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Julia Smith

Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University
Verified email at sfu.ca
Cited by 3695

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19: the gendered impacts of the outbreak

C Wenham, J Smith, R Morgan - The lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
The response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) appears no different. We are not
aware of any gender analysis of the outbreak by global health institutions or governments in …

Extent and determinants of error in doctors' prognoses in terminally ill patients: prospective cohort studyCommentary: Why do doctors overestimate? Commentary …

NA Christakis, JL Smith, CM Parkes, EB Lamont - Bmj, 2000 - bmj.com
Objective: To describe doctors' prognostic accuracy in terminally ill patients and to evaluate
the determinants of that accuracy. Design: Prospective cohort study Setting: Five outpatient …

High school size: Which works best and for whom?

VE Lee, JB Smith - Educational evaluation and policy …, 1997 - journals.sagepub.com
The study described in this article investigates the relationship between high school size
and student learning. We used three waves of data from NELS:88 and hierarchical linear …

Effects of high school restructuring and size on early gains in achievement and engagement

VE Lee, JB Smith - Sociology of education, 1995 - JSTOR
This study assessed the impact on 10th-grade students of attending high schools whose
practices are consistent with the school-restructuring movement. Using data on a sample of …

The effect of the social organization of schools on teachers' efficacy and satisfaction

VE Lee, RF Dedrick, JB Smith - Sociology of education, 1991 - JSTOR
Research suggests that the social organization of schools has an important impact on both
teachers and students. Using hierarchical linear modeling techniques, the authors explore …

A selective jumonji H3K27 demethylase inhibitor modulates the proinflammatory macrophage response

…, P Rowland, CJ Schofield, RJ Sheppard, JE Smith… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The jumonji (JMJ) family of histone demethylases are Fe 2+ - and α-ketoglutarate-dependent
oxygenases that are essential components of regulatory transcriptional chromatin …

Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation

…, A Pfenning, O Whitney, MV Rivas, E Hara, J Smith… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Birds are the most species-rich class of tetrapod vertebrates and have wide relevance across
many research fields. We explored bird macroevolution using full genomes from 48 avian …

Chapter 5: The organization of effective secondary schools

VE Lee, AS Bryk, JB Smith - Review of research in education, 1993 - journals.sagepub.com
From its inception in the 1960s, the major focus of large-scale quantitative investigations of
school effects has been on the issue of equal opportunities in education for disadvantaged …

The MCL1 inhibitor S63845 is tolerable and effective in diverse cancer models

…, A Surgenor, P Dokurno, I Chen, N Matassova, J Smith… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Avoidance of apoptosis is critical for the development and sustained growth of tumours. The
pro-survival protein myeloid cell leukemia 1 (MCL1) is overexpressed in many cancers, but …

Collective responsibility for learning and its effects on gains in achievement for early secondary school students

VE Lee, JB Smith - American journal of education, 1996 - journals.uchicago.edu
How the organization of teachers' work affects students in their early years of high school is
the focus of this study. A nationally representative sample of 11,692 high school sophomores …