Mark Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4782-4475 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 47 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Understanding and Measuring Ethnic Inequities in Appropriate and Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing
Introduction: Widespread inequities in infectious disease outcomes breach the human rights of Indigenous peoples and other marginalized ethnic groups. Appropriate antibiotic prescribing is essential for effective treatment of many infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship (AMS); however, there is limited research examining how inappropriate antibiotic prescribing contributes to health inequities. We aimed to develop a conceptual framework…
Partnerships and knowledge sharing for sustainable school food systems in Saskatchewan
Introduction: School food program (SFP) delivery that uses a sustainable food systems approach has the potential to provide comprehensive health and nutrition benefits for students and communities. SFPs may be best supported through engagement with multiple sectors and partners, including agriculture, health, and education. This study aims to understand the readiness and priorities of partner organizations from across the food system to work towa…
Bidirectional Associations Between Loneliness, Emotional Support, and Sleep in Daily Life
OBJECTIVE: Evidence suggests a link between positive social relationship perceptions and improved sleep (e.g., quality, efficiency) across the life span. Less work has probed the directionality of these relationships. Here, we report findings from the first study to examine bidirectional between- and within-person associations between loneliness and emotional support with daily life measures of sleep. METHODS: Participants were 389 healthy adults…
Behavioral-Social Rhythms and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Retired Night Shift Workers and Retired Day Workers
OBJECTIVE: Stability in the timing of key daily routine behaviors such as working/doing housework, sleeping, eating, and engaging in social interactions (i.e., behavioral-social rhythms) contributes to health. This study examined whether behavioral-social rhythms were associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in retired night shift workers and retired day workers and explored whether past night shift work exposure moderated this a…
Examining the effectiveness and economic benefits of home fire safety visits
Home safety visits form an important part of fire prevention strategies adopted by fire and rescue services. However, to date, limited research focus has been directed toward examining whether this prevention activity is effective in achieving the aim of reducing accidental dwelling fires (ADFs) or the social and economic value of this. Accordingly, focusing on one region of England (Merseyside), the following study adopts outcome evaluation and …
Fiat Lux/Fiat Lex
Walter M. Miller Jr’s A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) is an enigmatic text. It is a depressing tale of the evitability of technoscientific civilization ending in apocalypse, a comedic story of ignorant monks producing gold-embellished illuminated copies of electronic circuit blueprints and an ambiguous examination of the tensions between faith and science. This paper reads A Canticle for Leibowitz as an examination of legality. Drawing inspiratio…
Do clinical guidelines facilitate or impede drivers of treatment in Fabry disease?
Repeat infections with chlamydia in women may be more transcriptionally active with lower responses from some immune genes
Chlamydia trachomatis , the most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection worldwide, is responsible for considerable health burden due to its significant sequelae. There are growing concerns about chlamydial treatment and management due to widely documented increasing burden of repeat infections. In the current study, a cohort study design of 305 women with urogenital chlamydial infections demonstrated that 11.8% of women experienced repea…
The Dredd-Ful Day of Judgement
Anderson v Dredd [2138] Megacity LR (A) 1
Social Integration and Diurnal Cortisol Decline
OBJECTIVE: A growing number of studies have associated various measures of social integration, the diversity of social roles in which one participates, with alterations in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) functioning. The pathways through which social integration may be linked to HPA functioning, however, are as yet unknown. The present study examined whether daily social interactions, affective responses, health behaviors, and persona…
Sustainable management of native landscape / woodland in the transition to a low carbon society
Synthesis, Biological Evaluation, and SAR Studies of 14β-phenylacetyl Substituted 17-cyclopropylmethyl-7, 8-dihydronoroxymorphinones Derivatives
A series of 14β-acyl substituted 17-cyclopropylmethyl-7,8-dihydronoroxymorphinone compounds has been synthesized and evaluated for affinity and efficacy for mu (MOP), kappa (KOP), and delta (DOP) opioid receptors and nociceptin/orphanin FQ peptide (NOP) receptors. The majority of the new ligands displayed high binding affinities for the three opioid receptors, and moderate affinity for NOP receptors. The affinities for NOP receptors are of partic…
The Use of a Brief, Active Visualisation Intervention to Improve Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in Non-adherent Patients in South Africa
Disclosable, but not Necessarily Fatal? Welfare Overpayments in the Uncertain Landscape of Fitness for Practice
Recently, media reports and a Senate Inquiry raised the issue of widespread errors by Centrelink in sending out μdebt recovery’ letters to recipients of social security benefits alleging overpayments. Even in the absence of automated systems, overpayments arise under a wide range of circumstances in relation to welfare benefits accessed by students either before or during the course of study, ranging from administrative errors by Centrelink to ca…
The Christian Labour Association of Canada (CLAC)
The Christian Labour Association of Canada (clac) has historically had a relatively small presence in Canada's labour movement. Increasing interest in clac over the last decade is due to its expanded membership, largely in western Canada and Ontario: the union claims to represent 60,000 workers. Further, the tactics used to achieve this growth have been controversial within organized labour. In fact, clac was expelled from central labour bodies f…
John Allen James
Austerity Bites
This timely book by award-winning journalist Mary O'Hara chronicles the true impact of austerity on people at the sharp end of the cuts, based on her twelve-month journey around the country in 2012 and 2013 and fully updated for the paperback edition
Survivor on Steroids
The Hunger Games, like Janus, gazes backwards to Juvenal's cynical encapsulation of the cultural and political poverty of Rome, sated by panem et circenses. staring equally cynically forward, following the cultural trajectory of reality television (Western civilisation itself?) to its logical, if barbaric, end point ... no more than a sadistic voyeurism for an effete elite of consumers, manipulated by an Orwellian power structure for whom power i…
Generations at Work and Social Cohesion in Europe
The Rules of Autogeddon
JG Ballard's novel Crash conflates the Freudian tropes of libido and thanatos, overlaying these on to the twentieth century erotic icon, the car. Beyond mere incompetent adolescent copulatory fumblings in the back seat of the parental sedan or the clichéd phallic locomotor of the mid-life Ferrari, Ballard engages the full potentialities of the automobile as the locus and sine qua non of a perverse, though functional, erotic. 'Autoeroticism' is tr…
At the Altar of the Bottom Line
Study Protocol - Accurate assessment of kidney function in Indigenous Australians
We have successfully managed several operational challenges within this multi-centre complex clinical research project performed across remote North, Western and Central Australia. It seems unlikely that a single correction factor (similar to that for African-Americans) to the equation for estimated glomerular filtration rate will prove appropriate or practical for Indigenous Australians. However, it may be that a modification of the equation in …
Romer revisited
The management of diabetes in indigenous Australians from primary care
Although seeing the same doctors and receiving the same medications, glycaemic and smoking cessation targets remain unfulfilled in Indigenous patients. This cross-sectional study confirms Aboriginal ethnicity as a powerful risk factor for microvascular and macrovascular disease, which practitioners should use to identify candidates for intensive multifactorial intervention
Austerity Bites
This timely book by award-winning journalist Mary O'Hara chronicles the true impact of austerity on people at the sharp end of the cuts, based on her twelve-month journey around the country in 2012 and 2013 and fully updated for the paperback edition
Rearmament and Economic Recovery in the Late 1930s
Comparative Advantage in UK Manufacturing Trade, 1910-1935
Journal Article Comparative Advantage in UK Manufacturing Trade, 1910-1935 Get access N. F. R. Crafts, N. F. R. Crafts University College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark Thomas Mark Thomas University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 383, 1 September 1986, Pages 629–645, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232982 Pu…
A Plea for Errors
The authors argue that the publication of any new historical data series requires a formal estimate of its margins of error. We show how overall margins of error may be calculated for the standard forms of historical data series from information on the reliability of its components. The presentation of such margins of error should be transparent, allowing readers both to judge the estimate and to test the implications of applying different standa…
An Input-Output Approach to the British Economy, 1890–1914
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The Christian Labour Association of Canada (CLAC)
The Christian Labour Association of Canada (clac) has historically had a relatively small presence in Canada's labour movement. Increasing interest in clac over the last decade is due to its expanded membership, largely in western Canada and Ontario: the union claims to represent 60,000 workers. Further, the tactics used to achieve this growth have been controversial within organized labour. In fact, clac was expelled from central labour bodies f…
Sustainable management of native landscape / woodland in the transition to a low carbon society
Toyotaism Meets the 60-Hour Work Week
The articles by Mark Thomas and Wendy McKeen challenge the notion that the expanded role of markets characteristic of neoliberalism implies a less interventionist state. Thomas explores the implications of the 2001 revisions to the Employment Standards Act in Ontario, which increased the weekly maximum number of work hours to 60 while loosening the requirements for overtime pay. Based on a case study involving interviews with several workers from…
Accounting for Growth, 1870-1940
Disclosable, but not Necessarily Fatal? Welfare Overpayments in the Uncertain Landscape of Fitness for Practice
Recently, media reports and a Senate Inquiry raised the issue of widespread errors by Centrelink in sending out μdebt recovery’ letters to recipients of social security benefits alleging overpayments. Even in the absence of automated systems, overpayments arise under a wide range of circumstances in relation to welfare benefits accessed by students either before or during the course of study, ranging from administrative errors by Centrelink to ca…
Rearmament and Economic Recovery in the Late 1930s
Applying the Social Accounting Matrix to Historical Problems
An Input-Output Approach to the British Economy, 1890–1914
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Accounting for Growth, 1870-1940
Comparative Advantage in UK Manufacturing Trade, 1910-1935
Journal Article Comparative Advantage in UK Manufacturing Trade, 1910-1935 Get access N. F. R. Crafts, N. F. R. Crafts University College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark Thomas Mark Thomas University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 383, 1 September 1986, Pages 629–645, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232982 Pu…
Saving and Spending
Recovery from the Depression
In Australia's economic history, as in the nation's politics and culture, the Great Depression is a dominant theme. An international group of economists and economic historians has collaborated, in this volume, to look at the ways in which Australia survived economic depression and recovered from it, in the context of international comparison. A range of different aspects of these questions are considered. Chapters look at both the agricultural s…
Wither Fled Lamia
The “Perrea” in John Keats's poem “Lamia” has until now remained unidentified by literary scholars. Geographical and orthographical ambiguities cloud the issue, particularly because “Lamia” shows Keats inventing words and spellings. This article traces some of the implications of readings based on several possible candidates before identifying Keats's referent: PerreaChora
Income Distribution in Historical Perspective
List of figures List of tables Preface 1. Introduction Hartmut Kaelble and Mark Thomas 2. British inequality during the Industrial Revolution: accounting for the Kuznets curve Jeffrey G. Williamson 3. Wage differentials in Sweden, 1725-1950 Johan Soederberg 4. Industrial wage differentials in nineteenth-century Belgium Peter Scholliers 5. Income inequality and industrialization in Germany, 1850-1913: the Kuznets hypothesis re-examined Rolf Dumke …
Height, weight, and wellbeing
‘A substantial Australian superiority’? Anglo–Australian comparisons of consumption and income in the late nineteenth century
Australian economic history before 1850
Labour market segmentation in Cameroonian manufacturing
The economic crisis in Cameroon has provided a test for distinct causes of labour market segmentation. Many firms that previously followed rigid legislation have ceased to do so, while a traditional informal sector has continued outside almost all regulation. We categorise workers as informal, formal, or regulated, by firm characteristics, and test for labour market segmentation between these sectors. Direct legislation is the most significant ca…
Capitalism in Context
Capitalism in Context
Capitalism in Context
Tracing European Founder Lineages in the Near Eastern mtDNA Pool
A Plea for Errors
The authors argue that the publication of any new historical data series requires a formal estimate of its margins of error. We show how overall margins of error may be calculated for the standard forms of historical data series from information on the reliability of its components. The presentation of such margins of error should be transparent, allowing readers both to judge the estimate and to test the implications of applying different standa…
Summary
This summary lays out the basic science and methodology used in genetic testing that investigates historical population migrations and the ancestry of living individuals. The genetic markers used in this testing, and the distinction between Y‐chromosome, mitochrondial and autosomes analysis, are explained and the shortcomings of these methodologies are explored
Errol Black and Jim Silver — Building a Better World
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
A Golden Age? Unemployment and the American Labor Market, 1880-1910
We calculate the natural rate of unemployment in 1909 by first estimating equations for the incidence and time lost in unemployment on a pooled dataset integrating the manuscript sample of the 1910 census and state BLS surveys and then simulating a counterfactual unemployment rate as if the economy had been on trend that year with business-cycle effects neutralized. Following a similar procedure for the 1960s, we find the natural rate in the earl…
Romer revisited
The management of diabetes in indigenous Australians from primary care
Although seeing the same doctors and receiving the same medications, glycaemic and smoking cessation targets remain unfulfilled in Indigenous patients. This cross-sectional study confirms Aboriginal ethnicity as a powerful risk factor for microvascular and macrovascular disease, which practitioners should use to identify candidates for intensive multifactorial intervention
Toyotaism Meets the 60-Hour Work Week
The articles by Mark Thomas and Wendy McKeen challenge the notion that the expanded role of markets characteristic of neoliberalism implies a less interventionist state. Thomas explores the implications of the 2001 revisions to the Employment Standards Act in Ontario, which increased the weekly maximum number of work hours to 60 while loosening the requirements for overtime pay. Based on a case study involving interviews with several workers from…
Study Protocol - Accurate assessment of kidney function in Indigenous Australians
We have successfully managed several operational challenges within this multi-centre complex clinical research project performed across remote North, Western and Central Australia. It seems unlikely that a single correction factor (similar to that for African-Americans) to the equation for estimated glomerular filtration rate will prove appropriate or practical for Indigenous Australians. However, it may be that a modification of the equation in …
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