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  Website Feature Requirements for Use in a Subsequent Piece of Work
 
C-Table

a. In-text references to all relevant contributors to the C-Table in the form of their original manuscript publications (see C-Table contributor list); AND

b. In-text references to
Stephan, CN and Simpson, EK (2008) Facial Soft Tissue Depths in Craniofacial Identification (Part I): An Analytical Review of the Published Adult Data. Journal of Forensic Sciences 53(6): 1257-1272;
OR
Stephan CN, Simpson EK, Byrd JE. (2013) Facial soft tissue depth satistics and enhanced point estimators for craniofacial identification: the debut of the shorth and 75-shormax. Journal of Forensic Sciences 58(6): 1439-1457.
 
T-Table

a. In-text references to all papers used to generate the T-Table (see reference lists included with the T-Tables); AND

b. In-text references to:
Stephan, CN and Simpson, EK (2008) Facial Soft Tissue Depths in Craniofacial Identification (Part I): An Analytical Review of the Published Adult Data. Journal of Forensic Sciences 53(6): 1257-1272;
OR
Stephan, CN and Simpson EK (2008) Facial Soft Tissue Depths in Craniofacial Identification (Part II): An Analytical Review of the Published Subadult Data. Journal of Forensic Sciences 53(6): 1273-1279; AND

c. In-text references to:
Stephan CN. (2013) The Application of the Central Limit Theorem and the Law of Large Numbers to Facial Soft Tissue Depths: T-Table Robustness and Trends since 2008. Journal of Forensic Sciences 59(2): 454–462.
OR
Stephan CN. (2018) Tallied Facial Soft Tissue Thicknesses: Adult and Sub-Adult Data. Forensic Science International. 280:113-123.

 
BodyPlot
 In-text references to:
a. Stephan CN, Preisler R, Bulut O, Bennett M. (2016) Turning the tables of sex distinction in craniofacial identification: Why females possess thicker facial soft tissues than males, not vice versa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 2016; 161: 283-295; AND

b. Stephan CN, Meikle B, Bennett M. (2021) Body mass in human facial soft tissue thickness research: A lurking v ariable widely misinterpreted for other effects. Forensic Science International. In review.                                
 
EasyECD
 In-text references to:
a. Walsh S, Liu F, Ballantyne KN, van Oven M, Lao O, Kayser M. IrisPlex: A sensitive DNA tool for accurate prediction of blue and brown eye colour in the absence of ancestry information. Forensic Science International: Genetics 2011;5(3):170-80; AND

b. Rollo RF, Ovenden JR, Dudgeon CL, Bennett MB, Tucker K, Stephan CN. (2018) The Utility of the IrisPlex System for Estimating Iris Colour of Australians from their DNA. Forensic Science International. Under Review.
 
QuickCapture

In-text references to:
a. Claude, J (2008) Morphometrics with R. Springer: New York; AND

b. Stephan CN and Guyomarc'h, P. (2014), Quantification of Perspective-Induced Shape Change of Clavicles at Radiography and 3D Scanning to Assist Human Identification. Journal of Forensic Sciences 59(2): 447–453.
 
PerspectiveX

In-text references to one of the following (depends on which one applies):
a. Stephan CN. (2015) Perspective Distortion in Craniofacial Superimposition: Logarithmic Decay Curves Mapped Mathematically and by Practical Experiment. Forensic Science International; 257: e1-e8.
AND/OR
b. Stephan CN. (2017) Estimating the skull-to-camera distance from facial photographs for craniofacial superimposition. Journal of Forensic Sciences;62(4):850-60.
 
SkullProfiler

In-text references to the following four manuscripts:
a. Caple JM., Byrd JE. Stephan CN. (2018) The utility of elliptical Fourier analysis for estimating ancestry and sex from lateral skull photographs. Forensic Science International 289: 352-362. AND

b. Caple JM., Byrd JE. Stephan CN. (2017) Elliptical Fourier analysis: fundamentals, applications, and value for forensic anthropology. International Journal of Legal Medicine; 131(6): 1675-1690; AND

c. Claude, J (2008) Morphometrics with R. Springer: New York; AND

d. Stephan CN and Guyomarc'h, P. (2014), Quantification of Perspective-Induced Shape Change of Clavicles at Radiography and 3D Scanning to Assist Human Identification. Journal of Forensic Sciences 59(2): 447–453.
 
SkullXtremes

In-text references to:
a. Caple JM & Stephan CN. (2017) Photo-realistic statistical skull morphotypes: new exemplars for ancestry and sex estimation in forensic anthropology. Journal of Forensic Sciences; 62(3):562-72; AND

b. Tiddeman B, Burt M, Perrett D. (2001) Computer graphics in facial perception research. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications;21(5):42-50.

 

Skull Averages
by Caple & Stephan

In-text references to:
a. Caple JM & Stephan CN. (2017) Photo-realistic statistical skull morphotypes: new exemplars for ancestry and sex estimation in forensic anthropology. Journal of Forensic Sciences; 62(3):562-72; AND

b. Tiddeman B, Burt M, Perrett D. (2001) Computer graphics in facial perception research. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications;21(5):42-50.

 
TraumaVision
In-text references to:
Stephan CN, Caple J, Atkins J, Lynch J, Meikle B, Fisk W. Skeletal Evidence of Sharp–Force Disarticulation and Tissue Flensing in 54 Cases Exhibiting Approximately 4,200 Bone Strike Injuries. In Ross A & Cuhna E (Eds.) Dismemberment: Perspectives in Forensic Anthropology and Legal Medicine. Elsevier. 2018. In press .
 
TDStats

In-text references to:
Stephan CN (2018) TDStats - a capability for standardized facial soft tissue thickness analysis in R. Forensic Science International 289: 304-309.
OR
Stephan CN, Simpson EK, Byrd JE. (2013) Facial soft tissue depth satistics and enhanced point estimators for craniofacial identification: the debut of the shorth and 75-shormax. Journal of Forensic Sciences 58(6): 1439-1457.
 
TDStats
Output Zip Files from the latest C-Table

In-text references to:
a. Stephan CN, Simpson EK, Byrd JE. (2013) Facial soft tissue depth satistics and enhanced point estimators for craniofacial identification: the debut of the shorth and 75-shormax. Journal of Forensic Sciences 58(6): 1439-1457.

b. In-text references to all relevant contributors to the C-Table in the form of their original manuscript publications (see C-Table contributor list); AND

c. In-text references to:
Stephan, CN and Simpson, EK (2008) Facial Soft Tissue Depths in Craniofacial Identification (Part I): An Analytical Review of the Published Adult Data. Journal of Forensic Sciences 53(6): 1257-1272.
 
TDValidator

In-text references to:
Stephan CN, Meikle B, Freudenstein N, Taylor R, Claes P. (2019) Facial soft tissue thicknesses in craniofacial identification: data collection protocols and associated measurement errors. Forensic Science International. In review.