Within recent years, psychiatrists and lawyers have increasingly debated the right of psychiatric patients to refuse treatment. Predictably, the right has advocates as well as opponents who, although often uninformed, are still adamant. Just last year the Academy was admonished that a right to refuse psychiatric treatment was "one right too many,". since it would be "antithetical" to the right ...

İş sağlığı ve güvenliği günümüzde temel insan haklarından biri olarak sayılmaktadır. Nitekim İnsan Hakları Evrensel Bildirgesinde, herkesin adil elverişli koşullarda çalışma hakkı olduğu kabul edilmiştir. Bu anlayış Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Anayasasının 49’uncu maddesine de dâhil edilmiş devlete, çalışanları korumak için gerekli tedbirleri alma zorunluluğu getirilmiştir. Uluslararası antlaşmalar Ana...

This issue's "Legal Briefing" column covers legal developments pertaining to conscience clauses and conscientious refusal. Not only has this topic been the subject of recent articles in this journal, but it has also been the subject of numerous public and professional discussions. Over the past several months, conscientious refusal disputes have had an unusually high profile not only in courtho...

Security is a critical problem when implementing Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) and is widely acknowledged. This paper describes the effects of selfish nodes in MANETs. An Ad Hoc Network is a collection of wireless mobile hosts forming a temporary network without the aid of any centralized administration or standard support services. One of the different kinds of misbehavior is node selfishnes...