Materialized Practices of Food as Borderlands Performing as Pedagogy

In this paper, I examine the interrelationship between borderlands, food, and ways in which they perform as pedagogy. First, I define borderlands in relation to art. Second, I discuss food and borderlands as authenticity, hybridity, and race/body. Lastly, I examine various fields of pedagogy including public, border, and food pedagogy and consider how they relate to food. I suggest that the interrelationship between borderlands and food can be used as a pedagogical tool to teach and learn about liminality, tension, contradiction, and hybridity. The hybrid spaces of consumable borderlands challenge food purity and yield unexpected foods such as carne asada fries and hotdog tamales. An important concept of border pedagogy, borderlands can be employed to decenter, reterritorialize, remap and create new knowledge through food materials and processes. The entanglement of public, border, food pedagogy, and tamales is a complicated and dense process wherein knowledge collides with the in-between. Further, the knowledge connected to the experience of dialogue, making and eating food as borderlands enters a liminal space between knowing and not knowing and varies with each encounter

Selectivity in regeneration of the oculomotor nerve in the cichlid fish, Astronotus ocellatus

It has long been considered a general rule for nerve regeneration that the reinnervation of skeletal muscle is nonselective. Regenerating nerve fibers are supposed to reconnect with one skeletal muscle as readily as another according to studies covering a wide range of vertebrates (Weiss, 1937; Weiss & Taylor, 1944; Weiss & Hoag, 1946; Bernstein & Guth, 1961; Guth, 1961, 1962, 1963). Similarly, in embryogenesis proper functional connexions between nerve centers and particular muscles are supposedly attained, not by selective nerve outgrowth but rather through a process of ‘myotypic modulation’ (Weiss, 1955) that presupposes nonselective peripheral innervation. Doubt about the general validity of this rule and the concepts behind it has come from a series of studies on regeneration of the oculomotor nerve in teleosts, urodeles, and anurans and of spinal fin nerves in teleosts (Sperry, 1946, 1947, 1950, 1965; Sperry & Deupree, 1956; Arora & Sperry, 1957a, 1964)

The Past, Present and Future of the \u3ci\u3eJournal of Individual Psychology\u3c/i\u3e

The co-editors of the Journal of Individual Psychology (JIP) will discuss the past, present, and future of the journal. This presentation will also include information about publishing in the JIP, download patterns of JIP articles, a brief history of the journal, and the process to become a peer-reviewer. Participants will be able to: describe the process for submitting manuscripts to the JIP. Participants will be able to: explain the history of the JIP and plans for IP to become an evidenced-based counseling approach. Participants will be able to: describe the process for applying to be a peer-reviewer for the JIP

Magnetic tape transport controlled by rotating transducer heads

Magnetic tape transport includes a common drive for both the tape drive capstans and the rotating record/reproduce heads. Speed of the drive may be varied within a preselected range, but, once selected, remains constant so head and capstan are driven in synchronization and at constant speed

Synergetic Analysis of the Haeussler-von der Malsburg Equations for Manifolds of Arbitrary Geometry

We generalize a model of Haeussler and von der Malsburg which describes the self-organized generation of retinotopic projections between two one-dimensional discrete cell arrays on the basis of cooperative and competitive interactions of the individual synaptic contacts. Our generalized model is independent of the special geometry of the cell arrays and describes the temporal evolution of the connection weights between cells on different manifolds. By linearizing the equations of evolution around the stationary uniform state we determine the critical global growth rate for synapses onto the tectum where an instability arises. Within a nonlinear analysis we use then the methods of synergetics to adiabatically eliminate the stable modes near the instability. The resulting order parameter equations describe the emergence of retinotopic projections from initially undifferentiated mappings independent of dimension and geometry.Comment: Dedicated to Hermann Haken on the occasion of his 80th birthda

The Yellow Bird

First Prize, Short Story Contes