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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Missing children"”.
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Representation of Missing Children in National Television News
… study examines how closely representations of missing children in television news reflect missing children statistics from "official" sources. The methodology used in this study was a content analysis of five national television news stations from 1987-2011 using the Vanderbilt Television News …
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Study to identify risk factors that predict which children will repeatedly go missing.
Missing children face significant risks and although most return safely, a number remain missing or encounter serious harm. Children who frequently run away are especially vulnerable, being more susceptible to dangers like alcohol, drugs, exploitation and sexual abuse. Therefore, the current …
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Beyond the milk carton: strategies for creating and allowing a space for engaging with personal narratives from family members about missing persons
… firstly to explore various media's coverage of missing children to probe whether they currently include the reflections and personal narratives of family members and loved ones and secondly to propose possible strategies for creating space for such content in the media. The much- publicised case …
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Developing a Computer System for the Generation of Unique Wrinkle Maps for Human Faces. Generating 2D Wrinkle Maps using Various Image Processing Techniques and the Design of 3D Facial Ageing System using 3D Modelling Tools
… life process. FA is used in security, finding missing children and other applications. It is also a form of Facial Recognition (FR) that helps identifying suspects. FA affects several parts of the human face under the influence of different biological and environmental factors. One of the major …
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Developing a Computer System for the Generation of Unique Wrinkle Maps for Human Faces. Generating 2D Wrinkle Maps using Various Image Processing Techniques and the Design of 3D Facial Ageing System using 3D Modelling Tools
… life process. FA is used in security, finding missing children and other applications. It is also a form of Facial Recognition (FR) that helps identifying suspects. FA affects several parts of the human face under the influence of different biological and environmental factors. One of the major …
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Coping with an Uncertain Loss: Aspects of Bereavement in Two Families with an Abducted Child
The problem. Assuming the form of a clinical case study, this research project was an exploratory study of the family dynamics operative when a child is abducted by a nonfamily member. The problem of the study was to investigate, compare, and categorize the coping patterns of two families against …
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Content-Moderation for End-to-End-Encrypted Platforms
… e.g., the NCMEC and FBI have published lists of missing children and persons. Having a common blocklist curated by multiple parties with different interests, will build more trust in the system than individual blocklists published by self-interested service providers. This idea poses several …
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Facial identification from online images for use in the prevention of child trafficking and exploitation
Every year, an estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked (International Labour Office, 2002). The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) received a 432% increase in child sexual abuse images for the purposes of identification between 2005 and 2009 (U.S. Department of Justice, …
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Incremental learning for large-scale stream data and its application to cybersecurity
… In previous years, if there are cases of missing children or missing cars, the victims would rely on the police investigation. But now, as easy as uploading a notification about the loss on Facebook and spread the news among Facebook users, there are more people are able to help in the …