John Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3614248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0280-629X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 111 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 111 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1852 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Spatial capital dynamics: Examining ecological distribution conflicts within the electric vehicle supply-and-consumption chain
Energy transitions are often celebrated as pathways to a greener future. Yet, they frequently reproduce spatially uneven burdens and patterns of dispossession, particularly affecting marginalised communities from the Global South. While climate justice debates have advanced, their spatial dimension has received comparatively less systematic attention. This paper documents an experimental use of spatial capital as a lens to analyse how green trans…
An economist and a psychologist form a line: What can imperfect perception of length tell us about stochastic choice
Standard choice experiments are hampered by the fact that utility is either unknown or imperfectly measured. By contrast, we design an induced-values choice experiment: objects are valued according to only a single attribute with a continuous measure and we can observe whether the choice was optimal. Subjects are given a choice set involving lines of various lengths and are told to select one. They are paid an amount that increases with the lengt…
How clarinettists vary amplitude, frequency, spectral features and microtiming to play music expressively
Nine experienced clarinettists were asked to produce a range of ‘expressive goals’ (EGs, related to emotions) through different performances of a set of melodies. Several performance features were analysed, including features concerned with rarely investigated aspects of the sustain portion of a note (SPOAN). In comparison to other EGs, Angry was played loud, maximum amplitude of SPOAN arriving early, and with a steep attack slope; Deadpan: with …
Stochastic choice and imperfect judgments of line lengths: What is hiding in the noise
Expressive goals for performing musicians: The case of clarinetists
Music can convey emotions. Even in the performance of written rather than improvised music, the performer can modify the way they play particular elements of the music to convey specific emotions. Considerable research attention has been paid to the ways in which performers convey a small set of so-called basic emotions. In the current work, we investigated how musicians think they can convey a larger set of emotions in their performances by modi…
Brian Macdonald-Milne. 2020. Seeking Peace in the Pacific: The Story of Conflict and Christianity in the Central Solomon Islands
Graphic Interlude: The Torn Object: Experimentation in Post-War British Literature and Film
This graphic interlude features a selection of pictures and videos illustrating the topic of this issue: “The Torn Object”
Knowledge is like food”: Qanruyutet on change and subsistence from John Smith
Yup’ik Elder John Smith (Hooper Bay) recounts wise words (qanruyutet) about growing up during a time of rapid change in the Yukon-Kuskokwim (Y-K) Delta. His oral histories include instructions (alerquutet), prohibitions (inerquutet), and cautionary tales (neq’ayarat) regarding Yup’ik subsistence practices known collectively as Yuuyaraq. Taken together, these oral histories, represent a genre of performance sometimes overlooked in contemporary sch…
The trinitarian dance with culture: Trinity as the missiological optic for understanding culture
In discussions of imago Dei, we largely confine ourselves to functional and moral affinity to God, that is that we have been made in God’s image with the result that obedience to God amounts to imitating his moral character and behavior. However, we need to add the existential affinity of God’s being to our understanding of God’s image in us, specifically the fact that he is both singular (in essence) and plural (in person). To some degree, peopl…
On the category adjustment model: Another look at Huttenlocher, Hedges, and Vevea (2000)
Central tendency bias in belief elicitation
Sounds Like HBO: The Politics of Mold in Treme's Opening Credits
This essay considers the affective politics and corporate strategy at the heart of HBO's Treme. It examines how the show's opening credits across its four seasons reveal a paradoxical inextricability between HBO's drive for profits and Treme's respectful approach to a post-Katrina New Orleans that initiated the drive
Reaching the Right People: Reflexive Practice to Support Effective Recruitment, Participation, and Engagement in Research With Communities Affected by Stigma
Recruiting participants to qualitative studies is often a challenge-reaching the right people, and the right people choosing to participate, is a primary consideration for researchers. For research on HIV, as a condition which continues to be stigmatized, this can be magnified. However, being part of the HIV voluntary sector and occupying a role of 'HIV advocate' can provide routes to overcome this challenge. Using the example of the researcher's…
Sports Psychology in the English Premier League: It Feels Precarious and is Precarious
This article gives a rare account of the working life of a sports psychologist in the English Premier League, the elite division in English professional football. It shows how members of emerging professions such as sports psychology are a new precariat. John is more successful than many sports psychologists, but his job security is dependent on his continued ability to navigate managerial change: using his skills as a psychologist in the defence…
You Are What You Will: Kant, Schopenhauer, Facial Expression of Emotion, and Affective Computing1
Recent developments in the cognitive sciences have advanced the techniques of reading emotions on the human face. Paul Ekman has formalised the study of ‘micro‐expressions’, universal ways in which emotions are embedded and expressed in the human face, and the field of ‘affective computing’ has employed software to allow facial expressions of emotion to be read and evaluated by digital technology. Such developments raise fundamental philosophical…
Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century
The globalization of production and its shift to low-wage countries is the most significant and dynamic transformation of the neoliberal era. Its fundamental driving force is what some economists call "global labor arbitrage": the efforts by firms in Europe, North America, and Japan to cut costs and boost profits by replacing higher-waged domestic labor with cheaper foreign labor, achieved either through emigration of production ("outsourcing," a…
Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: The Globalization of Production, Super-Exploitation, and the Crisis of Capitalism
Yes Chef: Life at the Vanguard of Culinary Excellence
This article foregrounds the experiences of a young chef ('John') during the early years of his career in the fine dining industry. His descriptions paint a vivid picture of life as an elite chef, which is thrilling, exciting and rewarding, but also mundane, degrading and dehumanizing. The environment John describes is characterized by strong ideologies and him working hard to align himself with a highly gendered (often fantastical) image of what…
The Printer's Grammar
The author of this 1755 work is unknown - John Smith may not even have been his real name - but internal evidence from the book suggests that he may have spent some time in northern Germany, and he also shows familiarity with aspects of French printing. Smith describes the typesetting of books but not the actual printing, so it is possible that he may have been a compositor or a printer's reader. The work is a comprehensive survey of all aspects …
Printer's Grammar
Reshaping social theory from complexity and ecological perspectives
This article argues that Durkheim's founding insight - uniquely social phenomena - presents us with both a foundation for the discipline of sociology and the risk that the discipline will become isolated. This, we argue, has happened. Our contention is that the emergent social phenomena need to be understood in relation to, but not reduced to, their biological and psychological substrates. Similarly, there are a number of other characteristics, n…
The endogenous nature of the measurement of social preferences
Toward an understanding of the endogenous nature of group identification in games
It is commonly assumed that identification with a social group is constant throughout the play of a one-shot game in the absence of feedback. Our experiment provides evidence that challenges this assumption. Subjects play one of two versions of the prisoner's dilemma game. These versions are distinguished by the relative attractiveness of the uncooperative action. The version with a relatively attractive uncooperative action is referred to as the…
Connecting Silos - Inviting Art and Science Interactions
In tertiary education in Australia there are often clear divisions between disciplines defined by hierarchy that is established for administrative purposes. These purposes often conflict with notions of trans-disciplinary study by creating an environment of competition rather than one of collaboration. Through this project we brought together science and art by developing a ‘hands on’ workshop where scientists and artists explored tools and techn…
The GDP Illusion: Value Added versus Value Capture
The 'GDP Illusion" is a fault in perception caused by defects in the construction and interpretation of standard economic data. Its main symptom is a systematic underestimation of the real contribution of low-wage workers in the global South to global wealth, and a corresponding exaggerated measure of the domestic product of the United States and other imperialist countries. These defects and distorted perceptions spring from the neoclassical con…
The Mongol Empire and its Legacy
The Mongol empire was founded early in the 13th century by Chinggis Khan and within the span of two generations embraced most of Asia, becoming the largest land-based state in history. The united empire lasted only until around 1260, but the major successor states continued on in the Middle East, present day Russia, Central Asia and China for generations, leaving a lasting impact - much of which was far from negative - on these areas and their pe…
Yes Chef: Life at the Vanguard of Culinary Excellence
This article foregrounds the experiences of a young chef ('John') during the early years of his career in the fine dining industry. His descriptions paint a vivid picture of life as an elite chef, which is thrilling, exciting and rewarding, but also mundane, degrading and dehumanizing. The environment John describes is characterized by strong ideologies and him working hard to align himself with a highly gendered (often fantastical) image of what…
Complexity, Ecology and the Materiality of Information
This article contributes to understanding the effect of complexity theory on the social sciences. It analyses the relationships between complex processes of self-organization and the environment or ecology in which these dynamics take place. Two factors are prioritized: the role of information in the formation of complex structure and the development of 'landscapes' or topologies of possibility (and impossibility). The authors argue for an ontolo…
Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century
The globalization of production and its shift to low-wage countries is the most significant and dynamic transformation of the neoliberal era. Its fundamental driving force is what some economists call "global labor arbitrage": the efforts by firms in Europe, North America, and Japan to cut costs and boost profits by replacing higher-waged domestic labor with cheaper foreign labor, achieved either through emigration of production ("outsourcing," a…
Sports Psychology in the English Premier League: It Feels Precarious and is Precarious
This article gives a rare account of the working life of a sports psychologist in the English Premier League, the elite division in English professional football. It shows how members of emerging professions such as sports psychology are a new precariat. John is more successful than many sports psychologists, but his job security is dependent on his continued ability to navigate managerial change: using his skills as a psychologist in the defence…
Collaborative Doctoral Education: University-Industry Partnerships for Enhancing Knowledge Exchange
Married Women Working
The Public Service Ethos
The GDP Illusion: Value Added versus Value Capture
The 'GDP Illusion" is a fault in perception caused by defects in the construction and interpretation of standard economic data. Its main symptom is a systematic underestimation of the real contribution of low-wage workers in the global South to global wealth, and a corresponding exaggerated measure of the domestic product of the United States and other imperialist countries. These defects and distorted perceptions spring from the neoclassical con…
Learning to Pronounce Vowel Sounds in a Foreign Language using Acoustic Measurements of the Vocal Tract as Feedback in Real Time
An acoustic impedance spectrometer was used to measure the frequencies R1 and R2 of the first two resonances of the vocal tract. The measurement was made just outside the mouth, in parallel with the free field, using a new technique that provides precise information about the acoustic response of the vocal tract in real time. Values measured for native speakers for a particular vowel were used as target parameters for subjects who used a visual d…
Knowledge is like food”: Qanruyutet on change and subsistence from John Smith
Yup’ik Elder John Smith (Hooper Bay) recounts wise words (qanruyutet) about growing up during a time of rapid change in the Yukon-Kuskokwim (Y-K) Delta. His oral histories include instructions (alerquutet), prohibitions (inerquutet), and cautionary tales (neq’ayarat) regarding Yup’ik subsistence practices known collectively as Yuuyaraq. Taken together, these oral histories, represent a genre of performance sometimes overlooked in contemporary sch…
Central tendency bias in belief elicitation
Reaching the Right People: Reflexive Practice to Support Effective Recruitment, Participation, and Engagement in Research With Communities Affected by Stigma
Recruiting participants to qualitative studies is often a challenge-reaching the right people, and the right people choosing to participate, is a primary consideration for researchers. For research on HIV, as a condition which continues to be stigmatized, this can be magnified. However, being part of the HIV voluntary sector and occupying a role of 'HIV advocate' can provide routes to overcome this challenge. Using the example of the researcher's…
Defining and organizing self-advocate centered groups: Implications of survey research on self-advocacy groups in Japan
Ideally group members who have intellectual disabilities should have power in their self-advocacy groups, leading to groups that can be considered 'self-advocate centered.' Currently, not all self-advocacy groups can be considered self-advocate centered because group advisors have an overwhelming influence on group decisions. This article assumes that establishing self-advocacy groups in which members truly control the agenda and make key decisio…
Rent-seeking and optimal regulation in replenishable resource industries
Stochastic choice and imperfect judgments of line lengths: What is hiding in the noise
On the category adjustment model: Another look at Huttenlocher, Hedges, and Vevea (2000)
Reshaping social theory from complexity and ecological perspectives
This article argues that Durkheim's founding insight - uniquely social phenomena - presents us with both a foundation for the discipline of sociology and the risk that the discipline will become isolated. This, we argue, has happened. Our contention is that the emergent social phenomena need to be understood in relation to, but not reduced to, their biological and psychological substrates. Similarly, there are a number of other characteristics, n…
Current bibliography of urban history
This bibliography is a continuation of and a complement to those published in the Urban History Yearbook 1974–91 and Urban History 1992–2001. The arrangement and format closely follows that of previous years. There is an index of towns on p. 509. The list of abbreviations identifies only those periodicals from which articles cited this year have been taken
Urban elites c . 1830–1930 and urban history
The intention of this paper is to review the ways in which the role of urban elites has been examined and interpreted, and to show how the traditional concepts of social control and hegemony have required modification. The paper identifies two phases of study. The first phase was descriptive, concerned primarily with the identification and categorization of elites. The second phase, which began in the 1980s, was interactional and explored the inf…
Rent-seeking behaviour of retaliating agents
Colonial Cadet in Nigeria
Notice of Bronze Celts or Axe Heads, which have apparently been Tinned; also of Bronze Weapons and Armlets, found along with portions of Metallic Tin near Elgin in 1868
Notices of Various Roman Coins found in the Red Abbeystead and adjoining fields to the East of the Village of Newstead, Roxburghshire
Having established in his earlier papers that the area around Newstead was a site of a major Roman occupation, Dr. Smith tries to understand the rough period of that occupation from the evidence provided by coins found in the Red Abbeystead and surrounding fields. Though conceding that the dating cannot be exact, as coins could be circulated long after their minting, he finds that the greatest concentration of coins is in the reign of Antoninus P…
Antique Silver Filagree-Case and Scissors
Dr. John Alexander Smith exhibited an antique silver filagree-case and the scissors it held. They were given him to exhibit by a Dr. Stark who also included a note which indicated that these were meant to have belonged to Mary Queen of Scots. Dr. Stark shared the story of its provenance as it was known to him. Dr. Smith concludes that although Mary Queen of Scots' ownership of the scissors and case could not be corroborated on the strength of the…
Roman Antiquities found at Newstead, Roxburghshire
Dr. John Alex Smith presented several papers on the subject of Roman presence in the vicinity of the Eildon Hills, which had years earlier been posited by General Roy to be the site of Trimontium. His arguments for agreeing with the general in the first place go back to an examination of Ptolemy's map of Britain, but then he brings in evidence that had accumulated in the fields outside of nearby Newstead, where many remains of Roman occupation ha…
Roman Bronze Patella
Dr. John Alex Smith exhibited a Roman bronze patella found on a farm near the confluence of the Jed Water and the River Teviot. Not counting trace evidence mentioned by Roy and Stuart, the patella was the first material evidence of Roman inhabitation of the immediate area
Woven Tunics found in Shetland
Dr. John Alexander Smith communicated an account of a discovery of two woven tunics alongside two skeletons, all of which had been buried in a bog on top of a hill called Nosewick, on the mainland of Shetland. Dr. Bell who had been present at the discovery exhibited the tunics and presented them to the Society. Some of the bones which had been wrapped in the tunics were stained a deep brown by the moss, which seemed to have preserved them. It was…
Notice of the remains of an ancient stone building, discovered near the Village of Newstead, Roxburghshire
Further to his earlier articles on the Roman finds at Newstead, John Alexander Smith offfers more detail about the remains of a building that he had previously been unable to examine in depth. He relates the dimensions and composition of the remaining foundational walls, as well as examining the evidence that this building is of Roman origin. He speculates on what the roof of this building may have looked like and suggests that this may have been…
Notice of an incised Sepulchral slab found some years ago near Newstead, Roxburghshire
John Alexander Smith exhibited a rubbing of a sandstone slab found near Newstead and now displayed in Dryburgh Abbey. Dr Smith argues that the trade tools on one side of the slab may indicate that the person the monument was dedicated to may have been a freemason. He also added to the list of Roman coins discovered near Newstead, as detailed in his earlier articles on the subject. Meeting notes for January 23, 1854 are appended
Notes on Melrose Abbey: Especially in reference to inscriptions on the wall of the South Transept
The article discusses the identity of an individual who is mentioned in an inscribed tablet in Melrose Abbey that is in danger of deteriorating beyond repair. It is concluded that the individual - John Morow - was most likely a stonemason who repaired the abbey, some time in the fifteenth century. The author uses this argument as a vehicle to discuss the stonemasonry and construction of the Abbey more generally
Notes on some Sepulchral Cists, and on the Latin Inscription upon one of the Standing Stones near Yarrow Kirk, Selkirkshire
Finds from the excavation of several cists found near Yarrow in the Scottish Borders were exhibited. A standing stone found nearby that was inscribed with illegible Latin text is also described. The author quotes a letter he received from the local parish Reverend that details his thoughts on the stone's purpose and age. The article ends with the author's belief that more study is required before any conclusions can be drawn
Notice of an Anglo-Saxon Styca of Osbercht, King of Northumbria
The author suggests that a brass coin found in the River Jed belongs to the reign of the Northumbrian King Osbrecht. However, he does acknowledge that coins relating to this king are rare and notes some stylistic differences between this coin and other examples from the period. The article concludes with a brief explanation of the importance of this type of coin to Anglo-Saxon numismatics
Declaration' against the National Covenants of Scotland 1685
The author discusses a Declaration against the lawfulness of the National Covenant and the Covenanter movement. He quotes the document’s contents and comments on some of the notable signatories. Although the document is not dated, the author is confident that it is from the summer of 1685
Note of a Peculiar Stone Mould found near Jedburgh
A stone mould was discovered in a field several miles south of Jedburgh. The author describes the mould and speculates that it may have been used to caste brooches for pilgrims visiting the Borders, or for members of the church. He suggests that it could date from the late medieval period, and consults several other antiquarians about the design
Notes of Fragments of Roman Pottery, Lead, Iron, Brass Coins of Hadrian, &c., recently found near Newstead, Roxburghshire
A note describing some of the pottery, lead and other small items found at Newstead (see Vol I, pp.28-38)
Notice of an Original Letter of King James II, to MacDonald of Keppoch, after the battle of Killiecrankie; three Letters of General Monck; also some Documents relating to Rob Roy Macgregor, and to Sim…
Notice of a Small Bronze Blade found in a Cinerary Urn at Balblair, Sutherlandshire; also Two Small Bronze Plates, in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Sutherland
The curious bronze implement now exhibited (see the annexed woodcut, where the bronze is figured full size (fig. He was removing some stones from a cairn, when a coarse sepulchral urn was exposed resting in an inverted position on a stone slab. The urn contained small portions of bones-which were very brittle, and were believed to have been exposed to the action of fire-and also this highly iinished bronze implement
Notice of a Matchlock, with Revolving Breech, taken at the Capture of Delhi
Notice of a Third Brass of Romulus Son of Maxentius, and other Coins found at Paestum
Note of an Underground Building formerly discovered in Edinburghshire
Notice of the Discovery of Remains of the Elk (Cercus Alces, Linn., Alces Malchis, Gray), in Berwickshire; with Notes of its occurrence in the British Islands, more partiuclarly in Scotland, &c
Notice of the Shingled Roof of the Tower of the Canongate Tolbooth, Edinburgh
Note of the Remains of the Irish Elk (Megaceros Hibernicus), found in Scotland
Note on the supposed 'Charter Chest of Johnny Faa' and its Contents - Probably the Official Box and Plates, with Trade Marks of the incorporation of Pewterers of Edinburgh
Notice of Bronze Celts or Axe Heads, which have apparently been Tinned; also of Bronze Weapons and Armlets, found along with portions of Metallic Tin near Elgin in 1868
Meeting notes: 10 June 1872
Meeting notes for 10 June 1872. [The journal notes that a paper titled 'Notice of a silver chain or girdle, the property of Thomas Simson, of Blainslie esq., Berwickshire; another, in the possession of the University of Aberdeen; and of other ancient Scottish silver chains' by John Alexander Smith, will be printed in a later part of the Proceedings.]
Notice of a small collection of Flint Implements and Arrow-Heads; with portion of a Small Ornamented Stone Ball found in Kincardineshire
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