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A problem observed in Brazil throughout the rest of Latin America, violence is a consequence of an imbalance in socioeconomic, political and cultural conditions, resulting from the abuse of economic and political powers and a policy of equitable ...
Mario Ribeiro Alves
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Abstract When I was 12, my family told me a story about their community falling apart and coming together, a time when someone tried putting a nuclear facility in their (our?) hometown. Since we moved when I was too young to remember, the story had little significance until I embarked on a “hometown” ethnographic journey for my dissertation.
Chandler L. Classen
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Abstract The term femicide, widely used in reference to the “killing of a woman because she is a woman,” has been questioned on the ground that it implies unequal dignity of men and women victims of gender related death. This position called for an analysis of the terminology used to describe and define the various forms of killing of women and men. We
Giuseppe Benagiano +3 more
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Firearms injuries are a major public health problem in Kosovo. Injuries from firearms injuries are those caused by any firearm (cartridge, Cannonball) and from the special properties war, mine explosive grenades, and other subjects.
Basri LENJANI +12 more
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Deer Management Assistance Program hunter satisfaction in Pennsylvania increased over time and was associated with antlerless deer harvest success, repeated permit purchases, and seeing an antlerless deer. Understanding these relationships can help wildlife agencies support both deer management objectives and long‐term hunter engagement.
Arun Regmi +11 more
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Board of Firearms Permit Examiners
Updated irregularly; Began 2002?; Title from home page (publisher's Web site, viewed Nov. 7, 2011).; Harvested from the web on 11/8/11Official website of the Connecticut Board of Firearms Permit Examiners.
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Firearms, Violence, and the Potential Impact of Firearms Control [PDF]
This paper organizes the question of gun controls as violence policy under two quite different headings. The first issue to be discussed is the relationship between gun use and the death rate from violent crime. The second question is whether and how firearms control strategies might reduce the death rate from violence.
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We predicted Wisconsin deer hunters’ likelihood to take an available antlerless deer harvest opportunity on a given day of the 9‐day firearm season using a combination of personal characteristics of the hunter and situational factors of the hunting day.
Meghan E. Henry +3 more
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Property Rights Entrepreneurship: The Drive for Product, Asset, and Resource Excludability
ABSTRACT Property rights are foundational to market economies, and entrepreneurial activity depends heavily on the excludability afforded by property rights. Yet, the role of entrepreneurs in shaping the evolution of property rights has been so thoroughly taken for granted that it often vanishes from analyses.
Thomas J. Dean +2 more
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Computational modelling of the shot pattern of a sporting shotgun [PDF]
There is an abundance of experimental data on the ballistic performance of sporting shotguns. However the successful development of computational models, that will help to reduce the commercial and environmental costs of extensive test programs, has been
Thomson, R. D. +4 more
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