Roger Turner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3751044 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Roger Turner |
| PRENOMES | Roger |
| SOBRENOME | Turner |
| ASSINATURA | TURNER R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1964 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
When Should Scientists Become Public Activists? The Oxygen Depletion Crisis
Scientists can be important public advocates in environmental issues. But scientific activism can take different forms, and deciding when and how to become an activist can be difficult for people who are trained to understand science as the objective pursuit of truth. This case study explores these issues through the history of the Oxygen Depletion Crisis. Between 1966 and 1970, it appeared that the global oxygen supply might be endangered by pes…
Interrogating the meaning of a rural business through a rural capitals framework
Shining a spotlight on small rural businesses
Rural enterprises play an important economic role, contributing to national prosperity and wellbeing but are often a blind spot within rural development and wider economic policies and evidence. This paper presents an urban-rural analysis of a large scale survey of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). It applies Propensity Score Matching to allow for an assessment of the effects of rurality on business performance. Results show that England…
J. M. Walker’s History of the Meteorological Office
Corresponding author address: Roger Turner, History Department, Dickinson College, P.O. Box 1773, Carlisle, PA 17013-2896. E-mail: [email protected]
Weather by the Numbers
Reviewed by: Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology Roger Turner (bio) Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology. By Kristine C. Harper. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008. Pp. ix+308. $40. The historiography of computing has long associated the Meteorology Project at the Institute for Advanced Study with physicist John von Neumann, relegating meteorologists themselves to the background. Kristine Harper’s fine mo…
Capability Brown and the Eighteenth-Century English Landscape
WHO WAS `THE FAMOUS MR. BROWN', and why are his parks still so important? Today he is credited with laying out every piece of parkland in Britain, while others accuse him of single-handedly sweeping away all the formal gardens that preceded the Landscape Movement. If he was indeed the greatest of all designers of man-made landscapes, how should we properly understand and appreciate his work and his legacy? In this comprehensive study of the man a…
Factors affecting the visiting pattern of geriatric patients in a rural area
For a period of one week, all visitors to Shropshire patients in geriatric units were interrogated about the method, duration, and starting point of their journey to hospital. These data, together with those of the patients, were used to examine the extent to which the duration of hospital stay, and the `crow-fly9 distances of patients9 and visitors9 homes from the hospitals, affected visiting rates. The pronounced effect of the first factor unde…
St Albans Third Organ Festival
Robert Fayrfax
Shining a spotlight on small rural businesses
Rural enterprises play an important economic role, contributing to national prosperity and wellbeing but are often a blind spot within rural development and wider economic policies and evidence. This paper presents an urban-rural analysis of a large scale survey of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). It applies Propensity Score Matching to allow for an assessment of the effects of rurality on business performance. Results show that England…
Interrogating the meaning of a rural business through a rural capitals framework
Robert Fayrfax
St Albans Third Organ Festival
Factors affecting the visiting pattern of geriatric patients in a rural area
For a period of one week, all visitors to Shropshire patients in geriatric units were interrogated about the method, duration, and starting point of their journey to hospital. These data, together with those of the patients, were used to examine the extent to which the duration of hospital stay, and the `crow-fly9 distances of patients9 and visitors9 homes from the hospitals, affected visiting rates. The pronounced effect of the first factor unde…
Capability Brown and the Eighteenth-Century English Landscape
WHO WAS `THE FAMOUS MR. BROWN', and why are his parks still so important? Today he is credited with laying out every piece of parkland in Britain, while others accuse him of single-handedly sweeping away all the formal gardens that preceded the Landscape Movement. If he was indeed the greatest of all designers of man-made landscapes, how should we properly understand and appreciate his work and his legacy? In this comprehensive study of the man a…
Weather by the Numbers
Reviewed by: Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology Roger Turner (bio) Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology. By Kristine C. Harper. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008. Pp. ix+308. $40. The historiography of computing has long associated the Meteorology Project at the Institute for Advanced Study with physicist John von Neumann, relegating meteorologists themselves to the background. Kristine Harper’s fine mo…
J. M. Walker’s History of the Meteorological Office
Corresponding author address: Roger Turner, History Department, Dickinson College, P.O. Box 1773, Carlisle, PA 17013-2896. E-mail: [email protected]
When Should Scientists Become Public Activists? The Oxygen Depletion Crisis
Scientists can be important public advocates in environmental issues. But scientific activism can take different forms, and deciding when and how to become an activist can be difficult for people who are trained to understand science as the objective pursuit of truth. This case study explores these issues through the history of the Oxygen Depletion Crisis. Between 1966 and 1970, it appeared that the global oxygen supply might be endangered by pes…
Interrogating the meaning of a rural business through a rural capitals framework
Shining a spotlight on small rural businesses
Rural enterprises play an important economic role, contributing to national prosperity and wellbeing but are often a blind spot within rural development and wider economic policies and evidence. This paper presents an urban-rural analysis of a large scale survey of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). It applies Propensity Score Matching to allow for an assessment of the effects of rurality on business performance. Results show that England…
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