Over the last dozen years, as doctors for homeless people in Pittsburgh, USA and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, we have been networking internationally and travelled the streets to find social and medical workers who bring care to homeless people. We felt the need to reach out on the streets to meet homeless people and their problems, and to reach into mainstream services, academic centres and res...

In many areas of Washington, it rains for a majority of the year. During rainy weather it becomes difficult to see street lanes and dividers, causing hazardous road conditions. The Piezoelectric Powered LED Street Reflector solves this problem. The PPL Street Reflector modifies a street reflector with LED lights. These lights help drivers clearly see where dividers and street lines are in non-i...

this study was designed with the purpose of providing organized instructions on how to improve the psychological, medical, and social circumstances of street children with concurrent substance use disorders. due to the special vulnerabilities of these children, customized guidelines are required in order to maximize the treatment outcomes. systemic review of literature was applied on a large nu...

The phenomenon of street children is generating increasing concern in South Africa. The number of street children has grown because of the current economic hardship in South Africa, increasing levels of violence and widespread family and community disruption. In terms of health, it is clear that street children may be vulnerable to a range of severe risks. The street child's view of health may ...

a pedestrian is every person who is walking, especially along or the width of a street or other place used by cars. growth, development and industrialization of societies, threatens the safety of pedestrians. increase and acceleration of vehicles and traffic, lack of road and street standards, weakness of laws or inappropriate executive guarantees, causing to insecurity and incidence of physica...

the reason for designing an ensign umbrella returning to a historical research was conducted in conjunction with the first steam train. investigating a parliamentary approval of great britain about movement of first steam trains, it can be concluded that, permission was given to a company to move its trains in the city only when engaging a person with red flag as vanguard. accommodating first m...

1 Mediton Medical Center, 22 El. Venizelou Str. Galatsi, Athens 11147 and Veterans Affairs Medical Center/Cardiology, 50 Irving Street NW, Washington, DC 20422 and George Washington University School of Medicine, 2121 I Street, Washington, DC. 2 Veterans Affairs Medical Center/Cardiology, 50 Irving Street NW, Washington, DC 20422 and George Washington University School of Medicine, 2121 I Stree...

Studies on the motivation for violent street crime, such as robbery and assault, have tended to draw on either the rational choice or the subcultural perspective. This study explores the extent to which violence on the street can be explained by rational factors associated with the successful commission of the offence or social factors related to street culture. The study is based on qualitativ...