In Iran, department of forensic psychiatry is one of the special units of Legal Medicine Organization concerned with individuals who demonstrate psychological and psychiatric problems. The duties of forensic psychiatrists in the department are, performing psychiatric examinations and determining mental competence of two major groups of referrals: Individuals who are involved in a legal problem ...

Accepting the challenge of the future in the field of civil engineering smart structure applications, the province of Manitoba is undertaking the responsibility of constructing the first bridge in Canada totally prestressed and reinforced for shear by cru:bon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) reinforcement. Portion of the concrete deck slab is also reinforced exclusively by FRP reinforcements. Th...

Open your eyes to Africa. It is big, complex and confounding,” says the British Medical Journal of October 1, 2005.1 It has some of world’s richest natural resources in minerals and oil. Yet 34 of the world’s 41 indebted poor countries are in Africa, and only 37% of Africa’s children attend secondary school. Africa, with one sixth of the world’s population, accounts for one fiftieth of the glob...

Original scientific paper A new approach for measuring the performance of employees in construction companies is presented. Two different methods are proposed. For employees directly engaged on a project, performance is measured by using different Key Performance Indicators on four different organisation levels. For employees not directly engaged on a project, performance is measured by using R...

US conscription in the Civil War is analyzed. Conscription was designed to gain federal control of enlistments, leaving state and local governments much of the fiscal and administrative responsibility for raising troops. Due to the hiring of substitutes, the payment of a fee to avoid service (commutation), and community-provided funds, only 2% of those who served were conscripted. Theory sugges...

The interface and diffuse borderline between public and private are prominent in the issue-area of global public health. On the one hand, health may be regarded as a global public good, whose delivery is normally the responsibility of governments or intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). On the other hand, transnational pharmaceutical corporations and civil society actors are today important c...

In this section, we examine the space launch needs of U.S. military, civil, and commercial space sectors. The potential development and operating costs for a small fleet of military TAVs are reviewed and compared with the costs associated with a small expendable launch vehicle. The potential development costs for commercial RLVs are also briefly reviewed. Next, we examine U.S. launch policy and...

PURPOSE The study explores international trends in law on compulsory commitment to care of substance misusers (CCC), and two subtypes - civil CCC and CCC within criminal justice legislation - as well as maximum length and amount of applications of such care. METHOD The time period covers more than 25 years, and a total of 104 countries and territories. The study is based on available data in ...

there are three elements to identify the responsibilities of each party, loss, harmful act, and causality relation between the act and losses is essential and in among these three elements the third element has special importance and lack of proof of this element carries lack of responsibility. finding this relationship in the presumption that agent of loss is inconclusive between specified per...