id=1115357); Thomas J. Miles & Cass R. Sunstein, The Real World of Arbitrariness Review, 75 U. CHI. L. REV. (forthcoming 2008); Sunstein et al., supra note 10. 860 BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW [Vol. 88:855 Table 1 Relationship Between Financial Sacrifice and Voting Patterns Controlling for Panel Effects Probit Model Regressors Model(1) Model (2) Model (3) Model (4) dem. judges dem. judges rep. ...

Abstract Introduction Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is defined as the repetitive episodes of complete or partial occlusion airway occurring during sleep. OSA thought to play a role in many different diseases including anxiety, depression, excessive day time sleepiness, and GERD. Treatment can often be difficult patients cannot tolerate CPAP. Report case(s) The patient 76-year-old male who was d...

The international conference 'Social Biomimicry: Insect Societies and Human Design', hosted by Arizona State University, USA, 18-20 February 2010, explored how the collective behaviour and nest architecture of social insects can inspire innovative and effective solutions to human design challenges. It brought together biologists, designers, engineers, computer scientists, architects and busines...

We test the Consensual Assessment Technique on recent digital poetry, using graduate students in Experimental Digital Media as judges. Our judges display good interrater agreement for the best and worst poems, but disagree on others. The CAT by itself may not be suitable for use on digital poetry; however, the behavior of quasi-expert judges when attempting this task gives us clues towards evid...

In this paper, I use two new data sets to demonstrate that black federal judges are consistently overturned on appeal more often than white judges. The racial gap is robust and persists after taking into account previous professional and judicial experience, educational backgrounds, qualification ratings assigned by the American Bar Association, and differences in partisanship. This study is th...

BACKGROUND In standard setting techniques involving panels of judges, the attributes of judges may affect the cut-scores. This simulation study modelled the effect of the number of judges and test items, as well as the impact of judges' attributes such as accuracy, stringency and influence on others on the precision of the cut-scores. METHODS Forty nine combinations of Angoff panels (N = 5, 1...

In recent years, sensational media reporting focusing on crimes committed by those diagnosed with or thought to have High Functioning Autistic Spectrum Disorders (hfASDs) has caused societal speculation that there is a link between the disorder and violent criminality. No research exists on how and if the judiciary understands and is affected by this coverage. Therefore this study aims to exami...