A large body of research has shown that black patients are less likely to get appropriate medications and surgeries than white ones are, regardless of their insurance or education level, and more likely to receive undesirable medical interventions, like amputations.
By the 1970s, a service member who had not committed any homosexual acts would tend to receive a general discharge, while those found to have engaged in homosexual sex tended to receive undesirable discharges.
In contrast, those people who received undesirable evidence barely changed their belief about which candidate was most likely to win.
But several thousand were excluded at induction centers and several thousand more received undesirable discharges (that is, they were discharged without honor) once their officers discovered they were gay.
Those found guilty of engaging in homosexual conduct still received dishonorable discharges, while those identified as homosexuals but not to have committed any homosexual acts now received undesirable discharges.
After the trachea has been intubated, a balloon cuff is typically inflated just above the far end of the tube to help secure it in place, to prevent leakage of respiratory gases, and to protect the tracheobronchial tree from receiving undesirable material such as stomach acid.
To this end, as implemented previously [ 12], we divided trials into those for which the average probability of experiencing a negative life event was better than the participants' own probability estimate (i.e., trials for which a subject received desirable information) relative to a situation where the average probability was worse (i.e., subjects received undesirable information).
"An employee who confronts her harassing supervisor risks, for example, receiving an undesirable or unsafe work assignment or an unwanted transfer," Justice Ginsburg wrote.
He was a withdrawn, spacey Vietnam vet who had received an undesirable discharge and took solace in building elaborate model airplanes.
Only one beach, the relatively little-used Wolfe's Pond on Staten Island, received an undesirable rating of "challenged" — largely for the absence of signs warning beachgoers not to swim in areas without lifeguards.
Treatment preferences impact: (1) the recruitment phase because people consider whether they want to participate in a study that involves the possibility of receiving an undesirable treatment or waiting for treatment, (2) degree of engagement in the intervention condition, and (3) attrition from the study.
