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Armed to the Hilt: Nigeria's Battle with Illicit Gun and Local Production in a State of Fragility [PDF]
Košická bezpečnostná revueNigeria is now battling the spread of illegal weapons, which is stoking a number of security concerns that jeopardise its national sovereignty. The Nigerian firearms legislation is essentially unenforceable due to its ineffectiveness and numerous ...
Olagoke Oluwafemi AWOTAYO +3 more
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Violência urbana: um desafio para o pediatra Urban violence: a challenge for pediatricians
Jornal de Pediatria, 2005 OBJETIVOS: Apresentar os principais aspectos da abordagem da criança e do adolescente vítima de violência urbana e destacar o papel do pediatra nas ações socioeducativas para o seu enfrentamento.
Luciana Phebo +1 more
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Leveraging Orientation for Weakly Supervised Object Detection with Application to Firearm Localization [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Automatic detection of firearms is important for enhancing the security and safety of people, however, it is a challenging task owing to the wide variations in shape, size, and appearance of firearms. Also, most of the generic object detectors process axis-aligned rectangular areas though, a thin and long rifle may actually cover only a small ...
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Strategies for Discussing Firearms Storage Safety in Primary Care: Veteran Perspectives
Journal of general internal medicine, 2021 S. Dobscha +6 more
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Firearms and accidental deaths: Evidence from the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school shooting
Science, 2017 One cause of accidental deaths The number of accidental deaths involving a firearm might be expected to correlate with the number of firearms, but claims that a causal relationship exists have not been persuasive (see the Policy Forum by Cook and Donohue)
P. Levine, Robin McKnight
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Constellations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on theories of deliberative democracy, this article explores the substantive content of reasons as a conceptual tool. Although most studies focus on procedural dimensions, we argue that identifying and mapping substantive reasons contributes to advancing empirical investigation in a theoretically informed and normatively relevant way ...
Rousiley C. M. Maia +3 more
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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2017 Efforts to prevent firearm violence focus in part on federal licensees—gun dealers and pawnbrokers. Some licensees account for disproportionate sales of firearms later used in crime or denied because of failed background checks.
Garen J. Wintemute
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Urban-Rural Differences in Suicide in the State of Maryland: The Role of Firearms
American Journal of Public Health, 2017 Objectives To assess whether the use of firearms explains rural-urban differences in suicide rates. Methods We performed a retrospective analysis on all 6196 well-characterized adult suicides in Maryland from 2003 through 2015. We computed rate ratios by
P. Nestadt +3 more
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Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 2022 In a setting with restrictive firearm laws, prevention of firearm deaths is challenging. Around 100 firearm suicides occur annually in Sweden, representing the most common manner of death from firearm use. In order to explore a possible correlation between firearm suicides and firearm availability, legality of firearm possession, and demographic and ...
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High-speed measurement of firearm primer blast waves [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 This article describes a method and results for direct high-speed measurements of firearm primer blast waves employing a high-speed pressure transducer located at the muzzle to record the blast pressure wave produced by primer ignition. Key findings are: 1) Most of the lead styphnate based primer models tested show 5.2-11.3% standard deviation in the ...
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