The diversity of methods, contents and tests used in the study of eyewitness memory may have contributed to discrepancies in results in this ®eld. In this experiment, using incidental or intentional learning, we examine the recall and recognition of actions and details concerning the central and peripheral information of a kidnapping. A similar pattern emerges in free recall, hits and recogniti...

In this paper we present a prototype of a system aimed at event extraction using linguistic patterns with semantic classes. The process is aided with an auxiliary tool for mapping verb statistics across messages. The sentence analyzer uses linguistic associations, based on VerbNet across the message and between messages' sentences to select semantic role fillers. We restrict ourselves to the co...

Civil Surgeon, Coorg I he loiiowmg case was unusual, m that tne maternity, as well as the paternity of a child was under dispute. The case was heard in the Criminal Court in Mercara on 10th June, 1941. Kengappa and his wife Chennamma claimed that their four-year-old son had been kidnapped a year previously by Syed Fakir and his wife Fathima Bee, who however stated that the boy was their own. Th...

Mobile robot localization deals with uncertain sensory information as well as uncertain data association. In this paper we present a probabilistic feature-based approach to global localization and pose tracking which explicitly addresses both problems. Location hypotheses are represented as Gaussian distributions. Hypotheses are found by a search in the tree of possible local-to-global feature ...

To simulate the functionalities of the real cash, one of the important requirements of electronic cash systems is the anonymity of users. Unconditional anonymity, however, is also very well suited to support criminals in blackmailing. Recently Kügler and Vogt [6] proposed a payment system based on the blind undeniable signature that protects the privacy of the users and defeats blackmailing wit...

This article describes a new easy-to-administer and understand, interview-based instrument that systematically and comprehensively assesses a person's Lifetime Trauma and Victimization History (LTVH). The LTVH inquires about 30 traumas and victimization experiences (including general traumas, physical assault/abuse, sexual assault/abuse, kidnapping/stalking, family/friend murdered or committed ...

In this paper we present a probabilistic feature-based approach to multi-hypothesis global localization and tracking. Hypotheses are generated using a constraint-based search in the interpretation tree of possible local-to-global -pairings. This results in a set of continuously located position hypotheses of unbounded accuracy. For tracking, the same constraint-based technique is used. It perfo...

Abstract Recent violence among drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) in Mexico has resulted an ongoing demand for new recruits. Juveniles engage a wide range of activities from lookouts operations to high-risk activities, such as kidnapping and homicide. Based on ethnographic work referrals correctional officials, we conducted in-depth biographical interviews with convicted active cartel member...

The intensity of crime news is relatively high, making the public familiar with criminal cases ranging from corruption, drugs, gambling, immoral acts, theft, fraud, and kidnapping to murder. media are not only reporting or informing acts that occur, but also as a tool social control. Currently, many sites provide information related events phenomena. On other hand, Covid-19 pandemic has created...