Predictors of Sustainable Investment Motivation: An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the determinants influencing retail investors' capital allocation to sustainable financial products, focusing specifically on Germany—a pertinent case due to its strong commitment to sustainability, supportive regulatory environment and substantial market growth.
Sergey Sosnovskikh +2 more
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A comparison of six fingerprint enhancement techniques for the recovery of latent fingerprints from unfired cartridge cases [PDF]
, 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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Strengthening urban deer management with structured decision making
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Urban deer management (UDM) decision‐makers face social, ecological, regulatory, and economic pressures when creating an agreeable deer management plan for stakeholders. Historically, decision making techniques (e.g. consensus‐based analyses) have not effectively balanced UDM elements leading to short‐lived management progress.
Shane D. Boehne +6 more
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Accuracy, Repeatability, and Reproducibility of Firearm Comparisons Part 1: Accuracy [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Researchers at the Ames Laboratory-USDOE and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted a study to assess the performance of forensic examiners in firearm investigations. The study involved three different types of firearms and 173 volunteers who compared both bullets and cartridge cases.
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Global Mortality From Firearms, 1990-2016
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2018 Importance Understanding global variation in firearm mortality rates could guide prevention policies and interventions. Objective To estimate mortality due to firearm injury deaths from 1990 to 2016 in 195 countries and territories.
M. Naghavi +167 more
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Secure & Prepared, October 4, 2006, Vol.2, no.19 [PDF]
, 2006 Secure & Prepared is a bi-weekly publication of the Iowa Homeland Security & Emergency Management Division for those involved in the homeland security system in the state of ...
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Estimating effects within nonlinear autoregressive models: a case study on the impact of child access prevention laws on firearm mortality [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Autoregressive models are widely used for the analysis of time-series data, but they remain underutilized when estimating effects of interventions. This is in part due to endogeneity of the lagged outcome with any intervention of interest, which creates difficulty interpreting model coefficients.
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Wireless-Delimited Secure Zones with Encrypted Attribute-Based Broadcast for Safe Firearms [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 This work presents an application of the highly expressive Attribute-Based Encryption to implement wireless-delimited Secure Zones for firearms. Within these zones, radio-transmitted local policies based on attributes of the consumer and the firearm are received by embedded hardware in the firearms, which then advises the consumer about safe operations.
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How the Massachusetts Assault Weapons Ban Enforcement Notice Changed Firearm Sales [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The Massachusetts Attorney General issued an Enforcement Notice in 2016 to announce a new interpretation of a key phrase in the state's assault weapons ban. The Enforcement Notice increased sales of tagged assault rifles by 616% in the first 5 days, followed by a 9% decrease over the next three weeks.
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Analysis of School Shootings: December 15, 2012 - December 9, 2014 [PDF]
, 2015 Regardless of the individuals involved in a shooting or the circumstances that gave rise to it, gunfire in our schools shatters the sense of security that these institutions are meant to foster.
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