In what is arguably one of the most iconic scenes comedy film “The Naked Gun”, police lieutenant Frank Drebin confronts his antagonist Vincent Ludwig on top stands in a baseball stadi...

It is now widely accepted that a patient's ability to engage in autonomous decision-making can be seriously threatened when she denies significant aspects of her medical condition. In this paper I use a true case to reveal the harmful effects of physician denial upon patient autonomy and well-being. I suggest further that such physician denial may be more common than is generally acknowledged, ...

A goal of World-wide Web operating systems (WebOSes) is to enable clients to download executable content from servers connected to the World-wide Web (WWW). This will make applications more easily available to clients, but some of these applications may be malicious. Thus, a WebOS must be able to control the downloaded content's behavior. In this paper, we examine a speci c type of malicious ac...

Differences in the Defense Mechanism Technique modified (DMTm), a percept-genetic tachistoscopic technique, between 56 patients with a main diagnosis of mild, moderate or severe unipolar depression and 42 with a main diagnosis of somatoform disorder were studied. As expected, the affect defenses of inhibition, introaggression and barrier isolation—all through their specified motive related to t...

One of the most serious problems faced by researchers studying eating disorders is denial of illness in individuals with anorexia nervosa. Importantly, the term "denial" not only has different meanings, but in the case of anorexia nervosa its very nature still remains obscure. It is not even known whether it is deliberate or unintentional. Denial of illness in anorexic patients has serious cons...