Abstract Background Extreme risk protection order (ERPO) laws give municipal police officers new authority, through a civil restraining order, to remove firearms from people who are deemed to pose an imminent risk of causing serious harm to others or themselves.Despite the expected public safety benefit of ERPOs, it is possible that implicit racial
Abstract Background Propensity scores are widely used to deal with confounding bias in medical research.An incorrectly specified propensity score model may lead to residual confounding bias; therefore it is essential to use diagnostics to assess propensity scores in a propensity score analysis.The current use of propensity score diagnostics in the
The transaction is one of the unavoidable phenomena of the modern world.The transaction is accessible, ubiquitous, global, and necessary, hence the number of transactions and the number of users is constantly increasing, as statistics regularly confirm.Generators of further development of transactions in the world of financial and especially bankin
Genetic mapping is a primary tool of genetics in model organisms; however, many quantitative trait loci (QTL) contain tens or hundreds of positional candidate genes.Prioritizing these genes for validation is often ad hoc and biased by previous findings.Here we present a technique for prioritizing positional candidates based on computationally infer