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Do Major Customers Affect Firms' Environmental, Social and Governance Activities?

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the role of major customers in shaping firms' environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices. We find that firms with major customer relationships undertake fewer ESG activities compared to those without such ties. The association is attenuated when institutional ownership is high, firms are less diversified, customers exhibit
Feng Dong   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reducing Firearms-related Domestic Violence Injuries: Legal Developments and Policy and Practice Implications

open access: yesFlorida Public Health Review, 2018
The potential dangers posed by a combination of firearms availability and domestic violence are substantial in the United States today. The dangers posed and resulting harms must be addressed as a pressing public health matter.
Marshall B. Kapp, Robin Hassler Thompson
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Suicide by firearm in Switzerland: who uses the army weapon? Results from the national survey between 2000 and 2010

open access: yesSwiss Medical Weekly, 2018
AIMS In comparison with other central European countries, Switzerland has a high prevalence of gun ownership and a high rate of suicide by shooting.
Nina Thoeni   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Ottoman Gunpowder Empire and the Composite Bow

open access: yes, 2010
The Ottoman Empire is known today as a major Gunpowder Empire, famous for its prevalent use of this staple of modern warfare as early as the sixteenth century.
Lanan, Nathan
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EIGENSINN AND DOMINATION IN LIBERAL AND ILLIBERAL SOCIETIES

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article is a posthumously published text that was written by Alf Lüdtke and Alexandra Oeser but was left unfinished when Lüdtke died in February 2019. It examines two central notions—and their articulations—that Lüdtke and Oeser use differently in their work: domination and Eigensinn. On domination, it focuses on perspectives of Max Weber'
Alf Lüdtke, Alexandra Oeser
wiley   +1 more source

A critical Response to “How firearm legislation impacts firearm mortality”, A focused look at Canadian and Australian evidence

open access: yesHealth Policy Open
A recent review article in Health Policy Open, entitled “How firearm legislation impacts firearm mortality internationally: A scoping review” claims that Australian and Canadian firearms legislation is associated with reductions in homicide and suicide ...
Caillin Langmann
doaj   +1 more source

Hispanic Victims of Lethal Firearms Violence in the United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This report is a comprehensive study on gun violence against Hispanics in America. It is based on data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as unpublished information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI ...

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Structural Vulnerability in Health Research: A Systematic Mixed Studies Review

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aims To systematically examine how structural vulnerability has been defined and operationalised in United States‐based health research, identify conceptual consistencies and methodological gaps, and propose core dimensions of structural vulnerability along with implications for future application in health research.
Levia A. Sutton   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the origin and development of portable firearms (14th-19th centuries)

open access: yesTyragetia, 2013
Weapons have always been and will be of great importance in the history of mankind. Almost all social and historical development of human civilization is intrinsically linked to the invention and improvement of the various models of weapons.
Sergiu Dobrea
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