OSAC Lexicon

An ordinal estimate of the usefulness of biometric data for the purpose of automatedrecognition.

That part of quality management focused on providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled.

All the planned and systematic activities implemented within the quality system, and demonstrated as needed, to provide adequate confidence that an entity will fulfill requirements for quality.

Steps taken by an FSP to detect, correct, minimize and/or prevent nonconforming work.

That part of quality management focused on fulfilling quality requirements.

Materials used to prepare control samples including reference materials, certified reference materials, and blank matrix samples

A component of a quality assurance program that focuses on ensuring accuracy in laboratory test results through careful monitoring of test methods

Part of quality management focused on increasing the ability to fulfil quality requirements. The requirements can be related to any aspect such as effectiveness, efficiency, or traceability.

The coordinated activities to direct and control an organization with regard to quality. Direction and control with regard to quality generally includes establishment of the quality policy and quality objectives, quality planning, quality control, quality assurance, and quality improvement.

That part of quality management focused on setting quality objectives and specifying necessary operational processes and related resources to fulfil the quality objectives.

measurement of the number of items or the amount of an item or the amount of component within an item
 

An assay designed to measure the concentration of an analyte within a sample

A means for quantifying the amount of nucleic acid present in a sample using PCR.

Property of a phenomenon, body, or substance, where the property has a magnitude that can be expressed as a number and a reference.

Number and reference together expressing magnitude of a quantity.

A systematic search of an area in a series of point-to-point patterns utilizing the wind to the canine's best advantage.

(n) The nucleotide or protein sequence that has an unknown source (i.e., evidence sequence), or (v) the action of searching an unknown sequence against a database.

The percent of the query sequence length that is included in the aligned segment with a hit.

question of whether two or more items have the same origin or have different origins, or who or what the origin of an item is

An item of unknown source (impression or otherwise) that is normally recovered from a crime scene.

An impression or image of friction ridge skin whose source or identity is unknown; it can include latent impressions, impressions from an unknown source or a known source.

An impression or image of friction ridge skin whose source or identity is unknown; it can include latent impressions, impressions from an unknown source or a known source.

An impression or image of friction ridge skin whose source or identity is unknown; it can include latent impressions, impressions from an unknown source or a known source.

A voice signal from an individual who is unknown and has not yet been linked to anypreviously encountered individual. Note: The task of speaker identification is to link aquestioned voice signal to a known voice signal through determination of a commonspeaker.

A multimedia framework developed by Apple, Inc. It allows the use of many differentcodec formats. The native file format for QuickTime video specifies a multimediacontainer file that contains one or more tracks. Each track either contains a digitallyencoded media stream using a specific format or a data reference to the media streamlocated in another file.

Electromagnetic transmission of heat energy; increases the sensible temperature of any substance capable of absorbing the radiation, especially solid and opaque objects.

Heat transfer by way of electromagnetic waves that are longer than visible light waves and shorter than radio waves.

An image produced on a sensitive plate or film by X-rays or similar radiation, and typically used in medical examination.

An image produced on a sensitive plate or film by x-rays or similar radiation, and typically used in medical examination range of motion.

When the choice of something or the placement of something is random the source placed is equally likely to be either location.

A feature or defect specific to one stamp that can occur in the manufacturing process or from individual usage occurring after manufacture (for example, wear and damage defects such as cuts and gouges, reproducible blemishes, impression voids, improper and extraneous inking, or coincidental peripheral printing). The position, orientation, size and shape of these characteristics are essential to the identification of a stamp as the source of an impression.

The subconscious impulse on the part of the canine to rise in status within the pack social order

A Category 0 scoring function. See 4.2.4. A rank-score only scoring function is either non-quantified, inconsistent, or non-explainable.

penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim. 

See heat release Rate (HRR).