Robert Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 3657686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bangor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1917-2035 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1903 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Watershed Year for Global Trade
Japan’s Relations with China
Japan’s shifting strategic compass
Geopolitical stresses in the Indo-Pacific are increasing and intensifying. These stresses derive from China’s more assertive regional behaviour; growing alignments between China and Russia on the one hand and Russia and North Korea on the other; and most recently from the apparent recalibration of United States foreign policy under the second Trump administration. They have magnified Japan’s significance as a strategic actor both in the Indo-Paci…
New tools of Japanese security
Geopolitical stresses in the Indo-Pacific are increasing and intensifying. These stresses derive from China’s more assertive regional behaviour; growing alignments between China and Russia on the one hand and Russia and North Korea on the other; and most recently from the apparent recalibration of United States foreign policy under the second Trump administration. They have magnified Japan’s significance as a strategic actor both in the Indo-Paci…
Building Japanese deterrence and response capabilities – defence and diplomacy
Geopolitical stresses in the Indo-Pacific are increasing and intensifying. These stresses derive from China’s more assertive regional behaviour; growing alignments between China and Russia on the one hand and Russia and North Korea on the other; and most recently from the apparent recalibration of United States foreign policy under the second Trump administration. They have magnified Japan’s significance as a strategic actor both in the Indo-Paci…
Structural impediments
Geopolitical stresses in the Indo-Pacific are increasing and intensifying. These stresses derive from China’s more assertive regional behaviour; growing alignments between China and Russia on the one hand and Russia and North Korea on the other; and most recently from the apparent recalibration of United States foreign policy under the second Trump administration. They have magnified Japan’s significance as a strategic actor both in the Indo-Paci…
Conclusion
Geopolitical stresses in the Indo-Pacific are increasing and intensifying. These stresses derive from China’s more assertive regional behaviour; growing alignments between China and Russia on the one hand and Russia and North Korea on the other; and most recently from the apparent recalibration of United States foreign policy under the second Trump administration. They have magnified Japan’s significance as a strategic actor both in the Indo-Paci…
Big five personality perceptions from voices and faces
We investigated the perception of Big Five personality traits from trait-average voices when traits were based either on speakers’ self-ratings (Exp. 1, E1) or on other perceivers’ ratings of perceived personality of the original voice samples (E2). Trait-average voices were created from a voice database of 93 speakers (40 male, 53 female) using TANDEM-STRAIGHT n-way morphing. For speaker sex, trait and for two sentences, we created voice average…
Evaluating Japan’s New Grand Strategy
Geopolitical stresses in the Indo-Pacific are increasing and intensifying. These stresses derive from China’s more assertive regional behaviour; growing alignments between China and Russia on the one hand and Russia and North Korea on the other; and most recently from the apparent recalibration of United States foreign policy under the second Trump administration. They have magnified Japan’s significance as a strategic actor both in the Indo-Paci…
Another Special Relationship? The United States and Japan
Japan's relationship with the United States is now strategically more vital than it has ever been. Yet differences in the two countries' political cycles and cultures have often aggravated bilateral tensions. Since the Second World War, Japanese prime ministers Nakasone Yasuhiro, Koizumi Junichiro and Abe Shinzo stand out in being able to strengthen relations with the US while advancing important changes in Japan's security debate. In all three c…
A Fragile Convergence
The US–Japan–South Korea summit was historic, not least because it was the first stand-alone summit between the three countries. The severe deterioration in the security environment in East Asia, in particular China's menacing of Taiwan and North Korea's continued nuclear-weapons programme, has been a significant driver of the recent rapprochement between Japan and South Korea. The warming of bilateral ties thus helps to buttress the United State…
Metacognition during unfamiliar face matching
Kruger and Dunning (1999) described a metacognitive bias in which insight into performance is linked to competence: poorer performers are less aware of their mistakes than better performers. Competence-based insight has been argued to apply generally across task domains, including a recent report investigating social cognition using a variety of face-matching tasks. Problematically, serious statistical and methodological criticisms have been dire…
Profiling and predicting the problem-solving patterns in China’s research systems
Uncovering the driving forces, strategic landscapes, and evolutionary mechanisms of China’s research systems is attracting rising interest around the globe. One topic of interest is to understand the problem-solving patterns in China’s research systems now and in the future. Targeting a set of high-quality research articles published by Chinese researchers between 2009 and 2018, and indexed in the Essential Science Indicators database, we develop…
Japan’s Grand Strategy
The Abe era has produced a significant increase in Japan’s geopolitical assertiveness, which is likely to endure
Physically attractive faces attract us physically
Personality in faces
How accurate are the spontaneous trait inferences made to faces? Here we measured implicit associations between facial appearance and personality traits, using faces conveying objective appearances of Extraversion and Agreeableness. In the standard or “uncrossed” conditions of Experiment 1, we found that descriptions of high and low Agreeableness and Extraversion were spontaneously and accurately associated with their objective trait appearance. …
Cues to mental health from men’s facial appearance
An adaptive perspective on revealed and concealed cues to empathy
W u, S heppard, and M itchell ( Br. J. Psychol ., 2016; 107, 1‐22) found that observers could accurately identify people with extreme but not more average empathy scores. Here, we further consider this U‐shaped discrimination function. We first examine a statistical issue regarding the construction of the average groups, which are less homogenous by definition than the extreme groups. We then consider the kinds of questions arising when these res…
Identifying personality from the static, nonexpressive face in humans and chimpanzees
The Age of Wonder
Book Review| July 01 2011 The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of ScienceHolmes, Richard Robert Ward Robert Ward Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2011) 94 (1-2): 176–181. https://doi.org/10.2307/41200949 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permi…
Restoring the Second State of Nature
Predispositions to approach and avoid are contextually sensitive and goal dependent
The authors show that predispositions to approach and avoid do not consist simply of specific motor patterns but are more abstract functions that produce a desired environmental effect. It has been claimed that evaluating a visual stimulus as positive or negative evokes a specific motor response, extending the arm to negative stimuli, and contracting to positive stimuli. The authors showed that a large congruency effect (participants were faster …
The urban system in West China
Drowning the Crescent City
This article reviews secondary sources on the possible causes of the devastation in New Orleans resulting from Hurricane Katrina. These sources include newspaper accounts, radio and television interviews, government documents, and extensive historical chronicles of the aftermath of Katrina. The authors examine the consequences of policy action (or inaction) at all levels of government with respect to preparedness for evacuation. Using readily ava…
Noise versus Access
The effects of a major airport are unlikely to exhibit a uniform spatial distribution. The benefits to industries and individual households may extend well beyond the local economy, whereas many of the costs are spatially concentrated in the immediate environment. In particular, the problems of noise and traffic generation can be expected to fall principally upon adjacent populations. This paper addresses the general question of whether the costs…
Noise versus Access
The effects of a major airport are unlikely to exhibit a uniform spatial distribution. The benefits to industries and individual households may extend well beyond the local economy, whereas many of the costs are spatially concentrated in the immediate environment. In particular, the problems of noise and traffic generation can be expected to fall principally upon adjacent populations. This paper addresses the general question of whether the costs…
From Private to Public Ownership of Gas Undertakings in England and Wales, 1851–1947
There are no ready explanations for the shift from private to public ownership of the infrastructure which occurred in many Western countries in the period from about 1850 onwards. This paper presents for the first time, from parliamentary and trade sources, a comprehensive record of the number of gas undertakings in England and Wales, their geographical spread and the incidence of municipal ownership. The experience of some 400 towns are analyse…
Tax Changes and Cigarette Prices
The Classification of Climates
Japan’s Grand Strategy
The Abe era has produced a significant increase in Japan’s geopolitical assertiveness, which is likely to endure
The urban system in West China
Drowning the Crescent City
This article reviews secondary sources on the possible causes of the devastation in New Orleans resulting from Hurricane Katrina. These sources include newspaper accounts, radio and television interviews, government documents, and extensive historical chronicles of the aftermath of Katrina. The authors examine the consequences of policy action (or inaction) at all levels of government with respect to preparedness for evacuation. Using readily ava…
A Cruise with the International Ice Patrol
Climate and Man
The Climate of South America
A Fragile Convergence
The US–Japan–South Korea summit was historic, not least because it was the first stand-alone summit between the three countries. The severe deterioration in the security environment in East Asia, in particular China's menacing of Taiwan and North Korea's continued nuclear-weapons programme, has been a significant driver of the recent rapprochement between Japan and South Korea. The warming of bilateral ties thus helps to buttress the United State…
Cues to mental health from men’s facial appearance
Thirty Thousand Miles of Barograph Curves
New Monthly and Seasonal Rainfall Maps of the United States
Cloudiness in the United States
Rainfall Types of the United States
Climatic Subdivisions of the United States
The Classification of Climates
The Climate of South America
The Classification of Climates
The Classification of Climates
Climate and Man
The Southern Campos of Brazil
Some Problems of the Tropics
Recent Publications of the Weather Bureau
British Rainfall, 1908
Climate of the Argentine Republic
Meteorology Practical and Applied
British Rainfall, 1910
Contribution a l'Etude des Relations existant entre les Circulations atmospheriques, l'Electricite atmospherique et le Magnetisme terrestre
The Rainfall of California
Atlas photographique des Nuages
Suggestions for a Course in Climatology in Correlation with Geography
Climatic Subdivisions of the United States
The Weather and Climate of Chicago
Rainfall Types of the United States
A New Classification of Climates
Solar Radiation and the Weather
A New Series of Sunshine Maps of the United States
New Monthly and Seasonal Rainfall Maps of the United States
Aristotle's Treatise on Meteorology
Cloudiness in the United States
The Work of the British Rainfall Organization
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