RULE FORTY-THREE of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure1 provides that a defendant shall be present at every stage of his trial. A corporation, under this rule, "may appear by counsel for all purposes." Acting within the context of this rule, a federal district court has recently decided that it "must ... have power to appoint" an attorney to represent a summoned corporation that has defaul...

OBJECTIVE It was the aim of this study to evaluate the risk of dying from bladder and kidney cancer in persons with Down syndrome (DS), as compared with the general population. METHODS Using data of the French national mortality statistics (INSERM) during a 21-year period, 1979-1999, we compared the observed number of deaths from renal and bladder cancer in DS subjects with the expected numbe...

Introduction: According to WHO, we stand nakedly in front of a pandemic as mortal as any pandemic there has ever been. There exists a synergistic relation between HIV infection and high risk behavior. The incidence of HIV infection in high risk groups like persons attending to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) out patients clinics, female sex workers and homosexuals(MSM),migrants, truck driv...

OBJECTIVE The high rates of comorbid substance use disorders among persons living with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI) have increased interest in assessing and enhancing motivation to change substance misuse in this population. This study provides evidence for the psychometric adequacy of three self-report measures of readiness-to-change. METHOD The sample consisted of 84 persons ...

BACKGROUND The aim of the project was to develop an instrument for the assessment of subjective quality of life specific to schizophrenic persons on the basis of patients' views on their own life and on sound psychometric principles. METHODS The project applied a six-step multiphase development process with six distinct studies. (1) The elicitation of schizophrenic persons' views on their qua...