Court Trials

E-Court: Technology Diffusion in Court Management

Court workflow automation has been proliferating in justice system of almost all jurisdictions around the world. The reasons, among others, are its efficiency in managing case files, retrieving case information within seconds, the effective integration between organizations and speedy justice dispensation. It allows justice to take place virtually using the advanced technologies electronic case...

Résumé Court

The glass transition is the dramatic dynamical slowdown one observes when cooling down a liquid or densifying a set of particles into an amorphous state. In this thesis we explore two distinct situations related to this phenomenology, mostly in the case of granular materials. In a first part we study the strongly non-linear response of an assembly of frictional grains under vibration when they ...

Supreme Court

Th ere is no doubt that the U.S. Supreme Court has in-fl uenced the politics of the country. As a public body, the Court is a highly visible part of the federal government. Th is has always been so, even when the justices met briefl y twice a year in the drafty basement of the Capitol. Yet the idea that the Court itself is a political institution is controversial. Th e justices themselves have ...

Evaluation of the First Judicial District Court Adult Drug Court:

Evaluation of Clinical Trials

In a number of important clinical issues such as evaluation of the efficacy or effectiveness of therapeutic or preventive interventions as well as for comparing the harms of interventions, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) provide the highest levels of evidence, either directly or indirectly. It is obvious that critical appraisal of these studies to assess their validity and precision is of p...