1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465760503321

Autore

Otto Randy K.

Titolo

Forensic reports & testimony : a guide to effective communication for psychologists and psychiatrists / / Randy K. Otto, Richart DeMier, Marcus L. Boccaccini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-118-42094-2

1-118-41904-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (399 p.)

Classificazione

PSY014000

Disciplina

614/.15

Soggetti

Forensic psychology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note:  Foreword Preface About the Authors Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Functions of Forensic Reports Chapter Three: Contents of Forensic Reports Chapter Four: Principles of Forensic Reports Chapter Five: Structure of Forensic Reports Chapter Six: Interrogations, Affidavits, Declarations, Demonstrative Exhibits, & Demonstrative Aids Chapter Seven: Conceptual issues Regarding Testimony Chapter Eight: Testifying at Depositions and Pretrial Hearings Chapter Nine: Testifying in Frye and Daubert Hearings Chapter Ten: Pretrial Preparation Chapter Eleven: Direct Testimony Chapter Twelve: Cross-Examination References Appendix A: Sample Reports Appendix B: Sample Interrogatory, Declaration, and Affidavits.

Sommario/riassunto

"Forensic Reports & Testimony: A Guide to Effective Communication for Psychologists and Psychiatrists provides a roadmap for the mental health professional who wants to provide consistently accurate, defensible, and useful reports and testimony to the legal system. Authors Randy K. Otto, Richart L. DeMier, and Marcus Boccaccini, recognized experts in the field, cover all aspects of the process, including preparing affidavits and reports, preparing for depositions, and testifying. Every written or spoken communication for the courts



must be clear and precise, and distinguish between facts, inferences, and opinions. This book uniquely: Shows the critical differences between forensic psychological reports and the clinical reports psychologists and psychiatrists are accustomed to writing Includes and explains important maxims of forensic report writing, including separating facts from inferences, focusing on offering expert opinions, explaining why you think what you think, and connecting the dots between facts and conclusions Provides numerous examples of experts' testimony, affidavits, reports-with commentary and critiquesExpert forensic work deserves to be presented in a clear, precise, and understandable way so that it is useful to attorneys, judges, and juries.  Forensic Reports & Testimony provides the guidelines and models forensic psychologists and forensic psychiatrists need to make that happen"--

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910164339003321

Autore

Pellens Roseli

Titolo

Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics : Preserving our evolutionary heritage in an extinction crisis / / edited by Roseli Pellens, Philippe Grandcolas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, : Springer Nature, 2016

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016

ISBN

9783319224619

3319224611

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 390 p. 79 illus.)

Collana

Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation, , 1875-1296 ; ; 14

Classificazione

NAT011000SCI011000SCI020000SCI070000

Disciplina

577

Soggetti

Biodiversity

Conservation biology

Ecology

Plants - Evolution

Evolution (Biology)

Conservation Biology

Plant Evolution

Evolutionary Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Phylogenetics and conservation biology: drawing a path into the diversity of life -- The value of phylogenetic diversity -- The PD phylogenetic diversity framework: linking evolutionary history to feature diversity for biodiversity conservation -- Reconsidering the loss of evolutionary history: how does non-random extinction prune the tree-of-life?- Phylogenetics and conservation in New Zealand: the long and the short of it -- What is the meaning of extreme phylogenetic diversity? The case of phylogenetic relict species -- Using phylogenetic dissimilarities among sites for biodiversity assessments and conservation -- Phylogenetic diversity measures and their decomposition: a framework based on hill numbers -- Split diversity: measuring and optimizing biodiversity using phylogenetic split networks -- The rarefaction of phylogenetic diversity: formulation, extension and application -- Support in area prioritization using phylogenetic information -- Assessing hotspots of evolutionary history with data from multiple phylogenies: an analysis of endemic clades from New Caledonia -- Representing hotspots of evolutionary history in systematic conservation planning for European mammals -- Priorities for conservation of the evolutionary history of amphibians in the cerrado -- Global spatial analyses of phylogenetic conservation priorities for aquatic mammals -- Metapopulation capacity meets evolutionary distinctness: spatial fragmentation complements phylogenetic rarity in prioritization. - Patterns of species, phylogenetic and mimicry diversity of clearwing butterflies in the Neotropics -- Conservation of phylogenetic diversity in Madagascar’s largest endemic plant family, Sarcolaenaceae -- The future of phylogenetic systematics in conservation biology: linking biodiversity and society.

Sommario/riassunto

Phylogenetic diversity is now a key concept for biodiversity conservation due to its link to option value, evolutionary potential and to the possibility of guiding conservation across scales. Present facilities for obtaining molecular sequences and metagenomes are powering this research field, rendering available detailed information of phylogenetic diversity for a wide taxonomic sample in a short time frame. Along with modern methods of Systematic Conservation Planning this will certainly contribute to more explicit identification of conservation priorities and options. This book brings an updated state of the art of phylogenetic diversity in conservation biology. Nineteen chapters written by scientists from research institutions of fourteen countries demonstrate that approaches for preserving the evolutionary heritage are now very tuned into human impacts and sustainability issues. The questions, methods and applications around which it is organized show the importance of phylogenetic diversity in avoiding biodiversity losses in the present extinction crisis. They touch important points such as the way we value phylogenetic diversity, the importance of thinking at a much wider sample of the Tree of Life, the choice of adequate measures. In methods section, new solutions, such as dealing with abundances, sampling effort, or with information coming from conflicting phylogenetic trees are provided. Application section includes study cases of different groups of organi sms, such as mammals, amphibians, butterflies and plants, in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, showing that phylogenetic diversity can be applied in a very wide range of situations, including as a way for predicting conservation status of species. This highlights the interest of this book not only for students and scientists of related disciplines but also for



stakeholders and policy-makers working on the implementation of global, regional, and local agendas for biodiversity conservation.