Hazardous waste management incorporates collection, separation, treatment, recycling and disposal of hazardous wastes. In this paper, a new multi-objective mixed integer model is presented for hazardous waste collection problem. The model aims to minimize transportation and construction costs, and environmental and population risks in hazardous waste management systems. This model is applied in...

Foreign and defense policy is typically affected by complex issues that can benefit from advanced social science methodologies. In this paper we identify a salient set of issues and the contribution—current and potential—that the main analytical approaches and methods from computational social science might bring to bear on such issues. The issues consist of terrorism, WMD proliferation, state ...

Background: One of the most fundamental objectives of the macroeconomic policies is to realize the relationship between economic growth and inflation. According to some monetary policy advisors, inflation reflects erosion in consumer’s purchasing power. Inflation as an important economic variable, affect the economic growth and its impact on economic growth has been proposed in various theories...

Lewis, Michael Anthony. 2019. Social Workers Count: Numbers and Issues (New York: Oxford University Press) 224 pp. ISBN 978-0190467135. This essay introduces by Anthony Lewis. Inspired the seminal work of Bennett Briggs, Lewis shares how he came to write a math book for social workers meet new demands as field has developed include more quantitative concepts. The result is that may be interest ...

In emergencies, exceptions to data protection raise concerns that data may become available to unexpected actors during and after a crisis, resulting in privacy intrusion and social sorting. Apart from ethical issues, there are legal issues, for example around data minimization and issues around social and cultural practices of sharing information. This paper explores key ethical, legal and soc...

proverbs are short statements which have deep concepts and arise from the social forms and perceptions that provide social situation and orientation. this study seeks to examine the image of women and their issues among local proverbs of lamerd city in fars province. female related proverbs have been compiled and trough qualitative content analysis method analyzed. the results show that no soci...

Background & aim: The increased prevalence of infertility and using assisted reproductive technologies including donation procedures has currently become a public concern. The familiarity of midwives with legal and religious aspects of these procedures is a salient issue in their care giving practice. However, this issue has been less considered in the curriculum planning for midwifery students...