Essays on Examiners

Introduction

Engineering profession in Canada is self-regulated while in the U.S. it is state-regulated. However, there has been a long-standing debate on whether self-regulation in the engineering profession in Canada has served the public interest in a similar way as the U.S. and other state-regulated regimes. Before engineering was made a self-regulated profession in Canada, there were other professions like medicine and law which were being self-regulated. However, these self-regulated fields had been marred with numerous scandals because they were putting their interests before those of the public. They would increase the cost of professional services and engage in professional ...

Introduction

Regulation and licensure is the act of giving a permit to those qualified in particular field of specialty while at the same time keeping in checking their activities. It is usually established under a variety of jurisdictions that aim at promoting the welfare of the public. Licensure is the process under which engineers receive authorization to practice as well as provide professional engineering services to people [5]. Just like any other profession, engineering is usually protected by the law under some jurisdictions. In the United States, the practice of architecture is often governed by individual states. The licenses are ...

Qualitative Research

Brief Description The interview was conducted among two people on the topic “Interpretation of the migration crisis”, which turned to be quite challenging due to the sensitiveness of the topic. First of all, it was problematic to find participants, as the majority thought that the answers may affect their social or professional life, even though I made it clear that the participation is anonymous. Secondly, one of the respondents refused to continue answering the questions in the middle of the interview without explaining the reasons. However, as this option was discussed before the interview, it did not affect the ...

When selecting law enforcement personnel for security agencies in the United States, it has become significantly important to ensure that they are persons who exhibit sound behavioral and emotional functioning. This is particularly true at a time when the policing agencies are faced with excessive force complaints, police suicide, community policing initiatives, allegations of hiring processes that are negligent and violence against inmates. It is thus critical for hiring agencies to make decisions that account for the applicant’s psychological characteristics when hiring. Therefore, pre-employment psychological evaluation in the policing industry is a specialty in the determination of the ...

Child abuse is one of the debatable issues in the United States. In a broader perspective, child abuse refers to sexual, psychological or physical mistreatment of children by a caregiver or a parent. In the State of Alabama, child abuse is defined in both criminal and civil statutes. Sometimes there are mechanisms that parents and caregivers used to discipline their children that may lead to criminal charges and child abuse. In Alabama, there are various code sections that focus on child abuse prevention, reporting of child abuse, as well as the general perspective of child abuse. In the state ...

A sudden child death is death in an infant which occurs precipitously and unexpectedly. The causes of most sudden child deaths are often not immediately evident to prior investigation. This is due to the fact that it takes less disease to kill an infant than it would take to kill an adult (PBS, 2011). A child can die as a result of a pre-existing medical condition. However, medical practitioners have always found it very difficult to find a link between a sudden child death and the child’s pre-existing medical condition. Hence, when medical examiners fail to diagnose a ...

Trace evidence involved in a crime scene tends to be in many different forms for example hair, fibres, soil, and glass among others. Glass analysis includes scientifically determining the speed of bullets, the direction of shots and the firearm type based on the impact of the crack on the glass. The method applied in determining the order of gunshots utilizes the scientific approach of studying the fracture lines on the points of impact on the glass. This paper discusses the methodology used to determine the order of bullets on glass evidence and the importance of the glass analysis in ...

Crime scene investigation is an important area of the criminal justice field. The CSI groups are expected to find and collect evidence at crime scenes. They are to follow the guidelines of collecting the evidence and packaging it properly. The proper packaging is to ensure that the evidence stays fresh and does not get contaminated. They then ensure that the evidence is delivered at the proper analyzation and examination teams to further review the evidence. Once the evidence is reviewed and properly understood then the investigators continue with this information to obtain a warrant, capture a suspect, or use ...

While the use of scientific evidence in solving crimes has helped in the identification of criminals and the exoneration of the innocent, there are certainly a number of problems that are associated with the use of forensic technology such as DNA testing within the criminal justice system. According to Edmond (2014), the use of forensic medical and scientific evidence within the criminal justice system has in a number of occasions led to wrongful convictions and hence a miscarriage of justice due to the fact that most of them are not reliable. The aspect of the reading from the Innocent ...

Application: The Ethics and Legalities of Medication Error Disclosure

When making an unintentional error in prescribing a drug to a patient, and considering the ethics of disclosure and nondisclosure, there are many implications that can come as a result of such an action. From an ethical standpoint, the ANA Code of Ethics is quite clear; in the case of an error, “nurses are expected to follow institutional guidelines in reporting errors committed or observed to the appropriate supervisory personnel” (2010). From a legal standpoint, errors are equally maligned; in the state of Texas, the Texas Board of Nursing states their belief that “protection of the public is not enhanced by the reporting ...

The article of Berman and Fox (2009) presented the history of D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Research Education) program, and the main objective of the program which is to prevent drug addiction among the youth. For this study, the police officers were required to undergo trainings in order to lead educational sessions in local schools. The main purpose of the program is to educate young children of the long-term impact of teen drug abuse. The study revealed that those teens coming from suburban towns are more prone to be lured to drug addiction.

The problem or issue presented in this article ...

1. What should the Connecticut Company have done to prevent the computer intrusion described in this case? What should it have done to detect this computer intrusion?

After the computer system has been compromised with, and an intrusion is detected, a computer forensics investigation is necessary to stop further intrusion. The Connecticut Company ought to have put in place preventive measures in order to prevent intruders from accessing their information. In case, the preventive security measures fails, Intrusion Detection System, IDs, is implemented which completely detects any intrusion into the system, and, if the intruder is indentified necessary legal actions ...

Ethics in research and communication

Introduction The centrality of ethics in research cannot be gainsaid. Ethics creates a distinction between right and wrong and separates an acceptable behaviour from unacceptable behaviour. The norms of conduct that define ethics are learnt in school, churches and other social settings (Link, 2013). Ethics is important in research since it governs the conduct of people in disciplines such as law, medicine, business and engineering. Because research encompasses cooperation and coordination among people in various disciplines, ethics fosters values that are needed in collaborative work. While it is imperative to underscore the role of ethics in the practice of ...

Importance of Forensic Tool Validation

Digital forensics is a new discipline in the field of forensic sciences, which is molded by the birth of innovative technology. Digital forensics uses tools, which are mainly computer based devices. In order to fortify the groundwork of digital forensics, the validation of the forensic tools is an integral process to fulfill. These tools ought to be validated in order to guarantee that the results provided by the tools are exactly correct. Also, it should be ensured that the evidences that the tools will bring about can be taken up in the court dealings. The field of digital forensics ...

Question 1

The type of bloodstain evidence at the scene is a cast off pattern. According to Becker (2005), a cast-off pattern normally results in blood striking nearby surfaces such as walls, floors and ceilings. A cast-off pattern indicates that a blunt force trauma to the head. The large wound on top of the head is indicative of repeated use of the blunt force weapon on the victim. The first step in the documentation process of the room would involve conducting an initial scan of the room to ascertain the evidence present. This would then be followed by photographing of the scene in ...

- How many professionals make up the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners?

- What are the requirements to become a certified fraud examiner (CFE)? - What is the overall mission of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners? The overall mission of the association is to support members with the knowledge, training, and resources needed to perform the duty at any time. - What does a CFE do? What are some of the professions from which they originate? CFE is able to identify warning and those indicators that hint at possible cases of fraud and possible risks ...

Lie Detector

Beginning of Lie detector For around centuries, individuals searched various approaches to exposing liars, looking for clues in the blushing cheeks, tricky eyes, twisting toes and all other body's outward signs. However, this finally reached its initiation in the 1920s, when a police officer with a PhD collaborated with an entrepreneurial secondary school student of Berkeley, California and asserted to have developed a machine that researched straightforwardly inside the human heart. In a couple of years, their machine altered police work, detained headlines, tackled mysterious murders and captivated the country. The concept of using a lie detector rose emerged in the middle period ...

Voice Stress Analysis

Voice Stress Analysis

Polygraph is to elicit admissions even before the exam Although courts have not generally allowed polygraph evidences, there are cases when they can be complimentary to the court’s findings. However, the court should qualify its expert examiners, device and the conditions under which the examination will take place. The polygraph tests are done in advance because the jury does not want being usurped by their findings. As the findings from polygraph can be erroneous, courts are normally reluctant to endorse them, because they are taken as close to calculated gamble. Therefore, they should come ...

Every degree program at the University must satisfy a certain set of the course requirement as well as other activities connected to the academics. The university ensures the conditions are clear to all the students, and they are easy to follow. It is the duty of the students to employ all the resources that would assist them in meeting the requirements of the University. The university may set requirements in terms of mean grade required for graduation, lecture rate of attendance per student, minimum course units a student should take, lack of proper internship programs, and the submission of the necessary ...

Human Resource Management

This article, written by Lisa Rein and William Branigin from the Washington Post, discusses a potentially severe lack of management in the supervision of work-from-home employees whose job is to review patent applications. The individual who broke the story let the Post know that the office “tolerates” employee abuses, later citing that the department often turned their heads in the face of these time and attendance issues when productivity was high. The culture in this office is a very relaxed one, mostly because managers and supervisors very rarely interact with their employees. This inevitably leads to a relaxed feeling of time and ...

Introduction

Autism is a neurological disorder that affects personal, as well as, social behavior of an individual. Autism affects personal and social communication skills, verbal and non-verbal communication and social interaction skills. Symptoms of autism starts showing from an early age when child is even below three years. Autism impacts functioning of the brain and processing of information by changing the organization and connection of nerve cells with their synapses. Development in children is not uniform, each children shows their own rate of development. However, there are certain milestones such as emotional, linguistic, behavioral and physical that should be achieved by ...

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Improvement Act

The establishment of the Malcolm Baldridge Quality improvement Act took place in 1987 with the objective of inspiring quality appreciation and invention. It also aimed to make known to U.S. companies; the accomplishment strategies attributed to such quality and invention. In the early and mid 1980s, there was a need for US companies to implement quality performance so as to gain a competitive advantage in the various industries. However, many of the companies in those industries did not know about quality control implementation. Consequently, this led to the establishment of the Baldrige Award to enhance quality control in an effort to ...

Abstract

The project deals with the problem of employees’ empowerment at Google. The opening paragraphs induct into empowerment as a type of democratic leadership style and the ways it applies to Google. Following are various techniques and approaches that enable company workforce to fulfill themselves in terms of creativity. The paper gives an in-depth look into the nature of empowerment techniques, as Google cafes, Moderator, TGIF, “Fix-Its, and “20 percent” projects, to name a few. The project reflects the opinions of prominent management experts and functionaries. Keywords: Google, empowerment, techniques, approach, project, loyalty, leadership Skillful personnel is important to any ...

AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF SENATE BILL 863

Requirements for the Masters in Public Policy and Administration Degree The thesis of is approved by __________________________________

Chairperson

ABSTRACT California’s (CA) legislature has passed a series of Workers Compensation (WC) reforms during the past 15 years; the most recent, Senate Bill (SB) 863 passed on August 21, 2012. SB 863 was introduced and presented to the California public as a reform bill that would ensure better coverage and easier medical access for workers injured on the job. SB 899 passed during the early 2000s was shown to be better for California’s workers, than SB863. ...

The Jon Benet Ramsey murder is one of the many unsolved cases which troubled the nation for many years. In 1996, six- year- old Jon Benet Patricia Ramsey was murdered in her home in Boulder, Colorado. Her body was found in the basement in which she had been struck on the head and strangled. The Colorado police primarily suspected Jon Benet’s parents and her brother but were completely cleared in 2008. However, in 2010, Colorado police re-opened the investigation and as new developments arise, the investigation was focused on the ransom note which was unusually long and which ...

The collection of a handwriting exemplar is necessary in aiding a document examiner to determine the authenticity of a handwriting in a questioned document purported to be forged. According to Koppenhaver (2002), the determination of the genuineness of a handwriting of a person will depend upon multiple factors and not merely on a single factor thus making it necessary to collect as many handwriting exemplars as possible for comparison. Writing is a reflection of the subconscious habit of a person and it is recommended to gather informal writing samples than asking for a request writing of the person whose signature is under investigation on the alleged forged document. ...

Mathematics

The topic for this research study is the applicability of DNA evidence in resolving criminal cases. Thesis Statement: DNA evidence is not an accurate means of identification of suspects because DNA analysis can be compromised, prone to errors and opposing interpretations due to external factors such as environment, contamination and bad laboratory practice. According Gardner and Anderson (2009), DNA evidence remains to be the most accurate means to identify a person. It has been an important development in criminal investigation and also a significant contribution to the entire criminal justice system. It provides a reliable basis for conviction. It has ...

Annotation Strategy for Reading Comprehension

Introduction Students need to have someone who supports them to improve and develop their reading skills, especially students with learning disabilities. Every teacher, even content area teachers, need to use some methods to help their students with reading comprehension, because if the students lack the knowledge of reading comprehensions, their performance deteriorates. There are different methods that teachers can use to help students in reading comprehensions. These methods include GIST, annotation, and a technique that found by Aulls, which uses four rules (Mary, Robyn, Marie, & Peter, 2013). The GIST technique involves summarizing of a text in fifteen words only while ...

Buro center has been used for over 70 years solely dedicated for the work of improving sciences with the sole reason of testing and the publication of the mental measurement yearbooks and test in prints and in multiple languages including English and Spanish. This help avail information to the users seeking them. The site also publishes single volumes and avail copies through availed links and offer option of sending questions as well as any material individuals would love to be included in the next editions. Adaptive behavior is widely applied in the evaluation of people with development and intellectual ...

Boeing is a world renowned US based company which started its operations in the year 1916. It primarily specializes in providing defense and aerospace facilities and it has a number of other business initiatives; which includes, operations and technology, Engineering, Boeing Capital, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Boeing Space and Security and the Boeing Shared Service Group. The scope of business of Boeing is quite huge and they enjoy a global customer base. At present the company boasts a customer base which is spanned across 150 countries and it mainly consists of US and their supported allies across the world. Maintaining a strong supply chain is ...

Introduction

Occupational fraud is a fraud that is committed by the employee to an employer is also called employee fraud, there are much common in most companies which it leads to financial losses .as much as the people working stay in the company they will hide the fraud forever.

The article: 2013.

During the cannas film festival a necklace which was worth about $2m after a star studded though the event was every guarded the necklace was not found, the event is normally held to promote jewel. The jewel was stored in a safe and there door to the safe was not broken the police did investigations ...

In general, patents are meant to protect inventions which are proved to work in ordinary applications without fail. I support the argument that software is not patentable. This is simply because software is a development of algorithm transformed and presented in programming language. According to calculus developed by church lambda in his thesis, mathematics cannot be patented. As a result, software is not patentable since it is simply a textual representation of diverse mathematical functions. Additionally, patents are intended to encourage innovation in the good interest of technological advancement. However software patents are scientifically considered to contrast this phenomenon. Instead of ...

Write a detailed description explaining how to train the assistants so that they have high inter-rater reliability. Look on the PsychINFO Web site to find some inter-rater reliability studies and see if you can get any ideas. Make sure you operationalize aggression before you start to explain your training plan. Be specific about what your research assistants should do to increase the similarity of their rating scores. Submit the reliability training plan for your research assistant

Introduction

Reliability can be summed as the continuity and consistency of a measure or parameter. Reliability is often obtained when similar results are obtained in a repeated ...

Conformity studies were carried out by Asch to find out how individuals make their decisions when in a group of individuals. In this study, individuals who did not belong to a certain group were put together with another group of people. All these individuals were then provided with lines of different length and each was required to choose the longest and shortest of the lines. When the new subjects in this study came across a group of other people, they were convinced to discard their own judgment about the length of the lines and instead adopt the position of the group members. ...

Introduction

As a member of an organization, we often encounter various conflicts in all aspects of the organizational structures and its processes and systems, particularly its standards. This is especially in true in state government agencies, where standards and structures are bound by traditional bureaucracy and rigid rules and opaque measures and remedies. The example of a conflict which this paper will analyze is the conflict of confronting an employee during times when the state policies are not followed. Compliance is an everyday thing in state agencies and this is also a root cause of tension and conflict. This is a serious conflict ...

I. Case Summary

On May 1, 2001, a 24-year-old intern named Chandra Levy vanished without a trace. Her case became a sensational one because her boyfriend, a promising and married US congressman was suspected initially to have something to do with her disappearance. Fifty-two-year-old Rep. Gary Condit, who like Levy hailed from Modesto California, had become a subject of police investigation and their prime suspect when authorities learned of his affair with Chandra.

Despite Condit's denial of having to do with her disappearance and his cooperation with the investigation, police bore down on him and considered him its prime suspect – searching his apartment (where Chandra would ...

I. Case Summary Chandra Levy, a 24-year-old intern from California, went missing on May 1, 2001 as she was preparing to return to her hometown of Modesto after undergoing a seven-month internship in Washington DC. Chandra’s disappearance drew much public and media attention after it was learned that she had been having an affair with a congressman of her hometown of Modesto, 52-year-old Gary Condit. The police had focused its investigation on Condit who had denied any involvement in Chandra's disappearance but had admitted to having an affair with her. But as the police searched for Chandra's whereabouts, it ...

Introduction

Identity theft is on the increase. The target of identity theft is usually the high net worth individuals. Corporate executives are exposed to higher risk due to the value of their liquid assets. They need to be educated on the dangers of identity theft and the steps to take to mitigate future losses through this rampant form of fraud. Identity theft is also rampant within an organisation with workers collaborating with outsiders to defraud their bosses. The staff should be aware of the dangers and how to critically buffer the executives and the company as a whole from identity fraud. ...

Introduction

The radical conception of power is the failure to keep normative and analytical questions which means that some scholars mistakenly confuse the critique and identification of power relations. In this paper, the argument is that the definition suggested by several authors does not meet their intention. The fundamental conception of power may be made to work within the terms originally expressed by the authors and they are forced to draw a challenging comparison between objective and objective an interest, which makes the identification of third dimensional power value burdened and irrational. At the same time places the analyst in the ...