https://www2.law.temple.edu/voices/taking-the-sting-out-using-direct-examination-to-anticipate-and-undercut-attacks-on-your-witness/
Sadly, it can be the rare witness who does not come with some baggage – a criminal conviction, a potential bias, an inconsistent statement, or some other challenge to her/his credibility. So, the proponent of that witness has to make a choice – bring it out first, or simply wait for the sting of cross-examination. The suggestion of this article is to do the former, a technique supported by ...
https://guides.temple.edu/c.php?g=1046977&p=7597201
This guide lists and links to free and low-cost resources for legal research. Use these when Bloomberg, Lexis, and Westlaw aren't available or when you'd like to reduce the costs of those services by doing some preliminary searching.
https://sites.temple.edu/rtwiseowls/files/2023/08/Draft-Senate-Recreational-Therapy-licensure-bill-.pdf
The practice of social work, marriage and family therapy [and], professional counseling and recreational therapy within this Commonwealth is hereby declared to affect the public safety and welfare and to be subject to regulation and control in the public interest to protect the public from unprofessional, improper, unauthorized and unqualified practice of licensed social work, licensed ...
https://cis.temple.edu/~latecki/Courses/CIS2166-Fall16/Lectures/MatrixAlg1.pdf
A matrix is a rectangular array of numbers or other mathematical objects, for which operations such as addition and multiplication are defined. Most of this article focuses on real matrices, i.e., matrices whose elements are real numbers. For instance, this is a real matrix: The numbers, symbols or expressions in the matrix are called its entries or its elements. The horizontal and vertical ...
https://cis.temple.edu/~ingargio/cis587/readings/wumpus.shtml
A variety of "worlds" are being used as examples for Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Planning. Among them the Vacuum World, the Block World, and the Wumpus World. We will examine the Wumpus World and in this context introduce the Situation Calculus, the Frame Problem, and a variety of axioms.
https://sites.temple.edu/ticlj/files/2017/02/30.1.Meier-TICLJ.pdf
Humanity by Human Rights Watch, lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) have become an issue of national and international attention. With almost daily articles and commentary, including letters by notable scientists, debating the advantages and disadvantages of developing and fielding these systems, the public has become generally more aware of the issues related to autonomy, but it has ...
https://sites.temple.edu/ticlj/files/2020/02/32.2_Corn_Article02-header-deleted.pdf
ABSTRACT In a global environment where most unfriendly acts between nations fall below the threshold of a use of force, the doctrine of countermeasures can be an important tool for states. However, in the realm of cyber operations, the rules governing the application of countermeasures result in unrealistic constraints on states. Particularly when compared with the much lesser constraints on ...
https://sites.temple.edu/trail/files/2021/11/XieXinDamesIROS2021.pdf
Zhanteng Xie, Pujie Xin, and Philip Dames Abstract—This paper proposes a novel neural network-based control policy to enable a mobile robot to navigate safety through environments filled with both static obstacles, such as tables and chairs, and dense crowds of pedestrians. The network architecture uses early fusion to combine a short history of lidar data with kinematic data about nearby ...
https://sites.temple.edu/pcrs/2023/11/12/how-online-communication-platforms-facilitated-human-trafficking-and-rethinking-the-websites-as-hosts-theory/
By Aamy Kuldip (view PDF version) I. Introduction Human trafficking is a horrific crime that involves stealing one’s freedom for profit. [1] Victims of human trafficking may be tricked or forced into providing commercial sex or illegal labor, and are often left extremely traumatized. [2] Online communication platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Craigslist, enable human trafficking ...
https://phlr.temple.edu/
Law is a powerful tool that can advance health and well-being. By developing and promoting the measurement and evaluation of the law’s impact, through the field of legal epidemiology, we strive to support evidence-based, proactive, and creative policies that advance public health and well-being for all.