In loving memory of my father, Dr. Suresh Kumar Kwatra, who has been my greatest inspiration in life ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am indebted to my advisor, Aaron Bobick, and co-advisor, Irfan Essa, for their exceptional support and guidance. They gave me the freedom to explore research ideas at will, but were always there to educate and guide me. I would also like to thank the rest of my committee membe...

Introduction: Travel agencies may be consulted by intending travelers seeking pre-travel health advice. Travel agents should be equipped to deal with such queries and have access to a source of high quality travel health advice. This study aimed to establish the level of knowledge of travel health risks among Irish travel agencies. Methods: A web-based su...

OBJECTIVE external cephalic version (ECV) is a relatively simple and safe manoeuvre and a proven effective approach in the reduction of breech presentation at term. There is professional consensus that ECV should be offered to all women with a fetus in breech presentation, but only up to 70% of women eligible for ECV undergo an ECV attempt. The aim of the study was to identify barriers and faci...

In this new legal economy, many clients have begun to reexamine the concept of alternative fee arrangements (“AFAs”) as an alternative to the billable hour model of legal services. A survey conducted by the Association of Corporate Counsel in 2008 found that 60% of general counsel and chief legal officers believed that the best way for outside counsel to improve relations would be to offer more...

In 2019 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) incarcerated nearly 500,000 individuals. More than half of the individuals detained by ICE were transferred between detention facilities, roughly thirty percent those moved federal circuit court jurisdictions. Detention transfers are isolating, bewildering, scary for noncitizen their family. They can devastate noncitizen’s legal defense d...

Montgomery et al. have documented the extent to which jurors apparently do and do not rely on expert testimony regarding dangerousness and mental illness. This article reviews some of the methodological issues raised by their findings and argues that their results have potential value for appellate defense counsel in appealing death sentences in which trial counsel failed to introduce expert te...