But intervening in real elections creates problems, say some political scientists, who argue that potentially tampering with election results is unethical, as is having people unknowingly participate in an experiment.
But the government signaled that its prosecution of Andersen for obstruction of justice was continuing unabated, arguing in a blistering court filing that the firm's public campaign to protest its indictment was potentially tampering with witness testimony and influencing prospective jurors with "slanted and outright false" information about the case.
That this notion is now being advanced as a reason for giving British officials an opportunity potentially to tamper with the report indicates that Woodward has been unable to come up with an even remotely plausible excuse for his proposed interference.
Following his successful appeal of that suspension, Braun went as far as to imply that his sample had potentially been tampered with by the collector -- later identified as Dino Laurenzi Jr. -- before it was tested.
Mr. Maria told reporters the potentially lethal tampering was not motivated by corporate rivalry, but was part of a dispute between Airworks employees and management dating back to 1995.
Given that, anyway, there is another issue to be taken into account when performing keypoint deletion: an image that does not contain SIFT keypoints (or very few of them) is suspicious; such absence, especially in textured areas, could be taken as a clue of tampering, thus potentially allowing to devise forensic detectors revealing the manipulation.
Equality Now suggested to members of the American Academy of Paediatricians, an awareness-raising discussion in collaboration with practising immigrant communities about these highly sensitive and ethical practices leading to potentially harmful consequences including tampering with a recognised human rights violation against girls and women [ 21, 22].
Dolan also said Browne Sanders's work was declining, but in asserting that he fired her for tampering, he raised a potentially more inflammatory rationale for her dismissal than what the Garden claimed when she filed her lawsuit and what it told the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
This will help prevent your children from tampering with valuable or potentially dangerous office equipment, such as printers or paper shredders.
In a pregnant woman, the hormone can "get through the placenta into the fetus," Levitt told me, potentially influencing her baby's brain and tampering with its circuitry.
I do get a sense that the message sunk in: the BBC is unique, popular, and potentially a huge international commercial success, so tampering with it must be done with great care.
