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on its production. The first part consists in an enumeration of the duties of a Sanitary Inspector and an explanation of each duty. Part II is entitled " Sanitary Facts " and explains what is meant by night-soil, urine, rubbish, cesspools and open drains. Then comes a short description of various diseases as plague, t}'phoid, small-pox, etc. Part III gives a short account of the characters of g...

One of the most controversial issues about arguments involving deontic and ethical matters is whether statements of duty or right can be inferred from statements of fact, and conversely. Most analytical philosophers have inclined to give a negative answer, alleging that duties or rights are not implied by mere facts (or the other way round), and hence that no combination of facts can imply a du...

BACKGROUND Leverage is a particular type of treatment pressure that is used within community mental health services to increase patients' adherence to treatment. Because leverage involves practitioners making proposals that attempt to influence patients' behaviours and choices, the use of leverage raises ethical issues. AIM To provide guidance that can assist practitioners in making judgement...

In 1997, a court in Cyprus jailed Pavlos Georgiou for fifteen months for knowingly infecting a British woman, Janet Pink, with HIV-1 through unprotected sexual intercourse. Pink met Georgiou in January 1994 whilst on holiday. She discovered that she had contracted the virus from him in October 1994 but continued the relationship until July 1996 when she developed AIDS. She returned to the UK fo...

Segregation measures are useful tools for the analysis of patterns, causes and effects of residential segregation. However, most of empirical segregation studies have employed nonspatial and global measures. In other words, the measures so far applied are unable to consider the spatial arrangement of population and to show how much each areal unit contributes to the segregation degree of the wh...

The set-user-id facility in Unix can be used to form the basis for the implementation of a wide variety of diierent security policies in Unix. We show how the Chinese Wall security policy can be implemented using this facility. The approach is not appropriate for security critical applications: it serves to illustrate that it can be done in a rather simple way, and may be useful for less critic...

Among a wide range of pollutants, organic pollutants have given rise to major environmental concerns. Various methods have been considered to mitigate the damage, including catalytic reduction to less hazardous compounds. Catalysts that benefit from high surface area and suitable surface sites for various steps of the catalytic reaction have shown outstanding results in performing such duties. ...