"Our Own Gayful Rest": A Postcolonial Archive

My subject is an archive of gay and lesbian activism that helps us understand a postcolonial counterpublic. The project I undertake is of historical recovery and theoretical elaboration of the specificities of postcolonial sexuality-based movements as necessary and long overdue supplements to global sexual activism

Worlding Sexualities under Apartheid: From Gay Liberation to a Queer Afropolitanism

Examining gay journalism as gay liberation literature, this essay forwards a cultural history of sexuality informed by comparative urban and queer studies. My main argument is that gay liberation literature under apartheid lags behind important shifts in sexual activism; and my larger aim is to extend the valences of postcolonial queer studies towards a historical examination of North–South interactions in theorizing sexual activism. Gay liberation literature here refers to texts which contributed to the emergence of gay and lesbian sexualities in South Africa, including works of fiction, poetry, drama, anthologies as well as newsletters, newspapers, and newsletters. The primary archive used as an example of gay liberation literature is Link/Skakel, the official newsletter of the GASA, which later became a mainstream gay newspaper called Exit

Asian Economic Integration: ASEAN+3+1 or ASEAN+1s?

In this paper an attempt is made to evaluate the most efficient approach to regional economic integration in Asia. For the purpose, Asia is defined as inclusive of ASEAN, the plus three economies of China, Japan, Korea and India that is the ASEAN plus four. Given that ASEAN is an existing regional bloc in Asia, alternative approaches to the alignment of the plus four economies with ASEAN for the formation of the ASEAN+4 trade bloc have been evaluated to determine if there are efficiency costs by way of distortion in the patterns of trade away from those expected on the basis of comparative advantage. The findings of our analysis underscore the efficiency of a prior alignment with ASEAN for all the plus four economies.regional economic integration, Asia, efficiency cost, comparative advantage, first mover advantage, trade diversion.

Importance of Sea Contribution to Nucleons

We studied the statistical model of nucleons consisting of sea having various quark-gluon Fock states in addition to valence quarks. Using statistical consideration and taking 86% of the total Fock states contributing to the low energy properties of nucleon, we aim to find the contributions to these properties coming from the scalar, vector and tensor sea. We checked its validity against the assumption where the contributions from scalar and tensor sea have been suppressed and justified to be unimportant. We took the approximation that sea is getting a zero contribution from H_0 G_\bar10 and H_1 G_\bar10 in three gluon states. Under above considerations, the calculated magnetic moment, spin distribution and weak decay coupling constant ratio for proton and neutron states have been tabulated. We hereby confirm that the suppression of the scalar and tensor sea leads to modification in the parameters of the nucleons showing deviation from the experimental data.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figures, To be published in NP

Near Optimal Subdivision Algorithms for Real Root Isolation

We describe a subroutine that improves the running time of any subdivision algorithm for real root isolation. The subroutine first detects clusters of roots using a result of Ostrowski, and then uses Newton iteration to converge to them. Near a cluster, we switch to subdivision, and proceed recursively. The subroutine has the advantage that it is independent of the predicates used to terminate the subdivision. This gives us an alternative and simpler approach to recent developments of Sagraloff (2012) and Sagraloff-Mehlhorn (2013), assuming exact arithmetic. The subdivision tree size of our algorithm using predicates based on Descartes's rule of signs is bounded by $O(n\log n)$, which is better by $O(n\log L)$ compared to known results. Our analysis differs in two key aspects. First, we use the general technique of continuous amortization from Burr-Krahmer-Yap (2009), and second, we use the geometry of clusters of roots instead of the Davenport-Mahler bound. The analysis naturally extends to other predicates.Comment: 19 pages, 3 figure