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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Missing persons"”.
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In the galleria of missing persons
The title of my thesis is In The Galleria Of Missing Persons. It is a collection of prose narrative, and lyrical poems based on themes of identity and memory. Using memory as the primary lens for exploration, my intent was to focus on how 'identity' is multiplied or made other by major shifts in …
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(In)visibility and missing persons: Desperately seeking certainty
… thesis is an exploration of (in)visibility and missing persons, specifically the impact of the police response to reports of missing persons and subsequent investigations into the disappearance of people. The literature review builds on a review of harm and missing persons in which invisibility …
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Aspects of Police Search and Rescue Work for Missing Persons in Canada
… while hiding atop a mountain. These are real missing persons cases, revealed through my extensive research conducted with police in Canada who perform one of the most critical and least understood tasks within policing: search and rescue (SAR). While many missing persons cases reported to the …
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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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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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The forensic, the missing and the memorial: how missing persons of apartheid state sanctioned violence are memorialised through the mediation of the work of the forensic
… is concerned with a text panel titled, ‘THE MISSING’ and a display cabinet that contains exhumed artefacts recovered alongside human remains of persons categorised as missing on exhibit at the //hapo museum at Freedom Park Heritage Site, located in Pretoria, South Africa. The question this …
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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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FACING REALITY: THE BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES OF FACIAL RECOGNITION FOR THE NYPD
… violent crime, identify wanted individuals, find missing persons as well as assist in mental health situations and post-event investigations. Real-time FRT can help the NYPD meet its mission by reducing fear, increasing resiliency, and adding a layer of protection for citizens riding in the New …
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Racemization of Amino Acids in Teeth for the Determination of Age
… key evidence to criminal cases, resolution to missing persons, and assistance in mass or natural disasters. Identification of remains in an effort to determine age is an area of forensics that has received considerable attention. Traditional methods in age determination such as morphology are …
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Reading smallness: micro-spatial constructions in South Africa's literature of the interregnum
… side is a compost hole from Ivan Vladislavić's Missing Persons (1989) – an evocator of the neuroses at the ‘heart of apartheid' – and, on the other, a one-room shack from Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying (1995) – an ostensible symbol of an early post-apartheid imaginary. The discussion stretching …
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Violence, Causality, and the Emergence of Mexico's General Law on Forced Disappearance
… measure of its kind to address the phenomenon of missing persons amidst rising insecurity. At the time of its enactment and after eleven years of extreme violence coinciding with the drug war, more than 35,000 people were considered officially disappeared. Today, it is widely suspected this figure …
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CRANIOMETRIC ESTIMATION OF ANCESTRY IN PEOPLES OF INDIA
… law enforcement can be critical in identifying missing persons (Ross, et al., 2004; Spradley, et al., 2008 Cox, et al., 2009; Ousley, et al., 2009). A biological profile often consists of sex, age at death, stature, and ancestry, and various methods are available to aid the forensic …
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CRANIOMETRIC ESTIMATION OF ANCESTRY IN PEOPLES OF INDIA
… law enforcement can be critical in identifying missing persons (Ross, et al., 2004; Spradley, et al., 2008 Cox, et al., 2009; Ousley, et al., 2009). A biological profile often consists of sex, age at death, stature, and ancestry, and various methods are available to aid the forensic …
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Geographic Origin Estimation of Latin American Individuals Using Craniometric Data
… samples need to be reassessed to narrow down the missing persons list and help facilitate identifications of unidentified remains.
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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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What Spins Away
… process, of searching for a brother who has been missing for ten years, discovers that his inability to commit to a job or his primary relationships is both the result of his history with that older missing brother, and his own misconceptions about the meaning of that history. On a formal level, …
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Optimizing Search and Rescue Canine Welfare and Performance
… essential in disaster response and locating missing persons. However, their unique physiological and psychological needs are often underappreciated, insufficiently understood, or deprioritized in favor of mission objectives. In this dissertation, I apply the tactical athlete framework, …
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Ett massmedium för folket : studier i de allmänna kungörelsernas funktion i 1700-talets samhälle
… information about things lost and found, about missing persons, criminals at large, advice on how to cure or prevent diseases, new methods in farming etc were also announced from the pulpits. An important result is that the Swedish rural population received much more information about the …
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