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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Environmental catastrophes, climate change, and attribution

In our discussion of environmental and ecological catastrophes or disasters resulting from extreme weather events, we unite disparate literatures, the biological and the physical. Our ultimate goal is to tie together biological understandings of extreme environmental events with physical understandings of extreme weather events into joint causal accounts. This requires fine-grained descriptions, in both space and time, of the ecological, evolutionary, and biological moving parts of a system together with fine-grained descriptions, also in both space and time, of the extreme weather events. We find that both the ‘storyline’ approach to extreme event attribution and the probabilistic ‘risk-based’ approach have uses in such descriptions. However, the storyline approach is more readily aligned with the forensic approach to evidence that is prevalent in the ecological literature, which cultivates expert-based rules of thumb, i.e., heuristics, and detailed methods for analyzing causes and mechanisms. We introduce below a number of preliminary examples of such studies, as instances of what could be pursued in the future in much more detail

Cal Poly Nano Hydro

This projects goal was to design, construct, and test a machine capable of generating a usable amount of energy from naturally flowing water. The device conceived for this purpose is a portable raft with a turbine mounted to the underside. The turbine is mated directly to a low angular velocity generator which outputs to a power electronics system on shore. Using a Gorlov Helical turbine, this proof-of-concept is designed to output ~50 Watts of electricity to charge a battery for later use. Possible applications for this device include camping in remote locations, supplemental power generation for a home, or for powering off-the-grid locations in developing countries

Some Ranking and Selection Criteria for Determining Sample Sizes in Two Different Models for a Drug Combination Problem

1 online resource (PDF, 26 pages

A Sequential Procedure for Selecting the Largest of k Means

1 online resource (PDF, 9 pages