J Oliver
Biographic Data
| ID | 16216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Oliver |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Oliver |
| SIGNATURE | OLIVER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0152-436X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The archaeology of whin mills in post-medieval north-east Scotland
Whin mills were horse-powered machines used extensively in north-east Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries to crush gorse for animal fodder. Although the few that remain form an important tangible legacy of improvement agriculture that sought to adapt, exploit and capitalise on an abundant resource, they are commonly overlooked within the mostly top-down and estate-level-dominated historical literature of the improvement period. This paper pre…
A Data-Driven Model to Predict Quality of Life Dimensions of People with Intellectual Disability Based on the Gencat Scale
Perspectives on user engagement of satellite Earth observation for water quality management
The management and governance of our surface waters is core to life and prosperity on our planet. However, monitoring data are not available to many potential users and the disparate nature of water bodies makes consistent monitoring across so many systems difficult. While satellite Earth observation (EO) offers solutions, there are numerous challenges that limit the use of satellite EO for water monitoring. To understand the perceptions of using…
Exploring co-production in community heritage research
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations
I was honored that Lee Alston asked me to be the convener for the Nevins Prize Competition this year. There were close to a dozen submissions spanning a
On decentring ethnicity in buildings research
The concept of ethnicity is a prevailing explanatory device in studies of colonial architecture. This paper argues for decentring ethnicity in buildings research through treating buildings as 'assemblages' of both material and social 'things'. Drawing on a case study from the late 19th-century settler landscape of Manitoba, Canada, we illustrate how settler architecture - conceived of as an 'assemblage' - can shed light on the events, processes a…
The Bennachie Colony
Between islands of ethnicity and shared landscapes
This article reviews and rethinks the study of cultural landscapes in the context of western Canadian settlement history. The historiography of scholarship on the colonial period, across a broad array of disciplines, follows themes central to the study of continuity and change in settler societies, including assimilation, cultural revivalism and transnationalism. Influenced by historical conditions particular to the region, namely, the creation o…
In Memoriam
of Chicago, where he studied
Contemporary and Historical Archaeology of the North
Placing the North
Russian America
On mapping and its afterlife
This paper contributes to recent postcolonial debates about the cartography of European expansion and its implications for constructing North American landscapes. It does so by moving beyond a pure deconstructionist critique of mapping by drawing on range of theoretical literature that encourages a view of cartography as being inextricably tied to the social relations of production and consumption. In particular, it emphasizes the point that maps…
La población de Manila y las capellanías de misas de los españoles
Este estudio se centra en las características de las capellanías de Manila hasta 1672. Para ello se utiliza la documentación proveniente de un libro de registros de capellanías. Además de exponer el desarrollo de esa institución, la información cuantitativa y cualitativa recabada sirve para estudiar aspectos demográficos, sociales, culturales y económicos de la población española de Manila durante una buena parte del siglo XVII. Entre las novedad…
A Comparative Study of the Management of Cases of Deliberate Self-Harm in a District General Hospital
A controlled study was undertaken of two services assessing and managing cases of deliberate self-harm admitted to a casualty department. The first service featured psychiatrists only and the second included psychiatric social workers as well as psychiatrists. A combination of standardized instruments, a structured questionnaire, a twelve month diary and medical and social work files were used to collect information. Demographic factors, repetiti…
How Large Should the Sample Be? Part II—The One-Sample Case for Survey Research
In a previous article, the authors discuss the importance of the effect size and the Type II error as factors in determining the sample size (Hinkle and Oliver, 1983). Tables were developed and presented for one-factor designs with k levels (2 ≤ k ≤ 8). However, between the time the article was submitted and its publication, the authors presented these tables at several national and regional meetings. A recurring question from colleagues attendin…
How Large Should the Sample be? A Question with no Simple Answer? or
A recurring problem in behavioral science research is that of determining the appropriate sample size before conducting a research investigation. The more common approaches to this problem have been to apply indiscriminantly the formulae used in survey research without considering the factors necessary for using these formulae. The most important of these factors is the Effect Size. In this paper, tables for the appropriate sample sizes are prese…
Insurance and Natural Disaster Management
Ludwig Becker
A Review of Flood Problems in Tropical Queensland
Conference news
Early North Queensland housing as response to environment
The development of the distinctive characteristics of houses in tropical north Queensland is considered from the viewpoint of the environmental influences to which the first settlers and house builders were exposed. Faced with the challenges of a different environment, these settlers were primarily concerned with meeting the basic needs for their new life. Social and economic factors and the environmental perceptions of the early explorers and se…
Tropical cyclone
The Development and Structure of the Furniture Industry
Land and Water Use
On mapping and its afterlife
This paper contributes to recent postcolonial debates about the cartography of European expansion and its implications for constructing North American landscapes. It does so by moving beyond a pure deconstructionist critique of mapping by drawing on range of theoretical literature that encourages a view of cartography as being inextricably tied to the social relations of production and consumption. In particular, it emphasizes the point that maps…
Between islands of ethnicity and shared landscapes
This article reviews and rethinks the study of cultural landscapes in the context of western Canadian settlement history. The historiography of scholarship on the colonial period, across a broad array of disciplines, follows themes central to the study of continuity and change in settler societies, including assimilation, cultural revivalism and transnationalism. Influenced by historical conditions particular to the region, namely, the creation o…
Tropical cyclone
On decentring ethnicity in buildings research
The concept of ethnicity is a prevailing explanatory device in studies of colonial architecture. This paper argues for decentring ethnicity in buildings research through treating buildings as 'assemblages' of both material and social 'things'. Drawing on a case study from the late 19th-century settler landscape of Manitoba, Canada, we illustrate how settler architecture - conceived of as an 'assemblage' - can shed light on the events, processes a…
Exploring co-production in community heritage research
The Bennachie Colony
The Development and Structure of the Furniture Industry
Placing the North
La población de Manila y las capellanías de misas de los españoles
Este estudio se centra en las características de las capellanías de Manila hasta 1672. Para ello se utiliza la documentación proveniente de un libro de registros de capellanías. Además de exponer el desarrollo de esa institución, la información cuantitativa y cualitativa recabada sirve para estudiar aspectos demográficos, sociales, culturales y económicos de la población española de Manila durante una buena parte del siglo XVII. Entre las novedad…
A Comparative Study of the Management of Cases of Deliberate Self-Harm in a District General Hospital
A controlled study was undertaken of two services assessing and managing cases of deliberate self-harm admitted to a casualty department. The first service featured psychiatrists only and the second included psychiatric social workers as well as psychiatrists. A combination of standardized instruments, a structured questionnaire, a twelve month diary and medical and social work files were used to collect information. Demographic factors, repetiti…
Municipal Revenue Other Than Government Grants
Land and Water Use
The Development and Structure of the Furniture Industry
Tropical cyclone
Early North Queensland housing as response to environment
The development of the distinctive characteristics of houses in tropical north Queensland is considered from the viewpoint of the environmental influences to which the first settlers and house builders were exposed. Faced with the challenges of a different environment, these settlers were primarily concerned with meeting the basic needs for their new life. Social and economic factors and the environmental perceptions of the early explorers and se…
Conference news
A Review of Flood Problems in Tropical Queensland
Ludwig Becker
How Large Should the Sample be? A Question with no Simple Answer? or
A recurring problem in behavioral science research is that of determining the appropriate sample size before conducting a research investigation. The more common approaches to this problem have been to apply indiscriminantly the formulae used in survey research without considering the factors necessary for using these formulae. The most important of these factors is the Effect Size. In this paper, tables for the appropriate sample sizes are prese…
Insurance and Natural Disaster Management
How Large Should the Sample Be? Part II—The One-Sample Case for Survey Research
In a previous article, the authors discuss the importance of the effect size and the Type II error as factors in determining the sample size (Hinkle and Oliver, 1983). Tables were developed and presented for one-factor designs with k levels (2 ≤ k ≤ 8). However, between the time the article was submitted and its publication, the authors presented these tables at several national and regional meetings. A recurring question from colleagues attendin…
A Comparative Study of the Management of Cases of Deliberate Self-Harm in a District General Hospital
A controlled study was undertaken of two services assessing and managing cases of deliberate self-harm admitted to a casualty department. The first service featured psychiatrists only and the second included psychiatric social workers as well as psychiatrists. A combination of standardized instruments, a structured questionnaire, a twelve month diary and medical and social work files were used to collect information. Demographic factors, repetiti…
La población de Manila y las capellanías de misas de los españoles
Este estudio se centra en las características de las capellanías de Manila hasta 1672. Para ello se utiliza la documentación proveniente de un libro de registros de capellanías. Además de exponer el desarrollo de esa institución, la información cuantitativa y cualitativa recabada sirve para estudiar aspectos demográficos, sociales, culturales y económicos de la población española de Manila durante una buena parte del siglo XVII. Entre las novedad…
On mapping and its afterlife
This paper contributes to recent postcolonial debates about the cartography of European expansion and its implications for constructing North American landscapes. It does so by moving beyond a pure deconstructionist critique of mapping by drawing on range of theoretical literature that encourages a view of cartography as being inextricably tied to the social relations of production and consumption. In particular, it emphasizes the point that maps…
Russian America
In Memoriam
of Chicago, where he studied
Contemporary and Historical Archaeology of the North
Placing the North
The Bennachie Colony
Between islands of ethnicity and shared landscapes
This article reviews and rethinks the study of cultural landscapes in the context of western Canadian settlement history. The historiography of scholarship on the colonial period, across a broad array of disciplines, follows themes central to the study of continuity and change in settler societies, including assimilation, cultural revivalism and transnationalism. Influenced by historical conditions particular to the region, namely, the creation o…
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations
I was honored that Lee Alston asked me to be the convener for the Nevins Prize Competition this year. There were close to a dozen submissions spanning a
On decentring ethnicity in buildings research
The concept of ethnicity is a prevailing explanatory device in studies of colonial architecture. This paper argues for decentring ethnicity in buildings research through treating buildings as 'assemblages' of both material and social 'things'. Drawing on a case study from the late 19th-century settler landscape of Manitoba, Canada, we illustrate how settler architecture - conceived of as an 'assemblage' - can shed light on the events, processes a…
Exploring co-production in community heritage research
Perspectives on user engagement of satellite Earth observation for water quality management
The management and governance of our surface waters is core to life and prosperity on our planet. However, monitoring data are not available to many potential users and the disparate nature of water bodies makes consistent monitoring across so many systems difficult. While satellite Earth observation (EO) offers solutions, there are numerous challenges that limit the use of satellite EO for water monitoring. To understand the perceptions of using…
A Data-Driven Model to Predict Quality of Life Dimensions of People with Intellectual Disability Based on the Gencat Scale
Geography (14 works) · History (11 works) · History (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works)