R Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 1934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6254-0385 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
No room in the North
This article examines the entanglements of housing infrastructure, economic structures, and social relations in Arctic regions, focusing on Nunavut (Canada) and Malmfälten (Sweden). Using a comparative ethnographic approach, we explore how housing scarcity is shaped not only by physical infrastructure but by broader political and economic forces. Drawing on thematic content analysis and an infrastructural relations framework, we highlight how cap…
Affective politics and neoliberal subjectivities in ‘left behind’ places
Increased scholarly and political interest in the ‘geographies of discontent’ demands attention not only to the material—but also to the emotional and discursive—dimensions of regional inequality. Amidst growing investigation into the affective geographies of depopulation and post-industrial life, little empirical work yet explores how ‘left behind’ communities themselves contribute to broader political discourses concerning deprived places. This…
Framing Multipolar Tourism
This article examines multipolar iconography and how imaginaries of remote, climate-vulnerable places have materialized through improved transport, enhanced accommodation facilities, and increased human labor facilitating tourism. These imaginaries are perpetuated through technologies of visual culture, most commonly, through images taken on smartphones and circulated over social media platforms. We argue that a closer investigation and compariso…
Local Initiatives in Shrinking Cities
Questions of responsibility for future‐making often arise in localities where the withdrawal of capital and state seem to leave tangible voids and a sense of loss. Over the past decade, academic discourse has furthered discussions on the role of civic engagement, local initiatives and their agency under conditions of urban shrinkage. However, scholars (including ourselves) are confronted with their own normative assumptions and aspirations when c…
Self-reported prevalence of sleep and mental health disorders in current and former athletes
Objective Athletes typically report a high prevalence of mental health issues and face significant barriers within the sporting environment that prevent help seeking. However, little is known about how retired or non-elite athletes engage with support; this lack of empirical data is even more pronounced in the case of sleep disorders
Self-responsibilization, the municipality, and the state
The literature on shrinking cities often portrays local initiatives in two contrasting ways: either as marginal, powerless, and somewhat backwards-oriented actors, or as human capital, a resource for development, and even as the hope for a more democratic development. However, there is a risk that scholarship unintentionally contributes to local initiatives being included in neoliberal development agendas. During our field research in two small, …
Liveability under shrinkage
This article focuses on local initiatives and the agency of residents in the shrinking town of Puolanka in northern Finland. Structural opportunities and constraints shape individual and collective agency in the community, as they steer how people create and develop initiatives. We discuss how local initiatives impact the sense of place among those who would like to stay in their rural hometown. A group of local activists facetiously market Puola…
Hunting a ‘good life’
This article focuses on young lifestyle migrants in Arctic Finland, individuals who can be described as active agents of their own fate in having made a conscious choice to move to a place they consider worth living in. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, the study brings to light newcomers’ motivations for migrating to a geographically remote area and discusses structural conditions that support the process of moving to Finnish Lapland. …
Rewiring remote urban futures? Youth well-being in northern industry towns
Many small remote cities in the circumpolar North lose population. Our starting point is that such settlements have a viable future when young people see perspectives for their own well-being there. This article studies such perspectives using cases from northern Russia and northern Finland, based on empirically grounded fieldwork. Emphasising contextuality, we analyse how authorities, civil society and industrial companies provide conditions for…
Radically Ordinary Lives
This article focuses on young people who, despite the general tendency towards youth outmigration in rural areas, have decided to stay in their home town. We explore the agency of young, conscious stayers, as well as the process of staying in the northern Finnish town of Kemijärvi. The stayers’ values and perceptions of the constituents of a good life could be taken as an alternative to the prevailing Western ideal that emphasizes mobility and am…
Racial Disparities in Stroke Recovery Persistence in the Post-Acute Stroke Recovery Phase
Our data suggest that the effects of aging, sex and unique factors associated with race should be taken into consideration for future studies of post-stroke recovery and therapy
Introduction of an Alcohol-Related Electronic Screening and Brief Intervention (eSBI) Program to Reduce Hazardous Alcohol Consumption in Namibia’s Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) Program
Alcohol is the most widely abused substance in Namibia and is associated with poor adherence and retention in care among people on antiretroviral therapy (ART). Electronic screening and brief interventions (eSBI) are effective in reducing alcohol consumption in various contexts. We used a mixed methods approach to develop, implement, and evaluate the introduction of an eSBI in two ART clinics in Namibia. Of the 787 participants, 45% reported some…
Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980
BACKGROUND: One of the global targets for non-communicable diseases is to halt, by 2025, the rise in the age-standardised adult prevalence of diabetes at its 2010 levels. We aimed to estimate worldwide trends in diabetes, how likely it is for countries to achieve the global target, and how changes in prevalence, together with population growth and ageing, are affecting the number of adults with diabetes. METHODS: We pooled data from population-ba…
Pepfar support of alcohol–HIV prevention activities in Namibia and Botswana
Targeted PEPFAR support for alcohol activities resulted in several projects to address harmful alcohol use and HIV. Components are graphically conceptualized within the matrix model, demonstrating the intersections between primary, secondary and tertiary prevention activities and individual, interpersonal, community, and societal factors. Key initiative successes included leveraging alcohol harm prevention activities that enabled projects to be p…
Area-level socioeconomic characteristics and incidence of metabolic syndrome
While area-level education was independently and inversely associated with the risk of developing MetS, the association between area-level income and the MetS incidence was modified by individual-level income
The Church’s Response to Sexual Reproductive Health Issues Among Youths
SP1-65 Prevalence and incidence of chronic conditions in an Australian population based cohort study
Introduction The North West Adelaide Health Study is a representative population cohort study of approximately 4000 adults aged 18 years and over in the northern and western regions of Adelaide. Cohort assessment has been conducted over a 10-year period to provide baseline and ongoing information about chronic disease and health-related risk factor status from self-reported and biomedically measured data. The study identifies those across the chr…
Managing for health, edited by David J. Hunter
Crisis preparedness
Faculty Publications 2009
t was the final gathering of pastors at the Joe R. Engle Institute of Preaching.I look forward to this institute all year, when those who have been in ministry for at least two years come to be better preachers-to better proclaim the gospel in their particular communities.I look forward to this gathering of preachers because they know what they know, and they know what they don't know-and they want my help, though I'm kept humble by the pastor wh…
Evaluation of Asthma Prescription Measures and Health System Performance Based on Emergency Department Utilization
BACKGROUND: Measures based on the use of either antiinflammatory and/or reliever medications have been used to evaluate clinical performance in asthma. OBJECTIVE: We compared the association between 2 asthma prescription measures (APMs) and subsequent risk of emergency department (ED) asthma visits. DESIGN: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of automated pharmacy and healthcare utilization data from 3 large geographically diverse managed car…
Archaeology and Desertification in the Wadi Faynan
This report describes the fourth season of fieldwork by an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers working together to reconstruct the landscape history of the Wadi Faynan in southern Jordan. The particular focus of the project is the long-term history of inter-relationships between landscape and people, as a contribution to the study of processes of desertification and environmental degradation. The 1999 fieldwork contributed si…
Environment and Land Use in the Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan
This report describes the third season of fieldwork by an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers working to reconstrnct the landscape history of the Wadi Faynan in southern Jordan over the past 200,000 years. The particular focus of the project is the long-term history of inter-relationships between landscape and people, as a contribution to the study of processes of desertification and environmental degradation. The geomorpholo…
Environment and Land Use in the Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan
This report describes the second season of fieldwork by an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers integrating geomorphological, palaeoecological, archaeological and hydrological studies to construct a model of landscape development for the past 10,000 years in the Wadi Faynan in southern Jordan. Geomorphological fieldwork has provided further understanding of the sedimentary fills of the survey area, and underlined the importanc…
A parametric model for estimating prevalence, incidence, and mean bout duration from point sampling
Point or instantaneous sampling refers to the scoring of presence or absence of behavior at the end of equally spaced intervals of time and is used to estimate prevalence. The literature cited demonstrates that point sampling does not adequately estimate frequency or mean bout duration. A parametric model is developed based on exponentially distributed times of behavior and intervening nonbehavior, thus enabling estimators of mean bout length and…
Radically Ordinary Lives
This article focuses on young people who, despite the general tendency towards youth outmigration in rural areas, have decided to stay in their home town. We explore the agency of young, conscious stayers, as well as the process of staying in the northern Finnish town of Kemijärvi. The stayers’ values and perceptions of the constituents of a good life could be taken as an alternative to the prevailing Western ideal that emphasizes mobility and am…
Uncertainty in Nature, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Perceptual Distortion of Environmental Information
Robert L. A. Adams, Uncertainty in Nature, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Perceptual Distortion of Environmental Information: Weather Forecasts and New England Beach Trip Decisions, Economic Geography, Vol. 49, No. 4 (Oct., 1973), pp. 287-297
Self-responsibilization, the municipality, and the state
The literature on shrinking cities often portrays local initiatives in two contrasting ways: either as marginal, powerless, and somewhat backwards-oriented actors, or as human capital, a resource for development, and even as the hope for a more democratic development. However, there is a risk that scholarship unintentionally contributes to local initiatives being included in neoliberal development agendas. During our field research in two small, …
Rewiring remote urban futures? Youth well-being in northern industry towns
Many small remote cities in the circumpolar North lose population. Our starting point is that such settlements have a viable future when young people see perspectives for their own well-being there. This article studies such perspectives using cases from northern Russia and northern Finland, based on empirically grounded fieldwork. Emphasising contextuality, we analyse how authorities, civil society and industrial companies provide conditions for…
Affective politics and neoliberal subjectivities in ‘left behind’ places
Increased scholarly and political interest in the ‘geographies of discontent’ demands attention not only to the material—but also to the emotional and discursive—dimensions of regional inequality. Amidst growing investigation into the affective geographies of depopulation and post-industrial life, little empirical work yet explores how ‘left behind’ communities themselves contribute to broader political discourses concerning deprived places. This…
Framing Multipolar Tourism
This article examines multipolar iconography and how imaginaries of remote, climate-vulnerable places have materialized through improved transport, enhanced accommodation facilities, and increased human labor facilitating tourism. These imaginaries are perpetuated through technologies of visual culture, most commonly, through images taken on smartphones and circulated over social media platforms. We argue that a closer investigation and compariso…
Local Initiatives in Shrinking Cities
Questions of responsibility for future‐making often arise in localities where the withdrawal of capital and state seem to leave tangible voids and a sense of loss. Over the past decade, academic discourse has furthered discussions on the role of civic engagement, local initiatives and their agency under conditions of urban shrinkage. However, scholars (including ourselves) are confronted with their own normative assumptions and aspirations when c…
The Employers' Challenge
Journal Article The Employers’ Challenge: A Study of the National Shipbuilding and Engineering Disputes of 1957 Get access The Employers’ Challenge: A Study of the National Shipbuilding and Engineering Disputes of 1957. By H. A. Clegg and R. Adams. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1957. Pp. viii + 179. 21s.) H. S. Kirkaldy H. S. Kirkaldy Queens’ College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Jour…
The Employers' Challenge
Journal Article The Employers’ Challenge: A Study of the National Shipbuilding and Engineering Disputes of 1957 Get access The Employers’ Challenge: A Study of the National Shipbuilding and Engineering Disputes of 1957. By H. A. Clegg and R. Adams. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1957. Pp. viii + 179. 21s.) H. S. Kirkaldy H. S. Kirkaldy Queens’ College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Jour…
Uncertainty in Nature, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Perceptual Distortion of Environmental Information
Robert L. A. Adams, Uncertainty in Nature, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Perceptual Distortion of Environmental Information: Weather Forecasts and New England Beach Trip Decisions, Economic Geography, Vol. 49, No. 4 (Oct., 1973), pp. 287-297
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A parametric model for estimating prevalence, incidence, and mean bout duration from point sampling
Point or instantaneous sampling refers to the scoring of presence or absence of behavior at the end of equally spaced intervals of time and is used to estimate prevalence. The literature cited demonstrates that point sampling does not adequately estimate frequency or mean bout duration. A parametric model is developed based on exponentially distributed times of behavior and intervening nonbehavior, thus enabling estimators of mean bout length and…
Environment and Land Use in the Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan
This report describes the second season of fieldwork by an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers integrating geomorphological, palaeoecological, archaeological and hydrological studies to construct a model of landscape development for the past 10,000 years in the Wadi Faynan in southern Jordan. Geomorphological fieldwork has provided further understanding of the sedimentary fills of the survey area, and underlined the importanc…
Environment and Land Use in the Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan
This report describes the third season of fieldwork by an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers working to reconstrnct the landscape history of the Wadi Faynan in southern Jordan over the past 200,000 years. The particular focus of the project is the long-term history of inter-relationships between landscape and people, as a contribution to the study of processes of desertification and environmental degradation. The geomorpholo…
Archaeology and Desertification in the Wadi Faynan
This report describes the fourth season of fieldwork by an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers working together to reconstruct the landscape history of the Wadi Faynan in southern Jordan. The particular focus of the project is the long-term history of inter-relationships between landscape and people, as a contribution to the study of processes of desertification and environmental degradation. The 1999 fieldwork contributed si…
Evaluation of Asthma Prescription Measures and Health System Performance Based on Emergency Department Utilization
BACKGROUND: Measures based on the use of either antiinflammatory and/or reliever medications have been used to evaluate clinical performance in asthma. OBJECTIVE: We compared the association between 2 asthma prescription measures (APMs) and subsequent risk of emergency department (ED) asthma visits. DESIGN: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of automated pharmacy and healthcare utilization data from 3 large geographically diverse managed car…
Managing for health, edited by David J. Hunter
Crisis preparedness
Faculty Publications 2009
t was the final gathering of pastors at the Joe R. Engle Institute of Preaching.I look forward to this institute all year, when those who have been in ministry for at least two years come to be better preachers-to better proclaim the gospel in their particular communities.I look forward to this gathering of preachers because they know what they know, and they know what they don't know-and they want my help, though I'm kept humble by the pastor wh…
The Church’s Response to Sexual Reproductive Health Issues Among Youths
SP1-65 Prevalence and incidence of chronic conditions in an Australian population based cohort study
Introduction The North West Adelaide Health Study is a representative population cohort study of approximately 4000 adults aged 18 years and over in the northern and western regions of Adelaide. Cohort assessment has been conducted over a 10-year period to provide baseline and ongoing information about chronic disease and health-related risk factor status from self-reported and biomedically measured data. The study identifies those across the chr…
Area-level socioeconomic characteristics and incidence of metabolic syndrome
While area-level education was independently and inversely associated with the risk of developing MetS, the association between area-level income and the MetS incidence was modified by individual-level income
Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980
BACKGROUND: One of the global targets for non-communicable diseases is to halt, by 2025, the rise in the age-standardised adult prevalence of diabetes at its 2010 levels. We aimed to estimate worldwide trends in diabetes, how likely it is for countries to achieve the global target, and how changes in prevalence, together with population growth and ageing, are affecting the number of adults with diabetes. METHODS: We pooled data from population-ba…
Pepfar support of alcohol–HIV prevention activities in Namibia and Botswana
Targeted PEPFAR support for alcohol activities resulted in several projects to address harmful alcohol use and HIV. Components are graphically conceptualized within the matrix model, demonstrating the intersections between primary, secondary and tertiary prevention activities and individual, interpersonal, community, and societal factors. Key initiative successes included leveraging alcohol harm prevention activities that enabled projects to be p…
Introduction of an Alcohol-Related Electronic Screening and Brief Intervention (eSBI) Program to Reduce Hazardous Alcohol Consumption in Namibia’s Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) Program
Alcohol is the most widely abused substance in Namibia and is associated with poor adherence and retention in care among people on antiretroviral therapy (ART). Electronic screening and brief interventions (eSBI) are effective in reducing alcohol consumption in various contexts. We used a mixed methods approach to develop, implement, and evaluate the introduction of an eSBI in two ART clinics in Namibia. Of the 787 participants, 45% reported some…
Racial Disparities in Stroke Recovery Persistence in the Post-Acute Stroke Recovery Phase
Our data suggest that the effects of aging, sex and unique factors associated with race should be taken into consideration for future studies of post-stroke recovery and therapy
Radically Ordinary Lives
This article focuses on young people who, despite the general tendency towards youth outmigration in rural areas, have decided to stay in their home town. We explore the agency of young, conscious stayers, as well as the process of staying in the northern Finnish town of Kemijärvi. The stayers’ values and perceptions of the constituents of a good life could be taken as an alternative to the prevailing Western ideal that emphasizes mobility and am…
Rewiring remote urban futures? Youth well-being in northern industry towns
Many small remote cities in the circumpolar North lose population. Our starting point is that such settlements have a viable future when young people see perspectives for their own well-being there. This article studies such perspectives using cases from northern Russia and northern Finland, based on empirically grounded fieldwork. Emphasising contextuality, we analyse how authorities, civil society and industrial companies provide conditions for…
Liveability under shrinkage
This article focuses on local initiatives and the agency of residents in the shrinking town of Puolanka in northern Finland. Structural opportunities and constraints shape individual and collective agency in the community, as they steer how people create and develop initiatives. We discuss how local initiatives impact the sense of place among those who would like to stay in their rural hometown. A group of local activists facetiously market Puola…
Hunting a ‘good life’
This article focuses on young lifestyle migrants in Arctic Finland, individuals who can be described as active agents of their own fate in having made a conscious choice to move to a place they consider worth living in. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, the study brings to light newcomers’ motivations for migrating to a geographically remote area and discusses structural conditions that support the process of moving to Finnish Lapland. …
Local Initiatives in Shrinking Cities
Questions of responsibility for future‐making often arise in localities where the withdrawal of capital and state seem to leave tangible voids and a sense of loss. Over the past decade, academic discourse has furthered discussions on the role of civic engagement, local initiatives and their agency under conditions of urban shrinkage. However, scholars (including ourselves) are confronted with their own normative assumptions and aspirations when c…
Self-reported prevalence of sleep and mental health disorders in current and former athletes
Objective Athletes typically report a high prevalence of mental health issues and face significant barriers within the sporting environment that prevent help seeking. However, little is known about how retired or non-elite athletes engage with support; this lack of empirical data is even more pronounced in the case of sleep disorders
Self-responsibilization, the municipality, and the state
The literature on shrinking cities often portrays local initiatives in two contrasting ways: either as marginal, powerless, and somewhat backwards-oriented actors, or as human capital, a resource for development, and even as the hope for a more democratic development. However, there is a risk that scholarship unintentionally contributes to local initiatives being included in neoliberal development agendas. During our field research in two small, …
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