Deposition of Dr. Michael N. Sobel

Deposition of Michael Sobel, DMD, taken January 21, 2000 in Pittsburgh, PA. Terry Gilbert appeared for the Plantiff, while Steven Dever and Dean Boland represented the Defendant. Sobel was questioned on his qualifications as a forensic odontologist and skin mark analysis expert, his involvement with the NOVA episode, and his report on possible causes of Marilyn\u27s damaged teeth and fingernail

Plaintiff\u27s Exhibit 0178C: Michael Sobel Curriculum Vitae

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Expert Opinion of Michael Sobel

Expert opinion of Dr. Michael Sobel, forensic odontologist, on the cause of Marilyn\u27s broken teeth. Sobel disagrees with Kirk\u27s assertion that Marilyn\u27s teeth were broken as a result of biting her assailant, opining that the damage was a result of blunt trauma. Sobel also offers his opinion concerning her broken-off (avulsed) fingernail. He hypothesizes that it occurred in the course of scratching her attacker and suggests that the Eberling wrist scar would match the scenario

Plaintiff\u27s Exhibit 0178C: Michael Sobel Curriculum Vitae

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Culture Wars and Opinion Polarization: The Case of Abortion

Recent observers have pointed to a growing polarization within the U.S. public over politicized moral issues-the so-called culture wars. DiMaggio, Evans, and Bryson studied trends over the past 25 years in American opinion on a number of critical social issues, finding little evidence of increased polarization; abortion is the primary exception. However, their conclusions are suspect because they treat ordinal or nominal scales as interval data. This article proposes new methods for studying polarization using ordinal data and uses these to model the National Election Study (NES) abortion item. Whereas the analysis of this item by DiMaggio et al. points to increasing polarization of abortion attitudes between 1972 and 1994, this article's analyses of these data offers little support for this conclusion and lends weight to their view that recent concerns over polarization are overstated

Trichomoniasis as Seen in a Chronic Vaginitis Clinic

Objective: We sought to determine the clinical and laboratory features of trichomonas vaginitis (TV) in a chronic vaginitis clinic

Bare It Or Bar It: Should Government Regulate Adult Pornography to Prevent Exposure to Minors? Transcript of the Symposium

Bare It Or Bar It: Should Government Regulate Adult Pornography to Prevent Exposure to Minors? A Dialogue Featuring: Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union and Professor of Law at New York School of Law. Michael Johnson, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund. Moderated by Allan D. Sobel, director of the Arlin M. Adams Center for Law and Society. Presented Wednesday, Mar. 21, 2007 Degenstein Center Theate

Guidelines for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis: focus on tinidazole

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a complex vaginal infection most commonly associated with women of child-bearing age. Risk factors for BV are numerous. There are currently multiple clinical and laboratory tests for diagnosis of BV, including the most commonly used diagnostic methods: Amsel’s criteria or Nugent’s Gram stain scale. The mainstay of BV therapy is metronidazole, but tinidazole as well as a few other agents have also been used successfully. Tinidazole is the second nitroimidazole antiprotozoal agent and a structural derivative of metronidazole. With a favorable pharmacokinetic profile and reduced side effects, tinidazole is an alternative agent for BV treatment. There are minimal head-to-head comparative data to establish tinidazole’s superiority to metronidazole or other therapeutic agents. Available data suggest tinidazole has a role in special populations particularly for refractory or relapsing BV

Association of U.S. tornado occurrence with monthly environmental parameters

Monthly U.S. tornado numbers are here related to observation-based monthly averaged atmospheric parameters. Poisson regression is used to form an index which captures the climatological spatial distribution and seasonal variation of tornado occurrence, as well as year-to-year variability, and provides a framework for extended range forecasts of tornado activity. Computing the same index with predicted atmospheric parameters from a comprehensive forecast model gives some evidence of the predictability of monthly tornado activity