K Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | NHS Lothian |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4788-6270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Prototyping a tool to layer lived experience narratives onto systems maps
Systems mapping approaches have attracted international interest for their value to policy actors. However, the maps they create can seem impersonal and disconnected from the lived experience of the communities that policy actors serve. This paper introduces our prototype tool designed to bring systems mapping, research evidence on causal connections, and lived experience narratives together. Our inspiration came from Community Panels of people w…
Gidoodikosan Giiwitaabimin - We sit in a circle for kidneys, a strength-based qualitative study
The overall aim of this qualitative study was to inform recommendations towards Indigenous strength-based approaches for kidney health, prevention of disease and failure. Between 2020 and 2022, during the COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted online interviews and teleconferences with 16 participants from North Simcoe in Ontario, Canada. Participants shared their experiences revolving around kidney disease and care within Indigenous contexts. An adviso…
Does receipt of social housing impact mental health? Results of a quasi-experimental study in the Greater Toronto Area
Exploring the experiences and impact of middle school and high school bullying: A qualitative analysis of interviews with college women
Strategies of Language Politeness Across Tourism Service Actors: A Cross-Cultural Socio-Pragmatic Study in Lake Toba, Indonesia
Today, tourism is developing fast and many people travel. Therefore, cross-cultural communication is required to facilitate them. In the hospitality industry, politeness is essential and that includes the use of language. This paper examines the strategies of the use of language among the tourism actors in the Lake Toba area, in Indonesia
Public Space as a Stress-Relieving Healing Environment: Insights from the Center Point of Indonesia
High population and fewer opportunities in rural areas, coupled with migration has resulted in an increase of population in urban areas of developing countries like India.Unskilled labour and a low level of education have forced people to resort to street vending for their livelihood.Moreover, street vending does not need high levels of skills and there is also no rental burden.In fact, it has a very low capital requirement.They now make up about…
All that glitters isn’t calcite: A research update on crystalline artifacts from the Middle Cumberland Region
This report offers updated information from crystalline artifact research results initially presented in 2014 by Michael C. Moore and colleagues. At that time, worked and raw crystal items from four Mississippian sites in the Middle Cumberland Region of Tennessee were assessed by the Tennessee Geological Survey as calcite through visual techniques. Subsequent analysis using Fiber Optic Reflectance Spectroscopy (FORS) has determined these specimen…
Parental stress, food parenting practices and child snack intake during the Covid-19 pandemic
Exploring the potential of Google Earth as a communication and engagement tool in collaborative Natural Flood Management planning
This paper considers the development and evaluation of a Google Earth "virtual globe" tour for communicating spatial data and engaging stakeholders in the early stages of a natural flood management (NFM) planning scenario, using a rural UK river catchment that suffered significant flooding in 2007. With a range of diverse stakeholder interests to consider, early engagement and the development of trust before decision-making are essential for the …
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 46 No. 1
According to the NASW Code of Ethics, social workers are called to engage in political activity at the micro, mezzo and macro levels for the advancement of social justice and human rights.NASW has mechanisms in place to aggregate the voices of individual social workers through political activity.Drawing on a model of civic voluntarism, the aim of this study was to examine the impact of political activity on decisions by Texas social workers to jo…
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Changing distribution of the elephant genera Loxodonta and Elephas throughout the African Pleistocene: Implications for palaeoenvironmental variability
Local volunteers respond to the Rena oil spill in Maketū, New Zealand
Following the MV Rena grounding and oil spill in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand in October 2011, the Māori community of Maketū were quick to respond to the arrival of oil on their beaches. They asserted their rangatiratanga by establishing their marae as a base and successfully coordinated a clean‐up by more than 450 volunteers, feeding these volunteers every day. We interviewed 11 clean‐up leaders and volunteers in Maketū to gather information a…
D-Day in History and Memory: The Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration
Journal Article D-Day in History and Memory: The Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration Get access Michael Dolski, Sam Edwards, and John Buckley. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2014. xii, 308 pp. $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1351–1352, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav146 Published: 01 March 2015
The challenge of modelling nitrogen management at the field scale: Simulation and sensitivity analysis of N 2 O fluxes across nine experimental sites using DailyDayCent
The United Kingdom currently reports nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture using the IPCC default Tier 1 methodology. However Tier 1 estimates have a large degree of uncertainty as they do not account for spatial variations in emissions. Therefore biogeochemical models such as DailyDayCent (DDC) are increasingly being used to provide a spatially disaggregated assessment of annual emissions. Prior to use, an assessment of the ability of the mod…
P2-428 H1N1 incidence and rate of complications in pregnant women during the 2009/10 winter pandemic
Introduction Case series suggest pregnant women are at increased risk of contracting H1N1 and experiencing complications. Published studies to date have investigated symptomatic patients or ascertained serology cross-sectionally. Such studies do not allow accurate quantification of incidence and neglect mild disease when estimating complication rates. We investigated H1N1 incidence and rate of complications in unvaccinated women in Scotland durin…
P2-429 Prevalence of influenza A (H1N1) seropositivity in unvaccinated healthcare workers in Scotland at the height of the global pandemic
Introduction Susceptibility of healthcare workers (HCW) to influenza is relevant in terms of sickness absence, productivity and onward transmission of infection from carer to patient, a particular issue with a novel influenza strain. The aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of antibodies against the virus in unvaccinated healthcare workers in Lothian, south east Scotland during October- November 2009 (after the first wave of infe…
Relationship between fish intake, n -3 fatty acids, mercury and risk markers of CHD (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2002)
Background Fish consumption has been shown to be inversely associated with CHD, which may be due to n -3 fatty acids. The n -3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA, are naturally found only in marine sources. Dietary intakes of methylmercury from certain fish have been hypothesized to increase the risk of CHD. Objective To investigate the relationship between 30 d fish frequency consumption (assessed by FFQ), total blood Hg concentrations and risk markers of…
Development of a Regional Model of Care for Ambulatory Total Shoulder Arthroplasty: A Pilot Study
Level IV, therapeutic study. See the Guidelines for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.
Dickens and the Unreal City: Searching for Spiritual Significance in Nineteenth-Century London
How to access tobacco industry documents
Context: Internal industry documents may shed light on how cigarettes are designed to promote youth smoking
Not Necessarily In The Same Boat: Heterogeneous Risk Assessment Among East African Pastoralists
This paper studies variation in risk assessment by pastoralists in the arid and semi arid lands of southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya. Despite superficial homogeneity among east African pastoralists, we show that there exists considerable within-group heterogeneity in their assessment of various risks. We conceptualise risk as comprising of four distinct components: objective exposure, subjective perception, ex ante mitigation capacity, and ex …
Females' Coping Styles and Control Over Poker Machine Gambling
A comparison of the WHOQOL-100 and the WHOQOL-BREF in detecting change in quality of life following liver transplantation
Women, Writing and Revolution 1790-1827
Not Necessarily In The Same Boat: Heterogeneous Risk Assessment Among East African Pastoralists
This paper studies variation in risk assessment by pastoralists in the arid and semi arid lands of southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya. Despite superficial homogeneity among east African pastoralists, we show that there exists considerable within-group heterogeneity in their assessment of various risks. We conceptualise risk as comprising of four distinct components: objective exposure, subjective perception, ex ante mitigation capacity, and ex …
Parental stress, food parenting practices and child snack intake during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Shaugh Moor Project: Second Report—The Enclosure
The Shaugh Moor project is concerned with an area of moorland in south Dartmoor north-east and north respectively of the villages of Shaugh Prior and Wotter (fig. 1). The physical threat to the evidence for settlement and land-use caused by the operations of the China Clay industry involved the Central Excavation Unit of the Department of the Environment from 1976 in a programme of survey, excavation and environmental studies related to the settl…
The Shaugh Moor Project: First Report
Viewed from the south Devon littoral with its series of good harbours the dark bulk of Dartmoor is clearly visible across the flat coastal plain. It is the largest of the five granite masses that provide a spine to the south-west English peninsula (Dartmoor, Bodmin Moor, Hensbarrow, Carnmenellis and Penwith) that were formed by the consolidation of molten material. The 500 square kilometres of the Moor form an undulating upland up to 600 m OD on …
The Shaugh Moor Project: Fourth Report — Environment, Context and Conclusion
For five years from 1976 to 1980 the archaeology and environment of a block of landscape centred around Shaugh Moor on south-west Dartmoor were analysed prior to the destruction of some of the evidence by china clay working. The investigations began in 1976 with a survey of the field monuments and the initiation of soil, vegetation, small mammal and phosphate studies in addition to the search for peat deposits of sufficient antiquity. From 1977 t…
Tourism and climate change
Benzodiazepine anti-anxiety agents: Prevalence and correlates of use in a southern community
BACKGROUND: Benzodiazepine anti-anxiety agents are the most widely prescribed psychotherapeutic drugs in the United States today. Recent evidence, however, suggests that their use may be decreasing. METHODS: We examine the population prevalence and correlates of use of benzodiazepine anxiolytics at the Duke site of the NIMH-sponsored Epidemiologic Catchment Area project. RESULTS: Bivariate analysis of use patterns for the drugs revealed demograph…
The Shaugh Moor Project: Third Report—Settlement and Environmental Investigations
The third phase of the Shaugh Moor Project comprised survey and excavation work on the Saddlesborough Main reave and Wotter Common (fig. 1). Following the decision of the china clay companies not to develop the area immediately around Saddlesborough (Area Y), Watts, Blake and Bearne & Co Ltd and English China Clays Ltd embarked upon a joint tipping programme which will eventually destroy the terminal reave east of Saddlesborough and most of the m…
Local volunteers respond to the Rena oil spill in Maketū, New Zealand
Following the MV Rena grounding and oil spill in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand in October 2011, the Māori community of Maketū were quick to respond to the arrival of oil on their beaches. They asserted their rangatiratanga by establishing their marae as a base and successfully coordinated a clean‐up by more than 450 volunteers, feeding these volunteers every day. We interviewed 11 clean‐up leaders and volunteers in Maketū to gather information a…
Does receipt of social housing impact mental health? Results of a quasi-experimental study in the Greater Toronto Area
D-Day in History and Memory: The Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration
Journal Article D-Day in History and Memory: The Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration Get access Michael Dolski, Sam Edwards, and John Buckley. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2014. xii, 308 pp. $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1351–1352, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav146 Published: 01 March 2015
Federal-State Relations in Gun Control: The 1993 Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act
The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, which took effect in February 1994, sets minimum nationwide requirements for the sale of handguns and establishes a national criminal-background information system. Each of these thrusts of Brady involves fundamental issues of federalism. The first involves the traditional give-and-take between the states and the federal government in sorting out specific authority over the prohibition of firearm sales. …
Hydrology
Discussion in large classes via public-address system
The Shaugh Moor Project: First Report
Viewed from the south Devon littoral with its series of good harbours the dark bulk of Dartmoor is clearly visible across the flat coastal plain. It is the largest of the five granite masses that provide a spine to the south-west English peninsula (Dartmoor, Bodmin Moor, Hensbarrow, Carnmenellis and Penwith) that were formed by the consolidation of molten material. The 500 square kilometres of the Moor form an undulating upland up to 600 m OD on …
The Shaugh Moor Project: Second Report—The Enclosure
The Shaugh Moor project is concerned with an area of moorland in south Dartmoor north-east and north respectively of the villages of Shaugh Prior and Wotter (fig. 1). The physical threat to the evidence for settlement and land-use caused by the operations of the China Clay industry involved the Central Excavation Unit of the Department of the Environment from 1976 in a programme of survey, excavation and environmental studies related to the settl…
The Shaugh Moor Project: Third Report—Settlement and Environmental Investigations
The third phase of the Shaugh Moor Project comprised survey and excavation work on the Saddlesborough Main reave and Wotter Common (fig. 1). Following the decision of the china clay companies not to develop the area immediately around Saddlesborough (Area Y), Watts, Blake and Bearne & Co Ltd and English China Clays Ltd embarked upon a joint tipping programme which will eventually destroy the terminal reave east of Saddlesborough and most of the m…
The Shaugh Moor Project: Fourth Report — Environment, Context and Conclusion
For five years from 1976 to 1980 the archaeology and environment of a block of landscape centred around Shaugh Moor on south-west Dartmoor were analysed prior to the destruction of some of the evidence by china clay working. The investigations began in 1976 with a survey of the field monuments and the initiation of soil, vegetation, small mammal and phosphate studies in addition to the search for peat deposits of sufficient antiquity. From 1977 t…
Tourism and climate change
Benzodiazepine anti-anxiety agents: Prevalence and correlates of use in a southern community
BACKGROUND: Benzodiazepine anti-anxiety agents are the most widely prescribed psychotherapeutic drugs in the United States today. Recent evidence, however, suggests that their use may be decreasing. METHODS: We examine the population prevalence and correlates of use of benzodiazepine anxiolytics at the Duke site of the NIMH-sponsored Epidemiologic Catchment Area project. RESULTS: Bivariate analysis of use patterns for the drugs revealed demograph…
A comparison of public health care utilization by gay men and intravenous drug users with AIDs in San Francisco
A group of gay-identified men (n = 81) and intravenous drug users (n = 88) diagnosed with AIDS in San Francisco were surveyed regarding their use and satisfaction with their health care services. The interview contained a mix of qualitative and quantitative questions. The two groups of AIDS patients were not statistically different in terms of age or self-reported level of health during the previous 3 months, although the gay men had been diagnos…
Federal-State Relations in Gun Control: The 1993 Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act
The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, which took effect in February 1994, sets minimum nationwide requirements for the sale of handguns and establishes a national criminal-background information system. Each of these thrusts of Brady involves fundamental issues of federalism. The first involves the traditional give-and-take between the states and the federal government in sorting out specific authority over the prohibition of firearm sales. …
Reliance by gay men and intravenous drug users on friends and family for Aids-related care
A group of gay-identified men (n = 81) and intravenous drug users (n = 88) diagnosed with AIDS in San Francisco were interviewed regarding their use of friends and family to meet their care needs. Analytic of quantitative data revealed that gay men relied more than did IDUs on friends for care. Neither group relied primarily on their families for care. Analysis of the qualitative data identified five primary barriers to care. First, many people w…
Women, Writing and Revolution 1790-1827
Females' Coping Styles and Control Over Poker Machine Gambling
A comparison of the WHOQOL-100 and the WHOQOL-BREF in detecting change in quality of life following liver transplantation
Not Necessarily In The Same Boat: Heterogeneous Risk Assessment Among East African Pastoralists
This paper studies variation in risk assessment by pastoralists in the arid and semi arid lands of southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya. Despite superficial homogeneity among east African pastoralists, we show that there exists considerable within-group heterogeneity in their assessment of various risks. We conceptualise risk as comprising of four distinct components: objective exposure, subjective perception, ex ante mitigation capacity, and ex …
How to access tobacco industry documents
Context: Internal industry documents may shed light on how cigarettes are designed to promote youth smoking
Development of a Regional Model of Care for Ambulatory Total Shoulder Arthroplasty: A Pilot Study
Level IV, therapeutic study. See the Guidelines for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.
Dickens and the Unreal City: Searching for Spiritual Significance in Nineteenth-Century London
Relationship between fish intake, n -3 fatty acids, mercury and risk markers of CHD (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2002)
Background Fish consumption has been shown to be inversely associated with CHD, which may be due to n -3 fatty acids. The n -3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA, are naturally found only in marine sources. Dietary intakes of methylmercury from certain fish have been hypothesized to increase the risk of CHD. Objective To investigate the relationship between 30 d fish frequency consumption (assessed by FFQ), total blood Hg concentrations and risk markers of…
P2-428 H1N1 incidence and rate of complications in pregnant women during the 2009/10 winter pandemic
Introduction Case series suggest pregnant women are at increased risk of contracting H1N1 and experiencing complications. Published studies to date have investigated symptomatic patients or ascertained serology cross-sectionally. Such studies do not allow accurate quantification of incidence and neglect mild disease when estimating complication rates. We investigated H1N1 incidence and rate of complications in unvaccinated women in Scotland durin…
P2-429 Prevalence of influenza A (H1N1) seropositivity in unvaccinated healthcare workers in Scotland at the height of the global pandemic
Introduction Susceptibility of healthcare workers (HCW) to influenza is relevant in terms of sickness absence, productivity and onward transmission of infection from carer to patient, a particular issue with a novel influenza strain. The aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of antibodies against the virus in unvaccinated healthcare workers in Lothian, south east Scotland during October- November 2009 (after the first wave of infe…
The challenge of modelling nitrogen management at the field scale: Simulation and sensitivity analysis of N 2 O fluxes across nine experimental sites using DailyDayCent
The United Kingdom currently reports nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture using the IPCC default Tier 1 methodology. However Tier 1 estimates have a large degree of uncertainty as they do not account for spatial variations in emissions. Therefore biogeochemical models such as DailyDayCent (DDC) are increasingly being used to provide a spatially disaggregated assessment of annual emissions. Prior to use, an assessment of the ability of the mod…
Local volunteers respond to the Rena oil spill in Maketū, New Zealand
Following the MV Rena grounding and oil spill in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand in October 2011, the Māori community of Maketū were quick to respond to the arrival of oil on their beaches. They asserted their rangatiratanga by establishing their marae as a base and successfully coordinated a clean‐up by more than 450 volunteers, feeding these volunteers every day. We interviewed 11 clean‐up leaders and volunteers in Maketū to gather information a…
D-Day in History and Memory: The Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration
Journal Article D-Day in History and Memory: The Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration Get access Michael Dolski, Sam Edwards, and John Buckley. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2014. xii, 308 pp. $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1351–1352, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav146 Published: 01 March 2015
Changing distribution of the elephant genera Loxodonta and Elephas throughout the African Pleistocene: Implications for palaeoenvironmental variability
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