Robert Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3843751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University, Japan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4553-5415 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Stratification to Reconfiguration
This essay argues for a shift in sociolegal scholarship on lawyers’ careers from a framework centered on stratification to one attentive to reconfiguration under changing institutional conditions. Building on the findings of the After the JD project and related scholarship, we suggest that enduring hierarchies of race, gender, class, and professional prestige are increasingly reorganized through fragmentation of the professional field, technologi…
Using constructions to measure developmental language complexity
Models used to explain phenomena are necessarily finer grained than the models used to measure them. In language study, the measures used to assess development (e.g., readability indices) rely on models of language that are too coarse grained to be interpreted in a linguistic framework and so do not participate in linguistic accounts of development. This study argues that the constructionist approaches provide a framework for the development of a…
A Participatory, State–Community–Academic Model to Improve Pregnancy Outcomes in Texas
BACKGROUND: While the Texas infant mortality rate (IMR) is below the Healthy People 2020 objective (5.7 per 1,000 live births), stark differences in IMR are seen across Texas communities. Health indicators for the state suggest important missed opportunities for improving maternal and infant outcomes. The Healthy Families initiative was a collaboration between a Texas state agency, community partners, and academic institutions to understand how e…
The Detroit–Windsor Border and Covid-19
This brief essay chronicles the closure of the Detroit–Windsor tunnel during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of the Canadian government’s containment measures in the spring/ summer of 2020 from the authors’ perspectives as both residents and researchers living in the border city of Windsor, Ontario (Canada). Drawing upon crossings in March and June 2020 as well as reflections on the urban cross-border context that Windsor and Detroit facilitate, th…
Monitoring Environmental Parameters with Oil and Gas Developments in the Permian Basin, USA
This study evaluates the groundwater qualities and environmental changes to obtain information on the groundwater contamination in the Permian Basin, Texas. Coupled with the U.S. government's open data, these analyses can identify regions where environmental change could have affected groundwater quality. A total of thirty-six wells were selected within the six counties: Andrews, Martin, Ector, Midland, Crane, and Upton. Spatial distribution maps…
Applying the perceived probability of risk and bias toward optimism
Competition, education and assessment
In this article, we investigate competition in education, asking if it is good or bad, and especially if it is old and necessary or new and questionable. Using philological methods, we trace the history of competition and relate it to contemporary educational ideas. In history and modern pedagogical research, competition has a ‘dark side’ as well as energising qualities. We question the inseparability of competition and education, and, weighing u…
Economic Religion and Environmental Religion
The “economic religions” of the modern age, including Marxism, the American progressive-era “gospel of efficiency,” and the beliefs of the economic mainstream of the second half of the twentieth century, shared the conviction that economic progress—however it might best be achieved—would save the world. In the last decades of the twentieth century, however, economic religion was increasingly challenged by a new secular faith, “environmental relig…
A contribution to the history of assessment
Assessment in education is a recent phenomenon. Although there were counterparts in former epochs, the term assessment only began to be spoken about in education after the Second World War; and, since that time, views, strategies and concerns over assessment have proliferated according to an uncomfortable dynamic. We fear that, increasingly, education is assessment-led rather than learning-led and ‘counter to what is desired’ in an ugly judgement…
Expanding the Role of Connectionism in SLA Theory
In this article, I explore how connectionism might expand its role in second language acquisition (SLA) theory by showing how some symbolic models of bilingual and second language lexical memory can be reduced to a biologically realistic (i.e., neurally plausible) connectionist model. This integration or hybridization of the two models follows the principles of what philosophers of science call intertheoretic reduction. Such a reduction serves tw…
The Allied Bombing of German Cities during the Second World War from a Canadian Perspective
This paper addresses the history of the legality of the aerial bombardment of civilians, from the earliest attempts at legalization, through the inter-war period and into the actual bombing campaigns of the Second World War. We then chart the paucity of discussion of the legality of said bombing both during the war and throughout the Cold War, and finish with the occasional interruptions to the legal silence since 1992 in Canada and elsewhere
Racial Residential Segregation and Rates of Gonorrhea in the United States, 2003–2007
Objectives. In the United States, Black persons are disproportionately affected by sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including gonorrhea. Individual behaviors do not fully explain these racial disparities. We explored the association of racial residential segregation with gonorrhea rates among Black persons and hypothesized that specific dimensions of segregation would be associated with gonorrhea rates. Methods. We used 2003 to 2007 nation…
Toward a history of rigour
Though a cornerstone of all research and evaluation, rigour in scholarship is a relatively recent concept, which is poorly defined and never interrogated. This article traces the dark history of the idea, beginning with intolerance, harshness and punishment, and slowly rising to something admirable in the industrial period, whereupon it is immediately seen in opposition to creative method. The text argues that, in the arts and humanities, rigour …
Vigilance, expectancy, and noise
Talamas et al. (1999), Ferré et al. (2006) and Sunderman and Kroll (2006) exposed participants to first-language/second-language (L1/L2) pairs of words and asked them to decide whether the second word was the correct translation of the first. In the critical condition, the L2 word was either the translation of the L1 word ( man → hombre) or a form-relative of the translation ( man → hambre). Less fluent speakers showed higher recognition latencie…
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
Social Cohesion in Australia
Australia's reputation as a successful large scale immigrant-receiving nation is well formed. In the latest wave, not only have millions of diverse people arrived in the post-war period from 1945 to a growing, high income, good employment economy; but the society absorbing them has remained stable and cohesive. This is not to say that it has been entirely plain sailing - sensitive debate, isolated interethnic violence, and the degree of migrant g…
The Television Series * Terry Nation * Jimmy Perry and David Croft * Alan Clarke * Andrew Davies * Lynda La Plante
Who is responsible for – who has authority over – a television series? This is just one key question which Jonathan Bignell's and Sarah Cardwell's The Television Series sets out to address. Following a period in which the death of the author has been much vaunted, this new series tackles head-on the issue of authorial contribution, not only of writers, historically privileged in television, but also of other production personnel. Each book is flu…
Legalizing Gender Inequality
Law, markets, and the institutional construction of gender inequality in pay Part I. Theory and Method: 2. Legal theories of sex-based pay discrimination 3. Toward an organizational theory of gender inequality in pay 4. Methodological approach: law cases, case studies, and critical empiricism Part II. The Case Studies. Section A. Public Sector Organizations: 5. Paternalism and politics in a university pay system: Christensen v. State of Iowa 6. B…
What is the purpose of neonatal drug testing? Towards a rational social policy
The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke: The Correspondence of John Locke: In Eight Volumes, Vol. 2: Letters Nos. 462–848
The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, Vol. 1: 1690-1713
Old Argenta High
Racial Residential Segregation and Rates of Gonorrhea in the United States, 2003–2007
Objectives. In the United States, Black persons are disproportionately affected by sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including gonorrhea. Individual behaviors do not fully explain these racial disparities. We explored the association of racial residential segregation with gonorrhea rates among Black persons and hypothesized that specific dimensions of segregation would be associated with gonorrhea rates. Methods. We used 2003 to 2007 nation…
Applying the perceived probability of risk and bias toward optimism
Expanding the Role of Connectionism in SLA Theory
In this article, I explore how connectionism might expand its role in second language acquisition (SLA) theory by showing how some symbolic models of bilingual and second language lexical memory can be reduced to a biologically realistic (i.e., neurally plausible) connectionist model. This integration or hybridization of the two models follows the principles of what philosophers of science call intertheoretic reduction. Such a reduction serves tw…
Toward a history of rigour
Though a cornerstone of all research and evaluation, rigour in scholarship is a relatively recent concept, which is poorly defined and never interrogated. This article traces the dark history of the idea, beginning with intolerance, harshness and punishment, and slowly rising to something admirable in the industrial period, whereupon it is immediately seen in opposition to creative method. The text argues that, in the arts and humanities, rigour …
Vigilance, expectancy, and noise
Talamas et al. (1999), Ferré et al. (2006) and Sunderman and Kroll (2006) exposed participants to first-language/second-language (L1/L2) pairs of words and asked them to decide whether the second word was the correct translation of the first. In the critical condition, the L2 word was either the translation of the L1 word ( man → hombre) or a form-relative of the translation ( man → hambre). Less fluent speakers showed higher recognition latencie…
Old Argenta High
The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, Vol. 1: 1690-1713
The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke: The Correspondence of John Locke: In Eight Volumes, Vol. 2: Letters Nos. 462–848
What is the purpose of neonatal drug testing? Towards a rational social policy
Legalizing Gender Inequality
Law, markets, and the institutional construction of gender inequality in pay Part I. Theory and Method: 2. Legal theories of sex-based pay discrimination 3. Toward an organizational theory of gender inequality in pay 4. Methodological approach: law cases, case studies, and critical empiricism Part II. The Case Studies. Section A. Public Sector Organizations: 5. Paternalism and politics in a university pay system: Christensen v. State of Iowa 6. B…
Social Cohesion in Australia
Australia's reputation as a successful large scale immigrant-receiving nation is well formed. In the latest wave, not only have millions of diverse people arrived in the post-war period from 1945 to a growing, high income, good employment economy; but the society absorbing them has remained stable and cohesive. This is not to say that it has been entirely plain sailing - sensitive debate, isolated interethnic violence, and the degree of migrant g…
The Television Series * Terry Nation * Jimmy Perry and David Croft * Alan Clarke * Andrew Davies * Lynda La Plante
Who is responsible for – who has authority over – a television series? This is just one key question which Jonathan Bignell's and Sarah Cardwell's The Television Series sets out to address. Following a period in which the death of the author has been much vaunted, this new series tackles head-on the issue of authorial contribution, not only of writers, historically privileged in television, but also of other production personnel. Each book is flu…
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
Toward a history of rigour
Though a cornerstone of all research and evaluation, rigour in scholarship is a relatively recent concept, which is poorly defined and never interrogated. This article traces the dark history of the idea, beginning with intolerance, harshness and punishment, and slowly rising to something admirable in the industrial period, whereupon it is immediately seen in opposition to creative method. The text argues that, in the arts and humanities, rigour …
Vigilance, expectancy, and noise
Talamas et al. (1999), Ferré et al. (2006) and Sunderman and Kroll (2006) exposed participants to first-language/second-language (L1/L2) pairs of words and asked them to decide whether the second word was the correct translation of the first. In the critical condition, the L2 word was either the translation of the L1 word ( man → hombre) or a form-relative of the translation ( man → hambre). Less fluent speakers showed higher recognition latencie…
The Allied Bombing of German Cities during the Second World War from a Canadian Perspective
This paper addresses the history of the legality of the aerial bombardment of civilians, from the earliest attempts at legalization, through the inter-war period and into the actual bombing campaigns of the Second World War. We then chart the paucity of discussion of the legality of said bombing both during the war and throughout the Cold War, and finish with the occasional interruptions to the legal silence since 1992 in Canada and elsewhere
Racial Residential Segregation and Rates of Gonorrhea in the United States, 2003–2007
Objectives. In the United States, Black persons are disproportionately affected by sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including gonorrhea. Individual behaviors do not fully explain these racial disparities. We explored the association of racial residential segregation with gonorrhea rates among Black persons and hypothesized that specific dimensions of segregation would be associated with gonorrhea rates. Methods. We used 2003 to 2007 nation…
Expanding the Role of Connectionism in SLA Theory
In this article, I explore how connectionism might expand its role in second language acquisition (SLA) theory by showing how some symbolic models of bilingual and second language lexical memory can be reduced to a biologically realistic (i.e., neurally plausible) connectionist model. This integration or hybridization of the two models follows the principles of what philosophers of science call intertheoretic reduction. Such a reduction serves tw…
Economic Religion and Environmental Religion
The “economic religions” of the modern age, including Marxism, the American progressive-era “gospel of efficiency,” and the beliefs of the economic mainstream of the second half of the twentieth century, shared the conviction that economic progress—however it might best be achieved—would save the world. In the last decades of the twentieth century, however, economic religion was increasingly challenged by a new secular faith, “environmental relig…
A contribution to the history of assessment
Assessment in education is a recent phenomenon. Although there were counterparts in former epochs, the term assessment only began to be spoken about in education after the Second World War; and, since that time, views, strategies and concerns over assessment have proliferated according to an uncomfortable dynamic. We fear that, increasingly, education is assessment-led rather than learning-led and ‘counter to what is desired’ in an ugly judgement…
Competition, education and assessment
In this article, we investigate competition in education, asking if it is good or bad, and especially if it is old and necessary or new and questionable. Using philological methods, we trace the history of competition and relate it to contemporary educational ideas. In history and modern pedagogical research, competition has a ‘dark side’ as well as energising qualities. We question the inseparability of competition and education, and, weighing u…
Applying the perceived probability of risk and bias toward optimism
The Detroit–Windsor Border and Covid-19
This brief essay chronicles the closure of the Detroit–Windsor tunnel during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of the Canadian government’s containment measures in the spring/ summer of 2020 from the authors’ perspectives as both residents and researchers living in the border city of Windsor, Ontario (Canada). Drawing upon crossings in March and June 2020 as well as reflections on the urban cross-border context that Windsor and Detroit facilitate, th…
Monitoring Environmental Parameters with Oil and Gas Developments in the Permian Basin, USA
This study evaluates the groundwater qualities and environmental changes to obtain information on the groundwater contamination in the Permian Basin, Texas. Coupled with the U.S. government's open data, these analyses can identify regions where environmental change could have affected groundwater quality. A total of thirty-six wells were selected within the six counties: Andrews, Martin, Ector, Midland, Crane, and Upton. Spatial distribution maps…
A Participatory, State–Community–Academic Model to Improve Pregnancy Outcomes in Texas
BACKGROUND: While the Texas infant mortality rate (IMR) is below the Healthy People 2020 objective (5.7 per 1,000 live births), stark differences in IMR are seen across Texas communities. Health indicators for the state suggest important missed opportunities for improving maternal and infant outcomes. The Healthy Families initiative was a collaboration between a Texas state agency, community partners, and academic institutions to understand how e…
Using constructions to measure developmental language complexity
Models used to explain phenomena are necessarily finer grained than the models used to measure them. In language study, the measures used to assess development (e.g., readability indices) rely on models of language that are too coarse grained to be interpreted in a linguistic framework and so do not participate in linguistic accounts of development. This study argues that the constructionist approaches provide a framework for the development of a…
From Stratification to Reconfiguration
This essay argues for a shift in sociolegal scholarship on lawyers’ careers from a framework centered on stratification to one attentive to reconfiguration under changing institutional conditions. Building on the findings of the After the JD project and related scholarship, we suggest that enduring hierarchies of race, gender, class, and professional prestige are increasingly reorganized through fragmentation of the professional field, technologi…
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