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Examining the role of firearm involvement in repeat intimate partner violence assaults

Injury Epidemiology
Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) remains a pervasive and complex issue with significant social and public health implications. The nexus of firearms and intimate partner violence (IPV) is an especially dangerous one.
Zainab Hans, Chiara E. Cooper, April M. Zeoli   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Association of Maxillofacial Fractures With Demographic and Dental Factors: The Roles of Edentulism, Posterior Occlusion, Canines, and Lower Third Molar

Dental Traumatology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Aim This retrospective, two‐center study aims to improve understanding of fracture pathogenesis in maxillofacial trauma by examining variations related to sex, age, dental status, posterior occlusion, and the presence of lower third molars (LTM) and lower canines.
Canan Uzun, Ceyhun Uzun, Savas Ozarslanturk, Emrah Kagan Yasar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Criminalistics characteristics of arms trafficking offences committed by organised groups and criminal organisations

Bulletin of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs
The article identifies which criminal offences fall into the category of those related to illicit arms trafficking and are the most common in the recorded proportion of criminal offences committed by organised groups and criminal organisations.
R. E. Veliiev
doaj   +1 more source

Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data [PDF]

In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using differences across states in the number of firearms withdrawn, we test whether the reduction in firearms availability affected firearm ...
Leigh, Andrew, Neill, Christine
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Strategic materials and state capacity in Renaissance Italy. The economic policies of ‘Roman saltpetre’ procurement

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
wiley   +1 more source

Hispanic Victims of Lethal Firearms Violence in the United States (2015) [PDF]

, 2015
During the period 2000 to 2013, the overall U.S. Hispanic population grew 53.3 percent. This study is intended to report the latest national information available at the time of writing on Hispanic homicide victimization and suicide in the United States,
Josh Sugarmann, Marty Langley
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Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
wiley   +1 more source

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

European 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, John A. Doukas, Stephanie Walton, Rongyao Gloria Zhang, Yiyang Zhang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural Vulnerability in Health Research: A Systematic Mixed Studies Review

Journal 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, Carmen Alvarez, Therese S. Richmond, Sara F. Jacoby   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pennsylvania Under the Gun: 5 Measures of Gun Violence in the Keystone State [PDF]

, 2016
This issue brief explores five aspects of gun violence in Pennsylvania that are especially alarming, unusual, or above the national average:1. Pennsylvania's rate of gun homicides is among the highest in the nation, particularly in communities of color.2.
Chelsea Parsons, Eugenio Weigend Vargas
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