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No full textTim Di Muzio on 'Sabotage'
No full textIn a series of essays published in 2013 and 2014 on capitaspower.com, political economist Tim Di Muzio explored the concept of ‘sabotage’ as it applies to capitalist power. I recently rediscovered these essays and was so impressed by them that I have reposted them here as a single piece.
About the author: Tim Di Muzio is a researcher at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of numerous books, including Debt as power, Carbon capitalism, and The 1% and the Rest of us
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The Impact of Urban Governance on Health Disparities and Local Health Expenditure
Get PDFABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATIONThe Impact of Political Fragmentation on Health Disparities and Local Health ExpenditureBy Yonsu KimDoctor of Philosophy in Planning, Policy, and DesignUniversity of California, Irvine, 2016Associate Professor Tim-Allen Bruckner, Chair During the 1970s and1980s in the U.S., population movement, urban sprawl and governance reform led to a proliferation of local, autonomous jurisdictions. Previous literature examines how this creation of local governments, referred to as political fragmentation, contributes to public spending and social inequality. I build on this literature by examining three potential consequences of political fragmentation: increased health disparities, reduced public investments in health, and reductions in public economic efficiency. I ground these lines of inquiry from diverse fields including political science, urban planning, and public health. In my first analytic chapter, I test the hypothesis that the mortality disparity between whites and African Americans varies positively with fragmentation. I retrieved mortality data from the multiple cause-of-death file and measured fragmentation among 226 U.S. counties (population size ≤ 200,000) over four distinct periods (1972-73, 1977-78, 1982-83, and 1987-88). Consistent with my hypothesis, I find a positive relation between political fragmentation and the African American / white difference in all-cause mortality.Next, to explore a pathway through which fragmentation may increase to health disparities, I examined whether fragmentation corresponds with a reduction in public health expenditures. Consistent with this proposition, I find that fragmentation varies negatively with per capita health expenditure (coef: -0.03, p<0.01), and health expenditure as a proportion of total expenditure (coef: -0.0084, P<0.001). In my last analytic chapter, I test the Leviathan hypothesis that fragmented local governments act inefficiently and lead to unexpected rises in overall local expenditures. Counter to this hypothesis, results indicate that general purpose government fragmentation constraints per capita expenditure (coef: =-0.953, p<0.001).Taken together, my results suggest that political fragmentation may exacerbate health inequalities by reducing the per capita public outlay for health spending among disadvantaged groups. However, my findings remain inconclusive regarding whether, and to what extent, political fragmentation promotes economic efficiency in public management of urban locales. I conclude with recommendations of future areas of research
First person - Tim Petzold
Get PDFFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Tim Petzold is first author on ‘ Connexin 41.8 governs timely haematopoietic stem and progenitor cell specification’, published in BiO. Tim conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Julien Bertrand's lab at the Department of Pathology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Holger Gerhardt at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany, investigating developmental biology – previously his focus was on how blood stem cells develop and now it has shifted to how the vascular system develops
sj-jpeg-2-hme-10.1177_23333928211066181 - Supplemental material for Measuring Hazards of Undetectable Viral Load among Hepatitis C Antibody Positive Residents of a Large Southern California County
No full textSupplemental material, sj-jpeg-2-hme-10.1177_23333928211066181 for Measuring Hazards of Undetectable Viral Load among Hepatitis C Antibody Positive Residents of a Large Southern California County by Sara Goodman, Matthew Zahn, Tim Bruckner, Bernadette Boden-Albala and Cynthia M. Lakon in Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology</p
Global Media Ideas - Infinite Pathways to Creative Succes - Tim Chang - Part One.mp4
No full textDuring the X Media Lab: Global Media Ideas summit in June 2011 media and technology writer Brad Howarth conducted interviews with industry experts for Creativeinnovation. This video is part one of Brad Howarth's interview with Tim Chang about his role as Partner at Norwest Venture Partners (Palo Alto). Tim focuses on investments in mobile, gaming, digital media, and also leads Norwest Venture Partners's investment practice in China and Asia-Pacific. Tim shares tips on how to get an introduction to a Venture Capital; the elements of a good pitch and follow-up. And what he looks at when considering a deal - The 3Ts: Team, Traction, Tier 1 co-investors
Tim Seibles, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textTim Seibles is the author of several poetry collections including Hurdy-Gurdy, Hammerlock, Buffalo Head Solos, and Fast Animal, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. In 2013 he received both the Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for poetry and an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Misericordia University for his literary accomplishments. His latest collection, One Turn Around the Sun, has just been released. Tim is the current Poet Laureate of Virginia and is a Professor of English at Old Dominion University where he teaches literature as well as classes in the MFA in writing program
Tim Seibles, 39th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textTim Seibles is the author of several poetry collections including Hurdy-Gurdy, Hammerlock, Buffalo Head Solos, and Fast Animal, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. In 2013 he received both the Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for poetry and an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Misericordia University for his literary accomplishments. His latest collection, One Turn Around the Sun, has just been released. Tim is the current Poet Laureate of Virginia and is a Professor of English at Old Dominion University where he teaches literature as well as classes in the MFA in writing program
sj-docx-1-hme-10.1177_23333928211066181 - Supplemental material for Measuring Hazards of Undetectable Viral Load among Hepatitis C Antibody Positive Residents of a Large Southern California County
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-hme-10.1177_23333928211066181 for Measuring Hazards of Undetectable Viral Load among Hepatitis C Antibody Positive Residents of a Large Southern California County by Sara Goodman, Matthew Zahn, Tim Bruckner, Bernadette Boden-Albala and Cynthia M. Lakon in Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology</p
Tim McLaurin, 15th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textTim Mclaurin, born in Fayetteville, N.C., is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before turning to writing, he served in the Marine Corps and the Peace Corps. He has also worked as a carpenter, a news reporter, and a snake handler in a carnival. Mr. McLaurin is the author of two novels, The Acorn Plan and Woodrow\u27s Trumpet, and the recent autobiography, Keeper of the Moon
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