John Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583500 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9572-7293 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 272 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1948 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 271 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1923 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 22 |
Spatial inequalities and the impact of multiple environmental risks on ethnic minority children's health
PURPOSE: Urban environments are a key determinant of health and health inequality. We explore the impact of multiple spatial inequalities on primary healthcare use in a prospective multi-ethnic urban cohort of children. METHOD: Primary-care consultations and prescription data for 4949 children were collected from birth to 10 years. Environmental exposure scores for air-pollution, road-traffic, green-space, and proximity to fast-food outlets were …
Free will, luck and control
One challenge to the notion of libertarian free will arises from the Luck Argument. This argument has been claimed to undermine the idea that if an agent only makes probable a particular decision, then the agent is not in control of the decision. The present paper argues the claims of the Luck Argument do not seem to seem very plausible with respect to the choices we make in response to pleasure and pain. In the paper it is argued that the way we…
Commentary on Lemma
Rethinking the Political Order in the KwaZulu-Natal Region in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
The history of the KwaZulu-Natal region in the period under study has mostly been written round the evolution of a series of polities seen as more or less firmly bounded territorial “states.” This approach goes hand in hand with readings of recorded oral source materials as “oral traditions.” In this article, we reread the materials not simply as relayed historical accounts but as evidence of past discursive practices geared towards the navigatio…
Landscapes and Cyberscapes of the Commons
This paper investigates how Scottish festivals chose to implement commoning practices in both digital and hybrid spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilising a deductive thematic analysis approach, the authors draw out emergent themes from a series of interviews with festivals conducted between October 2020 and September 2021 to develop a set of aspects or commonalities between commoning practices for digital and hybrid festivals. The authors e…
The effectiveness of JU
Whole system approaches to public health challenges such as low physical activity levels have the potential to create sustained behaviour change at a population level and tackle health inequalities. However, there is currently little evidence of the nature or effectiveness of adopting whole system approaches. This study evaluated whether a whole system physical activity intervention (JU:MP), was effective at improving accelerometry measured physi…
The Reader’s Participation in the Poetic Art of Volodymyr Svidzinsky
In Antonina Tymchenko’s monograph on Ukrainian poet Volodymyr Svidzinsky, she uses the term distant cycle to denote instances of related lyrics separated physically within a collection or across collections, or even separated by a great span of time. The author of this article seeks to continue that work by attending to certain unusual features of three lyrics from the 1930s. The first two share a certain metrical peculiarity that suggests that t…
Socioeconomic position during pregnancy and pre-school exposome in children from eight European birth cohort studies
Distribution of environmental hazards and vulnerability to their effects vary across socioeconomic groups. Our objective was to analyse the relationship between child socioeconomic position (SEP) at birth and the external exposome at pre-school age (0-4 years). This study included more than 60,000 children from eight cohorts in eleven European cities (Oslo, Copenhagen, Bristol, Bradford, Rotterdam, Nancy, Poitiers, Gipuzkoa, Sabadell, Valencia an…
Immigrant Generation, Ethnicity, and Early-life Education Outcomes
This paper examines the relationship between ethnicity and immigrant generation in relationship to early educational outcomes and their potential determinants. Using Born in Bradford, a large longitudinal birth cohort, and its linked education and health records, we investigated the associations between ethnicity, immigration generations and education measures (Early Years Foundation Stage Profile and National Curriculum Key Stage One). We looked…
Student Life in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge
Sen w butelce Kleina
Literatura charkowska połowy XX wieku, po przeniesieniu stolicy do Kijowa, przez długi czas pozostawała mało znana ogółowi społeczeństwa; tendencja ta utrzymuje się do dziś. Jednak tradycję Czerwonego Renesansu godnie kontynuowała cała konstelacja niezwykle utalentowanych artystów – Wasyl Mysyk, Ihor Muratow, Wasyl Borowy, Iwan Wyrhan, Robert Tretiakow. W artykule podjęto analizy jednego w wierszy Ihora Muratowa (We śnie), wybitnego poety, prozai…
Linking the Urban Environment and Health
Environmental exposures (EE) are increasingly recognised as important determinants of health and well-being. Understanding the influences of EE on health is critical for effective policymaking, but better-quality spatial data is needed. This article outlines the theoretical and technical foundations used for the construction of individual-level environmental exposure measurements for the population of a northern English city, Bradford. The work s…
Association Between Baseline Meniscal Symptoms and Outcomes of Operative and Nonoperative Treatment of Meniscal Tear in Patients With Osteoarthritis
Meniscal symptoms were not associated with improved pain relief. Although symptoms of clicking and intermittent locking had a greater reduction in the APM group, the presence of meniscal symptoms in isolation should not inform clinical decisions surrounding APM versus PT in patients with meniscal tear and knee OA.
Archives of Times Past
Exploring the Archive of the Times before Colonialism
Childhood overweight and obesity at the start of primary school
Tackling the childhood obesity epidemic can potentially be facilitated by risk-stratifying families at an early-stage to receive prevention interventions and extra support. Using data from the Born in Bradford (BiB) cohort, this analysis aimed to externally validate prediction models for childhood overweight and obesity developed as part of the Studying Lifecourse Obesity PrEdictors (SLOPE) study in Hampshire. BiB is a longitudinal multi-ethnic b…
Chevron, State Farm, and the Impact of Judicial Doctrine on Bureaucratic Policymaking
We explain how two landmark Supreme Court cases, Motor Vehicles Manufacturers Association of the U.S. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (1983) and Chevron U.S.A., Inc., v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984), have constrained congressional and presidential control of the bureaucracy. We provide an overview of these cases, and we note how the dominant theories of bureaucratic policy making in the political science literature…
Tracking Down the Sources of James Stuart’s Readers
In the period from 1923 to 1926, James Stuart, a former Natal colonial official, produced five readers written in isiZulu for use in Natal’s isiZulu-speaking schools. They were uTulasizwe (1923), uHlangakula (1924), uBaxoxele (1924), uKulumetule (1925) and uVusezakiti (1926). Each consisted of a number of izifundo, or ‘lessons’, on what Stuart would have called Zulu ‘history and custom’. They have generally been seen as Stuart’s own writings, but…
Understanding Covid‐19 misinformation and vaccine hesitancy in context
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 vaccines can offer a route out of the pandemic, yet initial research suggests that many are unwilling to be vaccinated. A rise in the spread of misinformation is thought to have played a significant role in vaccine hesitancy. To maximize uptake, it is important to understand why misinformation has been able to take hold at this time and why it may pose a more significant problem within certain contexts. OBJECTIVE: To understa…
Growing up in Bradford
Our multi-method approach to recruitment and assessment provides an efficient method of collecting rich data on all family members. Data collected will enhance BiB as a resource for the international research community to study the interplay between ethnicity, socioeconomic circumstances and biology in relation to cardiometabolic health, mental health, education, cognitive and sensorimotor development and wellbeing
Integrating research and system-wide practice in public health
Many interventions that are delivered within public health services have little evidence of effect. Evaluating interventions that are being delivered as a part of usual practice offers opportunities to improve the evidence base of public health. However, such evaluation is challenging and requires the integration of research into system-wide practice. The Born in Bradford's Better Start experimental birth cohort offers an opportunity to efficient…
Political Disparities in the Academy
Rediscovering the Ndwandwe kingdom
Introduction The history of the Ndwandwe kingdom is one of the great casualties of the particular circumstances in which southern Africa's precolonial pasts were narrated and written from the late 1820s onward. The break-up of the Ndwandwe kingdom under Sikhunyana kaZwide after its defeat by the Zulu under Shaka kaSenzangakhona in 1826 destroyed its ruling elite and ruptured the processes in which memories of the kingdom's past were being transmi…
The enforcement of crime and virtue
Psyche and Soma
Introduction 1. Soma and Psyche in Hippocratic Medicine 2. The Defining Features of Mind-Body Dualism in the Writings of Plato 3. Aristotle's Psycho-physiological Account of the Soul-Body Relationship 4. Body, Soul, and Nerves: Epicurus, Herophilus, Erasistratus, the Stoics, and Galen 5. Body and Soul in Saint Paul 6. Internalist Reasoning in Augustine for Mind-Body Dualism 7. Renaissance Theories of Body, Soul, and Mind 8. Descartes: Heart and S…
Organized Interests and Agenda Setting in the U.S. Supreme Court
Participation as amicus curiae has long been an important tactic of organized interests in litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court. We analyze amicus curiae briefs filed before the decision on certiorari and assess their impact on the Court's selection of a plenary docket. We hypothesize that one or more briefs advocating or opposing certiorari increase the likelihood of its being granted. We test this hypothesis using data from the United State…
Counteractive Lobbying
Strain, Personality Traits, and Delinquency
Although Agnew's (1992) general strain theory (GST) has secured a fair degree of support since its introduction, researchers have had trouble explaining why some individuals are more likely than others to react to strain with delinquency. This study uses data from the National Survey of Children to address this issue. Drawing on Agnew (1997) and the psychological research on personality traits, it is predicted that juveniles high in negative emot…
PACs, Contributions, and Roll Calls
This study uses information about the organizational arrangements of five major political action committees to develop an explanation for the extent to which PAC contributions are capable of influencing congressional voting decisions. The explanation claims that the processes by which PACs raise and allocate money must be understood before the impact of money on roll call decisions can be appreciated. In contrast to some previous studies, this an…
Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation
Do Parents Matter in Creating Self‐control in Their Children? A Genetically Informed Test of Gottfredson and Hirschi's Theory of Low Self‐control
Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of crime (1990) has generated an abundance of research testing the proposition that low self‐control is the main cause of crime and analogous behaviors. Less empirical work, however, has examined the factors that give rise to low self‐control. Gottfredson and Hirschi suggest that parents are the sole contributors for either fostering or thwarting low self‐control in their children, explicitly discounting t…
Interest Groups, Advisory Committees, and Congressional Control of the Bureaucracy
NDWAC), an advisory committee within the Environmental Protection Agency, to test whether the active interests in the legislative debate over drinking water are represented on the advisory committee, and thus in the EPA's policymaking process. Although agency officials are responsible for appointing the members of NDWAC, we find that public endorsements by interest groups are influential in the agency's selection process. These groups provide rel…
Amici Curiae before the Supreme Court
Our purpose is to describe and compare the variety and types of organizations that participate as amici curiae before the United States Supreme Court for decisions on petitions for writs of certiorari and jurisdictional statements as well as on decisions on the merits. We have classified all amici in cases from the 1982 Term of the Court according to their bases of membership--for example, citizen-based membership of advocacy groups, corporations…
Parental Efficacy and Delinquent Behavior
Recently, the concept of “collective efficacy” has been advanced to understand how communities exert control and provide support to reduce crime. In a similar way, we use the concept of “parental efficacy” to highlight the crime reducing effects associated with parents who support and control their youth. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we examine the inter‐relationship between parental controls and supports and …
Theory and Evidence for Counteractive Lobbying
Introduction In Austen-Smith and Wright (1992), we developed a formal model to study the pattern of lobbying and influence when two rival groups contend to affect the voting behavior of a legislator over a given pair of alternatives. Subsequently, in Austen-Smith and Wright (1994), we analyzed comparative static results derived from that model. Our analysis focused on the relationship between the decision to lobby by two groups, A and B, and the …
Unemployment and the Democratic Electoral Advantage
This article calls into question the conventional wisdom that incumbent parties are rewarded when unemployment is low and punished when it is high. Using county-level data on unemployment and election returns for 175 midterm gubernatorial elections and 4 presidential elections from 1994 to 2010, the analysis finds that unemployment and the Democratic vote for president and governor move together. Other things being equal, higher unemployment incr…
Lobbying for Justice
Theory: By providing information to senators and their constituents about how nominees are likely to behave on the Court if confirmed; and by communicating information about constituents' preferences through grassroots lobbying campaigns, interest groups help shape senators' preferences for nominees and inform them about the appropriate importance to attach to constituency preferences. Hypotheses: We argue that interest groups play an important r…
Genetic influences on the stability of low self-control
The Incumbency Effect in Congressional Elections
TWo recent trends in American politics-a decline in the number of competitive congressional seats and an increase in the partisan independence of the electorate-originated in the mid-1960s and progressed at similar rates for the next decade. We tested the possibility of a causal relationship between these two phenomena and found, contrary to previous speculation and research, that partisan dealignment accounts for little of the increase in incumb…
The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
This compelling text sheds light on the important but under studied trans-Saharan slave trade. The author uncovers and surveys this, the least-noticed of the slave trades out of Africa, which from the seventh to the twentieth centuries quielty delievered almost as many black Africans into foreign servitude as did the far busier, but much briefer Atlantic and East African trades. Illuminating for the first time a significant, but ignored subject, …
Prior problem behavior accounts for the racial gap in school suspensions
Demonstrating the Validity of Twin Research in Criminology
In a recent article published in Criminology , Burt and Simons () claimed that the statistical violations of the classical twin design render heritability studies useless. Claiming quantitative genetics is “fatally flawed” and describing the results generated from these models as “preposterous,” Burt and Simons took the unprecedented step to call for abandoning heritability studies and their constituent findings. We show that their call for an “e…
Family social capital and delinquent involvement
Low self-control and coworker delinquency
The Lobbying Activities of Organized Interests in Federal Judicial Nominations
Techniques of modern lobbying provide organized interests a variety of tactical options. How does the mix of tactics employed by groups vary across different lobbying campaigns? When, and why, will groups use some tactics and not others? Prior research points to organizational structure and resources, features of the issue, and institutional forces as crucial determinants of lobbying. We analyze patterns of advocacy using data from a survey of in…
A Method of Mapping Densities of Population
HE first of the maps presented on page I05 is a conventional population map of Cape Cod in which a symbol for the density covers the whole area of each township. The map is not particularly realistic. Anyone who has visited the region knows that large parts of it are uninhabited. Terminal-moraine ridges run parallel to the north and east shores of the Cape's upper arm -to use a term implying comparison of the Cape to an arm shaking its at the Atl…
The Discuss List
Each term 4,000 or more cases arrive at the doorstep of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Court narrows the field of decision from all possible choices to a smaller set of the most plausible ones; in a typical term, the Conference places 20 to 30 percent (around 500) of the cases filed on its "discuss list," only 150 or so of which will be selected for plenary review. Here we investigate the composition, sources, and implic…
The Legislative Median and Partisan Policy
We show that the median legislator in the US House is unambiguously closer to the majority party median than to the minority party median. An important implication of this finding is that the median legislator is predisposed to support the majority party's policy agenda. Thus, in the event that the majority party organization exerts no influence over the legislative process, and in the event that all policies then default to the legislative media…
On the consequences of ignoring genetic influences in criminological research
Desistance from delinquency
Notes on the Knowledge of Latitudes and Longitudes in the Middle Ages
Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia
New England
The Pioneer Fringe
The Hagavatn Gorge
Contribution to the Physics of Glaciers
The Hagavatn Gorge
The Diversity of New York City
C OUNTLESS pictures and descriptions have made all the world familiar with the stupendous sky line of southern Manhattan's skyscrapers. The island's opposite end, some fourteen miles to the north, is totally different in aspect. There Manhattan terminates at the foot of a pleasant wooded hill, unmarred until recently1 by man-made structures and suggestive even today of the wilderness that once covered the whole region within the present city limi…
A Method of Mapping Densities of Population
HE first of the maps presented on page I05 is a conventional population map of Cape Cod in which a symbol for the density covers the whole area of each township. The map is not particularly realistic. Anyone who has visited the region knows that large parts of it are uninhabited. Terminal-moraine ridges run parallel to the north and east shores of the Cape's upper arm -to use a term implying comparison of the Cape to an arm shaking its at the Atl…
Some Measures of Distributions
Some Measures of Distributions
(1937). Some Measures of Distributions. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 177-211
The Oxford University Arctic Expedition, North East Land, 1935-36
Survey on Polar Expeditions
Most of the major problems of Arctic geography have been solved, and there are now few stretches of coastline which have not been at least roughly mapped. In the Antarctic there are still huge blank spaces on the map, but even there the kind of rough and ready maps that were made by early explorers would now be scarcely adequate. A modern polar survey must be much more accurate and comprehensive if it is to be worth while and have any permanent v…
The Polar Eskimos
We read and hear so often of the harm done to primitive peoples by contact with European culture, that it is refreshing to find an exception to this rule. The Polar Eskimos of North-West Greenland were introduced to European culture through the visits of expeditions to that region, and there was no control of these until thirty years ago. Yet these Eskimos do not seem to have suffered any harm or to have lost their original independence. A journe…
Methods of Survey in North East Land
Expedition to Ellesmere Island, 1937-38
South-East Ellesmere Island
Certain Changes in Population Distribution in the United States
C UMULATIVIE graphs such as those shown in Figure i are known as Lorenz curves, from their originator, Dr. M. 0. Lorenz, who used them in studies of the distribution of wealth.' The writer has suggested ways in which they can be employed in the analysis of geographical distributions.2 The present purpose is to illustrate certain Lorenz curves based on United States census figures for I900 and I940. In the middle triangle of Figure i a curve for e…
Aid to Geographical Research
Communication
Role of Case Finding in Syphilis Control Today
Role of Case Finding in Syphilis Control Today John J. Wright, and Cecil G. Sheps CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.40.7.844 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Geography and the Development of East Africa
Scientific Change
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