UID:
almafu_9958131067402883
Format:
1 online resource (233 p.)
ISBN:
1-282-28544-0
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9786612285448
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0-08-092001-2
Content:
While there is no such thing as a perfect match in the field of forensic comparative science, Forensic Comparative Science: Qualitative Quantitative Source Determination of Unique Impressions, Images, and Objects provides the experience, understanding, and judgment, necessary for concluding whether two unique images share common origin from a unique and persistent source. Knowing there will be ranges of different levels of details throughout images, the expert must be able to comprehend when a sufficient quality and quantity of details is reached to render a judgment. By utilizing a
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; Forensic Comparative Science; Copyright Page; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter 1: Recognizing Belief; Forensic Comparative Science; Training in Forensic Comparative Science; Seeking the Truth In Science; Biases; Knowing and Believing; The Role of Doubt in Knowing and Believing Truth; Subjectivity and Objectivity; Judgment in Science; Insight; Intelligibility and Instrumentality of Science; Some Prevalent Philosophies of Explaining Science; Logic in Science; Laws of Science; References; Chapter 2: Believing Recognition; The Visual System; Visual Intelligence
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AttentionWorking Memory; Grouping; Parsing; Figure and Ground; Configural Processing; References; Chapter 3: Unique and Persistent Surfacesof the Source; The Law of Uniqueness in Nature; Form and Pattern; The Role of Terminology and Mathematics in Describing Generalities in Nature; Adequacy of Models in Science; Unique Natural Patterns; Developmental Noise; Identical Twins Are Not Identical; Symmetry and Asymmetry; Unnatural Repeatable Features; Persistency of Features; Understanding the Source; Images of the Source; Tolerance; References; Chapter 4: Ranges of Levels of Details in Images
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Ranges of Levels of DetailsReferences; Chapter 5: Qualitative Quantitative Relationship of Details; Quality and Quantity; Judgments; Agreement and Disagreement; References; Chapter 6: Analysis, Analysis, Comparison, Evaluation, and Verification; AACE+V; Recurring, Reversing, Blending Application of AACE; Verification; Judgments within AACE; Analysis; Comparison; Evaluation; Conclusions; References; Chapter 7: Fractures, Tears, and Separations; Natural and Unnatural Fractures and Separations within Natural and Unnatural Objects; Naturally Uncontrolled Separations of Natural Objects
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Unnatural Separations of Natural ObjectsNatural Separations of Unnatural Objects; The Examination; Conclusions; Bibliography; Chapter 8: Tools and Guns; Tools; Tool Marks; Guns; Major Components of a Gun; Striated Marks; Impressed Marks; Conclusions; Bibliography; Chapter 9: Shoes and Tires; Shoes; Shoe or Tire Prints; Smooth Soles; Tire Prints; Conclusions; Bibliography; Chapter 10: Surface Structures on a Body; Skin; Other Skin Prints and Images; Conclusions; Biblography; Chapter 11: It Just Does Not Matter; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-373582-3
Language:
English
