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Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 610639, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/610639
Research Article

Using Estimated On-Site Ambient Temperature Has Uncertain Benefit When Estimating Postmortem Interval

Laurent Dourel, Thierry Pasquerault, Emmanuel Gaudry, and Benoît Vincent

Département Entomologie, Institut de Recherche Criminelle de la Gendarmerie Nationale, 1 Boulevard Théophile Sueur, 93111 Rosny-Sous-Bois Cedex, France

Received 4 September 2009; Accepted 21 March 2010

Academic Editor: David Denlinger

Copyright © 2010 Laurent Dourel et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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