Mental health professionals who serve as expert witnesses are repeatedly characterized as (in the words of one recent author) "Whores of the Court." However, scholars have published little systematically gathered data about why attorneys seek mental health opinions and the criteria they use for selecting experts. We investigated these issues using a mailed survey of attorneys and judges. A slig...

research methods is one of the way for knowing the truth, hence citation analysis is the one.many experts and professionals in various field, count citation analysis as a research tool, but since citation analysis has some of the important characteristics of research methods such as describing phenomena objectively, having ideas, indicating the relationship between the phenomenon and use of too...

This paper presents the results of developing subjectivity classifiers for Implicit Opinion Question (IOQ) identification. IOQs are defined as opinion questions with no opinion words. An IOQ example is “will the U.S. government pay more attention to the Pacific Rim?” Our analysis on community questions of Yahoo! Answers shows that a large proportion of opinion questions are IOQs. It is thus imp...

Asthma is a global problem that affects over 300 million people in the world. The main reason of asthma is allergy and atopy. Asthmatic patients are sensitized to allergens that can be resulting asthma attacks. Fungi as an allergen can be sensitized atopic people and present a severe asthma. Fungi have been found in water-damaged homes of asthmatic patients. Allergic asthma is associated with e...