Background Surgical treatment of Jehovah’s witnesses, even if elective, is a difficult situation for the surgeon from a clinical, deontological and ethical point of view. Any lesion or the death of the patient can result in civil and penal consequences for the surgeon and the anesthetist. The aim of the present study was to present our experience regarding operative mortality and early clinical...

with which the debate turned towards the reliability of the witnesses and the social consequences of accepting their statements. As the witnesses were predominantly women (sometimes poor women), the supposedly scientific accounts degenerated into arguments as to whether supporting or gainsaying the testimony in question would help or hinder the maintenance of patriarchy and hierarchy. Virtually...

In the recent years we were witnesses of an intense research activity, trying to find some common ground for quantum computation and genetic programming [4][19]. The use of genetic algorithms provides outstanding means for automated synthesis of quantum circuits. In this paper we focus on the opportunity of designing so-called Quantum Genetic Algorithms or QGAs. As the qubit representation of t...

Over multiple response opportunities, recall may be inconsistent. For example, an eyewitness may report information at trial that was not reported during initial questioning-a phenomenon called reminiscence. Such inconsistencies are often assumed by lawyers to be inaccurate and are sometimes interpreted as evidence of the general unreliability of the rememberer. In two experiments, we examined ...