Civil cases outnumber criminal cases in federal courts, and statistical evidence has become more important in a wide variety of them. In contrast to science, which is concerned with general phenomena, legal cases concern one plaintiff or a class of plaintiffs and replication of the events that led to the case is not possible. This review describes ...
Published in Cahiers Agricultures
Le semis direct sous couvert repose sur l’application simultanée et continue de trois principes : la réduction quasi-totale du travail du sol, une couverture organique des sols et une rotation diversifiée. Ce système agricole adopté en France à partir des années 2000 sous l’impulsion de groupes d’agriculteurs est en extension. Pour les agriculteurs...
Published in Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention
Little is known about female gun owners in the USA. We describe the number and type of firearms owned, and reasons for owning, by sex. An online survey conducted in 2015 of 3949 US adults; cross-tabulations using survey weights generated nationally representative estimates. Twelve per cent (95% CI 10.6% to 13.6%) of women and 33.3% of men (95% CI 3...
Published in Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention
Use of seat belts and car seats for children are among the most effective interventions to reduce injury severity when a crash occurs. The use should be enforced in order to have an increase in wearing these restraints. Romania has the lowest rate of using seatbelts in the backseat, 16%. The purpose of the study is to describe the use of child safe...
José Luis Pinillos joined after WW II the conservative royalist group of Rafael Calvo Serer in the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. This group rivaled the catholic-falangist of Minister RuizGiménez and Rector Laín Entralgo to guide the sociopolitical course of Franco’s regime. After a stay in London with Hans Eysenck, Pinillos tried...
ABSTRACT Two researchers conducted independent searches on five different electronic databases: PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, SciELO, LiLACS and Web of Science. Studies were selected that covered cross-cultural adaptation methodology and validation in Brazil with type 1 and type 2 diabetes patients of any age. After reading the full-text articles, data r...
Published in Journal of empirical research on human research ethics : JERHRE
Linked survey and Twitter data present an unprecedented opportunity for social scientific analysis, but the ethical implications for such work are complex-requiring a deeper understanding of the nature and composition of Twitter data to fully appreciate the risks of disclosure and harm to participants. In this article, we draw on our experience of ...
We present the results of processing an additional 44 per cent of the High Time Resolution Universe South Low Latitude (HTRU-S LowLat) pulsar survey, the most sensitive blind pulsar survey of the southern Galactic plane to date. Our partially coherent segmented acceleration search pipeline is designed to enable the discovery of pulsars in short, h...
The expected total error in surveys is considerable larger than the sampling error reported by pollsters. In polarized times, when the margin of victory is smaller than the total error, voters often form unrealistic expectations about what surveys will be able to predict. Using the tale of William Tell, I explain why it is worthwhile to administer ...
We analyse the anisotropic clustering of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-IV Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Luminous Red Galaxy Data Release 14 (DR14) sample combined with Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) CMASS sample of galaxies in the redshift range 0.6
