Richard J Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 181784 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard J Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard J |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lethbridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9558-9588 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 79 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 78 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Concrete Alliance
Which substances pose the greatest risk of substance use disorder after controlling for polysubstance use
Both physiological and epidemiological research suggest that certain psychoactive substances have a greater potential for abuse (e.g. heroin) than others (e.g. hallucinogens). The use of multiple substances is also associated with a higher risk of substance use disorder (SUD). The goal of the present study was to evaluate the association between the use of different substances and the risk of SUD while accounting for polysubstance use. Data from …
Doing Cities, Visually
It’s an unusually bright spring morning in Glasgow, and I am standing under the southern end of the Kingston Bridge, the colossal structure that carries the M8 across the River Clyde. If you know G
The politics of public space at São Paulo’s Parque Minhocão
São Paulo’s Minhocão (Big Worm) is a 3.5 km elevated expresswaythat cuts across a dense part of the central city. Opened in 1971, itwas controversial from the start, and widely held responsible for thedecline of the city’s historic centre in the 1970s and 1980s. However, ithas been gradually tamed over the years, first closed to traffic at night,and then at weekends and on holidays, becoming an impromptu park,the Parque Minhocão, which has had of…
Treaty Rights as a Source for First Nation Social and Economic Development
In recent decades, First Nations across Canada have used a variety of instruments to rebuild their economies and societies, not without a struggle but also with measurable success. These instruments include levers like certain provisions of the Indian Act related to taxation on reserve, the pursuit of specific and comprehensive land claims, Treaty Land Entitlement settlements that have provided an avenue for the creation of urban-based reserves a…
Migrating from Land-Based to Online Gambling
Making Change
Whereas gambling treatment-seeking rates are low, rates of self-change attempts are high. The public health challenge is to promote self-change efforts among people beginning to experience gambling problems, facilitate success at self-change by providing accessible support for use of successful strategies, and provide seamless bridges to a range of other treatments when desired or required
The Perceived Causes of Problems with Substance Use, Gambling, and Other Behavioural Addictions from the Perspective of People with Lived Experience
Addiction chronicity
Background All addictions have a recurring nature, but their comparative chronicity has never been directly investigated. The purpose of this study is to undertake this investigation.Method A secondary analysis was conducted on two large scale 5-year Canadian adult cohort studies. A subset of 1,088 individuals were assessed as having either substance use disorder, gambling disorder, excessive behaviors (e.g. shopping, sex/pornography), or two or …
Formation sur la naloxone en clinique de médecine familiale, une mesure prometteuse
Plusieurs interventions visent à réduire les surdoses aux opioïdes, dont la formation sur l’administration de la naloxone, un antidote permettant de renverser temporairement une surdose. Néanmoins, celles-ci ciblent davantage des personnes qui fréquentent les organismes de rue ou les cliniques spécialisées en dépendance. Moins nombreuses sont les initiatives ciblant les patients suivis en clinique de médecine familiale et traités avec des opioïde…
Predictors of gambling and problem gambling in Canada
The Conceptual Framework of Harmful Gambling
The importance of friends and family to recreational gambling, at-risk gambling, and problem gambling
These analyses offer an examination of the similarities and differences between gambling subtypes. An important finding throughout the analyses is that the gambling involvement of family and friends is strongly related to Recreational Gambling, At-Risk Gambling, and Problem/Pathological Gambling. This suggests that targeting the social networks of heavily involved Recreational Gamblers and At-Risk Gamblers (in addition to Problem/Pathological Gam…
Models for assessing engineered nanomaterial fate and behaviour in the aquatic environment
Global multi-pollutant modelling of water quality
Assessing global water quality issues requires a multi-pollutant modelling approach. We discuss scientific challenges and future directions for such modeling. Multi-pollutant river models need to integrate information on sources of pollutants such as plastic debris, nutrients, chemicals, pathogens, their effects and possible solutions. In this paper, we first explain what we consider multi-pollutant modelling. Second, we discuss scientific challe…
Model inter-comparison design for large-scale water quality models
A qualitative examination of factors underlying transitions in problem gambling severity
Background: The current study sought to explore the narrative accounts of individuals who underwent changes in their problem gambling severity, and identify subjective factors underlying these transitions. Additionally, respondents’ perceived change in their gambling behavior was compared with a validated measure of problem gambling severity.Methods: Participants were recruited from The Leisure, Lifestyle, & Lifecycle Project (LLLP), a prospectiv…
Cotton Compress
Cotton Compress* Robert J. Williams (bio) 1949 They marched into the yard like survivors of a massive blizzard. Cotton dust powdered the tops of their denim caps and unkempt heads, despite Vina's repeated directive to "Brush it off, leave it outside!" Their conversations, bounded by boisterous, doubled-over laughs, carried on all the way to the porch and into the orderly line they formed at the kitchen door. They cussed the most incompetent forem…
Future changes in climatic water balance determine potential for transformational shifts in Australian fire regimes
Most studies of climate change effects on fire regimes assume a gradual reorganization of pyrogeographic patterns and have not considered the potential for transformational changes in the climate-vegetation-fire relationships underlying continental-scale fire regimes. Here, we model current fire activity levels in Australia as a function of mean annual actual evapotranspiration (E) and potential evapotranspiration (E ), as proxies for fuel produc…
Child mortality, health expenditure and poverty in the western nations 1979-2010
Child mortality rates (0-4 years) between 1979 and 2010 and poverty were shown to be significantly worse in five of the six English-speaking countries than in the other 15 western nations suggesting that in these countries children are relatively disadvantaged
Social Media and Body Image Concerns
Manufacturing regional disparity in the pursuit of economic equality
The Province of Alberta in 2001 implemented the First Nations Gaming Policy (FNGP) to improve First Nations development potential by permitting the construction of reserve casinos. This article argues that during the policy development stages provincial and First Nations leaders failed to consider the geographic placement of reserve communities, both in terms of where casinos would be placed and how gaming revenues would ultimately be distributed…
Assessing the Impact of the Introduction of Casinos in Two Northern Alberta First Nation Communities
This article argues that socio-economic analyses of reserve casino projects, specifically those studies structured to offer an overall assessment of success or failure, need to embrace mixed methods approaches. In particular, eliciting community-based perspectives through qualitative data gathering techniques is essential to provide a level of context required to better understand the casinos' overall influence. To date researchers tend to rely o…
The First Nations’ Contribution to Alberta’s Charitable Gaming Model
En 2001, l’Alberta a mis en place une politique, la First Nations Gaming Policy, qui permet aux Autochtones de construire des casinos dans les réserves, mais qui stipule que 30 % des revenus du jeu réalisés par ces casinos doivent être versés au gouvernement qui les utilise ensuite à des fins caritatives dans la province. Durant les six années qui ont suivi l’ouverture du premier casino sur une réserve, presque toutes les nations autochtones ont …
A comparative profile of the Internet gambler
Overcoming the methodological limitations of many previous studies, the present study employs a two-phased approach to data collection, and a weighted approach to data analysis, thereby obtaining survey data from 1954 Internet gamblers and 5967 non-Internet gamblers. Using this data, the authors examine: (1) the comparative demographic and health characteristics of Internet versus land-based gamblers; (2) the characteristics predictive of Interne…
Role of Sexual Orientation and Gender-Related Traits in Disordered Eating
Gender Traits and Self-Concept as Indicators of Problem Eating and Body Dissatisfaction Among Children
Global multi-pollutant modelling of water quality
Assessing global water quality issues requires a multi-pollutant modelling approach. We discuss scientific challenges and future directions for such modeling. Multi-pollutant river models need to integrate information on sources of pollutants such as plastic debris, nutrients, chemicals, pathogens, their effects and possible solutions. In this paper, we first explain what we consider multi-pollutant modelling. Second, we discuss scientific challe…
Provincial agendas, local responses
This article explores the application of the so‐called “common sense” agenda of the Ontario government to the municipal sector in selected communities. By examining a range of restructuring proposals considered and/or adopted during 1995–97 in six municipalities in southern Ontario the study addresses two objectives. First, it delineates the manner in which the term “rationalize” has been understood by the province and the municipalities. Evidenc…
Constituency Service among Sub-National Legislators in Australia and Canada
Numerous studies confirm the significance of service work, a universal and time consuming responsibility of legislators (e.g., Kornberg and Campbell, 1978; Mezey, 1979). However, a recent survey reports that is relatively little detailed description or quantitative analysis of allocational and service activities, particularly from western countries outside Britain, Canada, and the United States (Jewell, 1985, p. 114). Moreover, while comparisons …
Model inter-comparison design for large-scale water quality models
How Much Money Do You Spend on Gambling?’ The Comparative Validity of Question Wordings Used to Assess Gambling Expenditure
Gambling expenditure is a commonly asked question in jurisdiction‐wide surveys of gambling behaviour and in surveys of household spending. However, the validity of self‐reported gambling expenditure is questionable due to the fact that these expenditures usually do not match actual gambling revenue. The present study asked a random sample of 2424 Ontario adult gamblers, in 12 different ways, about past month gambling expenditure. The relative val…
Desirable and undesirable gender traits in three behavioral domains
Reforming rural Ontario
This paper turns the scholarly spotlight onto an overlooked aspect of the Ontario municipal system by exploring the issue of county government reform in four selected communities in southern Ontario. Various proposals for county government reform have been advanced by the provincial government during the last quarter‐century; here we consider the “common sense” approach to municipal government reform adopted by the Harris government after its ele…
Body Dissatisfaction as a Mediator of the Relationship between Dietary Restraint and Bulimic Eating Patterns
Social Media and Body Image Concerns
A comparative profile of the Internet gambler
Overcoming the methodological limitations of many previous studies, the present study employs a two-phased approach to data collection, and a weighted approach to data analysis, thereby obtaining survey data from 1954 Internet gamblers and 5967 non-Internet gamblers. Using this data, the authors examine: (1) the comparative demographic and health characteristics of Internet versus land-based gamblers; (2) the characteristics predictive of Interne…
Problem gambling on the internet
The proportion of North American gamblers who choose to gamble on the internet is increasing at a dramatic rate. Unfortunately, however, relatively little is known about the characteristics of these individuals or their propensity for problem gambling. Past studies predict that internet gamblers are especially at risk for developing gambling problems and that a substantial proportion of them already can be properly classified as problem gamblers.…
Modernist Civic Space and the Case of Brasília
Is architectural modernism necessarily hostile to civic life? Or can it be said to produce civic life in new terms? This article explores the experience of the civic realm of the modernist city with regard to Brasilia, the new capital of Brazil and by far the largest city built on modernist lines. Designed by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer in the 1950s, and inaugurated to international acclaim in 1960, it subsequently came to represent an authori…
Managers' Business School Education and Military Service
This study examined the moderating influence of two top management team (TMT) characteristics, namely managers possessing an MBA education or prior military experience, on the relationships between firm size and corporate criminal activity, and firm strategy and corporate criminal activity. The study utilized data from 184 Fortune 500 companies. The results suggest that both graduate business education and prior military service among members of …
Political Corruption in the United States
Corruption and scandal have long been regular and conspicuous features of American politics and government. From the land, oil and railroad scandals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the presidential, congressional and electoral scandals of the late twentieth century, the United States has rarely enjoyed a reputation for political probity or institutional integrity. Some American states are less corrupt than others and the federa…
Incidence of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Northeastern Manitoba
Human sex ratio as it relates to caloric availability
The relationship between human sex ratios at birth and caloric availability per capita was examined across different countries. Significant positive correlations were obtained between the amount of food a country had available and the percentage of male births. Furthermore, increases or decreases in a country's caloric availability were related to corresponding changes in that country's sex ratio. These results provide evidence of adaptive sex ra…
Meningitis and unpaved roads
Predictors of gambling and problem gambling in Canada
Child mortality, health expenditure and poverty in the western nations 1979-2010
Child mortality rates (0-4 years) between 1979 and 2010 and poverty were shown to be significantly worse in five of the six English-speaking countries than in the other 15 western nations suggesting that in these countries children are relatively disadvantaged
Manufacturing regional disparity in the pursuit of economic equality
The Province of Alberta in 2001 implemented the First Nations Gaming Policy (FNGP) to improve First Nations development potential by permitting the construction of reserve casinos. This article argues that during the policy development stages provincial and First Nations leaders failed to consider the geographic placement of reserve communities, both in terms of where casinos would be placed and how gaming revenues would ultimately be distributed…
The First Nations’ Contribution to Alberta’s Charitable Gaming Model
En 2001, l’Alberta a mis en place une politique, la First Nations Gaming Policy, qui permet aux Autochtones de construire des casinos dans les réserves, mais qui stipule que 30 % des revenus du jeu réalisés par ces casinos doivent être versés au gouvernement qui les utilise ensuite à des fins caritatives dans la province. Durant les six années qui ont suivi l’ouverture du premier casino sur une réserve, presque toutes les nations autochtones ont …
The Proportion of Ontario Gambling Revenue Derived from Problem Gamblers
The proportion of gambling revenue derived from problem gamblers is an important issue when considering the appropriateness of government-sponsored gambling. Figures obtained from prior research are tentative due to methodological problems and the mismatch between reported expenditures and actual gambling revenue. Using improved methods for assessing the prevalence of problem gambling and the accuracy of self-reported gambling expenditures, the p…
Canada at the Polls, 1984
This is the most recent in the At the Polls series, in which Duke University Press has joined with the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research to publish studies on the electoral process as it functions throughout the world. Cited by Choice for its high standards of scholarly analysis and objectivity, At the Polls provides both a chronicle of events and a thorough analysis of the elections results
Opinion organization in a heterogeneous population
An analysis of interperson correlations among thirty psychotics
Naming Mixed Drinks
A finding by Sobell, et al. (5) that Gamma alcoholics compared with social drinkers were deficient in a response repertoire for names of types of mixed alcoholic drinks was replicated and extended. Significant differences were recorded between alcoholics and social drinkers regardless of sex, alcoholic sub-type, or stated drink preference
Politics and the Ecology of Regulation
Politics and Regulatory Reform
Kennedy and Congress
The article attempts to develop an interpretation of some of the more important domestic aspects of the Kennedy administration. In particular, it focuses on Kennedy's relations with Congress and on the difficulty of reconciling his reputation as a skilful politician with his legislative disappointments. Case studies of three important bills reveal a consistent, if unsuccessful, legislative strategy. The manner in which the Kennedy administration …
Official Secrets and Open Government
Inside the Australian Parliament
Apologists and Revisionists
To the Precipice and Back
Political Corruption in the United States
Corruption and scandal have long been regular and conspicuous features of American politics and government. From the land, oil and railroad scandals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the presidential, congressional and electoral scandals of the late twentieth century, the United States has rarely enjoyed a reputation for political probity or institutional integrity. Some American states are less corrupt than others and the federa…
"Don't Mourn for Me-Organise…" The Social Political Uses of Voluntary Organisations
Innovation and Reaction. The Life and Death of the Federal Department of Urban and Regional Development
Local Democracies. A Study in Comparative Local Government
Unsubstantiated Beliefs among Beginning Psychology Students
Nixon's (1925) questionnaire involving unsubstantiated beliefs (superstitions) among American beginning psychology students—partially replicated by Levitt (1952)—was completed by a group of Australian, Bachelor of Arts, students, beginning their study of psychology. The mean percentage of superstition per item was reported by Nixon to be 30.4% with Levitt claiming that 25 years or so later it had dropped to 6.5% (figures for males only). In the p…
First Among Equals. Prime Ministers in Westminster Systems
Meningitis and unpaved roads
Constituency Service among Sub-National Legislators in Australia and Canada
Numerous studies confirm the significance of service work, a universal and time consuming responsibility of legislators (e.g., Kornberg and Campbell, 1978; Mezey, 1979). However, a recent survey reports that is relatively little detailed description or quantitative analysis of allocational and service activities, particularly from western countries outside Britain, Canada, and the United States (Jewell, 1985, p. 114). Moreover, while comparisons …
Canada at the Polls, 1984
This is the most recent in the At the Polls series, in which Duke University Press has joined with the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research to publish studies on the electoral process as it functions throughout the world. Cited by Choice for its high standards of scholarly analysis and objectivity, At the Polls provides both a chronicle of events and a thorough analysis of the elections results
Industrial Transformation and Challenge in Australia and Canada
Canadian and Australian economic geographers provide a comparative analysis of the economies of the two countries as both nations attempt to redefine their roles in a rapidly changing world
Human sex ratio as it relates to caloric availability
The relationship between human sex ratios at birth and caloric availability per capita was examined across different countries. Significant positive correlations were obtained between the amount of food a country had available and the percentage of male births. Furthermore, increases or decreases in a country's caloric availability were related to corresponding changes in that country's sex ratio. These results provide evidence of adaptive sex ra…
The Facade of the Palazzo dei 'Visacci
Getting on Track
Economic Rationalism in Canberra
Desirable and undesirable gender traits in three behavioral domains
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