Jury trials play a centrally important role in the law, and they are also of interest to psychologists. The manner in which individual jurors perceive, interpret, and remember evidence, as well as the group processes involved in jury deliberation, can be described in terms of fundamental cognitive and social psychological concepts. Juries provide a real-world laboratory for examining theoretica...

This article investigates the social structures reflected in the annual jury sessions of the Prix Ars Electronica, a major media art competition – the composition, the temporal evolution, and ultimately the decisions of these juries. I focus on three different structures: the network of co-jurors across different categories and years; the co-artist network formed by the jury decisions, and fina...

This article addresses a deceptively simple two-part question: what are the desired core skills obtained by completing requirements for an undergraduate degree in criminal justice? And is it possible to obtain these outside traditional university setting? Awarding academic credit training, time spent occupational roles, or life experiences, has been oft-discussed topic, and practice particularl...

The Deligne-Simpson problem (DSP) (resp. the weak DSP) is formulated like this: give necessary and sufficient conditions for the choice of the conjugacy classes Cj ⊂ GL(n,C) or cj ⊂ gl(n,C) so that there exist irreducible (resp. with trivial centralizer) (p + 1)-tuples of matrices Mj ∈ Cj or Aj ∈ cj satisfying the equality M1 . . .Mp+1 = I or A1+ . . .+Ap+1 = 0. The matrices Mj and Aj are inter...

The question of potentiation of warfarin anticoagulation by cranberry juice (CJ) is a topic of biomedical importance. Anecdotal reports of CJ-warfarin interaction are largely unconfirmed in controlled studies. Thirty patients on stable warfarin anticoagulation (international normalized ratio [INR], 1.7-3.3) were randomized to receive 240 mL of CJ or 240 mL of placebo beverage, matched for color...

PURPOSE The feasibility of a rat choledochojejunostomy (CJ) training model was investigated, as an introductory model to microsurgery for general surgeons. METHODS Roux-en-Y CJ was performed on 20 rats. Interrupted 10-0 prolene sutures were used to perform CJ. The animals were observed for 7 days and sacrificed and examined. RESULTS The rats were divided into 2 groups of 10 based on surgica...

The connection between immigration and crime is one of the most contentious topics in contemporary society. These discussions are not new, as debates on the issue date back more than 100 years. A general point on which both proand anti-immigration writers agree is that, as we enter the new millennium, the latest wave of immigration is likely to have a more important impact on society than any o...