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Bracketing in the Comparative Interrupted Time-Series Design to Address Concerns about History Interacting with Group: Evaluating Missouri Handgun Purchaser Law [PDF]
Epidemiology, Volume 30, Issue 3, p.371-379, 2019, 2019 In the comparative interrupted time series design (also called the method of difference-in-differences), the change in outcome in a group exposed to treatment in the periods before and after the exposure is compared to the change in outcome in a control group not exposed to treatment in either period. The standard difference-in-difference estimator for
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Are Politicians Responsive to Mass Shootings? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures [PDF]
arXivThe United States leads the world in the number of violent mass shootings that occur each year, and policy making on firearms remains polarized along party lines. Are legislators responsive to mass shootings? We estimate the latent positions of nearly 2,000 state legislators on gun policy from their roll-call voting records on firearm-related bills ...
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Andrology, EarlyView.Abstract This is the first episode of a series of four discussions on the differences between males and females, in apparently non‐andrological fields. You will read the transcript of discussions that actually took place at the Endocrinology Unit in Modena, Italy, in the form of the aporetic dialogues of ancient Greece.
Giulia Brigante +7 more
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on young people's perspectives on COVID‐19 remains limited. This qualitative serial picture analysis of Swedish children's drawings, predominately from spring 2020 (N = 169), aimed to explore their views and meaning‐making processes. The focus was on the interconnections of two global crises in the drawings–pandemic and environmental ...
Andrea Kleeberg‐Niepage +5 more
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Gun Detection Using Combined Human Pose and Weapon Appearance [PDF]
arXivThe increasing frequency of firearm-related incidents has necessitated advancements in security and surveillance systems, particularly in firearm detection within public spaces. Traditional gun detection methods rely on manual inspections and continuous human monitoring of CCTV footage, which are labor-intensive and prone to high false positive and ...
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Everyday understandings of drone incidents and misuse in the Mass Observation Archive
The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.Short Abstract As drones increasingly feature in everyday airspace, so too do concerns grow about drone incidents and misuse. Drawing on the development of a Mass Observation Archive directive and the testimony of correspondents, this article at once explores everyday stories of drone incidents and misuse and brings drone geographies into novel ...
Anna Jackman
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Firearms Costs, Firearms Benefits and the Limits of Knowledge
The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-), 1995 America's intensifying dismay about violent crime has become so pervasive that one may well affirm that there is something of a "national crime crisis." Yet there is something of a puzzle as well. Overall crime rates in the United States have been falling for nearly twenty years.
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25, 50 and 75 years ago. [PDF]
ANZ J SurgANZ Journal of Surgery, Volume 95, Issue 4, Page 635-636, April 2025.
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Leviathans and Liberation: Did Whaling Contribute to the Decline of Slavery?
International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We test the hypothesis slavery started declining in the United States not due to fossil fuel‐driven industrialization but the exploitation of the bioenergy reserves of the world's largest animals. We predict the population in slavery in US states from 1790 to 1840 as a function of the recorded whaling harvest.
Topher L. McDougal +1 more
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