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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Missing people"”.
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Fabulous Khoisan:the politics of apoliticality in the indigenous Khoisan revivalism movement in South Africa; an exploration of sincerity,stickiness and fabulation in the emergence of a missing people
… the emergence of a resilient and marginalised “missing people.” whose identities are continuously shaped through historical struggles and contemporary aspirations. Rejecting essentialist notions of race, “mixedness,” and authenticity, this study positions “sincerity” as central to understanding …
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A Deep Learning Based Real-time Pedestrian Recognition System
… security applications, such as loss prevention, missing people identification, etc. A deep learning-based detection framework and customized feature identification algorithms are combined to address this technical challenge. Our system is scalable to a large number of video feeds.
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Between memory and history: Shimon Attie's art of remembrance
… of Berlin and wondered “Where are all the missing people?” With this question in mind, Attie embarked on a two year project that involved converting black and white archival photographs of pre-war Jewish life in Berlin into slides and projecting them onto the sites they were originally …
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Completing an autistic missing persons protocol: assessing form efficacy and user experience
<b>Purpose</b>. The risks and challenges of missing episodes in individuals with ASD could be considered greater than those of non-ASD individuals as those with ASD often have an impaired sense of danger and may leave a safe environment in order to reach a preferred person, interest or place or to …
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A Critical Evaluation of the Usefulness of Criteria-Based Content Analysis for Judging the Credibility of Public Appeals for Missing Persons
… to adults’ statements from public appeals for missing people. Given the previous research emphasis on psychological and social psychological perspectives, however, the research brought to bear insights from broadly conceived discourse analytic methodology, utilising concepts from Gricean …
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Helpful and unhelpful elements of support for families with missing loved ones
UK police receive a call about a missing person every 90 seconds and limited existing research suggests families left behind to cope with the ambiguous loss of a missing loved one will experience a range of problematic emotions which often leads to physical symptoms and deteriorating health. This …
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A Study of Human Body Movement in Inland Waterways
Missing person behaviour datasets and other literature highlight that a significant proportion of missing people are found dead in water. Despite this, there is little knowledge to assist search operatives and investigators in establishing how human bodies move in an aquatic environment, which can …
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Automatic age progression and estimation from faces
… Among these is the frequent search for missing people, in the UK alone up to 300,000 people are reported missing every year. Although many algorithms have been proposed, most of the methods are affected by image noise, illumination variations, and facial expressions. Furthermore, most of …
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Forensic Archaeology and the use of data paradigms in the search for concealed victims of homicide in the Republic of Ireland
… thesis is to improve on the search practices for missing people who are believed to have come to harm and to do this through the extension of the forensic archaeological search approach to include statistics on homicides. This research is based on the theory that the analysis of primary data in …
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THE MANY FACES OF REGENERATION: ENGINEERING MULTIFUNCTIONAL SCAFFOLDS FOR CRANIOMAXILLOFACIAL APPLICATIONS
… defect is a part of the lower jaw where bone is missing. People affected by large mandibular defects face consequences that go far beyond esthetics. For example, they often struggle to chew or speak, and this can affect daily life and overall well-being. Mandibular defects can arise from …