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identify incorrectly

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The project team recognized that previous misidentifications were causing serious downstream effects in the identification effort.
When it comes to specimen misidentification, there are clear steps lab personnel can take to minimize the possibility of errors.
Misidentification of the patient and specimens can have serious consequences9.
Defects Involving Misidentifications.--Errors in identification were at the levels of patient, tissue type (eg, colon versus stomach), laterality of a specimen (eg, right breast versus left breast), or specific location in an organ (eg, skin of shoulder versus skin of thigh).
Many members of the legal community have recognized that eyewitness misidentifications pose a significant problem.
In her opening statement in the case, the prosecutor said she expected some prosecution witnesses might be "reluctant or hesitant with their identifications" during the trial and suggested it would be "out of fear and not out of misidentification."
Pexhibits a variant of Capgras syndrome, a type of delusional misidentification syndrome in which a person believes other people are not their true selves but have been replaced by identical imposters (Table).
When researchers checked probiotic supplements, which can be added to pets' food, they found misidentifications, misrepresentations, misspellings--and in one product line, mold.
(22) Further, there is much evidence to support that showup misidentifications are more prevalent than in any other pretrial misidentification procedure.
Most of the UFO sightings here are probably misidentifications of aircraft lights and meteors, but some are more difficult to explain, and include UFOs seen by police officers and pilots, and cases where UFOs have been tracked on radar."
Based on the results of this study, no errors (misidentifications) were found when conducting hand-torn end matches on three different types of duct tape.
Some aspects of these terrorist screening activities, however, remain controversial, particularly with regard to misidentifications (false positives).
Not only does this fall short of the intentions of the law whether state or federal but it leads to misidentifications with huge consequences for schools, teachers and students.
No false positives or other misidentifications occurred during 9,400 iris scannings at the schools.
The study focuses on three common causes of false convictions: misidentifications, false confessions, and perjury.