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...

Abstract In police interviews with child witnesses, ground rules like ‘correct me when I say something wrong’ are established. Establishing these is required by guidelines, the aim of enhancing reliability children's testimonies. this article, we use conversation analysis to examine how practiced in thirty-eight Dutch witnesses. We focus on officers’ test questions practice such rules. found th...

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...

Entanglement witnesses provide a standard tool for the analysis of entanglement in experiments. We investigate possible nonlinear entanglement witnesses from several perspectives. First, we demonstrate that they can be used to show that the set of separable states has no facets. Second, we give a new derivation of nonlinear witnesses based on covariance matrices. Finally, we investigate extensi...

Jehovah's Witnesses are students of the Bible. They refuse transfusions out of obedience to the scriptural directive to abstain and keep from blood. Dr Muramoto disagrees with the Witnesses' religious beliefs in this regard. Despite this basic disagreement over the meaning of Biblical texts, Muramoto flouts the religious basis for the Witnesses' position. His proposed policy change about accept...

Children and other vulnerable parties such as those with a cognitive, social or communication impairment frequently struggle to understand, be understood in, the criminal justice environment. One way this has been addressed in jurisdictions around Australia overseas is through introduction of intermediary (or partner) schemes, whereby an independent third party assists witnesses, some cases, de...