Benjamin Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1110-2179 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mother's and children's ADHD genetic risk, household chaos and children's ADHD symptoms
BACKGROUND: Chaotic home environments may contribute to children's attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms. However, ADHD genetic risk may also influence household chaos. This study investigated whether children in chaotic households had more ADHD symptoms, if mothers and children with higher ADHD genetic risk lived in more chaotic households, and the joint association of genetic risk and household chaos on the longitudinal cours…
The Parable of the Disappearing Gladiators
According to the mashal (parable) attributed to Shimʿon ben Yoḥai in Gen. Rab. 22:9, the murder of Abel (Gen 4:8–10) may be likened to a gladiator’s death in the arena. This article argues that the parable assumes the audience’s familiarity with gladiatorial shows, which came to an end in the early fifth century CE . Tracing the transmission of the mashal in Tanḥuma ha-Nidpas (Bereshit 9) and the earliest commentaries on Genesis Rabba, it further…
What did the Rabbis know about grammar? Exegesis and grammatical gender in late antiquity
The first systematic analyses of Hebrew grammar were composed by Rabbanite and Karaite scholars of the tenth and eleventh centuries, partly by drawing on the conventions of Arabic linguistics. However, certain technical grammatical terms, including the expressions leshon zakhar ('masculine') and leshon neqevah ('feminine'), can be found in Midrashic and Talmudic texts. This article considers the grammatical knowledge underlying the rabbinic expos…
Public Perception of Sars-CoV-2 Vaccinations on Social Media
Vaccine hesitancy is an ongoing concern, presenting a major threat to global health. SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 vaccinations are no exception as misinformation began to circulate on social media early in their development. Twitter's Application Programming Interface (API) for Python was used to collect 137,781 tweets between 1 July 2021 and 21 July 2021 using 43 search terms relating to COVID-19 vaccines. Tweets were analysed for sentiment using Microso…
Minimum Wage and Women's Decision-Making Power within Households
We estimate the effects of the minimum wage on women’s intrahousehold bargaining power in Indonesia. Using regional minimum wages in Indonesia from 2000 to 2014 and a sample of married household heads and their spouses from a panel of Indonesian households, we implement a method that exploits differences in real minimum wage changes between geographically proximate districts. We exploit survey responses regarding participation in household decisi…
Using DNA From Mothers and Children to Study Parental Investment in Children’s Educational Attainment
This study tested implications of new genetic discoveries for understanding the association between parental investment and children’s educational attainment. A novel design matched genetic data from 860 British mothers and their children with home-visit measures of parenting: the E-Risk Study. Three findings emerged. First, both mothers’ and children’s education-associated genetics, summarized in a genome-wide polygenic score, were associated wi…
The repeat time-on-the-market index
Genetics and the geography of health, behaviour and attainment
The Messiah Promised in the Holy Scripture Came a Long Time Ago
This chapter presents an English translation of George Rust’s two poems, contained in his Latin academic text entitled Act Verses: Scripture teaches the resurrection from the dead, and reason does not contradict this and The soul, separated from the body, does not sleep . In the first poem, Rust says ‘Whoever is guided by God and reason, the mind’s two eyes, sails safely like the one whose course follows the light of the twin stars, Castor and Po…
George Rust, University of Cambridge Commencement Day Divinity Act Verses
This chapter presents an English translation of George Rust’s Latin academic text entitled The Messiah Promised in the Holy Scripture Came a Long Time Ago . Here Rust talks about how he considered demonstrating that ‘Jesus himself was the promised Messiah, since it is an accepted fact among liberal and judicious men that the stubborn incredulity of the Jews and their sworn hatred towards God’s Christ cannot be justified by any means’. Rust explai…
Origenian Platonisme’ in Interregnum Cambridge
This chapter aims to contribute to our knowledge of what is known as ‘Origenian Platonist moment’ by analysing English translations of three Latin academic texts by George Rust, with annotations to the two longer ones, written in 1656 and 1658 while he was a fellow of Christ’s College at the University of Cambridge: Messias in S. Scriptura promissus olim venit (The Messiah promised in the Holy Scripture came a long time ago); Act Verses, a souven…
Gnats, Fleas, Flies, and a Camel
The pages of familiar printed editions of Midrash Rabba, including the Venice 1878 folio edition, teem with the commentaries of medieval and early-modern interpreters. This paper examines these abundant sources of information about the reception history of midrash by considering interpretations of a perplexing exposition in Genesis Rabbah (5:9 and 20:8). According to this midrash, when Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden tree, God commanded the gro…
Paul Valéry and Poetic Literacy
My article proposes a reading of Valéry's essay, “Avenir de la littérature” (1928), which foresaw literature becoming a dead language. This fate of literature is due not just to future readers’ lack of interpretive effort, but also their lack of effortlessness in reading. To contextualize this point, my essay draws on earlier speculations, made by some of Valéry's contemporaries, about orthographic reform and the potential scission of French into…
Tinkering through transition
This article addresses the notion of ‘making it’ as an early-career academic in physical education and sport pedagogy. In it, we draw on the tradition of material semiotics to reflect on our shared journeys from doctoral student to beginning scholar and beyond. By attuning ourselves to the relationality, materiality and precariousness of our experiences, we offer an answer to the question of what it takes to ‘make it’ as an early-career academic …
The 1525 Rabbinic Bible and How to Read It
Daniel Bombergs 1525 edition of the Rabbinic Bible is a typographical masterpiece. It combines the text of the Hebrew Bible with Aramaic Targumim, medieval Jewish commentaries and the Masoretic textual apparatus. As testified by the numerous copies in the libraries of Jewish and Christian readers, this was a popular edition that remained in demand long after its publication. This article examines why and how readers studied the 1525 Rabbinic Bibl…
Early-Life Intelligence Predicts Midlife Biological Age
These results suggest that accelerated aging may serve as one of the factors linking low early-life intelligence to increased rates of morbidity and mortality
Sexual freedom and anarchist individualism in French symbolism’s ivory tower
How could an apparently apolitical poem (about a virgin princess and a knight errant) correspond with a poet’s anarchic beliefs? In the 1890s, symbolists like Pierre Quillard claimed that their isolation and production of ‘ivory tower’ poetry constituted a critique of the constraints placed on individuals by society. My paper argues that, in light of national anxieties over depopulation and homosexuality, the symbolists’ various defences of non-p…
The First Printed Books of Midrash and Their Jewish and Christian Readers
Midrashim were first published as printed texts in the sixteenth century, initially in Sephardi communities of the Ottoman Empire and later at the famous Hebrew presses of Venice. Vital evidence about the study of these new books is furnished by a heavily annotated copy of Midrash Rabba (Venice, 1545) in the Bodleian Library. Handwritten marginal and interlinear notes show that it was studied by Jewish scholars of the Ottoman Empire and later by …
Development and Evaluation of a Genetic Risk Score for Obesity
Multi-locus profiles of genetic risk, so-called "genetic risk scores," can be used to translate discoveries from genome-wide association studies into tools for population health research. We developed a genetic risk score for obesity from results of 16 published genome-wide association studies of obesity phenotypes in European-descent samples. We then evaluated this genetic risk score using data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC)…
The Big Society
Neural mechanisms of anger regulation as a function of genetic risk for violence
Genetic risk may predispose individuals to compromised anger regulation, potentially through modulation of brain responses to emotionally evocative stimuli. Emphatically expressed, the emotional word No can prohibit behavior through conditioning. In a recent functional magnetic resonance imaging study, the authors showed that healthy males attribute negative valence to No while showing a lateral orbitofrontal response that correlated with their s…
Empty
Sublet
Poetry
The Old Maid
Genetics and the geography of health, behaviour and attainment
Development and Evaluation of a Genetic Risk Score for Obesity
Multi-locus profiles of genetic risk, so-called "genetic risk scores," can be used to translate discoveries from genome-wide association studies into tools for population health research. We developed a genetic risk score for obesity from results of 16 published genome-wide association studies of obesity phenotypes in European-descent samples. We then evaluated this genetic risk score using data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC)…
Early-Life Intelligence Predicts Midlife Biological Age
These results suggest that accelerated aging may serve as one of the factors linking low early-life intelligence to increased rates of morbidity and mortality
The repeat time-on-the-market index
The Big Society
Little Heroes Often Die
Dare You Be a People
A Poem of Love
X an Educator
The Old Maid
Sublet
Poetry
Empty
Neural mechanisms of anger regulation as a function of genetic risk for violence
Genetic risk may predispose individuals to compromised anger regulation, potentially through modulation of brain responses to emotionally evocative stimuli. Emphatically expressed, the emotional word No can prohibit behavior through conditioning. In a recent functional magnetic resonance imaging study, the authors showed that healthy males attribute negative valence to No while showing a lateral orbitofrontal response that correlated with their s…
The Big Society
Development and Evaluation of a Genetic Risk Score for Obesity
Multi-locus profiles of genetic risk, so-called "genetic risk scores," can be used to translate discoveries from genome-wide association studies into tools for population health research. We developed a genetic risk score for obesity from results of 16 published genome-wide association studies of obesity phenotypes in European-descent samples. We then evaluated this genetic risk score using data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC)…
Early-Life Intelligence Predicts Midlife Biological Age
These results suggest that accelerated aging may serve as one of the factors linking low early-life intelligence to increased rates of morbidity and mortality
Sexual freedom and anarchist individualism in French symbolism’s ivory tower
How could an apparently apolitical poem (about a virgin princess and a knight errant) correspond with a poet’s anarchic beliefs? In the 1890s, symbolists like Pierre Quillard claimed that their isolation and production of ‘ivory tower’ poetry constituted a critique of the constraints placed on individuals by society. My paper argues that, in light of national anxieties over depopulation and homosexuality, the symbolists’ various defences of non-p…
The First Printed Books of Midrash and Their Jewish and Christian Readers
Midrashim were first published as printed texts in the sixteenth century, initially in Sephardi communities of the Ottoman Empire and later at the famous Hebrew presses of Venice. Vital evidence about the study of these new books is furnished by a heavily annotated copy of Midrash Rabba (Venice, 1545) in the Bodleian Library. Handwritten marginal and interlinear notes show that it was studied by Jewish scholars of the Ottoman Empire and later by …
Paul Valéry and Poetic Literacy
My article proposes a reading of Valéry's essay, “Avenir de la littérature” (1928), which foresaw literature becoming a dead language. This fate of literature is due not just to future readers’ lack of interpretive effort, but also their lack of effortlessness in reading. To contextualize this point, my essay draws on earlier speculations, made by some of Valéry's contemporaries, about orthographic reform and the potential scission of French into…
Tinkering through transition
This article addresses the notion of ‘making it’ as an early-career academic in physical education and sport pedagogy. In it, we draw on the tradition of material semiotics to reflect on our shared journeys from doctoral student to beginning scholar and beyond. By attuning ourselves to the relationality, materiality and precariousness of our experiences, we offer an answer to the question of what it takes to ‘make it’ as an early-career academic …
The 1525 Rabbinic Bible and How to Read It
Daniel Bombergs 1525 edition of the Rabbinic Bible is a typographical masterpiece. It combines the text of the Hebrew Bible with Aramaic Targumim, medieval Jewish commentaries and the Masoretic textual apparatus. As testified by the numerous copies in the libraries of Jewish and Christian readers, this was a popular edition that remained in demand long after its publication. This article examines why and how readers studied the 1525 Rabbinic Bibl…
The Messiah Promised in the Holy Scripture Came a Long Time Ago
This chapter presents an English translation of George Rust’s two poems, contained in his Latin academic text entitled Act Verses: Scripture teaches the resurrection from the dead, and reason does not contradict this and The soul, separated from the body, does not sleep . In the first poem, Rust says ‘Whoever is guided by God and reason, the mind’s two eyes, sails safely like the one whose course follows the light of the twin stars, Castor and Po…
George Rust, University of Cambridge Commencement Day Divinity Act Verses
This chapter presents an English translation of George Rust’s Latin academic text entitled The Messiah Promised in the Holy Scripture Came a Long Time Ago . Here Rust talks about how he considered demonstrating that ‘Jesus himself was the promised Messiah, since it is an accepted fact among liberal and judicious men that the stubborn incredulity of the Jews and their sworn hatred towards God’s Christ cannot be justified by any means’. Rust explai…
Origenian Platonisme’ in Interregnum Cambridge
This chapter aims to contribute to our knowledge of what is known as ‘Origenian Platonist moment’ by analysing English translations of three Latin academic texts by George Rust, with annotations to the two longer ones, written in 1656 and 1658 while he was a fellow of Christ’s College at the University of Cambridge: Messias in S. Scriptura promissus olim venit (The Messiah promised in the Holy Scripture came a long time ago); Act Verses, a souven…
Gnats, Fleas, Flies, and a Camel
The pages of familiar printed editions of Midrash Rabba, including the Venice 1878 folio edition, teem with the commentaries of medieval and early-modern interpreters. This paper examines these abundant sources of information about the reception history of midrash by considering interpretations of a perplexing exposition in Genesis Rabbah (5:9 and 20:8). According to this midrash, when Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden tree, God commanded the gro…
The repeat time-on-the-market index
Genetics and the geography of health, behaviour and attainment
Using DNA From Mothers and Children to Study Parental Investment in Children’s Educational Attainment
This study tested implications of new genetic discoveries for understanding the association between parental investment and children’s educational attainment. A novel design matched genetic data from 860 British mothers and their children with home-visit measures of parenting: the E-Risk Study. Three findings emerged. First, both mothers’ and children’s education-associated genetics, summarized in a genome-wide polygenic score, were associated wi…
Public Perception of Sars-CoV-2 Vaccinations on Social Media
Vaccine hesitancy is an ongoing concern, presenting a major threat to global health. SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 vaccinations are no exception as misinformation began to circulate on social media early in their development. Twitter's Application Programming Interface (API) for Python was used to collect 137,781 tweets between 1 July 2021 and 21 July 2021 using 43 search terms relating to COVID-19 vaccines. Tweets were analysed for sentiment using Microso…
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