Development of support system for identification of bullet-induced glass fractures

Forensic Scientist in the field of glass analyses observed that combination of firearms and ammunitions produced unique pattern on glass fractures. Experienced forensic investigator could identify the characteristics of the firearms and ammunitions based on the fractures. Normally, analysis of the g...

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Main Author: Raduan, Malek
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/40407/1/Dr._Malek_Raduan-24_pages.pdf
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description Forensic Scientist in the field of glass analyses observed that combination of firearms and ammunitions produced unique pattern on glass fractures. Experienced forensic investigator could identify the characteristics of the firearms and ammunitions based on the fractures. Normally, analysis of the glass fracture has to follow lengthy and tedious procedures that were costly. The traditional technique that was used in keeping the data has caused difficulty to retrieve the data because the data could be damaged or loss. The scope of the study was to develop the Forensic Support System (ForeSS) to help forensic investigators expedite the identification of bullet induced glass fractures based on the data that was collected by forensic scientist. System Development Life Cycle methodology was used for the system development. Data were divided into ten groups: 1) Bullet, 2) Chronograph, 3) Deformation, 4) Firearm, 5) Glass, 6) HarFA, 7) Image Comparer, 8) Leica Application Suite, 9) Table pengguna and 10) Thickness. ForeSS was developed using open source applications involving MySQL and phpMyAdmin. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX was used as a coding system. The result from this study is a support system that can benefit the investigations involving cases of bullet-induced glass fractures. In this study, forensic scientist also can be a system administrator where they can use the system to manage all related data such as upload and key-in data info meanwhile forensic investigator can use this system to find the result profile of firearms and ammunitions based on the characteristics of the glass fractures. Overall, ForeSS could reduce the use of resources in terms of manpower and investigation time.
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spelling usm.eprints-404072018-05-22T00:50:12Z http://eprints.usm.my/40407/ Development of support system for identification of bullet-induced glass fractures Raduan, Malek R5-920 Medicine (General) Forensic Scientist in the field of glass analyses observed that combination of firearms and ammunitions produced unique pattern on glass fractures. Experienced forensic investigator could identify the characteristics of the firearms and ammunitions based on the fractures. Normally, analysis of the glass fracture has to follow lengthy and tedious procedures that were costly. The traditional technique that was used in keeping the data has caused difficulty to retrieve the data because the data could be damaged or loss. The scope of the study was to develop the Forensic Support System (ForeSS) to help forensic investigators expedite the identification of bullet induced glass fractures based on the data that was collected by forensic scientist. System Development Life Cycle methodology was used for the system development. Data were divided into ten groups: 1) Bullet, 2) Chronograph, 3) Deformation, 4) Firearm, 5) Glass, 6) HarFA, 7) Image Comparer, 8) Leica Application Suite, 9) Table pengguna and 10) Thickness. ForeSS was developed using open source applications involving MySQL and phpMyAdmin. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX was used as a coding system. The result from this study is a support system that can benefit the investigations involving cases of bullet-induced glass fractures. In this study, forensic scientist also can be a system administrator where they can use the system to manage all related data such as upload and key-in data info meanwhile forensic investigator can use this system to find the result profile of firearms and ammunitions based on the characteristics of the glass fractures. Overall, ForeSS could reduce the use of resources in terms of manpower and investigation time. 2015-03 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/40407/1/Dr._Malek_Raduan-24_pages.pdf Raduan, Malek (2015) Development of support system for identification of bullet-induced glass fractures. Masters thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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title Development of support system for identification of bullet-induced glass fractures
title_full Development of support system for identification of bullet-induced glass fractures
title_fullStr Development of support system for identification of bullet-induced glass fractures
title_full_unstemmed Development of support system for identification of bullet-induced glass fractures
title_short Development of support system for identification of bullet-induced glass fractures
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