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Review of: Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward
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Inference-based forensics for extracting information from diverse sources
TL;DR: This research presents an energy-based approach to extract information from diverse sources using nanofiltration membranes for the recovery of phosphorous with a second type of technology for the extraction of nitrogen.
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Teaching an Application of Bayes' Rule for Legal Decision-Making: Measuring the Strength of Evidence
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that one can present Bayes' Rule in the classroom through a hypothetical, yet realistic, legal scenario designed to spur the interests of students in introductory- and intermediate-level statistics classes.
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Trawling Genetic Databases: When a DNA Match is Just a Naked Statistic
Nicholas Scurich,Richard S. John +1 more
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that mock jurors are less likely to convict when a DNA match arises from a database trawl compared to a conventional confirmation case, while the probability judgments of guilt did not differ between the cases.
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Virtual tool mark generation for efficient striation analysis.
TL;DR: In a study with both sides of six screwdriver tips and 34 corresponding marks, the method distinguished known matches from known nonmatches with zero false‐positive matches and two false‐negative matches, suggesting that the method could save time for examiners.
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A crisis for the future of forensic science: Lessons from the UK of the importance of epistemology for funding research and development.
Ruth M. Morgan,E.A. Levin +1 more
TL;DR: Analysis of forensic science research funded by UK Research and Innovation research councils (2009-2018) offers insight into the scale of the funding crisis in forensic science in the UK, and the need to increase the resources available, to develop ways of articulating value and to ensure that both technological and foundational research are enabled.