Exploring Lawyer–Client Interaction

Personal injury victims involved in compensation processes have a worse recovery than those not involved in compensation processes. One predictor for worse recovery is lawyer engagement. As some people argue that this negative relation between lawyer engagement and recovery may be explained by lawyers’ attitude and communications to clients, it seems important to investigate lawyer–client interaction. Although procedural justice and therapeutic jurisprudence had previously discussed aspects relevant for lawyer–client interaction, the client’s perspective has been rather ignored and only few empirical studies have been conducted. In this qualitative study, 21 traffic accident victims were interviewed about their experiences with their lawyer. Five desirable characteristics for lawyers were identified: communication, empathy, decisiveness, independence, and expertise. Communication and empathy corresponded with aspects already discussed in literature, whereas decisiveness, independence and expertise had been addressed only marginally. Further qualitative and quantitative research is necessary to establish preferable lawyer characteristics and to investigate what would improve the well-being of personal injury victims during the claims settlement process.     

Hand-held cow horn: resurgence of an old arm or a potential terrorist weapon

A 23 year old man presented with intestinal evisceration from stab injury to the left side of the abdomen with a hand-held cow horn at a local night party. He complained of severe abdominal pain and bleeding at the site of injury. He was hemodynamically stable. At emergency exploration, the eviscerated bowel was viable with no adjacent mesenteric tear. Other intra abdominal organs were normal. The eviscerated bowel was lavaged and reduced into the abdomen through the 7 cm anterior abdominal wall laceration. The laceration was repaired and abdomen closed in layers. Post operative recovery was uneventful. The hand-held cow horn can easily be concealed and may pass through security checks undetected. It should be added to the ever increasing list of weapons of small scale terror.     

经济繁荣期哈萨克斯坦失业变动特征及原因分析

哈萨克斯坦独立后经济经历了衰退,复苏和繁荣阶段,每个阶段的失业问题对国家的影响不同。在经济繁荣期,哈萨克斯坦的失业人数和失业率持续降低。根据失业率的大小来看,江布尔州和克孜勒奥尔达州是失业现象最为严重的地区,卡拉干达州的失业率在所有地区中始终保持最低水平。根据失业人数的规模大小,哈萨克斯坦可以划分为高失业人群聚居区,低失业人群稳定区和失业人群中等规模区三类地区。从性别来看,哈萨克斯坦女性失业率高于男性,但差距在不断缩小。影响哈萨克斯坦失业水平的因素主要有经济因素、劳动就业制度因素和教育因素。     

衷心祝贺中国人民对外友好协会成立60周年

<正>黎巴嫩中国友好合作联合会("黎中友联")成立于2003年3月3日,汇集了一批黎巴嫩文化、文艺、女性、前外交官、工程师、医生、企业家和律师界精英人士。长期以来,黎中友联受到了历任中国驻黎大使的鼎力支持,成员受邀出席使馆举办的各类活动。双方合作的第一个成果是乔治·哈特姆博     

何为意思表示

本文对德国目前意思表示构成要件理论进行了全面的综述。并在此基础上,抛弃了传统意思表示理论中行为意思、表示意思和效果意思三分的意思表示内部构成要件。分别在能力上的要件、意图上的要件和实质的条件三个方面对意思表示内部构成要件进行了论述。在能力上的要件方面,认为行为意思这个概念并非适当的规范性标准;对于意思表示的归责,重要的并非是否存在行为意思,而是自由形成意思的能力。在意图上的要件方面,认为表示意识并非恰当的术语,沟通意思和参与意思才是意思表示的在意图上的构成要件。在实质的条件方面,认为不应把实质的决定自由一般性地作为意思表示的生效条件。最后认为意思表示应被理解为效力表示,即"应如此发生效力"的表示。     

快速溶剂萃取-气相色谱-质谱联用法分析血液中的农药

目的：建立生物检材血液中农药的快速溶剂萃取（accelerated solvent extraction,ASE）法。方法通过优化ASE萃取条件,考察萃取温度、时间和萃取剂对回收率的影响,提取血液中的农药进行气相色谱-质谱联用（GC/MS）法定性定量分析。结果血液中8种农药的平均回收率在70.6%~92.4%,变异系数小于5.0%,8种农药在0.5~5.0μg/mL的浓度范围内线性良好。结论该方法具有操作简便快捷、回收率高、重现性好等特点,可用于农药的提取检验。     

第四届证据理论与科学国际研讨会闭幕词

在这种场合,闭幕式的发言者们通常都会谈论,我们所有的与会者享受了一场多么美妙的知识盛宴。假若如此,我们就大大地低估了事实真相,这从过去两天会议讨论的情况就可以看出来,而真相是非常重要的。这次会议无疑是一场美妙的知识盛宴,但却远非如此,它还是来自世界各地、带着相当不同的观点的人士,在一个充满坦诚和友善的完满环境中,针对非常相似的问题各抒己见的美妙聚会。我们确实应该再一次感谢会议的东道主邀请我们与会,并感谢他们为筹划和举办这次会议所付出的辛勤努力!     

Italian population data on two new short tandem repeat loci: D2S1338 and Penta E

A population study on two new short tandem repeat (STR) loci D2S1338 (a tetranucleotide repeat) and Penta E (a pentanucleotide repeat) was performed on 208 unrelated Italian Caucasians. The DNA was amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and separation and detection of the amplified STR fragments were carried out by use of a PE/ABD PRISM 377 DNA Sequencer 377 automated system (Applied Biosystems Division/Perkin-Elmer). Both loci meet Hardy-Weinberg expectations. There is no evidence for departures from expectations between the two loci. The combined Probability of Discrimination and Probability of Exclusion for the two STR loci are 0.999155 and 0.944925, respectively. The results demonstrate that these two regions can be useful for differentiating among individuals, particularly in concert with other STR loci.     

Review of factors susceptible of influencing post-mortem carbohydrate-deficient transferrin

Seric carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) is a biochemical marker of chronic alcohol abuse. Assessment of the influence of factors likely to modify CDT concentration is necessary to justify its use in the analysis of post-mortem blood samples. Hemolysis, site of collection and storage were tested. Hemolysed samples showed decreased CDT concentration. Statistical analysis of CDT concentration in cardiac blood versus femoral blood revealed no significant differences. Storage for fifteen days at +4 degrees C or +20 degrees C did not affect CDT concentration but repeated freezing and thawing resulted in decreased levels of CDT.