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Postlethwaite, Diana. "Missing Persons." Yale Review 89, no. 2 (June 28, 2008): 159–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0044-0124.00514.

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Blau, Soren, Anthony Hill, Christopher A. Briggs, and Stephen M. Cordner. "Missing Persons-Missing Data: The Need to Collect Antemortem Dental Records of Missing Persons." Journal of Forensic Sciences 51, no. 2 (March 2006): 386–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-4029.2006.00051.x.

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Nykyforchuk, Dmytro, Ivan Okhrimenko, Dmytro Chemerys, Viacheslav Blikhar, Zoryana Kisil, and Oksana Shevchuk. "Analytical Work on Missing Persons Search: Modern View of the Problem." Cuestiones Políticas 40, no. 73 (July 29, 2022): 550–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.4073.31.

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The article is devoted to the analysis of law enforcement agencies’ activities to search for missing persons. The purpose of the study is to examine the peculiarities of the analytical work of law enforcement agencies on missing person’s search. The methodological bases are general scientific and special scientific methods and techniques of scientific knowledge (systemic, formal-logical, structural-functional, sociological, historical and axiological). It is concluded that the criteria for law enforcement agencies to search for missing persons are the general state of search work, search for certain categories of missing persons, trends and processes that cause missing persons, causes and conditions of missing persons, results of police operations and special operations conduct. It is determined that the consolidation and combination of efforts of different units and services during the search work helps to increase the number of facts of locating missing persons. Attention is paid to the identification of factors influencing the assessment of the search work. The state of the international search missing persons is analyzed. The necessity of using the positive experience of European countries in the outlined activities is substantiated.

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Clarke, Julie. "Missing: Persons and Politics." Journal of Social Inclusion 5, no. 2 (December 15, 2014): 114. http://dx.doi.org/10.36251/josi.79.

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Huttunen, Laura. "Liminality and Missing Persons." Conflict and Society 2, no. 1 (June 1, 2016): 201–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/arcs.2016.020117.

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In many armed conflicts, forced disappearances and hiding the bodies of victims of mass atrocities are used strategically. This article argues that disappearances are powerful weapons, as their consequences reach from the most intimate relations to the formation of political communities. Consequently, political projects of forced disappearances leave difficult legacies for post-conflict reconciliation, and they give rise to a need to address individuals’ and families’ needs as well as relations between national and political groups implicated in the conflict. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this articles explores the question of missing persons in post-1992 Bosnia. The processes of identification and practices of remembering and commemorating the missing are analyzed through the concept of liminality. The article argues that the future-oriented temporality of liminality gives rise to numerous practices of encountering the enigma of the missing, while the political atmosphere of postwar Bosnia restricts possibilities of communitas-type relationality across ethnonational differences.

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Tayal, U. "Missing and unidentified persons." BMJ 327, no. 7410 (August 9, 2003): 348—a—348. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.327.7410.348-a.

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Clarke, Julie. "Missing: Persons and Politics." Journal of Social Inclusion 5, no. 2 (December 15, 2014): 114–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.36251/josi79.

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This manuscript is a review of the book Missing: Persons and Politics by Jenny Edkins and published by Cornell University Press in 2011. It draws on two earlier reviews in providing an overview of the Edkins contribution to an area of research notable by the paucity of attention paid to it by scholars’ worldwide.Note: As this was read on an e-reader, no page references are possible for quotations.

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Baxter, Gail. "Hidden Hands and Missing Persons." TEXTILE 18, no. 1 (September 16, 2019): 39–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14759756.2019.1646498.

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da Silva, Luiz Antonio F., Wilkson Vilaça, Dalmo Azevedo, Geraldo Majella, Iede F. Silva, and Benisio F. Silva. "Missing and unidentified persons database." Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series 2, no. 1 (December 2009): 255–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigss.2009.08.090.

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Kiepal, Laura Christine, Peter J. Carrington, and Myrna Dawson. "Missing persons and social exclusion." Canadian Journal of Sociology 37, no. 2 (March 21, 2012): 137–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/cjs10114.

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Abstract The concept of social exclusion is used to explore the relationship between people and groups who are socially and economically disadvantaged and the phenomenon of going missing. Police data about missing persons are compared to census data to determine whether groups who experience family dissolution, labour market exclusion, and other forms of disadvantage and social exclusion are overrepresented among missing persons compared to the general population. The analysis shows that disadvantaged youth, women, Aboriginal people, people who are not in the labour force, unemployed people, and homeless people are all overrepresented among missing persons. People occupying the intersections of multiple high risk categories are at particularly high risk of going missing. Linking missing persons with the concept of social exclusion shows that social and economic disadvantage lead directly and indirectly to peoples’ disappearances. (133 words)

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Missing persons"

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Whang, Ho-Kyung. "Missing Persons." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1769.

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Patterson, Marla. "Who is missing? a study of missing persons in B.C. /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2101.

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Banks, Christopher. "In the galleria of missing persons." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0027/MQ39915.pdf.

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Hill, Ronald Bryant. "Missing in America homelessness during the Reagan revolution /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3034548.

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Moosage, Riedwaan. "Missing-ness, history and apartheid-era disappearances: The figuring of Siphiwo Mthimkulu, Tobekile ‘Topsy’ Madaka and Sizwe Kondile as missing dead persons." University of the Western Cape, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6640.

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The argument of this dissertation calls for an abiding by missing-ness as it relates to apartheid-era disappearances. I am concerned with the ways in which the category missing is articulated in histories of apartheid-era disappearances through histories seeking to account for apartheid and how that category is enabled and /or constrained through mediating practices, processes and discourses such as that of forensics and history itself. My deployment of a notion of missing-ness therefore is put to work in underscoring notions of history and its relation to a category of missing persons in South Africa as they emerge and are figured through various discursive strategies constituted by and through apartheid’s violence and iterations thereof. I focus specifically on the enforced disappearances of Siphiwo Mthimkulu, Tobekile ‘Topsy’ Madaka and Sizwe Kondile and the vicarious ways in which they have been produced and (re)figured in a postapartheid present. Mthimkulu and Madaka were abducted, tortured, interrogated, killed and their bodies disposed through burning by apartheid’s security police in 1982. In 2007 South Africa’s Missing Persons Task Team exhumed commingled burnt human fragments at a farm, Post Chalmers. After two years of forensic examinations, those remains were identified as most likely those of Mthimkulu and Madaka. Their commingled remains were reburied in 2009 during an official government sanctioned Provincial re-burial. Kondile was similarly abducted in 1981 and after being imprisoned, tortured, interrogated and killed, his physical remains were burnt. The MPTT has been unsuccessful in locating and thus exhuming his remains for re-burial. Sizwe Kondile remains missing. Missing-ness as I evoke it serves to signal the lack and excess as potentiality and instability of histories accounting for the condition and symptom of being missing. The productivity of deploying missing-ness and an abidance to it in the ways I argue is precisely in not explicitly naming it, but rather by holding onto its elusiveness by marking the contours of discourses on absence-presence, those which it simultaneously touches upon and is constitutive of. Articulating it thus is to affirm missing-ness as a question that I argue, be put to work and abided by.

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Clark, Julie Margaret. "Wanting to hope : the experience of adult siblings of long-term missing people /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19324.pdf.

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Irwin, Keith. "What Spins Away." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2182/.

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What Spins Away is a novel about a man named Caleb who, in the 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, the novel explores the ability of traditional narrative structures to carry postmodern themes. The theme, in this case, is the struggle for a stable identity when there is no stable community against which or in relationship to an identity might be defined.

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Drennan, Lisa. "Beyond the milk carton: strategies for creating and allowing a space for engaging with personal narratives from family members about missing persons." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27844.

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The aim of this study is twofold, 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 of Madeleine McCann going missing in Portugal in 2007, showed how much power the media still yields and how much awareness can be created if the media choose to cast light on a particular case. But this case also stood out for another reason: many interviews conducted with the family after her disappearance didn't merely contain the facts surrounding her disappearance, they were also heartfelt narratives about the pain and horror that the family were going through. The public were not only made aware of their missing daughter but also of the very real and horrific way her disappearance had punctured their suburban life forever. Very few other cases of missing children have garnered the kind of media attention that allows parents of missing children to reflect in such a way. Most newspapers in South Africa at present barely report a child missing; let a lone create a space for parents to reflect on their loss (Drennan, 2012). News is often considered to be centred around the interests of the élite (Herman and Chomsky 1988) and often certain demographics like race, gender and ethnicity can influence how 'newsworthy' certain crimes or stories are considered to be (Pritchard and Hughes 1997, Gruenewald, Pizarro and Chermak 2009). Although social media allows a flow of information that is immediate (So, 2011), the information is still mostly centred around quick mobilisation of the public to find the missing person in the shortest time possible and doesn't allow a space for family members to reflect or share their experiences. Television plays a vital role by entertaining the viewer with facts and events that engage the audience but not much content can be found that allows the family and friends of the missing person to reflect on their sad and often lonely experience of losing a loved one in such a traumatic way. The existing television formats (fiction and non-fiction) are perhaps not ideal for intimate reflection and sharing emotional responses. By using narrative inquiry and action research while producing my own film about a missing person, I was able to test various fiction and non-fiction programming models. Four cycles of action research helped me to understand and determine what form would be best in order to create a space that would allow for intimate reflection from family members of missing persons. Through a process of trial and error, I found that a documentary form that incorporates inspiration from fiction and non-fiction forms was the most fitting platform to create an intimate space for reflection and sharing (Stubbs 2002; Nichols 2001). By combining these various elements I believe that I was able to make a film that is ethical, sensitive and respectful of my subject; to focus renewed attention on a cold case, while creating space for intimate reflection, something no other medium or platform I studied was able to do.

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Griggs, James Leonard. "Claims making in the case study of missing children: A case study." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/514.

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Messitt, Margaret. "Art(i)fact: An Atlas of My Search." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1510932927475633.

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Books on the topic "Missing persons"

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Zitner, Sheldon P. Missing persons. Toronto: Junction Books, 2003.

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McCoy, Shirlee. Missing Persons. Toronto, Ontario: Steeple Hill, 2008.

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Lange, Hartmut. Missing persons. London: Toby Press, 2000.

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Bruce, Swanton, and Australian Institute of Criminology, eds. Missing persons. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1988.

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White, Stephen. Missing persons. Waterville, Me: Wheeler Pub., 2005.

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McCoy, Shirlee. Missing persons. New York: Steeple Hill Books, 2008.

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Giangrande, Carole. Missing persons. Dunvegan, Ont: Cormorant Books, 1994.

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Lucas, Craig. Missing persons. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1996.

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Haeseker, Alexandra. Missing persons. [Calgary, Alberta, Canada]: [publisher not identified], 2012.

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Vladislavić, Ivan. Missing persons: Stories. Cape Town: D. Philip, 1989.

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Book chapters on the topic "Missing persons"

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Komaromy, Carol, and Jenny Hockey. "Missing Persons." In Family Life, Trauma and Loss in the Twentieth Century, 21–46. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76602-7_2.

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Gaylard, Gerald. "Missing Persons." In At Home with Ivan Vladislavić, 39–58. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003318996-3.

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Lampinen, James Michael, and Kara N. Moore. "Prospective Person Memory in the Search for Missing Persons." In Handbook of Missing Persons, 145–62. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40199-7_11.

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Morewitz, Stephen J., and Caroline Sturdy Colls. "Missing Persons: An Introduction." In Handbook of Missing Persons, 1–5. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40199-7_1.

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Stevenson, Olivia, and Penny Woolnough. "Geographies of Missing People: Improving Police Knowledge and Response to Missing Persons." In Handbook of Missing Persons, 127–43. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40199-7_10.

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Kim, Joyce, Jackie Leach Scully, and Sara Huston Katsanis. "Ethical Challenges in Missing Persons Investigations." In Handbook of Missing Persons, 163–75. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40199-7_12.

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Saiz, María, Maria Jesus Alvarez-Cubero, Juan Carlos Alvarez, and Jose Antonio Lorente. "Forensic Genetics Against Children Trafficking: Missing Children Genetic Identification." In Handbook of Missing Persons, 177–89. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40199-7_13.

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Blau, Soren. "Missing Persons Investigations and Identification: Issues of Scale, Infrastructure, and Political Will." In Handbook of Missing Persons, 191–206. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40199-7_14.

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Butorac, Ksenija, Ljiljana Mikšaj-Todorović, and Mislav Stjepan Žebec. "Missing Persons in Croatia: Incidence, Characteristics and Police Performance Effectiveness." In Handbook of Missing Persons, 207–31. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40199-7_15.

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Walton, Rachel, and Silvia Pettem. "Investigation of Long-Term Missing Persons as Cold Case Homicides: An American Perspective." In Handbook of Missing Persons, 233–49. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40199-7_16.

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Conference papers on the topic "Missing persons"

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Berti, A., L. Ripani, G. Braccesi, S. Bartolozzi, V. Scavongelli, and G. Micheli. "Missing Persons Search: A Multidisciplinary Analysis." In Second International Conference on Engineering Geophysics. Netherlands: EAGE Publications BV, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.20131918.

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Briones, Joseph L., and Tishya Chhabra. "Navigation Mesh for Missing Persons Search." In ICDCN '22: 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3491003.3500927.

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Inavolu, Mohan Datta, Deepa Venna, Guru Vamsi Kallepalli, and Sarat Satya Surapaneni. "Detection of Missing Persons Using Mobile App." In 2023 2nd International Conference for Innovation in Technology (INOCON). IEEE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/inocon57975.2023.10101097.

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Ciobotaru, Simona, Carl Adams, Craig John Robert Collie, and Karen Shalev Greene. "Sharing Missing Persons Appeals on Social Media." In SIGMIS-CPR '22: 2022 Computers and People Research Conference. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3510606.3550200.

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Domozi, Zsolt, Daniel Stojcsics, Abdallah Benhamida, Miklos Kozlovszky, and Andras Molnar. "Real time object detection for aerial search and rescue missions for missing persons." In 2020 IEEE 15th International Conference of System of Systems Engineering (SoSE). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/sose50414.2020.9130475.

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Frowd, Charlie, William B. Erickson, and James M. Lampinen. "Locating Missing Persons Using Age-Progression Images from Forensic Artists." In 2014 Fifth International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies (EST). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/est.2014.31.

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Noor, Nor Azlina Mohd. "Presumption Of Death Law In Malaysia: The Case Of Missing Persons." In ILC 2017 - 9th UUM International Legal Conference. Cognitive-Crcs, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2018.12.03.84.

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Javed, Hina, Teddy Mantoro, and Umar Aditiawarman. "Optimizing the Performance of UAV-Based Searching Missing Persons Process Using Deep Learning." In 2022 IEEE 8th International Conference on Computing, Engineering and Design (ICCED). IEEE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icced56140.2022.10010406.

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Kolpakov, V. K. "SECTION 18. Persons gone missing under special conditions in the human rights doctrine." In HUMAN RIGHTS AND PUBLIC GOVERNANCE IN MODERN CONDITIONS. Baltija Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/978-9934-26-320-0-18.

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Bernal, Arturo Miguel Russell, and Jane Cleland-Huang. "Hierarchically Organized Computer Vision in Support of Multi-Faceted Search for Missing Persons." In 2023 IEEE 17th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG). IEEE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/fg57933.2023.10042698.

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Reports on the topic "Missing persons"

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öhman, Björn, and Jens Frank. Probability of police dogs detecting missing people in search sectors. Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54612/a.3tvad4e09k.

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Searching for missing persons is an important task for police dog teams. The purpose of this study was to investigate what proportion of missing persons are found during sector searches. The study was conducted as an exercise within the framework of the local weekly training structure (L406) for police patrol dogs in Police Region South during the winter and spring of 2022/2023. A total of 23 dog teams participated over six weeks from December 2022 to April 2023. During the searches, 25 out of 26 (96%) of the deployed decoys were found, which means that a missing person is very likely to be found by the police dog teams also during real search and rescue missions. Interestingly, the dog teams that have used a total search-time below average have found decoys to the same extent as the teams that have used more total search-time. The group that has used less than 119 minutes and where the dog has travelled an average of 9.5 km has thus been sufficient to find the missing persons. This means that the teams that have searched longer than the average and where the dog has travelled a longer distance, have used more time than actually needed. A total search-time of 119 minutes on average and a distance travelled by the dog of 9.5 km was sufficient to find all the decoys in an area of 25 hectares. A shorter search-time and shorter distance travelled would likely have been sufficient to find the same number of decoys, but based on the results of this study we cannot determine what time or distance would have been sufficient. This is however interesting to investigate further in future studies as it suggests that there is a possibility to cover larger areas in less time but with the same probability of detecting missing persons.

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Cavallo, Eduardo, Laura Giles Álvarez, and Andrew Powell. Estimating the Potential Economic Impact of Haiti’s 2021 Earthquake. Inter-American Development Bank, September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003657.

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This paper employs a simple methodology to estimate the potential economic damages of the 2021 earthquake in Haiti. The country registered a magnitude 7.2 earthquake off the South Coast on August 14, 2021, that resulted in 2,248 deaths, 12,763 injured and substantial damages to houses and other infrastructure. An additional 329 persons remain missing. We estimate economic damages using econometric techniques and a dataset on natural disasters across a wide range of countries and over an extended time period. Based on this analysis, damages for the 2021 earthquake in Haiti are estimated to reach US$1.6 billion (9.6 percent of GDP) for a scenario with an impact of 2,500 dead or missing. We also generate confidence intervals on these results. We hope these early estimates will provide a useful input to the ongoing Post-Disaster Risk Assessment (PDNA) and will assist the government and its international partners plan efforts to assist the country in terms of relief and reconstruction.

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Raju, Nivedita, and Laura Bruun. Integrating Gender Perspectives into International Humanitarian Law. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, August 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.55163/qilu7567.

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International humanitarian law (IHL) aims to limit the impacts of armed conflict through rules and protections. However, while IHL seemingly accords protection to ‘all persons’, it may fail to do so, especially on the basis of gender. In turn, failure to include gender perspectives in IHL can result in inaccurate assessments of civilian harm. This paper explores the missing gender perspectives in IHL and proposes that they be integrated with intersectional considerations. The paper first examines inherent gender bias in the wording of certain IHL rules, highlighting several issues including gender essentialism, limited distinction between sex and gender, and the need to overcome a binary approach to gender to ensure adequate protections for the LGBTQIA+ community. The paper also examines key rules of IHL which are particularly sensitive to bias in interpretation and application, including certain rules on weapons, the rules guiding the conduct of hostilities, and obligations to provide legal advice and legal training to the armed forces. Finally, the paper concludes with action points to more effectively integrate intersectional gender perspectives into IHL.

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Eastman, Brittany. Legal Issues Facing Automated Vehicles, Facial Recognition, and Privacy Rights. SAE International, July 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/epr2022016.

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Facial recognition software (FRS) is a form of biometric security that detects a face, analyzes it, converts it to data, and then matches it with images in a database. This technology is currently being used in vehicles for safety and convenience features, such as detecting driver fatigue, ensuring ride share drivers are wearing a face covering, or unlocking the vehicle. Public transportation hubs can also use FRS to identify missing persons, intercept domestic terrorism, deter theft, and achieve other security initiatives. However, biometric data is sensitive and there are numerous remaining questions about how to implement and regulate FRS in a way that maximizes its safety and security potential while simultaneously ensuring individual’s right to privacy, data security, and technology-based equality. Legal Issues Facing Automated Vehicles, Facial Recognition, and Individual Rights seeks to highlight the benefits of using FRS in public and private transportation technology and addresses some of the legitimate concerns regarding its use by private corporations and government entities, including law enforcement, in public transportation hubs and traffic stops. Constitutional questions, including First, Forth, and Ninth Amendment issues, also remain unanswered. FRS is now a permanent part of transportation technology and society; with meaningful legislation and conscious engineering, it can make future transportation safer and more convenient.

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Ramani, Shyama V., Pranav Shankar Kaundinya, Natalie Perné, and Serdar Türkeli. Building Resilience to Flooding. UNU-MERIT, April 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.53330/tlgw9214.

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Technology and innovation can mitigate and even prevent the damage caused by floods. A recent review by Kaundinya, Perné and Türkeli (2022) identified three main pathways to flood resilience: First, existing scientific knowledge and technology can be mobilised to create infrastructural innovations which can be either nature-based or non-nature based. The latter is more common and usually takes the form of the construction of dikes, dams and canals that directly reduce the probability of floods occurring. Large infrastructure projects tend to require significant financial and resource investments that are often state-backed as they are deemed too high-risk for the privatesector. The second pathway is information generation, which applies science and technology to create digital apps and platforms that improve preparedness, response and recovery from flooding through data generation and data visualisation. The rapid dissemination of information on the course of the natural disaster enables better responses from vulnerable populations as well as emergency services offering assistance during the crisis (as outlined below in point #2 of this brief). Better responses can take the form of alerts on the pathway of the floods, location of safe sanctuaries, identifying people in need and missing persons, availability of emergency services etc. The third pathway mainly concerns response and recovery through aid disbursement. Here, a variety of instruments can be put in place, including ensuring that government departments are focussed on helping impacted households through focussed programmes. Essential services recovery must also be prioritised, and the recovery stage involves both economic and non-economic actors working together to return to a (new) normal.

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Bryant, Thomas E. Personal Protection Against Terrorism: The Missing Link in United States Army Force Protection. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, December 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada325201.

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Placke, Manja, and Hela Mehrtens, eds. CDRmare Data Management Plan Template. CDRmare Research Mission, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3289/cdrmare.02.

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The corporate CDRmare Data Management Plan (DMP) template is used in each consortium of the Research Mission CDRmare. It will provide a transparent overview of planned and gathered (meta-)data of each consortium including details of responsible persons, planned due dates, and repositories for archiving. The DMP template is adapted in content for each consortium and will be updated regularly. It will facilitate data sharing within the CDRmare community and will show both the planned and actual progress of the research during the mission period.

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Paulins, V. Ann, Julie L. Hillery, and Aaron Sturgill. Using Personal Mission Statements and Codes of Ethics as Career Search Tools. Ames: Iowa State University, Digital Repository, November 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/itaa_proceedings-180814-64.

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Bergeron, Augustin, Arnaud Fournier, John Kabeya Kabeya, Gabriel Tourek, and Jonathan L. Weigel. Using Machine Learning to Create a Property Tax Roll: Evidence from the City of Kananga, DR Congo'. Institute of Development Studies, October 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ictd.2023.053.

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Developing countries often lack the financial resources to provide public goods. Property taxation has been identified as a promising source of local revenue, because it is relatively efficient, captures growth in real estate value, and can be progressive. However, many low income countries do not collect property taxes effectively due to missing or incomplete property tax rolls. We use machine learning and computer vision models to construct a property tax roll in a large Congolese city. To train the algorithm and predict the value of all properties in the city, we rely on the value of 1,654 randomly chosen properties assessed by government land surveyors during in-person property appraisal visits, and property characteristics from administrative data or extracted from property photographs. The best machine learning algorithm, trained on property characteristics from administrative data, achieves a cross validated R2 of 60 per cent, and 22 per cent of the predicted values are within 20 per cent of the target value. The computer vision algorithms, trained on property picture features, perform less well, with only 9 per cent of the predicted values within 20 per cent of the target value for the best algorithm. We interpret the results as suggesting that simple machine learning methods can be used to construct a property tax roll, even in a context where information about properties is limited and the government can only collect a small number of property values using in-person property appraisal visits.

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Sopein-Mann, Oluwafunmike, Zita Ekeocha, Stephen Robert Byrn, and Kari L. Clase. Medicines Regulation in West Africa: Current State and Opportu-nities. Purdue University, December 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284317443.

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Ndomondo-Sigonda et al. (2017) observed that there is scarcity of information on human resources (person-nel devoted to regulation of medicines) in the domain of medicines regulation in the sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The published information on medicines regulation by the National Medicines Regulatory Authorities (NMRAs) in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region are no longer current and consistent with the current realities in the NMRAs. In order to reveal this occurrence, show the trends that exist over the years and make appropriate recommendations, data were collected and compared from 2005, 2010 and 2017 research reports on seven regulatory features of the fifteen Members States of ECOWAS. The re-sults show that there was missing information per regulatory feature and country. There was also an overall increasing trend in the number of NMRAs in the region that showed progress with respect to the measured regulatory features - Autonomy (Authority and Legal form), Marketing Authorization), GMP inspection, Quality Control, Quality Management System, Information Management System and Harmonization and International cooperation. People of Africa have a valuable story to tell as it relates to medicines regulation. This report is written by a West African from the perspective of a West African involved in the study and practice of medi-cines regulation by the NMRAs in the ECOWAS.

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