Food Narrative: Storytelling, Memories, Art Expression, and Recipes – A Community Engagement Project

This project focuses on the topic of food and works to answer the questions: Can we learn and teach others about ourselves through the kitchen? Is there room for food as a form of art, and can it be used in an expressive way? This community engagement project focuses on people who would like to share their family recipes, memories, or information about their family’s history and background. This project builds from previous literature and methods that have examined how food plays a role in the following topics: storytelling, memories, expression, and art. This project contributes to previous literature by offering an understanding of the role of food as a form of art and method for expressive therapy. Through the research and gathering participants to discuss food and their own stories around it, this thesis adds more ideas and results to this conversation. The end result of this project was creating a cookbook where each person shared recipes and artwork expressing their thoughts and feelings around the topics of food, family, and memories. The results confirm that we can learn more about others and their stories through food, and results contribute to an understanding of how food can be represented in an expressive way

Slowed luminance reaction times in cervical dystonia: disordered superior colliculus processing

Background: Abnormal temporal discrimination in cervical dystonia is hypothesised to be due to disrupted processing in the superior colliculus. The fast, luminance-based, retino-tectal pathway, projects to the superior colliculus; chromatic stimuli responses, via the retino-geniculo-calcarine pathway, are up to 30ms longer. Methods: In 20 cervical dystonia and 20 age-matched control participants, we compared reaction times to two flashing visual stimuli: (i) a chromatic annulus and (ii) a luminant, non-coloured annulus. Participants pressed a joystick control when they perceived the annulus flashing. Results: Reaction times in control participants were 20ms significantly faster in the luminant condition than the chromatic (p= 0.017). Patients with cervical dystonia had no reaction time advantage in response to the luminant stimulus. Conclusion: Cervical dystonia patients (compared to control participants) demonstrated no reduction in their reaction time to luminant stimuli, processed through the retino-tectal pathway. This finding is consistent with superior colliculus dysfunction in cervical dystonia

Developments in analysis and toxicology of toxaphene compounds

Peer-reviewedOver the last 50 years toxaphene has been produced and used as a pesticide extensively. The US Environmental Protection Agency banned it in 1982. In the early 1990s the presence of toxaphene in marine fish in Europe caused concern with regard to human health in relation with consumption. This paper gives a brief overview of recent developments in the analytical and toxicological research on toxaphene

Erneuerung der Politik durch Dezentralisierung und Verhandlungsloesungen?: offene Fragen an die beratende Politikforschung

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