Dressing Up: Exploring the Fictions and Frictions of Professional Identity in Art Educational Settings

What fictions do we tell ourselves in order to teach? How do our stories as educators impact how we see our learners? Building from auto-ethnography research I begin with the personal and then invite co-participants to further illuminate a shared experience (Chang, 2008). In this example, I highlight the self-reflective work toward revealing and concealing identities associated with “teacher.” Using collage pedagogy (Garoian & Gaudelius, 2008), students in a pre-service art education class, created paper doll narratives marking and unmarking themselves through collaged backdrops and clothing choices which performed identities that would impact their role of teacher. Future teachers also “undressed” themselves from fashions that impeded their abilities to see their students beyond stereotypes. Through the design of the dolls and reflexivity, we examined the frictions of identity and representation within the larger social, political, or institutional landscapes of what it means to be “teacher/student” in the 21st century school sphere

A case study on early acquisition of verbs in Yucatec Maya

The purpose of this study is to show the early development of verb morphology and the building of paradigms in one Yucatecan child, Sandi

Exploring the origins of secondary growth – two Lower Devonian (Emsian) euphyllophytes from Gaspé, Canada, and their implications for the evolution of secondary growth

Secondary growth from a vascular cambium has a deep fossil record among euphyllophytes, with the earliest occurrence dated to 407 Ma. To date, Armoricaphyton and Franhueberia represent the only instances of secondary growth formally documented in the Early Devonian. Secondary growth diversified rapidly and was present in all major euphyllophyte lineages by the Middle Devonian. Here, I describe two new Early Devonian euphyllophytes exhibiting secondary growth, from the Emsian (c. 400-395 Ma) Battery Point Formation (Québec, Canada): Gmujij tetraxylopteroides gen. et sp. nov. and Perplexa praestigians gen et sp. nov. Both these plants possess mesarch actinosteles with Psilophyton-type tracheid thickenings, and each represents a new type of anatomical organization among Early Devonian wood-producing euphyllophytes. These new Early Devonian plants reveal an unexpected level of diversity in the early stages of the first major tracheophyte radiation. Importantly, Gmujij and Perplexa, together with the other Early Devonian euphyllophytes exhibiting secondary growth, reinforce existing hypotheses about the modular regulation of vascular cambial growth and demonstrate that vascular cambial growth is an assemblage of regulatory modules whose deployment followed a mosaic pattern in the evolution of tracheophytes

María de Lourdes de León Pasquel. La llegada del alma: lenguaje, infancia y socialización entre los mayas de Zinacantán. México: ciesas-inah, 2005: 396 pp.

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Finite Element Nonlinear Dynamic Response Analysis of the Human Knee Joint

Objective. To develop a detailed non-linear 3-D dynamic finite element model of the knee joint and perform preliminary analysis simulating different loading conditions to confirm reasonable function of the model. Design. Using ANSYS, a finite element model of the human knee was created and tested. Background. Finite element models of the knee have been developed in previous studies. However, no study has generated a detailed tissue level model, or performed dynamic testing on a model. Methods. Initial cartilage and ligament geometry was received from a previous study. A finite element mesh including bone was created. The model was constrained to simulate different experimental testing conditions by rigidly fixing the distal tibia and limiting the motion of the proximal femur. Free vibration and steady state analyses of the model were performed simulating experiments. Results. A detailed, highly nonlinear finite element model of the human knee was created in three dimensions. Axial compressive load and two constraint conditions were applied. Solution was performed to the point of easy convergence. The model was also examined through dynamic analysis to find the mode shapes. The model performed well under this initial analysis. Conclusion. The model was developed and tested successfully. The model needs further refinement and verification with experimental data to follow. The preliminary analysis of the model indicated that constraint conditions could significantly affect the magnitude and distribution of stresses within the different components of the knee joint. Mode shapes are also varied at different constraint conditions. The model is applicable to predict the vulnerable parts of the knee joint at different clinical situations as well as occupational conditions

Nationwide Now Accounts: Current Legal Issues, Supervisory Update

Consequently, in the race for market shares, different institutions are offering NOW accounts upon a wide variety of terms and conditions. A number of legal questions have arisen as a result of these circumstances. It is the purpose of this article to consider and, perhaps, answer some of these questions. Where there is no definitive answer, suggestions as to an analytical or practical approach will be offered. In addition, the significance of various provisions of the implementing regulations will be considered