James Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4805-4190 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 79 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 78 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Self-Report of Sexual Harassment and Assault Differ Based on Political Ideologies Among U.S. Adults
This study seeks to provide current evidence on the role of political ideology on shaping retrospective reporting of sexual violence (SV) in the United States. We used cross-sectional, nationally representative data from the online 2024 #MeToo Survey among U.S. adults ( N = 3,350). We found that liberal women were more likely and conservative women and gender diverse adults were less likely to report lifetime SV, relative to moderates. Effects fo…
Public Involvement in Complex Theorising
INTRODUCTION: There is increasing work towards drawing on theory, implementing co-production and accounting for complexity within the production of systematic reviews for public health. In this paper, we report on the process of co-producing a theory; in this case, a graphical articulation of theory in the form of a logic model, which describes how contextual factors influence children's health. METHODS: We undertook a series of three online co-p…
What Do Course Offerings Imply about University Preferences
This paper empirically analyzes how universities decide which courses to offer and the implications of these decisions for students. At a sample university, course offerings significantly impact student course choices and implicitly sacrifice student utility to increase enrollment in STEM and business and occupational courses. This is because new course sections in these fields have slightly smaller effects on student utility and cost substantial…
Variation in dentist participation between dental medicaid managed care organizations
There was considerable variation in dentist-reported acceptance of new adult and child Medicaid patients, and in the factors affecting acceptance of new patients between MCOs in Iowa dental Medicaid. Future studies of Medicaid participation should consider variations by MCO in states with more than one dental MCO so as not to miss important factors affecting Medicaid participation
Evaluation of the circulatory levels of resistin in coronary artery disease with associated co-morbidities
Inflammation is known to be the root cause of the development of coronary artery disease (CAD). Subclinical inflammation is one of the key players in pathophysiology of CAD. An inflammatory response leads to the secretion of various adipokines and cytokines. There are various pro-inflammatory markers which could be used to determine the onset of disease, and one such marker is resistin adipokine. The present study evaluates and compares the circu…
Analysis of the Perinatal Care System in a Remote and Mountainous District of Nepal
A declaração PRISMA 2020
A declaração dos Principais Itens para Relatar Revisões Sistemáticas e Meta-análises (PRISMA), publicada em 2009, foi desenvolvida para ajudar revisores sistemáticos a relatar de forma transparente por que a revisão foi feita, os métodos empregados e o que os autores encontraram. Na última década, os avanços na metodologia e terminologia de revisões sistemáticas exigiram a atualização da diretriz. A declaração PRISMA 2020 substitui a declaração d…
The PRISMA 2020 statement
The PRISMA 2020 statement
Declaración PRISMA 2020
La declaración PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses), publicada en 2009, se diseñó para ayudar a los autores de revisiones sistemáticas a documentar de manera transparente el porqué de la revisión, qué hicieron los autores y qué encontraron. Durante la última década, ha habido muchos avances en la metodología y terminología de las revisiones sistemáticas, lo que ha requerido una actualización de esta guía. La…
The PRISMA 2020 statement
PRISMA 2020 explanation and elaboration
The PRISMA 2020 statement
The PRISMA 2020 statement
State of the evidence
Introduction Ideally, health conditions causing the greatest global disease burden should attract increased research attention. We conducted a comprehensive global study investigating the number of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) published on different health conditions, and how this compares with the global disease burden that they impose. Methods We use machine learning to monitor PubMed daily, and find and analyse RCT reports. We assessed …
The PRISMA 2020 statement
Background: The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Statement, published in 2009, was designed to help systematic reviewers transparently report why the review was done, what the authors did and what they found. Over the last decade, there have been many advances in systematic review methodology and terminology, which have necessitated an update to the guideline.Objectives: To develop the PRISMA 2020 statem…
Synthesis without meta-analysis (SWiM) in systematic reviews
Cyberbullying and Children and Young People's Mental Health
Cyberbullying is associated with considerable negative mental and psychosocial consequences in children and young people, making it a serious public health concern. To review the highest level of available evidence, a systematic mapping review was conducted to identify systematic reviews that investigated the relationship between cyberbullying and mental and psychological outcomes in young people. Topic-relevant bibliographic databases and online…
Inequalities in Health and Care Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People Aged 50 and Older in the United Kingdom
Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
The revised edition of the Handbook offers the only guide on how to conduct, report and maintain a Cochrane Review The second edition of The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions contains essential guidance for preparing and maintaining Cochrane Reviews of the effects of health interventions. Designed to be an accessible resource, the Handbook will also be of interest to anyone undertaking systematic reviews of interventions o…
Updated guidance for trusted systematic reviews
Improving reporting of meta-ethnography
AIMS: The aim of this study was to provide guidance to improve the completeness and clarity of meta-ethnography reporting. BACKGROUND: Evidence-based policy and practice require robust evidence syntheses which can further understanding of people's experiences and associated social processes. Meta-ethnography is a rigorous seven-phase qualitative evidence synthesis methodology, developed by Noblit and Hare. Meta-ethnography is used widely in healt…
The making of catalan linguistic identity in medieval and early modern times
Inequalities in older LGBT people's health and care needs in the United Kingdom
The hostile environment that older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people faced at younger ages in the United Kingdom (UK) may have a lasting negative impact on their health. This systematic scoping review adds to the current knowledge base through comprehensively synthesising evidence on what is known about the extent and nature of health and care inequalities, as well as highlighting gaps in the evidence which point the way toward…
Shamans, Nostalgias, and the Imf
Immediacy, Convenience or Engagement? An analysis of 24-hour news channels in the UK
The article is based on the first systematic analysis of the output of 24-hour news channels in the UK. From a viewer's point of view, we argue, a 24-hour news channel can fulfil three main purposes: allowing someone to watch an up-to-date news bulletin whenever they wish; enabling a viewer to watch major live news events as they happen; or providing more in-depth information, background, context or analysis of news and current affairs. Our data …
Methodological Issues in Combining Diverse Study Types in Systematic Reviews
In this paper we discuss mixing methods at the level of reviews of research, combining the findings of multiple, already existing, studies that are labelled broadly as using either ‘qualitative’ or ‘quantitative’ methods. We define systematic reviews and outline the ‘mixed methods’ we have developed for combining diverse study types within them. Traditional systematic reviews usually answer a single question, use one type of study and, hence, onl…
The Economic Anatomy of a Drug War
Journal Article The Economic Anatomy of a Drug War: Criminal Justice in the Commons. Get access The Economic Anatomy of a Drug War: Criminal Justice in the Commons. By (David W.) Rasmussen and (Bruce L.) Benson. (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Litdefield, 1994. Pp. xiii + 265. £54.00 hardback, £22.95 paperback. ISBN 0 8476 7909 8, 0 8476 7910 1.) James Thomas James Thomas London School of Economics and Political Science Search for other works by this aut…
Oh, you're racist? I've got a cure for that
It has recently been discovered that the beta blocker drug, propranolol, can potentially reduce implicit racial bias among its users. By acting upon the affective conditions associated with implicit racial bias functioning at the non-conscious and pre-conscious levels, researchers have expressed excitement about the potential of propranolol and similar drugs to decrease implicit racial attitudes, and, thus, potentially decrease racism. This study…
Rapid evidence assessments of research to inform social policy
There is a tension between conducting comprehensive systematic reviews and completing them in time to meet policy-making deadlines. The ‘rapid evidence assessment’ has been proposed as a solution to this; offering rigorous reviews in a condensed timescale. While used frequently in healthcare, this mode of reviewing presents considerable challenges in social policy. We describe some potential problems and suggest reviewing strategies that can over…
The politics of evidence and methodology
English The ‘evidence movement’ poses particular challenges to social science. This article describes and reflects on some of these challenges, using as a case study the development over the period from 1993 of the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordinating (EPPI-Centre) at the Institute of Education, University of London. The article describes the development of EPPICentre resources for supporting evidence-informed policy in t…
Alcohol advertising and public health
Background Alcohol consumption is influenced by a complex causal system of interconnected psychological, behavioural, social, economic, legal and environmental factors. These factors are shaped by governments (eg, licensing laws and taxation), by consumers (eg, patterns of alcohol consumption drive demand) and by alcohol industry practices, such as advertising. The marketing and advertising of alcoholic products contributes to an ‘alcogenic envir…
Fathers' involvement and the impact on family mental health
This paper reports evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) on the relationship between fathers' involvement and the mental well-being of mothers, fathers and children. Drawing on previous research, we use a tripartite definition of father involvement: engagement, accessibility and responsibility. After searching 14 databases and websites, we screened for applicability, coded, quality assessed and synthesised the evidence. The majority of …
From people power to mass hysteria
with revisions by Elizabeth Barry A B S T R A C T • This article looks at the phenomenon of mass mourning, its manipulation in the media, and its significance in terms of consensus-building and national politics. Did deaths such as Princess Diana's and the unprecedented outpouring of public grief that followed it signal a national 'togetherness' and communal spirit? Or was this apparent national spirit a product of the press, at the cost of a dis…
Bound in by history’
This article looks at the ideological role of popular history in British politics and the media. It argues that British politics since 1945 has operated under two key successive meta-narratives about the past that have shaped and reflected the political settlement of the present. It charts briefly how negative images of a free-enterprise, inter-war period played a key role in legitimizing the emergence of a new centre-left political settlement fr…
Alternatives to randomisation in the evaluation of public-health interventions
BACKGROUND: In non-randomised evaluations of public-health interventions, statistical methods to control confounding will usually be required. We review approaches to the control of confounding and discuss issues in drawing causal inference from these studies. METHODS: Non-systematic review of literature and mathematical data-simulation. RESULTS: Standard stratification and regression techniques will often be appropriate, but propensity scores ma…
Stirring up apathy? Political disengagement and the media in the 2003 Welsh Assembly elections
This paper examines the media coverage of the 2003 Welsh Assembly elections in the context of the wider academic debate about the media's relationship with political engagement. It draws on evidence to suggest a potentially positive relationship between media use and voting, before arguing that this relationship was limited in Wales in 2003, due both to the limited penetration of the Welsh media in Wales and the election's low prominence in this …
Reflections on the Broken Mirror
(2003). Reflections on the Broken Mirror : The rise and fall of radical journalism re-considered. Media History: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 103-121
Marx, Hegel and Dialectical Method
Nothing can be done until everything is done’
BACKGROUND: Corporations use a range of strategies to dispute their role in causing public health harms and to limit the scope of effective public health interventions. This is well documented in relation to the activities of the tobacco industry, but research on other industries is less well developed. We therefore analysed public statements and documents from four unhealthy commodity industries to investigate whether and how they used arguments…
A web-based tool for adjusting costs to a specific target currency and price year
Objective: To develop a web-based tool to automate the adjustment of estimates of costs drawn from previously published or unpublished studies to a specified target currency and price year. Methods: A web-based tool was programmed using C#, utilising GDP deflator index values and Purchasing Power Parities conversion rates produced by the International Monetary Fund and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Results: Version 1…
A cloak of apathy
This article re-examines the relationship between the Daily Mirror and popular politics in Britain during the Second World War. It outlines how traditional journalistic and academic analyses have located the period as a high-point of 20th-century radical journalism and political participation in Britain, usually in opposition to a depoliticised and disengaged contemporary news environment. It then re-assesses the Mirror's place in popular culture…
The media and the 2003 Welsh Assembly election
This article explores the media coverage of the 2003 Welsh Assembly Elections, based on analysis conducted by the Wales Media Forum for the Electoral Commission. It points out that while television was the key source of election news, large numbers of people appeared to access little or no campaign news. This is traced to the structural weakness of the media in Wales, but also because the media treated the election as a ‘second‐order’ election wh…
Labour, the tabloids, and the 1992 general election
This article explores the controversy surrounding the behaviour of the British tabloid press in the 1992 general election, and the effect that their anti‐Labour campaign had on the result. The stance of the popular press is placed within the context of its behaviour since 1945 to show that between 1979 and 1992 the popular press was more hostile to Labour than at any time in the post‐war period. The reasons for this, along with the wider effects …
Mediating policy-relevant evidence at speed
When swift, accurate appraisal of evidence is required to inform policy concerning broad research questions, and budgetary constraints limit the employment of large research teams, researchers face a significant challenge which is sometimes met by reviewing existing systematic reviews. In this paper we highlight the challenges inherent in the reviews of reviews (RoR) method in order to advance understanding of this important tool for policy maker…
A Report
Disciplinarity and the Organisation of Scholarly Writing in Educational Studies in the UK
This paper explores the organisation of scholarly articles in educational studies in the UK through an analysis of the outputs of six key journals. Using citation networks and text analyses it examines connections that are made between papers, journals, authors and the themes discussed in the six journals. Scholarly papers are particularly suitable for this kind of analysis because of the expectation that authors ‘locate’ their work within existi…
Supporting Systematic Reviews Using Text Mining
In this article, we describe how we are using text mining solutions to enhance the production of systematic reviews. The aims of this collaborative project are the development of a text mining framework to support systematic reviews and the provision of a service exemplar serving as a test bed for deriving requirements for the development of more generally applicable text mining tools and services
"Wilson Barrett's "Hamlet
Notes on the Theory of Multiple Regression Analysis
Marx, Hegel and Dialectical Method
The Lady from the Sea
"Wilson Barrett's "Hamlet
Feature reviews
Nelson Mandela is free Higher than Hope: the authorised biography of Nelson Mandela. Fatima Meer, London: Hamish Hamilton. 1990. 288pp. £15.99hb Pre‐Tiananmen perspectives Reforming the Revolution? China in transition. Edited by Robert Benewick and Paul Wingrove, London: Macmillan. 1988. 264pp. £30.00hb/£8.99pb Transforming China's Economy in the Eighties. Edited by Stephen Feuchtwang, Athar Hussain and Thierry Pairault, London: Zed. 1988. Vol 1:…
Non‐fiction reviews
Development Theory and the Three Worlds. by Bjorn Hittne, London: Longman. 1990. 296pp. Eurocentrism. by Samir Amin, London: Zed Books. 1989. 157pp. Communist Agriculture: farming in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. edited by Karl‐Eugen Wädekin, London: Routledge. 1990. 131pp. £25.00hb The Informal Economy: studies in advanced and less developed countries. edited by Alejandro Portes, Manual Castells and Lauren A Benton, Baltimore, MD: Johns H…
Screwing the System
The Economic Anatomy of a Drug War
Journal Article The Economic Anatomy of a Drug War: Criminal Justice in the Commons. Get access The Economic Anatomy of a Drug War: Criminal Justice in the Commons. By (David W.) Rasmussen and (Bruce L.) Benson. (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Litdefield, 1994. Pp. xiii + 265. £54.00 hardback, £22.95 paperback. ISBN 0 8476 7909 8, 0 8476 7910 1.) James Thomas James Thomas London School of Economics and Political Science Search for other works by this aut…
Labour, the tabloids, and the 1992 general election
This article explores the controversy surrounding the behaviour of the British tabloid press in the 1992 general election, and the effect that their anti‐Labour campaign had on the result. The stance of the popular press is placed within the context of its behaviour since 1945 to show that between 1979 and 1992 the popular press was more hostile to Labour than at any time in the post‐war period. The reasons for this, along with the wider effects …
Reflections on the Broken Mirror
(2003). Reflections on the Broken Mirror : The rise and fall of radical journalism re-considered. Media History: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 103-121
Stirring up apathy? Political disengagement and the media in the 2003 Welsh Assembly elections
This paper examines the media coverage of the 2003 Welsh Assembly elections in the context of the wider academic debate about the media's relationship with political engagement. It draws on evidence to suggest a potentially positive relationship between media use and voting, before arguing that this relationship was limited in Wales in 2003, due both to the limited penetration of the Welsh media in Wales and the election's low prominence in this …
A cloak of apathy
This article re-examines the relationship between the Daily Mirror and popular politics in Britain during the Second World War. It outlines how traditional journalistic and academic analyses have located the period as a high-point of 20th-century radical journalism and political participation in Britain, usually in opposition to a depoliticised and disengaged contemporary news environment. It then re-assesses the Mirror's place in popular culture…
The media and the 2003 Welsh Assembly election
This article explores the media coverage of the 2003 Welsh Assembly Elections, based on analysis conducted by the Wales Media Forum for the Electoral Commission. It points out that while television was the key source of election news, large numbers of people appeared to access little or no campaign news. This is traced to the structural weakness of the media in Wales, but also because the media treated the election as a ‘second‐order’ election wh…
The politics of evidence and methodology
English The ‘evidence movement’ poses particular challenges to social science. This article describes and reflects on some of these challenges, using as a case study the development over the period from 1993 of the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordinating (EPPI-Centre) at the Institute of Education, University of London. The article describes the development of EPPICentre resources for supporting evidence-informed policy in t…
Methodological Issues in Combining Diverse Study Types in Systematic Reviews
In this paper we discuss mixing methods at the level of reviews of research, combining the findings of multiple, already existing, studies that are labelled broadly as using either ‘qualitative’ or ‘quantitative’ methods. We define systematic reviews and outline the ‘mixed methods’ we have developed for combining diverse study types within them. Traditional systematic reviews usually answer a single question, use one type of study and, hence, onl…
Immediacy, Convenience or Engagement? An analysis of 24-hour news channels in the UK
The article is based on the first systematic analysis of the output of 24-hour news channels in the UK. From a viewer's point of view, we argue, a 24-hour news channel can fulfil three main purposes: allowing someone to watch an up-to-date news bulletin whenever they wish; enabling a viewer to watch major live news events as they happen; or providing more in-depth information, background, context or analysis of news and current affairs. Our data …
Women Support Getting Hormonal Contraceptives Without a Prescription
Bound in by history’
This article looks at the ideological role of popular history in British politics and the media. It argues that British politics since 1945 has operated under two key successive meta-narratives about the past that have shaped and reflected the political settlement of the present. It charts briefly how negative images of a free-enterprise, inter-war period played a key role in legitimizing the emergence of a new centre-left political settlement fr…
Methods for the thematic synthesis of qualitative research in systematic reviews
There is a growing recognition of the value of synthesising qualitative research in the evidence base in order to facilitate effective and appropriate health care. In response to this, methods for undertaking these syntheses are currently being developed. Thematic analysis is a method that is often used to analyse data in primary qualitative research. This paper reports on the use of this type of analysis in systematic reviews to bring together a…
Developing evidence‐based recommendations in public health – incorporating the views of practitioners, service users and user representatives
Background Guidance based on a systematic assessment of the evidence base has become a fundamental tool in the cycle of evidence‐based practice and policy internationally. The process of moving from the formal evidence base derived from research studies to the formation and agreement of recommendations is however acknowledged to be problematic, especially in public health; and the involvement of practitioners, service commissioners and service us…
From people power to mass hysteria
with revisions by Elizabeth Barry A B S T R A C T • This article looks at the phenomenon of mass mourning, its manipulation in the media, and its significance in terms of consensus-building and national politics. Did deaths such as Princess Diana's and the unprecedented outpouring of public grief that followed it signal a national 'togetherness' and communal spirit? Or was this apparent national spirit a product of the press, at the cost of a dis…
Methods for the synthesis of qualitative research
School-based cognitive-behavioural interventions
Abortion or Pill Access Is Associated with Lower Birthrates Among Minors
Supporting Systematic Reviews Using Text Mining
In this article, we describe how we are using text mining solutions to enhance the production of systematic reviews. The aims of this collaborative project are the development of a text mining framework to support systematic reviews and the provision of a service exemplar serving as a test bed for deriving requirements for the development of more generally applicable text mining tools and services
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