Margaret Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3015-1251 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Re-thinking Public Health Education in Aotearoa New Zealand: Factory Model to Personalized Learning
Key drivers of change in the 21st century—pandemic, technology advance, social disparity—are shaping the public health industry, including employment and education. In 2020, COVID-19 brought rapid change to the teaching of public health in higher education. In this reflective essay, we move beyond the delivery of existing curricula shifting from classroom to online, and consider the greater agenda of a transformative educational paradigm. This is…
The quality of life of HIV-infected South African university students: Experiences with the WHOQOL-HIV-Bref
HIV and AIDS has serious repercussions on psychological, social and physical well-being, and the assessment of Quality of Life (QoL) of people living with HIV and AIDS is essential to gauge how these challenges are met. The WHOQoL-HIV Bref forms part of a suite of instruments developed by the World Health Organisation. The purpose of this paper is to describe the quality of life of a sample of HIV-infected students at a South African university, …
Jews in a Graeco-Roman Environment: Jews in a Graeco-Roman Environment
Margaret H. Williams presents a selection of studies, most of them epigraphically based, on the Jewish Diaspora in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Those collected in the first part deal with problems connected with the Jewish community in Rome, its history, organisation and burial practices. The papers in the second part are mainly concerned with other Jewish settlements in the Roman Empire, most notably those of Aphrodisias and Corycus in Asia Minor and…
Current Challenges in Social Work Distance Education: Responses from the Elluminati
One of the first tasks of the Social Work Distance Education Network at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary was to review the literature and address three research questions to inform policy making and planning relating to distance social work education programming. This paper is intended to disseminate responses to these questions from a small group of dedicated and experienced distance educators who have adopted the moniker …
The role of parental work schedule in CPS involvement
Image and Text in the Jewish Epitaphs of Late Ancient Rome
This paper aims to establish for the first time the relationship between the verbal and visual elements of the Jewish epitaphs from 3d/4th-century C.E. Rome. A close analysis of the approximately 500 usable inscriptions leads to the conclusion that, the Jewish character of most of the images notwithstanding, the key operative factor at every social level was Roman memorialisation practice. The study thus throws considerable light on the accultura…
Mapping the availability and accessibility of healthy food in rural and urban New Zealand – Te Wai o Rona: Diabetes Prevention Strategy
Objective Uptake of advice for lifestyle change for obesity and diabetes prevention requires access to affordable ‘healthy’ foods (high in fibre/low in sugar and fat). The present study aimed to examine the availability and accessibility of ‘healthy’ foods in rural and urban New Zealand. Design We identified and visited (‘mapped’) 1230 food outlets (473 urban, 757 rural) across the Waikato/Lakes areas (162 census areas within twelve regions) in N…
Prevalence of diabetes in New Zealand general practice: The influence of ethnicity and social deprivation
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes among different ethnic groups and the influence of deprivation on the prevalence of diabetes among Māori and New Zealand Europeans was investigated. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional survey on all patients registered with 10 practices in the Rotorua General Practice Group on 1 July 2007. Patients diagnosed with diabetes were identified though diagnostic codes for diabetes, prescriptions for diabe…
Rating Health and Social Indicators for Use with Indigenous Communities: A Tool for Balancing Cultural and Scientific Utility
The Use of Alternative Names by Diaspora Jews in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
In contrast to Palestine, where the use by Jews of nicknames and other forms of alternative name has been extensively studied, little scholarly attention has been paid to the behaviour of Diaspora Jews in this area of onomastics. This paper aims to fill that gap by collecting and analysing all the available evidence, most of it epigraphic. It will be shown that contrary to popular belief, the use of alternative names by Diaspora Jews was relative…
Women's Representation on State Trial and Appellate Courts
Objective. This article examines the factors affecting women's representation at each level of the state judiciary. Methods. Using extended beta‐binomial and Poisson models, this article determines the effects of judicial selection, state ideology, and the pool of women eligible to serve on state trial and appellate courts. Results. I find that the pool of women eligible to serve, state ideology, and some methods of judicial selection affect the …
Jewish Festal Names in Antiquity—A Neglected Area of Onomastic Research
Naming children to reflect the occasion of their birth is found in many cultures and Jewish culture in antiquity was no exception. Although Sabbath-derived names have been studied, no comprehensive treatment of Jewish festal names exists. This paper attempts to fill that gap by examining in turn each name used by Jews during the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman periods with a definite or possible festal connection. The study concludes with an attem…
A Day of Gladness: The Sabbath among Jews and Christians in Antiquity
During the course of the 1990s, a steady stream of articles by Herold Weiss on the treatment of the Sabbath by Jewish and Christian writers entered the public domain.First to appear was a discussion of the Sabbath in the Synoptic Gospels (JSNT 38 (1990), pp.13-27).A year later came 'The Sabbath in the Fourth Gospel' (JBL 110 (1991), pp.311-21), and 'Philo on the Sabbath' (Studia Philonica Annual 3,.Subsequently, Weiss continued his Jewish strand …
Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities
Conceptions of Afterlife in Jewish Inscriptions
The Jews among the Greeks and Romans: A Diasporan Sourcebook
As one of the few groups in the Greco-Roman world to resist cultural assimilation, the Jews remained an object of fascination throughout antiquity. Greek and Roman writers devoted much space to them, but few bothered to learn the facts about Jews, preferring to report stereotypes and rumor. Evidence does exist, however, to show what real Jews were like in antiquity and how they interacted with the Greeks and Romans, both pagan and Christian. In T…
Exarchon: An Unsuspected Jewish Liturgical Title from Ancient Rome
L'A. s'interroge sur le role de l'exarque juif, titre atteste sur deux epitaphes trouvees en 1906 et attribuees a Gelase et Gaius Fufanius Iulianus. Il etudie le sens et la fonction du verbe exarchein et son parent exarchos dans les ecrits grecs et judeo-grecs de la periode qui a precede les deux epitaphes (3e-4e siecles apres J.-C.) en portant son attention a l'Illiade de Homere et a la Septante. Le sens de ces deux termes le plus ancien et qui …
Perceptions of Stigma and User Involvement in Child Welfare Services
This paper explores the perceptions of social disqualification or ‘stigma’ that service users attributed to public child welfare services in random samples of service users taken from the Netherlands, a part of Spain (Catalonia) and a part of the United Kingdom (Wales). It was found that, in all three samples, foster and residential care invoked the greatest sense of stigma, while the health related and the preventive family services were perceiv…
The Jews of Early Byzantine Venusia: The Family of Faustinus I, the Father
Dans les annees 1850, l'une des plus grandes collections d'inscriptions juives de l'antiquite greco-romaine - environ soixante epitaphes - fut decouverte a Venosa, dans le sud de l'Italie. Cet article etudie une vingtaine de ces inscriptions dans le but d'elaborer une souche qui recouvre plus de sept generations d'une famille de la Diaspora de quelque importance locale, d'avoir des renseignements sur les lieux ou elle se trouvait avant, puis apre…
The Nature of Foster Care International Trends
The nature of foster care is changing around the world. Based on their forthcoming book on the same theme, Matthew Colton and Margaret Williams review developments in the purpose, definition and practice of foster care in countries as different as Argentina, Hungary, Finland, Italy, Zimbabwe and the UK. With respect to purpose, they argue that the growing emphasis on family support, reunification, and normalisation has implications for the way th…
Child Welfare and Stigma: Principles into Practice
This article draws on an empirical study of stigma and child welfare in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Spain; it shows how stigma continues to be a part of the experience of using and delivering child welfare services, despite the positive determination of policies in all three countries that this should not be so. More optimistically, however, it is also evident that the experience of stigma and exclusion can be reduced, and the article…
Maintaining family ties and reconnecting families: An essay review
The Jews of Corycus-a Neglected Diasporan Community From Roman Times
L'etude de dix inscriptions juives provenant de Corycus (Empire byzantin, Cilicie) et datees principalement des V e et VI e siecles montre non seulement que les juifs se sont integres a la vie politique et economique de la cite mais aussi, tout comme la societe de Corycus, qu'ils furent touches par le passage du paganisme au christianisme
Perceptions of Stigma and User Involvement in Child Welfare Services
This paper explores the perceptions of social disqualification or ‘stigma’ that service users attributed to public child welfare services in random samples of service users taken from the Netherlands, a part of Spain (Catalonia) and a part of the United Kingdom (Wales). It was found that, in all three samples, foster and residential care invoked the greatest sense of stigma, while the health related and the preventive family services were perceiv…
Women's Representation on State Trial and Appellate Courts
Objective. This article examines the factors affecting women's representation at each level of the state judiciary. Methods. Using extended beta‐binomial and Poisson models, this article determines the effects of judicial selection, state ideology, and the pool of women eligible to serve on state trial and appellate courts. Results. I find that the pool of women eligible to serve, state ideology, and some methods of judicial selection affect the …
The Nature of Foster Care International Trends
The nature of foster care is changing around the world. Based on their forthcoming book on the same theme, Matthew Colton and Margaret Williams review developments in the purpose, definition and practice of foster care in countries as different as Argentina, Hungary, Finland, Italy, Zimbabwe and the UK. With respect to purpose, they argue that the growing emphasis on family support, reunification, and normalisation has implications for the way th…
Prevalence of diabetes in New Zealand general practice: The influence of ethnicity and social deprivation
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes among different ethnic groups and the influence of deprivation on the prevalence of diabetes among Māori and New Zealand Europeans was investigated. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional survey on all patients registered with 10 practices in the Rotorua General Practice Group on 1 July 2007. Patients diagnosed with diabetes were identified though diagnostic codes for diabetes, prescriptions for diabe…
Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities
Current Challenges in Social Work Distance Education: Responses from the Elluminati
One of the first tasks of the Social Work Distance Education Network at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary was to review the literature and address three research questions to inform policy making and planning relating to distance social work education programming. This paper is intended to disseminate responses to these questions from a small group of dedicated and experienced distance educators who have adopted the moniker …
Rating Health and Social Indicators for Use with Indigenous Communities: A Tool for Balancing Cultural and Scientific Utility
The role of parental work schedule in CPS involvement
A Day of Gladness: The Sabbath among Jews and Christians in Antiquity
During the course of the 1990s, a steady stream of articles by Herold Weiss on the treatment of the Sabbath by Jewish and Christian writers entered the public domain.First to appear was a discussion of the Sabbath in the Synoptic Gospels (JSNT 38 (1990), pp.13-27).A year later came 'The Sabbath in the Fourth Gospel' (JBL 110 (1991), pp.311-21), and 'Philo on the Sabbath' (Studia Philonica Annual 3,.Subsequently, Weiss continued his Jewish strand …
The Jews of Corycus-a Neglected Diasporan Community From Roman Times
L'etude de dix inscriptions juives provenant de Corycus (Empire byzantin, Cilicie) et datees principalement des V e et VI e siecles montre non seulement que les juifs se sont integres a la vie politique et economique de la cite mais aussi, tout comme la societe de Corycus, qu'ils furent touches par le passage du paganisme au christianisme
Maintaining family ties and reconnecting families: An essay review
The Nature of Foster Care International Trends
The nature of foster care is changing around the world. Based on their forthcoming book on the same theme, Matthew Colton and Margaret Williams review developments in the purpose, definition and practice of foster care in countries as different as Argentina, Hungary, Finland, Italy, Zimbabwe and the UK. With respect to purpose, they argue that the growing emphasis on family support, reunification, and normalisation has implications for the way th…
Child Welfare and Stigma: Principles into Practice
This article draws on an empirical study of stigma and child welfare in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Spain; it shows how stigma continues to be a part of the experience of using and delivering child welfare services, despite the positive determination of policies in all three countries that this should not be so. More optimistically, however, it is also evident that the experience of stigma and exclusion can be reduced, and the article…
Perceptions of Stigma and User Involvement in Child Welfare Services
This paper explores the perceptions of social disqualification or ‘stigma’ that service users attributed to public child welfare services in random samples of service users taken from the Netherlands, a part of Spain (Catalonia) and a part of the United Kingdom (Wales). It was found that, in all three samples, foster and residential care invoked the greatest sense of stigma, while the health related and the preventive family services were perceiv…
The Jews of Early Byzantine Venusia: The Family of Faustinus I, the Father
Dans les annees 1850, l'une des plus grandes collections d'inscriptions juives de l'antiquite greco-romaine - environ soixante epitaphes - fut decouverte a Venosa, dans le sud de l'Italie. Cet article etudie une vingtaine de ces inscriptions dans le but d'elaborer une souche qui recouvre plus de sept generations d'une famille de la Diaspora de quelque importance locale, d'avoir des renseignements sur les lieux ou elle se trouvait avant, puis apre…
The Jews among the Greeks and Romans: A Diasporan Sourcebook
As one of the few groups in the Greco-Roman world to resist cultural assimilation, the Jews remained an object of fascination throughout antiquity. Greek and Roman writers devoted much space to them, but few bothered to learn the facts about Jews, preferring to report stereotypes and rumor. Evidence does exist, however, to show what real Jews were like in antiquity and how they interacted with the Greeks and Romans, both pagan and Christian. In T…
Exarchon: An Unsuspected Jewish Liturgical Title from Ancient Rome
L'A. s'interroge sur le role de l'exarque juif, titre atteste sur deux epitaphes trouvees en 1906 et attribuees a Gelase et Gaius Fufanius Iulianus. Il etudie le sens et la fonction du verbe exarchein et son parent exarchos dans les ecrits grecs et judeo-grecs de la periode qui a precede les deux epitaphes (3e-4e siecles apres J.-C.) en portant son attention a l'Illiade de Homere et a la Septante. Le sens de ces deux termes le plus ancien et qui …
Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities
Conceptions of Afterlife in Jewish Inscriptions
A Day of Gladness: The Sabbath among Jews and Christians in Antiquity
During the course of the 1990s, a steady stream of articles by Herold Weiss on the treatment of the Sabbath by Jewish and Christian writers entered the public domain.First to appear was a discussion of the Sabbath in the Synoptic Gospels (JSNT 38 (1990), pp.13-27).A year later came 'The Sabbath in the Fourth Gospel' (JBL 110 (1991), pp.311-21), and 'Philo on the Sabbath' (Studia Philonica Annual 3,.Subsequently, Weiss continued his Jewish strand …
Jewish Festal Names in Antiquity—A Neglected Area of Onomastic Research
Naming children to reflect the occasion of their birth is found in many cultures and Jewish culture in antiquity was no exception. Although Sabbath-derived names have been studied, no comprehensive treatment of Jewish festal names exists. This paper attempts to fill that gap by examining in turn each name used by Jews during the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman periods with a definite or possible festal connection. The study concludes with an attem…
The Use of Alternative Names by Diaspora Jews in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
In contrast to Palestine, where the use by Jews of nicknames and other forms of alternative name has been extensively studied, little scholarly attention has been paid to the behaviour of Diaspora Jews in this area of onomastics. This paper aims to fill that gap by collecting and analysing all the available evidence, most of it epigraphic. It will be shown that contrary to popular belief, the use of alternative names by Diaspora Jews was relative…
Women's Representation on State Trial and Appellate Courts
Objective. This article examines the factors affecting women's representation at each level of the state judiciary. Methods. Using extended beta‐binomial and Poisson models, this article determines the effects of judicial selection, state ideology, and the pool of women eligible to serve on state trial and appellate courts. Results. I find that the pool of women eligible to serve, state ideology, and some methods of judicial selection affect the …
Prevalence of diabetes in New Zealand general practice: The influence of ethnicity and social deprivation
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes among different ethnic groups and the influence of deprivation on the prevalence of diabetes among Māori and New Zealand Europeans was investigated. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional survey on all patients registered with 10 practices in the Rotorua General Practice Group on 1 July 2007. Patients diagnosed with diabetes were identified though diagnostic codes for diabetes, prescriptions for diabe…
Rating Health and Social Indicators for Use with Indigenous Communities: A Tool for Balancing Cultural and Scientific Utility
Mapping the availability and accessibility of healthy food in rural and urban New Zealand – Te Wai o Rona: Diabetes Prevention Strategy
Objective Uptake of advice for lifestyle change for obesity and diabetes prevention requires access to affordable ‘healthy’ foods (high in fibre/low in sugar and fat). The present study aimed to examine the availability and accessibility of ‘healthy’ foods in rural and urban New Zealand. Design We identified and visited (‘mapped’) 1230 food outlets (473 urban, 757 rural) across the Waikato/Lakes areas (162 census areas within twelve regions) in N…
Image and Text in the Jewish Epitaphs of Late Ancient Rome
This paper aims to establish for the first time the relationship between the verbal and visual elements of the Jewish epitaphs from 3d/4th-century C.E. Rome. A close analysis of the approximately 500 usable inscriptions leads to the conclusion that, the Jewish character of most of the images notwithstanding, the key operative factor at every social level was Roman memorialisation practice. The study thus throws considerable light on the accultura…
Jews in a Graeco-Roman Environment: Jews in a Graeco-Roman Environment
Margaret H. Williams presents a selection of studies, most of them epigraphically based, on the Jewish Diaspora in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Those collected in the first part deal with problems connected with the Jewish community in Rome, its history, organisation and burial practices. The papers in the second part are mainly concerned with other Jewish settlements in the Roman Empire, most notably those of Aphrodisias and Corycus in Asia Minor and…
Current Challenges in Social Work Distance Education: Responses from the Elluminati
One of the first tasks of the Social Work Distance Education Network at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary was to review the literature and address three research questions to inform policy making and planning relating to distance social work education programming. This paper is intended to disseminate responses to these questions from a small group of dedicated and experienced distance educators who have adopted the moniker …
The role of parental work schedule in CPS involvement
The quality of life of HIV-infected South African university students: Experiences with the WHOQOL-HIV-Bref
HIV and AIDS has serious repercussions on psychological, social and physical well-being, and the assessment of Quality of Life (QoL) of people living with HIV and AIDS is essential to gauge how these challenges are met. The WHOQoL-HIV Bref forms part of a suite of instruments developed by the World Health Organisation. The purpose of this paper is to describe the quality of life of a sample of HIV-infected students at a South African university, …
Re-thinking Public Health Education in Aotearoa New Zealand: Factory Model to Personalized Learning
Key drivers of change in the 21st century—pandemic, technology advance, social disparity—are shaping the public health industry, including employment and education. In 2020, COVID-19 brought rapid change to the teaching of public health in higher education. In this reflective essay, we move beyond the delivery of existing curricula shifting from classroom to online, and consider the greater agenda of a transformative educational paradigm. This is…
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