In response to public suggestions by some advocates of firearms for home defense, that homeowners were at high risk of injury from home invasions and would be wise to acquire a firearm for purposes of protection, Kellermann investigated the circumstances surrounding all in-home homicides in three cities of about half a million population each over five years, and found that the risk of a homicide was in fact slightly higher in homes where a handgun was present, rather than lower.

In 2001, the magazine started the annual list of cities with the healthiest men based on twenty " live-long parameters, including death rates ( both homicide and disease ); illness rates ( high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, etc.

" The terms " compass or imagine " indicate the premeditation of a murder ; it would not be high treason to accidentally kill the sovereign or any other member of the Royal Family ( though someone could be charged with manslaughter or negligent homicide ).

Violent crime, but especially homicide, has fallen in the Los Angeles area, as well as other areas of the southland — Los Angeles's 2010 homicide count was 297, less than a third of the 1992 high of 1, 000 homicides.

The Washington Post wrote in a 2006 that Baltimore's " homicide rate remains stubbornly high and its public school test scores disappointingly low.

The mens rea ( Latin for the " guilty mind ") for murder includes an intention to kill or cause grievous bodily harm where there is a high probability of death resulting, whereas attempted murder depends on an intention to kill, and an overt act towards the homicide.

On September 11, 2007, homicide investigators in Tuscaloosa, Alabama released the toxicology report stating that she died of an accidental overdose with multiple drugs in her system, including high amounts of oxycodone.

Thus, conflict theory encounters difficulties in attempting to account for the high levels of violent crime such as murder, homicide and rape, in minority populations.

Japanese authorities also solve a high percentage of robbery cases ( 75. 9 %, compared with 43. 8 % for West Germany, 26. 5 % for Britain, and 26. 0 % for the United States ) and homicide cases ( 95. 9 %, compared with 94. 4 % for Germany, 78. 0 % for U. K., and 68. 3 % for the United States ).

I look for TV sales and production to be approximately equal at 5.7 million sets for the year, but I look for some decline in radios from the high rate in 1961 to more nearly the 1959 level of 15.0 - 15.5 million sets.

In the majority of countries, however, the rates range from $3.00 to $3.50 a day for the smaller sedans and graduate up to $7.00 and $8.00 a day for the larger, luxury European models, with the rate per kilometer driven starting at $.03 and going up as high as $.12.

An enemy might choose an acutely debilitating microorganism, a chronic disease producer or one causing a high rate of lethality.

A cursory survey of available material indicates a high rate of illegitimate births occurring to parents who have a close consanguineous relationship.

In order to attain the goal of group solidarity and to relieve tension, the high fertility rate provides more group members for mate selection, and the clustering of members in groups fosters acceptance of group controls.

Interviewing, checking references, training the salesmen, having them go with more experienced salesmen was expensive -- and the rate of attrition due to resignations or unsatisfactory performance was too high.

I would propose, next, as the prime requirement for constitution of new basic lists, items whose forms show as high an empirical retention rate as possible.

Mitchell decried the high rate of unemployment in the state and said the Meyner administration and the Republican-controlled State Senate `` Must share the blame for this ''.

At the rate of need indicated in the early weeks of the month, this could mean a shortage of as high as $17,000.

Irene suits rate high because they are designed for her long-bodied silhouette.

To enable sufficient cutaneous respiration, the surface of their highly vascularized skin must remain moist in order to allow the oxygen to diffuse at a sufficiently high rate.

Armenia's unemployment rate, however, remains high, despite strong economic growth.

The growth rate was high at 13. 4 %, but the relatively low base must be considered.

According to research funded by the USAID CAPS project, Armenia's exceptionally high rate of economic growth during the last decade has been largely dependent on external factors ( e. g., remittances, assistance from international financial and donor organization ).

According to the National Statistical Service, the booming construction and service sectors remain the driving forces of the high growth rate of GDP.

In the 2000s, along with the construction sector, the services sector was the driving force behind Armenia's recent high economic growth rate.

Wakefield's idea was for the Government to survey and sell the land at a rate that would maintain land values high enough to be unaffordable for labourers and journeymen.

Anti-aircraft guns are usually mounted in a quickly-traversing turret with a high rate of elevation, for tracking fast-moving aircraft.

They are often in dual or quadruple mounts, allowing a high rate of fire.

Anti-aircraft guns are usually mounted in a quickly-traversing turret with a high rate of elevation, for tracking fast-moving aircraft.

They are often in dual or quadruple mounts, allowing a high rate of fire.

A review of the methods used in trials of antipsychotics, despite stating that the overall quality is " rather good ," reported issues with the selection of participants ( including that in schizophrenia trials up to 90 % of people who are generally suitable do not meet the elaborate inclusion and exclusion criteria, and that negative symptoms have not been properly assessed despite companies marketing the newer antipsychotics for these ); issues with the design of trials ( including pharmaceutical company funding of most of them, and inadequate experimental " blinding " so that trial participants could sometimes tell whether they were on placebo or not ); and issues with the assessment of outcomes ( including the use of a minimal reduction in scores to show " response ," lack of assessment of quality of life or recovery, a high rate of discontinuation, selective highlighting of favorable results in the abstracts of publications, and poor reporting of side-effects ).

A study with the Palomar Testbed Interferometer revealed that Altair is not spherical, but is flattened at the poles due to its high rate of rotation.

The bet in this municipal bond arbitrage is that, over a longer period of time, two similar instruments — municipal bonds and interest rate swaps — will correlate with each other ; they are both very high quality credits, have the same maturity and are denominated in U. S. dollars.

Modern birds are characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton.

In 2010, the value of the Armenian Dram ( AMD ) was artificially kept high during the height of the global economic crisis.

In the 2010 comedy Marmaduke two Afghan hounds appear in the dog park and are shown to resemble high school girls watching the more athletic dogs as if they were " jocks " and are also shown to be " air heads ".

Although it has been known for a while that the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara flow into each other in an example of a density flow, findings of a study by the University of Leeds in August 2010 reveal that there is in fact an underwater channel of high density water flowing across the floor of the Bosphorus ( caused by the difference in density of the two seas ), which would be the sixth largest river on Earth if it were to be on land.

In May 2010, provincial unemployment rates varied from a low of 5. 0 % in Saskatchewan to a high of 13. 8 % in Newfoundland and Labrador.

In 2010, after controversial high school shootings in 2008 prompted government review, a constitutional law committee concluded that people over the age of 20 can receive a permit for semiautomatic handguns.

By the 21st century, the Netherlands had become a modern, dynamic country with a successful, internationally oriented economy ( the 16th largest in the world in 2010 ) and a high standard of living.

In October 2010, Lederman participated in the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Lunch with a Laureate program where middle and high school students got to engage in an informal conversation with a Nobel Prize-winning Scientist over a brown bag lunch.

It was created in 2010 to develop High Efficiency Video Coding, a new generation video coding standard that further reduces ( by 50 %) the data rate required for high quality video coding, as compared to the current ITU-T H. 264 / ISO / IEC 14496-10 standard.

A new high rise office building, The Pinnacle, was recently opened in 2010.

For example, there were more than 40 high ozone days reported between 1997 and 1999, a figure which fell to fewer than 15 between 2007 and 2009 and just 10 between 2008 and 2010.

The 2010 census shows that out of Shanghai's total population, 22. 0 % had a college education, double the level from 2000, while 21. 0 % had high school, 36. 5 % middle school, and 1. 35 % primary school education.

* 2010 – A natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California, creates a " wall of fire " more than high.

In the 2010 WebcamGate case, plaintiffs charged two suburban Philadelphia high schools secretly spied on students by surreptitiously and remotely activating webcams embedded in school-issued laptops the students were using at home, and therefore infringed on their privacy rights.

Industrial output for November 2010 reached another high, up 19. 37 % from a year earlier, indicating strong exports and a growing local economy.

With high oil prices and rising government expenditures, Venezuela's economy grew by 9 % in 2007 but is expected to have shrunk by 2. 9 % in 2009 and further in 2010.

An October 28, 2010 patent from Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, describes a Wankel engine superficially similar to Rolls-Royce's earlier prototype that required an external air compressor to achieve high enough compression for diesel-cycle combustion.

Testing by the developer in 2010 showed performance to be similar to ext4 at low thread counts, and superior to ext4 at high thread counts.

The Bank's education lending reached a historical high of approximately $ 5 billion USD in 2010.

The Guardian reporter Andrew Clark described the years of 2006 to 2010 as " tumultous " in which the heartland of America is " mired in gloom " with high unemployment around 9. 6 %, with average house prices falling from $ 230, 000 in 2006 to $ 183, 000, and foreboding increases in the national debt to $ 13. 4 trillion, but that despite the setbacks, the American economy was once more " bouncing back.

Finally, the z-pinch machine, not using lasers, is expected to obtain a high fusion energy gain, as well as capability for repetitive working, starting around 2010.

Garland S. Tucker, in a 2010 book, argues that the election marked the " high tide of American conservatism ," as both major candidates campaigned for limited government, reduced taxes, and less regulation.

As of 2010, 24 European countries have some form of presumed consent ( opt-out ) system, with the most prominent and limited opt-out systems in Spain, Austria, and Belgium yielding high donor rates.

In October 2010, Subway franchisees in the UK lost a high court appeal against paying standard VAT on all toasted subs, as required by HM Revenue and Customs.

On June 19, 2010, after a month of deliberation, Vietnam's National Assembly rejected the high speed rail proposal due to its high cost ; National Assembly deputies had asked for further study of the project.