Closing Statement

The influence of opening statement/closing argument organizational strategy on juror verdict and damage awards.

This study examines the influence of the organizational strategy used to structure opening statements and closing arguments on presentation effectiveness in a simulated civil trial. Two organizational structures, a narrative and a legal-expository format, were manipulated to produce a 2 (plaintiff organizational strategy) x 3 (defense organizational strategy) experimental design. Results indica...

Extending our Understanding of the Influence of Attorney Opening Statement/Closing Argument Organizational Strategy

Previous research suggests that attorney opening and closing statement organizational patterns interact, affecting jurors’ negligence and damage awards (Spiecker & Worthington, 2003). Drawing upon unpublished data from this previous study, results of this analysis help to explain why some combinations of organizational patterns are more advantageous than others. Participants exposed to video-ta...

chairman’s statement

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Closing Remarks.

Closing Chernobyl

With the integration of the KEGG and Predictome databases as well as two search engines for coexpressed genes/proteins using data sets obtained from the Stanford Microarray Database (SMD) and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database, VisANT 3.0 supports exploratory pathway analysis, which includes multi-scale visualization of multiple pathways, editing and annotating pathways using a KEGG compati...