R E F Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 86172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R E F Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | R E F |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH R E F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1988-6716 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
‘It takes you to the limit’
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to understand symptom experiences, illness narratives, and help-seeking behaviours in women living with systemic symptoms associated with their breast implants (SSBI) and seeking explant surgery. METHODS AND MEASURES: Patients for this study were recruited from a larger prospective comparative study on SSBI over a 3-year period. Semi-structured qualitative interviews using an adapted version of the McGil…
Social capital-based mental health interventions for refugees
Picking Up the Pieces
This paper examines the role of social capital on livelihood outcomes of households forcibly displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in Northeast Nigeria. Drawing from in-depth interviews of 21 respondents and a cross-sectional survey of 810 household heads across 12 locations in Northeast Nigeria, the study finds that social capital provides a channel of critical psycho-social support for households. Further, the results of the structural-equatio…
Social-capital-based mental health interventions for refugees
Urban Family Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa
The multi-sectoral nature of urban health is a particular challenge, which urban family planning in sub-Saharan Africa illustrates well. Rapid urbanisation, mainly due to natural population increase in cities rather than rural-urban migration, coincides with a large unmet urban need for contraception, especially in informal settlements. These two phenomena mean urban family planning merits more attention. To what extent are the family planning an…
Bridging the gaps sector to sector and research to policy
There is growing science and policy interest in multi-sectoral action, but bridging the gap between family planning and urban development is challenging. This paper analyses the experience of integrating these sectors in sub-Saharan Africa via building research capacity. Family-planning researchers were supported to link with urban-development actors, one goal being to generate lessons on the process of getting their research into the policy doma…
Social Capital’s Role in Humanitarian Crises
The growing scale and persistence of humanitarian crises constitute a critical problem for nation-states, aid organizations and crisis-affected people. Many humanitarian responders continue to focus on material aid, providing essential supplies and services during these crises, while other actors restore physical infrastructures. We believe aid efforts are overlooking the pivotal nature of horizontal and vertical ties within and between communiti…
The Acoustics of Tonogenesis
Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1975), pp. 366-378
How should we define health?
The WHO definition of health as complete wellbeing is no longer fit for purpose given the rise of chronic disease. Machteld Huber and colleagues propose changing the emphasis towards the ability to adapt and self manage in the face of social, physical, and emotional challenges
Launching the Fogarty International Center International Tobacco Control Research and Training Program
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the focal point for medical research in the United States. Composed of 27 Institutes and Centers, and with a budget of more than $28 billion in fiscal year 2005, the NIH provides funding to biomedical and behavioural institutions and scientists in all 50 states, the US territories and many foreign countries. The Fogarty International Center (FIC) is unique at the NIH in that its mission exclusively focus…
Communicable disease control
Despite the increasing 'globalization' of health, the responsibility for it remains primarily national, generating a potential mismatch between global health problems and current institutions and mechanisms to deal with them. The 'Global Public Good' (GPG) concept has been suggested as a framework to address this mismatch in different areas of public policy. This paper considers the application of the GPG concept as an organizing principle for co…
Foreign direct investment and trade in health services
Land Tenure, Fixed Investment, and Farm Productivity
Land tenure reform in Africa
Land tenure reform has been advocated as an instrument of development in sub-Saharan Africa since before Independence, based on a neoclassical economic model promising greater agricultural productivity as a result of titling. This in turn, it was suggested, would promote land investments, credit supply and efficient land markets. Titling policies were justified in the 1980s by evidence from southeast Asia, particularly Thailand. However, empirica…
Simon Franklin and Jonathan Shepard, The emergence of Rus 750–1200. Longman History of Russia, London-New York
(1998). The emergence of Rus 750–1200. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 304-306
Workers on the Line
Workers on the Line: Teaching Industrial History at the Tsongas Industrial History Center and Lowell National Historical Park Rick Smith, Rick Smith Rick Smith is a park ranger in the Education District at Lowell National Historical Park. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Peter O'Connell Peter O'Connell Peter O'Connell is the Director of the Tsongas Industrial History Center. Search for other works by this a…
The Role of Performance Indicators in Housing Management
In this paper an evaluation of the housing management performance indicators regime in the United Kingdom is provided. First, the context in which performance measurement in the housing service in the United Kingdom has developed is set and lessons are drawn from the use of statutory indicators following the Local Government and Housing Act 1989. By examining the performance indicator regime in Wales it is suggested that the regime is flawed beca…
Public transfers, family socioeconomic traits, and the job search behavior of the unemployed
Empty Dwellings
In recent years there has been growing political concern with questions of effective stock utilization and the issue of empty housing. However, our knowledge of the scale and nature of the problem remains limited, particularly as regards the private sector. There is a dearth of reliable information on privately owned vacant property, which undermines local policy responses. One source of information which is available to local authorities are loc…
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access R. E. F. SMITH R. E. F. SMITH University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CI, Issue CCCCI, October 1986, Pages 987–988, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCCI.987 Published: 01 October 1986
Bread and Salt
Introduction Part I. The early diet: 1. Farming and gathering: grain and game 2. Salt: a major extractive industry 3. Drink: ale and alchemy Part II. State appetite, peasant diet: 4. Controls and code: the seventeenth century 5. Steppes and counter-measures: the eighteenth century 6. Tea and temperance Part III. Rural diets on the eve of change: 7. The established pattern 8. Tavern and treasury 9. Good time and bad Conclusion Bibliography Index
Bread and Salt
Bread and Salt
Bread and Salt
Muscovite Russia
Land Tenure, Fixed Investment, and Farm Productivity
Land tenure reform in Africa
Land tenure reform has been advocated as an instrument of development in sub-Saharan Africa since before Independence, based on a neoclassical economic model promising greater agricultural productivity as a result of titling. This in turn, it was suggested, would promote land investments, credit supply and efficient land markets. Titling policies were justified in the 1980s by evidence from southeast Asia, particularly Thailand. However, empirica…
Social Capital’s Role in Humanitarian Crises
The growing scale and persistence of humanitarian crises constitute a critical problem for nation-states, aid organizations and crisis-affected people. Many humanitarian responders continue to focus on material aid, providing essential supplies and services during these crises, while other actors restore physical infrastructures. We believe aid efforts are overlooking the pivotal nature of horizontal and vertical ties within and between communiti…
Bread and Salt
Introduction Part I. The early diet: 1. Farming and gathering: grain and game 2. Salt: a major extractive industry 3. Drink: ale and alchemy Part II. State appetite, peasant diet: 4. Controls and code: the seventeenth century 5. Steppes and counter-measures: the eighteenth century 6. Tea and temperance Part III. Rural diets on the eve of change: 7. The established pattern 8. Tavern and treasury 9. Good time and bad Conclusion Bibliography Index
The Role of Performance Indicators in Housing Management
In this paper an evaluation of the housing management performance indicators regime in the United Kingdom is provided. First, the context in which performance measurement in the housing service in the United Kingdom has developed is set and lessons are drawn from the use of statutory indicators following the Local Government and Housing Act 1989. By examining the performance indicator regime in Wales it is suggested that the regime is flawed beca…
Peasant Farming in Muscovy
This comprehensive study of farming methods and agrarian organization in Russia before the time of Peter the Great shifts the emphasis from the great estates to the basic production unit, the peasant family farms, and uses archaeological and enthnographic materials to supplement the documentary evidence. The methods of production and the farm implements used are described in detail and Professor Smith argues that features inherent in peasant farm…
Empty Dwellings
In recent years there has been growing political concern with questions of effective stock utilization and the issue of empty housing. However, our knowledge of the scale and nature of the problem remains limited, particularly as regards the private sector. There is a dearth of reliable information on privately owned vacant property, which undermines local policy responses. One source of information which is available to local authorities are loc…
Social capital-based mental health interventions for refugees
Urban Family Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa
The multi-sectoral nature of urban health is a particular challenge, which urban family planning in sub-Saharan Africa illustrates well. Rapid urbanisation, mainly due to natural population increase in cities rather than rural-urban migration, coincides with a large unmet urban need for contraception, especially in informal settlements. These two phenomena mean urban family planning merits more attention. To what extent are the family planning an…
The Enserfment of the Russian Peasantry
The amalgamation of collective farms
The amalgamation of collective farms
Some Recent Discoveries in Novgorod
Journal Article Some Recent Discoveries in Novgorod Get access R. Smith R. Smith University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 5, Issue 1, November 1954, Pages 1–10, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/5.1.1 Published: 01 November 1954
Le Haut moyen âge russe. A propos d'ouvrages récents
Les historiens soviétiques tiennent généralement pour acquis, depuis les années 1930 au moins, que l'économie de la Russie durant le haut moyen âge fut une économie à prédominance agricole. Les problèmes que peut soulever une telle hypothèse n'ont peut-être pas encore tous été résolus et ne reçoivent pas l'attention qu'ils méritent. Néanmoins, comme il a été signalé dans cette revue, les historiens soviétiques ont à leur crédit une masse imposant…
Russian History and the Soviet Union
The problem I wish to discuss is how Russian history has differed from that of Western Europe and whether the reasons for these differences continue to be relevant and deep-seated enough to make it seem likely that they will continue in the future
A Russian-English Dictionary of Social Science Terms
Compulsory Arbitration
Essay| August 01 1965 Compulsory Arbitration: A Broad View Paul L. Kleinsorge, Paul L. Kleinsorge Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Robert E. Smith Robert E. Smith Institute of Industrial and Labor Relations, University of Oregon Paul L. Kleinsorge has been Professor of Economics at the University of Oregon since 1948 and is now Director of its Institute of Industrial and Labor Relations. He has written wid…
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access R. E. F. SMITH R. E. F. SMITH University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXX, Issue CCCXVII, October 1965, Pages 825-a–825, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXX.CCCXVII.825-a Published: 01 October 1965
Russian Social Science Reader
Russian Social Science Reader
The Enserfment of the Russian Peasantry
The Theory of Peasant Economy
Journal Article A. V. Chayanov. eds., D. Thorner, B. Kerblay and R. E. F. Smith. The Theory of Peasant Economy Get access The Theory of Peasant Economy. By A. V. Chayanov. Edited by D. Thorner, B. Kerblay and R. E. F. Smith. (Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin for the American Economic Association, 1966. Pp. lxxvi + 317. $8.00.) Maurice Dobb Maurice Dobb Trinity College, Cambridge. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Russian Social Science Reader
Short Notices
SHORT NOTICES R. E. F. SMITH R. E. F. SMITH University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXIV, Issue CCCXXXI, April 1969, Page 383-b, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXIV.CCCXXXI.383-b Published: 01 April 1969
Short Notices
Short Notices R. E. F. SMITH R. E. F. SMITH University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXV, Issue 335, April 1970, Pages 400–401, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXV.335.400 Published: 01 April 1970
The Enserfment of the Russian Peasantry
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access R. E. F. SMITH R. E. F. SMITH University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVII, Issue CCCXLII, January 1972, Pages 158–159, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVII.CCCXLII.158 Published: 01 January 1972
Crafts and trades (english)
Note on the sources of George Orwell's 1984
(1976). Note on the sources of George Orwell's 1984. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 4, The Russian Peasant 1920 and 1984, pp. 9-10
Peasant Farming in Muscovy
This comprehensive study of farming methods and agrarian organization in Russia before the time of Peter the Great shifts the emphasis from the great estates to the basic production unit, the peasant family farms, and uses archaeological and enthnographic materials to supplement the documentary evidence. The methods of production and the farm implements used are described in detail and Professor Smith argues that features inherent in peasant farm…
The Russian Peasant 1920 and 1984
A Parting of Ways
Peasant Farming in Muscovy
A note on Chayanov and ‘the theory of peasant economy‘
(1980). A note on Chayanov and ‘the theory of peasant economy‘. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 507-507
Muscovite Russia
The Merchants of Moscow, 1580-1650
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