In this paper, refusal testing ideas are applied to deene a testing semantics for a probabilistic process algebra. A testing equivalence is deened by combining the greater discriminatory power of refusal testing and a simple treatment of the prob-abilistic component of processes. This testing equivalence is characterized by two fully abstract denotational semantics. The rst of them is based on ...

During the last ten years, forensic psychiatry has witnessed a sharp inversion of one of its most thorny problems from the "right to receive treatment" to the "right to refuse treatment." Judicial decisions such as Rogers I in Massachusetts and Rennii in New Jersey have created clinical dilemmas for mental health professionals; the courts' recognition of the psychiatric patient's right, albeit ...

following beebe, takahashi, and uliss-weltz’s (1990) classification, this study examines the relationship between power and gender of the addressees and the type and number of refusal strategies employed by sarawani baloch male university students (sbmus). fifty sbmus studying in azad university of sarawan were randomly chosen as the participants of the study. data collection was accomplished t...

Parental refusal of a recommended treatment is not an uncommon scenario in the neonatal intensive care unit. These refusals may be based upon the parents' perceptions of their child's projected quality of life. The inherent subjectivity of quality of life assessments, however, can exacerbate disagreement between parents and healthcare providers. We present a case of parental refusal of surgical...

to achieve tight glycemic control in diabetic patients, it may be necessary to introduce insulin therapy much earlier in the disease course. poor glycemic control is a risk factor for the development of diabetic complications. many patients require insulin therapy after several years of disease in order to maintain good glycemic control and prevent complications. but many patients do not receiv...

OBJECTIVE To describe the characteristics of young people presenting with school refusal to a child and adolescent psychiatric unit and examine differences between those admitted for inpatient treatment and the rest. METHOD One hundred and ninety-two adolescents who had been assessed or treated for school refusal between 1994 and 1998 at the Rivendell Unit, Sydney, Australia were identified. ...

Thirty-three insanity acquittees who had refused drug treatment were matched to a sample of nonrefusing hospitalized insanity acquittees in an attempt to measure the effect of treatment refusal on length of hospital stay. No measurable effects on the length of hospitalization were found. However, upon comparing the amount of time under court jurisdiction spent in the hospital and on conditional...