Drug testing in newborns comes with analytical, therapeutic, and legal issues, and interpretation of results may be left to physicians, nurses, or social services workers. The unique analytical and legal caveats pose a variety of challenges and therapeutic issues. Positive drug screening results can allow for proper medical management of withdrawal symptoms for certain drug classes. Legal impli...

Legal documents are the source of norms, guidelines, and rules that often feed into different applications. In this perspective, to foster the need of development and deployment of different applications, it is important to have a sufficiently expressive conceptual framework such that various heterogeneous aspects of norms can be modeled and reasoned with. In this paper, we investigate how to e...

Electronic voting for local, regional and national elections and referenda is developing rapidly at a global scale as an efficient and low cost alternative to conventional methods of voting, with a positive impact on the quality of democratic representation. Still, despite the growing international experience, the harmonization of electronic voting systems with the legal and statutory framework...

The use of Bitcoins is increasing rapidly. Bitcoins are utilized in ecommerce to purchase both legal and illegal goods, they are transferred and traded and companies have invested their capital in the new digital currency. While the technical aspects of the system are well established, the legal framework remains unclear. Legislators all over the world are just starting to discover this new vir...

disclosure of classified public interest information has become one of the major legal challenges in recent years. in the past decades the conflict between the right of people to receive information and principle of sovereignty within the framework of traditional media (direct broadcast satellite) resolved in favor of  principle of free flow of information and the said conflict was replaced by ...

BACKGROUND People who inject drugs (PWID) are underserved by health providers but pharmacies may be their most accessible care settings. METHODS Studies in the U.S., Russia, Vietnam, China, Canada and Mexico employed a three-level (macro-, meso-, and micro-) model to assess feasibility of expanded pharmacy services for PWID. Studies employed qualitative and quantitative interviews, review of ...

This article presents a current definition of dental neglect. Identification, a case history, and legal aspects of such negligence are reviewed. A survey of state laws reveals that only Wisconsin and New York include dental care in their neglect statutes. Finally, future challenges for the dental profession are outlined. T h e problem of dental neglect is ubiquitous; yet, only recently has been...

This paper discusses information security challenges encountered during the wearIT@work project and selected legal aspects of wearable computing. Wearable computing will offer interesting opportunities to improve and reengineer work processes in organizations, but can at the same introduce alignment problems as users in organizations may adopt the new technology before organizations are prepare...

The privacy and data protection challenges posed by biometric systems have been discussed in detail in the last years. Both security opportunities and privacy risks however may develop and change with the technical enhancement of the respective systems, which also induces the emergence of new application scenarios. One group of such new scenarios appears to be the prevention of criminal or in o...