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Madagascar's Urban Lemur Meat Trade

open access: yesConservation Letters, Volume 18, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT As the world's most endangered mammals, lemurs are key to understanding how humans and wildlife can sustainably coexist. We present the first national assessment of the urban lemur meat trade. We interviewed 2600 participants across 17 cities to determine its scale, target species, distribution, and drivers.
Cortni Borgerson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A randomized trial of two online platforms for dementia family caregivers: GamePlan4Care and Resources4Care

open access: yesAlzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 21, Issue 10, October 2025.
INTRODUCTION Digital technologies can increase the accessibility of evidence‐based caregiver programs. METHODS A 6‐month, phase I, exploratory, randomized‐controlled trial of two dementia caregiver support platforms, GamePlan4Care (GP4C) and Resources4Care (R4C), each enrolling 120 community‐based family caregivers.
Alan B. Stevens   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guns and Roses: Advocacy in an Emerging Democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Draws on campaigns for gun control and same-sex marriage in South Africa to offer a framework for effective advocacy. Discusses defining issues and goals, research, strategic partnerships, mobilizing, working with the media, lobbying, and other ...
Janet Shapiro, Marian Nell
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Reassessing the Significance of Firearms in Central Africa: The Case of North-Western Zambia to the 1920s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Based on a close examination of European travelogues and the evidence produced in the wake of the formulation of colonial gun policies, this article contends that the significance of firearms in Central Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth ...
Gann   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Lethality, Public Carry, and Adequate Alternatives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This Article explores the relationship between lethality and the right to bear arms, and considers how that relationship might be shaped by the availability of non-lethal alternative weapons.
Blocher, Joseph, Miller, Darrell A. H.
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The Failed Experiment: Gun Control and Public Safety in Canada, Australia, England and Wales [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Widely televised firearm murders in many countries during the 20th Century have spurred politicians to introduce restrictive gun laws. The politicians then promise that the new restrictions will reduce criminal violence and "create a safer society." It ...
Gary Mauser
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Rural crime and law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper discusses the nature and extent of rural crime and suggested solutions to rural crime; providing the author’s opinion on mandatory sentencing, increased penalties, certainty of detection, and reduction of the profit motive.
Bone, Christopher J
core   +2 more sources

The Ottoman Gunpowder Empire and the Composite Bow

open access: yes, 2010
The Ottoman Empire is known today as a major Gunpowder Empire, famous for its prevalent use of this staple of modern warfare as early as the sixteenth century.
Lanan, Nathan
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Letter from a Canadian Supporter to Geraldine Ferraro [PDF]

open access: yes, 1984
Letter from a Canadian supporter to Geraldine Ferraro. Author is a member of an environmental group. Letter has handwritten notes and a brochure for the International Wildlife Protection Association.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu ...
Ferraro, Geraldine
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Wherefore Art Thou Guidelines? An Empirical Study of White-Collar Criminal Sentencing and How the Gall Decision Effectively Eliminated the Sentencing Guidelines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
[Excerpt] “Until the passage of the U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines in 1984, federal judges had relatively wide discretion in sentencing federal offenders up to the statutory maximum.
Morin, S. Patrick
core   +1 more source

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