David Webb
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 102385 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Webb |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Webb |
| ASSINATURA | WEBB D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Kutztown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6493-6241 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 73 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 216 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1958 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Unlocking motivation for energy saving
This study examines the role of different types of motivation and their associated locus of regulation among German consumers, aiming to understand their adoption of ‘energy-wise’ consumption behaviors. Cluster analysis reveals distinct approaches needed to support these behaviors. Three clusters emerged: cluster 1, characterized by high autonomous motivation and low external regulation; cluster 2, showing low autonomous regulation, low external …
Examining the effectiveness of a tourism–agriculture co-marketing alliance
The relationship between places and products has been acknowledged in tourism and marketing. Nonetheless, limited empirical research has sought to understand this association from a co-marketing perspective. Based on categorisation, meaning transfer and consistency theories, this study focuses on three types of benefit-based fit to assess fit’s role in a tourism–agriculture co-marketing context. Using a quasi-experimental approach with a sample o…
An application of the new visitation paradigm to ecotourism in China
With increasing visits to protected areas, tourism researchers suggest a new visitation paradigm (NVP) and the need for ‘mass park-visitor symbiosis.’ This study adopted the NVP approach to assess the mass symbiosis potential of the Chinese ecotourism market. Data from in-depth interviews were analysed using Leximancer, a computerised qualitative data analysis programme. The results suggest ecotourism in China has the potential to achieve the sym…
Michel Serres
Michel Serres proposes that we reform our relation to the nonhuman world by striking a new contract to extend democratic rights and legal protections to nature. Following Serres’s lead, this has for the most part been understood in strictly legal terms. In this paper, I will show that the natural contract also has a narrative dimension, and moreover that taking this into account we reveals an engagment with the Principle of Sufficient Reason that…
Body mass estimation from footprint size in hominins
‘Look at What We Made’
This article sets out key findings of an interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project that uses Long Live Southbank’s (LLSB) successful campaign to retain London’s Southbank Undercroft for subcultural use – skateboarding, BMXing, graffiti art, etc. – as a case study to generate discussions about young people’s experiences and engagements with (sub)cultural heritage and political activism. At the heart of this inqui…
On Causality and Law in Lucretius and Contemporary Cosmology
David Webb’s “On Causality and Law in Lucretius and Contemporary Cosmology” argues that the laws of physics, rather than being immutable, must instead be subordinate to and coordinated by local regularities of causality. Webb develops this idea through a reading of the contemporary cosmology of Unger and Smolin, who seek to address problems of contemporary physics by undermining the presuppositions of scientific absolutism. Webb finds these ideas…
Biomechanical Effects of Carrying a Unilateral Load on Human Bipedalism, as Indicated by Footprint Trail Parameters
Mathematics and Information in the Philosophy of Michel Serres
This book introduces the reader to Serres’ unique manner of ‘doing philosophy’ that can be traced throughout his entire oeuvre: namely as a novel manner of bearing witness. It explores how Serres takes note of a range of epistemologically unsettling situations, which he understands as arising from the short-circuit of a proprietary notion of capital with a praxis of science that commits itself to a form of reasoning which privileges the most dire…
Resisting relocation and reconceptualising authenticity
In 2013 the Southbank Centre proposed the redevelopment of a complex of buildings including a famous skate spot known as the Undercroft. The 2013–14 campaign to protect the Undercroft drew strongly on heritage arguments, encapsulated in the tagline, ‘You Can’t Move History: You Can Secure the Future’. The campaign, which was ultimately successful as the Undercroft remains open and skateable, provides a lens through which three key areas of herita…
Is the number of fast-food outlets in the neighbourhood related to screen-detected type 2 diabetes mellitus and associated risk factors
Objective We investigated whether a higher number of fast-food outlets in an individual’s home neighbourhood is associated with increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus and related risk factors, including obesity. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting Three UK-based diabetes screening studies (one general population, two high-risk populations) conducted between 2004 and 2011. The primary outcome was screen-detected type 2 diabetes. Second…
Ancient human footprints in C iur‐ I zbuc C ave, R omania
In 1965, Ciur‐Izbuc Cave in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania was discovered to contain about 400 ancient human footprints. At that time, researchers interpreted the footprints to be those of a man, woman and child who entered the cave by an opening which is now blocked but which was usable in antiquity. The age of the prints (≈10–15 ka BP) was based partly on their association with cave bear ( Ursus spelaeus ) footprints and bones, and the bel…
Exploring Antecedents of Charitable Giving and Their Impact on Subjective Well-Being in Singapore
Projecting Ideas on a Perpetual Peace
The “Projecting Peace” project followed an international conference on “Imaging War,” sponsored by the European Science Foundation in 2008. It considered how the “imagers of war” can be viewed thro
Is Materialism All That Bad? Effects on Satisfaction with Material Life, Life Satisfaction, and Economic Motivation
Foucault's Archaeology
Archaeological Description
A commentary on Part IV of Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge. This includes the following chapters: Archaeology and the History of Ideas The Original and the Regular Contradictions The Comparative Facts Change and Transformations Science and Knowledge
The Historical a Priori and the Archive
Foucault's Archaeology
This book provides a new perspective on Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge by revealing the extent to which its approach to language was influenced by the mathematical sciences. Setting out this background to Foucault’s analysis makes The Archaeology of Knowledge both accessible in a new way, and relevant to issues that are at the heart of much contemporary debate over the nature of critical thought and the relation between philosophy and th…
Barriers to women's participation in inter-conceptional care
Actively removing common barriers to care does not guarantee the long-term and consistent participation of vulnerable women in preventive care. There are unknown factors beyond known barriers that affect participation in interconceptional care. New paradigms are needed to identify the additional factors that serve as barriers to participation in preventive care for vulnerable women
The Knowledge Business
Linking Advertising, Materialism, and Life Satisfaction
Subjective Social Status and Maternal Health in a Low Income Urban Population
The limits of associative democracy
Rethinking the Role of Markets in Urban Renewal
Critical perspectives on urban renewal suffer from a consensus caused by the adoption of the gentrification heuristic. The extension of this heuristic to urban renewal research has led to the assumption that market capital is the main interest driving renewal. By disputing that assumption this article develops a more detailed understanding of the Housing Market Renewal Initiative (HMRI) in England. The focus here is not on the interests of capita…
The Theory of Corporate Finance
Journal Article The Theory of Corporate Finance Get access By Tirole (Jean). (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. 64. £35.95 hardback. ISBN 0691 12556 2.) David Webb David Webb Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 116, Issue 515, November 2006, Pages F499–F507, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2006.01134.x Published: 21 November 2006
Prevalence of Child Welfare Services Involvement among Homeless and Low-Income Mothers
This paper investigates the five-year prevalence of child welfare services involvement and foster care placement among a population-based cohort of births in a large US city, by housing status of the mothers (mothers who have been homeless at least once, other low-income neighborhood residents, and all others), and by number of children. Children of mothers with at least one homeless episode have the greatest rate of involvement with child welfar…
Further progress on the Laetoli trails
A Bison Antiquus Kill Site, Wacissa River, Jefferson County, Florida
Metric analysis of an excellently preserved Bison skull with horn cores recovered from a northern Florida river identifies the specimen as an evolutionarily late representative of Bison antiquus. A fragment of chert protrudes from the right fronto-parietal area of the skull. Radiocarbon and biostratigraphic dating place the age of the Bison at about 11,000 years, thereby documenting an association between the animal and Paleoindians. It is likely…
Laetoli toes andAustralopithecus afarensis
Resisting relocation and reconceptualising authenticity
In 2013 the Southbank Centre proposed the redevelopment of a complex of buildings including a famous skate spot known as the Undercroft. The 2013–14 campaign to protect the Undercroft drew strongly on heritage arguments, encapsulated in the tagline, ‘You Can’t Move History: You Can Secure the Future’. The campaign, which was ultimately successful as the Undercroft remains open and skateable, provides a lens through which three key areas of herita…
Is Materialism All That Bad? Effects on Satisfaction with Material Life, Life Satisfaction, and Economic Motivation
Rethinking the Role of Markets in Urban Renewal
Critical perspectives on urban renewal suffer from a consensus caused by the adoption of the gentrification heuristic. The extension of this heuristic to urban renewal research has led to the assumption that market capital is the main interest driving renewal. By disputing that assumption this article develops a more detailed understanding of the Housing Market Renewal Initiative (HMRI) in England. The focus here is not on the interests of capita…
Masculinised Discourses within Education and the Construction of Black Male Identities amongst African Caribbean Youth
Boys in general, and Black boys in particular, are being excluded from school in ever increasing and disproportionate numbers, drawing attention to the need for a closer examination of the interrelationship between 'race' and gender. Clearly, young Black masculinities are not expressed in isolation, but are, amongst other influences, informed and shaped by school processes. Within schools, the ways in which masculinities are portrayed plays a maj…
Prevalence of Episodic Homelessness Among Adult Childbearing Women in Philadelphia, Pa
Pregnancy and the responsibilities of caring for children create additional barriers for low-income women and families seeking adequate and affordable housing, yet few studies have assessed the relative risk or prevalence of homelessness among pregnant or parenting women in the United States.1 The economic, social, and psychological dislocations associated with housing instability and homelessness may have particularly serious negative consequenc…
Wealth, Enterprise and Credit Policy
Journal Article Wealth, Enterprise and Credit Policy Get access David de Meza, David de Meza University of Exeter and London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Webb David Webb London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 109, Issue 455, 1 April 1999, Pages 153–163, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.00…
Body mass estimation from footprint size in hominins
Linking Advertising, Materialism, and Life Satisfaction
The limits of associative democracy
Quality of College Life (QCL) of Students
Michel serres on Lucretius
Michel Serres’ study of Lucretius, The Birth of Physics (La naissance de la physique dans le texte de Lucrece), provides an eloquent demonstration that ancient atomism is historically much closer t
Risk, Adverse Selection and Capital Market Failure
Risk, Adverse Selection and Capital Market Failure Get access David De Meza, David De Meza University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Webb David Webb London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 100, Issue 399, 1 March 1990, Pages 206–214, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233604 Published: 01 March 1990
Explaining Deviant Behaviour
The most familiar sociological image of the probation officer sees him firmly committed to some variant of a psycho-pathological view of deviancy in which both society and volition are disregarded. It was from this assumption that the research sprang, the purpose being to examine the treatment ideologies held by probation officers. But from focussed interviews, it was clear that explanations of deviancy offered by the probation officers were wide…
Exploring Antecedents of Charitable Giving and Their Impact on Subjective Well-Being in Singapore
Hospital Admission Rates for a Racially Diverse Low-Income Cohort of Patients With Diabetes
Objective. We sought to determine the frequency and costs of hospitalization and to assess possible racial/ethnic disparities in a large cohort of low-income patients with diabetes who had received primary care at municipal health clinics. Methods. Administrative data from Philadelphia Health Care Centers were linked with discharge data from Pennsylvania hospitals for March 1993 through December 2001. We tested differences in hospitalization rate…
The Young Sociologist
Whilst it is probably true, as at least one reviewer has observed,2 that sociologists have written about themselves more often than they commonly assume, it also seems to be the case, as the same writer maintains, that the sociology of sociologists has left a good many stones unturned: we hope that in looking at young academic sociologists we shall be able to meet, at least in part, this indictment of the sociologists' failure to fully comprehend…
Ancient human footprints in C iur‐ I zbuc C ave, R omania
In 1965, Ciur‐Izbuc Cave in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania was discovered to contain about 400 ancient human footprints. At that time, researchers interpreted the footprints to be those of a man, woman and child who entered the cave by an opening which is now blocked but which was usable in antiquity. The age of the prints (≈10–15 ka BP) was based partly on their association with cave bear ( Ursus spelaeus ) footprints and bones, and the bel…
More on Gender and Justice
This article discusses the findings from a survey of 14-16 year olds made subject to a supervision order in 1978. The social enquiry reports and case files of 241 girls and 971 boys reveal a number of noticeable differences between the sexes in the imposition of this particular sentence. Girls are made subject to an order for less serious offences than committed by boys, after having been involved in fewer previous misdemeanours and for having co…
Research Note
A Worked Mammoth Bone from Florida
A newly discovered worked mammoth bone is described. It exhibits butchering marks and demonstrates man's contemporaneity in Florida with a late Pleistocene fauna
A View of Ireland
A Worked Mammoth Bone from Florida
A newly discovered worked mammoth bone is described. It exhibits butchering marks and demonstrates man's contemporaneity in Florida with a late Pleistocene fauna
Research Note
Some Factors Associated with the Employment of Sociology Graduates in Social Work
The Young Sociologist
Whilst it is probably true, as at least one reviewer has observed,2 that sociologists have written about themselves more often than they commonly assume, it also seems to be the case, as the same writer maintains, that the sociology of sociologists has left a good many stones unturned: we hope that in looking at young academic sociologists we shall be able to meet, at least in part, this indictment of the sociologists' failure to fully comprehend…
Explaining Deviant Behaviour
The most familiar sociological image of the probation officer sees him firmly committed to some variant of a psycho-pathological view of deviancy in which both society and volition are disregarded. It was from this assumption that the research sprang, the purpose being to examine the treatment ideologies held by probation officers. But from focussed interviews, it was clear that explanations of deviancy offered by the probation officers were wide…
A Forgotten Radical
Journal Article A FORGOTTEN RADICAL: Dennis Chapman and the New Criminology in Britain Get access DAVID WEBB DAVID WEBB Lecturer, Leicester University School of Social Work Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 21, Issue 2, April 1981, Pages 148–158, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047213 Published: 01 April 1981
Controlology
A Bison Antiquus Kill Site, Wacissa River, Jefferson County, Florida
Metric analysis of an excellently preserved Bison skull with horn cores recovered from a northern Florida river identifies the specimen as an evolutionarily late representative of Bison antiquus. A fragment of chert protrudes from the right fronto-parietal area of the skull. Radiocarbon and biostratigraphic dating place the age of the Bison at about 11,000 years, thereby documenting an association between the animal and Paleoindians. It is likely…
More on Gender and Justice
This article discusses the findings from a survey of 14-16 year olds made subject to a supervision order in 1978. The social enquiry reports and case files of 241 girls and 971 boys reveal a number of noticeable differences between the sexes in the imposition of this particular sentence. Girls are made subject to an order for less serious offences than committed by boys, after having been involved in fewer previous misdemeanours and for having co…
The First 25 Years in Space
346 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE achieved without man’s presence. It is an opinion that is still shared by many scientists, though it contrasts with policy decisions made by officials in federal agencies who consider political as well as scientific objectives. The future-looking article by George Field, director of a recent policy study on astronomy’s needs in the 1980s, also reveals an impor tant fiistorical note: the significance of nat…
The First 25 Years in Space
Victorian Civic Universities
Further progress on the Laetoli trails
Risk, Adverse Selection and Capital Market Failure
Risk, Adverse Selection and Capital Market Failure Get access David De Meza, David De Meza University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Webb David Webb London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 100, Issue 399, 1 March 1990, Pages 206–214, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233604 Published: 01 March 1990
Laetoli toes andAustralopithecus afarensis
Pendular activity of human upper limbs during slow and normal walking
When walking at normal and fast speeds, humans swing their upper limbs in alternation, each upper limb swinging in phase with the contralateral lower limb. However, at slow and very slow speeds, the upper limbs swing forward and back in unison, at twice the stride frequency of the lower limbs. The change from “single swinging” (in alternation) to “double swinging” (in unison) occurs consistently at a certain stride frequency for agiven individual…
Maximum walking speed and lower limb length in hominids
In 1984, Helene (Am. J. Physics 52:656) and Alexander (Am. Scientist 72:348–354) presented equations which purported to explain how lower limb length limited maximum walking speed in humans. The equations were based on a simplified model of human walking in which the center of mass (CoM) “vaults” over the supporting leg. Increasing walking speed by increasing stride frequency or stride length would increase the upward acceleration of the CoM in t…
Maximum walking speed and lower limb length in hominids
In 1984, Helene (Am.J. Physics 52:656) and Alexander (Am. Scientist 72:348-354) presented equations which purported to explain how lower limb length limited maximum walking speed in humans. The equations were based on a simplified model of human walking in which the center of mass (CoM) "vaults" over the supporting leg. Increasing walking speed by increasing stride frequency or stride length would increase the upward acceleration of the CoM in th…
Swift and sure-footed on the Savanna
Data on footprints and gait of 54 Hadzabe, 6-70 years of age expand understanding of pedal morphology of unshod people and assist the development of ideas about the evolution of hominid bipedality and upright posture. Contrary to published data on gaits and pedal morphology of unshod populations, Hadzabe (also known as Hadza) from northern Tanzania exhibit values of stride length, relative stride length, and walking speeds that exceed those of ru…
Learning by Understanding
Prealgebra students learned about functions in a unit that emphasized (a) representing problems in multiple formats, (b) anchoring learning in a meaningful thematic context, and (c) problem-solving processes in cooperative groups. In posttest results, treatment students were more successful in representing and solving a function word problem and were better at problem representation tasks such as translating word problems into tables and graphs t…
Masculinised Discourses within Education and the Construction of Black Male Identities amongst African Caribbean Youth
Boys in general, and Black boys in particular, are being excluded from school in ever increasing and disproportionate numbers, drawing attention to the need for a closer examination of the interrelationship between 'race' and gender. Clearly, young Black masculinities are not expressed in isolation, but are, amongst other influences, informed and shaped by school processes. Within schools, the ways in which masculinities are portrayed plays a maj…
A `Revenge' on Modern Times
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) results from cerebral damage caused by a blow to the head, for example in a road traffic accident. The frequency of TBI means that it has been characterised as the silent epidemic of modern times. The majority of those who are head-injured are young men. This paper argues that the social reaction to head injury is testament to the latent eugenicist and mentalist suppositions within modernity. The brain-damaged person …
A ‘Revenge’ on Modern Times
Wealth, Enterprise and Credit Policy
Journal Article Wealth, Enterprise and Credit Policy Get access David de Meza, David de Meza University of Exeter and London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Webb David Webb London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 109, Issue 455, 1 April 1999, Pages 153–163, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.00…
Sociology (30 obras) · Medicine (23 obras) · Political science (22 obras) · Psychology (19 obras) · Computer Science (17 obras) · Epistemology (14 obras) · Geography (12 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Economics (11 obras) · Philosophy (11 obras)