Andrew C Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3657252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew C Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew C |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carson-Newman University, Jefferson City, TN, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0894-6883 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Price of Everything and the Cost of Nothing: Evaluating London’s Underground Transport Infrastructure Projects 1900–2000
This paper explores the historical development of management thought around the cost of public infrastructure. We argue that swings between ex post pricing and ex ante discounting as temporal frameworks within which the public, managers, politicians, and the media appraised major transport infrastructure projects constitute a dominant but unrecognized narrative. We use London in the twentieth century as a case study, identifying major changes in …
The effect of a School Street intervention on children’s active travel, satisfaction with their street, and perception of road safety: A natural experimental evaluation
We saw very limited evidence that School Streets affected children's perceptions of feeling safe, liking their school road, identifying themselves as frequent active travellers; there was some evidence for reductions in self-reported active travel. A novel finding is the sense of solidarity and community cohesion that School Streets elicits. A greater understanding of the theory of change and how the intervention works in different areas and affe…
Nutritional implications of alternative proteins: A commentary
The nature and benefits of partnerships between employers and training providers
Slayden A. Yarbrough and Michael Kuykendall, Southern Baptists: A History of a Confessional People
Celtic spirituality: Qualitative analysis of an experience of compassion, connection, creation, contemplation and congruence
Celtic Christian spirituality has enjoyed renewed interest at the turn of the current millennium. Existing literature focusses on its theology and culture. This study considers its impact on mental health and wellbeing. Celtic spirituality (as henceforth termed) is nowadays led by dispersed modern monastic communities, notably Iona, Corrymeela, Northumbria, St Chad or Aidan and Hilda. Interpretative phenomenological analysis within a wider holist…
Post-traumatic stress disorder and mental health assessment of seafarers working on ocean-going vessels during the Covid-19 pandemic
The present study revealed a high prevalence of mental health problems among seafarers during the COVID-19 pandemic. We recommend that more evidence is generated regarding psychosocial health issues for this vulnerable occupation
Douglas A. Foster, A Life of Alexander Campbell
Harry Y. Gamble, God on the Grounds: A History of Religion at Thomas Jefferson’s University
Paula L. McGee, Brand® New Theology: The Wal-Martization of T. D. Jakes and the New Black Churc
On the trail of primate scent signals: A field analysis of callitrichid scent‐gland secretions by portable gas chromatography‐mass spectrometry
Chemosignals are mediators of social interactions in mammals, providing con‐ and hetero‐specifics with information on fixed (e.g., species, sex, group, and individual identity) and variable (e.g., social, reproductive, and health status) features of the signaler. Yet, methodological difficulties of recording and quantifying odor signals, especially in field conditions, have hampered studies of natural systems. We present the first use of the Tori…
Demonstrating public value to funders and other stakeholders—the journey of Elixir, a virtual and distributed research infrastructure for life science data
Open Science is a founding principle of ELIXIR, a pan‐European research infrastructure for life science data, with 21 Member countries plus the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. The mission of ELIXIR is to coordinate bioinformatics resources so that they form a single, integrated and pan‐European infrastructure, which can be used freely by academic and private‐sector researchers across the globe. As a recipient of public and charitable fundi…
Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
Assaf Gamzou and Ken Koltun-Fromm, Comics and Sacred Texts: Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives
Sonic Commentary: Language as a Wilderness
December 01 2019 Sonic Commentary: Language as a Wilderness Andrew C. Smith Andrew C. Smith Email: [email protected] C. SMITH is a composer and keyboardist living in Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A. His music often involves just intonation tunings, repetition and language at the threshold of making sense. He uses computers in his everyday artistic practice, often using custom software to manipulate spoken and written language, using the results of…
Seasonal variation and an “outbreak” of frog predation by tamarins
Moses and Pharaoh's Magicians: A Discursive Analysis of the Qur'anic Narratives in the Light of Late Antique Texts and Traditions
This paper provides a comparative analysis of the Qur'anic narratives of Moses and Pharaoh's magicians and the Biblical narrative as transmitted through the targummim and Peshitta, and Jewish and Christian interpretive traditions. This analysis views these narratives as a means of better understanding the discursive development of the earliest Qur'anic community and how they assisted that community in making sense of its world. Viewing how the Qu…
Critical realism and economic anthropology
This paper discusses basic critical realism within the context of economic anthropology and develops an approach to studying material relations between people. A diachronic form of analysis, following the work of Bhaskar and Archer, is described as a practical means of analysing property rights. This new approach emphasises epistemic relativism and ontological realism in order to compare disparate forms of human interaction across cultures. The a…
Population Synthesis with Quasirandom Integer Sampling
Established methods for synthesising a population from geographically aggregated data are robust and well understood. However, most rely on the potentially detrimental process of integerisation if a wholeindividual population is required, e.g. for use in agent-based modelling (ABM). This paper describes and investigates the use of quasirandom sequences to sample populations from known marginal constraints whilst preserving those marginal distribu…
Exploring attitudes to edgy urban destinations: The case of Deptford, London
The role of tourists and tourism in urban development is not fully understood. Research has focused on tourism districts within city centres, but less is known about tourism in peripheral, less affluent urban districts. These areas can appeal to visitors as edgy alternatives to mainstream destinations. This study establishes who is interested in visiting and why, and it explores the underlying rationale for negative attitudes. The aims are addres…
A tale of two ex-dominions: Why the procedures for changing the rules of succession are so different in Canada and Australia
In 2011, the leaders of the nations that share Queen Elizabeth as their head of state agreed to change the rules governing the inheritance of the throne. The federal nature of the Canadian and Australian Crowns raises the question of whether Canadian provinces and Australian states should be involved in the process for modifying the rules of succession. Australia's federal government has decided to include its states in the process, whereas Canad…
An investigation of ecological correlates with hand and foot morphology in callitrichid primates
Studies of primate taxonomy and phylogeny often depend on comparisons of limb dimensions, yet there is little information on how morphology correlates and contributes to foraging strategies and ecology. Callitrichid primates are ideal for comparative studies as they exhibit a range of body size, limb proportions and diet. Many callitrichid species exhibit a high degree of exudativory, and to efficiently exploit these resources, they are assumed t…
Continental Divide: The Canadian Banking and Currency Laws of 1871 in the Mirror of the United States
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, international observers praised the stability of Canada's banks. When financial institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom collapsed, Canada did not experience any bank failures. The World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report rated Canada's banking system as the most sound in the world. Historically, bank failures have been quite rare in Canada. Some authors argue that the stabiliz…
Long‐term patterns of sleeping site use in wild saddleback ( Saguinus fuscicollis ) and mustached tamarins ( S. mystax ): Effects of foraging, thermoregulation, predation, and resource defense constra…
Sleeping sites are an important aspect of an animal's ecology given the length of time that they spend in them. The sleep ecology of wild saddleback and mustached tamarins is examined using a long‐term data set covering three mixed‐species troops and 1,300+ tamarin nights. Seasonal changes in photoperiod accounted for a significant amount of variation in sleeping site entry and exit times. Time of exit was more closely correlated with sunrise tha…
If I have no money for travel, I have no need’: Migration and imagination
This article seeks to respond to the theoretical suggestion that the rise of 21st-century migration reveals the new social importance of the work of the imagination. Beginning with material from a qualitative survey of Nigerian expatriates in Scotland, and deploying the theoretical models of Pierre Bourdieu, it suggests something of the limited constituency for whom such a claim is realistic. It concludes with a contrasting examination of these t…
Conceptualizing City Image Change: The 'Re-Imaging' of Barcelona
In recent years many post-industrial cities have implemented ambitious re-imaging strategies to appeal to a variety of external audiences. This paper identifies a conceptual framework within which the effects of these initiatives on tourists' images can be understood. The framework contends that re-imaging can affect different city image components through the connotations and synecdochical images generated. The value of this framework is then il…
If I have no money for travel, I have no need’: Migration and imagination
This article seeks to respond to the theoretical suggestion that the rise of 21st-century migration reveals the new social importance of the work of the imagination. Beginning with material from a qualitative survey of Nigerian expatriates in Scotland, and deploying the theoretical models of Pierre Bourdieu, it suggests something of the limited constituency for whom such a claim is realistic. It concludes with a contrasting examination of these t…
The concepts of ‘Neolithic’ and ‘Neolithisation’ for Africa
The use of the term ‘Neolithic', although seen by some researchers as a convenient shorthand, has a great deal of baggage associated with it, which makes it problematic for use in Africa. This is particularly true for southern Africa where the process of introduction of food production was probably different from that experienced in the Middle East, Europe, or even North Africa, as no wild progenitors of the domestic plants or animals existed sou…
Composition and Proposed Nutritional Importance of Exudates Eaten by Saddleback (Saguinus fuscicollis) and Mustached (Saguinus mystax) Tamarins
Factors Affecting Group Spread within Wild Mixed-Species Troops of Saddleback and Mustached Tamarins
Reading Wealth in Nigeria: Occult Capitalism and Marx's Vampires
Examines the growth of the video film industry in Nigeria, focusing on the production & consumption of horror films & their depictions of occultism & the accumulation of wealth. Karl Marx's use of the 'occult aesthetic' in his analysis of the allocation of wealth under capitalism is reviewed, & parallels are drawn to the supernatural nature of wealth accumulation depicted in one Nigerian horror film. The relationship between such imaginative prod…
Exploring attitudes to edgy urban destinations: The case of Deptford, London
The role of tourists and tourism in urban development is not fully understood. Research has focused on tourism districts within city centres, but less is known about tourism in peripheral, less affluent urban districts. These areas can appeal to visitors as edgy alternatives to mainstream destinations. This study establishes who is interested in visiting and why, and it explores the underlying rationale for negative attitudes. The aims are addres…
An investigation of ecological correlates with hand and foot morphology in callitrichid primates
Studies of primate taxonomy and phylogeny often depend on comparisons of limb dimensions, yet there is little information on how morphology correlates and contributes to foraging strategies and ecology. Callitrichid primates are ideal for comparative studies as they exhibit a range of body size, limb proportions and diet. Many callitrichid species exhibit a high degree of exudativory, and to efficiently exploit these resources, they are assumed t…
Continental Divide: The Canadian Banking and Currency Laws of 1871 in the Mirror of the United States
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, international observers praised the stability of Canada's banks. When financial institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom collapsed, Canada did not experience any bank failures. The World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report rated Canada's banking system as the most sound in the world. Historically, bank failures have been quite rare in Canada. Some authors argue that the stabiliz…
The Place of Sport and Physical Activity in Young People's Lives and its Implications for Health: Some Sociological Comments
This exploratory paper seeks, first, to offer some critical sociological comments on the common-sense, or rather ideological, claims surrounding two supposedly emerging ‘crises’: namely, the alleged poor health and declining sport and physical activity participation levels of young people. In this regard, it is suggested that while young people are, in fact, doing more sport and physical activity than at any other time in the past, this process h…
Clinical notes on Pinel's Treatise on Insanity
Notes on difficulties in the definition of delusion
The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Plotinus was the greatest philosopher in the 700-year peri…
Where there's no vision, the people perish ( Proverbs ): Why we need to keep the quality in quality assurance
Management is not easy in an environment of continual change, and it is fatally easy to adopt a ‘quick fix’ approach to the problems created by new initiatives. Many organisations are finding that instant responses and latest buzzwords are not delivering. It is time to stop trying to re‐invent the wheel and start focusing on objectives and methods ‐ and accepting the need for both vision and patience
The independent small shop in Scotland: A discussion of roles and problems
Small shops are a curious paradox. When small shops are mentioned, the independent retailer is often brought to mind. Yet, many small shops are operated by multiple retailers. Given the multiple expansion, there is a need to understand the roles and problems of the independent small shop in Scotland. Whilst Scotland may be no different in this regard to other parts of the UK and the world, its geography and new Parliament might suggest new soluti…
Integrating environmental impact, contingent valuation and cost-benefit analysis: Empirical evidence for an alternative perspective
The non-market nature of water quality improvement in rivers hinders the use of traditional cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to measure the efficiency of investments. Substantial investments have been made to clean up contaminated river water with little comparison of the costs or environmental impact (EI) with future benefits. Water quality impact models are used in this study to predict the impact of discharges on downstream water quality. Contingen…
Composition and Proposed Nutritional Importance of Exudates Eaten by Saddleback (Saguinus fuscicollis) and Mustached (Saguinus mystax) Tamarins
Reading Wealth in Nigeria: Occult Capitalism and Marx's Vampires
Examines the growth of the video film industry in Nigeria, focusing on the production & consumption of horror films & their depictions of occultism & the accumulation of wealth. Karl Marx's use of the 'occult aesthetic' in his analysis of the allocation of wealth under capitalism is reviewed, & parallels are drawn to the supernatural nature of wealth accumulation depicted in one Nigerian horror film. The relationship between such imaginative prod…
Single‐copy nuclear DNA sequences obtained from noninvasively collected primate feces
Noninvasively collected primate feces have been shown to provide a useful source of mitochondrial DNA for sequencing and nuclear microsatellite DNA for size analysis. In this study, single‐copy nuclear DNA sequences were obtained from noninvasively collected fecal samples of two species of wild tamarins, Saguinus fuscicollis and S. mystax , in the context of a project on the functional utility of color vision. Noninvasive genotyping of the X‐link…
Leaders of progressions in wild mixed‐species troops of saddleback ( Saguinus fuscicollis ) and mustached tamarins ( S. mystax ), with emphasis on color vision and sex
Leadership of travel progression is an important aspect of group living. It is widely believed that trichromacy evolved to facilitate the detection and selection of fruit in the dappled light of a forest. Further, it has been proposed that in New World primate species, which typically contain a range of color vision phenotypes, at least one female in a group will be trichromatic (i.e., having three types of visual pigment, in contrast to the two …
The Place of Sport and Physical Activity in Young People's Lives and its Implications for Health: Some Sociological Comments
This exploratory paper seeks, first, to offer some critical sociological comments on the common-sense, or rather ideological, claims surrounding two supposedly emerging ‘crises’: namely, the alleged poor health and declining sport and physical activity participation levels of young people. In this regard, it is suggested that while young people are, in fact, doing more sport and physical activity than at any other time in the past, this process h…
Factors Affecting Group Spread within Wild Mixed-Species Troops of Saddleback and Mustached Tamarins
The concepts of ‘Neolithic’ and ‘Neolithisation’ for Africa
The use of the term ‘Neolithic', although seen by some researchers as a convenient shorthand, has a great deal of baggage associated with it, which makes it problematic for use in Africa. This is particularly true for southern Africa where the process of introduction of food production was probably different from that experienced in the Middle East, Europe, or even North Africa, as no wild progenitors of the domestic plants or animals existed sou…
Conceptualizing City Image Change: The 'Re-Imaging' of Barcelona
In recent years many post-industrial cities have implemented ambitious re-imaging strategies to appeal to a variety of external audiences. This paper identifies a conceptual framework within which the effects of these initiatives on tourists' images can be understood. The framework contends that re-imaging can affect different city image components through the connotations and synecdochical images generated. The value of this framework is then il…
If I have no money for travel, I have no need’: Migration and imagination
This article seeks to respond to the theoretical suggestion that the rise of 21st-century migration reveals the new social importance of the work of the imagination. Beginning with material from a qualitative survey of Nigerian expatriates in Scotland, and deploying the theoretical models of Pierre Bourdieu, it suggests something of the limited constituency for whom such a claim is realistic. It concludes with a contrasting examination of these t…
Long‐term patterns of sleeping site use in wild saddleback ( Saguinus fuscicollis ) and mustached tamarins ( S. mystax ): Effects of foraging, thermoregulation, predation, and resource defense constra…
Sleeping sites are an important aspect of an animal's ecology given the length of time that they spend in them. The sleep ecology of wild saddleback and mustached tamarins is examined using a long‐term data set covering three mixed‐species troops and 1,300+ tamarin nights. Seasonal changes in photoperiod accounted for a significant amount of variation in sleeping site entry and exit times. Time of exit was more closely correlated with sunrise tha…
Continental Divide: The Canadian Banking and Currency Laws of 1871 in the Mirror of the United States
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, international observers praised the stability of Canada's banks. When financial institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom collapsed, Canada did not experience any bank failures. The World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report rated Canada's banking system as the most sound in the world. Historically, bank failures have been quite rare in Canada. Some authors argue that the stabiliz…
An investigation of ecological correlates with hand and foot morphology in callitrichid primates
Studies of primate taxonomy and phylogeny often depend on comparisons of limb dimensions, yet there is little information on how morphology correlates and contributes to foraging strategies and ecology. Callitrichid primates are ideal for comparative studies as they exhibit a range of body size, limb proportions and diet. Many callitrichid species exhibit a high degree of exudativory, and to efficiently exploit these resources, they are assumed t…
Exploring attitudes to edgy urban destinations: The case of Deptford, London
The role of tourists and tourism in urban development is not fully understood. Research has focused on tourism districts within city centres, but less is known about tourism in peripheral, less affluent urban districts. These areas can appeal to visitors as edgy alternatives to mainstream destinations. This study establishes who is interested in visiting and why, and it explores the underlying rationale for negative attitudes. The aims are addres…
A tale of two ex-dominions: Why the procedures for changing the rules of succession are so different in Canada and Australia
In 2011, the leaders of the nations that share Queen Elizabeth as their head of state agreed to change the rules governing the inheritance of the throne. The federal nature of the Canadian and Australian Crowns raises the question of whether Canadian provinces and Australian states should be involved in the process for modifying the rules of succession. Australia's federal government has decided to include its states in the process, whereas Canad…
Critical realism and economic anthropology
This paper discusses basic critical realism within the context of economic anthropology and develops an approach to studying material relations between people. A diachronic form of analysis, following the work of Bhaskar and Archer, is described as a practical means of analysing property rights. This new approach emphasises epistemic relativism and ontological realism in order to compare disparate forms of human interaction across cultures. The a…
Population Synthesis with Quasirandom Integer Sampling
Established methods for synthesising a population from geographically aggregated data are robust and well understood. However, most rely on the potentially detrimental process of integerisation if a wholeindividual population is required, e.g. for use in agent-based modelling (ABM). This paper describes and investigates the use of quasirandom sequences to sample populations from known marginal constraints whilst preserving those marginal distribu…
Seasonal variation and an “outbreak” of frog predation by tamarins
Moses and Pharaoh's Magicians: A Discursive Analysis of the Qur'anic Narratives in the Light of Late Antique Texts and Traditions
This paper provides a comparative analysis of the Qur'anic narratives of Moses and Pharaoh's magicians and the Biblical narrative as transmitted through the targummim and Peshitta, and Jewish and Christian interpretive traditions. This analysis views these narratives as a means of better understanding the discursive development of the earliest Qur'anic community and how they assisted that community in making sense of its world. Viewing how the Qu…
Sonic Commentary: Language as a Wilderness
December 01 2019 Sonic Commentary: Language as a Wilderness Andrew C. Smith Andrew C. Smith Email: [email protected] C. SMITH is a composer and keyboardist living in Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A. His music often involves just intonation tunings, repetition and language at the threshold of making sense. He uses computers in his everyday artistic practice, often using custom software to manipulate spoken and written language, using the results of…
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