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Staley, Roberta
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BA (University of Calgary)
Diploma Journalism (Grant MacEwan)
MA Liberal Studies (Simon Fraser University)
Roberta Staley is an author, a magazine editor and writer, and a documentary filmmaker who has reported from such places as Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Kenya, El Salvador, Haiti, Colombia, Cambodia, South Africa, Israel, and New Zealand. She currently edits Enterprise magazine, and is a contributor to BC Business, the South China Morning Post Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Trek, the Canadian Chemical News, Corporate Knights, and Sculpture, among others. She is also a columnist for Just for Canadian Doctors/Dentists magazines. Roberta has published her first book, titled Voice of rebellion : how Mozhdah Jamalzadah brought hope to Afghanistan. It is a biography of Afghan-Canadian human rights activist Mozhdah Jamalzadah
Combined_supplemental_materials-Sammarco_et_al - Biphasic Feline Mammary Carcinomas Including Carcinoma and Malignant Myoepithelioma
No full textCombined_supplemental_materials-Sammarco_et_al for Biphasic Feline Mammary Carcinomas Including Carcinoma and Malignant Myoepithelioma by Alessandro Sammarco, Giovanni Finesso, Rossella Zanetti, Silvia Ferro, Roberta Rasotto, Diego Caliari, Michael H. Goldschmidt, Enrico Orvieto, Massimo Castagnaro, Laura Cavicchioli and Valentina Zappulli in Veterinary Pathology</p
Emotional Reactivity in Borderline Personality Disorder: Theoretical Considerations Based on a Meta-Analytic Review of Laboratory Studies
No full textEmotional hyperreactivity (Linehan, 1993) is the most investigated construct in borderline personality disorder (BPD). However, experimental studies revealed mixed results on the topic. Our main objective is to comprehensively summarize the results on emotional reactivity in BPD compared to healthy controls (HCs), using a meta-analytic approach, considering different emotional response systems (physiology, behavior, self-report). We included 31 experimental studies (1,675 subjects). We observed null to small effect sizes for several physiological and behavioral outcomes. Conversely, BPD subjects revealed a moderate to large difference in valence attributed to emotional stimuli and a small difference in self-reported arousal. Significant differences in pooled effect sizes were found between self-report and physiological outcomes. Several sources of heterogeneity were explored. In general, the hyperreactivity hypothesis was not supported. Additional dysfunctional processes should be taken into consideration to understand BPD emotional responsiveness
Grandezze e Meraviglie, XIII Festival Musicale Estense. I linguaggi delle arti: In viaggio
No full textLa vocazione interdisciplinare dei Linguaggi delle arti si è espressa nei temi messi a fuoco dagli interventi. L'idea generale a cui ci si è ispirati è quella del viaggio: ma non di spostamenti 'turistici' ante litteram si è inteso parlare.
Angelo Mazza ha affrontato il celebre viaggio a Bologna di Mozart bambino, traendo attraverso l'analisi di documenti d'archivio e fonti e di manufatti artistici una nuova lettura di un ritratto complesso, che rimanda alla Bologna del 1770, crocevia non solo di Mozart ma anche di pittori come Barry, Keable, e di musicisti come padre Martini e Farinelli.
Roberta Iotti e Patrizia Curti hanno invece studiato e presentato iviaggi, senza ritorno e politicamente importantissimi, di alcune spose aristocratiche dalla corte di nascita a quella del marito: Lucrezia Brogia e Laura Martinozzi la prima; Carlotta Aglae d'Orléans la seconda. Le due conferenze hanno mostrato quanto le mode e le idee viaggiassero sui loro convogli.
Al viaggio metaforico delle idee, nonché degli artisti e talvolta degli eruditi consiglieri chiamati a dare loro forma, sono state dedicate la lezione seminariale di chi scrive, dedicata al pantheon degli Esteni creato nella chiesa modenese di Sant'Agostino, monumento emblematico del barocco non solo italiano; e la conferenza di Renato Meucci, che prende spunto dall'eccezionale ciclo affrescato da Mattia Preti nella chiesa di San Biagio per proporre un percorso a ritroso che conduce ai primi esempi estensi di concerti d'angeli illustrati nell'arte.
Artisti in viaggio furono i Vigarani, Gaspare e Carlo, attivi prima alla corte estense e poi come architetti e scenografi a quella parigina di Luigi XIV. Claudia Conforti ha presentato gli atti dell'importante convegno italo-francese a loro dedicato.
Da ultimo, è stata dedicata una conferenza alla presentazione di un libro realizzato da giovani studiosi su temi e personaggi estensi del Seicento: viaggi di istruzione o devoti, carteggi di ambasciatori in piazze importanti anche per l'acquisto di opere d'arte, gusto collezionistico e committenze sono l'oggetto delle ricerche, basate su documentazione d'archivio inedita, raccolte nel volume
Postface. Pour une esthétique hétéronome et plurielle
No full textBy discussing the essays collected in the volume, Roberta Dreon's paper focuses on the reasons that justify the very idea of a pragmatist aesthetic. This is done by considering that the association between the traditional, contemplative, disinterested, and anti-instrumental conception of aesthetic experience seems to preclude the possibility of characterizing it in practical or pragmatic terms.
The author argues that this is achieved on the one hand by a rethinking of the very notion of the "aesthetic" found in the philosophies of James and Dewey. This allows for supporting the idea that artistic practices are grounded in ordinary experience, and particularly in their aesthetic-qualitative aspects. On the other hand, the author argues that Dewey's aesthetics was convincingly pragmatist to the extent that it lucidly focused on the consequences of the autonomist conception of art and proposed a continuist, meliorist, and pluralist alternative capable of providing effective contributions to democratic and inclusive development
È possibile una teoria della razionalità? Il contributo di Hilary Putnam
No full textSecondo Putnam argomentare sulla natura della razionalità è l’attività per eccellenza dei filosofi. Sulla traccia di Putnam, l’autore esamina le principali teorie della razionalità presenti nel pensiero contemporaneo. Tali concezioni hanno il difetto di essere unilaterali, mentre la nozione di razionalità si rivela complessa, quindi una teoria della razionalità è possibile, benché non possa essere definitiva. In seguito l’autore cerca di individuare le caratteristiche fondamentali che competono alla razionalità, in opposizione tanto alla concezione positivista quanto al relativismo.According to Putnam, arguing about the nature of rationality is the typical task of philosophers. Following Putnam, in this paper the author examines the main theories of rationality to be found in contemporary thought. Whereas such views betray their own one-sidedness, the idea of rationality is very complicated. As a consequence, a theory of rationality is possible, but cannot be definitive. Furthermore, the author tries to highlight the chief features pertaining to rationality, opposing positivsm as well as relativism
First person - Roberta Besio
No full textFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM), helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Roberta Besio is first author on 'Cellular stress due to impairment of collagen prolyl hydroxylation complex is rescued by the chaperone 4-phenylbutyrate', published in DMM. Roberta is a postdoc in the lab of Antonella Fortino at University of Pavia, Italy, investigating collagen and genetic diseases of the connective tissue
Family altruism and incentives
No full textThe author builds on the altruistic model of the family, to explore the strategic interaction between altruistic parents, and selfish children, when children's efforts are endogenous. If there is uncertainty about the amount of income the children will realize, and if parents have imperfect information, the children have an incentive to exert little effort, and to rely on their parent's altruistically motivated transfers. Because of this, parents face a tradeoff between the insurance that bequests implicitly provide their children, and the disincentive to work prompted by their altruism. The author shows that if parents can credibly commit to a pattern of transfers, they will choose not to compensate children in bad outcomes, as much as predicted by the standard (no uncertainty, no asymmetric information) dynastic model of the family. Alternatively, parents may choose to forgo any insurance, and offer a fixed level of bequest, to elicit greater effort from their children. The optimal transfers structure that the author derives, reconciles the predictions of the altruistic family model, with much of the existing evidence on inter-generational transfers, which suggests that parents compensate only partially, or not at all, for earnings differentials among their children. Moreover, the author shows that Ricardian equivalence holds in this setup, except when non-negativity constraints are binding.Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Economics&Finance,Educational Sciences,Safety Nets and Transfers
Correction to : A Framework for Understanding the Empowerment Effects of Telecentres on Rural Communitiesin Developing Countries Sellina Khumbo Kapondera, Roberta Bernardi, and Niki Panteli Correction to: Chapter “A Framework for Understanding the Empowerment Effects of Telecentres on Rural Communities in Developing Countries” in: P. Nielsen and H. C. Kimaro (Eds.): Information and Communication Technologies for Development, IFIP AICT 551, (10.1007/978-3-030-18400-1_9))
No full textIn the originally published version of this chapter, the name of the second author Roberta Bernardi was incorrect. The name of the author has been corrected
A imagem de Alessandro Baricco no Brasil
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, Florianópolis, 2013.Com a intenção de delinear o modo pelo qual o escritor italiano Alessandro Baricco se inseriu no sistema literário brasileiro e os caminhos percorridos pelos seus livros traduzidos, esta dissertação dá voz às experiências tradutórias de seus tradutores. A inserção de Bariccono Brasil tem seu início em 1997, através de uma proposição da Profa. Dra. Roberta Barni à editora Iluminuras da tradução de Oceano Mare. A partir daí, outras sete obras foram publicadas no Brasil, sendo três delas traduzidas por Roberta Barni e as outras quatro por quatro tradutores diferentes. De um lado, considera-se o tradutor como figura principal namediação entre culturas, e, de outro, se analisa a realidade desta figuradentro do sistema literário, sua invisibilidade, seus limites e o exercíciode sua profissão. A pesquisa conta, ainda, com críticas e resenhas referentes ao autor italiano publicadas em jornais consagrados no Brasil, considerando estas como parte constituinte da imagem de Baricco refletida em território nacional. Abstract : Intending to delineate the way the Italian writer Alessandro Baricco has been inserted in the Brazilian literary system and the paths his translated books have followed, this thesis gives voice to the translating experiences of his translators. Baricco's insertion in Brazil began in 1997, through a personal project of Dr. Roberta Barni, with her translation of Oceano Mare. Since then, seven other of his works have been published in Brazil, three of which were translated by Roberta Barni and the other four by four different translators. On the one hand,the translator is considered as the main figure in mediation betweencultures and, on the other, this figure's reality is analyzed within theliterary system: its invisibility, its limits and its professional practice. Criticisms and reviews of this Italian author published in well established Brazilian newspapers are also considered, with the understanding that they are part of Baricco's image reflected here
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