David A Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3789128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David A Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | David A |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5052-4895 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
To see or not to see? Rethinking worldview in missiological education
The concept of worldview has been employed as a framework for interpreting cultural and religious differences in missiological praxis, yet its definition and usefulness are contested. This article asks: How should the concept of worldview be used in missiological education, if at all? Drawing on a critical literature review spanning missiology and related disciplines, the paper examines three central questions—what worldview refers to, its relati…
PCORnet®
PCORnet ® , a national resource funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, is designed to enhance the nation’s capacity to conduct efficient, patient-centered health research. The robust and adaptable PCORnet infrastructure can be leveraged to support a variety of study designs. Within this framework, PCORnet ® Studies, a distinguished subset of research studies that meets specific criteria and approval, serve as exemplary models…
Development of self-report measures of physical, mental, and emotional fatigability
Chronicity rhetoric in health and welfare systems inhibits patient recovery
Fibromyalgia is a leading cause of disability in the UK and worldwide, but is difficult to diagnose and treat due to unclear pathogenesis and diverse and fluctuating symptoms. Although various treatment modalities are recommended, no treatments have been proven to effect sustainable improvement or recovery, and patients are typically dissatisfied with their care. Increasingly, biopsychosocial services are being developed, that aim to take a multi…
A Scoping Review of Psychological Assessment in Mission and Ministry Candidates
Missionary attrition together with the problem of institutional child sexual abuse in the Church has highlighted the importance of a standardized psychological assessment process for mission and ministry candidates. This scoping review aimed to examine peer-reviewed publications, from 2001 to 2021, which focused on the psychological assessment of ministry and cross-cultural mission candidates, to find knowledge gaps that exist. Using scoping revi…
Psychological Assessment of Cross-Cultural Mission Candidates in Australasia
This study surveyed psychological assessment practice for cross-cultural mission candidates in Australasia. It hypothesized that there would be a difference in knowledge about assessments between mission chief executive officers (CEOs), member care specialists, and psychological assessors. Sixty-nine mission organization staff and nine independent assessors responded to an online survey about psychological assessment, compliance with Australian l…
Isn’t a Call Enough? What Is the Purpose of Psychologically Assessing Cross-Cultural Mission Workers
Psychological assessments are routinely conducted by many cross-cultural mission organizations when recruiting candidates. This qualitative research aimed to clarify the purpose of these assessments, to provide a way forward to improving them. It is part of a larger project which has investigated the use of psychological assessments in the Australasian region. A subsample of six chief executive officers (CEOs), six-member care specialists, and si…
Subgrouping a Large U.S. Sample of Patients with Fibromyalgia Using the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire-Revised
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a heterogeneous and complex syndrome; different studies have tried to describe subgroups of FM patients, and a 4-cluster classification based on the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire-Revised (FIQR) has been recently validated. This study aims to cross-validate this classification in a large US sample of FM patients. A pooled sample of 6280 patients was used. First, we computed a hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) using FIQR …
Unity in Diversity
Mission and Care for the Poor in Sydney Anglican Perspective
Sydney Anglican theology has a number of distinctive motifs, including its ecclesiology and theology of the gospel. These motifs inform a theology of mission as proclamation that stands in a tradition that places a priority on evangelism. Where does such a missiological construction locate a theology of care for the poor? Answers to this question were explored through semi-structured interviews with faculty at Moore Theological College. The signi…
The PROMIS FatigueFM Profile
Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of psychological distress among students at an Australian university
This research contributes to the empirical literature on university student mental well-being by investigating the prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of severe levels of psychological distress. More than 5000 students at a metropolitan Australian university participated in an anonymous online survey in 2013 that included the short form of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS-21). Comparisons with published research show that o…
The Baby and The Bathwater
College Music Symposium is the premier journal of The College Music Society, published for over 50 years, since 1961. Symposium is an online, refereed, journal through which The College Music Society will present the work of its members for use by the public and professional musicians. The name \"College Music Symposium\" honors the achievements of the past while using new technologies to meet the continuing need of the public and all working in …
The impact of exposure to shift-based schedules on medical students
These findings suggest that shift-based schedules designed in response to duty-hour reform may have important broader implications for the teaching environment
Legal Language and Theatrical Presence
In late 2005, it was revealed that the Australian monopoly wheat exporter AWB Ltd had significantly breached Australian Government backed UN sanctions by paying A$290 million in bribes or ‘kickbacks’ to the Iraq Government.1 As the purpose of these sanctions was to prevent Saddam Hussein’s Government from gaining access to hard currency with which he might purchase or develop weapons, Australian media reportage regularly referred to AWB Ltd’s ‘ki…
Constitutional Developments in the United Kingdom
In hisIntroduction to the study of the Law of the Constitution, which appeared in its first edition in 1885, Professor A. V. Dicey of the University of Oxford emphasized in particular the doctrine of Parliamentary sovereignty and the concept of the Rule of Law as guiding principles of the constitution. His exposition was clear and trenchant, inspired by the self-confidence of late Victorian Britain, and through nine editions it provided the autho…
Analysing the Regional Impact of Foreign Manufa Cturing Firms
This article has been written in response to Pigozzi and Bagchi‐Sen's (1995) work on the impact which affiliates of foreign manufacturing firms make upon employment in the US economy. It will be argued that their analysis is incomplete because of inadequacies in their conceptual framework. In order to assess the impact of multinational subsidiaries it is necessary to use a framework which includes a more extensive range of modes of entry and subs…
A Study of Internal Validity of the Instrument Timbre Preference Test
This research is an examination of an aspect of internal validity of Edwin Gordon's Instrument Timbre Preference Test (ITPT). The purpose of the ITPT is to provide an objective aid in helping students choose an appropriate instrument for beginning study. Seven different timbres are used in the test, representing the flute, clarinet, saxo-phone/horn, double reeds, trumpet/cornet, trombone/baritone/horn, and the tuba/sousaphone. A question is raise…
Self-blame, compliance, and distress among burn patients
This study addressed self-blame and adaptation by using data collected from 49 patients hospitalized for the treatment of acute burn wounds. Nurses and physical therapists rated patients' compliance with the therapeutic activities essential for proper healing, and they rated pain behavior. After controlling for burn severity and time since admission, regression analyses showed that behavioral self-blame for the burn accident was a significant pre…
Notes of Cases
DOES a landowner owe any duty to an adjoining occupier to secure his land against the entry of trespassers who may damage his neighbour's property?That was the question of considerable importance raised by P. Per1 (Exporters) Ltd. v. Cumden London Borough Council.' The defendant council had let business premises in a block of flats to the plaintiffs.The premises included a basement used by the plaintiffs for storing garments.The council owned an …
Attitudes Towards Varieties of Nigerian Spoken English
California
Journal Article California: A Bicentennial History. By David Lavender. (New York: Norton/American Association for State and Local History, 1976. iv + 243 pp. Dlustrations, notes, suggestions for further reading, and index. $8.95.) Get access David A. Williams David A. Williams California State University, Long Beach Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 1, June 1978,…
Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915
Journal Article Americans and the California Dream, 1830–1915. By Kevin Starr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. xviii + 494 pp. Illustrations, notes, further sources, and index. $12.50.) Get access David A. Williams David A. Williams California State University, Long Beach Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 60, Issue 4, March 1974, Pages 1122–1123, https://doi.org/…
An End and A Beginning
Journal Article An End and A Beginning: The South Coast and Los Angeles, 1850–1887. By Joseph S. O'Flaherty. (New York: Exposition, 1972. 222 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $7.50.) Get access David A. Williams David A. Williams California State University, Long Beach Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 60, Issue 2, September 1973, Page 475, https://…
David C. Broderick
Journal Article David C. Broderick: A Political Portrait Get access David C. Broderick: A Political Portrait. By Williams David A.. (San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1969. ix, 274 p. Photograph, index. $7.50.) John E. Baur John E. Baur San Fernando Valley State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 2, April 1970, Pages 211–213, https://doi.org/10.2307/9678…
Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of psychological distress among students at an Australian university
This research contributes to the empirical literature on university student mental well-being by investigating the prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of severe levels of psychological distress. More than 5000 students at a metropolitan Australian university participated in an anonymous online survey in 2013 that included the short form of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS-21). Comparisons with published research show that o…
Self-blame, compliance, and distress among burn patients
This study addressed self-blame and adaptation by using data collected from 49 patients hospitalized for the treatment of acute burn wounds. Nurses and physical therapists rated patients' compliance with the therapeutic activities essential for proper healing, and they rated pain behavior. After controlling for burn severity and time since admission, regression analyses showed that behavioral self-blame for the burn accident was a significant pre…
A Study of Internal Validity of the Instrument Timbre Preference Test
This research is an examination of an aspect of internal validity of Edwin Gordon's Instrument Timbre Preference Test (ITPT). The purpose of the ITPT is to provide an objective aid in helping students choose an appropriate instrument for beginning study. Seven different timbres are used in the test, representing the flute, clarinet, saxo-phone/horn, double reeds, trumpet/cornet, trombone/baritone/horn, and the tuba/sousaphone. A question is raise…
Attitudes Towards Varieties of Nigerian Spoken English
David C. Broderick
Journal Article David C. Broderick: A Political Portrait Get access David C. Broderick: A Political Portrait. By Williams David A.. (San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1969. ix, 274 p. Photograph, index. $7.50.) John E. Baur John E. Baur San Fernando Valley State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 2, April 1970, Pages 211–213, https://doi.org/10.2307/9678…
David C. Broderick
Journal Article David C. Broderick: A Political Portrait. By David A. Williams. (San Marino: Huntington Library, 1969. ix + 274 pp. Illustration, notes, and index. $7.50.) Get access Don E. Fehrenbacher Don E. Fehrenbacher Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 1, June 1970, Pages 148–149, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900584 Published: 01 June 1970
An End and A Beginning
Journal Article An End and A Beginning: The South Coast and Los Angeles, 1850–1887. By Joseph S. O'Flaherty. (New York: Exposition, 1972. 222 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $7.50.) Get access David A. Williams David A. Williams California State University, Long Beach Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 60, Issue 2, September 1973, Page 475, https://…
Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915
Journal Article Americans and the California Dream, 1830–1915. By Kevin Starr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. xviii + 494 pp. Illustrations, notes, further sources, and index. $12.50.) Get access David A. Williams David A. Williams California State University, Long Beach Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 60, Issue 4, March 1974, Pages 1122–1123, https://doi.org/…
California
Journal Article California: A Bicentennial History. By David Lavender. (New York: Norton/American Association for State and Local History, 1976. iv + 243 pp. Dlustrations, notes, suggestions for further reading, and index. $8.95.) Get access David A. Williams David A. Williams California State University, Long Beach Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 1, June 1978,…
Notes of Cases
DOES a landowner owe any duty to an adjoining occupier to secure his land against the entry of trespassers who may damage his neighbour's property?That was the question of considerable importance raised by P. Per1 (Exporters) Ltd. v. Cumden London Borough Council.' The defendant council had let business premises in a block of flats to the plaintiffs.The premises included a basement used by the plaintiffs for storing garments.The council owned an …
Attitudes Towards Varieties of Nigerian Spoken English
Self-blame, compliance, and distress among burn patients
This study addressed self-blame and adaptation by using data collected from 49 patients hospitalized for the treatment of acute burn wounds. Nurses and physical therapists rated patients' compliance with the therapeutic activities essential for proper healing, and they rated pain behavior. After controlling for burn severity and time since admission, regression analyses showed that behavioral self-blame for the burn accident was a significant pre…
Analysing the Regional Impact of Foreign Manufa Cturing Firms
This article has been written in response to Pigozzi and Bagchi‐Sen's (1995) work on the impact which affiliates of foreign manufacturing firms make upon employment in the US economy. It will be argued that their analysis is incomplete because of inadequacies in their conceptual framework. In order to assess the impact of multinational subsidiaries it is necessary to use a framework which includes a more extensive range of modes of entry and subs…
A Study of Internal Validity of the Instrument Timbre Preference Test
This research is an examination of an aspect of internal validity of Edwin Gordon's Instrument Timbre Preference Test (ITPT). The purpose of the ITPT is to provide an objective aid in helping students choose an appropriate instrument for beginning study. Seven different timbres are used in the test, representing the flute, clarinet, saxo-phone/horn, double reeds, trumpet/cornet, trombone/baritone/horn, and the tuba/sousaphone. A question is raise…
Constitutional Developments in the United Kingdom
In hisIntroduction to the study of the Law of the Constitution, which appeared in its first edition in 1885, Professor A. V. Dicey of the University of Oxford emphasized in particular the doctrine of Parliamentary sovereignty and the concept of the Rule of Law as guiding principles of the constitution. His exposition was clear and trenchant, inspired by the self-confidence of late Victorian Britain, and through nine editions it provided the autho…
Legal Language and Theatrical Presence
In late 2005, it was revealed that the Australian monopoly wheat exporter AWB Ltd had significantly breached Australian Government backed UN sanctions by paying A$290 million in bribes or ‘kickbacks’ to the Iraq Government.1 As the purpose of these sanctions was to prevent Saddam Hussein’s Government from gaining access to hard currency with which he might purchase or develop weapons, Australian media reportage regularly referred to AWB Ltd’s ‘ki…
The Baby and The Bathwater
College Music Symposium is the premier journal of The College Music Society, published for over 50 years, since 1961. Symposium is an online, refereed, journal through which The College Music Society will present the work of its members for use by the public and professional musicians. The name \"College Music Symposium\" honors the achievements of the past while using new technologies to meet the continuing need of the public and all working in …
The impact of exposure to shift-based schedules on medical students
These findings suggest that shift-based schedules designed in response to duty-hour reform may have important broader implications for the teaching environment
The PROMIS FatigueFM Profile
Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of psychological distress among students at an Australian university
This research contributes to the empirical literature on university student mental well-being by investigating the prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of severe levels of psychological distress. More than 5000 students at a metropolitan Australian university participated in an anonymous online survey in 2013 that included the short form of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS-21). Comparisons with published research show that o…
Subgrouping a Large U.S. Sample of Patients with Fibromyalgia Using the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire-Revised
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a heterogeneous and complex syndrome; different studies have tried to describe subgroups of FM patients, and a 4-cluster classification based on the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire-Revised (FIQR) has been recently validated. This study aims to cross-validate this classification in a large US sample of FM patients. A pooled sample of 6280 patients was used. First, we computed a hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) using FIQR …
Unity in Diversity
Mission and Care for the Poor in Sydney Anglican Perspective
Sydney Anglican theology has a number of distinctive motifs, including its ecclesiology and theology of the gospel. These motifs inform a theology of mission as proclamation that stands in a tradition that places a priority on evangelism. Where does such a missiological construction locate a theology of care for the poor? Answers to this question were explored through semi-structured interviews with faculty at Moore Theological College. The signi…
A Scoping Review of Psychological Assessment in Mission and Ministry Candidates
Missionary attrition together with the problem of institutional child sexual abuse in the Church has highlighted the importance of a standardized psychological assessment process for mission and ministry candidates. This scoping review aimed to examine peer-reviewed publications, from 2001 to 2021, which focused on the psychological assessment of ministry and cross-cultural mission candidates, to find knowledge gaps that exist. Using scoping revi…
Psychological Assessment of Cross-Cultural Mission Candidates in Australasia
This study surveyed psychological assessment practice for cross-cultural mission candidates in Australasia. It hypothesized that there would be a difference in knowledge about assessments between mission chief executive officers (CEOs), member care specialists, and psychological assessors. Sixty-nine mission organization staff and nine independent assessors responded to an online survey about psychological assessment, compliance with Australian l…
Isn’t a Call Enough? What Is the Purpose of Psychologically Assessing Cross-Cultural Mission Workers
Psychological assessments are routinely conducted by many cross-cultural mission organizations when recruiting candidates. This qualitative research aimed to clarify the purpose of these assessments, to provide a way forward to improving them. It is part of a larger project which has investigated the use of psychological assessments in the Australasian region. A subsample of six chief executive officers (CEOs), six-member care specialists, and si…
Development of self-report measures of physical, mental, and emotional fatigability
Chronicity rhetoric in health and welfare systems inhibits patient recovery
Fibromyalgia is a leading cause of disability in the UK and worldwide, but is difficult to diagnose and treat due to unclear pathogenesis and diverse and fluctuating symptoms. Although various treatment modalities are recommended, no treatments have been proven to effect sustainable improvement or recovery, and patients are typically dissatisfied with their care. Increasingly, biopsychosocial services are being developed, that aim to take a multi…
To see or not to see? Rethinking worldview in missiological education
The concept of worldview has been employed as a framework for interpreting cultural and religious differences in missiological praxis, yet its definition and usefulness are contested. This article asks: How should the concept of worldview be used in missiological education, if at all? Drawing on a critical literature review spanning missiology and related disciplines, the paper examines three central questions—what worldview refers to, its relati…
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