Meskwaki Tribal Court Interim Study Committee : final report, 2007

This is the final report on the Meskwaki Tribal Court Study Committee that was charged with continuing the work from previous legislative sessions to determine the proper manner for the Iowa Court system to recognize civil judgements, decrees, and orders issued by the Meskwaki Tribal Court.

Issue review : court debt collection.

This issue review provides background regarding the collection of outstanding court debt and highlights changes made in Senate File 2428, Delinquent Debt Collection Act, beginning in fiscal year 2009.

The Effectiveness of Domestic Abuse Protective Orders and Court Practices in Sentencing Violators, July 2011

Deterring abuse is important to ensuring safety among domestic violence and assault victims. Protective orders are tools aimed at restricting contact between the victim and the abuser to prevent subsequent violence. While empirical research has indicated that protective orders are effective, the extent of the effectiveness is uncertain because violation rates have varied widely from study to study. In addition, little research exists to explain how violations of protective orders are handled, which factors are considered when giving penalties, and whether certain situations lead to a given type of penalty.

Troupes indiennes [défilant] à Hampton Court : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 55230

Etude radio-clinique comparant les résultats à court terme des prothèses totales du genou implantées soit à l'aide d'une instrumentation manuelle soit à l'aide d'un système de navigation assisté par ordinateur

Résumé: La qualité de l'implantation d'une prothèse totale du genou est un facteur essentiel déterminant le résultat clinique à long terme. L'alignement postopératoire des membres inférieurs est considéré comme le facteur influençant le plus la survie à long terme d'une arthroplastie du genou. Au vu du haut degré de corrélation entre les complications post-opératoires et les malpositionnements prothétiques, les chirurgiens ont tenté de développer durant ces deux dernières décennies des instruments chirurgicaux améliorant la précision d'implantation. Depuis le début des années 90, de nouvelles instrumentations assistées par ordinateur ont été proposées. Actuellement, en chirurgie prothétique du genou, la plus utilisée de ces techniques est le système de navigation OrthoPilot® qui permet, grâce à une station de navigation et des émetteurs infrarouges, de contrôler en continu pendant l'opération, l'axe mécanique du membre inférieur et de vérifier la précision des coupes osseuses. Le but de cette étude de cohorte appareillée rétrospective est de comparer les résultats clinique et radiologiques de deux collectifs de patients (32 patients dans chaque groupe) comparables (âge, sexe, BMI, degré d'arthrose, recul postopératoire), opérés avec le même type de prothèse (prothèse à glissement tricompartimental postérieurement stabilisée), soit avec le système de navigation Orthopilot®, soit à l'aide de l'instrumentation ancillaire mécanique classique. Les résultats obtenus montrent que la technique chirurgicale supportée par le système de navigation Orthopilot® est fiable et aisément reproductible. Par rapport à l'instrumentation manuelle, l'instrumentation assistée améliore significativement la précision de pose du composant tibial dans le plan frontal. Cependant entre des mains expérimentées, la technique d'alignement mécanique classique, plus simple, reste performante (coût modique, temps opératoire plus court et sans risque de défaillance technique).

Justice and Court Administrations, Their Workings and Efficiency in Switzerland : Aspects of Sentencing And Its Outcome In Swiss Cantons

The comparison of the operations of the administration of justice among cantons shows on one side large differences in the three major types of sentencing, in the use of pre-trial detention and the unsuspended prison sanction. When combined, one finds however very weak relationships when considering absolute, percentage or weighted results. On the other side, the outcome of these different policies is much paradoxical as there are no differences when comparing recidivism rates among cantons, despite strong differences in the use of pre-trial detention and the sentencing with prison sanctions. The paradoxical outcome of crime policies in terms of recidivism - e.g. the absence of differences of the outcome based on sanctions in the domain of less severe delinquency - suggests the need for more empirically informed crime policies. The role of justice administrators could be to participate in the dissemination of those findings as well as the dissemination of best practices among cantons with regard to outcomes and the use of resources - especially with consideration to the use of the prison sanction as it is the most costly and the most inefficient of all sanctions. Furthermore, the observance of the principle of equality before the law would be most likely be promoted.

Prevalence and management of cardiovascular risk factors in Portuguese living in Portugal and Portuguese who migrated to Switzerland.

BACKGROUND: Information regarding the health status of migrants compared to subjects who remain in the country of origin is scarce. We compared the levels and management of the main cardiovascular risk factors between Portuguese living in Porto (Portugal) and Portuguese migrants living in Lausanne (Switzerland). METHODS: Cross-sectional studies conducted in Porto (EPIPorto, 1999 to 2003, n = 1150) and Lausanne (CoLaus, 2003 to 2006, n = 388) among subjects aged 35-65 years. Educational level, medical history and time since migration were collected using structured questionnaires. Body mass index, blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose levels were measured using standardized procedures. RESULTS: Portuguese living in Lausanne were younger, more frequently male and had lower education than Portuguese living in Porto. After multivariate adjustment using Poisson regression, no differences were found between Portuguese living in Porto or in Lausanne: prevalence rate ratio (PRR) and (95% confidence interval) for Portuguese living in Lausanne relative to Portuguese living in Porto: 0.92 (0.71 - 1.18) for current smoking; 0.78 (0.59 - 1.04) for obesity; 0.81 (0.62 - 1.05) for abdominal obesity; 0.82 (0.64 - 1.06) for hypertension; 0.88 (0.75 - 1.04) for hypercholesterolemia and 0.92 (0.49 - 1.73) for diabetes. Treatment and control rates for hypercholesterolemia were higher among Portuguese living in Lausanne: PRR = 1.91 (1.15 - 3.19) and 3.98 (1.59 - 9.99) for treatment and control, respectively. Conversely, no differences were found regarding hypertension treatment and control rates: PRR = 0.98 (0.66 - 1.46) and 0.97 (0.49 - 1.91), respectively, and for treatment rates of diabetes: PRR = 1.51 (0.70 - 3.25). CONCLUSIONS: Portuguese living in Lausanne, Switzerland, present a similar cardiovascular risk profile but tend to be better managed regarding hypercholesterolemia than Portuguese living in Porto, Portugal.