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The good, the bad, the ugly: The NAS report on strengthening forensic science in America
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☆ Paper presented at 5th Triennial Conference of the European Academy of Forensic Science, Glasgow, 8–11 September 2009.
PII: S1355-0306(10)00003-1
doi: 10.1016/j.scijus.2010.01.002
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