'Smoke gets in your eyes': a research-informed professional education and advocacy programme (2007)
Thornton, Judith, Edwards, Richard, Harrison, Roger A., Elton, Peter, Astbury, Nick, Kelly, Simon P.
Smoking is associated with common sight-threatening eye conditions. We suspected that this link was little known and it might be a potent novel health promotional tool. We therefore developed a...
Liability for suicide in a psychiatric hospital / (1985)
INDEPENDENT WRITING PROJECT (J.D.)--University of Maine School of Law, 1986
Smoking and blindness: Strong evidence for the link, but public awareness lags
Kelly, Simon P, Thornton, Judith, Lyratzopoulos, Georgios, Edwards, Richard, Mitchell, Paul
Smoking and blindness: Strong evidence for the link, but public awareness lags
Kelly, Simon P, Thornton, Judith, Lyratzopoulos, Georgios, Edwards, Richard, Mitchell, Paul
Nationalization of Energy Assets and Regional Welfare; Sakhalin 2007
Between 2001 and 2007, rising prices of oil and gas provided a gigantic domestic windfall for Russia’s government in the form of export duties and resource taxes. However, the windfall created...
Fiscal Centralisation and Decentralisation in Russia and China
Elliott Parker, Judith Thornton
We review the fiscal evolution of China and Russia and how the process of creating a separate tax-financed public sector in the two countries differed. China's fiscal budget was consistently smaller...
The Response of Federal Transfers to Measures of Social Need in Russia's Regions
Judith Thornton, Krisztina Nagy
Do Russian federal expenditures serve to reduce regional inequality, to insure against exogenous shocks, or to compensate regions for low tax capacity? Do sub-national governments appear to engage in...
Benchmarking North Korean Economic Policies; The Lessons from Russia and China
This study attempts to provide benchmarks of North Korean institutional changes that signal the increased role of markets, looking at macroeconomic management, introduction of market-supporting...
Fiscal Centralization and Decentralization in Russia and China
Elliott Parker, Judith Thornton
In this paper we review the fiscal evolution of China and Russia, asking how the process of creating a separate, tax-financed public sector in the two countries differed. We observe that the size of...