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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
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
Facciate architettate
No full textComporre la facciata di una architettura significa darle un disegno, un volto, una immagine da mostrare al mondo. L’operazione non consiste nel disporre o meno delle aperture in maniera casuale su un piano verticale, ma corrisponde a una accurata e attenta analisi della superficie idealmente intatta come un foglio di carta bianca che può essere scomposta e ripartita da aperture definite e circoscritte, oggetti indizio di un modo di abitare e luogo di contaminazione tra esterno e interno. Ipotizzare che i progetti dei due edifici in Mostra siano stati pensati dai suoi architetti a partire dalle loro facciate, così come Mario Ridolfi concepiva le sue architetture, può indurre a un gioco di modulazione a posteriori che si pone l’obiettivo di ricercare la forma nascosta della progettazione dei prospetti
AMFORM, a new mass-based model for the calculation of the unit formula of amphiboles from electron microprobe analyses
No full textIn this work, we have studied the relationships between mass concentration and unit formula of amphibole using 114 carefully selected high-quality experimental data, obtained by electron microprobe (EMP) + single-crystal X‐ray structure refinement (SREF) ± secondary-ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) analyses, of natural and synthetic Li-free monoclinic species belonging to the Ca and Na-Ca subgroups, and 75 Li-free and Mn-free C2/m end-members including oxo analogs of Ca amphiboles. Theoretical considerations and crystal-chemical driven regression analysis allowed us to obtain several equations that can be used to: (1) calculate from EMP analyses amphibole unit-formulas consistent with SREF±SIMS data, (2) discard unreliable EMP analyses, and (3) estimate WO2– and Fe3+ contents in Li-free C2/m amphiboles with relatively low Cl contents (≤1 wt%). The AMFORM approach mostly relies on the fact that while the cation mass in Cl-poor amphiboles increases with the content of heavy elements, its anion mass maintains a nearly constant value, i.e., 22O + 2(OH,F,O), resulting in a very well-defined polynomial correlation between the molecular mass and the cation mass per gram (R2 = 0.998). The precision of estimating the amphibole formula [e.g., TSi ± 0.02, CAl ± 0.02, A(Ca+Na+K) ± 0.04 apfu] is 2–4 times higher than when using methods published following the last IMA recommended scheme (2012). It is worth noting that most methods using IMA1997 recommendations (e.g., PROBE-AMPH) give errors that are about twice those of IMA2012-based methods. A linear relation between WO2– and the sum of C(Ti, Fe3+) and A(Na+K) contents, useful to estimate the iron oxidation state of highly oxidized amphiboles typical of post-magmatic processes, is also proposed. A step by step procedure (Appendix1 1) and a user-friendly spreadsheet (AMFORM.xlsx, provided as supplementary material1) allowing one to calculate amphibole unit-formulas from EMP analyses are presented. This work opens new perspectives on the unit-formula calculation of other minerals containing OH and structural vacancies (e.g., micas)
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