Robert Fox
Biographic Data
| ID | 3752981 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Fox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Fox |
| SIGNATURE | FOX R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Google (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4785-0590 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 74 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 66 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Overcoming barriers to informed consent in neurological research
The ethical recruitment of participants with neurological disorders in clinical research requires obtaining initial and ongoing informed consent. The purpose of this study is to characterize barriers faced by research personnel in obtaining informed consent from research participants with neurological disorders and to identify strategies applied by researchers to overcome those barriers. This study was designed as a web-based survey of US researc…
Assessing prevalence, validity, and correlates of ICD-11 posttraumatic stress disorder and complex posttraumatic stress disorder in Ireland
Where the risk of suicide is high, treating symptoms of NSC, loneliness, and sleep problems may be advisable. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
European academies and the Great War
Teamworking in Healthcare during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The widespread impact of COVID-19 on healthcare has demanded new ways of working across many organisation types and many forms of healthcare delivery while at the same time endeavouring to place minimal, or no, additional burden on already strained healthcare teams. This is a cross-sectional mixed-method study which captured the experiences of teamwork during the COVID-19 pandemic contributing to successful collaboration. We hypothesised that wor…
Posttraumatic stress disorder among older adults
Both PTSD models perform well among older adults, although there is evidence of DIF in the DSM-5 model. A considerable proportion of older adults met diagnostic requirements for PTSD, thus highlighting the importance of trauma-related research among older adult populations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Einstein in Oxford
Albert Einstein made three visits to Oxford between 1931 and 1933, staying for a month in the spring of each year. For our understanding of Einstein's work, the Rhodes Memorial Lectures that he delivered during his first visit are of special interest. They show him in a period of intense rethinking of his cosmological views in the light of Edwin Hubble's recent evidence in favour of an expanding universe, an idea that Einstein had hitherto oppose…
Physics and the Instrument-Makers, 1550–1700
This article examines the practice of instrument-making as it impinged upon the nascent science of physics during the period 1550–1700. Instrument-making workshops developed during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries — the period of transition in mathematical instrument-making from an occasional activity of scholar or artisan to a trade carried out in workshops in which it was possible for aspirants to the activity to be trained. One of the cha…
Instruments and Instrument-Makers, 1700–1850
This article focuses on instruments and instrument-makers during the period 1700–1850. Scientific instruments in the 150 years between 1700 and 1850 enjoyed rapid advances in design and technology that the period can usefully be divided at about 1800, though the date varied with the progress or otherwise in the lands concerned. Throughout this period the leading craftsmen were becoming better-educated, many having a good grasp of mathematics. Thi…
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics
This Handbook traces the history of physics, bringing together chapters on major advances in the field from the seventeenth century to the present day. It is organized into four sections, following a broadly chronological structure. Part I explores the place of reason, mathematics, and experiment in the age of what we know as the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. The contributions of Galileo, René Descartes, and Isaac Newton are c…
Marzenie, które nigdy nie umiera
Pół wieku przed pierwszą wojną światową coraz powszechniej zaczęły się pojawiać wspólne przedsięwzięcia naukowe. Ta tendencja, przejawiająca się w organizowaniu kongresów naukowych oraz próbach osiągnięcia porozumienia w sprawie jednostek fizycznych i systemów nomenklatury naukowej, miała istotne konsekwencje.Jedną z nich był lęk przed przeładowaniem informacji. Jak naukowcy mieli być na bieżąco z coraz większą liczbą książek, czasopism i raportó…
The dream that never dies
In the half-century before the Great War, collaborative international ventures in science became increasingly common. The trend, manifested in scientific congresses and attempts to establish agreement on physical units and systems of nomenclature, had important consequences.One was the fear of information overload. How were scientists to keep abreast of the growing volume of books, journals, and reports? How were they to do so in an era without a…
Historiography of science and technology in focus. A discussion with Professor Robert Fox
The article is an extended discussion with a laureate of numerous international distinctions, Professor Robert Fox, about his career, intellectual fascinations, as well as changing methods, styles, approaches and themes in the historiography of science and technology.
Thomas Harriot
Electromagnetism and Field Physics
This article examines developments in electromagnetism and field physics during the early nineteenth century, when electricity had become a fully respected area of research. It begins with a discussion of the ‘Volta’s pile’, an apparatus developed by Alessandro Volta, along with mathematical approaches to electricity and Hans-Christian Ørsted’s discovery of electromagnetism. It then reviews the work of André-Marie Ampère and the Biot–Savart law, …
Optics in the Nineteenth Century
This article focuses on developments in optics in the nineteenth century, beginning with concepts and theories on light. It provides a background on eighteenth-century optics, citing the ideas of scientists such as Christiaan Huygens and Charles Coulomb, before discussing experiments on ray optics, polarization, interference, diffraction, and wave particles. It also considers the work of Jean Baptiste Biot, François Arago, Etienne Louis Malus, Au…
Thomas Harriot and His World
Thomas Harriot and His World
The nature of discovery
You have accessMoreSectionsView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Fox Robert 2014The nature of discoveryNotes Rec.68319–321http://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2014.0044SectionYou have accessEditorialThe nature of discovery Robert Fox Robert Fox [email protected] Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Robert Fox Robert Fox […
Historians and their sources
The varied contents of this issue convey the diversity of the materials on which the work of historians rests.Correspondence, a staple for historical enquiry, allows us to answer many questions, although Charles H. Smith's return to the long-standing debate about the propriety of Charles Darwin's behaviour on his receipt of Alfred Russel Wallace's essay on natural selection in 1858 points to the limitations that we often have to acknowledge, usua…
On receiving a first copy of Notes and Records
George Sarton, often regarded as the founder of the discipline of the history of science, appears to have first seen Notes and Records of the Royal Society in 1942. V. Hill conveys both his pleasure at the publication (which the Royal Society had launched in 1938) and his frustration in trying to persuade scientists and ‘humanists’ of the value of his work. The letter also records Sarton's sadness at the death of his Harvard colleague L. J. Hende…
Notes and Records at 75
The first issue of Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London appeared almost exactly 75 years ago, in April 1938.The original aims of the journal were modest: in the words of the first editorial, they were to keep Fellows 'more fully informed of the activities of the Society'. 1But Notes and Records almost immediately enlarged its brief, to include 'information of historical interest'. 2 In opening its pages to such 'information', it was r…
The next 75 years
With this issue of Notes and Records of the Royal Society we come to the end of our 75th year of publication.Since our first issue in 1938, the world of periodical publishing in the history of science, technology and medicine has undergone profound changes.Many new journals have been founded, bringing the number of leading titles in the field to more than even the 61 that added their name to the protest against the European Research Index in the …
Texts and images
The gradual abandonment of Latin as the universal language of the world of learning was a long process.Felicity Henderson's 'Faithful interpreters?' in this issue examines a stage in the process, during the early years of the Royal Society, in which correspondents' relatively novel use of European vernaculars was making translations increasingly necessary if communications were to be read with ease.As Henderson shows, translation was not a straig…
The many faces of science
You have accessMoreSectionsView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Fox Robert 2012The many faces of scienceNotes Rec.66207–209http://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2012.0038SectionYou have accessEditorialThe many faces of science Robert Fox Robert Fox [email protected] Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Robert Fox Robert F…
The Savant and the State
Scientific enterprise and the patronage of research in France 1800?70
Fashioning the Discipline
The Background to the Discovery of Dulong and Petit's Law
The years immediately after the final downfall of Napoleon Bonaparte could easily have been years of anti-climax in French science. In 1815, after two decades of undoubted greatness, the time, I feel, was ripe for decline. And decline might well have occurred if the traditions and the style of science as practised in France in the period of Napoleon's rule had been carried on unchanged by the disciples of the two great men who had dominated work …
The Archeological Record of Chinese Influences in the Philippines
Commentary and Notes
Victorian Sensation
1University of Oxford Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of ‘Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation’ James A.Secord Chicago/LondonU. of Chicago P. 2000xx + 624£22.50
The scientist and his public in nineteenth-century France
Eloge
La professionnalisation
Science, industry, and the social order in Mulhouse, 1798–1871
There is a story, which historians of modern France often tell, of the ministerial official in Paris who had only to glance at his clock in order to know the exact passage of Vergil being construed and the law of physics being expounded in every school throughout the country. Invariably, the story is told for a purpose. It is used to demonstrate the high degree of centralization and the attendant rigidity of the French educational system, usually…
A historical and philosophical perspective on the external degree
The impact of the external degree movement on American higher education has been and still is viewed by many authorities as a radical departure from traditional patterns of American higher education. Close examination of the historical evolution of American higher education, however, reveals that the external degree movement represents a logical and predictable development in the ongoing quest to integrate democratic ideals into educational pract…
Watt's expansive principle in the work of Sadi Carnot and Nicolas Clément
I mentioned to you a method of still doubling the effect of the steam, and that tolerably easy, by using the power of steam rushing into a vacuum, at present lost... it is peculiarly applicable to wheel-engines, and may supply the want of a condenser where force of steam is only used; for, open one of the steam-valves, and admit steam until one-fourth of the distance between it and the next valve is filled with steam; shut the valve, the steam wi…
Response to Change of Pattern and of Depth in the Rat
One product of the research on spontaneous alternation is the to experiment (Dember, 1956, 1961). In the response to change experiment a rat is placed in the starting alley or stem of a T-maze and allowed to inspect the stem and arms but is prevented from entering the arms by clear Plexiglas doors. On this first trial, the exposure trial, the arms differ in brightness, e.g., one arm is white and the other is black. After the exposure trial, the P…
Response to Change of Pattern and of Depth in the Rat
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Bibliography of Basic Texts and Monographs on Statistical Methods
A laboratory approach to social science education
The Archeological Record of Chinese Influences in the Philippines
Commentary and Notes
The Background to the Discovery of Dulong and Petit's Law
The years immediately after the final downfall of Napoleon Bonaparte could easily have been years of anti-climax in French science. In 1815, after two decades of undoubted greatness, the time, I feel, was ripe for decline. And decline might well have occurred if the traditions and the style of science as practised in France in the period of Napoleon's rule had been carried on unchanged by the disciples of the two great men who had dominated work …
The Fire Piston and Its Origins in Europe
years. Understandably enough, they have been attracted above all by the intriguing possibility that the device was invented in that region quite independently of European influences and possibly long before the 1860's, when it appears to have been first observed there by European travelers. Consequently they have tended to regard the fire piston's appearance in Europe in the early years of the nineteenth century as the result either of a separate…
Raspail
The Relative Clause in Three Languages
This paper continues the kind of contrastive analysis of relative clauses presented at the 1966 NAFSA Conference by Paul Schachter, Robert D. Wilson, and Lois McIntosh based upon a transformational model and contrasting English and Tagalog. The author contrasts the restrictive relative clause in English, Hindi, and Baghdad Arabic. Working from these contrastive statements, he points out differences in emphasis when teaching the English restrictiv…
Watt's expansive principle in the work of Sadi Carnot and Nicolas Clément
I mentioned to you a method of still doubling the effect of the steam, and that tolerably easy, by using the power of steam rushing into a vacuum, at present lost... it is peculiarly applicable to wheel-engines, and may supply the want of a condenser where force of steam is only used; for, open one of the steam-valves, and admit steam until one-fourth of the distance between it and the next valve is filled with steam; shut the valve, the steam wi…
Scientific enterprise and the patronage of research in France 1800?70
Isis Cumulative Bibliography. A Bibliography of the History of Science formed from Isis Critical Bibliographies 1-90, 1913-65 . Magda Whitrow
Auguste Comte and Positivism. The Essential Writings . Gertrud Lenzer
A historical and philosophical perspective on the external degree
The impact of the external degree movement on American higher education has been and still is viewed by many authorities as a radical departure from traditional patterns of American higher education. Close examination of the historical evolution of American higher education, however, reveals that the external degree movement represents a logical and predictable development in the ongoing quest to integrate democratic ideals into educational pract…
Teachers as Agents of Behavioral Change for Severely Retarded Students
This paper describes two case studies, which employed behavioral modification procedures to decrease problematic behaviors of severely retarded students. The studies were carried out in public school settings. Special education teachers under the direction of a school psychologist acted as the agents of behavioral change
Weight Loss with Psychiatric Residents in a Behavioral Self Control Program
A behavioral self-control program for 14 psychiatric residents living in a semi-independent residential facility is described. The group of 7 in behavior therapy lost significantly more weight than a control group of 7 over a 14-wk. treatment. A 16-wk. followup is reported
Adjective Generation Technique
The sensitivity of the Adjective Generation Technique to changes in anxiety following a progressive relaxation session was described for 13 undergraduates who reported significantly less anxiety following a relaxation procedure. Scores correlated .79 with the Spielberger State Anxiety Scale. The advantages of using the adjective technique for assessing the effectiveness of relaxation training were discussed
Incidental Learning in Mildly Retarded Chldren
Fifteen mildly retarded children (mean CA = 11 years, MA = 8 years, IQ = 71), Including nine males and six females, were compared with the same number of both CA- and MA-matched intellectually normal children, including 14 males and 16 females, on a Type I incidental learning task involving simple recognition and recall skills. The results of this comparison found that the retarded group learned incidentally, as well as the MA-matched normal grou…
Comparison of Progressive Relaxation Training and Practice Sessions Using the Adjective Generation Technique
The Adjective Generation Technique was used to evaluate and compare progressive relaxation training and practice sessions for one female client. The subject acquired the relaxation skills and maintained them at 3 mo. follow-up. Changes in the referral complaint were also reported. The clinical advantages of using the technique over traditional anxiety scales were described
Science and Immortality
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access ROBERT FOX ROBERT FOX University of Lancaster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVII, Issue CCCLXXXV, October 1982, Pages 913-a–913, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVII.CCCLXXXV.913-a Published: 01 October 1982
The Organization of Science and Technology in France, 1808-1914
The scientist and his public in nineteenth-century France
Socially Maladjusted Adolescents' Perceptions of Their Families
The Family Environment Scale, a 90-item true-false instrument used to evaluate the social climate of families, was administered to 17 socially maladjusted adolescents. The results showed that these adolescents perceived their families as not highly supportive or concerned about each member's welfare. These families were perceived as providing little cultural, intellectual or recreational stimulation in the home. The families scored relatively hig…
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