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Fibre Evidence from Fingernail Clippings

2002· article· en· W2327644142 on OpenAlexaffvenue
S.J. Dignan, Karen Murphy

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Society of Forensic Science Journal · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicForensic Fingerprint Detection Methods
Canadian institutionsRoyal Canadian Mounted Police
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDominance (genetics)White (mutation)Forensic engineeringMedicineChemistryEngineering

Abstract

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Fingernails submitted in criminal cases involving struggles between individuals may contain trace evidence linking the two parties. Fingernail clippings can be examined for the presence of fibres and, if present, these fibres can be compared to the fibres used in the construction of a particular garment. The significance of finding fibres on clippings and the frequency of finding specific fibres are important issues in the ability to form a meaningful forensic conclusion. Fingernail clippings from fifty-six subjects were examined for the presence of fibres. The fibres were categorized according to colour and type (cottons, wools, other naturals and manmade). The subjects were classified according to gender, age, and left versus right handed dominance. It was determined that it was not unusual to find fibres under fingernails and that colourless/white, blue, and grey/black cottons were the most predominant. No significant differences were identified with respect to gender of the subjects. No trend emerged that illustrated a tendency for the number of recovered fibres to be related to the dominant hand. Children had more fibres under their nails than adults.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.012

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.066
GPT teacher head0.320
Teacher spread0.254 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2002
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