Mark Robson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3770645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Robson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Robson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5702-4781 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Project Yarn Circle
Background Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people experience markedly higher suicide mortality than non-Indigenous youth in Australia, yet there is little evidence of effective preventative strategies. Many are misaligned to the needs of First Nations young people due to a lack of consideration of protective factors such as community and cultural connection. Objective To date no research has examined whether increasing cultural connec…
Rendezvous
The pandemic returned me to photography. It heightened my awareness of movement. In common with many others, during lockdown, I took to walking, increasingly, in my case, with camera in hand. When lockdown lifted, it was Paris that I was drawn to.In a city such as Paris, one of the consequences of the pandemic was a re-enchantment of public spaces. If the lockdown prevented indoor encounters, the public park became a scene of meeting. A sharing o…
An Evaluation of a Pesticide Training Program to Reduce Pesticide Exposure and Enhance Safety among Female Farmworkers in Nan, Thailand
Based on the results, the constructs of the intervention program were effective and could be applied in other agricultural areas in less developed countries. However, due to time limitations during the COVID-19 pandemic, further studies should be conducted to enable data collection over a longer time, with a larger number of subjects providing the ChE levels for the non-agricultural season
Integrated Sustainable Management of Petrochemical Industrial Air Pollution
The emission inventory, emission factor, and spatial concentration distribution of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from a petrochemical industry (aromatics plant) were intensively evaluated in this study to elucidate the potential sources of BTX emission and their contribution to ambient concentrations. Five emission groups were quantified through direct measurement and emission models. These data were then used as input for the AERMOD dispersi…
Estimating Occupational Exposure to VOCs, SVOCs, Particles and Participant Survey Reported Symptoms in Central Thailand Rice Farmers Using Multiple Sampling Techniques
Thailand is known for its agricultural productivity and rice exportation. Most farms use small machines and manual labor, creating potential exposure to multiple health hazards. A cross-sectional study was conducted to measure pollutants liberated during preparation, pesticide application, and harvesting. Thirty rice farmers, mostly males from 41 to 50 years old, participated. The participant survey data showed that 53.3% of the respondents spent…
Food Waste in Schools
This study aimed to assess change in school-based food waste after training and implementing the Smarter Lunchrooms Movement (SLM) strategies with school food service workers. This non-controlled trial was implemented in a random sample of 15 elementary and middle schools in a Community Eligibility Program school district in the Northeast, the United States. Baseline and post-intervention food waste measurements were collected at two different ti…
The Impact of an Ergonomics Intervention on Psychosocial Factors and Musculoskeletal Symptoms among Thai Hospital Orderlies
(1) BACKGROUND: Musculoskeletal disorders have a multifactorial etiology that is not only associated with physical risk factors, but also psychosocial risk factors; (2) OBJECTIVE: This study evaluated the effects of an ergonomic intervention on musculoskeletal disorders and psychosocial risk factors; (3) MATERIAL AND METHODS: This study took a participatory ergonomic (PE) approach with a randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted at tertiary car…
Jacques Rancière and Time
This article asks whether the work of Jacques Rancière might be said to present a philosophy of time. Outlining the ways in which a consideration of time is a central component of Rancière's thinking on a range of issues, particularly in his attention to the politics of time (the time of workers, the invocation of different notions of past and future in a range of political contexts), the article shows Rancière's resistance both to certain Marxis…
Neurological Effects of Pesticide Use among Farmers in China
The intensive use of pesticides has attracted great attention from the Chinese government. However, current regulations have had limited influence on their safe use. Although the acute neurologic effects of pesticides have been well documented, little is known about their cumulative effects. Knowledge of the impact of pesticides on health may convince farmers to minimize their use. We conducted a cross-sectional study in three provinces of China …
The Hour is Unknown
There is a line in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar that I have found funny-both amusing and peculiar, that is-for a long time now. Julius Caesar was the first Shakespeare play I read at school, so the humor I found in it was one that appealed to a certain teenage cynicism. The line appears in a passage in which Shakespeare chooses very deliberately to depart from his source in North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives of the Romans , giving us a line t…
Agricultural pesticide management in Thailand
In the Bitter Letter (A Rendition of Othello )
Through a series of ‘rents’, this article reads the interplay between Shakespeare's Othello and various senses of rendition. The strange relations of theatricality, desire, violence and the unknown that the play stages are read in the light of Jacques Derrida's thinking on strangers, inhabitation, pity and blindness. In offering a rendition of Othello, much hinges on the politics of the word ‘in’
Information Complexity as a Constraint to Public Involvement in Sustainable Forest Management
This study explores the importance of information complexity and how it constrains interactive public involvement in forest management planning in Ontario, Canada. Our data was collected using five approaches: (a) content analysis of independent forest audits from 57 public forest units; (b) content analysis of self evaluated reports of effectiveness by 35 of 40 forest stakeholder advisory committees; (c) face to face interviews with 15 current a…
Exploring the Acceptability of Spatial Simulation Models of Outdoor Recreation for Use by Participants in Public Participation Processes
The use of spatial simulation models in public participation processes through multiple facilitated group sessions is explored in northern Ontario, Canada. Participants evaluated the acceptability of an agent-based model of recreational fishing while working through hypothetical management scenarios. Four main concepts are linked to acceptability: credibility, comprehensiveness, comprehension, and utility. These concepts were generally consistent…
In the Living-Room
A literary animal
The Influence of Context on Deliberation and Cooperation in Community-Based Forest Management in Ontario, Canada
An Other Europe
Does Europe exist? The identity of Europe has rarely seemed less certain. What traditionally might be conceived of as its conceptual, institutional, political, cultural and geographical unity and integrity have been extended, undermined, defended, strengthened or abandoned, according to your point of view. As debates around the possible inclusion of Turkey within a European Community (to which ‘Europe’ cannot plausibly be reduced) have shown, the…
Structure of causation and its influence on cooperation
The development of government agency and stakeholder cooperation
Introduction
Jacques Rancière's Aesthetic Communities
The Baby Bomber
This article offers a reading of an image of a child dressed in the uniform of a Palestinian suicide bomber that circulated under the name ‘The baby bomber’. The author examines both the claims made about the picture by Israeli and Palestinian authorities, and the reception of the image in the Western media. Focusing on the representation of childhood and the representation of suicide, which come together in this image, the article addresses the …
Potential impact of chlorination of Sandy bottom swimming areas on drinking water sources
The concentrations of trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, disinfection by‐products (DBPs) of chlorine, were measured in sandy bottom swimming areas to determine their potential impact on surface and ground water that are sources of drinking water. Total trihalomethanes and individual haloacetic acid concentrations in several swimming area samples were higher than the drinking water standards (current and proposed). Individual trihalomethanes (e…
Wolfes wife
Introduction
The development of government agency and stakeholder cooperation
A literary animal
Agricultural pesticide management in Thailand
Jacques Rancière's Aesthetic Communities
Jacques Rancière and Time
This article asks whether the work of Jacques Rancière might be said to present a philosophy of time. Outlining the ways in which a consideration of time is a central component of Rancière's thinking on a range of issues, particularly in his attention to the politics of time (the time of workers, the invocation of different notions of past and future in a range of political contexts), the article shows Rancière's resistance both to certain Marxis…
Information Complexity as a Constraint to Public Involvement in Sustainable Forest Management
This study explores the importance of information complexity and how it constrains interactive public involvement in forest management planning in Ontario, Canada. Our data was collected using five approaches: (a) content analysis of independent forest audits from 57 public forest units; (b) content analysis of self evaluated reports of effectiveness by 35 of 40 forest stakeholder advisory committees; (c) face to face interviews with 15 current a…
In the Living-Room
The Influence of Context on Deliberation and Cooperation in Community-Based Forest Management in Ontario, Canada
An Other Europe
Does Europe exist? The identity of Europe has rarely seemed less certain. What traditionally might be conceived of as its conceptual, institutional, political, cultural and geographical unity and integrity have been extended, undermined, defended, strengthened or abandoned, according to your point of view. As debates around the possible inclusion of Turkey within a European Community (to which ‘Europe’ cannot plausibly be reduced) have shown, the…
Interdisciplinary Efforts are Needed
Interdisciplinary Efforts are Needed
Wolfes wife
Potential impact of chlorination of Sandy bottom swimming areas on drinking water sources
The concentrations of trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, disinfection by‐products (DBPs) of chlorine, were measured in sandy bottom swimming areas to determine their potential impact on surface and ground water that are sources of drinking water. Total trihalomethanes and individual haloacetic acid concentrations in several swimming area samples were higher than the drinking water standards (current and proposed). Individual trihalomethanes (e…
The Baby Bomber
This article offers a reading of an image of a child dressed in the uniform of a Palestinian suicide bomber that circulated under the name ‘The baby bomber’. The author examines both the claims made about the picture by Israeli and Palestinian authorities, and the reception of the image in the Western media. Focusing on the representation of childhood and the representation of suicide, which come together in this image, the article addresses the …
Introduction
Jacques Rancière's Aesthetic Communities
Structure of causation and its influence on cooperation
The development of government agency and stakeholder cooperation
An Other Europe
Does Europe exist? The identity of Europe has rarely seemed less certain. What traditionally might be conceived of as its conceptual, institutional, political, cultural and geographical unity and integrity have been extended, undermined, defended, strengthened or abandoned, according to your point of view. As debates around the possible inclusion of Turkey within a European Community (to which ‘Europe’ cannot plausibly be reduced) have shown, the…
In the Living-Room
A literary animal
The Influence of Context on Deliberation and Cooperation in Community-Based Forest Management in Ontario, Canada
Information Complexity as a Constraint to Public Involvement in Sustainable Forest Management
This study explores the importance of information complexity and how it constrains interactive public involvement in forest management planning in Ontario, Canada. Our data was collected using five approaches: (a) content analysis of independent forest audits from 57 public forest units; (b) content analysis of self evaluated reports of effectiveness by 35 of 40 forest stakeholder advisory committees; (c) face to face interviews with 15 current a…
Exploring the Acceptability of Spatial Simulation Models of Outdoor Recreation for Use by Participants in Public Participation Processes
The use of spatial simulation models in public participation processes through multiple facilitated group sessions is explored in northern Ontario, Canada. Participants evaluated the acceptability of an agent-based model of recreational fishing while working through hypothetical management scenarios. Four main concepts are linked to acceptability: credibility, comprehensiveness, comprehension, and utility. These concepts were generally consistent…
Agricultural pesticide management in Thailand
In the Bitter Letter (A Rendition of Othello )
Through a series of ‘rents’, this article reads the interplay between Shakespeare's Othello and various senses of rendition. The strange relations of theatricality, desire, violence and the unknown that the play stages are read in the light of Jacques Derrida's thinking on strangers, inhabitation, pity and blindness. In offering a rendition of Othello, much hinges on the politics of the word ‘in’
The Hour is Unknown
There is a line in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar that I have found funny-both amusing and peculiar, that is-for a long time now. Julius Caesar was the first Shakespeare play I read at school, so the humor I found in it was one that appealed to a certain teenage cynicism. The line appears in a passage in which Shakespeare chooses very deliberately to depart from his source in North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives of the Romans , giving us a line t…
Neurological Effects of Pesticide Use among Farmers in China
The intensive use of pesticides has attracted great attention from the Chinese government. However, current regulations have had limited influence on their safe use. Although the acute neurologic effects of pesticides have been well documented, little is known about their cumulative effects. Knowledge of the impact of pesticides on health may convince farmers to minimize their use. We conducted a cross-sectional study in three provinces of China …
Jacques Rancière and Time
This article asks whether the work of Jacques Rancière might be said to present a philosophy of time. Outlining the ways in which a consideration of time is a central component of Rancière's thinking on a range of issues, particularly in his attention to the politics of time (the time of workers, the invocation of different notions of past and future in a range of political contexts), the article shows Rancière's resistance both to certain Marxis…
The Impact of an Ergonomics Intervention on Psychosocial Factors and Musculoskeletal Symptoms among Thai Hospital Orderlies
(1) BACKGROUND: Musculoskeletal disorders have a multifactorial etiology that is not only associated with physical risk factors, but also psychosocial risk factors; (2) OBJECTIVE: This study evaluated the effects of an ergonomic intervention on musculoskeletal disorders and psychosocial risk factors; (3) MATERIAL AND METHODS: This study took a participatory ergonomic (PE) approach with a randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted at tertiary car…
Estimating Occupational Exposure to VOCs, SVOCs, Particles and Participant Survey Reported Symptoms in Central Thailand Rice Farmers Using Multiple Sampling Techniques
Thailand is known for its agricultural productivity and rice exportation. Most farms use small machines and manual labor, creating potential exposure to multiple health hazards. A cross-sectional study was conducted to measure pollutants liberated during preparation, pesticide application, and harvesting. Thirty rice farmers, mostly males from 41 to 50 years old, participated. The participant survey data showed that 53.3% of the respondents spent…
Food Waste in Schools
This study aimed to assess change in school-based food waste after training and implementing the Smarter Lunchrooms Movement (SLM) strategies with school food service workers. This non-controlled trial was implemented in a random sample of 15 elementary and middle schools in a Community Eligibility Program school district in the Northeast, the United States. Baseline and post-intervention food waste measurements were collected at two different ti…
Rendezvous
The pandemic returned me to photography. It heightened my awareness of movement. In common with many others, during lockdown, I took to walking, increasingly, in my case, with camera in hand. When lockdown lifted, it was Paris that I was drawn to.In a city such as Paris, one of the consequences of the pandemic was a re-enchantment of public spaces. If the lockdown prevented indoor encounters, the public park became a scene of meeting. A sharing o…
An Evaluation of a Pesticide Training Program to Reduce Pesticide Exposure and Enhance Safety among Female Farmworkers in Nan, Thailand
Based on the results, the constructs of the intervention program were effective and could be applied in other agricultural areas in less developed countries. However, due to time limitations during the COVID-19 pandemic, further studies should be conducted to enable data collection over a longer time, with a larger number of subjects providing the ChE levels for the non-agricultural season
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