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Ocular injuries by less-lethal weapon: a view from Switzerland.
Torture
January 2025
MD. Private practice, Zurich, Switzerland. Correspondence to
Dear Editor-in-chief: Thank you for focussing on this troubling subject in your issue 1/2024. It confirms that many of the difficulties involved are similar worldwide. Countries that use less-lethal weapons include Switzerland, the only Western European democracy besides France to employ multiple kinetic impact projectiles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF'I am very sensitive on the subject of accent': Children, young people and attitudes to speech in inter-war Britain.
Mod Br Hist
January 2025
History Department, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
This article considers elite and popular attitudes to speech and accent in inter-war Britain, specifically with regard to children and young people. It begins by showing that speech was a consistent preoccupation of educationalists, for whom classed prejudices complemented more progressive concerns about citizenship and employment. It continues by considering everyday school practices, charting the ways in which schools tried to influence their pupils' speech.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurging the Judiciary After a Transition: Between a Rock and a Hard Place.
Hague J Rule Law
March 2024
Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Judges play a key role in the implementation of transitional justice mechanisms. Yet, less attention has been paid so far to the question of how to address their collaboration with non-democratic regimes. In theory, judges can be subjected to virtually all transitional justice mechanisms ranging from criminal prosecution and lustration to truth-seeking, or even amnesties.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeuropathology in 1984: a deadly shot into the heart of Europe.
Free Neuropathol
January 2024
Division of Neuropathology and Neurochemistry, Department of Neurology, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Just 40 years ago, Europe was divided into the Eastern communist bloc, which included the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (ČSSR) and was dominated by the now historical Soviet Union, and the Western bloc comprising democracies such as Austria. The Iron Curtain, a heavily guarded and deadly border zone, separated the two blocs and constrained, in prison style, the populations of the Eastern bloc. The present neuropathological article relates the sad fate of František Faktor, a 33 years-old Czech who was shot by ČSSR border guards when attempting to flee to Austria at the border between and .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDeterminants of COVID-19 vaccination coverage in European and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries.
Front Public Health
January 2025
Centre for Health Economics Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Introduction: In relatively wealthy countries, substantial between-country variability in COVID-19 vaccination coverage occurred. We aimed to identify influential national-level determinants of COVID-19 vaccine uptake at different COVID-19 pandemic stages in such countries.
Methods: We considered over 50 macro-level demographic, healthcare resource, disease burden, political, socio-economic, labor, cultural, life-style indicators as explanatory factors and coverage with at least one dose by June 2021, completed initial vaccination protocols by December 2021, and booster doses by June 2022 as outcomes.
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