This article explores a network of “dangerous playgrounds” narratives amid the backdrop of then President George W. Bush’s “War on Terror” and the revitalization of the “self-deportation movement” following the passage of SB1070. Tracing the journeys of young, white US American tourists traveling to Latin America to release their inhibitions, stories working in the dangerous playgrounds mode use figurations of insurrectionary violence to wed the narrative arc of the bildungsroman to the generic conventions of melodrama and horror, and so cast the Americas south of the US border as a source of danger to US American youth. By reading these narrative negotiations in relation to the legacies of US American hemispheric interventionism, post-9/11 immigration policy, and US American travel narratives, this article unpacks the ways Jessica Abel’s critically acclaimed comic La Perdida (2006) and the films Turistas (2006), Borderland (2007), The Ruins (2008), and Indigenous (2014) create slippages in meaning that project anxieties about terrorism and domestic security onto Latinx bodies and Latin American nations through figurations of imperiled white femininity. By using literary and cultural analysis to explore how popular sentiment, generic convention, and policy negotiations draw on, shape, and extend neo-Monroeist structures of feeling, this article ultimately finds that the emergence of domestic policies aimed at institutionalizing the surveillance of Latinx subjects arises in popular culture as a remarkably predictable narrative mode, which uses the conventions of adventure, melodrama, and horror to frame the nativist project of securing domestic borders and incarcerating and expelling undocumented Latinx subjects as one of the necessary compromises of a mature nation.

Failures to replicate high-profile priming effects have raised questions about the reliability of so-called “social priming” phenomena. However, not only are many of the relevant studies not particularly social in nature, but other robust priming effects that are clearly social in nature do not count as social priming. Most importantly, the focus on the supposedly social aspect of the work has obscured factors that help to account for the relative reliability of priming effects. Here, we examine the construct of social priming, describe some simple demonstrations on the role of experimental design in priming reproducibility, and discuss future avenues for building a better understanding of priming. We conclude that the term “social priming” should be laid to rest, and that it is time to move past arguments about the reliability of specific effects and shift our energy to building theories that help us better understand the mechanisms underlying priming effects.

In this paper we have focused on the northern Santa Lucia Range, where archaeological surveys and excavations, completed during the last decade, provide on-the-ground validation of settlements and cultural features suggested in the Harrington notes and records.

We identify the main themes raised in the commentaries and respond. To summarize: Yes, there were problems with social priming (and most other psychological) research; yes, the definition of social priming matters; no, cherry-picking specific studies to replicate does not amount to a systematic examination of the relevant research; yes, within-subjects social priming studies are robust; yes, it is wrong to conflate research reproducibility and misconduct; and, yes, it was personal.

An innovative approach for creating miniature Inertial Measurement Units (IMU's) has been developed using folded MEMS fabrication. This enables a path toward a high-performance IMU with a chip-scale footprint of <1 cm^2. The explored method of manufacturing chip-scale IMUs utilizes folded MEMS structures rather than chip stacking or single-die implementations. Inertial measurement units have previously been developed to detect translational and rotational motion, and miniaturization of such technology is desired for many applications. A fabrication process is developed in this work for creating chip-level IMU's utilizing a 3-D SOI backbone which is suitable for high-performance single-axis sensors with an overall package volume of 1 cm^3 or less.

Inertial sensor test structures are designed and implemented on prototype IMU structures. Conventional packaging methods are used such as wirebonding and flip-chip die attachment to connect the sensor bond pads to the overall package. Results indicate that the scale factors are found to be 0.43 mV/°s for the gyroscopes and 3.7 Hz/g for the accelerometers. Methods for providing reinforcement of the folded MEMS devices are explored including epoxy bonding, eutectic soldering, and silicon welding. Folded structures reinforced with silicon welding resulted in survival of up to 260 g of acceleration and experienced its first modes of resonance above 10 kHz.

Performance estimation of the capabilities of the folded MEMS IMU devices is simulated with a mathematical error model. A coordinate transformation is defined to translate the inertial sensor vector axes to navigational frame coordinates. Transformations from the IMU body frame to the navigational frame are created for pyramidal and cubic folded IMU structures. The resulting calculated CEP rate values indicate that the device is capable of moderate navigational performance compared to current technology. This type of IMU shows an overall performance advantage compared to existing chip-scale IMU devices, and is capable of producing a moderate-performance chip-scale device that exceeds the currently available technology.