A Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 23981 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-8566-1911 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Connecting governance and practice views on the barriers and solutions to scaled seagrass restoration in the UK
Seagrass restoration is rapidly gaining popularity in the UK. Increased public and political awareness of historic and ongoing declines, along with its value to people and planet, have inspired several restoration projects. However, there remain key bottlenecks in the seagrass restoration process preventing success at scales required to halt declines, let alone to increase habitat coverage. To improve restoration success collaboratively, it is im…
Beyond biological and social normativity: Varieties of norm deviation and the justification for intervention
The most common theoretical approaches to defining mental disorder are naturalism, normativism, and hybridism. Naturalism and normativism are often portrayed as diametrically opposed, with naturalism grounded in objective science and normativism grounded in social convention and values. Hybridism is seen as a way of combining the two. However, all three approaches share a common feature in that they conceive of mental disorders as deviations from…
Managed Wildfire: A Strategy Facilitated by Civil Society Partnerships and Interagency Cooperation
Federal land managers in the United States are permitted to manage wildfires with strategies other than full suppression under appropriate conditions to achieve natural resource objectives. However, policy and scientific support for “managed wildfire” appear insufficient to support its broad use. We conducted case studies in northern New Mexico and southwestern Utah to examine how managers and stakeholders navigated shifting barriers and opportun…
Structures spread across our seas
Brazil’s sustainability needs social sciences
From ocean sprawl to blue-green infrastructure – A UK perspective on an issue of global significance
Impact of school-based vegetable garden and physical activity coordinated health interventions on weight status and weight-related behaviors of ethnically diverse, low-income students: Study design an…
The TGEG study targets a population of students and parents at high risk of obesity and related chronic conditions, utilizing a novel and collaborative approach to program formulation and delivery, and a rigorous, randomized study design
Contribution of lifetime smoking habit in France and Northern Ireland to country and socioeconomic differentials in mortality and cardiovascular incidence: The PRIME Study
BACKGROUND: This study examines the contribution of lifetime smoking habit to the socioeconomic gradient in all-cause and smoking-related mortality and in cardiovascular incidence in two countries. METHODS: 10,600 men aged 50-59 years were examined in 1991-4 in centres in Northern Ireland and France and followed annually for 10 years. Deaths and cardiovascular events were documented. Current smoking habit, lifetime smoking (pack-years) and other …
P69 How to stop drug users dying from an overdose: A systematic review of treatment and prevention interventions in the community
Objective To describe interventions to prevent and treat overdoses in the pre-hospital setting and review their effectiveness. Design This review was undertaken in three stages: 1: systematic overview—systematic literature search for all reports of interventions to treat and prevent overdose in the pre-hospital setting; 2: systematic review—we selected comparative studies from the overview results and undertook qualitative synthesis; 3: we identi…
P70 How can patients and carers be involved in research to improve care? Developing and evaluating a model of involvement
Objective To develop and evaluate a model to involve service users in researching impact of policy. Design (a) a participative approach to develop an involvement model; (b) semi-structured interviews with service users (n=10) and researchers (n=2) to evaluate at 18 months. Setting This project took place across Wales. Research was commissioned to assess impact of the new Chronic Conditions Management (CCM) policy. We wanted service users' knowled…
Type A behaviour and consumption of an atherogenic diet: No association in the PRIME study
Trainees' perspectives on the assessment and self‐assessment of surgical skills
Self‐assessment is argued to be valuable educationally and is being advocated through policies for wider adoption within medical practice. However, students are often reluctant to self‐assess and little research has examined the reasons for this. This study explored the perceptions of trainees and postgraduates on assessment and self‐assessment of surgical skills. Data were collected through semi‐structured interviews conducted with six trainees …
Ecological Networks: Connecting environmental, economic and social systems
Social cues, such as eye gaze and pointing fingers, can increase the prioritisation of specific locations for cognitive processing. A previous study using a manual reaching task showed that, although both gaze and pointing cues altered target prioritisation (reaction times [RTs]), only pointing cues affected action execution (trajectory deviations). These differential effects of gaze and pointing cues on action execution could be because the gaze…
Changes in cigarette smoking among adults in 35 populations in the mid-1980s
Smoking initiation by middle-aged women in parts of southern and eastern Europe and among men of all ages in Beijing is a matter of concern. The various public health measures that have helped to reduce smoking among men in developed countries should be vigorously extended to these other groups now at growing risk of smoking-related disease
Public Economics and the Quality of Life
The Excavation of a Neolithic Settlement on Broome Heath, Ditchingham, Norfolk, England
The excavation of the earthwork and part of the interior of a C-shaped enclosure in south Norfolk produced evidence of a Neolithic occupation from the mid fourth to the late third millennium B.C. The earthwork was constructed at the end of the third millennium B.C. and palaeobotanical analyses of the fossil soil beneath it produced information concerning the environment of the time. Quantities of pot-sherds and stone tools were recorded from the …
The Excavation of a Neolithic Settlement on Broome Heath, Ditchingham, Norfolk, England
The excavation of the earthwork and part of the interior of a C-shaped enclosure in south Norfolk produced evidence of a Neolithic occupation from the mid fourth to the late third millennium B.C. The earthwork was constructed at the end of the third millennium B.C. and palaeobotanical analyses of the fossil soil beneath it produced information concerning the environment of the time. Quantities of pot-sherds and stone tools were recorded from the …
From ocean sprawl to blue-green infrastructure – A UK perspective on an issue of global significance
Ecological Networks: Connecting environmental, economic and social systems
Social cues, such as eye gaze and pointing fingers, can increase the prioritisation of specific locations for cognitive processing. A previous study using a manual reaching task showed that, although both gaze and pointing cues altered target prioritisation (reaction times [RTs]), only pointing cues affected action execution (trajectory deviations). These differential effects of gaze and pointing cues on action execution could be because the gaze…
Brazil’s sustainability needs social sciences
The Excavation of a Neolithic Settlement on Broome Heath, Ditchingham, Norfolk, England
The excavation of the earthwork and part of the interior of a C-shaped enclosure in south Norfolk produced evidence of a Neolithic occupation from the mid fourth to the late third millennium B.C. The earthwork was constructed at the end of the third millennium B.C. and palaeobotanical analyses of the fossil soil beneath it produced information concerning the environment of the time. Quantities of pot-sherds and stone tools were recorded from the …
Public Economics and the Quality of Life
Changes in cigarette smoking among adults in 35 populations in the mid-1980s
Smoking initiation by middle-aged women in parts of southern and eastern Europe and among men of all ages in Beijing is a matter of concern. The various public health measures that have helped to reduce smoking among men in developed countries should be vigorously extended to these other groups now at growing risk of smoking-related disease
Ecological Networks: Connecting environmental, economic and social systems
Social cues, such as eye gaze and pointing fingers, can increase the prioritisation of specific locations for cognitive processing. A previous study using a manual reaching task showed that, although both gaze and pointing cues altered target prioritisation (reaction times [RTs]), only pointing cues affected action execution (trajectory deviations). These differential effects of gaze and pointing cues on action execution could be because the gaze…
Trainees' perspectives on the assessment and self‐assessment of surgical skills
Self‐assessment is argued to be valuable educationally and is being advocated through policies for wider adoption within medical practice. However, students are often reluctant to self‐assess and little research has examined the reasons for this. This study explored the perceptions of trainees and postgraduates on assessment and self‐assessment of surgical skills. Data were collected through semi‐structured interviews conducted with six trainees …
Type A behaviour and consumption of an atherogenic diet: No association in the PRIME study
P69 How to stop drug users dying from an overdose: A systematic review of treatment and prevention interventions in the community
Objective To describe interventions to prevent and treat overdoses in the pre-hospital setting and review their effectiveness. Design This review was undertaken in three stages: 1: systematic overview—systematic literature search for all reports of interventions to treat and prevent overdose in the pre-hospital setting; 2: systematic review—we selected comparative studies from the overview results and undertook qualitative synthesis; 3: we identi…
P70 How can patients and carers be involved in research to improve care? Developing and evaluating a model of involvement
Objective To develop and evaluate a model to involve service users in researching impact of policy. Design (a) a participative approach to develop an involvement model; (b) semi-structured interviews with service users (n=10) and researchers (n=2) to evaluate at 18 months. Setting This project took place across Wales. Research was commissioned to assess impact of the new Chronic Conditions Management (CCM) policy. We wanted service users' knowled…
Contribution of lifetime smoking habit in France and Northern Ireland to country and socioeconomic differentials in mortality and cardiovascular incidence: The PRIME Study
BACKGROUND: This study examines the contribution of lifetime smoking habit to the socioeconomic gradient in all-cause and smoking-related mortality and in cardiovascular incidence in two countries. METHODS: 10,600 men aged 50-59 years were examined in 1991-4 in centres in Northern Ireland and France and followed annually for 10 years. Deaths and cardiovascular events were documented. Current smoking habit, lifetime smoking (pack-years) and other …
Impact of school-based vegetable garden and physical activity coordinated health interventions on weight status and weight-related behaviors of ethnically diverse, low-income students: Study design an…
The TGEG study targets a population of students and parents at high risk of obesity and related chronic conditions, utilizing a novel and collaborative approach to program formulation and delivery, and a rigorous, randomized study design
Brazil’s sustainability needs social sciences
From ocean sprawl to blue-green infrastructure – A UK perspective on an issue of global significance
Structures spread across our seas
Managed Wildfire: A Strategy Facilitated by Civil Society Partnerships and Interagency Cooperation
Federal land managers in the United States are permitted to manage wildfires with strategies other than full suppression under appropriate conditions to achieve natural resource objectives. However, policy and scientific support for “managed wildfire” appear insufficient to support its broad use. We conducted case studies in northern New Mexico and southwestern Utah to examine how managers and stakeholders navigated shifting barriers and opportun…
Connecting governance and practice views on the barriers and solutions to scaled seagrass restoration in the UK
Seagrass restoration is rapidly gaining popularity in the UK. Increased public and political awareness of historic and ongoing declines, along with its value to people and planet, have inspired several restoration projects. However, there remain key bottlenecks in the seagrass restoration process preventing success at scales required to halt declines, let alone to increase habitat coverage. To improve restoration success collaboratively, it is im…
Beyond biological and social normativity: Varieties of norm deviation and the justification for intervention
The most common theoretical approaches to defining mental disorder are naturalism, normativism, and hybridism. Naturalism and normativism are often portrayed as diametrically opposed, with naturalism grounded in objective science and normativism grounded in social convention and values. Hybridism is seen as a way of combining the two. However, all three approaches share a common feature in that they conceive of mental disorders as deviations from…
Medicine (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Environmental planning (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Coastal and Marine Management (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Environmental resource management (3 works)