Robert Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5197-8370 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Delivering effective and equitably governed marine protected area networks in the UK
Against a backdrop of international commitment to establish effective marine protected area networks, UK marine policy is increasingly ambitious in its scope to designate a higher quantity and quality of marine protected areas. This ambition is not without challenge and controversy in an island nation with multiple competing demands spanning shipping, tourism, energy, conservation, and fisheries. This paper highlights the significant contribution…
Radiating Encouragement
This study builds on a preliminary investigation into the efficacy of gamma radiation surveying as a complementary tool for archaeological prospection. Improved surveying and data processing methods were implemented, including the use of a vehicle‐mounted Groundhog surveying system, use of alternative software tools and examination of the impacts of individual radionuclides. The study focuses on a range of targets within Insulae VII, XXXV and XXX…
Algorithmic Pricing and Competition
We provide the first empirical analysis of the relationship between algorithmic pricing (AP) and competition by studying the impact of adoption in Germany’s retail gasoline market, where software became widely available in 2017. Because adoption dates are unknown, we identify adopting stations by testing for structural breaks in AP markers, finding most breaks to be around the time of widespread AP introduction. Because station adoption is endoge…
Portable gamma ray spectrometry for archaeological prospection
Several studies have suggested the potential value in applying gamma radiation surveys to support identification of buried archaeological features. However, the number of previous studies is very small and has yielded mixed results. The true efficacy of the technique is therefore unclear. Here, we report on an alternative survey method that uses Groundhog®, a portable gamma radiation system with spectrometric capability, to achieve high spatial d…
Emerging themes to support ambitious UK marine biodiversity conservation
Healthy marine ecosystems provide a wide range of resources and services that support life on Earth and contribute to human wellbeing. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are accepted as an important tool for the restoration and maintenance of marine ecosystem structure, function, health and ecosystem integrity through the conservation of significant species, habitats, or entire ecosystems. In recent years there has been a rapid expansion in the area o…
Jane Austen’s Emma, Adam Smith’s ‘impartial spectator’, market capitalism and free-indirect discourse
Jane Austen’s Emma is famous for being among the earliest and most sophisticated expositions of free-indirect discourse which is used to represent ironically a match-making heroine of 21 years whose judgements are usually faulty. It is also famous as a brilliant courtship romance or love story, much imitated in recent years. Less often noticed is that it is a fiercely satiric comedy about the rise of the middle class and the penetration of gentee…
How Persistent Low Returns Will Shape Saving and Retirement
Funded pension systems around the world have long relied on relatively high and predictable long-term capital market returns. Yet these retirement systems confront a key challenge today, namely, how to deal with what appears to be persistently low returns on bonds and equities. For this reason, it will be prudent, and probably necessary, for insurers, plan sponsors, workers, retirees, and policymakers to take concrete steps to prepare for these l…
Helping Employers Become Age-ready
Demographic evidence suggests that by 2050, almost one quarter of the world’s population will be over the age of 60. Many of these people over 60 will still be at work to finance their longer lifetimes. We examine how living longer is likely to influence people’s decisions to work for longer; how the nature of changes to work itself will influence future work, workers, and the workplace; how employers can benefit from retaining older workers; and…
Drinking Water and Public Health in an Era of Aging Distribution Infrastructure
The provision of a safe and sustainable drinking water supply is one of the hallmarks of a successful society. Treated drinking water entering distribution systems in virtually all U.S. public drinking water systems meets regulations and is microbiologically safe. However, the opportunity for microbial contamination from decades to century old water distribution systems is increasing with time. Thus, increased health risk to consumers should be a…
Search Frictions and Market Power in Negotiated-Price Markets
We provide a framework for empirical analysis of negotiated-price markets. Using mortgage market data and a search and negotiation model, we characterize the welfare impact of search frictions and quantify the role of search costs and brand loyalty for market power. Search frictions reduce consumer surplus by $12/month/consumer, 28% of which can be associated with discrimination, 22% with inefficient matching, and 50% with search costs. Large con…
Jane Austen’s Geographies
Organizing Missions into Distant Lands
This paper analyzes the medical measures initiated by medical missionaries in the second half of nineteenth century in Kashmir. It was a significant period in the history of Kashmir on account of various economic and political developments. Similarly the valley of Kashmir witnessed an arrival of medical missionaries who introduced the modern forms of medicine and later on this task was persuaded by the colonial masters while reforming and reorgan…
Level of mortality risk for babies born preterm or with a small weight for gestation in a tertiary hospital of Nepal
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The Effects of False Physiological Feedback on Tumescence and Cognitive Domains in Sexually Functional and Dysfunctional Men
Looking Back at MR Spectator, Given Srebenica
Robert Clark asks how we should understand Mr Spectator's belief in disengaged conversation and polite observation in the light of the spectatorial relationship struck by UN observers and journalists when confronting the Srebenica massacres. Through an examination of The Spectator's belief in free trade as conducive to the spread of peace and rationality, and consideration of Adam Smith's theory of the ‘impartial spectator’ in Theory of Moral Sen…
Looking Back at MR Spectator
The original Spectator, written and edited primarily by Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele, was published anonymously in London by Samuel Buckley and Jacob Tonson every day except Sundays from 1
The Potential for Electricity Market Restructuring in Quebec
In this paper we discuss the potential for future electricity market restructuring in Quebec. In particular, we consider the political economy of the abolishment of the Heritage Pool requirement, which caps wholesale prices. Its elimination is challenging since it would result in higher retail prices. However, if the extra revenue that would be earned from selling at the market price is properly redistributed, a majority of voters could benefit. …
Coordination and Status Influence
We develop a model to explain why the influence of higher-status individuals is often accepted even when status is not an indication of superior information or competence. We propose such acceptance as a rational strategy in cases where coordination is important. In our model agents must select from among a set of alternatives after witnessing the choices of some group of initial movers, one of whom is assumed to be of high status. These agents w…
Knotting Desire in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient
International Stock Exchange Linkages The Boston Stock Exchange and the Montreal Exchange
Cet article examine la mise en oeuvre d'un reseau electronique entre la Bourse de Boston et la Bourse de Montreal et les retombees d'un tel lien, y compris les questions administratives. La plus grande efficacite de ces bourses est le resultat d'une plus grande concurrence du point de vue du prix, du produit, et de l'espace
Eligibility for publicly financed home care
OBJECTIVES. Proposals for publicly financed home care for the elderly now tend to include cognitive impairment criteria as well as activities of daily living (ADL) criteria. The numbers of elderly deemed eligible for services will depend on the definitions of ADL and cognitive impairment used. METHODS. Data from the 1984 National Long-Term Care Survey were used to generate a series of estimates of the community-dwelling elderly with ADL disabilit…
Short reviews
Margaret A. Gibson, ACCOMMODATION WITHOUT ASSIMILATION: SIKH IMMIGRANTS IN AN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1988, xii + 244pp. Brian M. Bullivant, GETTING A FAIR GO: CASE STUDIES OF OCCUPATIONAL SOCIALIZATION AND PERCEPTIONS OF DISCRIMINATION IN A SAMPLE OF SEVEN MELBOURNE HIGH SCHOOLS, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, Human Rights Commission, Occasional Paper 13, 1986. William D. Piersen, B…
Markets and Merchants of the Late Seventeenth Century: The Marescoe-David Letters, 1668–1680
Angela Carter's desire machine
Conflict in Catalonia
Coordination and Status Influence
We develop a model to explain why the influence of higher-status individuals is often accepted even when status is not an indication of superior information or competence. We propose such acceptance as a rational strategy in cases where coordination is important. In our model agents must select from among a set of alternatives after witnessing the choices of some group of initial movers, one of whom is assumed to be of high status. These agents w…
Angela Carter's desire machine
Algorithmic Pricing and Competition
We provide the first empirical analysis of the relationship between algorithmic pricing (AP) and competition by studying the impact of adoption in Germany’s retail gasoline market, where software became widely available in 2017. Because adoption dates are unknown, we identify adopting stations by testing for structural breaks in AP markers, finding most breaks to be around the time of widespread AP introduction. Because station adoption is endoge…
Search Frictions and Market Power in Negotiated-Price Markets
We provide a framework for empirical analysis of negotiated-price markets. Using mortgage market data and a search and negotiation model, we characterize the welfare impact of search frictions and quantify the role of search costs and brand loyalty for market power. Search frictions reduce consumer surplus by $12/month/consumer, 28% of which can be associated with discrimination, 22% with inefficient matching, and 50% with search costs. Large con…
African healing and western psychotherapy
Program evaluation and the commissioning entity
Portable gamma ray spectrometry for archaeological prospection
Several studies have suggested the potential value in applying gamma radiation surveys to support identification of buried archaeological features. However, the number of previous studies is very small and has yielded mixed results. The true efficacy of the technique is therefore unclear. Here, we report on an alternative survey method that uses Groundhog®, a portable gamma radiation system with spectrometric capability, to achieve high spatial d…
Drinking Water and Public Health in an Era of Aging Distribution Infrastructure
The provision of a safe and sustainable drinking water supply is one of the hallmarks of a successful society. Treated drinking water entering distribution systems in virtually all U.S. public drinking water systems meets regulations and is microbiologically safe. However, the opportunity for microbial contamination from decades to century old water distribution systems is increasing with time. Thus, increased health risk to consumers should be a…
The Potential for Electricity Market Restructuring in Quebec
In this paper we discuss the potential for future electricity market restructuring in Quebec. In particular, we consider the political economy of the abolishment of the Heritage Pool requirement, which caps wholesale prices. Its elimination is challenging since it would result in higher retail prices. However, if the extra revenue that would be earned from selling at the market price is properly redistributed, a majority of voters could benefit. …
Eligibility for publicly financed home care
OBJECTIVES. Proposals for publicly financed home care for the elderly now tend to include cognitive impairment criteria as well as activities of daily living (ADL) criteria. The numbers of elderly deemed eligible for services will depend on the definitions of ADL and cognitive impairment used. METHODS. Data from the 1984 National Long-Term Care Survey were used to generate a series of estimates of the community-dwelling elderly with ADL disabilit…
The Last of the Iroquois
The text [...] as we possess it to-day, will tell us enough about its own vicissitudes. Two mutually [.. ..] opposed treatments have left their traces on it. On the one hand it has been subjected to revisions which have falsified it in the sense of their secret aims, have mutilated and amplified it and even changed it into its reverse; on the other hand a solicitous piety has presided over it and has sought to preserve everything as it was, no ma…
The Proverbs of Evaluation
In 1946, Herbert Simon published an article in Public Administration Review entitled Proverbs of Administration.' noted that proverbs almost always can be arrayed in mutually contradictory pairs. One example was Look before you leap! as contrasted with He who hesitates is lost. Similar examples spring readily to Absence makes the heart grow fonder is contradicted by of sight, out of mind. Similarly, Money is the root of all evil is offset by A he…
Four-Year Follow-Up of Alcoholics Treated at a Rural State Hospital
Follow-up of 392 men and 139 women alcoholics for 4 years after a 16-week inpatient treatment program in a state hospital showed 44%, in equal sex proportion, to have benefited substantially. There were many year-by-year shifts in status, and a very high mortality
Recognition of Community Control
Sex, Age, and Work
Learning from Experience
Program evaluation and the commissioning entity
A Venture Into Meta‐evaluation
The Proverbs of Evaluation
In 1946, Herbert Simon published an article in Public Administration Review entitled Proverbs of Administration.' noted that proverbs almost always can be arrayed in mutually contradictory pairs. One example was Look before you leap! as contrasted with He who hesitates is lost. Similar examples spring readily to Absence makes the heart grow fonder is contradicted by of sight, out of mind. Similarly, Money is the root of all evil is offset by A he…
Evaluation Research and the Budget Cycle
Using Imaginary Crimes for Simulation and Role Play at Intermediate and Advanced Levels
Variations in composition of peppermint oil in relation to production areas
African healing and western psychotherapy
The Last of the Iroquois
The text [...] as we possess it to-day, will tell us enough about its own vicissitudes. Two mutually [.. ..] opposed treatments have left their traces on it. On the one hand it has been subjected to revisions which have falsified it in the sense of their secret aims, have mutilated and amplified it and even changed it into its reverse; on the other hand a solicitous piety has presided over it and has sought to preserve everything as it was, no ma…
Riddling the Family Firm
To man such as Wilkie Collins who had inhabited both the official and the unconfessed sides of Victorian culture, the connection between what the waves were always saying and Dickens' nighttime wanderings might have seemed less than evident. The city of Paris, which Dickens once described as a wicked and detestable place, though wonderfully attractive, offered the prowler more vice with less hypocrisy than the city of London.2 The author, heart h…
History and Myth in American Fiction, 1832-52
History and Myth in American Fiction, 1823-52
Towards the “Just” Strike? Social Welfare Payments for Persons Affected by a Trade Dispute in the Republic of Ireland
The Newspapers of Nevada
Journal Article The Newspapers of Nevada: A History and Bibliography, 1854–1979 Get access The Newspapers of Nevada: A History and Bibliography, 1854–1979. By Lingenfelter Richard E. Gash Karen Rix. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1984. xxvii + 337 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $32.00.) Robert Clark Robert Clark Montana Historical Society Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quar…
Imaginary Crimes
Markets and Merchants of the Late Seventeenth Century: The Marescoe-David Letters, 1668–1680
Angela Carter's desire machine
Conflict in Catalonia
Short reviews
Margaret A. Gibson, ACCOMMODATION WITHOUT ASSIMILATION: SIKH IMMIGRANTS IN AN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1988, xii + 244pp. Brian M. Bullivant, GETTING A FAIR GO: CASE STUDIES OF OCCUPATIONAL SOCIALIZATION AND PERCEPTIONS OF DISCRIMINATION IN A SAMPLE OF SEVEN MELBOURNE HIGH SCHOOLS, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, Human Rights Commission, Occasional Paper 13, 1986. William D. Piersen, B…
Eligibility for publicly financed home care
OBJECTIVES. Proposals for publicly financed home care for the elderly now tend to include cognitive impairment criteria as well as activities of daily living (ADL) criteria. The numbers of elderly deemed eligible for services will depend on the definitions of ADL and cognitive impairment used. METHODS. Data from the 1984 National Long-Term Care Survey were used to generate a series of estimates of the community-dwelling elderly with ADL disabilit…
International Stock Exchange Linkages The Boston Stock Exchange and the Montreal Exchange
Cet article examine la mise en oeuvre d'un reseau electronique entre la Bourse de Boston et la Bourse de Montreal et les retombees d'un tel lien, y compris les questions administratives. La plus grande efficacite de ces bourses est le resultat d'une plus grande concurrence du point de vue du prix, du produit, et de l'espace
Knotting Desire in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient
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