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Ch. 2. Being There: Three Examples of Brief Dialogue in Herodotus and Thucydides
Histos, 2023 Though the idea of ‘eyewitness history’ held a central importance from the beginning, Greek historical writing did not typically feature the explicit citation of evidence provided by an eyewitness to an event.
Christopher Baron
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Human identification using facial comparative descriptions [PDF]
, 2013 Eyewitness descriptions are vital for many criminal investigations, although typically still require manual discovery of possible suspects. Soft biometrics introduce a possibility to automatically search databases based on biometric features obtained ...
Mark S. Nixon +3 more
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Photographic Eyewitness Identification and the Presumption of Innocence
Revista Brasileira de Direito Processual Penal, 2021 Eyewitness identification is an important criminal evidence for the justice system, however, innocent people can be identified for crimes that they did not commit.
Janaina Matida, William Weber Cecconello
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Legal Professionals Use an Implicit Checklist to Assess Expert Witness Credibility
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In a court of law, some forms of evidence are too technical to interpret without the help of an expert witness. However, expert testimony sometimes leads to wrongful conviction. We used an online survey to quantitatively compare how legal professionals (n = 122) and lay people (n = 109) understood what makes an expert witness credible.
Mahensingh Deonaran +2 more
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Diagnosing Eyewitness Accuracy [PDF]
, 2015 Eyewitnesses frequently mistake innocent people for the perpetrator of an observed crime. Such misidentifications have led to the wrongful convictions of many people. Despite this, no reliable method yet exists to determine eyewitness accuracy.
Russ, Andrew
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Epilepsia, EarlyView.Abstract Objective Different causes of transient loss of consciousness (TLOC) carry distinct risks and require different management. Early accurate diagnosis is essential to guide counseling, investigation, and referral. In routine practice, frontline clinicians and specialists often rely on eyewitness accounts, yet the reliability of witness testimony
Adam John Noble +11 more
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WHO, WHAT, AND HOW: WRITING AND NOT WRITING ABOUT THE WAR
Slovo i ChasThe paper explores the moral and ethical considerations of writing about war —specifically about the experiences, sufferings, and losses of combatants, their families, and both internal and external migrants — from the perspective of those who have not ...
Микола Васьків
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Epilepsia Open, EarlyView.Abstract Objective To determine the extent to which electroclinical information available at initial evaluation allows classification of idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) syndromes, and to assess the contributions of seizure semiology and age at seizure onset to early syndromic diagnosis.
Omar Nawfal +6 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2017 The findings of our linguocognitive research on a sound historical perspective establish a number of undeniable facts which will elucidate the situation of Armenians in Western Armenia in the pre-genocidal period.
Naira Gasparyan
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