The Ottoman Gunpowder Empire and the Composite Bow
, 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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Investigating the availability of 3D-printed firearm designs on the clear web. [PDF]
Forensic Sci Int Synerg, 2023 Schaufelbühl S +4 more
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Firearm injury prevention counseling for patients with traumatic brain injury: a survey of brain injury physicians. [PDF]
Front Neurol, 2023 Ramsay I +3 more
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Methodological Problems in Every Black-Box Study of Forensic Firearm Comparisons [PDF]
arXivReviews conducted by the National Academy of Sciences (2009) and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (2016) concluded that the field of forensic firearm comparisons has not been demonstrated to be scientifically valid. Scientific validity requires adequately designed studies of firearm examiner performance in terms of accuracy,
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Evaluating the Transferability and Adversarial Discrimination of Convolutional Neural Networks for Threat Object Detection and Classification within X-Ray Security Imagery [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 X-ray imagery security screening is essential to maintaining transport security against a varying profile of threat or prohibited items. Particular interest lies in the automatic detection and classification of weapons such as firearms and knives within complex and cluttered X-ray security imagery. Here, we address this problem by exploring various end-
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Calling All the Statesmen: The (not) Mubarak Trial [PDF]
, 2017 I read the decision that exonerated ex-Minister of Interior of Egypt and his assistants from the charge of giving orders to kill demonstrators textually.
Abu-Odeh, Lama
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Insight for pediatricians: Comparing economic trends for firearm related deaths and deaths from motor vehicle crashes. [PDF]
Front Pediatr, 2023 Manzar S, Hoops K, Bagdure D.
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Are Politicians Responsive to Mass Shootings? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures [PDF]
arXivThe United States leads the world in the number of violent mass shootings that occur each year, and policy making on firearms remains polarized along party lines. Are legislators responsive to mass shootings? We estimate the latent positions of nearly 2,000 state legislators on gun policy from their roll-call voting records on firearm-related bills ...
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Bracketing in the Comparative Interrupted Time-Series Design to Address Concerns about History Interacting with Group: Evaluating Missouri Handgun Purchaser Law [PDF]
Epidemiology, Volume 30, Issue 3, p.371-379, 2019, 2019 In the comparative interrupted time series design (also called the method of difference-in-differences), the change in outcome in a group exposed to treatment in the periods before and after the exposure is compared to the change in outcome in a control group not exposed to treatment in either period. The standard difference-in-difference estimator for
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Examining the Healthcare and Economic Burden of Gun Violence in a Major US Metropolitan City. [PDF]
J Am Acad Orthop Surg Glob Res Rev, 2023 Silver JH +5 more
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