Stephen Burgess
Biographic Data
| ID | 5165913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Burgess |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Burgess |
| SIGNATURE | BURGESS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8998-9772 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A study of the enablers and barriers to the collection of sociodemographic data by public health units in Ontario, Canada during the Covid-19 pandemic
A combination of provincial and local organizational strategies including supportive data systems, training, and frameworks for data collection and use, are needed to normalize and scale up SDD collection by local health units beyond the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
Thank You to Reviewers
Identifying social impact from supplemental events: A research framework
This paper develops a framework for identifying and fostering social impact for ‘supplemental’ (cultural, sporting and other) events which run in tandem with major sporting events. The framework links the aims of supplemental events with a classification of event activities in terms of achieved social impact and potential social benefits. Data supporting the study were collected from over 150 interviews conducted with tourists and local attendees…
Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: Combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies
BACKGROUND: Low-risk limits recommended for alcohol consumption vary substantially across different national guidelines. To define thresholds associated with lowest risk for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease, we studied individual-participant data from 599 912 current drinkers without previous cardiovascular disease. METHODS: We did a combined analysis of individual-participant data from three large-scale data sources in 19 high-inco…
Qualitative Information: Representation
Information representation is a term that is not commonly found across the qualitative geographical methods literature. It is mostly used in geographic information systems (GIS) and the related field of geovisualization. These share practices and literatures with visualization as it has emerged in the natural sciences and computer sciences and have been identified as quantitative practices embedded in positivism. This entry examines how the juxta…
Interpreting findings from Mendelian randomization using the MR-Egger method
Mendelian randomization-Egger (MR-Egger) is an analysis method for Mendelian randomization using summarized genetic data. MR-Egger consists of three parts: (1) a test for directional pleiotropy, (2) a test for a causal effect, and (3) an estimate of the causal effect. While conventional analysis methods for Mendelian randomization assume that all genetic variants satisfy the instrumental variable assumptions, the MR-Egger method is able to assess…
Consistent Estimation in Mendelian Randomization with Some Invalid Instruments Using a Weighted Median Estimator
Developments in genome‐wide association studies and the increasing availability of summary genetic association data have made application of Mendelian randomization relatively straightforward. However, obtaining reliable results from a Mendelian randomization investigation remains problematic, as the conventional inverse‐variance weighted method only gives consistent estimates if all of the genetic variants in the analysis are valid instrumental …
A Model for Evaluating Mobile Device Adoption in Community Sports Organizations
Few studies have been conducted into the use of mobile technologies at community-based organizations. Community sport organizations (CSOs) typically operate within a defined geographic area and rely on the primary support of volunteers. Based on the characteristics of mobile-based information services, this article proposes a model that provides a guide for CSOs to classify mobile applications through four mobile utility factors and three innovat…
Association of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity With Mortality
IMPORTANCE The prevalence of cardiometabolic multimorbidity is increasing. OBJECTIVE To estimate reductions in life expectancy associated with cardiometabolic multimorbidity. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Age-and sex-adjusted mortality rates and hazard ratios (HRs) were calculated using individual participant data from the Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration (689 300 participants; 91 cohorts; years of baseline surveys: 1960-2007; latest morta…
Mendelian randomization with invalid instruments: Effect estimation and bias detection through Egger regression
BACKGROUND: The number of Mendelian randomization analyses including large numbers of genetic variants is rapidly increasing. This is due to the proliferation of genome-wide association studies, and the desire to obtain more precise estimates of causal effects. However, some genetic variants may not be valid instrumental variables, in particular due to them having more than one proximal phenotypic correlate (pleiotropy). METHODS: We view Mendelia…
Mendelian Randomization Analysis With Multiple Genetic Variants Using Summarized Data
Genome‐wide association studies, which typically report regression coefficients summarizing the associations of many genetic variants with various traits, are potentially a powerful source of data for Mendelian randomization investigations. We demonstrate how such coefficients from multiple variants can be combined in a Mendelian randomization analysis to estimate the causal effect of a risk factor on an outcome. The bias and efficiency of estima…
A Lost Cause Recouped: Peace Enforcement and State-Building in Somalia
A constitutional convention with representation from clan elders adopted a new constitution for Somalia on 1 August 2012, which paved the way for the election of a federal parliament and a new president of the Federal Republic of Somalia. This article examines two opposing explanations for this progress in a country long dismissed as a lost cause. Bottom-up stability, with grassroots equilibrium, is argued to be more likely to bring representatio…
This Means War? China's Scramble for Minerals and Resource Nationalism in Southern Africa
The tendency for rising powers to seek control of resource markets is being repeated in Southern Africa, where rising powers led by China are competing for strategic minerals. This could lead to market failure, shutting out Western companies. However, competition does not mean that armed conflict will occur. The global reach of the United States is such that it can take measures short of war to guarantee the flow of minerals. China will be at a s…
The African Standby Force, Genocide, and International Relations Theory
In launching the African Standby Force (ASF), African leaders over-promised to stop genocide, given their lack of political will, the weak capacity of their states, and the weak military capability of the Force's subregional brigades. The explanation lies in a combination of South African idealism and determination to exert continental leadership and the desire of African leaders to sustain or increase aid to their under-resourced militaries. Sou…
We Can Get Something More Complete: Participatory Budgeting to Enhance Sustainability
This is a study of participatory budgeting, where citizens participate in local government decision-making, leading to enhanced sustainability
Understanding Neighbourhoods, Communities and Environments: New Approaches for Social Work Research
This article discusses some new ways in which social work research can explore the interaction between neighbourhoods and child and adult wellbeing. The authors note that social work practices are often criticised for taking an individualistic approach and paying too little attention to the service user's environment. The article uses examples of research projects from Chile, the United States of America and Wales, to discuss the use of spatially…
Effective Web Presence Solutions for Small Businesses: Strategies for Successful Implementation
"This book provides small businesses with a holistic approach to implementing their Web presence"--Provided by publisher
South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme: A Historical and International Perspective
This article describes important historical roots and factors that influenced the evolution of South Africa's past covert chemical and biological warfare (CBW) programme, Project Coast. Some of the complex international linkages developed under the auspices of Project Coast are also discussed. The conclusion discusses some of the characteristics of the programme that help to explain these widely varying assessments
The Influence of Speech Perception, Oral Language Ability, the Home Literacy Environment, and Prereading Knowledge on the Growth of Phonological Sensitivity: A 1‐year longitudinal study
L'A. rend compte des resultats d'une etude longitudinale sur le developpement de la sensibilite phonologique dans le cadre de l'apprentissage de la lecture chez les enfants d'âge prescolaire. Le but de l'etude est de determiner si les differences interindividuelles dans le developpement de la sensibilite phonologique peuvent s'expliquer uniquement par les differences individuelles dans la connaissance precoce de la langue orale, et dans l'influen…
Contributions of Phonological Awareness and Rapid Automatic Naming Ability to the Growth of Word-Reading Skills in Second-to Fifth-Grade Children
A longitudinal-correlational design was used to test the hypothesis that individual differences in rapid automatic naming make a unique contribution to explaining the growth of orthographic reading skills in 2 overlapping periods of development: second to fourth grade, and third to fifth grade. Separate analyses were done on the entire sample of approximately 200 children as well as on subsamples selected for impairment in word-reading developmen…
Pursuing an Elusive Quarry: The Battle of Cane Hill, Arkansas
Women's voice and agency in rural Africa: Small-scale communal farmers in Zimbabwe
Afro-Marxist Regimes: Ideology and Public Policy
Understanding Neighbourhoods, Communities and Environments: New Approaches for Social Work Research
This article discusses some new ways in which social work research can explore the interaction between neighbourhoods and child and adult wellbeing. The authors note that social work practices are often criticised for taking an individualistic approach and paying too little attention to the service user's environment. The article uses examples of research projects from Chile, the United States of America and Wales, to discuss the use of spatially…
South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme: A Historical and International Perspective
This article describes important historical roots and factors that influenced the evolution of South Africa's past covert chemical and biological warfare (CBW) programme, Project Coast. Some of the complex international linkages developed under the auspices of Project Coast are also discussed. The conclusion discusses some of the characteristics of the programme that help to explain these widely varying assessments
This Means War? China's Scramble for Minerals and Resource Nationalism in Southern Africa
The tendency for rising powers to seek control of resource markets is being repeated in Southern Africa, where rising powers led by China are competing for strategic minerals. This could lead to market failure, shutting out Western companies. However, competition does not mean that armed conflict will occur. The global reach of the United States is such that it can take measures short of war to guarantee the flow of minerals. China will be at a s…
A Lost Cause Recouped: Peace Enforcement and State-Building in Somalia
A constitutional convention with representation from clan elders adopted a new constitution for Somalia on 1 August 2012, which paved the way for the election of a federal parliament and a new president of the Federal Republic of Somalia. This article examines two opposing explanations for this progress in a country long dismissed as a lost cause. Bottom-up stability, with grassroots equilibrium, is argued to be more likely to bring representatio…
The African Standby Force, Genocide, and International Relations Theory
In launching the African Standby Force (ASF), African leaders over-promised to stop genocide, given their lack of political will, the weak capacity of their states, and the weak military capability of the Force's subregional brigades. The explanation lies in a combination of South African idealism and determination to exert continental leadership and the desire of African leaders to sustain or increase aid to their under-resourced militaries. Sou…
The Influence of Speech Perception, Oral Language Ability, the Home Literacy Environment, and Prereading Knowledge on the Growth of Phonological Sensitivity: A 1‐year longitudinal study
L'A. rend compte des resultats d'une etude longitudinale sur le developpement de la sensibilite phonologique dans le cadre de l'apprentissage de la lecture chez les enfants d'âge prescolaire. Le but de l'etude est de determiner si les differences interindividuelles dans le developpement de la sensibilite phonologique peuvent s'expliquer uniquement par les differences individuelles dans la connaissance precoce de la langue orale, et dans l'influen…
Afro-Marxist Regimes: Ideology and Public Policy
Women's voice and agency in rural Africa: Small-scale communal farmers in Zimbabwe
Contributions of Phonological Awareness and Rapid Automatic Naming Ability to the Growth of Word-Reading Skills in Second-to Fifth-Grade Children
A longitudinal-correlational design was used to test the hypothesis that individual differences in rapid automatic naming make a unique contribution to explaining the growth of orthographic reading skills in 2 overlapping periods of development: second to fourth grade, and third to fifth grade. Separate analyses were done on the entire sample of approximately 200 children as well as on subsamples selected for impairment in word-reading developmen…
Pursuing an Elusive Quarry: The Battle of Cane Hill, Arkansas
The Influence of Speech Perception, Oral Language Ability, the Home Literacy Environment, and Prereading Knowledge on the Growth of Phonological Sensitivity: A 1‐year longitudinal study
L'A. rend compte des resultats d'une etude longitudinale sur le developpement de la sensibilite phonologique dans le cadre de l'apprentissage de la lecture chez les enfants d'âge prescolaire. Le but de l'etude est de determiner si les differences interindividuelles dans le developpement de la sensibilite phonologique peuvent s'expliquer uniquement par les differences individuelles dans la connaissance precoce de la langue orale, et dans l'influen…
South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme: A Historical and International Perspective
This article describes important historical roots and factors that influenced the evolution of South Africa's past covert chemical and biological warfare (CBW) programme, Project Coast. Some of the complex international linkages developed under the auspices of Project Coast are also discussed. The conclusion discusses some of the characteristics of the programme that help to explain these widely varying assessments
Effective Web Presence Solutions for Small Businesses: Strategies for Successful Implementation
"This book provides small businesses with a holistic approach to implementing their Web presence"--Provided by publisher
The African Standby Force, Genocide, and International Relations Theory
In launching the African Standby Force (ASF), African leaders over-promised to stop genocide, given their lack of political will, the weak capacity of their states, and the weak military capability of the Force's subregional brigades. The explanation lies in a combination of South African idealism and determination to exert continental leadership and the desire of African leaders to sustain or increase aid to their under-resourced militaries. Sou…
We Can Get Something More Complete: Participatory Budgeting to Enhance Sustainability
This is a study of participatory budgeting, where citizens participate in local government decision-making, leading to enhanced sustainability
Understanding Neighbourhoods, Communities and Environments: New Approaches for Social Work Research
This article discusses some new ways in which social work research can explore the interaction between neighbourhoods and child and adult wellbeing. The authors note that social work practices are often criticised for taking an individualistic approach and paying too little attention to the service user's environment. The article uses examples of research projects from Chile, the United States of America and Wales, to discuss the use of spatially…
Mendelian Randomization Analysis With Multiple Genetic Variants Using Summarized Data
Genome‐wide association studies, which typically report regression coefficients summarizing the associations of many genetic variants with various traits, are potentially a powerful source of data for Mendelian randomization investigations. We demonstrate how such coefficients from multiple variants can be combined in a Mendelian randomization analysis to estimate the causal effect of a risk factor on an outcome. The bias and efficiency of estima…
A Lost Cause Recouped: Peace Enforcement and State-Building in Somalia
A constitutional convention with representation from clan elders adopted a new constitution for Somalia on 1 August 2012, which paved the way for the election of a federal parliament and a new president of the Federal Republic of Somalia. This article examines two opposing explanations for this progress in a country long dismissed as a lost cause. Bottom-up stability, with grassroots equilibrium, is argued to be more likely to bring representatio…
This Means War? China's Scramble for Minerals and Resource Nationalism in Southern Africa
The tendency for rising powers to seek control of resource markets is being repeated in Southern Africa, where rising powers led by China are competing for strategic minerals. This could lead to market failure, shutting out Western companies. However, competition does not mean that armed conflict will occur. The global reach of the United States is such that it can take measures short of war to guarantee the flow of minerals. China will be at a s…
Association of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity With Mortality
IMPORTANCE The prevalence of cardiometabolic multimorbidity is increasing. OBJECTIVE To estimate reductions in life expectancy associated with cardiometabolic multimorbidity. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Age-and sex-adjusted mortality rates and hazard ratios (HRs) were calculated using individual participant data from the Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration (689 300 participants; 91 cohorts; years of baseline surveys: 1960-2007; latest morta…
Mendelian randomization with invalid instruments: Effect estimation and bias detection through Egger regression
BACKGROUND: The number of Mendelian randomization analyses including large numbers of genetic variants is rapidly increasing. This is due to the proliferation of genome-wide association studies, and the desire to obtain more precise estimates of causal effects. However, some genetic variants may not be valid instrumental variables, in particular due to them having more than one proximal phenotypic correlate (pleiotropy). METHODS: We view Mendelia…
Consistent Estimation in Mendelian Randomization with Some Invalid Instruments Using a Weighted Median Estimator
Developments in genome‐wide association studies and the increasing availability of summary genetic association data have made application of Mendelian randomization relatively straightforward. However, obtaining reliable results from a Mendelian randomization investigation remains problematic, as the conventional inverse‐variance weighted method only gives consistent estimates if all of the genetic variants in the analysis are valid instrumental …
A Model for Evaluating Mobile Device Adoption in Community Sports Organizations
Few studies have been conducted into the use of mobile technologies at community-based organizations. Community sport organizations (CSOs) typically operate within a defined geographic area and rely on the primary support of volunteers. Based on the characteristics of mobile-based information services, this article proposes a model that provides a guide for CSOs to classify mobile applications through four mobile utility factors and three innovat…
Qualitative Information: Representation
Information representation is a term that is not commonly found across the qualitative geographical methods literature. It is mostly used in geographic information systems (GIS) and the related field of geovisualization. These share practices and literatures with visualization as it has emerged in the natural sciences and computer sciences and have been identified as quantitative practices embedded in positivism. This entry examines how the juxta…
Interpreting findings from Mendelian randomization using the MR-Egger method
Mendelian randomization-Egger (MR-Egger) is an analysis method for Mendelian randomization using summarized genetic data. MR-Egger consists of three parts: (1) a test for directional pleiotropy, (2) a test for a causal effect, and (3) an estimate of the causal effect. While conventional analysis methods for Mendelian randomization assume that all genetic variants satisfy the instrumental variable assumptions, the MR-Egger method is able to assess…
Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: Combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies
BACKGROUND: Low-risk limits recommended for alcohol consumption vary substantially across different national guidelines. To define thresholds associated with lowest risk for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease, we studied individual-participant data from 599 912 current drinkers without previous cardiovascular disease. METHODS: We did a combined analysis of individual-participant data from three large-scale data sources in 19 high-inco…
Identifying social impact from supplemental events: A research framework
This paper develops a framework for identifying and fostering social impact for ‘supplemental’ (cultural, sporting and other) events which run in tandem with major sporting events. The framework links the aims of supplemental events with a classification of event activities in terms of achieved social impact and potential social benefits. Data supporting the study were collected from over 150 interviews conducted with tourists and local attendees…
A study of the enablers and barriers to the collection of sociodemographic data by public health units in Ontario, Canada during the Covid-19 pandemic
A combination of provincial and local organizational strategies including supportive data systems, training, and frameworks for data collection and use, are needed to normalize and scale up SDD collection by local health units beyond the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
Thank You to Reviewers
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