What is gun culture? Cultural variations and trends across the United States

Pediatric antimicrobial susceptibility trends across the United States.

OBJECTIVE Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns across US pediatric healthcare institutions are unknown. A national pooled pediatric antibiogram (1) identifies nationwide trends in antimicrobial resistance, (2) allows across-hospital benchmarking, and (3) provides guidance for empirical antimicrobial regimens for institutions unable to generate pediatric antibiograms. METHODS In January 2012,...

Debate: Gun control in the United States.

Lemieux – Effect of Gun Culture and Firearm Laws on Gun Violence and Mass Shootings in the United States

This paper examines the merit of two propositions at the center of the debate on gun control in the aftermath of mass shootings in the United States: (1) gun violence and mass shootings are a cultural artifact (gun enthusiast perspective); (2) gun violence and mass shootings are more prevalent due to lax regulations (pro-gun control perspective). To evaluate the value of each proposition, the s...

Trends in BB/pellet gun injuries in children and teenagers in the United States, 1985-99.

OBJECTIVE To characterize national trends in non-fatal BB/pellet gun related injury rates for persons aged 19 years or younger in relation to trends in non-fatal and fatal firearm related injury rates and discuss these trends in light of injury prevention and violence prevention efforts. SETTING The National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) includes approximately 100 hospitals wi...

constructing a cultural dimensions scale and investigating efl teacher burnout,iranian identity components, and the norms of khorasan razavi culture

این تحقیق در ساختار چهار مرحله ای خود هشت هدف را دنبال کرد: در مرحله اول، تنها هدف طراحی و معتبر سازی پرسشنامه ای بومی بر اساس مدل فرهنگی شش بعدی هافستد (2010) بود. این کار با استفاده از داده های جمع شده از 370 نفر و توسط روش آماری sem انجام شد. مرحله دوم که با استفاده از داده های جمع شده از 170 معلم زبان انگلیسی انجام شد دارای دو هدف بود: هدف اول، بررسی فرسایش کاری معلمان زبان از دید ابعاد فره...