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Fania (Fanny) Kaplan and the attempted assassination of Vladimir Lenin: Ophthalmologic considerations

Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Fania (Fanny) Kaplan (1890–1918), who was reportedly visually impaired, confessed to the attempted assassination of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) in 1918 by shooting him with a pistol. The precise nature of her visual loss is unknown and raises doubts about whether she had sufficient visual function to perform the act ...
Stephen G. Schwartz, Christopher T. Leffler, Peter M. Allen, Andrzej Grzybowski   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterising firearm-related databases across Canada: opportunities for data linkage to inform understanding of injury burden and prevention. [PDF]

Int J Popul Data Sci
Karanikas A, Gomez D, Raveendran T, Saunders N.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

City-State Conflict in the Use of Municipal Police Power

, 1961
Charles M. Kneier
openalex   +1 more source

Cost–benefit analysis and ‘next best’ methods to evaluate the efficiency of social policies: As in pitching horseshoes, closeness matters

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Many policymakers are unwilling, or think that it is infeasible, to perform comprehensive cost–benefit analysis (CBA) of programmes in social policy arenas. What principles actually underlie CBA? An understanding is necessary to assess whether other evaluation methods are close enough to CBA to provide useful information on social efficiency ...
Aidan R. Vining, Anthony E. Boardman
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural influences on road safety in Vanuatu: masculinity norms and their impact on dangerous driving behaviors. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Fanai S, Okyere E, Marfoh K.
europepmc   +1 more source

"The Ancient and Extended Royalties of the City & The Several Extensions of the Police and Municipal Boundaries" (1685 - 1885)

, 2017
Addy Pope, Scotland, The National Library Of   +1 more
openalex   +1 more source

Representing Police Officers and Municipalities: A Conflict of Interest for a Municipal Attorney in a 1983 Police Misconduct Suit [PDF]

, 1997
Tell, Nicole G.
core   +1 more source

Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Physical performance metrics of police officers in northeastern Mexico according to age groups and sex. [PDF]

Ann Occup Environ Med
Carranza-Garcia LE, Garcia-Flores I, Navarro-Orocio R, Lagunes-Carrasco JO, Lopez-Garcia R, Enriquez-Reyna MC.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Mobility Politics of Hong Kong's High‐Speed Rail

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human geography scholarship has revealed how powerful and marginalised actors alike may use (im)mobility to exert authority, and it has recognised the ability of infrastructure to either consolidate or undermine state power. This paper uses new evidence to demonstrate how Hong Kong's express rail link (XRL) to Mainland China was implicated in ...
Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto
wiley   +1 more source