Download or read book The Psychology of Eyewitness Identification written by James Michael Lampinen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a tutorial review and evaluation of scientific research on the accuracy and reliability of eyewitness identification. The book starts with the perspective that there are a variety of conceptual and empirical problems with eyewitness identification as a form of forensic evidence, just as there are a variety of problems with other forms of forensic evidence. There is then an examination of the important results in the study of eyewitness memory and the implications of this research for psychological theory and for social and legal policy. The volume takes the perspective that research on eyewitness identification can be seen as the paradigmatic example of how psychological science can be successfully applied to real-world problems.
Download or read book National Identification Systems written by Carl Watner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-12-24 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, governments have sought more efficient ways to count, tax, allocate, monitor and order the activities of their citizens. Watner and McElroy have compiled a collection of essays that present the historical, religious, moral and practical arguments against government enumeration. The articles look at several government naming practices and the census and discuss how the collection of seemingly innocent data could be used to commit abuses. Section one recounts the history of what we now call national ID. Section two covers contemporary technologies, such as microchips, email tracking and camera-based surveillance systems, applying to each the test, "How would this catch terrorists or other criminals without destroying the rights of peaceable people?" Section three imagines a future of rebellion against a government tracking its citizens in the name of security, but offers some hope that American culture does not lend itself to the fanatical control that a high-tech national ID system could make possible.
Download or read book Border Crossings written by Paul Longley Arthur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The border between intimate memory and historical revelation is explored in this wide-ranging collection, which features original contributions from leading figures in the life writing field from Australia, Canada, Europe, UK, and the USA. The transmission and preservation of personal knowledge and stories from generation to generation frequently requires crossing into the private, contested spaces of memory. The most secret accounts or guarded remnants of information can sometimes lead to the most profound insights. In this context, there is a delicate balance between life writing’s role in revealing lives and the desire to be respectful towards them. As the essays in this book attest, exposing secrets, even if humiliating, can be a way of honouring lives. Throughout runs the framing theme of memory as the source of all intergenerational transmission of culture and history—whether relating to family, community, nation, ancestry, or political allegiance—and the importance of the intimate and personal in that process of handing on. This book was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.
Download or read book Animalism written by Stephan Blatti and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are we? What is the nature of the human person? Animalism has a straightforward answer to these long-standing philosophical questions: we are animals. Fifteen philosophers offer new essays exploring this increasingly popular view, some defending animalism, others criticizing it, and others exploring its more philosophical implications.
Download or read book Identification and Inference for Econometric Models written by Donald W. K. Andrews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-17 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2005 collection pushed forward the research frontier in four areas of theoretical econometrics.
Download or read book Identity Character and Morality written by Owen Flanagan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1993-08-26 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many philosophers believe that normative ethics is in principle independent of psychology. By contrast, the authors of these essays explore the interconnections between psychology and moral theory. They investigate the psychological constraints on realizable ethical ideals and articulate the psychological assumptions behind traditional ethics. They also examine the ways in which the basic architecture of the mind, core emotions, patterns of individual development, social psychology, and the limits on human capacities for rational deliberation affect morality.
Download or read book Is Landscape written by Gareth Doherty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Landscape . . . ? surveys multiple and myriad definitions of landscape. Rather than seeking a singular or essential understanding of the term, the collection postulates that landscape might be better read in relation to its cognate terms across expanded disciplinary and professional fields. The publication pursues the potential of multiple provisional working definitions of landscape to both disturb and develop received understandings of landscape architecture. These definitions distinguish between landscape as representational medium, academic discipline, and professional identity. Beginning with an inquiry into the origins of the term itself, Is Landscape . . . .? features essays by a dozen leading voices shaping the contemporary reading of landscape as architecture and beyond.
Download or read book Self to Self written by J. David Velleman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by philosopher J. David Velleman on personal identity, autonomy, and moral emotions is united by an overarching thesis that there is no single entity denoted by 'the self', as well as themes from Kantian ethics and Velleman's work in the philosophy of action.
Download or read book Who Is Sherlock written by Lynnette Porter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 130 years after the introduction of Sherlock Holmes to readers, the Great Detective's identity is being questioned, deconstructed, and reconstructed more than ever. Readers and audiences, not to mention scholars and critics, continue to analyze who Sherlock Holmes is or has become and why and how his identity has been formed in a specific way. The films Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, and Mr. Holmes and television series Sherlock and Elementary have introduced wildly divergent, yet fascinating portrayals that reveal as much about current social mores and popular culture as about the detective. More than ever, fans also are taking an active role in creating their own identities for Holmes through fan fiction and art, for example. "Who is Sherlock Holmes?" is still a viable question. The answers provided by illustrators, scriptwriters, directors, costume designers, set designers, actors, scholars, and fans provide insights into both Victorian and the modern-day Sherlock. Like the many disguises the Great Detective has donned throughout canon and adaptations, his perceived identities may be surprising or shocking, but they continue to make us look ever more closely to discover the real Sherlock Holmes.
Download or read book Essays on Identification and Weak Identification written by Linchun Chen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My doctoral dissertation aims to study several issues on identification and weak identification, with applications in linear instrumental variables (IV) models and transformation models. Chapter 1 is joint with Patrik Guggenberger, Frank Kleibergen and Sophocles Mavroeidis, which considers tests of a simple null hypothesis on a subset of the coefficients of the exogenous and endogenous regressors in a single-equation linear IV model with potentially weak identification. Existing methods of subset inference (i) rely on the assumption that the parameters not under test are strongly identified, or (ii) are based on projection-type arguments. We show that under homoskedasticity the subset Anderson and Rubin (1949) test, which replaces unknown parameters by limited information maximum likelihood (LIML) estimates has correct asymptotic size without imposing additional identification assumptions, but that the corresponding subset Lagrange multiplier (LM) test is size distorted asymptotically. Subsequently, Chapter 2, joint with Qihui Chen and Patrik Guggenberger, derives the asymptotic size of the corresponding subset LM test, and shows it is size distorted. We provide the smallest nonrandom size corrected (SC) critical value that ensures that the resulting "SC subset LM test" has correct asymptotic size. We introduce an easy to implement generalized moment selection plug-in SC subset LM test ("GMS-PSC subset LM test" from now on) that uses a data-dependent critical value that gives correct asymptotic size. Chapter 3 focuses on transformation models. It provides sufficient conditions for transformation models with endogenous regressors H(Y) =X[beta]+U to be identified under conditional moment restrictions, E(U/Z)=0, where Z is the IV for X. Allowing observables (X, Y, Z) and unobservable U to be high-dimensional, we show that the assumption of completeness suffices for identification. Based on the identification results, we propose to apply the penalized sieve minimum distance estimator (ĥ[beta]̂ in Chen and Pouzo (2009) with possible shape constraints to estimate (ĥ[beta]̂. Demand model of differentiated products markets is considered as an application of transformation models, and we provide the identification and PSMD estimation results for its parameters.
Download or read book Entity and Identity written by P. F. Strawson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work gathers selected essays by the author in two areas of philosophy. The first 12 pieces concern the philosophy of language, and the volume is completed by four studies in Kantian metaphysics.
Download or read book It s Your Story to Tell written by Maryann Lombardi and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our lives don't unfold like a novel-they are episodic, and don't always have a clean narrative. Our lives are a collection of essays." When you identify yourself, where do you begin? Which labels do you use, where did they come from? Do you define yourself or are you living a narrative someone else created for you? Why do we need labels in the first place? Author Maryann Lombardi shares her experiences and insights answering these questions and more. In It's Your Story to Tell: Essays on Identity from a Messy Life Well Lived, readers can witness how Lombardi learn to tells her story so they can explore how to tell their own. Lombardi's essays cover Gender identity and what it means to be a women The power of the mother child bond How family history drives family dynamics The discombobulation marriage, divorce, and dating again has on your identity The hijinks of many wild trips across the world It's Your Story to Tell: Essays on Identity from a Messy Life Well Lived by Maryann Lombardi is a guide for readers who are ready to rethink the narratives they tell themselves, who owns their stories, and how to take them back.
Download or read book Essays on Identification written by Anastasia Burkovskaya and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1 considers agents that aggregate several states of the world (i.e., the possible different realizations of an uncertain situation) into an event. They then compare bundles of consumption on these aggregated events, instead of having to consider bundles on each of the single possible realization. This simplifies the decision-making, since it decreases the number of distinguished realizations to consider. The collection of aggregated events of this type is called a subjective partition. In the case of Subjective Expected Utility, this kind of decision process does not affect agents' choices. However, the presence of ambiguity (i.e., when agents do not know the probability associated with each possible realization of uncertain situations) changes their behavior dramatically: different subjective partitions lead to different preferences over bundles. Chapter 1 deals with preferences: we provide axioms for a state aggregation model with ambiguity and show under which conditions preferences imply uniqueness of the subjective partition. Chapter 2 discusses choices obtained from the state aggregation model described in Chapter 1. We show identification of the subjective partition from choices in a complete market setting. In addition, we demonstrate that the results can be applied to deductible insurance choices. Finally, we offer a set of revealed preference inequalities that allow for testing the model on a dataset. Chapter 3 introduces a model of electoral choice that allows for derivation of joint distribution of turnout and voter share from unobservable joint distribution of costs of voting and preferences. Under a set of mild assumptions, we show identification and provide non-parametric estimators of joint distribution of costs of voting and preferences over candidates from observable electoral data. All estimators are consistent and asymptotically normal.
Download or read book The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays written by Katherine Pickering Antonova and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays is a step-by-step guide to the typical assignments of any undergraduate or master's-level history program in North America. Effective writing is a process of discovery, achieved through the continual act of making choices--what to include or exclude, how to order elements, and which style to choose--each according to the author's goals and the intended audience. The book integrates reading and specialized vocabulary with writing and revision and addresses the evolving nature of digital media while teaching the terms and logic of traditional sources and the reasons for citation as well as the styles. This approach to writing not only helps students produce an effective final product and build from writing simple, short essays to completing a full research thesis, it also teaches students why and how an essay is effective, empowering them to approach new writing challenges with the freedom to find their own voice.
Download or read book New Essays on Singular Thought written by Robin Jeshion and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading philosophers present essays on an issue central to philosophy of mind, language, and perception: the nature of our thought about the external world. The essays explore directions for future research, an important resource for anyone working at the interface of semantics and mental representation.
Download or read book Essays in Honor of Steven Paul Scher and on Cultural Identity and the Musical Stage written by Suzanne M. Lodato and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteen interdisciplinary essays in this volume were presented in 2001 in Sydney, Australia, at the Third International Conference on Word and Music Studies, which was sponsored by The International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). The conference celebrated the sixty-fifth birthday of Steven Paul Scher, arguably the central figure in word and music studies during the last thirty-five years. The first section of this volume comprises ten articles that discuss, or are methodologically based upon, Scher's many analyses of and critical commentaries on the field, particularly on interrelationships between words and music. The authors cover such topics as semiotics, intermediality, hermeneutics, the de-essentialization of the arts, and the works of a wide range of literary figures and composers that include Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Proust, T. S. Eliot, Goethe, Hölderlin, Mann, Britten, Schubert, Schumann, and Wagner. The second section consists of a second set of papers presented at the conference that are devoted to a different area of word and music studies: cultural identity and the musical stage. Eight scholars investigate - and often problematize - widespread assumptions regarding 'national' and 'cultural' music, language, plots, and production values in musical stage works. Topics include the National Socialists' construction of German national identity; reception-based examinations of cultural identity and various "national" opera styles; and the means by which composers, librettists, and lyricists have attempted to establish national or cultural identity through their stage works.
Download or read book Immunity to Error through Misidentification written by Simon Prosser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immunity to error through misidentification is recognised as an important feature of certain kinds of first-person judgments, as well as arguably being a feature of other indexical or demonstrative judgments. In this collection of newly commissioned essays, the contributors present a variety of approaches to it, engaging with historical and empirical aspects of the subject as well as contemporary philosophical work. It is the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to the topic and will be essential reading for anyone interested in philosophical work on the self, first-person thought or indexical thought more generally.
