Student Projects: The Forensic Institute Research Network (FIRN) |
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Introduction
Many of these projects feature in one of the activities of the FIRN projects, a series of Regional Student Conferences linked to the main FIRN Conference (FORREST).
These events are designed to encourage and enable links between universities, researchers, and students in the same local area. It is also a great showcase for student projects. We are delighted to publicise any student projects and encourage you to visit here often to see how the content of this area increases. These are from the projects were presented at the London and South East Regional FIRN Conference at the School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster on Wednesday 24th March 2010. For a fuller report on that conference click here. See photos from the recent highly succesful 2010 Midlands FIRN Regional Student Conference held at De Montfort University. Please contact us direct for more information. |
Oral presentations Cognitive style, processing sets and face recall >> The Scanning Kelvin Probe (SKP) for the visualisation of fingerprints on metal surfaces >> Assessment of the validity of using pigs as a model for humans in forensic entomology studies >> Chemical processes at fingerprint-metal interfaces >> Determination of visual thresholds of image usefulness in fingerprint compression >> The use of ion beams for forensic analysis >> General purpose graphics processing units in security >> Real world detection of cocaine at the picogram level in an urban environment >> |
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