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- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Guns and Perceptions of Safety Among US Women
Importance: Prior research found differences in the perceived safety benefits from firearm exposure among diverse gun owners. More women have bought firearms in recent years, resulting in a growing proportion of women who own guns. Objective: To examine differences in perceptions...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Male partners can play important roles in contraceptive decisions, especially in patriarchal societies like Nigeria, where restrictive gender norms influence women’s reproductive choices. However, little has been explored about how women navigate male influences and its impact on...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Living systems begin with carriers that must preserve boundaries, obtain resources, respond to disturbance, and maintain the capacity to continue. This working paper names that first-order functional interest S1. Once multiple S1 carriers share an environment, their local interes...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
IDEAS · The Coming Economy — Luminous Prosperity “The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” — Winston S. Churchill, Harvard University, 6 September 1943 Every civilization runs on a primary resource. Ours ran on the black stuff pulled out of the ground — finite, ext...