The rule on sequestration (exclusion) of witnesses is designed to avoid fabrication and collusion and has traditional roots in the Old Testament. Special rules apply regarding expert witnesses and "support persons." The contours of such special rules are explored within the Federal Rules of Evidence, state rules of evidence, state appellate and supreme court decisions, and U.S. Supreme Court de...

Fundamental building blocks for managing and understanding software evolution in the context of model-driven engineering are differencing operators one can use for model comparisons. Semantic model differencing deals with the definition and computation of semantic diff operators for model comparison, operators whose input consists of two models and whose output is a set of diff witnesses, insta...

Laboratory research shows that eye-closure during memory retrieval improves both the amount and the factual accuracy of memory reports about witnessed events. Based on these findings, we developed the Eye-Closure Interview, and examined its feasibility (in terms of compliance with the instructions) and effectiveness (in terms of the quantity and quality of reported information) in eyewitness in...

Studies asking witnesses to identify perpetrators from photo lineups have usually found that witness racial prejudice is unrelated to perpetrator identification accuracy. However, these studies obtained identifications from a photoarray in which photos were presented simultaneously. Study 1 used a procedure in which photos were presented sequentially. Results showed that when perpetrators were ...

BACKGROUND Delay in calling emergency medical services following stroke limits access to early treatment that can reduce disability. Emergency medical services contact is mostly initiated by stroke witnesses (often relatives), rather than stroke patients. This study explored appraisal and behavioural factors that are potentially important in influencing witness behaviour in response to stroke. ...

Police investigators agree that eyewitnesses usually provide central leads in their investigations (Berresheim and Weber, 2003; George and Clifford, 1992; Kebbell and Milne, 1998). Police lament, however, that witnesses rarely provide sufficient information (Kebbell and Milne, 1998). How might police improve the quality and quantity of evidence elicited from eyewitnesses? Unfortunately, police ...

Editor—Sydor and colleagues studied trainee behaviour in a crisis situation, and trainee ability to challenge a decision by a consultant anaesthetist to administer blood to a patient who is a Jehovah’s Witness. This was described as unethical, although perhaps a better term would be ‘in breach of the law’. I would like to put it to the authors that unless the notes were shown to contain the pro...

1. Real Numbers 4 1.1. Approximation of √ 2 4 1.2. Reals, Equality of Reals 5 1.3. The Archimedian Axiom 6 1.4. Nonnegative and Positive Reals 6 1.5. Arithmetical Functions 7 1.6. Comparison of Reals 8 1.7. Non-Countability 11 1.8. Cleaning of Reals 11 2. Sequences and Series of Real Numbers 12 2.1. Completeness 12 2.2. Limits and Inequalities 13 2.3. Series 14 2.4. Redundant Dyadic Representat...

We derive a set of algebraic equations, the so-called multipartite separability eigenvalue equations. Based on their solutions, we introduce a universal method for the construction of multipartite entanglement witnesses. We witness multipartite entanglement of 10(3) coupled quantum oscillators, by solving our basic equations analytically. This clearly demonstrates the feasibility of our method ...