Explaining criminal networks: Strategies and potential pitfalls

Explaining criminal networks: Strategies and potential pitfalls

This article offers some remarks on a few critical issues related to explanation in criminal network research. It first discusses two distinct perspectives on networks, namely a substantive approach that views networks as a distinct form of organisation, and an instrumental one that interprets networks as a collection of nodes and attributes. The latter stands at the basis of Social Network Ana...

Legal pitfalls to avoid in criminal interrogations.

neuronavigation: principles, clinical applications and potential pitfalls.

localization of brain lesions and prevention of damage to vital structures are important in operation of brain pathologies. despite development of many techniques including angiography, mri, sonography, and frame base stereotaxy, a more accurate localizing technique is still needed (1, 2). a step forward to achieve this goal is to develop a navigation system. in this manuscript, we explained so...

Elastic Actuation : Potential and Pitfalls ∗

In this paper we explore the space of design freedoms associated with series elastic actuators. We specifically focus on the problem of damping, and evaluate through simulation how inclusion of series damping can improve the reliability and controllability of tasks involving force control and impact. We explicitly build upon the pioneering work by Pratt and colleagues at the MIT Leg Lab in the ...

Personality Modeling: Potential and Pitfalls

Personality affects the responses of users to many things, so would be very useful for user adaptation. Since assessing personality requires long questionnaires that may not be practical or can be falsified, there is a need for techniques that infer personality from other user artifacts. This research field is too new to have established best practice research procedures. Pitfalls include overf...