Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is a hyper-acute leukemia and presents with cytopenias and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Jehovah’s Witnesses with APL offer a unique challenge during induction by refusing transfusion and pose a difficult challenge in this curable disease. Our focus over the last 8 years has been decreasing early deaths in APL in both academic and community centers. ...

According to law enforcement, many witnesses are intoxicated either at the time of the crime, the interview, or both (Evans et al., Public Policy Law 15(3):194-221, 2009). However, no study to date has examined whether intoxicated witnesses' recall is different from sober witnesses' and whether they are more vulnerable to misinformation using an ecologically valid experimental design. Intoxicat...

Subjects of both sexes individually witnessed the staged theft of a calculator. The 127 witnesses were then given the opportunity to identify the thief from a six-person picture array; from this sample, 24 accurate-identification witnesses and 18 inaccurate-identification witnesses were cross-examined with either leading or nonleading questions. Jurors were unable to distinguish accurate from i...

Science of reading is a term that has been used variously, but its use within research, policy, and the press tended to share one important commonality: an intensive focus on assessed proficiency as primary goal instruction. Although well intentioned, this directs attention toward problematically narrow slice reading. In article, we propose different framework for science reading, draws existin...

Over the last years, witness-based validation of verification results has become an established practice in software verification: An independent validator re-establishes a verifier using witnesses, which are stored standardized exchange format. In addition to validation, such exchangable information about proofs and alarms found by can be shared across tools, users apply third-party tools visu...

BACKGROUND Jehovah's Witness patients (Witnesses) who undergo cardiac surgery provide a unique natural experiment in severe blood conservation because anemia, transfusion, erythropoietin, and antifibrinolytics have attendant risks. Our objective was to compare morbidity and long-term survival of Witnesses undergoing cardiac surgery with a similarly matched group of patients who received transfu...