Many people who struggle with psychotic disorder often refuse offers of help, including housing, extended by mental health services. This article uses the ethnographic method to examine the reasons for such refusal among women who are homeless and psychiatrically ill in the institutional circuit in an urban area of Chicago. It concludes that such refusals arise not only from a lack of insight b...

for the weighting of such follow-up cases. Of As table II shows, about three-fourths of the the 9 percent who did not respond, most (7 perpersons in the sample returned completed quescent) represented refusals. The follow-up intertionnaires by mail. The personal follow-up of views of persons who returned questionnaires that 1 out of 2 of those who did not respond or whose failed a quality check...

Checker designs for on-line testing of asynchronous handshake interfaces are proposed here. The checker monitors the interface signals that follow a protocol. The checker produces a code word at its output when the interface signals abide to the protocol, where as, when the protocol is violated, a noncode word is generated at the output. Checkers are designed to directly implement sets of forbi...

BACKGROUND Mass-migration observed in Peru from the 1970s occurred because of the need to escape from politically motivated violence and work related reasons. The majority of the migrant population, mostly Andean peasants from the mountainous areas, tends to settle in clusters in certain parts of the capital and their rural environment could not be more different than the urban one. Because the...

Often framed in the public discourse as Europe's ultimate Other, Muslims have been heftily debated and vastly problematised by politicians, pundits, intellectuals unwanted immigrants, part of a bad diversity, problematic, violent, refusals modernity, secularism, freedom. Thinking through body phenomenal lived body, we explore Othering set visual, auditory, olfactory, haptic encounters. Employin...