The Oklahoma City Thunder’s 2025 NBA Finals victory snapped a franchise title drought going back to the Seattle SuperSonics 1978-79 title. I look at the longest current NBA title droughts.| The New Leaf Journal
Suicide-related thoughts and behaviors (SRTBs) have become identified as common antecedent experiences of mass shooters prior to and during their shootings. To better support and inform efforts of such upstream prevention and intervention efforts of mass violence, this study aimed to provide an exploratory descriptive perspective of the interpersonal experiences of mass shooters who survived and those who died on the scene (i.e., died by self-inflicted suicide, or died by police intervention)...| Journal of Mass Violence Research
This study examines the role of partisan media bias in the reporting of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018, and on the March For Our Lives gun control protests that followed the shooting. This study posits partisan media bias at the center of the Parkland shooting. It asks how partisan bias affected the way the media constructed narratives about the shooting and the youth activists who mobilized because of their experiences of victimiza...| Journal of Mass Violence Research
Examining the original Adobe Flash version of Gogatsu no Sora, a freeware Japanese visual novel localized as May Sky, and running it with Ruffle.| The New Leaf Journal
Twitter is a popular social medium for members of U.S. Congress, and the platform has become focal for framing policy discussions for constituents and the media. The current study examines the corpus of N = 5,768 Congressional tweets sent on the day of and week following the 2018 Parkland shooting, over 25 percent of which (n = 1,615) were related to the shooting. Democrats were far more likely to engage Parkland as a prominent topic in their Twitter feeds. Democrats framed Parkland discussio...| Journal of Mass Violence Research
While schools face a variety of security threats, none draw the attention of the community quite like an active shooter event. In fact, following an active shooter event in a school many states, local governments, and/or school districts will announce proposed security measures to better protect students, staff, and visitors to schools. While there are innovated security measures proposed, it is well-known that no shooter has breached a locked door. For this reason, this paper seeks to examin...| Journal of Mass Violence Research
Since transitioning out of communist socio-political orders, more than a dozen Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have experienced mass shootings. To date, scholars have yet to identify a sample of cases that occurred throughout these regions of the world. This study puts forward the first collection of data on attempted and completed mass shootings through introducing 76 cases that occurred in 15 countries from 1993 to 2021. Data comprise 24 variables including offender characteris...| Journal of Mass Violence Research
ate: 09/03/2023. Publication type: Research article. Author(s): Jaime Nieto, Pedro B. Moyano, Diego Moyano, Luis Javier Miguel. Keywords: Energy & materials, Energy transition, Sustainable development Short description: Input–output tables (IOTs) provide a relevant picture of economic structure as they represent the composition and interindustry relationships of an economy. The technical coefficients matrix (A matrix) is considered to […] The post Is energy intensity a driver of structu...| LOCOMOTION