Determination of body weight from footprint and foot outline breadth anthropometry among Melanau ethnics of Borneo island, east Malaysia for forensic investigation

Determination of body weight from footprint and foot outline breadth anthropometry among Melanau ethnics of Borneo island, east Malaysia for forensic investigation

The crime scene investigators use forensic footprint analysis to obtain vital information to solve crime. These include the estimation of stature, body weight, gender and age. Literature review shows that limited studies were conducted on body weight determination using foot impressions. This stud...

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Main Authors: T. Nataraja Moorthy, Hairunnisa Mohd Anas Khan
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Language:English
Published: Malaysian Society of Applied Biology 2016
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11826/
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spelling ukm-118262018-07-02T03:54:34Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11826/ Determination of body weight from footprint and foot outline breadth anthropometry among Melanau ethnics of Borneo island, east Malaysia for forensic investigation T. Nataraja Moorthy, Hairunnisa Mohd Anas Khan, The crime scene investigators use forensic footprint analysis to obtain vital information to solve crime. These include the estimation of stature, body weight, gender and age. Literature review shows that limited studies were conducted on body weight determination using foot impressions. This study aims to develop body weight determination models for an indigenous Melanau population residing in Borneo Island of east Malaysia from footprint and foot outline anthropometry. Footprint study results showed that breadth measurements provided better result in body weight determination than length measurements. Anthropometric measurements were made from a sample of 210 adults, with equal representation of 105 males and 105 females, following the standard procedure. Informed consent and ethical approval were obtained. The obtained data were analysed with PASW 20 computer software and developed population specific model to determine living body weight from footprint and foot outline breadth measurements. Correlation coefficient (R) values in footprint are found to be higher in the pooled sample (0.592–0.602) when compared with males (0.509–0.527) and females (0.569–0.591) separately. Correlation coefficient (R) values in foot outline are found to be higher in females (0.677-0.681) when compared with male (0.559- 0.641) and the pooled sample (0.642-0.665). Malaysian Society of Applied Biology 2016-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11826/1/45_02_21.pdf T. Nataraja Moorthy, and Hairunnisa Mohd Anas Khan, (2016) Determination of body weight from footprint and foot outline breadth anthropometry among Melanau ethnics of Borneo island, east Malaysia for forensic investigation. Malaysian Applied Biology, 45 (2). pp. 139-144. ISSN 0126-8643 http://www.mabjournal.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=565&catid=59:current-view&Itemid=56
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description The crime scene investigators use forensic footprint analysis to obtain vital information to solve crime. These include the estimation of stature, body weight, gender and age. Literature review shows that limited studies were conducted on body weight determination using foot impressions. This study aims to develop body weight determination models for an indigenous Melanau population residing in Borneo Island of east Malaysia from footprint and foot outline anthropometry. Footprint study results showed that breadth measurements provided better result in body weight determination than length measurements. Anthropometric measurements were made from a sample of 210 adults, with equal representation of 105 males and 105 females, following the standard procedure. Informed consent and ethical approval were obtained. The obtained data were analysed with PASW 20 computer software and developed population specific model to determine living body weight from footprint and foot outline breadth measurements. Correlation coefficient (R) values in footprint are found to be higher in the pooled sample (0.592–0.602) when compared with males (0.509–0.527) and females (0.569–0.591) separately. Correlation coefficient (R) values in foot outline are found to be higher in females (0.677-0.681) when compared with male (0.559- 0.641) and the pooled sample (0.642-0.665).
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author T. Nataraja Moorthy,
Hairunnisa Mohd Anas Khan,
spellingShingle T. Nataraja Moorthy,
Hairunnisa Mohd Anas Khan,
Determination of body weight from footprint and foot outline breadth anthropometry among Melanau ethnics of Borneo island, east Malaysia for forensic investigation
author_facet T. Nataraja Moorthy,
Hairunnisa Mohd Anas Khan,
author_sort T. Nataraja Moorthy,
title Determination of body weight from footprint and foot outline breadth anthropometry among Melanau ethnics of Borneo island, east Malaysia for forensic investigation
title_short Determination of body weight from footprint and foot outline breadth anthropometry among Melanau ethnics of Borneo island, east Malaysia for forensic investigation
title_full Determination of body weight from footprint and foot outline breadth anthropometry among Melanau ethnics of Borneo island, east Malaysia for forensic investigation
title_fullStr Determination of body weight from footprint and foot outline breadth anthropometry among Melanau ethnics of Borneo island, east Malaysia for forensic investigation
title_full_unstemmed Determination of body weight from footprint and foot outline breadth anthropometry among Melanau ethnics of Borneo island, east Malaysia for forensic investigation
title_sort determination of body weight from footprint and foot outline breadth anthropometry among melanau ethnics of borneo island, east malaysia for forensic investigation
publisher Malaysian Society of Applied Biology
publishDate 2016
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11826/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11826/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11826/1/45_02_21.pdf
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