182 research outputs found
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
Coverage Rates Stabilize for Children’s Health Insurance: State Policy Change May Be Needed to Address Remaining Children Without Insurance
No full textThis brief uses data from the American Community Survey to estimate children’s health insurance coverage from 2008–2013 across the United States as well as by region, place type, and type of coverage. Author Michael Staley reports that decreases in rates of private insurance coverage among children were offset by increases in rates of coverage by public insurance in 2013, keeping national coverage stable at 92.9 percent. Rates rose in the West, continuing a trend since 2008. However, at 91 percent, rates among children there are still lower than in the Northeast and Midwest, where rates have stabilized above 94 percent. In addition, children in rural places are less likely to have insurance than children in central cities or suburbs. Staley concludes that state-level policy changes that are aimed at increasing the number of insured children may be the most effective at increasing the overall number of children insured nationally
Ptolemy���s Revenge: A Critique of Historical Cartography
No full textThis article calls for a new approach to historical cartography. Arguing that cartographic presentism obscures the local geographies of the past, the author reviews the imagery of current historical mapping as geocentric and presentistic. The analysis concentrates on two key images: the ubiquitous image of the globe as the icon of the present and David Harvey���s ���time-space compression��� chart. Harvey���s paradigmatic diagram and an earlier data map by Eugene Staley are discussed as misleading representations of globalization. The article envisions the alternative of a richer historical cartography that would combine the scientific purview of modern reference maps with historical maps and preglobal perspectives of space
More Than 95 Percent of U.S. Children Had Health Insurance in 2015
No full textIn this brief, author Michael Staley examines rates of children’s health insurance across the United States, by region and by place type, breaking down rates by private and public coverage. He reports that over 95 percent of all U.S. children under age 18 were covered by some form of health insurance in 2015—the highest share since the American Community Survey began measuring insurance rates in 2008. Rates of coverage increased between 2014 and 2015 in all four U.S. regions, and the greatest growth occurred in the South and West. Growth in public insurance—Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program— remained a major driver of increases in children’s coverage: over 375,000 more children were covered in 2015 than in the previous year. For the second consecutive year, however, rates of private health insurance coverage increased among children: in 2015, approximately 150,000 more children were covered by private insurance than in the previous year. The author concludes that any future attempts to reform health insurance ought to be scrutinized for their impact on children’s health insurance
Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-88-336-2038: A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company; Houlton, Maine
No full textIn response to a request from the American Federation of Grain Millers, a study was made of exposures to propylene-oxide (75569), starch dust, phosphorus-oxychloride (10025873), and the potential explosion hazard from starch dust at the A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company (SIC-2046), Houlton, Maine. The facility was a food starch specialty factory with imported tapioca as the main raw material. The site employed 44 hourly and seven salaried and clerical full-time persons. Propylene-oxide air concentrations ranged from less than 0.1 to 6.0 parts per million (ppm) in 89 samples collected in the reactor room and other areas of the site. Twenty-six personal breathing zone samples were collected from two operators and a laboratory technician on two work shifts over 3 consecutive days. The operators had 8-hour time weighted average exposures ranging from 0.1 to 0.7ppm. The highest short-term exposure was 1.9ppm for 77 minutes. The laboratory technician had exposures from less than 12.51mg/m3; the OSHA permissible exposure limit for nuisance dust was 10mg/m3. In many locations starch dust was seen on the surfaces as well as in the air. The author concludes that detectable levels of propylene-oxide were present in the reactor room and other areas of the facility; exposure should be reduced to the lowest feasible concentration. The starch dust is a potential fire and explosion hazard. The author recommends that starch dust emissions into the work area should be reduced to the lowest feasible level
The fat-hippo signaling network and regeneration
No full textThe Hippo (Hpo) and Fat (Ft) pathways form an interconnected signaling network, which has a crucial role in growth control and is conserved from flies to humans. The Fat/Hippo pathway regulates growth, gene expression and planar cell polarity (PCP) (asymmetry of a cell within the plane of the epithelium), independently from tissue patterning. The inhibition of the pathway results in overgrown organs while cell fate determination is not affected. An ever-increasing amount of research has shown the pathway’s role in many different biological processes, including cancer and regeneration. We identified a novel gene, lowfat (lft) as a modulator of the Ft signaling pathway. Lft is a conserved cytoplasmic protein that localizes to the sub-apical membranes of cells, where Ft and Dachsous (Ds), two members of the Ft pathway, are normally localized. Ft and Ds protein levels are reduced in lft mutant cells and increased in lft over-expressing cells. Lft can physically interact with the cytoplasmic domains of Ft and Ds, and regulates their levels post-transcriptionally. lft mutants display a characteristic Fat pathway phenotype in the wing that resembles weak mutant alleles of ft or ds. Furthermore, lft can genetically interact with both fat and ds, which results in more severe phenotypes. We discovered that, in addition to its crucial role in growth control, the Hippo pathway is also required during regenerative response upon damage induction. We used the Drosophila adult midgut, the equivalent of the mammalian small intestine, as our model organ. Homeostasis in the midgut is maintained by intestinal stem cells (ISCs). In response to cell loss caused by infection or expression of apoptotic proteins, ISCs increase the rate of cell proliferation. We showed that Yki, a transcriptional co-activator of the Ft/Hpo pathway, is activated in enterocytes (absorptive cells of the midgut) upon damage or activation of the damage-sensing Jnk pathway. This leads to a nonautonomous induction of ISC proliferation by regulation of the Jak/Stat pathway. Our data identifies a role for the Hippo pathway in regulating stem cell proliferation and intestinal regeneration upon damage.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Binnaz Kucuk Stale
Behavior of geodesic rays in spaces with geometric group actions
No full textThis dissertation studies certain groups by studying spaces on which they act geometrically. These spaces are studied by examining the behavior of geodesic rays in these spaces, which gives geometric data about the space that can translate into algebraic data about the group. First, we investigate the amenability of Thompson's group F by studying the geometry of its Cayley graph. We apply the uniformly finite homology of Block and Weinberger to subsets of this graph. Many large subsets of the Cayley graph are shown to be nonamenable by exhibiting certain arrangements of geodesic rays which we call "tree-like quasi-covers". We then examine CAT(0) boundaries. If a group acts geometrically on two CAT(0) spaces X and Y , then one obtains a G-equivariant quasi-isometry from X to Y. One may look at the image of a geodesic ray in X, and look at its closure in the boundary of Y . We show that this "boundary image" can have the homeomorphism type of any compact, connected subset of Euclidean space.Ph.D.Includes abstractVitaIncludes bibliographical referencesby Daniel Stale
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Image 134 of Theo Brown Diaries, 1938
No full textMonday, April 4, 1938
Lee left at 712 this morning with Nancy Porter
in Nancy's Ford. They are driving to Northampton
A fine cool day to drive. At 845 PM.
a wire came saying 'Reached London
Ontario easily we have money, gas, and
conversation left Love Lee and Nancy."
Lee is to have a Pontiac delivered to
her at Northampton on Saturday.
[Newspaper article: The Koehler Home; By Marianne Staley
Thinking Christianly - How Does a Christian Think? (Part 1 of 3)
No full text1985/02/20. Encourages listeners to develop a Christian worldview so as to better understand and respond to other people. Christian author, writer, and Christian educator. Thomas F. Staley Lecture
Where Participatory Approaches Meet Pragmatism in Funded (Health) Research: The Challenge of Finding Meaningful Spaces
No full textThe term participatory research is now widely used as a way of categorising research that has moved beyond researching "on" to researching "with" participants. This paper draws attention to some confusions that lie behind such categorisation and the potential impact of those confusions on qualitative participatory research in practice. It illuminates some of the negative effects of "fitting in" to spaces devised by other types of research and highlights the importance of forging spaces for presenting participatory research designs that suit a discursive approach and that allow the quality and impact of such research to be recognised. The main contention is that the adoption of a variety of approaches and purposes is part of the strength of participatory research but that to date the paradigm has not been sufficiently articulated. Clarifying the unifying features of the participatory paradigm and shaping appropriate ways for critique could support the embedding of participatory research into research environments, funding schemes and administration in a way that better reflects the nature and purpose of authentic involvement
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