Qualitative data from one small California jurisdiction in 2008 are used to determine the degree to which judges follow PSI recommendations and whether recommendations are independent in nature or based on prev
character, and loyalty of a person to determine whether they are trustworthy, loyal, reliable, and of good character. The information collected during the investigation is used for determining the individual’s security eligibility, suitability, and loyalty. The extent of the PSI will typically depen...
Air pressure is denoted in all sorts of ways: pounds per square inch (or psi) for tire pressure, inches of mercury for surface atmospheric pressure and millibars for air pressure aloft. And these are just a few examples. In the U.S. Customary System, or the inch-pound system, more tha...
Caleb Wilson, a 20-year-old Southern University student, died after an alleged off-campus Omega Psi Phi fraternity hazing ritual in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in late February, police said. Wilson's death was "the direct result of a hazing incident where he was punched in the chest multiple ...
a fierce contest to keep his seat -- can be is expected to helm the powerful investigative subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee known as the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI). It has a large budget for investigative staff, as well as ...
PEPFAR is a worthy program that has saved many lives — it shouldn’t be reduced to a vehicle for the government to bolster its pro-abortion social agenda. To ensure PEPFAR continues to be pro-life, explicit protections against funding abortions should be adopted before the program is renewed...
The mechanism of memory remains one of the great unsolved problems of biology. Grappling with the question more than a hundred years ago, the German zoologist Richard Semon formulated the concept of the engram, lasting connections in the brain that resul
adv: We're handily placed for (ie within a short distance of) the shopping centre. 我们距离购物中心不远, 非常方便. handiness n [U]. handyman / 5hAndImAn; `hAndImAn/ n (pl -men /-men; -mZn/) person who is clever at doing household repairs, etc or who is employed to do odd ...
Eyewitness testimony is the recounting of an event by a witness during a court trial. This information can be the deciding factor involving the death penalty or substantial money in the form of damages. Learn how it is tested for accuracy and reliabilit...
Forensic handwriting examiners currently testify to the origin of questioned handwriting for legal purposes. However, forensic scientists are increasingly being encouraged to assign probabilities to their observations in the form of a likelihood ratio. This study is the first to examine whether handwriting...