Sickle Cell Disease Inequity and Inequality

This paper aims to introduce a gendered approach to understanding the lack of research, funding, and personable care for individuals with Sickle Cell Disease. The intersection between race, gender, and health is explored through a lens of the historical and concurrent views surrounding sickle cell disease. Women in the African American community, particularly mothers, experience the largest burden of blame for the transmission and lack of care available for managing the disease. The paper explores the comparison to other similar conditions and the lack of both communal and institutional support for those suffering from the condition

Inequity and Violence: Indigneous Women and Sex Trafficking Policies

This paper explores the the root causes of disproportionate rates of sex trafficking amongst Indigenous women, current policies and legislation that attempt to protect victims of sex trafficking, and policy recommendations to help mitigate sex trafficking amongst Indigenous women

Limits on quantum deletion from no signaling principle

One of the fundamental restrictions that quantum mechanics imposes is the "No deletion Theorem" which tells us that given two identical unknown quantum states, it is impossible to delete one of them. But nevertheless if not perfect, people have tried to delete it approximately. In these approximate deleting processes our basic target is to delete one of the two identical copies as much as possible while preserving the other copy. In this brief report, by using the No communication theorem (NCT) (impossibility of sending signal faster than light using a quantum resource) as a guiding principle, we obtain a bound on the sum of the fidelity of deletion and the fidelity of preservation. Our result not only brings out the complementary relation between these two fidelities but also predicts the optimal value of the fidelity of deletion achievable for a given fidelity of preservation under no signaling constraint. This work eventually saturates the quest for finding out the optimal value of deletion within the NCT framework

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Maternal care: The Black Woman’s Experience

Epidemiological studies show that there are disparities in epidural use and failure for Black women (Morris 2014). For my project, Black women of different ages, prematernal health and economic statuses will be interviewed to assess their quality of maternal medical care in the state of Oklahoma. Research will be done on the history of maternal care and pain management for Black women in the United States that could have led to a misconceived idea of pain tolerance and to a disparity in epidural and anesthesia use. My project will include IRB approved interviews with Black women as well as outside research regarding medical care in Oklahoma

The Sexual Division of Labor and Its Ramifications

The traditional sexual division of labor is typically viewed as a solely feminist issue, and thus widely ignored are its racist, classist, and homophobic ramifications. While somewhat less obvious, these latter lenses reveal the more nuanced harms of this patriarchal tool. This paper dissects the sexual division of labor through the viewpoints of race, class, and sexuality to illustrate the wider array of harms it causes. Various topics explored include undue pressure faced by Black women as they balance gendered household activities with financially supporting their households, an examination of the market dependency model and the ways this leads to economic entrapment, and the stigmatization of gender roles within LGBTQ+ relationships. Overall, it is obvious that a wide range of people suffer under the sexual division of labor outside of the white, middle-class, heterosexual women that this struggle is typically associated with

Agribusiness and space: No limits to growth

Technological developments responding to world food needs are examined. It is noted that agribusiness technology has become more space-related in recent years. Although crops forecasting and improvements in yield (the green revolution) were developed prior to the space era, it would be unthinkable today to ignore the contributions of operational meteorological and communications satellites and experimental Earth observation satellites in agribusiness. Space-driven communications now permit national agribusiness database management networks, with a significant portion of the data being space-derived. In demonstration experiments, space communications were shown to improve those aspects of the food problem related to education and communications

Exploring the limits of no backward in time signalling

We present an operational and model-independent framework to investigate the concept of no-backwards-in-time signaling. We define no-backwards-in-time signaling conditions, closely related to the spatial no-signaling conditions. These allow for theoretical possibilities in which the future affects the past, nevertheless without signaling backwards in time. This is analogous to non-local but no-signaling spatial correlations. Furthermore, our results shed new light on situations with indefinite causal structure and their connection to quantum theory.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, v2: reference adde

pp-wave limits and orientifolds

We study the pp-wave limits of various elliptic models with orientifold planes and D7-branes, as well as the pp-wave limit of an orientifold of adS_5 x T^{11}. Many of the limits contain both open and closed strings. We also present pp-wave limits of theories which give rise to a compact null direction and contain open strings. Maps between the string theory states and gauge theory operators are proposed.Comment: 33 pages, no figures, LaTeX. v2: reference fixe