نتایج جستجو برای: gunshot firearms
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This work presents an application of the highly expressive Attribute-Based Encryption to implement wirelessdelimited Secure Zones for firearms. Within these zones, radiotransmitted local policies based on attributes of the consumer and the firearm are received by embedded hardware in the firearms, which then advises the consumer about safe operations. The Secure Zones utilize Attribute-Based En...
Handguns are intended to be used for protection, but they can also be used as weapons of assault that may endanger others or inflict self-harm and facilitate suicide. Research has revealed a direct correlation between firearm availability and suicide risk. Gun control is intended to reduce violence through legislation that restricts ownership and use of firearms. How can we ensure that firearms...
BACKGROUND In the United States, there is a perceived divide regarding the benefits and risks of firearm ownership. The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Injury Prevention and Control Committee designed a survey to evaluate Committee on Trauma (COT) member attitudes about firearm ownership, freedom, responsibility, physician-patient freedom and policy, with the objective of using...
Through its National Homicide Monitoring Program the Australian Institute of Criminology has analysed over 2000 Australian homicides which occurred in the last seven years. These 470 incidents involved 586 victims 24 per cent of all homicide victims. In 94 per cent of firearm incidents the offender was a male. The paper highlights that 35 per cent of all firearm homicides involved intimate pa...
Canada has implemented legislation covering all firearms since 1977 and presents a model to examine incremental firearms control. The effect of legislation on homicide by firearm and the subcategory, spousal homicide, is controversial and has not been well studied to date. Legislative effects on homicide and spousal homicide were analyzed using data obtained from Statistics Canada from 1974 to ...
BACKGROUND Federal law prohibits firearm possession by felons and certain others. Little is known about criminal activity resulting in new ineligibility to possess firearms among persons who have previously purchased them. METHODS Cohort study of handgun purchasers ages 21 to 49 in California in 1991, 2,761 with a non-prohibiting criminal history at the time of purchase and 4,495 with no prio...
Community involvement in local firearms policy is advocated to be an important component of efforts to curtail violence. This report describes the first evaluation of one such effort, a gun buy-back program conducted in Seattle, WA, during the fall of 1992. The evaluation included (a) surveys of 500 participants and a description of the firearms exchanged; (b) monitoring police reports, trauma ...
O February 9,1993, a lone gunman carrying an arsenal of concealed weapons severely wounded three physicians in the walk-in emergency area of the County-University of Southern California (USC) Medical Center. The sudden, inexplicable ferocity of such a crime would have shocked the U.S. public sensibility 30 years ago. Now it is merely a footnote in the swelling tide of communal violence that inc...
Read online: Scan this QR code with your smart phone or mobile device to read online. The public health approach to the prevention of violence has been applied for almost the last 40 years. During this period, several studies have shown that in many countries where firearms are abundant and violence rates are high, the proportion of people dying because of firearms is high. Several studies have...
BACKGROUND CONTEXT The incidence of violent crimes has risen over the past decade. With it, gunshot injuries have become increasingly more common in the civilian population. Among the most devastating injuries are gunshot wounds to the spine. PURPOSE The purpose of this article is to provide a thorough review of the pathomechanics, diagnosis and treatment of gunshot wounds to the spine. STU...
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