1890 INSTITUTIONS IN A CHANGING SOCIOECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT: DISCUSSION

Labor and Human Capital,

ASSESSING THE RESEARCH FRAMEWORK AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY: DISCUSSION

Community/Rural/Urban Development,

DISCUSSION: THE ROLE OF ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES IN A CHANGING AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY

Agribusiness,

AGRICULTURAL, FOOD AND HUMAN RESOURCE POLICIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR RURAL AFRICAN-AMERICANS

Agricultural and Food Policy,

George Eliot and Victorian Marriage

In the summer of 1854, Marian Evans stood eagerly awaiting the channel ferry to carry her away on her honeymoon trip to Germany. An anonymous and lowly paid editor at the prestigious Westminster Review, Evans had fallen madly in love with George Herbert Lewes, the man standing at her side. Few seeing the rather unremarkable couple, both in their mid-30\u27s and neither physically attractive, would have suspected the future to come. In just a few years, Evans -- writing fiction under the pseudonym George Eliot -- would challenge in her own life and in her popular novels some of the most entrenched notions of proper Victorian marriage. In my presentation, I will discuss Evans\u27 remarkable life and how her personal choices alienated her from close family and friends and closed to her (for a time) the doors of London society. Along the way, she found literary success rivaled only by that of Charles Dickens. I will also present briefly an analysis of three examples of marriage drawn from her earliest work, The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton, and from her masterpiece Middlemarch, portraits that put her at odds with conventional Victorian notions in a way that seems today strikingly rational and modern

Evidence against the Detectability of a Hippocampal Place Code Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Individual hippocampal neurons selectively increase their firing rates in specific spatial locations. As a population, these neurons provide a decodable representation of space that is robust against changes to sensory- and path-related cues. This neural code is sparse and distributed, theoretically rendering it undetectable with population recording methods such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Existing studies nonetheless report decoding spatial codes in the human hippocampus using such techniques. Here we present results from a virtual navigation experiment in humans in which we eliminated visual- and path-related confounds and statistical limitations present in existing studies, ensuring that any positive decoding results would represent a voxel-place code. Consistent with theoretical arguments derived from electrophysiological data and contrary to existing fMRI studies, our results show that although participants were fully oriented during the navigation task, there was no statistical evidence for a place code