Michael L Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 132740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael L Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael L |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4018-4647 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Framing violent histories for reconciliation
Report of the American Psychological Association’s Board of Scientific Affairs Task Force on Promotion, Tenure, and Retention of Faculty of Color in Psychology
Recruitment, promotion, tenure, and retention of faculty of color remain significant challenges in academia. Despite an increasingly diverse population, the representation of faculty of color in tenure-track and senior faculty positions remains disproportionately low. Structural barriers, including bias in hiring and faculty evaluations, misalignment between academic culture and cultural values, unequal distribution of service labor, and limited …
Mixed Sources of Pb and Sn in late Bronze Age European tin ingots provide insights into production processes
The Thirdspace Movement Model for Inclusion and Social Justice in Physical Education
This article introduces the concept of a new curricular model that addresses these issues through the body. The Thirdspace Movement Model can be integrated in K-12 Physical Education in coordination with other models. The Thirdspace Movement Model creates an environment where students practice movements and engage in critical discourse that address embodied identity. Through movements, the model fosters; 1) self-awareness which can lead to self-i…
Characteristics of effective models for classroom demonstrations
Use of peer models during classroom demonstrations can be an effective teaching practice to support student learning and self-efficacy. According to social cognitive theory, modeling is a form of vicarious experience: those experiences through which students are able to learn and acquire knowledge through observation. As a critical source of self-efficacy, vicarious experiences involving peer models are likely to support students’ efficacy. Altho…
Underrepresented High Schoolers’ Interests, Engagement, and Experiences in an Information and Communications Technology Summer Workshop
From peaks to ports
Black cultural studies is intersectionality
This article argues that Black cultural studies must be understood as an intersectional intervention of praxis. Grounding our field in the past, speaking from the present, and projecting to the future, we examine the transformational influence that Black feminist theory has had on cultural studies, from Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s defense of 2 Live Crew, to the #SayHerName and Protect Black Women rally and marches
Impostor phenomenon and motivation
This article analyses the relationship between impostor phenomenon and motivation in academic women. These highly successful academics often express feelings of self-doubt, lack of belongingness, and incompetence, ideas echoed within motivation literature. This project establishes IP prevalence within 1,326 self-identified academic women and examines the relationship between IP and motivation (operationalized by measures from Expectancy-Value The…
Alternative Methods to Make Efficient Use of Two Decks of Cards in Randomized Response Sampling
In this article, alternative randomized response models are proposed, which make use of sum of quantitative scores generated from two decks of cards being used in a survey. The proposed methods are compared to the Odumade and Singh and Singh and Grewal models through a simulation study. It is shown that the modified methods can be used more efficiently than those both models
The Perfect Fence
In his foreword to The Perfect Fence, Sterling Evans notes that “the past couple of years (2016–2017) have been characterized by a great deal of discussion about fences and walls in US political culture” (p. xi). While Lyn Ellen Bennett and Scott Abbott do not directly treat that recent (and continuing) “discussion” in their book, in grappling productively with a series of questions—“What does barbed wire mean? How did it acquire those meanings? …
Middle Chalcolithic expansion into the highlands of the north-central Taurus, south-western Cappadocia
Mapping the Four Corners
It was July 1, 1875, three weeks after the outset of Ferdinand V. Hayden's surveying expedition from Denver. Charles Aldrich, an expedition member who was in charge of wagoning supplies to Parrott City, Colorado, wrote the following from Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, in a report to the Chicago Daily Inter-Ocean: “We soon had to descend the famous “Big Hill”—steep, rugged, rocky, the worst descent I ever saw that could be called a road. It was nece…
Teaching Ferguson
In the wake of protests following the nonindictments of police for the killing of unarmed African Americans in Ferguson and elsewhere, schools across North America created courses discussing historical and contemporary events leading up to these deaths and the #BlackLivesMatter movement. The authors created and taught such a course during the winter of 2015; this article reflects on our experience and places it within the context of neoliberal hi…
Comparative Performance of Diagnosis-based and Prescription-based Comorbidity Scores to Predict Health-related Quality of Life
OBJECTIVES: To compare the performance of the health-related quality of life-comorbidity index (HRQoL-CI) with the diagnosis-based Charlson, Elixhauser, and combined comorbidity scores and the prescription-based chronic disease score (CDS) in predicting HRQoL in Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality priority conditions (asthma, breast cancer, diabetes, and heart failure). METHODS: The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (2005 and 2007-2011) data…
New tin mines and production sites near Kültepe in Turkey
Parents' Expectations to Receive Antibiotic Prescriptions for Children
The objective of this study was to evaluate whether parents’ level of expectations would change after manipulating their perceived barriers to visiting doctors without any expectations for antibiotic prescriptions and their perceived benefits of using antibiotics. A prospective experimental study was conducted using a data-collection instrument to manipulate perceived barriers and perceived benefits using four scenarios. Scenarios were developed …
Diana L. Di Stefano. Encounters in Avalanche Country
For Diana L. Di Stefano, avalanches in the Mountain West were, during a hundred critically formative years there, not only frequent and voluminously dangerous descents (in accord with the word's etymology) of snow, ice, rock, earth, timber, and other debris on mountainsides, but also nexuses where significant historical forces—of regional identity, community-building, labor problems, litigation regarding acts of God, and more—encountered one anot…
Pontifex, pontifices
The pontiffs ( pontifices ; sg. pontifex ; etymology disputed) were priests of the Roman state religion who held office for life and formed, with the flamens, king of rites (Rex Sacrorum), lesser pontiffs ( pontifices minores ), and Vestal Virgins, the collegium pontificum , one of the four major priestly colleges.
THOMAS J. Harvey. Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley
To adapt the title phrasing of anthropologist Keith H. Basso's Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache (1996), this book is a study of how meanings sit in two places on the Colorado River Plateau—Rainbow Bridge and Monument Valley—and of what those meanings reveal about the modernizing of the larger Old West. Thomas J. Harvey argues, more specifically, that the “physical and imagined landscape of the Navajo” associa…
Therapeutic Goal Attainment in Patients With Hypertension and Dyslipidemia
BACKGROUND: Recent guidelines emphasize the need to assess and treat overall risk for cardiovascular disease through the concomitant management of multiple risk factors. We sought to ascertain treatment patterns and attainment of therapeutic goals in patients with isolated and concomitant hypertension and dyslipidemia, both with and without diabetes mellitus (DM) and symptomatic cardiovascular disease. METHODS: Inception cohorts of more than 41,0…
Adapting the Rx-Risk-V for Mortality Prediction in Outpatient Populations
OBJECTIVES: We sought to operationalize, test, and validate an outpatient pharmacy-based case-mix adjuster. METHODS: Outpatients from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) prescribed a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) or cyclooxygenase-2 selective drug during 2002 were identified. We updated and extended the Rx-Risk-V by adding 26 additional disease categories and mapping them to VA drug-class codes; derived empirical weights for eac…
Just-in-Time IRB Review
P. Adam Kelly, Michael L. Johnson, Just-in-Time IRB Review: Capitalizing on Scientific Merit Review to Improve Human Subjects Research Compliance, IRB: Ethics & Human Research, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 2005), pp. 6-10
Mortality After Cardiac Bypass Surgery
BACKGROUND: Risk-adjusted outcome rates frequently are used to make inferences about hospital quality of care. We calculated risk-adjusted mortality rates in veterans undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass surgery (CABS) from administrative data and from chart-based clinical data and compared the assessment of hospital high and low outlier status for mortality that results from these 2 data sources. STUDY POPULATION: We studied veterans who u…
Mortality After Noncardiac Surgery
BACKGROUND: Hospital profiles are increasingly constructed using risk-adjusted clinical data abstracted from patient records. OBJECTIVE: We sought to compare hospital profiles based on risk adjusted death within 30 days of surgery from administrative versus clinical data in a national cohort of surgical patients. DESIGN: This was a cohort study that included 78,546 major noncardiac operations performed between October 1, 1991 and December 31, 199…
From peaks to ports
Impostor phenomenon and motivation
This article analyses the relationship between impostor phenomenon and motivation in academic women. These highly successful academics often express feelings of self-doubt, lack of belongingness, and incompetence, ideas echoed within motivation literature. This project establishes IP prevalence within 1,326 self-identified academic women and examines the relationship between IP and motivation (operationalized by measures from Expectancy-Value The…
Mixed Sources of Pb and Sn in late Bronze Age European tin ingots provide insights into production processes
New tin mines and production sites near Kültepe in Turkey
The Perfect Fence
In his foreword to The Perfect Fence, Sterling Evans notes that “the past couple of years (2016–2017) have been characterized by a great deal of discussion about fences and walls in US political culture” (p. xi). While Lyn Ellen Bennett and Scott Abbott do not directly treat that recent (and continuing) “discussion” in their book, in grappling productively with a series of questions—“What does barbed wire mean? How did it acquire those meanings? …
Middle Chalcolithic expansion into the highlands of the north-central Taurus, south-western Cappadocia
Wherein Lies the Value
From Hardy to Empson
Writing and Reading Differently
Analysis of serial growth data
Human growth has been described qualitatively by several different mathematical formulations that have concentrated on the form of the central tendency and have largely neglected analysis of any short duration components of the experimental observations. The present work presents a mathematical model of human growth that aims to describe both the fluctuations of short duration as well as the central tendency as a series of discrete growth episode…
A case study of daily growth during adolescence
Standing height of one adolescent male was measured daily between the ages of 12.83 and 13.95 years on 328 days out of 389 consecutive days according to standard techniques for maximal stature measurement. The serial growth data were analysed by a modification of techniques developed to identify patterns in serial hormone data. The entire growth in height during this interval occurred during 12 non-periodic saltatory episodes with amplitude of 0.…
A Method of Developing and Weighting Explicit Process of Care Criteria for Quality Assessment
The use of explicit criteria to evaluate how well processes of care conform to accepted standards is a key method of quality assessment. Synthesizing four decades of literature, we devised an inexpensive, 6-step method of developing reliable, content-valid, explicit process criteria. This paper describes the method using a set of congestive heart failure criteria. In step 1 of the Criteria Development Method, criteria are derived from state-of-th…
Expected Source of Payment and Use of Hospital Services for Coronary Atherosclerosis
To study associations between payer and provision of services for patients hospitalized for coronary atherosclerosis, the authors analyzed abstracts of 24,424 discharges from California acute care hospitals during 1989. Services examined included receipt of coronary artery bypass surgery, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), long length of stay (LOS) without revascularization, and overall LOS. Regression techniques controlled de…
Identifying saltatory growth patterns in infancy
The present analyses address the question of how frequently time-intensive growth measurements need to be taken in order to provide sufficient data for the statistical identification of pulsatile saltatory growth patterns during infancy. The daily serial growth measurements of three infants during 4 months are analyzed in seven subsets, which include progressively fewer data points from daily to weekly intervals. Saltatory growth pulse identifica…
Identifying saltatory growth patterns in infancy
The present analyses address the question of how frequently time-intensive growth measurements need to be taken in order to provide sufficient data for the statistical identification of pulsatile saltatory growth patterns during infancy. The daily serial growth measurements of three infants during 4 months are analyzed in seven subsets, which include progressively fewer data points from daily to weekly intervals. Saltatory growth pulse identifica…
International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification Codes in Discharge Abstracts Are Poor Measures of Complication Occurrence in Medical Inpatients
OBJECTIVES: The authors tested the ability of International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes in discharge abstracts to identify medical inpatients who experienced an in-hospital complication, using complications identified through chart review as the gold standard. METHODS: Two sets of ICD-9-CM codes were used: an inclusive set including many medical diagnoses that may also be coexistent complicatin…
New Westers
Journal Article New Westers: The West in Contemporary American Culture Get access New Westers: The West in Contemporary American Culture. By Johnson Michael L.. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. xii + 408 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) James Whiteside James Whiteside University of Colorado at Denver Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 28,…
Wanted Dead or Alive
Journal Article Wanted Dead or Alive: The American West in Popular Culture and History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past Get access Wanted Dead or Alive: The American West in Popular Culture. Edited by Aquila Richard. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. x + 313 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past. By Toplin Robert Brent. (Urbana: University…
Wrinkles induced by the use of smoothing procedures applied to serial growth data
This paper elucidates the effects of moving average filters when applied to serial growth measurements. This is a question of interest because smoothing procedures are inherently part of a number of analytical methods presently employed in auxological analyses. Particular attention is paid to sequential growth data analysed to identify what has been described as pulsatile, saltation and stasis patterns or mini-growth spurts. When applied to pulsa…
An example of variation and pattern in saltation and stasis growth dynamics
The serial data from two siblings, aged 6.6 and 7.5 years of age at the initiation of the study, measured each evening for total standing height during 365 days, are analysed by two methods to investigate the nature of the underlying growth pattern. The saltation and stasis model, designed to identify the presence of statistically significant pulses in sequential data, is compared for goodness-of-fit to first to sixth degree polynomial functions,…
The Association of Quality of Care and Occurrence of In-Hospital, Treatment-Related Complications
BACKGROUND: Little data exist supporting the association of quality of care and nonfatal adverse outcomes in hospitalized patients, yet those outcomes are routinely scrutinized in quality assessment efforts. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether measurable differences in quality of care are associated with the occurrence of non-fatal, in-hospital, and treatment-related complications. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SUBJECTS: A total of 2,268 patien…
An Empirical Assessment of the Validity of Explicit and Implicit Process-of-Care Criteria for Quality Assessment
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the validity of three criteria-based methods of quality assessment: unit weighted explicit process-of-care criteria; differentially weighted explicit process-of-care criteria; and structured implicit process-of-care criteria. METHODS: The three methods were applied to records of index hospitalizations in a study of unplanned readmission involving roughly 2,500 patients with one of three diagnoses treated at 12 Veterans Affa…
Child factor in measurement dependability
A primary consideration in longitudinal growth studies is the identification of growth from error components. While previous research has considered matters of measurement accuracy and reproducibility in detail, few reports have investigated the errors of measurement due to aspects of the physiology and cooperation of the child. The present study directly assesses this source of measurement undependability for the first time. Investigation of tot…
Mixed distribution analysis identifies saltation and stasis growth
A maximum likelihood method of mixed distribution analysis is investigated for its utility as a method for the identification of saltation and stasis in longitudinal growth data. Daily infant growth data that have been previously identified to follow a saltatory growth process are employed. This is a novel application of the finite mixed distribution analysis (MDA), a method designed to objectively identify the presence of one or more Gaussian po…
The use of regularity as estimated by approximate entropy to distinguish saltatory growth
A nonlinear dynamics metric, approximate entropy (ApEn), is investigated as a diagnostic method for distinguishing between mathematical models, and the underlying mechanistic hypotheses that purport to describe the same time series experimental observations. ApEn measures the occurrence of pattern regularity within a time series, and is used here to investigate growth patterns in daily length growth. The notion investigated is that ApEn distribut…
Lower Extremity Nontraumatic Amputation Among Veterans With Peripheral Arterial Disease
OBJECTIVES: To determine if race/ethnicity is independently associated with an increased risk for nontraumatic lower extremity amputation versus lower extremity bypass revascularization among patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). METHODS: Data were analyzed from the National VA Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) and from the Veterans Affairs Patient Treatment File (PTF). Race/ethnicity was defined as non-Hispanic white, black…
Process of Care in Hispanic, Black, and White VA Beneficiaries
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether process of hospital care differs among Hispanic, black, and white VA beneficiaries. SUBJECTS: Two thousand eight-hundred fifty-two Hispanic, black, and white male VA beneficiaries from a case-control study discharged alive from one of twelve southern veterans hospitals with one of three diagnoses, diabetes mellitus (DM), congestive heart failure (CHF), or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). METHODS: We appl…
Effect of Definition of Mortality on Hospital Profiles
BACKGROUND: Hospitals are ranked based on risk-adjusted measures of postoperative mortality, but definitions differ about which deaths following surgery should be included. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether varying the case definition of deaths following surgery that are included in coronary artery bypass surgery quality assessment affects the identification of outlier hospitals. RESEARCH DESIGN: The study used a prospective cohort design. SUBJECTS…
Risk Assessment and Adjustment
From the Houston VAMC, Houston, Texas. Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Michael Johnson, PhD, Houston VAMC, HSR&D (152), 2002 Holcombe Blvd., Building 110T, Houston, TX 77030. E-mail: [email protected]
Effects of noun phrase type on sentence complexity
Just-in-Time IRB Review
P. Adam Kelly, Michael L. Johnson, Just-in-Time IRB Review: Capitalizing on Scientific Merit Review to Improve Human Subjects Research Compliance, IRB: Ethics & Human Research, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 2005), pp. 6-10
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