MEDICAL WITNESSES' PETITIONS.

Consultation of Medical Witnesses

The scandal of medical witnesses being retained on opposite sides in courts of law and crivin" what looks like partisan evidence is often the subject of remark and sneer, and it is mooted that if medical men cited as witnesses by opposing litigants were to meet in consultation before thecase came into court and were to arrive at some sort of agreement regarding the fact and the opinion founded ...

Temporal dynamics of online petitions

Online petitions are an important avenue for direct political action, yet the dynamics that determine when a petition will be successful are not well understood. Here we analyze the temporal characteristics of online-petition signing behavior in order to identify systematic differences between popular petitions, which receive a high volume of signatures, and unpopular ones. We find that, in lin...

Privacy preserving electronic petitions

We present the design of a secure and privacy preserving epetition system that we have implemented as a proof-of-concept demonstrator. We use the Belgian e-ID card as source of authentication, and then proceed to issue an anonymous credential that is used to sign petitions. Our system ensures that duplicate signatures are detectable, while preserving the anonymity of petition signers. We analyz...

Preparation of statements by medical witnesses: the use of medical evidence in criminal prosecutions.

Petitions ask support for women ’ s center

S ev e ra l c a m p u s w o m e n ’s groups are planning to circulate p e ti t io n s n e x t w eek in an attem pt to spur enough student and faculty in te re s t to s ta r t a w o m en ’s r e s o u rc e c e n te r a t Notre Dame. T he W om en’s R e so u rc e Committee is spear-heading the attem pt to establish a center for w om en’s activities on cam pus with the help of several o ther organiz...