When the Second Circuit decided McKithen v. Brown, it joined an ever-growing list of courts faced with a difficult and pressing issue of both constitutional and criminal law: is there a federal constitutional right of post-conviction access to evidence for DNA testing? This issue, which sits at the intersection of new forensic technologies and fundamental principles of constitutional due proces...

Using a new s-nucleosynthesis code coupled with the stellar evolution code Star2003, simulations have been performed to study the impact of convection treatment on the s-process during core He-burning of a 25 M⊙ star (ZAMS mass) with initial solar metallicity. A diffusive approach, with the diffusion constant proportional to the convective velocity obtained from the mixing length theory, has be...

RNA enables the material interpretation of genetic information through time and in space. The creation, destruction and activity of RNA must be well controlled and tightly synchronized with numerous cellular processes. We discuss here the pathways and mechanism of bacterial RNA turnover, and describe how RNA itself modulates these processes as part of decision-making networks. The central roles...

Characteristics and training needs of due process hearing officers in North Carolina were surveyed. It was found that current regulations governing appointments of hearing officers are insufficient to ensure appointment of qualified and impartial persons. Criteria were analyzed and suggestions for training and appointments are made. ANN P. TURNBULL is Research Associate, Bureau of Child Researc...

Most organizations and government agencies regularly become engaged in litigation with suppliers, customers, clients, employees, competitors, shareholders, prosecutors or regulatory agencies that nearly assures the need to organize, retain, find and produce business records and correspondence, emails, accounting records or other data relevant to disputed issues. This article discusses some high...

One feature of modernism is that it artificially separates technology from society. But the notion of two collectives inherent in such an idea presents IS researchers and others with problems of representation that tend to favour one over the other. Thus we see the emergence of conflicting theories: technological determinism on the one hand, theories about the social shaping of technology on th...

Considerable behavioral evidence has been cited in support of the COVIS dual-system model of category learning (Ashby & Valentin, 2016). The validity of the inferences drawn from these data critically depend on the accurate identification of participants’ categorization strategies. In the COVIS literature, participants’ strategies are identified using a model-based analysis inspired by General ...

Behavioral evidence for the COVIS dual-process model of category learning has been widely reported in over a hundred publications (Ashby & Valentin, ). It is generally accepted that the validity of such evidence depends on the accurate identification of individual participants' categorization strategies, a task that usually falls to Decision Bound analysis (Maddox & Ashby, ). Here, we examine t...