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Showing 1 to 20 of 382 for “"gun"”.
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Gun Stories
Four stories, two of which involve guns.
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Gun Stories
Four stories, two of which involve guns.
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Measuring the Impact of Gun Theft on City-Level Gun Crime Rates
<p>The history of gun culture in the United States is complicated. Guns are an integral part of American history and attempts to control them through policy are often contentious. However, research suggests that gun crime occurs in areas where there are more guns (Braga, 2017; Braga & Pierce, 2005; …
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CNG7 Consolidated Nail Gun
… my study is to create a compact, portable nail gun. The nail gun is to be used in tight spaces where hammers, pneumatic nail guns, and portable nail guns will not fit. The intended market is for homeowners renovating their houses. The short length and lightweight, compact frame make the CNG7 …
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Gun Violence in Black and White: State Gun Laws and Race-Specific Mortality Rates
… analyzes the relationships between four state gun laws—universal background checks, waiting periods, may-issue permitting, and violent misdemeanor prohibitions—and firearm homicide and suicide rates among Blacks and Whites in the United States. Using eighteen years of publicly available data, …
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Mathematical modeling of rail gun
… between the rails and the armature of a rail gun are critical issues. This thesis, using finite element method, estimates the former by solving the proper multiphysics governing equations, along with exploiting the contact theory between flat surfaces. A parametric analysis in the vicinity of …
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Girls at the Gun Show
"Girls at the Gun Show” presents a collection of narrative, free verse poems which center on place, particularly the Ozarks, and on motherhood and gender. In the tradition of contemporary poets such as Jim Daniels, Jane Springer, and Natasha Trethewey, many of the poems in this collection use place …
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Gun Control Policy Preference in Context: A Contextually Sensitive Model of Gun Control Policy Preferences
… impact of core values and contextual effects on gun control policy preferences. The research seeks to produce a contextually sensitive model of gun control policy preferences that accounts for the nature of the elite message war regarding the issue of gun control and for both long and short-term …
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Shooters : culture and consumption in Australian gun clubs
… in 1999 and finishing in 2008. Initially one gun club, The Pine Valley Pistol Club was chosen for the indepth study; however as the result of an iterative methodological process three more clubs of different types and disciplines were included. This occurred after realising the closeted nature …
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The gun-wielding bias embodiment effect under stress
Recent work has shown that the embodiment of a gun may be to blame in circumstances wherein an individual has misidentified a gun as a neutral object, such as the high-profile police shooting of Amidou Diallo. However, these embodiment effects have not been studied under stress, results of which …
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The History of Gun Control in the United States
Gun control is one of today’s most controversial topics, bringing about two different, yet passionate arguments. Those who are “pro-gun” argue that firearms are a basic fundamental right given to American citizens by the Second Amendment of the Constitution. Advocates for gun control argue that …
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Gun Ownership Trends In The United States, 1973-2000
In the last half century, gun ownership has been one of the most hotly debated topics in the United States. The right to bear arms was written into the U. S. Constitution and into the hearts and minds of its citizens. During the last half century, however, numerous gun control laws have been …
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Performance of the UBC two-stage light-gas gun
The performance of UBC two-stage light-gas gun and the associated diagnostics systems were examined under a variety of shot conditions. In the gas gun, the expansion of gas from burning gun powder propels a piston which, in turn, compresses and accelerates the low molecular weight pump gas. The …
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Three essays on gun violence in the United States
Gun violence, especially shootings, is a significant public health and safety concern in the United States. After a period of a relatively low level of shooting violence from 2000 to 2015, gun violence has been on the rise, especially since 2020. However, there are still many unknowns regarding …
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The penning trap electron gun for the KATRIN experiment
… for this experiment: the Penning trap electron gun. This calibration source will use ion storage techniques usually used in high resolution mass spectroscopy to store and excite electrons to a known energy and then release them with a user-controlled angular distribution. These electrons will …
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Non-uniform emission studies of a magnetron injection gun
… of a 96 kV, 40 amp magnetron injection gun (MIG) used in a gyrotron. The accomplishments of this thesis include: Experimental measurement of the azimuthal emission non-uniformity of the MIG gun; Simulation of the beam quality of the MIG gun using MICHELLE 3-D, the first simulation of a …
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An Urban Bioethics Survey of the Physician/Gun Violence Intersection
… second-leading cause of injury related death. Gun violence should be considered a public health crisis given its costs in terms of morbidity, mortality, and economics, but also can be considered a social determinant of health as it contributes significantly to minority populations’ medical …
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Fabrication of resonant optical waveguide biosensors using electron gun depositions
Biosensors are used to connect the chemical and physical worlds through the use of a transducer, allowing for quick detection of numerous biological agents. A new biosensor being developed, the resonant optical waveguide biosensor, uses power transfer between two optical waveguides to detect the …
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The Gun in US American Life: An Ethnographic Christian Ethics
<p>Guns hold a vexingly unique place in US American life. The United States has by far the highest rate of private firearm ownership and firearm-caused death among high-income nations in the world. Further, guns and conservative evangelical Protestantism stand in an intimate cultural relationship …
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