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The Social Costs of Gun Ownership [PDF]
This paper provides new estimates of the effect of household gun prevalence on homicide rates, and infers the marginal external cost of handgun ownership.
Jens Ludwig, Phillip J. Cook
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Exploring the causes and impact of pediatric complicated mild traumatic brain injuries
PM&R, EarlyView.Abstract Background Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children, with mild TBI (mTBI) accounting for approximately 80% of cases. Complicated mTBI (c‐mTBI) is characterized by radiographic evidence of intracranial abnormalities and/or skull fractures.
Andrew D. Kramer +6 more
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Gun Control after Heller: Litigating against Regulation [PDF]
The “core right” established in D.C. vs. Heller (2008) is to keep an operable handgun in the home for self-defense purposes. If the Court extends this right to cover state and local jurisdictions, the result is likely to include the elimination of the ...
Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig, Adam Samaha
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Pest Management Science, EarlyView.UV mutagenesis of Streptomyces sp. KRA0514‐6 yielded HL‐3, a novel streptothricin‐like compound (C17H29N7O8) with N‐methylglycine replacing β‐lysine, achieving 100% cabbage soft rot control at >1 ppm concentration. Abstract BACKGROUND A total of 1000 soil‐derived actinomycetes were isolated and screened for antibacterial activity against Pectobacterium
Young Sook Kim +5 more
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Pest Management Science, EarlyView.Evaluated repellents were effective at deterring white‐tailed deer from consuming wild pig bait piles without deterring wild pig bait consumption, although the deterrents were not effective for other nontarget wildlife. Abstract BACKGROUND Wild pigs (Sus scrofa) are an invasive species that cause environmental and agricultural damage.
Caitlin A Kupferman +3 more
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Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.In this study, we developed AnuraSearch, an open‐source classifier for 11 Ukrainian amphibian species, by repurposing the avian BirdNET algorithm via transfer learning to process over 18,000 h of autonomous acoustic recordings. Although the model demonstrated high precision and successfully reconstructed detailed seasonal and diel vocal activity ...
Vasylyna Strus +5 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do governance quality and corruption jointly shape sustainable development? We analyze an unbalanced panel of 38 Sub‐Saharan African countries (2002–2021) employing PCSE and FGLS estimators. The model also includes controls for health expenditure, digitalization, unemployment, trade openness, and GDP.
Deniz Erenel +2 more
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The Effects of Cueing and Framing on Youth Attitudes towards Gun Control and Gun Rights
Social Sciences, 2018 I analyze attitudes towards gun control from a recent survey of American high school students. For students who most closely identify as Republicans, cueing them to think about prior school shootings increases their agreement that armed staff in schools ...
Stephen Wu
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Gun ownership and gun violence
Aggression and violent behaviorThere is a great deal of empirical evidence from the USA, but also internationally, that country-level gun ownership is positively associated with homicide and mass shooting rates. Because Switzerland appears to be an exception to this rule, having a high level of gun ownership but a very low homicide rate and practically no mass shootings, the Swiss ...
Stroebe, Wolfgang +2 more
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev +2 more
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