Orality and Literacy in Matter and Form: Ben Franklin's Way to Wealth

The reader finishes Benjamin Franklin's Way to Wealth, first published as the preface to the silver-anniversary Poor Richard's Almanach of 1758, with the sense that an infinity of proverbs have followed one another in an endless sequence. With very few exceptions, Franklin took these proverbs, the "active ingredients" of the piece, from printed sources. They came immediately from his own twenty-four previous almanacs, but originally he had taken them from a handful of books which scholars assure us were his direct source of proverbial wisdom (Gallacher 1949:238-39; Newcomb 1957:3, 252; Amacher 1962:56-57). Franklin was, after all, city-born and city-bred, while by contrast proverbs are native to the world of agriculture, orality, and traditionalism. Proverbs embody the concrete and earthy morality of peasant shrewdness; as Walter J. Ong states it, they are situational and operational rather than abstract and speculative, and they are formulated as concrete and earthy expressions in order to be memorable and readily available in the concrete and earthy situations of everyday peasant life (Ong 1982:33-36)

Hispanic Los Aguelos and Puebo Tsave-Yohs

The working paper discusses a Christmas fable tradition in New Mexico known as Los Aguelos to the Hispanics and Tsave-Yohs to the pueblo inhabitants. It also discusses the various linguistics used by different tribes

Santeros: A Living Tradition in American Art from the Southwest

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Exactness of the Bogoliubov approximation in random external potentials

We investigate the validity of the Bogoliubov c-number approximation in the case of interacting Bose-gas in a \textit{homogeneous random} media. To take into account the possible occurence of type III generalized Bose-Einstein condensation (i.e. the occurrence of condensation in an infinitesimal band of low kinetic energy modes without macroscopic occupation of any of them) we generalize the c-number substitution procedure to this band of modes with low momentum. We show that, as in the case of the one-mode condensation for translation-invariant interacting systems, this procedure has no effect on the exact value of the pressure in the thermodynamic limit, assuming that the c-numbers are chosen according to a suitable variational principle. We then discuss the relation between these c-numbers and the (total) density of the condensate

Other Challenges in the Development of the Orbiter Environmental Control Hardware

Development of the Space Shuttle orbiter environmental control and life support system (ECLSS) included the identification and resolution of several interesting problems in several systems. Some of these problems occurred late in the program, including the flight phase. Problems and solutions related to the ammonia boiler system (ABS), smoke detector, water/hydrogen separator, and waste collector system (WCS) are addressed

Trainable, vision-based automated home cage behavioral phenotyping

We describe a fully trainable computer vision system enabling the automated analysis of complex mouse behaviors. Our system computes a sequence of feature descriptors for each video sequence and a classifier is used to learn a mapping from these features to behaviors of interest. We collected a very large manually annotated video database of mouse behaviors for training and testing the system. Our system performs on par with human scoring, as measured from the ground-truth manual annotations of thousands of clips of freely behaving mice. As a validation of the system, we characterized the home cage behaviors of two standard inbred and two nonstandard mouse strains. From this data, we were able to predict the strain identity of individual mice with high accuracy.California Institute of Technology. Broad Fellows Program in Brain CircuitryNational Science Council of Taiwan (TMS-094-1-A032