Community-Level Risk Factors for Firearm Assault and Homicide: The Role of Local Firearm Dealers and Alcohol Outlets. [PDF]
Epidemiology, 2023 Pear VA +4 more
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Joyce Foundation - 2006 Annual Report: What's the Big Idea? [PDF]
, 2007 Contains president's message, program information, project summaries, grantee profiles, grants list, financial statements, and list of board members and ...
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Isaac Campos. Home grown: Marijuana and the origins of Mexico's war on drugs
Addiction, EarlyView.
Wayne Hall, Sarah Yeates
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How Public Officials Perceive Algorithmic Discretion: A Study of Status Quo Bias in Policing
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Algorithms are disrupting established decision‐making practices in public administration. A key area of interest lies in algorithmic discretion or how public officials use algorithms to exercise discretion. The article develops a framework to explain algorithmic discretion by drawing on status quo bias theory and bureaucratic discretion.
Muhammad Afzal, Panos Panagiotopoulos
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Rights: Facts, Evidence, or Beliefs?
Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper considers whether rights hold due to the facts, the best available evidence to people, or people's actual beliefs. While there has been much discussion of this question in the context of what we ought to do, there is less discussion from a rights standpoint.
Joseph Bowen
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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,
arxiv
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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Vapor Signatures of Double-Base Smokeless Powders and Gunshot Residues for Supporting Canine Odor Imprinting. [PDF]
ACS Omega, 2022 Ong TH +4 more
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Dispersing blackbirds and starlings from objectionable roost sites [PDF]
, 1980 Frightening devices and other methods of dispersing roosting blackbirds and starlings are described along with the techniques for their proper application.
Mott, Donald F.
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Scenes From a Sociolegal Career: An Informal Memoir
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This memoir describes the 40‐year unfolding, project by project, of my sociolegal field research on legal and regulatory processes. It provides brief accounts of my interactions and interviews with regulatory officials and with businesspeople responsible for regulatory compliance.
Robert A. Kagan
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