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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Polygraph"”.
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Polygraph testing in the South African workplace : the law and practice
… evidence obtained by the use of lie detector (polygraph) tests comes under scrutiny as far as the admissibility and weight of such evidence is concerned. This research paper will recommend and conclude the following: 1. Constitutional guarantees are sacrosanct as enshrined in Sections …
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Akurasi penggunaan polygraph sebagai alat bantu pembuktian menurut hukum acara Peradilan Agama
INDONESIA: Polygraph merupakan salah satu produk ilmu pengetahuan dan trend perkembangan teknologi. Polygraph yang dibuat pertama kali oleh William Marston awalnya dipakai sebagai pendeteksi kebohongan oleh departemen kepolisian serta agen-agen rahasia seperti FBI dan CIA. Alat ini akan melacak …
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The consistency of the use of the polygraph exam during the selection process among law enforcement agencies
… the use of and the consistency of use of the polygraph exam by law enforcement agencies throughout the United States as part of the screening process to find suitable applicants for employment as police officers. The polygraph exam can be a valuable tool for law enforcement agencies to use in …
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Polygraph testing in the workplace in South Africa : with reflections on the international labour organization standards, United States of America and Federal Republic of Germany
[page 189 missing] This thesis deals with polygraph testing in the South African workplace, which is used in the hiring, disciplining and dismissing of workers. Since the mid-1990s, South Africa's industry has experienced extensive use of polygraph testing, and the trend continues to grow. …
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Polygraph testing in the workplace in South Africa with reflections on the international labour organization standards, United States of America and Federal Republic of Germany
This thesis deals with polygraph testing in the South African workplace, which is used in the hiring, disciplining and dismissing of workers. Since the mid-1990s, South Africa's industry has experienced extensive use of polygraph testing, and the trend continues to grow. Polygraph test results are …
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The Use of an Enhanced Polygraph Scoring Technique in Homeland Security : The Empirical Scoring System --Making a Difference
This thesis studies the polygraph Empirical Scoring System (ESS) to determine its potential use in homeland security and the war on terror. The research based its analysis on raw data previously collected by other researchers, who removed identifications from the data and subsequently provided it …
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An electromyographic study of the orbicularis oris muscle of cerebral palsied spastic hemiplegics
… of the orbicularis oris muscle. A six channel Polygraph Grass Model 5A was used with paired surface electrodes attached to each quadrant of the lips and connected to four channels of the Polygraph. When the lips were at rest, no muscle activity was detected for either group. When the lips were …
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Expert Evidence, Juries and the Search for Truth: A Case Study Analysis
… penultimate chapter considers the possibility of polygraph evidence being used in criminal trials. There is evidence that a properly conducted polygraph is between 70% and 90% accurate. Evidence from the field of human psychology is that, in the absence of corroborating information, human beings …
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Effects of deceptive behavior on biomechanical measures of standing posture
… physiological changes, and include polygraph testing, voice stress analysis, brain activity analysis, and thermal scanners. However, the use of these techniques in natural environments is limited as they often require intrusive sensors to be attached to the body. These limitations …
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Mapping the works of Manuel de Pedrolo in relation to the post-civil war Catalan landscape
Polygraph author Manuel de Pedrolo stands as one of the most prolific Catalan writers in the twentieth century. Furthermore, he is a figure unquestionably associated with Catalan identity and the region’s struggle for self-determination. His corpus comprises over one hundred and twenty titles – …
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Toward Enhancing Automated Credibility Assessment: A Model for Question Type Classification and Tools for Linguistic Analysis
… MQTM was tested on responses to real-world pre-polygraph examination questions in which guilty (n = 27) and innocent (n = 20) interviewees were interviewed. The responses were grouped according to question type and the linguistic cues from each groups' transcripts were compared using independent …
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Students' attitudes toward unions and employment rights issues: a preliminary investigation
… employment rights issues (e.g., drug testing, polygraphs, privacy, and scheduling work). Such groups of new labor force entrants include forthcoming college graduates. This study, therefore, investigates employment rights issues and attitudes toward unions in a sample of college students. More …
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Mandibular Resting Posture : An Electromyographic Evaluation
… enclose the experimental subject and a 5P5 polygraph was used to conduct, amplify and record the bioelectric potentials elicited from the contracting muscles.</p> <p>Electrodes of the surface type, silver disc, monopolar, were attached to the middle belly of temporalis and the masseter …
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Subvocalization and Stuttering
… activity, were obtained with a GRASS Model 7 polygraph and recorded on a strip printer during a verbal-listening task. Each subject heard ten groups of five words each. Five of the ten word-groups were comprised of words with bilabial sounds (/p/, /b I, /m/). The other five groups had words …
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Unfolding Imagos: an inquiry into the aesthetics of Action-Phenomenology
… story of connecting a plant—a dracaena cane—to a polygraph. The story relates the plant’s responses to a researcher imagining harming it; plant becoming attuned to human; yoghurt responding to death of remote microbes. This leads to altered ways of knowing and being not often in our consciousness; …
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An Empirical Exploration of Countermeasures in HCI-Based Deception Research
This paper addresses three objectives: first, the extent of the theoretical understanding of countermeasures that is present in the deception detection literature to date was mapped out by conducting a literature review of countermeasures related work in the deception detection discipline. Second, …
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Evaluación de la precisión diagnóstica del análisis automático de la poligrafía frente al análisis manual en la apnea obstructiva del sueño
… episodes and their repercussions. Respiratory polygraphy (RP) includes the recording of a flow sensor, respiratory effort, oxygen saturation, heart rate and also position but not EEG. There are several studies that have explored the diagnostic agreement of PR versus PSG, being a validated, …