indicated by a measuring instrument or measuring system, or values represented by a material, and the corresponding known values of a measurement.
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the hard copy case folder which contains all or part of the documentation forming the case record.
- Browse Related Terms: Administrative (or Laboratory Director) Case File Review, Analyst, Analytical Data, Audit, Case File, Case Record, Laboratory Director (or Administrative) Case File Review, Notes, Technical Casework Review
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the approach for setting up a logical methodology for acceptance, analytical work, priority, transfer, and return related to work conducted.
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all notes, reports, custody records, charts, analytical data, and any correspondence generated in the laboratory pertaining to a particular case, which may be located in the hard copy case folder or the LIMS.
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disease or injury that initiates the lethal train of events leading to death.
- Browse Related Terms: Absolute Certainty, Algor mortis, Ante mortem, Arson, Cause of death, Coroner, Equivocal death, Exsanguination, Forensic Pathology, Hypostasis, Hypothermia, Manner of death, Medical Examiner, postmortem, Rigor mortis, Theory, Trauma
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the presence of a large amount of water in the spaces of the brain.
- Browse Related Terms: Accelerant, Asphyxiation, Back spatter, Bloodstain, Cerebral edema, Contact wound, Spatter, Stippling, Subarachnoid hemorrhage, Subdural hematoma
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a document that reports and certifies the test results of a product.
- Browse Related Terms: Certificate of Analysis, Certified Reference Material, Crime scene, Desirable, Essential, Evidence Submission Form, Fire Debris, Integrated Ballistics Information System (IBIS), Known Standard, Laboratory Personnel, Operations Manual, Peer, protocol, Quality, Scene, Submission, Submitting Agency, Technical Operations, Turnaround Time
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a reference material or standard whose property values are certified by a valid procedure or are accompanied by or traceable to a certificate or other documentation is issued by a recognized certifying body.
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a record of individuals who have had physical possession of the evidence.
- Browse Related Terms: Administrative documentation, Ballistics, chain of custody, Corroborating evidence, Crime/Forensic Laboratory, Drug Standards Inventory, Evidence Inventory, Laboratory Satellite, Laboratory System, Property Inventory
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a list of recognized chemicals and toxic substances present in the laboratory facilities.
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the pattern of separated substances obtained by chromatography.
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a method for separating mixtures based on differences in the speed at which they migrate over or through a stationary phase.
- Browse Related Terms: Accuracy, Base pair, chromatography, electrophoresis, Error Rate, gel, Genetics, Mass spectrometers, Mass spectrometry, Probability, Root Cause Analysis, Solvents, Testable, Tomography
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an employee of the laboratory responsible for administration and security of the laboratory’s CODIS at a laboratory that owns the database and/or known samples.
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a DNA database system
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the evaluation of a person’s ability to perform work in any functional area prior to the performance of independent casework.
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an abnormality, such as a spinal column defect, present at birth.
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a skin injury produced by a weapon in contact with or a fraction of an inch from the skin when discharged.
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short, defined periods of formal job-related instruction (including but not limited to professional meetings) provided to members of a Forensic Laboratory for the purpose of enhancing job knowledge, skills, or abilities. Documentation of such training is to be kept on file in the Quality Manager’s Office.
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a test with predictable results performed with an experimental procedure to confirm the reliability of the experimental results.
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a drug or chemical whose manufacture, possession, and use are regulated by a government.
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