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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
Correction to: Management of hepatitis B virus prophylaxis in patients treated with disease-modifying therapies for multiple sclerosis: a multicentric Italian retrospective study (Journal of Neurology, (2022), 269, 6, (3301-3307), 10.1007/s00415-022-11009-x)
No full textThe original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The given and family names of authors were Interchanged and Dr. Spiezia has two given names (Antonio Luca). The author names should be Antonio Riccardo Buonomo, Giulio Viceconte, Massimiliano Calabrese, Giovanna De Luca, Valentina Tomassini, Paola Cavalla, Giorgia Teresa Maniscalco, Diana Ferraro, Viviana Nociti, Marta Radaelli, Maria Chiara Buscarinu, Damiano Paolicelli, Alberto Gajofatto, Pietro Annovazzi, Federica Pinardi, Massimiliano Di Filippo, Cinzia Cordioli, Emanuela Zappulo, Riccardo Scotto, Ivan Gentile, Antonio Luca Spiezia, Martina Petruzzo, Marcello De Angelis, Vincenzo Brescia Morra, Claudio Solaro, Claudio Gasperini, Eleonora Cocco, Marcello Moccia, Roberta Lanzillo The original article has been corrected
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
sj-docx-1-vet-10.1177_03009858221105060 – Supplemental material for Canine and feline in situ mammary carcinoma: A comparative review
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-vet-10.1177_03009858221105060 for Canine and feline in situ mammary carcinoma: A comparative review by Giovanni P. Burrai, Valeria Baldassarre, Barbara Brunetti, Selina Iussich, Lorella Maniscalco, Francesca Mariotti, Alessandra Sfacteria, Cristiano Cocumelli, Valeria Grieco, Francesca Millanta, Orlando Paciello, Serenella Papparella, Roberta Rasotto, Mariarita Romanucci and Valentina Zappulli in Veterinary Pathology</p
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
Biopolitica e biopoetica nella pratica autobiografica contemporanea
No full textIn un’epoca di affermazione dell’impersonale o della personalizzazione a tutti i costi è chiaro che la questione della scrittura del sé, ormai talmente diffusa da contaminare qualsiasi altro genere o forma letteraria, si presenta come forma impellente di legittimazione privata e pubblica. Intesa in questo senso l’autobiografia incrocia la questione biopolitica e biopoetica del bios ritornata cruciale nella filosofia contemporanea grazie agli studi di Roberto Esposito e Giorgio Agamben, a partire dalle riflessioni sul bios di Michel Foucault
A brief journey through collision models for multipartite open quantum dynamics
No full textThe quantum collision models are a useful method to describe the dynamics of
an open quantum system by means of repeated interactions between the system and
some particles of the environment, which are usually termed "ancillas". In this
paper, we review the main collision models for the dynamics of multipartite
open quantum systems, which are composed of several subsystems. In particular,
we are interested in models that are based on elementary collisions between the
subsystems and the ancillas, and that simulate global and/or local Markovian
master equations in the limit of infinitesimal timestep. After discussing the
mathematical details of the derivation of a generic collision-based master
equation, we provide the general ideas at the basis of the collision models for
multipartite systems, we discuss their strengths and limitations, and we show
how they may be simulated on a quantum computer. Moreover, we analyze some
properties of a collision model based on entangled ancillas, derive the master
equation it generates for small timesteps, and prove that the coefficients of
this master equation are subject to a constraint that limits their generality.
Finally, we present an example of this collision model with two bosonic
ancillas entangled in a two-mode squeezed thermal state.Comment: Accepted version in the special issue of Open Syst. Inf. Dyn. devoted
to the memory of Prof. A. Kossakowski. We have added the current Appendix A,
new references, and additional discussions on the cascade master equatio
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
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