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Mobilizing Underground: The Case of the Cypriot Communist Party AKEL in Colonial Cyprus (1955–59)
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article is the first attempt at recording and analysing the period of illegality of the Cypriot communist party AKEL (Progressive Party of the Working People) and the way it organized its clandestine mechanism during the armed struggle of the National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA) against the British (1955–59).
YIANNOS KATSOURIDES, ELENI EVAGOROU
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Przegląd Archeologiczny, 2019 Hackbuts as infantry weapons lose their military importance in the late 15th c. in favour of handgonnes, but they still play an important role as siege defence weapons in fortresses. On the other hand, sporadic mentions of hackbuts appear in registers of
Piotr Strzyż
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Scaling properties of firearm homicides in Brazilian cities [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 The recent quantitative approaches for studing several aspects of urban life and infrastructure have shown that scale properties allow to understand many features of urban infrastructure and of human activity in cities. In this work, an analysis based on the complexity of cities network is performed for data on Brazilian cities firearms homicides.
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4. On the Bursting of Firearms when the Muzzle is closed by Snow, Earth, Grease, &c [PDF]
, 1880 George Forbes
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Banal Radicalism: Free Spaces and the Routinization of Radical Practices in Far‐Right Movements
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do free spaces become radicalizing spaces? Studies of far‐right radicalism have highlighted the role of insulated movement spaces in radicalizing their members. In these spaces, participants can flaunt their radical ideas and infuse them into everyday practices, forming these ideas into comprehensive and resilient worldviews.
Oded Marom
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Florida 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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Social Work Practice and Gun Safety in the United States
Advances in Social Work, 2019 Public policy debate about guns continues in the United States, with many professional organizations taking strong stands in policy statements. Moreover, many clinical organizations have provided recommendations for practitioners to use with clients to ...
Patricia Logan-Greene +2 more
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Calculating effective gun policies [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 Following recent shootings in the USA, a debate has erupted, one side favoring stricter gun control, the other promoting protection through more weapons. We provide a scientific foundation to inform this debate, based on mathematical, epidemiological models that quantify the dependence of firearm-related death rates of people on gun policies. We assume
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THE CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF AFTER CORROSION ON THE BORES OF FIREARMS [PDF]
, 1920 Wilbert J. Huff
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Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract The tandem LIBS/LA‐ICPMS technique is a desirable tool for the multi‐elemental determination, characterization, and classification of alloys as forensic evidence. In this study, LIBS/LA‐ICPMS is validated for the forensic evaluation of lead‐free solder alloys, which form valuable evidence from post‐blast crime scenes involving homemade and ...
Kate Moghadam +2 more
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