SALT LAKE CITY — Greater than 81,000 American troops stay lacking from our nation’s conflicts relationship again to World Warfare II. Efforts to seek out them are ongoing.
Researchers on the College of Utah are utilizing the chemistry in tooth to develop a software to assist establish stays and unite them with their households.
“The promise is made to them after they join that they won’t be left behind, and so actually what everyone concerned on this effort is doing is making an attempt to make good on that promise,” mentioned Gabriel Bowen, the lead researcher on this undertaking, and a professor of geology and geophysics on the College of Utah.
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Researchers on the College of Utah say an individual’s tooth may also help to establish the place they’ve lived. (Picture: Winston Armani, KSL-TV)
Our tooth, very like an accent, inform a part of the story of the place we have lived with out our even realizing it, Bowen mentioned. Working with a crew of eight researchers, he’s analyzing the chemistry of tooth as a method to assist establish the stays of misplaced troopers.
“We’re making an attempt to make use of the pure chemistry of a physique as an indicator of the place somebody has lived up to now,” Bowen mentioned.
The isotopes in our tooth comprise a document of the place we have lived and people environments, the professor mentioned. Our tooth document the historical past of the place we have lived by the water.
“That chemistry is locked into the tooth,” Bowen mentioned. “It is preserved all through life, and it may be preserved for many years after a person dies. We simply have to achieve in and measure that chemistry.”
Gabriel Bowen, a professor of geology and geophysics and lead researcher in Mission FIND-EM is making ready for chemical evaluation of donated tooth. (Picture: Winston Armani, KSL-TV)
His analysis crew, working with the Protection POW/MIA Accounting Company, hopes to develop the flexibility of investigators to find out the hometown of unidentified troops. It is known as Mission FIND-EM or, Forensic Identification of our Nation’s Deceased with Factor Mapping.
Usually, investigators have some details about a gaggle of troopers they’re making an attempt to establish.
“The place the chemistry of the tooth comes into play is we will analyze that chemistry and we will use it to exclude or spotlight sure elements of the US as a possible residence for that particular person.”
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The researchers are utilizing donated molars from throughout the nation to construct a map of the place these tooth got here from. They will then examine the tooth from unidentified stays with these on the map to slim down their origin.
That chemistry is locked into the tooth. It is preserved all through life, and it may be preserved for many years after a person dies. We simply have to achieve in and measure that chemistry.
–Gabriel Bowen, College of Utah
“We’re offering a bit of the puzzle that helps them focus their search picture, and make that identification rather more successfully,” the researcher mentioned.
It is a work in progress — they’re growing the scientific information that is wanted to use this in case work.
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“If we will get that going as shortly as we hope to, this might be operational in two years and contributing routinely to the identification efforts at that time,” Bowen mentioned.
Their analysis is including to the work of many others.
“We’re simply hoping to supply one other software within the toolbox that makes that work more practical,” Bowen mentioned.
They want extra molars from throughout the nation to construct their map.
They want extra molars from throughout the nation to construct their map. You may get extra info on Mission FIND-EM by clicking right here.
Atlanta Hawks (18-18, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (9-25, 14th in the Western Conference)
Salt Lake City; Tuesday, 9 p.m. EST
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BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta will aim to break its three-game road skid when the Hawks face Utah.
The Jazz have gone 2-12 at home. Utah allows the most points in the Western Conference, giving up 118.4 points and is allowing opponents to shoot 47.8%.
The Hawks are 8-11 on the road. Atlanta is eighth in the league with 12.1 offensive rebounds per game led by Clint Capela averaging 3.3.
The Jazz are shooting 46.1% from the field this season, 1.5 percentage points lower than the 47.6% the Hawks allow to opponents. The Hawks average 117.1 points per game, 1.3 fewer than the 118.4 the Jazz allow.
TOP PERFORMERS: John Collins is averaging 17.9 points and 8.3 rebounds for the Jazz.
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Jalen Johnson is averaging 19.8 points, 10.1 rebounds, 5.3 assists and 1.5 steals for the Hawks.
LAST 10 GAMES: Jazz: 4-6, averaging 114.7 points, 47.6 rebounds, 25.3 assists, 7.2 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 46.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.0 points per game.
Hawks: 4-6, averaging 118.1 points, 43.3 rebounds, 29.3 assists, 11.2 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 47.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 121.4 points.
INJURIES: Jazz: Keyonte George: out (heel), John Collins: out (personal), Jordan Clarkson: day to day (plantar ), Taylor Hendricks: out for season (fibula), Lauri Markkanen: out (back).
Hawks: Kobe Bufkin: out for season (shoulder), Larry Nance Jr.: out (hand), Bogdan Bogdanovic: day to day (leg), Jalen Johnson: out (shoulder), Cody Zeller: day to day (personal).
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (KSL.com) — Unified police on Saturday located the body of a missing woman in a remote location in Tooele County. The woman was murdered, police say, and now they are looking for her “violent ex-boyfriend” in connection with her death.
On Thursday, the family of Talia Benward reported to Unified police that she was missing.
“As the investigation developed and evidence was gathered, it became evident Talia Benward was either being held against her will by a violent ex-boyfriend or was deceased,” Unified police said in a statement Sunday.
Beginning in the early morning hours on Saturday, police searched a remote area of Tooele County where they thought she could be. The large area is “covered with tall brush and cedar trees” and was being conducted in “nearly total darkness and frigid snowy conditions.”
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Benward’s body was located at 5:20 a.m. Saturday with the assistance of the Salt Lake City and Weber County K-9 teams, police said.
“Preliminarily, it appears the victim may have suffered from blunt force trauma and trauma to her neck area,” the statement says.
The Unified Police Department is treating Benward’s death as a homicide and is asking for the public’s help in locating Nestor Rocha-Aguayo, 24, of West Valley City, who they say is a person of interest. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 801-840-4000.
“We do believe he is still in Salt Lake County and are asking individuals to not confront him but to call police,” the statement says.
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A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives.
On Jan. 5, 1974, a major winter storm moved across southern Utah, dropping more than a foot of snow on Kanab and St. George and causing numerous traffic accidents.
Nationally, year-round daylight saving time had begun in the U.S. on a trial basis as a fuel-saving measure in response to the OPEC oil embargo.
But Californians, southern Nevadans and residents of Utah’s Dixie — where the sun always shined was dealing with a soggy storm track. The rarely seen snowstorms, snarled traffic all along I-15. Victorville, California, reported 21 inches of fluffy snow on Jan. 4.
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In St. George, a storm had hit on New Year’s Day, then on Jan. 4-5, the snow hit the Arizona Strip, Washington and Kane counties and beyond.
According to the Deseret News, ”a population explosion of snowmen and snowball fights” were reported. The same Deseret News article reported many St. George residents walked to church rather than risk the drive on icy roads.
Storms in that area of the state — usually the Beehive State’s winter playground — are rare but not unheard of. Similar storms in 1894, 1919, 1993, 2006, 2007 and 2008 found their way into the record books.
But on Jan. 5, 10 inches fell in St. George.
Here are some articles from Deseret News archives about snow in southern Utah, why snowbirds love to fly to St. George and Utah’s weather history:
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“Snow hits Utah from Ogden to St. George”
“Rare coating of snow in Dixie creates travel troubles”
“‘83 floods top Utah’s ‘disaster’ list: Tornado, avalanche, cold also rank high for century
“Snowbirds flocking to St. George”
Snow blankets palm trees and redrock in St. George on Thursday, Dec.18, 2008, after storms moved across the area. The storm closed schools, delayed flights and caused problems on the roads.
“Rare snowstorm traps I-15 motorists overnight on Arizona Strip”
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“Snow in Utah’s Dixie”
“The snow is a gift that I don’t really want anymore”
The front page of the Deseret News Metro section on Jan. 7, 1974, recapping a weekend of snow accumulation in Utah’s Dixie, including 10 inches of snow that fell on Dec. 5.
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