Robert Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 5239196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lethbridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1401-3828 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 67 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Self-Scoring as Neoliberal Self-Care in the Early Films of Jim Jarmusch
Characters in Jim Jarmusch’s films often play music for themselves during moments of boredom, transition, or stasis, and three films from his early career—Permanent Vacation (1980), Stranger Than Paradise (1984), and Mystery Train (1989)—are no exception. What unites these films further is their setting: all three were shot in, and feature characters attempting to navigate, US cities ravaged by the austerity politics of neoliberal urbanism. In th…
Distinctive and Shared Health Needs of Minority Communities by Immigrant Status
Gender neutral HPV vaccination programs: Reconsidering policies to expand cancer prevention globally
Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is responsible for many cancers in both women and men. Cervical cancer, caused by HPV, is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide, even though it is one of the most preventable cancers. Prevention efforts include HPV vaccination, however these programs remain nascent in many countries. In 2020 the World Health Assembly adopted the Global Strategy for cervical cancer elimination including a goal to …
Practitioners respond to Sarah Mercer's ‘Psychology for language learning: Spare a thought for the teacher’
Mercer (2018) makes a compelling argument for the urgent need to further research teacher psychology, focussing on language teachers. While there has been considerable research on language learner psychology and with considerable focus on individual differences (IDs), there have been comparatively few studies into language teacher psychology. Mercer (2018, p. 506) highlights that teachers are among the most important stake holders in the language…
Nutritional quality of crops in a high CO 2 world: An agenda for research and technology development
Essential nutrients, including carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals, are required for human health and development. Inadequate intake can negatively affect development and result in a wide range of adverse health outcomes. Rice, maize, and wheat provide over 60% of the world’s food energy intake. Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), water, nitrogen, and soil micronutrients are the basis of this plant material. Since 1850–1900, CO …
The humanistic burden of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in Europe: A real-world survey linking patient clinical factors to patient and caregiver burden
As patients' functionality deteriorates as measured by the ECOG-PS, so do their outcomes related to health utility, work productivity, activity impairment and HRQoL. This deterioration is also reflected in increased caregiver burden and activity impairment. There is a need for interventions to maintain patients' physical function to relieve the humanistic burden of both patients and caregivers
Species abundance and temporal variation of arbovirus vectors in Brownsville, Texas
The recent outbreaks of the dengue fever and West Nile viruses and the looming threats of the Zika and chikungunya viruses highlight the importance of establishing effective, proactive arboviral surveillance in communities at high risk of transmission, such as those on the Texas–Mexico border. Currently, there are no approved human vaccines available for these mosquito-borne diseases, so entomological control and case management are the only know…
Estranged Domesticity: Science Fiction and the Domestic Melodrama
Poverty, inequality, and increased consumption of high calorie food: Experimental evidence for a causal link
Practical Intelligence
Practical intelligence is the ability of individuals to solve real world problems, including being able to size up situations and to determine effectively how to achieve goals.
Enhancing climate change adaptation: Strategies for community engagement and university-community partnerships
Savouring morality. Moral satisfaction renders food of ethical origin subjectively tastier
Business Leadership Development in China
This book argues that China’s businesses, and hence China’s future economic development, face a huge crisis in that there is a considerable "leadership gap" in China, with a shortage of competent business leaders, at a time when new leadership skills are required urgently, as China’s businesses evolve rapidly and engage ever more with the global economy. Moreover, the book argues, training is an undervalued and often marginalised activity in Chin…
Maintaining and losing control during internet gambling: A qualitative study of gamblers’ experiences
This paper provides an in-depth exploration of the psychosocial factors and processes related to maintaining and losing control during internet gambling. It explores features of internet gambling leading to loss of control, control strategies used by internet gamblers, and the perceived utility of online responsible gambling measures. Interviews with 25 moderate risk and problem internet gamblers yielded rich first-person accounts analysed using …
How risky is Internet gambling? A comparison of subgroups of Internet gamblers based on problem gambling status
Internet gambling offers unique features that may facilitate the development or exacerbation of gambling disorders. Higher rates of disordered gambling have been found amongst Internet than with land-based gamblers; however little research has explored whether Internet disordered gamblers are a distinct subgroup. The current study compared problem with non-problem and at-risk Internet gamblers to understand further why some Internet gamblers expe…
Correspondence of John Wallis (1616–1703), Vol. 3: October 1668–1671
A comparative profile of the Internet gambler: Demographic characteristics, game-play patterns, and problem gambling status
Overcoming the methodological limitations of many previous studies, the present study employs a two-phased approach to data collection, and a weighted approach to data analysis, thereby obtaining survey data from 1954 Internet gamblers and 5967 non-Internet gamblers. Using this data, the authors examine: (1) the comparative demographic and health characteristics of Internet versus land-based gamblers; (2) the characteristics predictive of Interne…
Trans-historical Apocalypse
Stacked Deck: An Effective, School-Based Program for the Prevention of Problem Gambling
HIV Risk Associated With Gay Bathhouses and Sex Clubs: Findings From 2 Seattle Surveys of Factors Related to HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections
Objectives. We studied the HIV risk behaviors of patrons of the 3 commercial sex venues for men in Seattle, Washington. Methods. We conducted cross-sectional, observational surveys in 2004 and 2006 by use of time–venue cluster sampling with probability proportional to size. Surveys were anonymous and self-reported. We analyzed the 2004 data to identify patron characteristics and predictors of risk behaviors and compared the 2 survey populations. …
Designing a Longitudinal Cohort Study of Gambling in Alberta: Rationale, Methods, and Challenges
Proximity to point sources of environmental mercury release as a predictor of autism prevalence
Problem gambling on the internet: Implications for internet gambling policy in North America
The proportion of North American gamblers who choose to gamble on the internet is increasing at a dramatic rate. Unfortunately, however, relatively little is known about the characteristics of these individuals or their propensity for problem gambling. Past studies predict that internet gamblers are especially at risk for developing gambling problems and that a substantial proportion of them already can be properly classified as problem gamblers.…
How Much Money Do You Spend on Gambling?’ The Comparative Validity of Question Wordings Used to Assess Gambling Expenditure
Gambling expenditure is a commonly asked question in jurisdiction‐wide surveys of gambling behaviour and in surveys of household spending. However, the validity of self‐reported gambling expenditure is questionable due to the fact that these expenditures usually do not match actual gambling revenue. The present study asked a random sample of 2424 Ontario adult gamblers, in 12 different ways, about past month gambling expenditure. The relative val…
The Proportion of Ontario Gambling Revenue Derived from Problem Gamblers
The proportion of gambling revenue derived from problem gamblers is an important issue when considering the appropriateness of government-sponsored gambling. Figures obtained from prior research are tentative due to methodological problems and the mismatch between reported expenditures and actual gambling revenue. Using improved methods for assessing the prevalence of problem gambling and the accuracy of self-reported gambling expenditures, the p…
Effect of perceived controllability and performance standards on self-regulation of complex decision making
Impact of conceptions of ability on self-regulatory mechanisms and complex decision making
Poverty, inequality, and increased consumption of high calorie food: Experimental evidence for a causal link
The Straightedge Youth Sub-Culture: Observations on the Complexity of Sub-Cultural Identity
Through a disproportionate focus on the common norms, values, and beliefs that apparently bind sub-cultures together over time and space, past sub-cultures researchers often problematically imply that the members of a given sub-culture form and maintain a roughly similar sub-cultural identity in roughly the same way. In reaction to such implications of identity homogeneity, this article explores the complexity of sub-cultural identity through a c…
Landscape Dynamics and the Management of Change
Change in economy and society is directly reflected in the character of landscapes, both in terms of their form and function and the landscape planning and management challenges which they present. The phenomenon of landscape dynamics within post-industrial society is considered and the development of a connection between the drivers of landscape change and the management response is sought. Two key drivers of landscape change are proposed-'obsol…
Savouring morality. Moral satisfaction renders food of ethical origin subjectively tastier
Nailed to the X’: A Lyrical History of the Straightedge Youth Subculture
In order to remedy substantive gaps in published academic literature, this article examines the American straightedge youth subculture. Conducting content analyses of straightedge music lyrics and other primary subcultural artefacts, this study delineates a history of the group since its appearance in the US during the early 1980s. Straightedge music lyrics suggest that the straightedge youth subculture has experienced a number of noteworthy tran…
U.S. Aid and Third World Women: The Impact of Peace Corps Programs
How Much Money Do You Spend on Gambling?’ The Comparative Validity of Question Wordings Used to Assess Gambling Expenditure
Gambling expenditure is a commonly asked question in jurisdiction‐wide surveys of gambling behaviour and in surveys of household spending. However, the validity of self‐reported gambling expenditure is questionable due to the fact that these expenditures usually do not match actual gambling revenue. The present study asked a random sample of 2424 Ontario adult gamblers, in 12 different ways, about past month gambling expenditure. The relative val…
Designing an HIV Counseling and Testing Program for Bathhouses: The Seattle Experience with Strategies to Improve Acceptability
Bathhouses are important venues for providing HIV counseling and testing to high-risk men who have sex with men (MSM), yet relatively few bathhouses routinely provide this service, and few data are available to guide program design. We examine numerous logistic considerations that had been identified in the HIV Alternative Testing Strategies study and that influenced the initiation, effectiveness, and maintenance of HIV testing programs in bathho…
Threat transcendence, ideological articulation, and frame of reference reconstruction: Preliminary Concepts for a Theory of Subcultural Schism
Schism is the division of a social group into two or more relatively distinct and sometimes antagonistic factions. Recent case studies suggest that schism is common among contemporary deviant youth subcultures. Explanations of subcultural schism, however, remain largely neglected. Thus, in response to theoretical deficiencies among existing academic literature, this article elaborates a conceptual foundation for a theory of subcultural schism. Bu…
HIV Risk Associated With Gay Bathhouses and Sex Clubs: Findings From 2 Seattle Surveys of Factors Related to HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections
Objectives. We studied the HIV risk behaviors of patrons of the 3 commercial sex venues for men in Seattle, Washington. Methods. We conducted cross-sectional, observational surveys in 2004 and 2006 by use of time–venue cluster sampling with probability proportional to size. Surveys were anonymous and self-reported. We analyzed the 2004 data to identify patron characteristics and predictors of risk behaviors and compared the 2 survey populations. …
Models of job-related stress and personal achievement among consultant doctors
The antecedents and outcomes of feelings of job-related stress and personal achievement were studied in a large sample of consultant doctors working in Scotland. In a sample of 333 doctors it was found that a tendency to use emotion-oriented coping strategies and negative appraisals of organizational changes in the practice of medicine mediated the effect of the personality dimension of Neuroticism on reported job stress. Job stress levels predic…
Professionals at Bay: Managing Boston's Public Schools
Boston's public schools have long drawn national attention in educational and political studies and more recently in legal accounts of desegregation. With the rise of remedial law, the maturation of public unions, and the improvement of constituencies-all forces flowering in the 1970s-the traditional concept of organizational rationality has been effectively undermined for professionals in the school system. Problem-solving skills and professiona…
How risky is Internet gambling? A comparison of subgroups of Internet gamblers based on problem gambling status
Internet gambling offers unique features that may facilitate the development or exacerbation of gambling disorders. Higher rates of disordered gambling have been found amongst Internet than with land-based gamblers; however little research has explored whether Internet disordered gamblers are a distinct subgroup. The current study compared problem with non-problem and at-risk Internet gamblers to understand further why some Internet gamblers expe…
A comparative profile of the Internet gambler: Demographic characteristics, game-play patterns, and problem gambling status
Overcoming the methodological limitations of many previous studies, the present study employs a two-phased approach to data collection, and a weighted approach to data analysis, thereby obtaining survey data from 1954 Internet gamblers and 5967 non-Internet gamblers. Using this data, the authors examine: (1) the comparative demographic and health characteristics of Internet versus land-based gamblers; (2) the characteristics predictive of Interne…
Problem gambling on the internet: Implications for internet gambling policy in North America
The proportion of North American gamblers who choose to gamble on the internet is increasing at a dramatic rate. Unfortunately, however, relatively little is known about the characteristics of these individuals or their propensity for problem gambling. Past studies predict that internet gamblers are especially at risk for developing gambling problems and that a substantial proportion of them already can be properly classified as problem gamblers.…
Defining coherence for landscape planning and management: A regional landscape strategy for North West England
The range of environmental activity in the North West of England is as diverse as its landscapes. These embrace some of the finest, but also some of the most degraded, landscapes in the UK; to date however, there has been no overall co‐ordination of initiatives aimed at their protection and rehabilitation. The emergence of regional planning guidance, a regional economic strategy and the agenda of sustainable development demands a more integrative…
Proximity to point sources of environmental mercury release as a predictor of autism prevalence
Goal setting and the differential influence of self-regulatory processes on complex decision-making performance
The effects of goal setting and cognitive self-regulatory processes were examined on a highly complex task, a managerial decision-making simulation. It was hypothesized that the presence vs. absence of a specific performance goal would moderate the strength of relations between performance and 2 self-regulatory processes: self-efficacy judgments and self-evaluative reactions. Ss received either a moderately or extremely difficult task goal, or no…
The Aid Regime and International Debt: Crisis and Structural Adjustment
Foreign Aid at the Grass Roots: The Interaction of Peace Corps Volunteers with Host Country People
Phased trial of a proven algorithm at a new primary care clinic
A previous study showed that a clinical algorithm for respiratory illnesses, consisting of a checklist, a set of instructions (logic), and computer audit/feedback, could reduce costs significantly while maintaining a high quality of care. The results of this study show that the algorithm system, developed and validated at one primary care clinic, can be successfully imported to another primary care clinic. In the present study, the algorithm syst…
Enhancing climate change adaptation: Strategies for community engagement and university-community partnerships
Maintaining and losing control during internet gambling: A qualitative study of gamblers’ experiences
This paper provides an in-depth exploration of the psychosocial factors and processes related to maintaining and losing control during internet gambling. It explores features of internet gambling leading to loss of control, control strategies used by internet gamblers, and the perceived utility of online responsible gambling measures. Interviews with 25 moderate risk and problem internet gamblers yielded rich first-person accounts analysed using …
Adult Education In England
Something New with Old Things
Archives: The Laredo Archives
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A technique for converting ranks into measures
A method for converting ranks into measures is proposed. It should be useful whenever it is necessary to amalgamate ranked data with interval data. Being based on the ranking of differences between subjects, the method is able to utilize whatever information a judge is able to provide. Suggestions are made for dealing with data which are oddly distributed
Basic Human Needs Programming: An Analysis of Peace Corps Data
U.S. Aid and Third World Women: The Impact of Peace Corps Programs
Professionals at Bay: Managing Boston's Public Schools
Boston's public schools have long drawn national attention in educational and political studies and more recently in legal accounts of desegregation. With the rise of remedial law, the maturation of public unions, and the improvement of constituencies-all forces flowering in the 1970s-the traditional concept of organizational rationality has been effectively undermined for professionals in the school system. Problem-solving skills and professiona…
Phased trial of a proven algorithm at a new primary care clinic
A previous study showed that a clinical algorithm for respiratory illnesses, consisting of a checklist, a set of instructions (logic), and computer audit/feedback, could reduce costs significantly while maintaining a high quality of care. The results of this study show that the algorithm system, developed and validated at one primary care clinic, can be successfully imported to another primary care clinic. In the present study, the algorithm syst…
Have National Assessments made us any Wiser about ‘Standards
(1984). Have National Assessments made us any Wiser about ‘Standards'? Comparative Education: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 307-321
The Aid Regime and International Debt: Crisis and Structural Adjustment
Foreign Aid at the Grass Roots: The Interaction of Peace Corps Volunteers with Host Country People
Aptitude testing is not an engine for equalising educational opportunity
A recent article on education in China succeeded in giving a fresh tweak to the arguments concerning whether aptitude or achievement testing is more likely to promote equality of educational opportunity. In ‘The Diploma Disease’ Ronald Dore expounded the view that aptitude testing is to be preferred for selection purposes on the grounds that it gives more weight to ‘innate potential’ (his term) than does achievement testing which produces results…
Bridging the Gap: Political Scientists on the Public Merry-Go-Round
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Think Before you Square Correlations—or do anything with them
Spuriouser and spuriouser: The use of ipsative personality tests
One of the more worrying features of recruitment and selection practices in the United Kingdom is the misuse of ipsative personality tests. Employers are understandably attracted by claims that these quick and easy to administer tests will give valid insights into the personality of job applicants. However, on the evidence we have seen, the publishers and the promoters of these tests are either unaware of, or do not understand, or are choosing to…
Social Cognitive Theory of Organizational Management
A preschool language tutoring project: Family support—the essential factor
Hard Judicial Choices
Effect of perceived controllability and performance standards on self-regulation of complex decision making
Impact of conceptions of ability on self-regulatory mechanisms and complex decision making
Present before the Creation: Lessons from the Paleozoic Age of Urban Affairs
A Report on the Congressional Fellowship Program, 1989–90 and 1990–91
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Goal setting and the differential influence of self-regulatory processes on complex decision-making performance
The effects of goal setting and cognitive self-regulatory processes were examined on a highly complex task, a managerial decision-making simulation. It was hypothesized that the presence vs. absence of a specific performance goal would moderate the strength of relations between performance and 2 self-regulatory processes: self-efficacy judgments and self-evaluative reactions. Ss received either a moderately or extremely difficult task goal, or no…
Assessment and Testing: A Survey of Research
Apsa Awards and Recipients
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