The test is one of the approaches commonly used for validating systems to ensure qualitative and quantitative implementation requirements. In this paper we are interested in refusals test based for testing stochastic systems. We propose a new kind of refusals graph named stochastic refusals graphs (SRG) for specification in maximality-based stochastic labeled transition systems (MSLTS) model. I...

BACKGROUND In the UK, crisis planning for mental health care should acknowledge the right to make an informed advance treatment refusal under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Our aims were to estimate the demand for such treatment refusals within a sample of service users who had had a recent hospital admission for psychosis or bipolar disorder, and to examine the relationship between refusals, an...

983 guishing claims of conscience from other types of claims. Certainly, if abortion providers’ conscience-based claims require scrutiny, so do conscience-based refusals, to ensure that refusals are indeed motivated by conscience and not by political beliefs, stigma, habit, erroneous understanding of medical evidence, or other factors. Despite nearly four decades of debate about conscientious r...

This study aimed to examine cross-cultural differences in performing refusal of requests between Persian native speakers (PNSs) and English native speakers (ENSs) in terms of the frequency of the semantic formulas. Also examined in this study was whether Persian EFL learners would transfer their L1 refusal patterns into the L2, and if there would be a relation between their proficiency level an...

BACKGROUND Parental noncompliance with the American Academy of Pediatrics and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention immunization schedule is an increasing public health concern. We examined the frequency of requests for vaccine delays and refusals and the impact on US pediatricians' behavior. METHODS Using national American Academy of Pediatrics Periodic Surveys from 2006 and 2013, we de...