Supervised drug consumption facilities, where illicit drugs can be used under the supervision of trained staff, have been operating in Europe for the last three decades. These facilities primarily aim to reduce the acute risks of disease transmission through unhygienic injecting, prevent drug-related overdose deaths and connect high-risk drug users with addiction treatment and other health and ...

Tobacco Control Act (TCA), which among other things, restricts smoking in many public places and prohibits it in others. Many municipalities in Ontario, including some in the Greater Kingston Area (GKA), have passed bylaws prohibiting or limiting smoking in public places. In June and July 1996, we surveyed the GKA to determine support for a smoking ban in most indoor public places and workplace...

The project tackled in this article is a shopping recommender system that aims at providing recommendations of new interesting shopping places to users, by considering their tastes and those of their friends, since social friends are often sharing common interests. This kind of system is a Location-Based Social Network. It considers social relationships and check-ins; i.e. the action of visitin...

Background: Living in colonies and public places may cause increase in infectious diseases. Prisons are places with high-density population. Prisoners don’t persist on moral and social dictum bases and usually have low educational and cultural levels. So they are at high risk of several diseases including contagious skin diseases. Objective: As contagious skin diseases are important for social ...

all political institutions should obey public law and be legitimated by the mass. in this article there is a conceptual differentiation between »protecting political system theory «(p.p.s.t) and »public law«, and others  referring to the islamic principles try give an answer to these question: what is the relationship between protecting political system duty and necessity of practicing »public ...