Mark & Trace Analysis

Mark & Trace Analysis
Author: William Hunter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2014-09-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1422289575

Crimes happen every day all around the world. Sometimes, criminals think they have taken every possible precaution to avoid capture, but they are often mistaken. Every crime leaves a trace, and forensic science has evolved to find the tiniest bits of evidence imaginable at a crime scene. Mark & Trace Analysis gives readers some insights about the tricks and techniques used by forensic scientists and crime-scene investigators when evidence is scarce. Criminals always leave a trail. The trick is finding it.

Methods for Environmental Trace Analysis

Methods for Environmental Trace Analysis
Author: John R. Dean
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2003-07-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0470861320

Provides the basic skills and information required to prepare an environmental sample for analysis. Divided into two sections, i.e. Inorganic Analysis and Organic Analysis, this book covers selected techniques, principally atomic spectroscopy and chromatography. Using flow diagrams to augment the experimental information, it highlights the most appropriate methods and the likely results. Detailed experimental information provided in an easy-to-follow style with illustrations Describes the specific sample preparation approaches necessary to analyse a particular sample type Discussion of selected literature sources highlights the most appropriate methods and the likely results obtained

Trace Fossil Analysis

Trace Fossil Analysis
Author: Adolf Seilacher
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2007-04-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540472266

This definitive textbook by a renowned field observer and analyst of trace fossils concentrates on the most distinctive examples, mostly made by infaunal invertebrates in originally soft sediments. It covers the whole geologic column and ranges from deep-sea to shallow-marine and continental environments. The book is designed to foster interpretative skills using the author's own drawings. They are thematically grouped in 75 plates that form the core for the descriptive text and annotated references. A glossary of ichnological terms is also provided. This book’s author is perhaps the world’s most acknowledged expert in the field of trace fossils.

Trace Analysis By Mass Spectrometry

Trace Analysis By Mass Spectrometry
Author: Arthur J. Ahearn
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2012-12-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0323140734

Trace Analysis by Mass Spectrometry deals with trace analysis of solids and liquids by mass spectrometric techniques. Topics include the physics and techniques of electrical discharge ion sources, transmission of ions through double focusing mass spectrometers, and detection and measurement of ions by ion-sensitive plates. The ion sources used are principally electrical discharge type sources. This book is comprised of 14 chapters. The first several chapters focus on the basic physics of electrical discharge ion sources, double focusing mass spectrometry, and the measurement of arrays of mass resolved ion beams by electrical detection methods and with ion sensitive emulsions. The discussion then shifts to the problem of obtaining the chemical composition of the recorded mass resolved ion sample and relating this composition to that of the original sample. The chapters that follow describe specific techniques for analyzing special samples such as insulators, powders, microsamples, biological materials, reactive and low melting point substances, radioactive materials, and gases in solids. The remaining chapters include the use of laser ion sources in the analysis of solids and the analysis of surfaces particularly with sputter ion sources. This book will be of interest to students and practitioners of physics and chemistry.

Quantitative Chemical Analysis

Quantitative Chemical Analysis
Author: Daniel C. Harris
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 892
Release: 2010-04-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1429218150

QCA is the bestselling textbook of choice for analytical chemistry. It offers a modern portrait of the techniques of chemical analysis, backed by a wealth of real world applications. This edition features new coverage of spectroscopy and statistics, new pedagogy and enhanced lecturer support.

An Introduction to Tool Marks, Firearms and the Striagraph

An Introduction to Tool Marks, Firearms and the Striagraph
Author: John E. Davis
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
Total Pages: 301
Release: 1968
Genre: Firearms
ISBN: 0398089167

Though prepared as an ""introduction"" to the subject, contains many points which will be of interest to the experienced criminalist, including suggested research projects and the like. Points out limitations of such evidence and the factors to be considered in its evaluation.

Automatic Malware Analysis

Automatic Malware Analysis
Author: Heng Yin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2012-09-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1461455235

Malicious software (i.e., malware) has become a severe threat to interconnected computer systems for decades and has caused billions of dollars damages each year. A large volume of new malware samples are discovered daily. Even worse, malware is rapidly evolving becoming more sophisticated and evasive to strike against current malware analysis and defense systems. Automatic Malware Analysis presents a virtualized malware analysis framework that addresses common challenges in malware analysis. In regards to this new analysis framework, a series of analysis techniques for automatic malware analysis is developed. These techniques capture intrinsic characteristics of malware, and are well suited for dealing with new malware samples and attack mechanisms.

The Organizing Property of Communication

The Organizing Property of Communication
Author: François Cooren
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2000
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027250790

What is an organization? What are the building blocks that ultimately constitute this social form, so pervasive in our daily life? Like Augustine facing the problem of time, we all know what an organization is, but we seem unable to explain it. This book brings an original answer by mobilizing concepts traditionally reserved to linguistics, analytical philosophy, and semiotics. Based on Algirdas Julien Greimas' semio-narrative model of action and Jacques Derrida's concept of écriture, a reconceptualization of speech act theory is proposed in which communication is treated as an act of delegation where human and nonhuman agents are mobilized (texts, machines, employees, architectural elements, managers, etc.). Perfectly congruent with the last development of the sociology of translation developed by Michel Callon and Bruno Latour, this perspective illustrates the organizing property of communication through a process called 'interactoriality'. Jacques Lacan used to say that the unconscious is structured like a language. This book shows that a social organization is structured like a narrative.