Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, X-10, 4500S, Rm. E-147, MS 6120, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6120, USA.
Forensic Sci Int. 2011 Jan 30;204(1-3):34-40. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.04.052.
The following manuscript details our initial attempt at developing universal post-mortem interval formulas describing human decomposition. These formulas are empirically derived from data collected over the last 20 years from the University of Tennessee's Anthropology Research Facility, in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. Two formulas were developed (surface decomposition and burial decomposition) based on temperature, moisture, and the partial pressure of oxygen, as being three of the four primary drivers for human decomposition. It is hoped that worldwide application of these formulas to environments and situations not readily studied in Tennessee will result in interdisciplinary cooperation between scientists and law enforcement personnel that will allow for future refinements of these models leading to increased accuracy.
以下手稿详细介绍了我们首次尝试开发通用的死后间隔公式来描述人类分解。这些公式是根据过去 20 年从美国田纳西州诺克斯维尔的田纳西大学人类学研究设施收集的数据经验得出的。根据温度、湿度和氧气分压这四个主要驱动人类分解的因素，开发了两种公式（表面分解和埋葬分解）。希望将这些公式应用于田纳西州以外不易研究的环境和情况，能够促进科学家和执法人员之间的跨学科合作，从而对这些模型进行未来的改进，提高准确性。
