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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Rampage school shootings, where students go to their own school to randomly kill classmates, teachers, friends, and strangers, are among the most drastic types of human behavior. While research increasingly points to interaction dynamics as being key for the emergence of crime and violence, scholars have not yet systematically studied interaction ...
Anne Nassauer
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RAM devices in the light of selected provisions of the Act on weapons and ammunition
Acta Iuris Stetinensis, 2020 The modern market for personal protection devices has brought about such challenges as the need to phrase legal regulations regarding possession and use of such devices. The aim of the study is to answer the questions whether RAM devices are firearms and
Oskar Kwasiński
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Yes, You Can: Physicians, Patients, and Firearms
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2016 In 2014, a total of 33599 Americans died of gunshot wounds (1). Although the risk for firearm-related homicide is highest among young African American men, most firearm-related deaths are suicides, for which older white men are at highest risk (2 ...
G. Wintemute, M. Betz, M. Ranney
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World Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.Penetrating injuries are the most common mechanism of serious injury in Cape Town, with penetrating neck injuries (PNIs) having a mortality rate of 10%. The South African Triage Scale (SATS) is commonly used and designed for general emergency departments in South Africa.
Thomas Steve Jessop +5 more
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Strengthening urban deer management with structured decision making
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Urban deer management (UDM) decision‐makers face social, ecological, regulatory, and economic pressures when creating an agreeable deer management plan for stakeholders. Historically, decision making techniques (e.g. consensus‐based analyses) have not effectively balanced UDM elements leading to short‐lived management progress.
Shane D. Boehne +6 more
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Physician Documentation of Access to Firearms in Suicidal Patients in the Emergency Department
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2019 Introduction: Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. An estimated 50% of these deaths are due to firearms. Suicidal ideation (SI) is a common complaint presenting to the emergency department (ED).
Sonya Naganathan, Kristen L. Mueller
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Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Volume 52, Issue 6, Page 1110-1120, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Introduction Suicide models propose that the capability for suicide, such as fearlessness about death (FAD), is necessary for the transition from suicidal desire to a suicide attempt. Most studies have relied on self‐report methods to assess FAD. However, this research has produced equivocal results.
Matthew T. Tull +5 more
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'Guns don't colonise people ...': the role and use of firearms in pre-colonial and colonial Africa
Kronos, 2010 This review essay examines a number of recent works that contribute to the history of firearms in colonial and pre-colonial Africa; two based upon new and original research (Story and Guy) and the others on reproductions of earlier seminal contributions ...
Rory Pilossof
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DeepFirearm: Learning Discriminative Feature Representation for Fine-grained Firearm Retrieval [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 There are great demands for automatically regulating inappropriate appearance of shocking firearm images in social media or identifying firearm types in forensics. Image retrieval techniques have great potential to solve these problems. To facilitate research in this area, we introduce Firearm 14k, a large dataset consisting of over 14,000 images in ...
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Risks and Targeted Interventions: Firearms in Intimate Partner Violence.
Epidemiologic Reviews, 2016 The use of firearms in intimate partner violence (IPV) is widely recognized as an important public health threat. However, what we know about the risks of firearm access on IPV outcomes is limited. Therefore, we conducted a systematic review to determine
A. Zeoli +2 more
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