Spouse Witnesses in Criminal Cases

Protecting child witnesses in sexual abuse cases.

Psychiatric testimony for the impeachment of witnesses in sex cases.

Liver transplantation in Jehovah's Witnesses: two cases report

Liver transplantation is especially challenging in patients who are Jehovah's Witnesses because their religious beliefs prohibit the receipt of blood products. We present two cases of living donor liver transplantation performed in adult Jehovah's Witnesses in South Korea without the use of blood products. In the first case, preoperative erythropoiesisstimulation therapy increased hemoglobin le...

Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases

On the Generation of Positivstellensatz Witnesses in Degenerate Cases

One can reduce the problem of proving that a polynomial is nonnegative, or more generally of proving that a system of polynomial inequalities has no solutions, to finding polynomials that are sums of squares of polynomials and satisfy some linear equality (Positivstellensatz ). This produces a witness for the desired property, from which it is reasonably easy to obtain a formal proof of the pro...