Christopher Williams
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3583013 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Christopher Williams |
| NOMBRES | Christopher |
| APELLIDO | Williams |
| FIRMA | WILLIAMS C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6036-5157 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 97 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 152 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 97 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1954 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Proglacial lake records of recent environmental change in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
We examined trends in sediment deposition, organic carbon sourcing, and carbon and nitrogen isotopes in a transect of four lake sediment cores from eastern Glacier National Park (GNP), Montana, USA to understand how a connected chain of subalpine lakes downvalley from a retreating Grinnell Glacier have responded to environmental change over the last two centuries. Based on 210 Pb ages, all three lakes showed a two- to five-fold increase in mass a…
Tethered
This commentary is part of a series of responses to Michele Goodwin’s 2025 LSA presidential address
The potential of genomic epidemiology
The rapid detection and containment of healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) is critical in preventing and controlling infectious disease outbreaks within healthcare settings. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) has emerged as a powerful tool for tracking the transmission dynamics of pathogens and when used alongside traditional epidemiological methods it can better inform our understanding of the pathogen origin, pathway and extent of transmission.…
Deteriorating care home residents as 'matter out of place' in both care homes and hospitals
Assessing Analogical Acceleration in Public Discourse
Politicians often deploy analogies to shape public discourse. If picked up by the media, these references to the past can powerfully shape how political events are perceived. This article examines why some analogies became popular through an exploration of the creation and development of the analogy comparing Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party in South Africa, to Jonas Savimbi, the leader of the National Union for the T…
Patients' and Therapists' Views of Integrated Online CBT for Depression
BACKGROUND: CBT is an effective treatment for depression, but access varies across the United Kingdom. Online CBT increases access. The INTERACT platform was designed to support patient engagement in CBT, enabling therapists to deliver high-intensity CBT via typed instant messaging and allowing patients and therapists access to an integrated online library of resources during and between sessions. METHODS: The INTERACT trial aimed to evaluate thi…
Virtual Care Appointments and Experience Among Older Rural Patients with Chronic Conditions in New South Wales
This retrospective, descriptive study, conducted in 2024, analysed Virtual Care Survey (2020-2022) data of patients' self-reported reflections on use and experiences to investigate relationships between demographics, the number of chronic conditions, and virtual care use among older rural patients (≥65 years with at least one chronic condition) living in New South Wales, and their satisfaction with virtual care. Associations between categorical v…
It’s complicated
This paper explores the relationship between lexical and syntactic complexity measures and proficiency in L2 English argumentative essays written by L1 Czech high school students. Syntactic complexity is generally understood as referring to the “range and sophistication” (Ortega 2015) of grammatical constructions, whereas lexical complexity can refer to the range and frequency of the words used. The research used 100 essays written by final year …
Sars-CoV-2 incidence among teaching staff in primary and secondary schools—Wales, 2020–2021
The data were consistent with an elevated risk of COVID-19 amongst younger teaching staff in primary schools when compared to the general population, however differences in case ascertainment couldn't be excluded as a possible reason for this. Rate differences by age group in teaching staff mirrored those in the general population. The risk in older teachers (≥ 50 years) in both settings was the same or lower than in the general population. Among…
Nuclear
The Virtues of Justice
Within the theoretical literature on crime control and offender therapy, little has been written about the importance of virtue ethics in the experience of human justice and in the evolution of the common good. As a theory of being, the aretaic tradition extols eudemonic existence (i.e., excellence, flourishing) as a relational habit of developing character that is both practiced and embodied over time. What this implies is that virtue justice de…
Hospital transfers from care homes
When making decisions about whether to transfer residents to hospital, care home staff consider the possible benefits and risks of different courses of action. However, to date, an in-depth and theoretically informed engagement with these decision-making processes and their associated behaviours has been lacking. We conducted an ethnographic study of care home staff’s decision-making about resident hospital transfers in England between May 2018 a…
Sexual Violence and Substance Use among First-Year University Women
Sexual violence and substance use are important public health problems among university students. The present study examined rates of sexual violence victimization, perpetration, and substance use among first-year university women. Participants ( n = 974) attending 14 universities across the United States completed an online confidential survey at the beginning and again later in their first year. The sample included women who identified as heter…
After apartheid
Notes1 Fairbanks, The Inheritors, 14.2 Ibid., 13–4.3 Though this comparison frames the book, Fairbanks does not draw on previous work contrasting racial injustice in South Africa and the United States such as George M. Fredrickson, White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981) and John Cell, The Highest Stage of White Supremacy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).4 F…
Testing an evidence-based drug abuse and violence preventive approach adapted for youth in juvenile justice diversionary settings
The Regional Outreach and Shared Care Program – a formalised shared care model for children and adolescents with cancer
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Prevention of Unwanted Sexual Contact Among Cadets at the United States Air Force Academy
This study tested the effectiveness of a small-group preventive intervention designed to prevent unwanted sexual contact among cadets at the US Air Force Academy. Among cadets in the incoming class of 2021, unwanted sexual contact was cut by nearly half in the intervention group relative to the control group. This study is one of the first rigorously designed trials to demonstrate a significant impact on unwanted sexual contact among students att…
Syndemic Framework Evaluation of Severe Covid-19 Outcomes in the United States
Socially and economically disadvantaged racial and ethnic minorities have experienced comparatively severe clinical outcomes from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States. Disparities in health outcomes arise from a myriad of synergistic biomedical and societal factors. Syndemic theory provides a useful framework for examining COVID-19 and other diseases that disproportionately affect vulnerable populations. Syndemic model…
Re-Evaluating South African Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Research on South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy decision-making has stagnated. For more than a quarter century analysts have generally drawn on secondary material from other scholars, newspaper reporting, and the speeches of government officials to elucidate how South Africa crafts and carries out its foreign policy. The accessibility of previously classified archival documents and the availability of policy makers for research interview…
Alfred Nzo
Alfred Nzo served as the newly democratic South Africa’s Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1994 and 1999. His tenure was widely criticised. Nzo was described as ineffectual and inert by the media, opposition parties and even by some within his own African National Congress. These criticisms have been unquestioningly absorbed by historians and foreign policy scholars, and now constitute a cornerstone of the conventional wisdom regarding the Mand…
Internal Medicine Residency Program Directors’ Screening Practices and Perceptions About Recruitment Challenges
PURPOSE: To examine internal medicine residency program directors' (PDs') screening practices and perceptions about current recruitment challenges. METHOD: In March-May 2017, the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine Survey Committee sent a survey to 373 Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine member residency programs. PDs rated the importance of 23 inclusion and 11 exclusion criteria for interview invitation decision making, pro…
Small-business resilience in a remote tourist destination
We investigate how small businesses in a very remote island tourist destination are able to cope with shocks and disruptions they face, that is, their resilience. Given their size and resource limitations as well as disadvantages due to lack of accessibility and remoteness, we expect resilience in these types of firms to be underpinned by their close relationships with other local stakeholders. Drawing on concepts from Instrumental Stakeholder Th…
Rethinking “Alliances”
How does South Africa view international alliances? International relations (IR) scholars have been debating the end of alliances and the relevance of the alliance paradigm itself. South Africa presents an excellent test case for advancing these debates for three reasons. First, it has been committed to nonalignment yet engages in close and complex inter-state collaborations. Second, debates about the alliance paradigm have largely taken place in…
Bridges and Barriers
Political imperatives and military preparations
In September 1998 South African troops crossed into Lesotho to restore stability to the small mountain kingdom that had been roiled by protests for months. Operation Boleas encountered heavy resistance – in the ensuing chaos dozens died and the towns of Maseru, Mohale’s Hoek and Mafeteng were damaged. Media and scholarly commentary on the intervention was scathing, but in the rush to judge there has been insufficient effort to chronicle and clari…
Differentiated party response
Do parties respond to voters’ preferences on European integration in elections to the European Parliament? In this article, we argue that political parties do respond to voters’ Euroskeptic attitudes, but that party type conditions responsiveness. In particular, we posit that larger parties are more responsive and that governing parties are less responsive to aggregate Euroskepticism. To test our theoretical expectations, we use data from the Eur…
It takes two
Do parties respond to voters' preferences on European integration in elections to the European Parliament (EP)? Following recent research that shows political party responsiveness to Eurosceptic attitudes during EP elections is conditioned by party characteristics, this article seeks to understand how party unity on European integration affects party responsiveness to Euroscepticism. It argues that when Eurosceptic attitudes among voters are high…
What do children feel guilty about? Developmental and gender differences
Content analyses of 240 (123 male, 117 female) 5th, 8th, and 11th graders' descriptions of guilt-producing events indicate that the situations, individuals, and specific incidents evoking guilt vary across grade and gender. The percentage of students mentioning guilt over inaction, neglect of responsibilities, and failure to attain ideals increases with grade level as the prevalence of guilt over situations that are not the students' fault declin…
Compassion, Suffering and the Self
Concerns for social justice have figured prominently in much current sociological and criminological discourse. Often implicated by these critiques is the enduring presence of harm, suffering and injustice in contemporary western society - particularly as these are reinforced and perpetuated by organizational and institutional policies and practices. Less often considered are the moral-psychological foundations that give rise to these problems an…
Reclaiming the Expressive Subject
Situated within the theoretical and philosophical frameworks of Romanticism and expressionism in the arts, the present exposition argues for conceptual renewal in the study of deviance, specifically entailing a reclamation of the expressive subject of deviance. In particular, it is argued that many forms of deviance can and should be understood as fundamentally artistic, embodying creative, expressive, emotive, symbolic, and communicative element…
Russian Society in Transition
Part 1 Background to the current situation: economic reform and political change in Russia, 1991-96, Christopher Williams Russian sociology - problems and prospects - two perspectives, Vladimir Staroverov and Christopher Williams. Part 2 Russian society in transtition: the socio-demographic situation, Gennadi Zhuravlev et al tradition versus modernity, Nikolai Driakhlov systemic crisis and Russian society, Mikhail Rutkevich the transformation of …
Anarchaos and Order
In this article we explore aspects of anarchism and of chaos theory, suggesting that recent insights advanced by the latter shed new light on the former. The former conceptually explains the importance of natural order as a human process that questions and, ultimately, subverts the artifice of state-imposed authoritative order. The latter examines, both theoretically and empirically, the role of order, disorder, and `chaotic' social dynamics in t…
Marijuana use among minority youths living in public housing developments
Education and human survival
Child Rearing and Education in Urban Environments
In this article, the authors use in-depth interviews of African American fathers in an urban setting to explore their fathering attitudes and behaviors. From the qualitative data, four general themes emerge: paternal beliefs and modes of functioning, strength and resiliency, racial socialization of children, and fathers as teachers in the home. The findings lend support to the burgeoning reconceptualization of the role of the Black father in urba…
Syndemic Framework Evaluation of Severe Covid-19 Outcomes in the United States
Socially and economically disadvantaged racial and ethnic minorities have experienced comparatively severe clinical outcomes from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States. Disparities in health outcomes arise from a myriad of synergistic biomedical and societal factors. Syndemic theory provides a useful framework for examining COVID-19 and other diseases that disproportionately affect vulnerable populations. Syndemic model…
Caught Between Two Chinas
President Nelson Mandela was confronted with a vexing foreign policy problem immediately upon taking power in 1994 – how to balance South Africa’s formal diplomatic relations with the Republic of China (ROC) – a state of affairs inherited from the apartheid government – with the demand of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) that it be acknowledged as the sole government of China. This article draws on archival records and interviews with offic…
Crowdsourcing Research
“Crowdsourcing” now gets 10 million hits on Google, and is being applied to research in commercial, media, academic, civil society and state spheres. Although appearing recent and technology-based, there are also relevant but overlooked manual precursors which embody the fundamentals of using large groups for research. This analytical review provides the bases for developing initiatives further, by assessing: What are the strategies, strengths an…
Potential spaces of crime
Though most share an interest in answering the question, ‘What are people trying to accomplish when they commit a crime?’ criminologists have been largely reluctant to entertain the ways in which the accomplishment of crime reflects deeper, more fundamental and distinctively human capacities and needs. Of especial significance in this context are the human capacity and need for creative engagement. The interplay between human ontology, experience…
Toward a Transvaluation of Criminal ‘Justice’
Non-progressive aspect in English in commentaries and demonstrations using the present tense
Inside the outside and outside the Inside
L'A. analyse ce que recouvre la notion d'identite personnelle. Il montre que la realite ne peut etre concue que dans le cadre d'une representation collective. Il etudie la relation entre langage et pensee et note que le langage tend a construire des oppositions polarisees. Il decrit de quelle maniere l'identite de l'autre et de la communaute d'appartenance (celle du «nous») sont contruites et montre comment la construction de l'identite d'une com…
The voting behaviour of Russian youth
(1997). The voting behaviour of Russian youth. Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 145-159
Alfred Nzo
Alfred Nzo served as the newly democratic South Africa’s Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1994 and 1999. His tenure was widely criticised. Nzo was described as ineffectual and inert by the media, opposition parties and even by some within his own African National Congress. These criticisms have been unquestioningly absorbed by historians and foreign policy scholars, and now constitute a cornerstone of the conventional wisdom regarding the Mand…
Assessing South Africa's ambivalent Sogi diplomacy in Africa
Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in Africa has received growing attention as some states have passed harsh laws against sexual minorities. South Africa stands out as one of the few states in Africa with constitutional guarantees and a strong legislative framework to protect sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) rights. However, Pretoria's SOGI stance in Africa is uncertain. While South Africa sometimes…
Changing with the Times
As is well known, the Plain language movement has been influential in a number of areas of public life over the last few decades. Within the legal sphere it has raised general awareness concerning the need to make legal matters and legal documents more comprehensible and accessible to non-experts, particularly in today’s digitalized world where information is freely available to the general public. In this paper my aim is to provide an overview o…
Peacemaking from the inside out
A common observation regarding the Mandela Administration's foreign policy is that South Africa adopted an approach to peacemaking that drew on its own recent and unique negotiated transition. While ubiquitous, this observation has rarely been seriously examined. This paper undertakes such an examination through the use of psychological theories of decision making, which explore the formative impact that a leader's domestic rise to power has on t…
Predictive Efficacy and the Preventive Detention of Dangerous Sexual Offenders
Hume on the Tedium of Reading Spenser
Journal Article Hume on the Tedium of Reading Spenser Get access Christopher Williams Christopher Williams Christopher Williams, Department of Philosophy, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV 89557-0056, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 46, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 1–16, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayj001 Published: 01 January 2006
Theory, Justice, and Social Change
"Theory, Justice, and Social Change: Theoretical Integration and Critical Applications represents a series of essays that systematically reviews or extends the role of critical social theory in fostering justice and change in several relevant, though problematic, social contexts. Mindful of the need to address both conceptual exegeses and pragmatic concerns, the articles contained in this volume grapple with the ongoing "double crisis" that confr…
Police and the Community
Poems 1964
Lute Music of Shakespeare's Time
Lute Music of Shakespeare's Time. William Barley, A new Booke of Tabliture, 1596. Edited and transcribed for Keyboard with the Original Tablature, by Wilburn W. Newcomb. University Park & London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1966. xxxviii + 115 pp. $9.50. - (Œuvres de Robert Ballard: Deuxiéme Livre (1614) et Pieces Diverses. Edition et transcription par Andre Souris, Sylvie Spycket et Jacques Veyrier; Etude des concordances par Moniqu…
Craftsmen of Necessity
War, revolution and medicine
Human Service Delivery to the Elderly in Rural and Remote Areas
Vunerable Victims? A Current Awareness of the Victimisation of People with Learning Disabilities
The general victimisation of adults with learning disabilities has received little significant attention. This position paper outlines relevant literature, and a current awareness of the nature of victimisation, police and reporting, and court procedures. It aims to provide a basis for research or other actions, which can contribute to minimising victimisation and maximising the means of support and redress for victims
Short Notices
Growing old in rural North Queensland
The 1921 Russian famine
(1993). The 1921 Russian famine: Centre and periphery responses. Revolutionary Russia: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 277-314
The Revolution from above in Soviet Medicine, Leningrad 1928-1932
L'A. demontre l'impact de nouveaux defis telles que l'industrialisation, la collectivisation et l'introduction de plans de sante, sur le systeme medical et les conditions de sante a Leningrad, de 1928 a 1932
What do children feel guilty about? Developmental and gender differences
Content analyses of 240 (123 male, 117 female) 5th, 8th, and 11th graders' descriptions of guilt-producing events indicate that the situations, individuals, and specific incidents evoking guilt vary across grade and gender. The percentage of students mentioning guilt over inaction, neglect of responsibilities, and failure to attain ideals increases with grade level as the prevalence of guilt over situations that are not the students' fault declin…
Sex education and the Aids epidemic in the Former Soviet Union
This paper describes the Russian response to sexuality, sex education and AIDS. Using primarily Russian language sources, it analyses the background to the current Russian debate on sex education since the 1960s. The nature of the government response - the introduction of a health education programme designed largely to combat specific sexual diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhoea - is also explored. It is suggested that the demise of the Commu…
The Environmental Causes of Intellectual Injury — A victim Perspective
Human endeavour has now created environments that pose a threat to the human intellect. Lead, iodine deficiency, and nuclear pollution are recognised problems, but there are many others. Current debate is largely in the domain of medicine. The purpose of this paper is to provide the basis for a victimological perspective. Causation is the key concept, and therefore the main theme of this discussion. There are four relevant models of causation — s…
Child Rearing and Education in Urban Environments
In this article, the authors use in-depth interviews of African American fathers in an urban setting to explore their fathering attitudes and behaviors. From the qualitative data, four general themes emerge: paternal beliefs and modes of functioning, strength and resiliency, racial socialization of children, and fathers as teachers in the home. The findings lend support to the burgeoning reconceptualization of the role of the Black father in urba…
The voting behaviour of Russian youth
(1997). The voting behaviour of Russian youth. Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 145-159
Russian Society in Transition
Part 1 Background to the current situation: economic reform and political change in Russia, 1991-96, Christopher Williams Russian sociology - problems and prospects - two perspectives, Vladimir Staroverov and Christopher Williams. Part 2 Russian society in transtition: the socio-demographic situation, Gennadi Zhuravlev et al tradition versus modernity, Nikolai Driakhlov systemic crisis and Russian society, Mikhail Rutkevich the transformation of …
The Constitution of Selves
Is Tragedy Paradoxical
Journal Article IS TRAGEDY PARADOXICAL? Get access Christopher Williams Christopher Williams Department of Philosophy, University of NevadaReno, NV 89557-0056, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 38, Issue 1, January 1998, Pages 47–62, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/38.1.47 Published: 01 January 1998
Psychosocial predictors of cigarette smoking among adolescents living in public housing developments
These findings suggest that smoking prevention approaches targeted at these young people should increase their awareness of social pressures to smoke, correct misperceptions about the prevalence of smoking among friends, and teach relevant psychosocial skills
Marijuana use among minority youths living in public housing developments
Inside the outside and outside the Inside
L'A. analyse ce que recouvre la notion d'identite personnelle. Il montre que la realite ne peut etre concue que dans le cadre d'une representation collective. Il etudie la relation entre langage et pensee et note que le langage tend a construire des oppositions polarisees. Il decrit de quelle maniere l'identite de l'autre et de la communaute d'appartenance (celle du «nous») sont contruites et montre comment la construction de l'identite d'une com…
Education and human survival
A need for consistency
Using data from a survey of social services departments, this paper looks at how local authorities are addressing the needs of people with learning disabilities for protection from crime and abuse within the context of adult protection developments. Previous research indicated that victimisation of this group was less likely to be treated seriously by key agencies. Here, the situation is reassessed
Anarchaos and Order
In this article we explore aspects of anarchism and of chaos theory, suggesting that recent insights advanced by the latter shed new light on the former. The former conceptually explains the importance of natural order as a human process that questions and, ultimately, subverts the artifice of state-imposed authoritative order. The latter examines, both theoretically and empirically, the role of order, disorder, and `chaotic' social dynamics in t…
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