OSAC Lexicon

Canine training conducted with regularity that maintains the canine's operational capabilities.

(See stamping device.)

A document providing comprehensive information about a substance or mixture for using in workplace chemical management as adopted by the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS). Note: Previously known as a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS).

An action by the handler, canine or canine team that if done in operational environment, could place the canine team in jeopardy.

Subset of a group (i.e., the totality of items under consideration) made up of one or more items (i.e., the individual parts into which that group is divided). NOTE A group may be real and finite, real and infinite, or completely hypothetical.

A group of items, test results, or portions of material, taken from a large collection of items, test results or portions of material, that serves to characterize the larger population

Obtain the values of a function for regularly or irregularly spaced distinct values fromits domain. From: ISO 2382-2:1976.

selection and/or collection of material or data regarding an object of conformity assessment (4.2)
Note 1 to entry: Selection can be on the basis of a procedure, an automated system, professional judgement etc.
Note 2 to entry: Selection and collection can be performed by the same or different persons or organizations.
 

A method of DNA sequencing for determining the order of bases in a DNA molecule based on the selective incorporation of chain-terminating dideoxynucleotides by DNA polymerase during in vitro DNA replication.

A method of DNA sequencing for determining the order of bases in a DNA molecule based on the selective incorporation of chain-terminating dideoxynucleotides by DNA polymerase during in vitro DNA replication. See sequencing below.

Subject Acquisition Profile. With the exception of mobile device SAP levels, they are aseries of sets of progressively more stringent parameters and requirements relevant toface acquisition. Subject Acquisition profiles for iris are denoted as Iris acquisitionprofiles (IAP), and those for fingerprints are denoted as Fingerprint acquisitionprofiles (FAP). The term SAP had been used exclusively for face acquisition in earlierversions of the standard. [2015a>] In the Mobile ID Best Practices RecommendationsVersion 1, face, finger and iris application profiles were all referred to as SAP. Theyare referred to separately in this standard. This was changed in Mobile ID Best Practices Recommendations Version 2 to be consistent with this standard.

Extraneous or undesirable toner particles or ink droplets (see spatter, spray).

When a reinforcer loses its effectiveness as a result of being overused.

The number of pixels per unit distance at which an image is captured (ppmm or ppi).

Healed fibrous tissue resulting from an injury to the skin.

A place, an object, a person, or an animal that is subject to and/or requires forensic examination. NOTE A crime scene is a common description of a scene where a presumed crime has been committed. The scene can be a person or an animal. (ISO 21043-1:2018[E])

NOTE In a situation that involves a potential criminal act definitions in section 3.7 through 3.9 would be preceded by “crime” (e.g., crime scene investigator).

A place, an object, a person, or an animal that is subject to and/or requires forensic examination

NOTE In a situation that involves a potential criminal act definitions in section 3.1 through 3.5 would be preceded by “crime” (e.g., crime scene investigator).

The general physical location of a fire or explosion incident (geographic area, structure or portion of a structure, vehicle, boat, piece of equipment, etc.) designated as important to the investigation because it may contain physical damage or debris, evidence, victims, or incident-related hazards.

A place or object that is subject to and/or requires forensic examination. (ISO/FDIS 21043-1:2018[E]) 

NOTE A crime scene is a common description of a scene where a presumed crime has been committed. The scene can be a person or an animal.

A place, or object that is subject to and/or requires forensic examination. NOTE A crime scene is a common description of a scene where a presumed crime has been committed. The scene can be a person or an animal. (ISO 21043-1)

The process of searching for, finding, and demarcating any environment where human remains and material associations, potentially relevant in a medicolegal setting, may be recovered.

An examination of a scene to locate, document, process, collect, and preserve items of potential evidentiary value. 

NOTE In a situation that involves a potential criminal act definitions in section 3.7 through 3.9 would be preceded by “crime” (e.g., crime scene investigator).

An examination of a scene to locate, document, process, collect, and preserve items of potential evidentiary value. 

NOTE In a situation that involves a potential criminal act definitions in section 3.1 through 3.5 would be preceded by “crime” (e.g., crime scene investigator).

An examination of a scene to locate, document, process, collect, and preserve items of potential evidentiary value.

An examination of a scene to locate, document, collect, and preserve items of potential evidentiary value. 

NOTE Investigations may involve criminal or non-criminal acts. Investigations into presumed criminal acts are referred to as crime scene investigations.

An individual, however named, who is responsible for performing elements of scene investigation.

NOTE In a situation that involves a potential criminal act definitions in section 3.7 through 3.9 would be preceded by “crime” (e.g., crime scene investigator).

An individual, however named, who is responsible for performing elements of scene investigation.

NOTE In a situation that involves a potential criminal act definitions in section 3.1 through 3.5 would be preceded by “crime” (e.g., crime scene investigator).

An individual, however named, who is responsible for performing elements of scene investigation.

An individual, however named, who is responsible for performing elements of scene investigation.

NOTE Scene investigators are commonly referred to as crime scene investigators. Other personnel assisting in the investigation may also fulfill this role.

The intentional act of preventing and refraining from any activity that may alter a scene or anything contained within the scene.

The process to gain explicit knowledge of the series of events that surround a scene using deductive and inductive reasoning, physical evidence, scientific processes, and their interrelationships. 

NOTE In a situation that involves a potential criminal act definitions in section 3.1 through 3.5 would be preceded by “crime” (e.g., crime scene investigator).

The process to gain explicit knowledge of the series of events that surround a scene using deductive and inductive reasoning, physical evidence, scientific processes, and their interrelationships. [ANSI/ASB Std 159]

An individual, however named, who is responsible for performing elements of a scene reconstruction.

NOTE In a situation that involves a potential criminal act definitions in section 3.1 through 3.5 would be preceded by “crime” (e.g., crime scene investigator).

A systematic survey of a demarcated environment that maximizes detection and recovery of data, physical evidence, and human remains, while fully documenting context and minimizing alteration.