John Hilton

Dados Biográficos

ID137887
NOMEJohn Hilton
PRENOMESJohn
SOBRENOMEHilton
ASSINATURAHILTON J
AFILIAÇÕESBrigham Young University
ORCID0000-0001-9473-757X
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TOTAL DE OBRAS52
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES28
TOTAL COMO AUTOR52
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1918
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H3

  • Probabilistic projections of distributions of kin over the life course

    Open AccessJoe Butterick, Joe W B Butterick et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2026Referências: 33

    BACKGROUNDMathematical kinship demography is an expanding area of research.Recent papers have explored the expected number of kin a typical individual should experience.Despite the uncertainty of the future number and distributions of kin, just one paper investigates it. OBJECTIVEWe aim to develop a new method for obtaining the probability that a typical population member experiences one or more of some kin at any age through the life course. MET…

  • Comparing Course Modalities for Religious Education Outcomes

    Anthony Sweat, Kenneth Plummer et al.ARTICLEReligious Education2025

    This study statistically analyzes data from 241 university students in the same religion course during the same semester, with the same instructor, enrolled in four different course modalities: face-to-face, blended, synchronous online, and asynchronous online. Across modalities, students received identical course content and assessments. When statistically controlling for gender, incoming GPA, modality motivation, teacher rapport, and peer conne…

  • An Atoning Priority in the Hymns of Calvary and Gethsemane

    John Hilton, Emily K Phillips et al.ARTICLEJournal of Mormon History2022

    When the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published a new hymnbook in 1985, it began with a preface by the First Presidency articulating their hopes for the new volume: “The hymns invite the Spirit of the Lord, create a feeling of reverence, unify us as members. . . . Some of the greatest sermons are preached by the singing of hymns.”1 In the Latter-day Saint tradition, hymns serve to instruct and reinforce doctrine.Of all the doctrine…

  • Toward an Early Warning System for Monitoring Asylum-Related Migration Flows in Europe

    Open AccessJoanna Napierała, John Hilton et al.ARTICLEInternational Migration Review2022Citada por: 2Referências: 43

    Asylum-related migration is highly complex, uncertain, and volatile, which precludes using standard model-based predictions to inform policy and operational decisions. At the same time, asylum's potentially high societal impacts on receiving countries and the resource implications of asylum processes call for more proactive approaches for assessing current and future migration flows. In this article, we propose an alternative approach to asylum m…

  • Terms for Homeland in the Writings of the Emperor Julian and in the Aethiopica of Heliodorus

    Open AccessJohn HiltonARTICLEAkroterion2022Referências: 1

    In his writings the emperor Julian states that he has three homelands: Constantinople, Athens and Rome, and yet he refers to his youthful relegation to Macellum as an exile and he more than once approvingly deploys the sayings of the Cynic philosopher, Diogenes, that he was without a home and that he was a citizen of the universe. At the same time, Julian believed that human salvation was possible and that the soul could escape this world and asc…

  • Religiosity Outcomes in Post-Secondary Courses

    John Hilton, Heidi A VogelerARTICLEReligious Education2021

    This study compares outcomes relating to religiosity in two different religion courses to identify possible differences in the outcomes received by students who took the course online asynchronously versus face-to-face. We also seek to identify whether students enrolled in the same online religion course report different learning outcomes based on the different instructors teaching the same course. Using a validated instrument measuring affective…

  • Identifying Student Perceptions of Different Instantiations of Open Pedagogy

    Open AccessJohn Hilton, Bryson Hilton et al.ARTICLEThe International Review of…2020

    As the adoption of open educational resources (OER) continues to increase, instructors have started using these resources for more than simply delivering content. Open pedagogy is a term used to describe a range of instructional practices that often incorporate OER into the learning process. This study examined student perceptions of two approaches to open pedagogy—student creation of multiple-choice questions and student creation of the syllabus…

  • The Analgesic Elephant and the Black Rose of India (Achilles Tatius 4.2-5)

    John HiltonARTICLEMnemosyne2019

    This article examines the discourse of Charmides, an army general attempting to suppress the banditry of the boukoloi in the Nile delta, about the analgesic power of the breath of elephants fed on the ‘black rose of India’ in Achilles Tatius’ novel, Leucippe and Clitophon (4.2-5). It explores the narrative context, the characterization of the military commander, the use of elephants as moral exempla for human behaviour, and the sub-text of Charmi…

  • Speaking Truth to Power

    John HiltonCHAPTERIntellectual and Empire in…2018

    The article suggests a probable context for the clash between the gymnosophists and the Ethiopian king Hydaspes in the Aethiopica of Heliodorus. The model for this stand-off is of course the famous encounter between Alexander III of Macedon and the ascetic sages of India, who were initially likened to the Hellenistic Cynics. In the third century of the Roman Empire, the holy man Apollonius of Tyana, who had ostentatiously opposed the autocratic R…

  • Streamlining Simulation Experiments with Agent-Based Models in Demography

    Open AccessOliver Reinhardt, John Hilton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Artificial Societies…2018

    In the last decade, the uptake of agent-based modeling in demography and other population sciences has been slowly increasing. Still, in such areas, where traditional data-driven, statistical approaches prevail, the hypothesis-driven design of agent-based models leads to questioning the validity of these models. Consequently, suitable means to increase the confidence into models and simulation results are required. To that end, explicit, replicab…

  • Nomos, Physis, and Ethnicity in the Emperor Julian’s Interpretation of the Tower of Babel Story

    John HiltonARTICLEThe Classical World2018

    Interpretations of the Tower of Babel narrative were of great importance in the clash between Hellenism and Christianity in the fourth century of our era. Interest in the subject can be traced to Alexandrian comparative mythographers, whose ideas were contested by Philo. Later, Hellenic philosophers such as Celsus viewed the story in terms of Herodotean cultural relativity (nomos). This standpoint was strongly opposed by the Christian apologist O…

  • The cost of leadership

    John HiltonCHAPTERMass and Elite in the Greek and…2017

    This chapter focuses on two very unusual texts: Julian's Misopogon and Heliodorus' Aethiopica. The Misopogon has recently been interpreted as 'a conscious attempt to impose Julian's interpretation of events after a long failure to communicate as the people of Antioch expected' and as 'Julian's conscious attempt to redirect and reshape the interpretation of what was a failure of ritualized communication on his part'. This view of the work depends …

  • Emeralds and Embassies in the Ethiopian Story of Heliodorus

    Open AccessJohn Hilton, J L HILTONARTICLEAkroterion2017Citada por: 1Referências: 7

    In The Ethiopian story of Heliodorus reference is made to a disputebetween the Persians and the Ethiopians over control of the emeraldmines to the south of Egypt. This disagreement leads to war betweenthese two nations and sets the action of the plot of the novel inmotion. When taken together with the similar manner in whichprecious stones are viewed in The Ethiopian story and in the pseudo-Orphic Lithica — a poem about the magical properties of …

  • Choosing the choice

    Open AccessJonathan Gray, John Hilton et al.ARTICLEPopulation Studies2017Citada por: 3Referências: 53

    This paper investigates the issues associated with choosing appropriate models of choice for demographic agent-based models. In particular, we discuss the importance of context, time preference, and dealing with uncertainty in decision modelling, as well as the heterogeneity between agents in their decision-making strategies. The paper concludes by advocating empirically driven, modular, and multi-model approaches to designing simulations of huma…

  • Open educational resources and college textbook choices

    Open AccessJohn HiltonARTICLEEducational Technology Research…2016

    Textbooks are a vital component in many higher education contexts. Increasing textbook prices, coupled with general rising costs of higher education have led some instructors to experiment with substituting open educational resources (OER) for commercial textbooks as their primary class curriculum. This article synthesizes the results of 16 studies that examine either (1) the influence of OER on student learning outcomes in higher education setti…

  • Alignment of systematic reviews published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and the Database of Abstracts and Reviews of Effectiveness with global burden-of-disease data

    Sze Lin Yoong, Alix Hall et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2015

  • Gandhi, Carpenter, Schreiner and the Crisis of Modern Civilisation at the Turn of the 20th Century

    John HiltonARTICLEAfrican Studies2015Citada por: 3Referências: 20

    In his published works MK Gandhi frequently refers the concept of 'civilisation'. Gandhi divided this concept into two distinct types: modern and ancient. The former he identified chiefly with western industrial and technological civilisation that had, in his view, reduced the West to a state of 'cultural anarchy', while he viewed the latter far more positively. In his Platonic dialogue, Hind Swaraj, this distinction is drawn very emphatically. H…

  • Correlation between grade point averages and student evaluation of teaching scores

    Tyler J Griffin, John Hilton et al.ARTICLEAssessment & Evaluation in Higher…2014

    One of the most contentious potential sources of bias is whether instructors who give higher grades receive higher ratings from students. We examined the grade point averages (GPAs) and student ratings across 2073 general education religion courses at a large private university. A moderate correlation was found between GPAs and student evaluations of teaching (SETs); however, this global correlation did not hold true for individual teachers and c…

  • The Impact of Open Textbooks on Secondary Science Learning Outcomes

    Open AccessT Jared Robinson, Lane Fischer et al.ARTICLEEducational Researcher2014Citada por: 3Referências: 27

    Given the increasing costs associated with commercial textbooks and decreasing financial support of public schools, it is important to better understand the impacts of open educational resources on student outcomes. The purpose of this quantitative study is to analyze whether the adoption of open science textbooks significantly affects science learning outcomes for secondary students in earth systems, chemistry, and physics. This study uses a qua…

  • When Demography Met Social Simulation

    Open AccessEric Silverman, Jakub Bijak et al.ARTICLEJournal of Artificial Societies…2013

    In this paper we present an agent-based model of a human population, designed to illustrate the potential synergies between demography and agent-based social simulation. In the modelling process, we take advantage of the perspectives of both disciplines: demography being more focused on matching statistical models to empirical data, and social simulation on explanations of social mechanisms underlying the observed phenomena. This work is based on…

  • The cost and quality of online open textbooks

    Open AccessTJ Bliss, Timm Bliss et al.ARTICLEFirst Monday2013

    Proponents of open educational resources (OER) claim that significant cost savings are possible when open textbooks displace traditional textbooks in the college classroom. We investigated student and faculty perceptions of OER used in a community college context. Over 125 students and 11 faculty from seven colleges responded to an online questionnaire about the cost and quality of the open textbooks used in their classrooms. Results showed that …

  • Theodor Mommsen and the Liberal Opposition to British Imperialism at the time of the Second South African War of Independence (1899-1902)

    John Hilton, J L HILTONARTICLEClassical Receptions Journal2013Citada por: 1Referências: 4

    The German ancient historian, Theodor Mommsen, was widely admired in 19th-century British society. It came as shock then when Mommsen trenchantly condemned the British declaration of war against the Boer Republics in 1899. The force of this critique was underscored when the Swedish Nobel Prize committee awarded Mommsen the award for literature in 1902 much to the surprise of many, including Mommsen himself. Mommsen's high-profile attack on the wa…

  • Reforging the Wedding Ring

    Open AccessJakub Bijak, John Hilton et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2013Citada por: 8Referências: 35

    We extend the "Wedding Ringâ agent-based model of marriage formation to include some empirical information on the natural population change for the United Kingdom together with behavioural explanations that drive the observed nuptiality trends

  • The Herschel Obelisk, Classics, and Egyptomania at the Cape

    Open AccessJohn Hilton, J L HILTONARTICLEAkroterion2012Referências: 2

    Immediately prior to his departure from Cape Town to England in 1838, Sir John Herschel sold the estate, ‘Feldhausen’,1 on which he had erected his telescope and had conducted his astronomical observations, to Mr. R. J. Jones, an auctioneer. The property was sold with a servitude: a circular patch of ground 63 feet in diameter bounded by newly planted fir trees was to be kept in Sir John’s possession in perpetuity.2 This area marked the spot on w…

  • Maria Mouton in the Heart of the Country

    Open AccessMarianne De Jong, John HiltonARTICLEJournal of Literary Studies2011

    This article notes and substantiates the intertextual link between an eighteenth- century case of adultery and murder involving Maria Mouton in the Tulbagh area of the Cape of Good Hope and the narrative in J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country (1977). The details of the crime and subsequent execution of Maria Mouton and her accomplices, which are recorded in the Cape Archives, provide the historical facts that are absorbed into Magda's fict…