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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"missing person"”.
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An Examination of Missing Person Social Media Engagement Through Data Mining and Experimentation: An Application of the Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication Model
… approximately 600,000 individuals are reported missing each year in the United States (2022). When missing person cases do not meet alert (e.g., AMBER) criteria, law enforcement often utilize social media to crowdsource information to ultimately return the missing home. Therefore, guided by the …
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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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Risk-Aware Human-In-The-Loop Multi-Robot Path Planning for Lost Person Search and Rescue
… in search and rescue scenarios associated with missing person incidents to assist human searchers. We formulate a lost person behavior model and a human searcher model informed by data collected from past search missions. These models are used to generate a probabilistic heatmap of the lost …
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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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An Evaluation of Geophysical Methods in the Detection of Toddler-Sized Burials During the First Six Months of Burials
… search for clandestine graves associated with missing person cases. However, relatively little research has been done to evaluate the efficacy of different instruments. Ground-penetrating Radar (GPR), magnetometry, resistivity, conductivity, and susceptibility survey data were collected over …
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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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Assessing the accuracy of the zygoma for estimating ancestry using geometric morphometrics in a South African sample
… when reconstructing a demographic profile of a missing person. In the SA population, estimating ancestry is problematic as standards developed internationally rarely apply to the local, biologically heterogenous population. Craniofacial morphology is known to be ancestrally distinct and studies …
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EXTREMELY VISUAL & INCREDIBLY COMMUNAL: TRAUMA, MULTIMODALITY, AND 9/11 LITERATURE
… so with images. Through amateur photographs, “Missing Person” posters, impromptu memorials, and eventually “Portraits of Grief,” New York citizens responded to their confusion the only way they knew how: try to derive meaning from the destructive images by producing images reflecting their …
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EXTREMELY VISUAL & INCREDIBLY COMMUNAL: TRAUMA, MULTIMODALITY, AND 9/11 LITERATURE
… so with images. Through amateur photographs, “Missing Person” posters, impromptu memorials, and eventually “Portraits of Grief,” New York citizens responded to their confusion the only way they knew how: try to derive meaning from the destructive images by producing images reflecting their …
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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 …