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                            Funding & Awards
 Estimation of Biological Parameters for Human Identification in cases of Missing Persons, Mass Disasters, and Human Rights Violations.
Award Information
Awardee
              University of South Florida Board of Trustees
Award #
              2008-DN-BX-K163
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    Tampa, FL
Congressional District
              14
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2008
Total funding (to date)
              $311,115
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 08 Research and Development in Forensic Anthropology and Odontology: Invited Full Proposals
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2008, $311,115)
The applicant proposes to increase the accuracy of the models used to determine the age, sex and ancestry of unidentified dead from skeletal and dental remains by expanding the sample set use to develop those models through incorporation of osteometric and morphological data from contemporary African populations and comparing that data to that of existing European and North American populations.  The more, and the more diverse the samples of skeletal and dental remains available for comparison, the better the analytical models in use to determine the sex, age and ancestry of an individual from a few bone or tooth fragments, and so the better the probability that the individual to who those fragments belong can be identified.  Put simply, if you find a piece of bone, the density, size and shape of that bone could tell you if an individual was a male or female and how old they were.  The accuracy with which you can determine that information depends on the accuracy of the parameters of the statistical model you are using.  The accuracy of that model depends on the number and diversity of the samples that went into building it.
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                      Comparison of the Patterns and Degrees of Sexual Dimorphism Among Crania From Late 19th to Early 20th Century West Africans, African Americans, and European Americans
                  Estimation of Biological Parameters for Human Identification in Cases of Missing Persons, Mass Disasters, and Human Rights Violations

  
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