Daniel Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Public Health Wales |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2426-5893 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Battle of Maldon: A New Critical Edition
The fragmentary late Old English poem known as The Battle of Maldon can hardly be said to be understudied. Next year will see the three-hundredth anniversary of the poem's first appearance in print. In the centuries since, the text has been edited several times and has appeared regularly in readers and anthologies. Both the poem and the battle that it commemorates have been the subject of extensive scholarly investigation. Nevertheless, the poem …
Coal to swole: A survey of anabolic steroid use and muscularity concerns in coalfield areas of Wales
Evaluation of wastewater surveillance for Sars-CoV-2 in a prison population: A mixed-methods approach
Background: Prisons are high-risk settings for the transmission of communicable disease. Robust surveillance systems are required to identify and control outbreaks. Wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 was introduced in four prisons in Wales in March 2022. We investigated its contribution to the COVID-19 surveillance programme. Methods: We evaluated prison wastewater surveillance against eight system attributes using a mixed-methods approach. S…
Influence government, platform power and the patchwork profile: Exploring the appropriation of targeted advertising infrastructures for government behaviour change campaigns
The targeted digital advertising infrastructures on which the business models of the social media platform economy rest have been the subject of significant academic and political interest. In this paper, we explore and theorise the appropriation of these infrastructures — designed for commercial and political advertising — by the state. In the U.K., public sector bodies have begun to repurpose the surveillance and messaging capacities of these s…
Covid and the common good: In-group out-group dynamics and Covid-19 vaccination in Wales and the United States
Vaccination is a social act, where benefits spill-over to third parties. How we approach such social decisions is influenced by whether likely beneficiaries share salient social identities with us. This study explores these dynamics using representative survey data from two contexts: national identity groups in Wales (N = 4187) and political partisans in America (N = 4864). In both cases, those in the minority in their local area were less likely…
Des foyers pour vieillards à l'article 48 de la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne
Des foyers pour vieillards à l’article 48 de la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne. Un article de la revue Bulletin d'histoire politique (Au nom de l’universel : le Québec et les droits humains au XX e siècle) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Covid-19 surveillance: Large decrease in clinical notifications and epidemiological investigation questionnaires for laboratory-confirmed cases after the 2nd epidemic wave, Portugal March 2020–July 20…
Introduction: In Portugal, COVID-19 laboratory notifications, clinical notifications (CNs), and epidemiological investigation questionnaires (EI) were electronically submitted by laboratories, clinicians, and public health professionals, respectively, to the Portuguese National Epidemiological Surveillance System (SINAVE), as mandated by law. We described CN and EI completeness in SINAVE to inform pandemic surveillance efforts. Methods: We calcul…
Difference in determinants of ICU admission and death among Covid-19 hospitalized patients in two epidemic waves in Portugal: Possible impact of healthcare burden and hospital bed occupancy on clinica…
Aim: Identify factors associated with COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) admission and death among hospitalized cases in Portugal, and variations from the first to the second wave in Portugal, March-December 2020. Introduction: Determinants of ICU admission and death for COVID-19 need further understanding and may change over time. We used hospital discharge data (ICD-10 diagnosis-related groups) to identify factors associated with COVID-19 outco…
Covid and the coalfield: Covid-19 vaccine hesitance in Wales and Appalachia
The legacy of coal-mining's decline presents barriers to public health campaigns. We show evidence of this across two historically significant coalfields. Attention is needed to avert negative public health consequences of global energy transition
“I don't mean to be rude, but could you put a mask on while I'm here?” A qualitative study of risks experienced by domiciliary care workers in Wales during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Domiciliary care workers (DCWs) continued to provide care to adults in their own homes throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The evidence of the impact of COVID-19 on health outcomes of DCWs is currently mixed. The OSCAR study will quantify the impact of COVID-19 upon health outcomes of DCWs in Wales, explore causes of variation and extrapolate to the rest of the UK DCW population. An embedded qualitative study aimed to explore DCW experiences during…
Social capital and geographical variation in the incidence of Covid-19: An ecological study
BACKGROUND: The new behavioural norms needed to reduce the spread of COVID-19 are likely scaffolded by social capital. Research on social capital and COVID-19 has yielded mixed results, with some studies finding it to be protective while others identifying it as a risk factor. We examined the association between social capital and COVID-19 at a finer spatial scale than previous research, and examined changes in the relationship over the course of…
Influence government: Exploring practices, ethics, and power in the use of targeted advertising by the UK state
We have identified an emerging tool being used by the UK government across a range of public bodies in the service of public policy - the online targeted advertising infrastructure and the practices, consultancy firms, and forms of expertise which have grown up around it. This reflects an intensification and adaptation of a broader 'behavioural turn' in the governmentality of the UK state and the increasing sophistication of everyday government c…
Prioritisation for future surveillance, prevention and control of 98 communicable diseases in Belgium: A 2018 multi-criteria decision analysis study
We ranked infectious diseases using a standardised reproducible approach. The diseases ranked highest are included in current public health programs, but additional reflection for example about needs among risk groups is recommended. Cross-reference of the obtained ranking with current programs is needed to verify whether resources and activities map priority areas. We recommend to implement this method in a recurrent evaluation cycle of national…
Influence, infrastructure, and recentering cybercrime policing: Evaluating emerging approaches to online law enforcement through a market for cybercrime services
We document and evaluate emerging policing strategies that are reshaping how centralised law enforcement agencies deal with online cybercrime markets. The first of these we term infrastructural policing, drawn from law enforcement campaigns to disrupt international drug markets and involving targeting the administrators who maintain the infrastructure supporting cybercrime markets. The second, we term influence policing, a strategy drawn from cou…
Cybercrime is (often) boring: Infrastructure and alienation in a deviant subculture
The boredom and alienation produced by capitalist societies and countervailing forces of attraction and excitement are at the heart of the subcultural account of crime. The underground hacker subculture is no exception, commonly represented as based around exciting, technically skilled practices and high-profile deviance. However, the illicit economy associated with these practices has become industrialized, developing shared infrastructures that…
Daily, weekly, seasonal and menstrual cycles in women's mood, behaviour and vital signs
Stressed, Depressed and Exhausted: Six Years as a Teacher in UK State Education
This article foregrounds the experiences of a newly qualified teacher - 'Daniel' - in the state education sector in the United Kingdom. It provides an insight into the under-explored realities of teaching work and an empirical connection with a segment of the UK public sector that successive governments have positioned as central to economic and social prosperity. It centres on why nine out of ten teachers who participated in the 2017 National Sk…
A close fitt: Reading Beowulf fitt II with the Andreas -poet
Connections between Andreas and Beowulf have been the subject of much scholarly discussion. This article contributes to this discussion by arguing that the account of the Mermedonians’ discovery of and response to the loss of their prisoners in Andreas fitt X, which corresponds to chapters 22–3 of the poet’s putative Latin source, has been deliberately recast in ways intended to recall the account in fitt II of Beowulf of Grendel’s first attack o…
Up-Regulation of Claudin-6 in the Distal Lung Impacts Secondhand Smoke-Induced Inflammation
It has long been understood that increased epithelial permeability contributes to inflammation observed in many respiratory diseases. Recently, evidence has revealed that environmental exposure to noxious material such as cigarette smoke reduces tight junction barrier integrity, thus enhancing inflammatory conditions. Claudin-6 (Cldn6) is a tetraspanin transmembrane protein found within the tight junctional complex and is implicated in maintainin…
The Final Years of the Constable of France, 1593–1627
The abolition of the office of constable in 1627 has often been viewed as part of Richelieu's supposed campaign against the excessive power of the high nobility, both within and without the royal army, and has been seen as an action that helped construct the system of “absolute monarchy” in France. Yet more recently questions have been raised about the real significance of the office's suppression. Building on this debate, this article offers an …
The economics of therapy: Setting Fees - A Dialogue Between Ethics, Resources and Personal Requirements
Big Up West London Crew: One man's journey within a UK National Health Service rap/music therapy group
Music therapy assessment: Bridging Gaps
Background: Members of this round table have recently formed the International Music Therapy Assessment Consortium. The purpose of this collaboration is to strengthen the field of music therapy by ensuring development and standardization of research-based assessment tools, increase awareness of use of assessment within and outside of the field, and strengthen clinical application of assessment.Objective: Looking across disciplines, standards of m…
Histoire des marechaux de France a l'epoque moderne * Le marechal de Villars: L'infatigable bonheur
One need only cite the names of Joffre, Foch and Pétain to appreciate how our present understanding of the office of maréchal de France is tied to some of the country’s most famous military commanders. From this standpoint, Fadi El Hage asks a relatively simple question in the first book under review: how did the position differ in the early modern period to that which we know today? El Hage attributes to the maréchaux an ostensibly crucial role …
Cost effectiveness of full coverage of the medical management of smoking cessation in France
Compared to other health measures in primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease already covered by SHI, full coverage of smoking cessation is the most cost-effective approach
Covid and the coalfield: Covid-19 vaccine hesitance in Wales and Appalachia
The legacy of coal-mining's decline presents barriers to public health campaigns. We show evidence of this across two historically significant coalfields. Attention is needed to avert negative public health consequences of global energy transition
Influence, infrastructure, and recentering cybercrime policing: Evaluating emerging approaches to online law enforcement through a market for cybercrime services
We document and evaluate emerging policing strategies that are reshaping how centralised law enforcement agencies deal with online cybercrime markets. The first of these we term infrastructural policing, drawn from law enforcement campaigns to disrupt international drug markets and involving targeting the administrators who maintain the infrastructure supporting cybercrime markets. The second, we term influence policing, a strategy drawn from cou…
Cybercrime is (often) boring: Infrastructure and alienation in a deviant subculture
The boredom and alienation produced by capitalist societies and countervailing forces of attraction and excitement are at the heart of the subcultural account of crime. The underground hacker subculture is no exception, commonly represented as based around exciting, technically skilled practices and high-profile deviance. However, the illicit economy associated with these practices has become industrialized, developing shared infrastructures that…
Stressed, Depressed and Exhausted: Six Years as a Teacher in UK State Education
This article foregrounds the experiences of a newly qualified teacher - 'Daniel' - in the state education sector in the United Kingdom. It provides an insight into the under-explored realities of teaching work and an empirical connection with a segment of the UK public sector that successive governments have positioned as central to economic and social prosperity. It centres on why nine out of ten teachers who participated in the 2017 National Sk…
Social capital and geographical variation in the incidence of Covid-19: An ecological study
BACKGROUND: The new behavioural norms needed to reduce the spread of COVID-19 are likely scaffolded by social capital. Research on social capital and COVID-19 has yielded mixed results, with some studies finding it to be protective while others identifying it as a risk factor. We examined the association between social capital and COVID-19 at a finer spatial scale than previous research, and examined changes in the relationship over the course of…
Influence government: Exploring practices, ethics, and power in the use of targeted advertising by the UK state
We have identified an emerging tool being used by the UK government across a range of public bodies in the service of public policy - the online targeted advertising infrastructure and the practices, consultancy firms, and forms of expertise which have grown up around it. This reflects an intensification and adaptation of a broader 'behavioural turn' in the governmentality of the UK state and the increasing sophistication of everyday government c…
Coal to swole: A survey of anabolic steroid use and muscularity concerns in coalfield areas of Wales
The Final Years of the Constable of France, 1593–1627
The abolition of the office of constable in 1627 has often been viewed as part of Richelieu's supposed campaign against the excessive power of the high nobility, both within and without the royal army, and has been seen as an action that helped construct the system of “absolute monarchy” in France. Yet more recently questions have been raised about the real significance of the office's suppression. Building on this debate, this article offers an …
Zoonotic illness--determining risks and measuring effects: Association between current animal exposure and a history of illness in a well characterised rural population in the UK
STUDY OBJECTIVES--To recruit a representative sample of farmworkers, accurately quantify the range and extent of their animal exposures, and measure the associated risks of illness. DESIGN--Inception cohort. SETTING--The study was undertaken among farmworkers living in five local authority areas in the catchment of Hereford and Preston Public Health Laboratories, England. PARTICIPANTS--A quota sample of 404 people on 255 agricultural holdings too…
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Identifying outbreaks of sexually transmitted infection: Who cares
Prompt identification and coordinated investigation of outbreaks, usually through a multidisciplinary outbreak control team, is central to the control of many infectious diseases. This does not appear to be the case for STIs, which we believe represents a lost opportunity to reduce transmission. Besides improved surveillance methods, a change in culture towards STI outbreaks is needed among health professionals in Wales
The French Observational Cohort of Usual Smokers (Focus) cohort: French smokers perceptions and attitudes towards smoking cessation
Smoking prevalence and smoking cessation attempts rate were lower in this survey than in previous reports. Cost and social pressure were the main reasons for quitting smoking, maybe an effect of dramatic tax increases and smoking ban
Revitaliser le tissu productif. Des acteurs et des pratiques exemplaires
Cost effectiveness of full coverage of the medical management of smoking cessation in France
Compared to other health measures in primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease already covered by SHI, full coverage of smoking cessation is the most cost-effective approach
Histoire des marechaux de France a l'epoque moderne * Le marechal de Villars: L'infatigable bonheur
One need only cite the names of Joffre, Foch and Pétain to appreciate how our present understanding of the office of maréchal de France is tied to some of the country’s most famous military commanders. From this standpoint, Fadi El Hage asks a relatively simple question in the first book under review: how did the position differ in the early modern period to that which we know today? El Hage attributes to the maréchaux an ostensibly crucial role …
Up-Regulation of Claudin-6 in the Distal Lung Impacts Secondhand Smoke-Induced Inflammation
It has long been understood that increased epithelial permeability contributes to inflammation observed in many respiratory diseases. Recently, evidence has revealed that environmental exposure to noxious material such as cigarette smoke reduces tight junction barrier integrity, thus enhancing inflammatory conditions. Claudin-6 (Cldn6) is a tetraspanin transmembrane protein found within the tight junctional complex and is implicated in maintainin…
The Final Years of the Constable of France, 1593–1627
The abolition of the office of constable in 1627 has often been viewed as part of Richelieu's supposed campaign against the excessive power of the high nobility, both within and without the royal army, and has been seen as an action that helped construct the system of “absolute monarchy” in France. Yet more recently questions have been raised about the real significance of the office's suppression. Building on this debate, this article offers an …
The economics of therapy: Setting Fees - A Dialogue Between Ethics, Resources and Personal Requirements
Big Up West London Crew: One man's journey within a UK National Health Service rap/music therapy group
Music therapy assessment: Bridging Gaps
Background: Members of this round table have recently formed the International Music Therapy Assessment Consortium. The purpose of this collaboration is to strengthen the field of music therapy by ensuring development and standardization of research-based assessment tools, increase awareness of use of assessment within and outside of the field, and strengthen clinical application of assessment.Objective: Looking across disciplines, standards of m…
A close fitt: Reading Beowulf fitt II with the Andreas -poet
Connections between Andreas and Beowulf have been the subject of much scholarly discussion. This article contributes to this discussion by arguing that the account of the Mermedonians’ discovery of and response to the loss of their prisoners in Andreas fitt X, which corresponds to chapters 22–3 of the poet’s putative Latin source, has been deliberately recast in ways intended to recall the account in fitt II of Beowulf of Grendel’s first attack o…
Stressed, Depressed and Exhausted: Six Years as a Teacher in UK State Education
This article foregrounds the experiences of a newly qualified teacher - 'Daniel' - in the state education sector in the United Kingdom. It provides an insight into the under-explored realities of teaching work and an empirical connection with a segment of the UK public sector that successive governments have positioned as central to economic and social prosperity. It centres on why nine out of ten teachers who participated in the 2017 National Sk…
Prioritisation for future surveillance, prevention and control of 98 communicable diseases in Belgium: A 2018 multi-criteria decision analysis study
We ranked infectious diseases using a standardised reproducible approach. The diseases ranked highest are included in current public health programs, but additional reflection for example about needs among risk groups is recommended. Cross-reference of the obtained ranking with current programs is needed to verify whether resources and activities map priority areas. We recommend to implement this method in a recurrent evaluation cycle of national…
Influence, infrastructure, and recentering cybercrime policing: Evaluating emerging approaches to online law enforcement through a market for cybercrime services
We document and evaluate emerging policing strategies that are reshaping how centralised law enforcement agencies deal with online cybercrime markets. The first of these we term infrastructural policing, drawn from law enforcement campaigns to disrupt international drug markets and involving targeting the administrators who maintain the infrastructure supporting cybercrime markets. The second, we term influence policing, a strategy drawn from cou…
Cybercrime is (often) boring: Infrastructure and alienation in a deviant subculture
The boredom and alienation produced by capitalist societies and countervailing forces of attraction and excitement are at the heart of the subcultural account of crime. The underground hacker subculture is no exception, commonly represented as based around exciting, technically skilled practices and high-profile deviance. However, the illicit economy associated with these practices has become industrialized, developing shared infrastructures that…
Daily, weekly, seasonal and menstrual cycles in women's mood, behaviour and vital signs
“I don't mean to be rude, but could you put a mask on while I'm here?” A qualitative study of risks experienced by domiciliary care workers in Wales during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Domiciliary care workers (DCWs) continued to provide care to adults in their own homes throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The evidence of the impact of COVID-19 on health outcomes of DCWs is currently mixed. The OSCAR study will quantify the impact of COVID-19 upon health outcomes of DCWs in Wales, explore causes of variation and extrapolate to the rest of the UK DCW population. An embedded qualitative study aimed to explore DCW experiences during…
Social capital and geographical variation in the incidence of Covid-19: An ecological study
BACKGROUND: The new behavioural norms needed to reduce the spread of COVID-19 are likely scaffolded by social capital. Research on social capital and COVID-19 has yielded mixed results, with some studies finding it to be protective while others identifying it as a risk factor. We examined the association between social capital and COVID-19 at a finer spatial scale than previous research, and examined changes in the relationship over the course of…
Influence government: Exploring practices, ethics, and power in the use of targeted advertising by the UK state
We have identified an emerging tool being used by the UK government across a range of public bodies in the service of public policy - the online targeted advertising infrastructure and the practices, consultancy firms, and forms of expertise which have grown up around it. This reflects an intensification and adaptation of a broader 'behavioural turn' in the governmentality of the UK state and the increasing sophistication of everyday government c…
Covid-19 surveillance: Large decrease in clinical notifications and epidemiological investigation questionnaires for laboratory-confirmed cases after the 2nd epidemic wave, Portugal March 2020–July 20…
Introduction: In Portugal, COVID-19 laboratory notifications, clinical notifications (CNs), and epidemiological investigation questionnaires (EI) were electronically submitted by laboratories, clinicians, and public health professionals, respectively, to the Portuguese National Epidemiological Surveillance System (SINAVE), as mandated by law. We described CN and EI completeness in SINAVE to inform pandemic surveillance efforts. Methods: We calcul…
Difference in determinants of ICU admission and death among Covid-19 hospitalized patients in two epidemic waves in Portugal: Possible impact of healthcare burden and hospital bed occupancy on clinica…
Aim: Identify factors associated with COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) admission and death among hospitalized cases in Portugal, and variations from the first to the second wave in Portugal, March-December 2020. Introduction: Determinants of ICU admission and death for COVID-19 need further understanding and may change over time. We used hospital discharge data (ICD-10 diagnosis-related groups) to identify factors associated with COVID-19 outco…
Covid and the coalfield: Covid-19 vaccine hesitance in Wales and Appalachia
The legacy of coal-mining's decline presents barriers to public health campaigns. We show evidence of this across two historically significant coalfields. Attention is needed to avert negative public health consequences of global energy transition
Evaluation of wastewater surveillance for Sars-CoV-2 in a prison population: A mixed-methods approach
Background: Prisons are high-risk settings for the transmission of communicable disease. Robust surveillance systems are required to identify and control outbreaks. Wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 was introduced in four prisons in Wales in March 2022. We investigated its contribution to the COVID-19 surveillance programme. Methods: We evaluated prison wastewater surveillance against eight system attributes using a mixed-methods approach. S…
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