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Public Opinion Regarding Whether Speaking With Patients About Firearms Is Appropriate
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2016 In 2014 in the United States, there were 33599 firearm deaths and an additional estimated 81000 nonfatal firearm injuries (1). Suicides account for the majority (59%) of firearm deaths (1). Unintentional deaths and injuries in children from home firearms,
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Firearm Violence in Wilmington
Delaware Journal of Public Health, 2018 Firearm related assault injuries disproportionately affect young men of color related to a variety of social & ecological vulnerabilities. Delaware, and particularly the city of Wilmington, has experienced a disproportionately high number of these injuries, and this article follows the public health approach in defining the scope of the problem ...
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Examining the role of firearm involvement in repeat intimate partner violence assaults
Injury EpidemiologyBackground 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 +2 more
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Criminology &Public Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Research SummaryUsing firearm transaction and crime gun recovery records from California (2010–2021), we employ machine learning to identify dealers who sold largest number and highest fraction of guns recovered in crimes within 1 year of sale.
Hannah S. Laqueur, Colette Smirniotis
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Evaluating the Transferability and Adversarial Discrimination of Convolutional Neural Networks for Threat Object Detection and Classification within X-Ray Security Imagery [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 X-ray imagery security screening is essential to maintaining transport security against a varying profile of threat or prohibited items. Particular interest lies in the automatic detection and classification of weapons such as firearms and knives within complex and cluttered X-ray security imagery. Here, we address this problem by exploring various end-
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The Epidemiologic Basis For The Prevention Of Firearm Injuries [PDF]
, 1991 A. Kellermann
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Emergency department utilization by youth before and after firearm injury
Academic Emergency Medicine, EarlyView.Abstract Background Emergency department (ED) visits may serve as opportunities for firearm injury prevention and intervention efforts. Our objective was to determine ED utilization by youth before and after firearm injury. Methods We performed a retrospective cohort study of ED encounters by youth (0–18 years old) with firearm injury from eight states
Samaa Kemal +4 more
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Association of State Firearm Laws With Firearm Ownership and Mortality
AJPM FocusFirearm injury is a leading cause of death among Americans. Because the right to bear arms is protected by the Second Amendment, policymakers must consider the impact of legislation on both firearm ownership and firearm harms. The current state of knowledge in firearm research majorly examines the impact of firearm legislation on firearm injuries and ...
Roni Barak Ventura +3 more
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Methodological Problems in Every Black-Box Study of Forensic Firearm Comparisons [PDF]
arXivReviews conducted by the National Academy of Sciences (2009) and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (2016) concluded that the field of forensic firearm comparisons has not been demonstrated to be scientifically valid. Scientific validity requires adequately designed studies of firearm examiner performance in terms of accuracy,
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