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Review of: Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward
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Bayesian hierarchical modeling for the forensic evaluation of handwritten documents
TL;DR: A chronology of key events and events leading up to and including the USGS raid on the Yugoslavia in June 2003 are recounted.
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Creating and Assessing an Information Literacy Component in an Undergraduate Specialized Science Class
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors designed a course combining information literacy instruction with forensic science professional seminars and found that the majority of students (75 percent) showed improvement in information literacy skill levels by the end of the course.
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Adapting the Chumbley Score to Match Striae on Land Engraved Areas (LEAs) of Bullets
Ganesh Krishnan,Heike Hofmann +1 more
TL;DR: This work investigates the applicability of the Chumbley method, developed for screwdriver markings, for same‐source identification of striations on bullet LEAs, and provides methods to identify parameters that minimize error rates for matching of LEAs.
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Evaluation of the applicability of regression equations for sorting commingled remains on 3-Dimensional bony elements from CT scans.
TL;DR: It was showed that on the selected specimens the quality of the surface of the reconstructed specimens compromised the efficacy of the models, and consequently the reliability of the results.
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Media and the Criminal Justice System
TL;DR: In this article, the CSI effect was found to be correlated with the use of forensic technology in crime dramas such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CSI: CSI), which limited prosecutors' ability to obtain a conviction without DNA or other forensic evidence.