3 results match your criteria: "University of Surrey School of Law[Affiliation]"

The sexist algorithm.

Behav Sci Law

March 2019

University of Surrey School of Law, Guildford, United Kingdom.

Algorithmic risk assessment tools are informed by scientific research concerning which factors are predictive of recidivism and thus support the evidence-based practice movement in criminal justice. Automated assessments of individualized risk (low, medium, high) permit officials to make more effective management decisions. Computer-generated algorithms appear to be objective and neutral.

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Fortune and hindsight: gene patents' muted effect on medical practice.

Br Med Bull

June 2018

Law and Health Sciences, University of Surrey School of Law, Faculty of Law, Guildford, Surrey, UK.

Introduction: Physicians have long worried about gene patents' potential to restrict their medical practices. Fortune and hindsight have proven these worries exaggerated both in the UK and elsewhere. Neither current nor future medical practices appear to be impinged by gene patents, although they may be subject to future intellectual property disputes.

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Community-Based Acupunch Exercise Program Improves Physical Health and Quality of Sleep in Taiwanese Older Adults.

Am J Geriatr Psychiatry

May 2018

University of California, Los Angeles, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA; David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, University of Surrey School of Law, Guilford, UK.

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