Sweden is often associated with democracy, freedom and a generous social welfare system. The backside is though unknown for many. The last decade, Sweden has witnessed a significant increase in firearm-related violence, why also an increase in the rate of deadly violence has been seen.
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Men who beat women are usually recidivists, writes researcher Ardavan Khoshnood. Because the crimes are committed in the heat of the moment, the length of the sentence is seldom dissuasive.
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The report is the first of three sub-reports and presents the results of research commissioned by the Armed Forces.
The police should learn from the United States and centralize their fight against gang criminality. A national center with this main task can be a beginning to the end for the gangs, writes Ardavan Khoshnood who is an associate professor of Emergency Medicine at Lund University and a criminologist and political scientist.
Background Machine learning (ML) is an emerging tool for predicting need of end-of-life discussion and palliative care, by using mortality as a proxy. But deaths, unforeseen by emergency physicians at time of the emergency department (ED) visit, might have a weaker association with the ED visit. Objectives To develop an ML algorithm that predicts unsurprising…
Background Glucose is emerging as a biomarker for early and safe rule-out of acute myocardial infarction in emergency department (ED) chest pain patients. We evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of dual testing with high sensitivity TnT (hs-cTnT) and glucose for prediction of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) within 30 days. Methods This was a secondary analysis of…
The new president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, has selected cleric Esmail Khatib as Minister of Intelligence. Khatib is a radical Islamist with close ties to both Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. During his tenure, we can expect a more aggressive approach by the Ministry of Intelligence,…
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The Islamisc regime is outraged by a Swedish trial of a former mass murder official, and an Iranian documentary shows a kidnapped Swedish-Iranian in a propaganda campaign against Sweden, write our guest columnists Arvin and Ardavan Khoshnood.
Sweden has witnessed a significant increase in the rate of firearm-related homicide. We therefore aimed to study the characteristics of individuals suspected of homicide, attempted homicide, preparation to commit homicide as well as conspiracy to commit homicide with a firearm in Sweden. By using information from different registers, suspected individuals between 2000 and 2017 and…