Debra Zimmerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 105322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debra Zimmerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debra |
| FAMILY NAME | Zimmerman |
| SIGNATURE | ZIMMERMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5784-2733 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Everything in Its Own Time
Financial planning horizons reflect the time periods people use for their financial decisions. They are measured to understand and inform financial decisions and to predict financial outcomes like using a financial advisor, having a retirement account, or having lower inflation expectations. Financial surveys typically ask participants to report one planning horizon for “saving and spending,” seemingly assuming that people use one planning horizo…
A more creditable way’
On 19 July 1926, the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors held a hearing on the claim of Professor Paul Langevin and Monsieur M. Constantin Chilowsky for compensation from the British Admiralty for their discovery of sonar. The hearings provide unique insights into the origins and early research of active sonar and an important snapshot of the Royal Navy’s anti-submarine warfare research in the mid-1920s. Moreover, the hearing reveals much mor…
Forty-second Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology and Fourth Meeting of the History of Electrical Technology
Forty-second Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology and Fourth Meeting of the History of Electrical Technology“History of High-Technologies and Their Socio-Cultural Contexts,” Tel Aviv, Israel, 16–20 August 2015 Shaul Katzir (bio), Christopher Neumaier (bio), M. Luísa Sousa (bio), and David Zimmerman (bio) The forty-second annual meeting of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) took pl…
Looking Back and Forward
Debra Zimmerman, executive director of Women Make Movies, talks about the organization on the occasion of its fortieth anniversary with Camera Obscura editorial collective member and Women Make Movies board chair Patricia White. Women Make Movies was formed in 1972 to address the under- and misrepresentation of women in film and media; today, the New York–based nonprofit supports the creation and circulation of independent film and media by and a…
Arms, Economics, and British Strategy
Reviewed by: Arms, Economics, and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs David Zimmerman (bio) Arms, Economics, and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs. By G. C. Peden. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+384. $99. By trying to link developments in British military technology to economics and strategy between World War I and the height of the cold war, G. C. Peden has attempted a hugely ambitious …
The Precision Revolution
From A to Z
Pioneers of Radar
Residential Care Supply and Cognitive and Physical Problem Case Mix in Nursing Homes
The findings raise caution about the optimistic assumptions of the interplay between residential care/assisted living policy and nursing-home use
Survey Article
Nursing Home Staffing and Its Relationship to Deficiencies
Facility characteristics and states were stronger predictors of deficiencies than were staffing hours and resident characteristics. Because only a small portion of the total variance in deficiencies could be explained, much work remains to explore factors that influence deficiencies
Stability of Nursing Home Quality Indicators Over Time
BACKGROUND: Nursing home quality indicators (QIs) provide a way to support quality assurance and improvement activities and to help ensure that cost savings are based on increased efficiency and not on decreased quality of care. OBJECTIVES: QIs values are expected to change over time. However, to be good indicators of quality, they should be reasonably stable over "short" periods. This paper discusses theoretical and measurement issues affecting …
Top Secret Exchange
An illustrated study of the British Tizard technical mission to North America during the Second World War, in which a group of scientists were sent by the British Government across the Atlantic to provide the US and Canada with most of Britain's technological and military secrets, including radar
The Invention that Changed the World
The Tizard Mission and the Development of the Atomic Bomb
Radar at Sea
Setting the scene 1935-39: the beginnings of the navy's radar 1939-40: the phoney war - but not at sea 1940: Norway and the fall of France 1941: Matapan and the sinking of the Bismarck 1941: the battle of the Atlantic and Pearl Harbor 1942: Malta convoys, and the invasion of North Africa 1943: Sicily, Salerno and the sinking of the Scharnhorst 1944: Normandy, before and after 1945: the end of the war wartime projects postwar radar in the wartime …
Mental Illness and Psychotropic Medication Use in the Nursing Home
The authors examined mental illness and psychotropic medications use among nursing home residents. Data were drawn from the Texas Long-Term Care Reimbursement Project, a 1986 study of nearly 2,000 residents in 49 nursing homes. The study measured the use of antipsychotics and other psychotropic medications, physical health conditions, mental illness diagnoses, behavior, and nursing and other direct-care time for sampled residents. The findings in…
Nursing Home Staffing and Its Relationship to Deficiencies
Facility characteristics and states were stronger predictors of deficiencies than were staffing hours and resident characteristics. Because only a small portion of the total variance in deficiencies could be explained, much work remains to explore factors that influence deficiencies
Residential Care Supply and Cognitive and Physical Problem Case Mix in Nursing Homes
The findings raise caution about the optimistic assumptions of the interplay between residential care/assisted living policy and nursing-home use
Survey Article
Mental Illness and Psychotropic Medication Use in the Nursing Home
The authors examined mental illness and psychotropic medications use among nursing home residents. Data were drawn from the Texas Long-Term Care Reimbursement Project, a 1986 study of nearly 2,000 residents in 49 nursing homes. The study measured the use of antipsychotics and other psychotropic medications, physical health conditions, mental illness diagnoses, behavior, and nursing and other direct-care time for sampled residents. The findings in…
Radar at Sea
Setting the scene 1935-39: the beginnings of the navy's radar 1939-40: the phoney war - but not at sea 1940: Norway and the fall of France 1941: Matapan and the sinking of the Bismarck 1941: the battle of the Atlantic and Pearl Harbor 1942: Malta convoys, and the invasion of North Africa 1943: Sicily, Salerno and the sinking of the Scharnhorst 1944: Normandy, before and after 1945: the end of the war wartime projects postwar radar in the wartime …
The Tizard Mission and the Development of the Atomic Bomb
The Invention that Changed the World
Top Secret Exchange
An illustrated study of the British Tizard technical mission to North America during the Second World War, in which a group of scientists were sent by the British Government across the Atlantic to provide the US and Canada with most of Britain's technological and military secrets, including radar
Stability of Nursing Home Quality Indicators Over Time
BACKGROUND: Nursing home quality indicators (QIs) provide a way to support quality assurance and improvement activities and to help ensure that cost savings are based on increased efficiency and not on decreased quality of care. OBJECTIVES: QIs values are expected to change over time. However, to be good indicators of quality, they should be reasonably stable over "short" periods. This paper discusses theoretical and measurement issues affecting …
Nursing Home Staffing and Its Relationship to Deficiencies
Facility characteristics and states were stronger predictors of deficiencies than were staffing hours and resident characteristics. Because only a small portion of the total variance in deficiencies could be explained, much work remains to explore factors that influence deficiencies
Residential Care Supply and Cognitive and Physical Problem Case Mix in Nursing Homes
The findings raise caution about the optimistic assumptions of the interplay between residential care/assisted living policy and nursing-home use
Survey Article
Pioneers of Radar
The Precision Revolution
From A to Z
Arms, Economics, and British Strategy
Reviewed by: Arms, Economics, and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs David Zimmerman (bio) Arms, Economics, and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs. By G. C. Peden. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+384. $99. By trying to link developments in British military technology to economics and strategy between World War I and the height of the cold war, G. C. Peden has attempted a hugely ambitious …
Looking Back and Forward
Debra Zimmerman, executive director of Women Make Movies, talks about the organization on the occasion of its fortieth anniversary with Camera Obscura editorial collective member and Women Make Movies board chair Patricia White. Women Make Movies was formed in 1972 to address the under- and misrepresentation of women in film and media; today, the New York–based nonprofit supports the creation and circulation of independent film and media by and a…
Forty-second Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology and Fourth Meeting of the History of Electrical Technology
Forty-second Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology and Fourth Meeting of the History of Electrical Technology“History of High-Technologies and Their Socio-Cultural Contexts,” Tel Aviv, Israel, 16–20 August 2015 Shaul Katzir (bio), Christopher Neumaier (bio), M. Luísa Sousa (bio), and David Zimmerman (bio) The forty-second annual meeting of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) took pl…
A more creditable way’
On 19 July 1926, the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors held a hearing on the claim of Professor Paul Langevin and Monsieur M. Constantin Chilowsky for compensation from the British Admiralty for their discovery of sonar. The hearings provide unique insights into the origins and early research of active sonar and an important snapshot of the Royal Navy’s anti-submarine warfare research in the mid-1920s. Moreover, the hearing reveals much mor…
Everything in Its Own Time
Financial planning horizons reflect the time periods people use for their financial decisions. They are measured to understand and inform financial decisions and to predict financial outcomes like using a financial advisor, having a retirement account, or having lower inflation expectations. Financial surveys typically ask participants to report one planning horizon for “saving and spending,” seemingly assuming that people use one planning horizo…
History (9 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (4 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (4 works) · History and Developments in Astronomy (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)