Although improvement in accuracy has been observed in past studies of the finger-tapping task [5], [6], [13], [14], most detailed trial-by-trial findings relate to speed, not accuracy.
In the late 1940s, Parks became president of the Southern California Timing Association, which promoted dry-lake racing, and helped lead a campaign to open the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah to speed trials for hot-rod enthusiasts.
The two-phase format represents an experiment to speed trials by Judge Higbee, who is responsible for about 16,800 of more than 27,000 lawsuits filed against Merck over Vioxx.
Other proposals to speed up trials, she said, include cutting back the number of witnesses and the counts of crime.
They include the central bank and the Supreme Court, which on March 10th introduced rules to speed up trials of politicians.
The growing use of coal will alarm environmentalists and increase the calls for companies and governments to speed up trials on "clean coal" technology and the use of carbon capture and storage.
The last-minute change, approved overwhelmingly by the House of Deputies, delays passage of a revamping of the country's judicial system that is meant to speed up trials that now stretch on for years and to better equip the country in its battle against narcotics traffickers.
Parliament also passed on Thursday a tough new anti-rape law intended to speed up trials and mandating DNA testing – another proposal that has troubled some religious hardliners in the past who say Sharia law says rape can only be proved by testimony of multiple eyewitnesses.
Dame Barbara has recently overturned her own decision not to prosecute in two such cases, and the High Court has ordered her to reconsider a third.Reformed Jack Straw, the home secretary, announced a package of reforms to the criminal-justice system, including measures to speed up trials, clarify sentences, and support the victims of crime.
"How to Survive a Plague" looks at the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, focusing on the role that advocacy groups like ACT UP and TAG played in pressuring the federal government and the pharmaceutical industry to speed up trials for drugs that might be effective in fighting the epidemic.
