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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Automating the pavement forensic investigation and remedial process /

Jackson, Damon Jeffrey, January 2001 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 156-172). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.
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Unraveling a thirty-five-year-old mystery : forensic archaeology, eighteenth-century Quakers and Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

ZeRuth, Chelsey M. Unknown Date (has links)
Thesis (Department Honors) - Franklin & Marshall College, 2009. / Double click the URL for full text access. Includes bibliography pgs. 41-45.
93

How dangerous is Wikipedia? : the impact of exposure to internet-based instructional material on selected Rorschach variables

Carver, Tracy Ann 30 June 2014 (has links)
This study investigated differences in R-PAS variables among two groups of participants, those who studied a Wikipedia article with information about the Rorschach (N=44) and those who did not (N=42). This study utilized a repeated measures design, wherein all of the participants took the Rorschach twice. The first time all participants completed the Rorschach under normal conditions. The second time all participants completed the Rorschach under the fake good condition, meaning they were motivated to present themselves in a favorable light. Participants in the experimental group were instructed to read the Wikipedia material before taking the test and to use this information to help them fake good. Results indicated that after reading the Wikipedia material, participants' responses demonstrated significantly improved perceptual accuracy (lower FQ-%). However, the overall findings suggested that most of the selected R-PAS variables were not significantly impacted by exposure to the Wikipedia material. All participants had changes in scores on a number of variables when asked to fake good, regardless of whether or not they were exposed to the Wikipedia material. Results indicated that when participants attempted to fake good, they were able to significantly improve markers of affect regulation (lower CF+C/SumC), coping effectiveness (higher MC-PPD), and interpersonal competency (lower PHR/GPHR). They were also likely to give less complex responses (lower Complexity) that were fewer in total number (lower R). Implications of these results and recommendations for forensic practice are discussed. / text
94

Forensic analysis using FAT32 file cluster allocation patterns

Tse, Wai-hin, Kenneth., 謝維軒. January 2011 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Computer Science / Master / Master of Philosophy
95

Some statistical aspects in forensic science

陳家麗, Chan, Ka-lai. January 2000 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Statistics and Actuarial Science / Master / Master of Philosophy
96

The status of forensics in Western junior colleges

Miles, Paul L., 1937- January 1964 (has links)
No description available.
97

Medical humanitarianism and its mutations: an ethnography of the African Medical and Research Foundation

Flemons, Kristin January 2013 (has links)
This thesis examines the ways in which the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) may be considered a 'mutation' of medical humanitarianism, across both time (through the course of the organization's history) and space (from humanitarianism's birthplace in Europe to AMREF's headquarters in East Africa). To this end, the author conducted field research with staff at AMREF's Kenya Country Office between June and September, 2012, involving participant observation, field visits, and archival research. In Chapter 1, the Foundation's commitment to projects of medical, technical and bureaucratic modernity in East Africa is explored, which complicates analyses of humanitarian minimalism. In Chapter 2, the organization's history is discussed as a reference point for understanding its unique characteristics. In Chapter 3, AMREF's research activities are unpacked as additions to, and transgressions of, boundaries between medical humanitarianism and global health. / Ce mémoire cherche à montrer que l'African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) constitue une « mutation » de l'humanitaire médical, aussi bien dans le temps (à travers l'histoire de l'organisation) que dans l'espace (de l'Europe, lieu d'origine de l'humanitaire jusqu'au siège social d'AMREF en Afrique de l'Est). Dans le cadre de ce projet, l'auteure a entrepris quatre mois de recherches de terrain auprès du personnel des bureaux d'AMREF au Kenya, entre Juin et Septembre 2012, faisant usage de méthodes de recherche telles que l'observation participante, des visites de terrains, et de la recherche d'archives. Le premier chapitre documente l'engagement de la Fondation vis-à- vis de projets de modernité médicale, technique et bureaucratique en Afrique de l'Est, venant ainsi nuancer certaines analyses centrées sur le minimalisme humanitarisme. Dans le deuxième chapitre, une présentation détaillée de l'histoire de l'organisation permet d'en mettre en valeur son caractère particulier et unique. Enfin, dans un troisième chapitre, les activités de recherches d'AMREF sont analysées à la fois comme suppléments et transgressions des frontières entre l'humanitaire médical et la santé mondiale.
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Forensiese maatskaplike werk as spesialiteit in maatskaplike werk : definiëring en terrein / Erika Scheepers

Scheepers, Erika January 2008 (has links)
Since the inception of Social Work as a profession, the profession has assisted the legal system of South Africa with the evaluating and/or assessment of individuals as part of the legal processes as requested by the legal system. The presumption that a degree in social work qualifies a social worker to assist the court with the above mentioned processes, is misplaced , even amongst the social work professionals themselves. This article focuses on the definition and scope of Forensic Social Work in the South African context. This will assist the SACSSP to establish criteria to register Forensic Social Work as a specialized field in Social Work. Those Social workers who want to render forensic services will need to acquire additional, specific, specialized knowledge, skills and experience regarding this field that is not acquired during pre-graduate studies, and which comply with the requirements of the judicial system. The findings of the study will be discussed with a submission of a definition and clarifying the scope of Forensic Social Work in South-Africa. / Thesis (M.A. (Maatskaplike Werk)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.
99

Genetic discrimination: genealogy of an American problem

Childerhose, Janet Elizabeth January 2010 (has links)
Genetic discrimination has been transformed from an isolated concern of a handful of professionals into a pressing civil rights and public policy problem in the United States over the last twenty years. My dissertation is a genealogical account of how genetic discrimination has been shaped into a problem of this stature. It answers two questions: Where did the problem come from? How has the problem changed over time? / In Part One, I trace the history of concerns about discrimination from the 1970s to the present. Drawing from oral histories with key actors and organizations that shaped early public understanding of the problem, I show that concerns about genetic discrimination originated in diverse practices. These practices include workplace genetic screening, insurer discrimination against individuals with AIDS, the rapid commercialization of genetic tests in the 1980s, and health care reform. / In Part Two, I present findings from a three-year ethnographic study of public policy hearings on genomic medicine in the United States that illustrate how new actors have been defining the problem of genetic discrimination since 1995. The hearings of the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society were a site where participants legitimized genetic discrimination as a civil rights problem and developed lobbying tools to persuade Congress to pass federal nondiscrimination legislation. Participants framed fear of discrimination as a barrier to the nation's scientific progress and a significant threat to the lives of Americans. / I use the construct of genomic citizenship to draw out claims about the rights and duties of Americans in contemporary discourse on genetic discrimination. Passing federal nondiscrimination legislation is one way in which the civil rights of Americans appear to be expanding, while their responsibilities to act genetically are increasing. Advocates of nondiscrimination legislation, who use the language of genetic defect to argue that everyone is vulnerable to discrimination, geneticize all Americans by enrolling them into the biosociality of the flawed, transparent genome, with attendant duties. What these advocates do not also champion is the right of Americans to refuse to think or act genetically. / La discrimination génétique est passée du statut de préoccupation isolée parmi un petit nombre de professionnels à celui d'un urgent problème de droits civils et de politique publique aux État-Unis, depuis les vingt dernières années. Ma thèse est un compte rendu généalogique de la transformation de la discrimination génétique en un problème d'une telle envergure. Elle répond à deux questions : Quelle est l'origine du problème? Comment le problème a-t-il changé avec les années? / Dans la première partie, je retrace l'histoire des préoccupations au sujet de la discrimination, des années 70 à aujourd'hui. Je puise dans la tradition orale chez des acteurs clés et des organismes de premier plan qui ont informé la compréhension initiale du problème par le public. Je montre comment les préoccupations entourant la discrimination génétique sont issues de différentes pratiques. / Dans la deuxième partie, je présente les résultats d'une étude ethnographique d'une durée de trois ans, traitant des audiences publiques sur la médecine génomique aux États-Unis, et illustrant comment de nouveaux acteurs ont défini le problème de la discrimination génétique depuis 1995. Dans le cadre des audiences du Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society, les participants ont identifié la peur de la discrimination comme un obstacle au progrès scientifique de la nation, de même qu'une menace significative pour la vie des Américains et des Américaines. / J'ai recours à la construction de citoyenneté génomique dans le but de dégager des revendications au sujet des droits et devoirs des Américains et des Américaines, en rapport avec le discours actuel sur la discrimination génétique. L'adoption d'une législation de non discrimination semble contribuer à l'élargissement des droits civils des Américains et des Américaines, tandis que s'accroît leur responsabilité d'agir sur le plan génétique. Les défenseurs de la législation de non discrimination emploient le langage des défaut génétiques pour soutenir que toute la population est sujette à la discrimination. Selon ces mêmes défenseurs, les Américains et Américaines n'ont pas le droit de refuser de penser ou d'agir en termes génétiques.
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An anthropology of "avian flu": beyond the nature/culture divide

Yip, Julianne January 2013 (has links)
Since its appearance in 2003, avian influenza (AI) has been highly 'productive,' linking into a distinct form diverse elements, among which include: international health organizations and local farmers; governments and AI viruses; wildlife experts and public health practitioners; food regulatory bodies and ecologists; ornithologists and the poultry industry; ordinary citizens and, of course, poultry. From the perspective of an anthropology of thinking, 'AI' is intriguing because it escapes 'nature' and 'culture' concepts that traditionally ordered relationships between man and the natural world. Is 'AI' natural or cultural, animal or human, a blend of both, or something else entirely? The emergence of 'AI' does not only warrant the development of new conceptual frameworks, but arguably gives rise to new realities as they take shape from these conceptual frameworks. In the project undertaken here, I follow the emergence of form as I trace 'AI' through three different field sites: 1) poultry farms in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada; 2) the Department of Ecosystems and Public Health at the University of Calgary; and 3) a field school on ecohealth in New Brunswick. In each field site, I examine how 'AI' has allowed for emergent, still developing and potentially transient, orders of reality to come into being. / Depuis son apparition en 2003, la grippe aviaire (AG) a été très « féconde », reliant de façon caractéristique des éléments variés, comme des organisations internationales œuvrant dans le domaine de la santé et des fermiers locaux, les gouvernements et les virus de la grippe aviaire, des experts des milieux naturels et le personnel de la santé publique, des organismes de législation agroalimentaire et des écologistes, des ornithologues et l'aviculture; les citoyens et, bien entendu, la volaille. Pour l'anthropologue de la pensée, le phénomène de la grippe aviaire est particulièrement intéressant car il ne peut être décrit à l'aide des concepts de 'nature' et 'culture' qui ont traditionnellement régi les rapports Homme-Nature. La grippe aviaire, est-elle nature ou culture, animale ou humaine, un mélange des deux domaines, ou bien quelque chose d'entièrement différent ? La grippe aviaire entraîne non seulement le développement de nouveaux cadres conceptuels, mais donne naissance par ailleurs à des réalités émergeant de ces cadres. Notre projet de recherche consiste à documenter l'émergence d'une forme à travers l'étude de la grippe aviaire en trois sites différents : 1) des fermes avicoles dans la vallée du Fraser en Colombie Britannique, 2) le Département des Écosystèmes et de la Santé Publique de l'Université de Calgary, et 3) une école d'été sur l'éco-épidémiologie au Nouveau-Brunswick. Pour chaque site de terrain, nous examinons les nouvelles réalités, encore expérimentales et potentiellement éphémères, que la grippe aviaire a générées.

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