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Cooling rates of dummies under various degrees of air humidity, wind speed and air temperature
Includes bibliographical references.
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2014
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| author | Mfolozi, Sipho |
| author2 | Martin, Lorna |
| author_browse | Martin, Lorna Mfolozi, Sipho |
| author_facet | Martin, Lorna Mfolozi, Sipho |
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| description | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
| language | eng |
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| publishDate | 2014 |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/2697 Cooling rates of dummies under various degrees of air humidity, wind speed and air temperature Mfolozi, Sipho Martin, Lorna Pathology Includes bibliographical references. Henssge observed that even a slight but permanent air movement accelerates cooling of a naked body significantly. However in those experimental studies the rate of air movement was not quantified. Today Henssge’s Nomogram method of thermometric thanatochronometry (mathematic estimation of the post-mortem interval using body temperature measurements) is used the world over and utilises various corrective factors for naked and clothed bodies in still/moving air. The purpose of this research was to correlate measured air flow rates (wind speed) and measured relative air humidity levels (RH) with post-mortem cooling rate in order to formulate appropriate corrective factors to be used with Henssge’s Nomogram. The effect of air flow rates and air humidity on the post-mortem cooling curve was studied within a range of air temperatures using gel-based models (Cooling Dummies) as substitutes for human bodies. 2014-07-28T08:14:05Z 2014-07-28T08:14:05Z 2013 Master Thesis Masters MMed http://hdl.handle.net/11427/2697 eng application/pdf Division of Chemical Pathology Faculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Pathology Mfolozi, Sipho Cooling rates of dummies under various degrees of air humidity, wind speed and air temperature |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Cooling rates of dummies under various degrees of air humidity, wind speed and air temperature |
| title_full | Cooling rates of dummies under various degrees of air humidity, wind speed and air temperature |
| title_fullStr | Cooling rates of dummies under various degrees of air humidity, wind speed and air temperature |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cooling rates of dummies under various degrees of air humidity, wind speed and air temperature |
| title_short | Cooling rates of dummies under various degrees of air humidity, wind speed and air temperature |
| title_sort | cooling rates of dummies under various degrees of air humidity wind speed and air temperature |
| topic | Pathology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/2697 |
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