Fingerprint identification, also referred to as individualization, involves an expert, or an expert computer system operating under threshold scoring rules, determining whether two friction ridge impressions are likely to have originated from the same finger or palm ( or toe or sole ).

In the United States, the FBI manages a fingerprint identification system and database called the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, or IAFIS, which currently holds the fingerprints and criminal records of over 51 million criminal record subjects and over 1. 5 million civil ( non-criminal ) fingerprint records.

Fingerprint identification emerged as an important system within police agencies in the late 19th century, when it replaced anthropometric measurements as a more reliable method for identifying persons having a prior record, often under a false name, in a criminal record repository.

* Fingerprint in the forensic identification of typewriters, based on wear and tear of keys

* Fingerprint in the forensic identification of paper shredders, based on minute variations of the spacing of the blades

* Fingerprint ( computing ), uniquely identifying data by extracting from it a small key known as a fingerprint

; Fingerprint Overlay Printer: A device accessible via the glove box that allows KITT to scan fingerprints from an inserted object and overlay then onto another person's hand.

Fingerprint image acquisition is considered to be the most critical step in an automated fingerprint authentication system, as it determines the final fingerprint image quality, which has a drastic effect on the overall system performance.

Controversy continued to surround the McKie case and the Fingerprint Inquiry into the affair finished taking evidence in November 2009 and is awaiting publication of the final report.

The National Automated Fingerprint Identification System ( NAFIS ) is national fingerprint database, administered by CrimTrack.

The U. S. Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System holds all fingerprint sets collected in the country, and is managed by the FBI.

* Fingerprint, in the anatomical sense, is a mark made by the pattern of ridges on the pad of a human finger.

Through a program knowan as IRAP-the Industrial Research Assistance Program-the NRC provides grants and financial support to business ' looking to bring new and innovative technologies to the market Recently, the NRC gave a high-value grant to a small jewellery company, Dimples Fingerprint Jewellery, for its innovative maunfacturing process and use of green technologies

With the formation of Fingerprint Records and his studio, Heard began to produce albums for a number of artists including two albums for Randy Stonehill, Jacob's Trouble, Pierce Pettis and 1992's Vigilantes of Love album, Killing Floor, which he co-produced with R. E. M.

Fingerprint records normally contain impressions from the pad on the last joint of fingers and thumbs, although fingerprint cards also typically record portions of lower joint areas of the fingers.

Under the roof of the CJIS are the programs for the National Crime Information Center ( NCIC ), Uniform Crime Reporting ( UCR ), Fingerprint Identification, Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System ( IAFIS ), NCIC 2000, and the National Incident-Based Reporting System ( NIBRS ).

* June 12 – The world's first Fingerprint Bureau opens in Calcutta ( now Kolkata ), India, after the Council of the Governor General approves a committee report that fingerprints should be used for classification of criminal records.

The four initial systems were the National Criminal Investigation DNA Database ( NCIDD ), the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System ( NAFIS ), the National Police Reference System ( NPRS ) and the Australian National Child Offender Register ( ANCOR ).

The International Fingerprint Research Group ( IFRG ) which meets biennially, consists of members of the leading fingerprint research groups from Europe, the US, Canada, Australia and Israel and leads the way in the development, assessment and implementation of new techniques for operational fingerprint detection.

The FBI Latent Print Unit processed a fingerprint collected in Madrid and reported a " 100 percent positive " match against one of the 20 fingerprint candidates returned in a search response from their IAFIS — Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System.

In 2000, a group of fans gathered together to help Fingerprint Records release Mystery Mind, the first collection of previously unreleased material from the songwriter.

* Create a DNA Fingerprint PBS. org

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:* Fingerprint research and evaluation at the U. S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Heard would also record and release Fingerprint on a Swiss label in 1980.

In 1984, Heard began recording in his home studio, which he dubbed " Fingerprint Recorders ", after the title of one of his earlier records.

In 1997 To Heaven and Back, was released by Fingerprint Records, followed by a live album, Live Under the Red Moon, in 2000.

The Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, a national fingerprint and criminal history system, became operational in July 1999 at the division's complex.

* Most of Joseph Commings ' 33 short stories featuring Senator Banner, notably The X Street Murders, " Death by Black Magic ," " Hangman's House " and Fingerprint Ghost.

* White Paper – Overview of 2011 Changes to ANSI / NIST-ITL 1-2011: Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial & Other Biometric Information.

Another problem was that the gradual identification of more and more chemically similar and indistinguishable lanthanides, which were of an uncertain number, led to inconsistency and uncertainty in the numbering of all elements at least from lutetium ( element 71 ) onwards ( hafnium was not known at this time ).

However, the temple of Ares to which he refers had only been moved from Acharnes and re-sited in the Agora in Augustus's time, and statues known to derive from Alcamenes ' statue show the god in a breastplate, so the identification of Alcamenes ' Ares with the Ares Borghese is not secure.

Josephus too relates that this was the name by which he was known to the Greeks, and the Midrashic text, Esther Rabba also makes the identification.

It is undisputed that this identification is Chinese in form and Buddhist in implication, which suggests that the name must have been regularized centuries after the lifetime ascribed to Suizei, possibly during the time in which legends about the origins of the Yamato dynasty were compiled as the chronicles known today as the Kojiki.

It is undisputed that this identification is Chinese in form and Buddhist in implication, which suggests that the name must have been regularized centuries after the lifetime ascribed to Annei, possibly during the time in which legends about the origins of the Yamato dynasty were compiled as the chronicles known today as the Kojiki.

It is undisputed that this identification is Chinese in form and Buddhist in implication, which suggests that the name must have been regularized centuries after the lifetime ascribed to Kōshō, possibly during the time in which legends about the origins of the Yamato dynasty were compiled as the chronicles known today as the Kojiki.

It is undisputed that this identification is Chinese in form and Buddhist in implication, which suggests that the name must have been regularized centuries after the lifetime ascribed to Kōan, possibly during the time in which legends about the origins of the Yamato dynasty were compiled as the chronicles known today as the Kojiki.

It is undisputed that this identification is Chinese in form and Buddhist in implication, which suggests that the name must have been regularized centuries after the lifetime ascribed to Kōrei, possibly during the time in which legends about the origins of the Yamato dynasty were compiled as the chronicles known today as the Kojiki.

It is undisputed that this identification is Chinese in form and Buddhist in implication, which suggests that the name must have been regularized centuries after the lifetime ascribed to Kōgen, possibly during the time in which legends about the origins of the Yamato dynasty were compiled as the chronicles known today as the Kojiki.

It is undisputed that this identification is Chinese in form and Buddhist in implication, which suggests that the name must have been regularized centuries after the lifetime ascribed to Kaika, possibly during the time in which legends about the origins of the Yamato dynasty were compiled as the chronicles known today as the Kojiki.

It is undisputed that this identification is Chinese in form and Buddhist in implication, which suggests that the name must have been regularized centuries after the lifetime ascribed to Suinin, possibly during the time in which legends about the origins of the Yamato dynasty were compiled as the chronicles known today as the Kojiki.

In the field of Psychology and sociology this is known as identification.

American paratroopers also famously used a device known as a " cricket " on D-Day in place of a password system as a temporarily unique method of identification ; one metallic click given by the device in lieu of a password was to be met by two clicks in reply.

Later work on modification of histones led to the identification of an unexpected covalent modification of the histone protein by a bond between a lysine side chain of the histone and the C-terminal glycine residue of ubiquitin, a protein that had no known function.

Some remains from Japan have also been tentatively attributed to Pteranodon, but their distance from its known Western Interior Seaway habitat makes this identification unlikely.

They were also among the few non-U. S. citizens and nearly the only passengers with Arabic names on their flights, enabling the FBI to identify them and in many cases such details as dates of birth, known or possible residences, visa status, and specific identification of the suspected pilots.

These people are now known to have spoken Bactrian, an Eastern Iranian language, and Müller's identification is now a minority position among scholars.

Various methods of identity proofing are available ranging from in person validation using government issued identification to anonymous methods that allow the claimant to remain anonymous, but known to the system if they return.

The resulting report Teaching Children to Read: An Evidence-based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and its Implications for Reading Instruction was published in 2000 and provides a comprehensive review of what is known about best practices in reading instruction in the U. S. The panel reported that several reading skills are critical to becoming good readers: phonemic awareness, phonics for word identification, fluency, vocabulary and text comprehension.

Small, easily hidden rosaries were thus used to avoid identification and became known as Irish penal rosaries.

Aiding in identifying people as known versus unknown are identification systems.

" Moses ' Mountain " or " Mount Moses "; Har Sinai ), also known as Mount Horeb, is a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt that is the traditional and most accepted identification of the Biblical Mount Sinai.

Skulls were collected, these were compared to known skulls at the Smithsonian Institution, American Museum of Natural History, and British Museum, and confirmed identification of a single species, the Asiatic Black Bear, showing no morphological difference between ' tree bear ' and ' ground bear.

Powder diffraction will facilitate the identification of known phases in the mixture.

One example of this was the molecular identification of the first known pheromone, bombykol which required extracts from 500, 000 individuals, due to the very small quantities of pheromone produced by any individual worm.