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How deep a divide do we tolerate? Measuring the willingness to engage with differently minded others (WEDO)

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Fostering contact across political camps is crucial to combat affective polarization and to sustain healthy democratic discourse. Researchers therefore have become increasingly interested in better understanding the factors that promote or hamper political exchange.
Melissa Jauch   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“You Can't Always Run Away”: Gender Reflexivity and Personal Firearms Ownership among Civilian Women Gun Owners in Israel

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
This article explores the interplay between the nation‐state, gender, and security by exploring embodied experiences of Israeli women gun owners. Growing skepticism toward Israel's historically state‐centric security model has driven a significant increase in women's personal handgun ownership, disrupting and reconfiguring traditional gender identities.
Maya Maor, Nehemia Stern, Uzi ben Shalom
wiley   +1 more source

Fossil Hegemony and Capitalist Realism in Tropic of Orange

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1997) through the lens of Mark Fisher's influential concept ‘capitalist realism’. Scholars of petrofiction have pointed to a political ambivalence in the representation of fossil fuels, where a better understanding of fossil capital can overwhelm as much as galvanize.
Claire Ravenscroft
wiley   +1 more source

Dispersing blackbirds and starlings from objectionable roost sites [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Gun attitudes and opinions of self‐defense laws among college students

open access: yesAnalyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Volume 26, Issue 1, April 2026.
Abstract By 2024, 35 states had adopted self‐defense laws, ranging from modified stand your ground (SYG) laws to expanding castle doctrine (CD) to apply beyond the home. Although these laws were intended to protect communities, states with these laws have higher firearm homicide rates.
Apryl A. Alexander   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Bear of a Case: Multidisciplinary Reconstruction Following a Grizzly Bear Mauling

open access: yesClinical Case Reports, Volume 14, Issue 2, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Grizzly bear attacks are rare but often result in devastating craniofacial injuries requiring staged, multidisciplinary reconstruction. A 61‐year‐old male sustained extensive facial trauma, including complete lower lip avulsion and anterior mandibular loss, after a grizzly bear attack.
Jacob Beiriger   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A comparison of six fingerprint enhancement techniques for the recovery of latent fingerprints from unfired cartridge cases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This work compared the effectiveness of six different enhancement methods on six different sizes of brass cartridges. One sebaceous fingerprint was deposited onto twenty-five of each size of cartridge to enable a statistical evaluation of the enhancement
Dominick, Ainsley J.   +2 more
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Cover Bills

open access: yesLegislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Legislators sometimes vote on bills that fail but, in the process, allow lawmakers to take an extreme position before ultimately voting to compromise. We call these proposals Cover Bills. Through two survey experiments, we show that primary voters are more supportive of a compromiser if that legislator first votes for a cover bill.
Nicolas Florez, Christian Fong
wiley   +1 more source

Underground Gun Markets [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper provides an economic analysis of underground gun markets drawing on interviews with gang members, gun dealers, professional thieves, prostitutes, police, public school security guards and teens in the city of Chicago, complemented by results ...
Anthony A. Braga   +3 more
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An Adaptive Management Model for Brown Bears in Hokkaido: Based on Total Population and the Number of Nuisance Bears

open access: yesPopulation Ecology, Volume 68, Issue 1, January 2026.
Bear management changes management actions according to the horizontal axis of the population size and the vertical axis of the number of nuisance bears. Aiming for the target population size of Ntar, Actions I and II protect the bears, and Action IV reduces the population.
Hiroyuki Matsuda   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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