Michael Martins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Martins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Martins |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6526-4408 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Cartographic privacy: Case studies in communicating sensitive geospatial information
Numerous quantitative techniques exist for protecting geoprivacy, but often require significant expertise and may not always provide adequate protection. We propose cartographic privacy as a framework for protecting sensitive spatial data. Cartographically private approaches favor using design techniques to obfuscate data rather than statistical ones, appealing to intuitive rather than technical understandings of geoprivacy. We explore this conce…
Determining vertical growth patterns and tissue of maximum age using radiocarbon dating in the long-lived Namib Desert plant Welwitschia mirabilis
Welwitschia mirabilis , a unique gymnosperm native to Namibia and Angola, is a keystone plant species in the Namib Desert. It represents the only extremely long-lived non-clonal plant species occurring under hyperarid desert conditions, yet limited attempts have been made to accurately determine its age. Here, we present radiocarbon dates from a dead, sectioned Welwitschia of moderate size. We find the outer caudex tissue growth to progressively …
The Power is in the Process: Co-creating Participatory Action Research Spaces With Youth as True Partners
This study adds to the discussion of critical consciousness development through the processes of YPAR, not as an outcome after results are shared, but through the experience of power shifting that occurs as youth become true partners in youth-led YPAR. Combining unique and boundary-pushing elements at the nexus of action research and qualitative research, this paper illustrates particular ways in which power was intentionally directed towards you…
Discourse Moves and Emotion in Knowledge Building Discourse and Metadiscourse
This paper explores the possibility that knowledge building metadiscourse-discourse about knowledge building-can produce a positive feedback loop, with positive emotional state and knowledge advancement serving to increase each other. Grades 2 and 3 students’ utterances over several months were analyzed as a unit of study, starting with identification of each discourse move and corresponding emotion, defined as a state. These states were then ana…
State-level changes in US racial and ethnic diversity, 1980 to 2015: A universal trend
Background: Few studies have examined long-term changes in ethnoracial diversity for US states despite the potential social, economic, and political ramifications of such changes at the state level. Objective: We describe shifts in diversity magnitude and structure from 1980 through 2015 to determine if states are following a universal upward path. Methods: ) measures of diversity magnitude based on five panethnic populations. A typology characte…
Revisiting critical GIS
The article looks into the critical geographic information science (GIS) in approaching questions both emerging and enduring around the intersection of the spatial and the digital. It offers trading zones for discussion of issues, for building alliances and interrogating tensions, and for a constant dialectical process of critique and renewal. One tension running through critical GIS is the contradictory role it has played in addressing questions…
Reporting Cases of Child Maltreatment: Decision-Making Processes of Family Therapists in Illinois
Atheism, Morality, and Meaning (Prometheus Lecture Series)
The Rainbow Nation Identity and Transformation
The Rainbow Nation — Identity and Transformation Get access MARILYN MARTIN MARILYN MARTIN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3–15, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/19.1.3 Published: 01 March 1996
Putting Families First: An Experiment in Family Preservation
This volume is a comprehensive evaluation of the largest randomized experiment to date on placement prevention programs: the Family First program in Illinois. It offers insights into the tensions between policies advocating family preservation and those favoring out-of-home placement. The authors conclude by suggesting that placement prevention programs are but one component in a comprehensive effort to reform the child welfare system, and that t…
Response to Bell
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Geertz and the interpretive approach in anthropology
Consensual Racism and Career Track: Some Implications of Social Dominance Theory
The study tested some implications of social dominance theory by examining the relationship between consensual racial attitudes and career choice among 5655 American undergraduate and graduate students. Consensual racial attitudes were defined and operationalized as that portion of racial attitude space which different ethnic groups share in common. The specific hypotheses were largely confirmed and showed that: (a) Those students preparing for c…
The Legal Philosophy of H. L. A. Hart: A Critical Appraisal
Ecosabotage and Civil Disobedience
Reichenbach on Natural Evil
In Evil and a Good God Bruce Reichenbach presents a theodicy for natural evil. According to Reichenbach, natural evil consists in suffering and pain and ‘states of affairs significantly disadvantageous to sentient beings’ which have either nonhuman causes or human causes for which no human being can be held morally responsible. He attempts to provide a morally sufficient reason why natural evil exists. In this paper I will evaluate this reason
Sarkar's Theory of Method
Family Violence and Adolescents' Perceptions of Outcomes of Family Conflict
VioLit summary: OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study by Martin et al. was to identify the relationship between both verbal and physical family violence and (1) the adolescent's perception of the family conflict outcomes; (2) the amount of satisfaction the reports to have with his/her relationships within the family; and (3) the amount of control the perceives in his/her own life after a disagreement with his/her parents. The article contains no d…
The Principle of Credulity and Religious Experience
In The Existence of God Richard Swinburne argues that certain religious experiences support the hypothesis that God exists. Indeed, the argument from religious experience is of crucial importance in Swinburne's philosophical theology. For, according to Swinburne, without the argument from religious experience the combined weight of the other arguments he considers, e.g. the teleological, the cosmological, or the argument from miracles, does not r…
Pascal's Wager as an Argument for Not Believing in God
Can Pascal's wager for the existence of God be turned against the religious believer and used as an argument for not believing in God? Although such an argument has been very briefly sketched by others its details have remained undeveloped. In this paper this argument is worked out in detail in the context of decision theory and is defended against objections. The result is a plausible argument for atheism
Familial Correlates of Selected Types of Child Abuse and Neglect
The study, based on 489 cases of child abuse and neglect, was designed to determine specific patterns offamily circumstance which tended to be present in families in which (a) abandonment, (b) physical abuse, (c) emotional abuse, (d) neglect, or (e) sexual abuse had been substantiated. Although previous studies have tended to treat child abuse and neglect as a unidimensional dependent variable, the findings of this investigation indicate that dif…
Classifying Family Violence: Whither the Woozle
A typology of family violence was derived from the reports of 181 adolescent family members in intact rural and urban families sampled in the Midwest. Discriminant analysis was used in an attempt to differentiate nonviolent, verbally violent, and both verbally and physically violent families as a function of variables said to be significant predictors of family violence in a decade review by Gelles. Results indicate that the predictor variables f…
In Defense of Microeconomic Theory
Reduction and Typical Individuals Again
The Formalities of Evil and a Finite God –Corregenda
Consensual Racism and Career Track: Some Implications of Social Dominance Theory
The study tested some implications of social dominance theory by examining the relationship between consensual racial attitudes and career choice among 5655 American undergraduate and graduate students. Consensual racial attitudes were defined and operationalized as that portion of racial attitude space which different ethnic groups share in common. The specific hypotheses were largely confirmed and showed that: (a) Those students preparing for c…
Revisiting critical GIS
The article looks into the critical geographic information science (GIS) in approaching questions both emerging and enduring around the intersection of the spatial and the digital. It offers trading zones for discussion of issues, for building alliances and interrogating tensions, and for a constant dialectical process of critique and renewal. One tension running through critical GIS is the contradictory role it has played in addressing questions…
Familial Correlates of Selected Types of Child Abuse and Neglect
The study, based on 489 cases of child abuse and neglect, was designed to determine specific patterns offamily circumstance which tended to be present in families in which (a) abandonment, (b) physical abuse, (c) emotional abuse, (d) neglect, or (e) sexual abuse had been substantiated. Although previous studies have tended to treat child abuse and neglect as a unidimensional dependent variable, the findings of this investigation indicate that dif…
State-level changes in US racial and ethnic diversity, 1980 to 2015: A universal trend
Background: Few studies have examined long-term changes in ethnoracial diversity for US states despite the potential social, economic, and political ramifications of such changes at the state level. Objective: We describe shifts in diversity magnitude and structure from 1980 through 2015 to determine if states are following a universal upward path. Methods: ) measures of diversity magnitude based on five panethnic populations. A typology characte…
Classifying Family Violence: Whither the Woozle
A typology of family violence was derived from the reports of 181 adolescent family members in intact rural and urban families sampled in the Midwest. Discriminant analysis was used in an attempt to differentiate nonviolent, verbally violent, and both verbally and physically violent families as a function of variables said to be significant predictors of family violence in a decade review by Gelles. Results indicate that the predictor variables f…
Geertz and the interpretive approach in anthropology
The Philosophical Importance of the Rosenthal Effect
Invisible' Religions: Some Preliminary Evidence
One historic function of institutionalized religion is the designation of life's ultimate concerns and the provision of strategies for coping with them. Yinger's functional definition of religion is used in this study to discern (1) what the residents of an urban neighborhood in the Deep South define as life's ultimate concerns, and (2) the strategies they use to cope with them. The findings help support Luckmann's contention of the existence of …
Explanation in Social Science: Some Recent Work
Family Violence and Adolescents' Perceptions of Outcomes of Family Conflict
VioLit summary: OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study by Martin et al. was to identify the relationship between both verbal and physical family violence and (1) the adolescent's perception of the family conflict outcomes; (2) the amount of satisfaction the reports to have with his/her relationships within the family; and (3) the amount of control the perceives in his/her own life after a disagreement with his/her parents. The article contains no d…
Ontological Variance and Scientific Objectivity
Reporting Cases of Child Maltreatment: Decision-Making Processes of Family Therapists in Illinois
The Rainbow Nation Identity and Transformation
The Rainbow Nation — Identity and Transformation Get access MARILYN MARTIN MARILYN MARTIN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3–15, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/19.1.3 Published: 01 March 1996
Ecosabotage and Civil Disobedience
Sarkar's Theory of Method
Neurophysiological Reduction and Psychological Explanation
An examination of the operationists' critique of psychoanalysis
Neurophysiological Reduction and Psychological Explanation
Theoretical pluralism
Explanation in Social Science: Some Recent Work
Philosophy of science and science education
Ontological Variance and Scientific Objectivity
Causal Importance and Objectivity
Invisible' Religions: Some Preliminary Evidence
One historic function of institutionalized religion is the designation of life's ultimate concerns and the provision of strategies for coping with them. Yinger's functional definition of religion is used in this study to discern (1) what the residents of an urban neighborhood in the Deep South define as life's ultimate concerns, and (2) the strategies they use to cope with them. The findings help support Luckmann's contention of the existence of …
The Formalities of Evil and A Finite God
Neurophysiological Reduction and Type Identity
The Philosophical Importance of the Rosenthal Effect
The Formalities of Evil and a Finite God –Corregenda
Theological Statements, Phenomenalistic Language and Confirmation
In a recent paper Michael Tooley has argued that theological statements can be confirmed relative to a phenomenalistic observational language given a certain construal of confirmation. Consequently, he maintains that the verificationist challenge to theological statements, namely that in order to be significant they must be confirmable, can be answered. In this paper I will show that Tooley's argument has serious problems
Child Abuse: Intervention and Treatment
Reduction and Typical Individuals Again
In Defense of Microeconomic Theory
Familial Correlates of Selected Types of Child Abuse and Neglect
The study, based on 489 cases of child abuse and neglect, was designed to determine specific patterns offamily circumstance which tended to be present in families in which (a) abandonment, (b) physical abuse, (c) emotional abuse, (d) neglect, or (e) sexual abuse had been substantiated. Although previous studies have tended to treat child abuse and neglect as a unidimensional dependent variable, the findings of this investigation indicate that dif…
Classifying Family Violence: Whither the Woozle
A typology of family violence was derived from the reports of 181 adolescent family members in intact rural and urban families sampled in the Midwest. Discriminant analysis was used in an attempt to differentiate nonviolent, verbally violent, and both verbally and physically violent families as a function of variables said to be significant predictors of family violence in a decade review by Gelles. Results indicate that the predictor variables f…
Pascal's Wager as an Argument for Not Believing in God
Can Pascal's wager for the existence of God be turned against the religious believer and used as an argument for not believing in God? Although such an argument has been very briefly sketched by others its details have remained undeveloped. In this paper this argument is worked out in detail in the context of decision theory and is defended against objections. The result is a plausible argument for atheism
The Principle of Credulity and Religious Experience
In The Existence of God Richard Swinburne argues that certain religious experiences support the hypothesis that God exists. Indeed, the argument from religious experience is of crucial importance in Swinburne's philosophical theology. For, according to Swinburne, without the argument from religious experience the combined weight of the other arguments he considers, e.g. the teleological, the cosmological, or the argument from miracles, does not r…
Sarkar's Theory of Method
Family Violence and Adolescents' Perceptions of Outcomes of Family Conflict
VioLit summary: OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study by Martin et al. was to identify the relationship between both verbal and physical family violence and (1) the adolescent's perception of the family conflict outcomes; (2) the amount of satisfaction the reports to have with his/her relationships within the family; and (3) the amount of control the perceives in his/her own life after a disagreement with his/her parents. The article contains no d…
Reichenbach on Natural Evil
In Evil and a Good God Bruce Reichenbach presents a theodicy for natural evil. According to Reichenbach, natural evil consists in suffering and pain and ‘states of affairs significantly disadvantageous to sentient beings’ which have either nonhuman causes or human causes for which no human being can be held morally responsible. He attempts to provide a morally sufficient reason why natural evil exists. In this paper I will evaluate this reason
The Legal Philosophy of H. L. A. Hart: A Critical Appraisal
Ecosabotage and Civil Disobedience
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