Methodological Problems of the Conceptual Framework Development for Innovation Studies in Forensic Science

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-183
Author(s):  
Viktor Shevchuk
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Forensic Science ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Innovation Studies ◽  
Methodological Foundation ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
New Research

The paper investigates the development issues associated with the conceptual framework of the innovation studies in forensic science as a new research area in forensic science. The author studies the methodological problems of developing and grouping categories and concepts of the subject matter. It is substantiated that the level of development and validity of any scientific theory, including the innovation studies in forensic science, is determined according to the degree and level of development of its theoretical and methodological principles and the framework of categories and concepts of this theory. In particular, this refers to such concepts as forensic innovation, innovative forensic product, their functions, classifications, stages of the innovation process, etc. The study analyses the scientific approaches to understanding the basic categories of the matter under consideration, which are innovative forensic product and forensic innovation. The author offers their definitions, describes essential features and properties, and analyses the correlation of these concepts. Furthermore, the author analyses the general and universal dialectical method of rising from the abstract to the concrete and from the concrete to the abstract, including their role in the development of the conceptual framework of innovation studies in forensic science. The study notes that the methodological framework for the development and implementation of innovative forensic products and the application of forensic innovations in law enforcement also includes activity-based, system-structural, and technological approaches, the use of which is promising both in the study of basic concepts of innovation studies in forensic science and in the development of this forensic theory. The author articulates proposals and individual insights in the solution of particular debating points associated with innovations in forensic science and law enforcement practice. The study substantiates that a comprehensive approach to the development of basic concepts and categories of innovation studies in forensic science constitutes a methodological foundation for further research on this subject, which determines the promising areas for the development of forensic scienc

scholarly journals CURRENT PROBLEMS OF FORENSIC INNOVATIONS RESEARCH: CONCEPT, ATTRIBUTES AND SIGNIFICANT FEATURES

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-45
Author(s):  
V. Shevchyuk
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Production Technology ◽  
New Product ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Methodological Foundation ◽  
Technology Service ◽  
Complex Approach ◽  
Research Concept ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Enforcement Activity

The article is devoted to relevant problems of the reaserch on forensic innovations concept, its significant features, attributes, theoretical problems of development and their implementation into law enforcement activity. The analysis of scientific approaches to forensic innovations understanding is carried out, its definition is offered, significant features and attributes are singled out, its relation to the concept of innovative forensic product is analyzed. The main features of forensic innovations are considered: innovativeness (novelty), objectivism, subjectivism, purposefulness, demand, practical applicability, efficiency. It is substantiated that innovation should be understood as developed, implemented and applied in practice the latest technical-, tactical-, methodicalforensic means that are the result of research or development activities, embodied in the form of a new product (production), technology, service, solutions, used by special qualified entities in practice and aimed at effectively solving forensic tasks and ensuring optimization, improving the quality and effectiveness of law enforcement practice. It’s noted that in modern realities an important course for improving the conceptual apparatus of forensic innovation is the clarification and unification of terms. The main categories of the studied theory are the concepts of “innovative forensic product” and “forensic innovation”. The analysis of the essence of these concepts gives grounds to assert that the innovative forensic product and forensic innovation are separate types of means of forensic innovation. The methodological basis for the development and implementation of forensic innovations into law enforcement are activity-based, system-structural and technological approaches, the use of which is promising for the formation of a separate forensic theory − forensic innovation. It’s substantiated that the complex approach in the development and formation of forensic innovation basic concepts is a methodological foundation for further research on this issue. It’s noted that in current realities criminalistics and each of its sections face important problems intending to study and take into consideration modern innovative achievements of science and technology, which can be effectively used while combating crime and successfully ensure urgent needs with forensic innovations in practice. New scientific approaches and proposals for solving the researched discussion problems are justified, perspective directions of research in this field of knowledge are defined.

scholarly journals Mathematical Methods in Law Enforcement: Counteracting Extremism on Social Media

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 468-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Sukhodolov ◽  
Alexey Lebedev ◽  
Boris Toropov ◽  
Alexey Babkin ◽  
Boris Spasennikov
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Mathematical Methods ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Research

The paper discusses the problem of determining the most influential people on social media while taking into consideration the possibilities of forming coalitions with their sets. The authors analyze social media networks created by criminal elements. Modern Russia has a practice of criminal and administrative prosecution of social media users who post information that violates Russian legislation. Today, there is an opportunity to study various aspects of society and obtain new research results using social media, which often play a key role. The authors suggest that the methodology of identifying social media users who are sources of extremist information should be examined and streamlined with the goal of improving the law enforcement practice of counteracting the spread of socially dangerous information on the Internet. They use mathematical methods to show that the problem of finding the maximally influential group consisting of k number of participants cannot have an optimal solution if this group includes k most influential participants individually. To solve this problem, the authors suggest using the game theory concept of Shapley vector, which makes it possible to evaluate the individual contribution of each participant into the formed group, i.e., to find out to what degree each of them could be useful as a team player. Law enforcement bodies already have certain experience of using software to upload data and analyze social networking sites. The presented method of calculating the significance of network users gives an opportunity to widen and improve this experience and to move from the ad hoc selective prosecution of separate users to the methodical work of suppressing and preventing crimes connected with the dissemination of information that constitutes an offence. The research area selected by the authors will, in its turn, contribute to improving the effectiveness of suppressing and preventing crimes connected with spreading information that contains constituting elements of different offences.

Music Neurotechnology for Sound Synthesis: Sound Synthesis with Spiking Neuronal Networks

Leonardo ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 439-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo R. Miranda ◽  
John Matthias
Keyword(s):  
Cortical Neurons ◽  
Neuronal Networks ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Sound Synthesis ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Computer Interfaces ◽  
Engineering Sciences ◽  
New Research ◽  
Sound Files

Music neurotechnology is a new research area emerging at the crossroads of neurobiology, engineering sciences and music. Examples of ongoing research into this new area include the development of brain-computer interfaces to control music systems and systems for automatic classification of sounds informed by the neurobiology of the human auditory apparatus. The authors introduce neurogranular sampling, a new sound synthesis technique based on spiking neuronal networks (SNN). They have implemented a neurogranular sampler using the SNN model developed by Izhikevich, which reproduces the spiking and bursting behavior of known types of cortical neurons. The neurogranular sampler works by taking short segments (or sound grains) from sound files and triggering them when any of the neurons fire.

A systematic review of e-tail product returns and an agenda for future research

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamrul Ahsan ◽  
Shams Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Product Returns ◽  
Content Type ◽  
People Skills ◽  
New Research ◽  
Returns Management ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThis study conducts a systematic literature review of e-tail product returns research. E-tail product returns are essentially acquisition of products that have been sold through purely online or brick-and-click channels and then returned by consumer to business.Design/methodology/approachUsing a systematic literature review protocol, we identified 75 peer-reviewed articles on e-tail product returns, conducted bibliometric analysis and content analysis of the articles and summarised our findings.FindingsThe findings reveal that the subject of e-tail returns is a new research area; academics have started to investigate several aspects of e-tail returns through different research methodologies and theoretical foundations. Further research is required in leading e-commerce countries and on key areas such as omni-channel returns management, customer satisfaction and service, the impact of resources such as people skills, the benefits of technology and IT systems in managing e-tail returns.Practical implicationsThe study offers a summative account of current e-tail knowledge areas, which can serve as a reference guide for e-tailers to develop strategies for more efficient and competitive product returns.Originality/valueThis study contributes theoretically by developing clusters of key themes or knowledge areas about e-tail returns. It also provides a conceptual framework for e-tail returns management, which can be used as a springboard for further empirical research.

scholarly journals Calm Before the Storm

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Grispos ◽  
Tim Storer ◽  
William Bradley Glisson
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
It Infrastructure ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Digital Forensic ◽  
Forensic Practice ◽  
New Research ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Control And Management

Cloud computing is a rapidly evolving information technology (IT) phenomenon. Rather than procure, deploy, and manage a physical IT infrastructure to host their software applications, organizations are increasingly deploying their infrastructure into remote, virtualized environments, often hosted and managed by third parties. This development has significant implications for digital forensic investigators, equipment vendors, law enforcement, as well as corporate compliance and audit departments, amongst other organizations. Much of digital forensic practice assumes careful control and management of IT assets (particularly data storage) during the conduct of an investigation. This paper summarises the key aspects of cloud computing and analyses how established digital forensic procedures will be invalidated in this new environment, as well as discussing and identifying several new research challenges addressing this changing context.

scholarly journals Photobiomodulation of Human Fibroblasts and Keratinocytes with Blue Light: Implications in Wound Healing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Rossi ◽  
Giada Magni ◽  
Francesca Tatini ◽  
Martina Banchelli ◽  
Federica Cherchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wound Healing ◽  
Blue Light ◽  
Chronic Wounds ◽  
Human Fibroblasts ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Wound Management ◽  
Blue Led ◽  
Led Light ◽  
New Research

In recent years, photobiomodulation (PBM) has been recognized as a physical therapy in wound management. Despite several published research papers, the mechanism underlying photobiomodulation is still not completely understood. The investigation about application of blue light to improve wound healing is a relatively new research area. Tests in selected patients evidenced a stimulation of the healing process in superficial and chronic wounds treated with a blue LED light emitting at 420 nm; a study in animal model pointed out a faster healing process in superficial wound, with an important role of fibroblasts and myofibroblasts. Here we present a study aiming at evidencing the effects of blue light on the proliferation and metabolism in fibroblasts and keratinocytes. Different light doses were used to treat the cells, evidencing inhibitory and stimulatory effects. Electrophysiology was used to investigate the effects on membrane currents, while Raman spectroscopy revealed the mitochondrial Cytochrome C (Cyt C) oxidase dependence on blue light irradiation. In conclusion, we observed that the blue LED light can be used to modulate the activity of human fibroblasts, and the effects in wound healing are particularly evident when studying the fibroblasts and keratinocytes co-cultures.

scholarly journals MIGRATION AS A SOCIAL RESOURCE OF TERRITORIAL COMMUNITY

PRIMO ASPECTU ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 56-64
Author(s):  
Julia DROZDOVA
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Social Resource ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Volgograd Region ◽  
New Research ◽  
Combined Strategy

In the modern globalized world migration shows a stable progressing nature which explains the academic interest in this complex, controversial phenomenon. The complexity of migration processes gives rise to new discourses, and a new research area where migration is studied as a social resource, a channel to replenish human resources in the declining regions of the Russian Federation. Data obtained in a complex sociological study performed within the framework of RFFI grant #19-411-340002 “Territorial communities in social transformation: a sociological and managerial analysis” permitted considering migration as a social resource. The research team of the Volgograd Institute of management, a branch of RANEPA, used a combined strategy that includes both quantitative (mass survey of citizens and rural residents) and qualitative methods of empirical study. The former were mass surveys of urban and country residents, the latter - in-depth interviews of experts and representatives of territorial local governing bodies, the academic community, urban and country activists, architects, leaders of property owner associations, long term residents of territorial communities. The obtained data allowed revealing the potential of migration in terms of partial compensation for the declining population of the Volgograd region, replenishing human resources and labor force, preservation and development of regional territories, building solidary ties between the local population and migrants. Migration has both positive and negative implications; the objective, inevitable nature of migration brings to the fore a need for optimal, effective methods of management at all levels of the social system. Social and ethnic agreement between migrants and the receiving population in territorial communities can be only possible when life in a region is well regulated, its municipal structures and local communities function properly, and the traditions and culture of all people residing here are respected.

scholarly journals Design Techniques for Elliptical Micro-Strip Patch Antenna and Their Effects on Antenna Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 2317-2326
Keyword(s):  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Patch Antennas ◽  
Bandwidth Enhancement ◽  
Antenna Performance ◽  
Elliptical Ring ◽  
New Research ◽  
Design Techniques

Elliptical Micro-strip Patch Antenna (EMPA) has been emerged as a peculiar and significant category among the different shaped micro-strip patch antennas because of its circular polarization and dual-resonant frequency features with a single feed. Elliptical and its derived shapes such as semielliptical, half-elliptical, slotted-elliptical and elliptical ring are found to be particularly instrumental for bandwidth enhancement and these antennas find great applications in Ultra Wide Band (UWB) and Super Wide Band (SWB) communications. Compared to antennas with circular or rectangular shapes, the design of EMPA is a research area of high potential as there is higher flexibility in its design due to more degrees of freedom. The reported literature in the field of EMPA is very less and there is ample scope for new researchers to work on. This review paper is an attempt to summarize and critically assess the-state-of-the-art design techniques as reported in literature and understand their effects on performance of elliptical patch antenna for suggesting new research fronts in the field of EMPA.

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