The future of North American trade policy: lessons from NAFTA

This repository item contains a single issue of the Pardee Center Task Force Reports, a publication series that began publishing in 2009 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.This Task Force Report written by an international group of trade policy experts calls for significant reforms to address adverse economic, environmental, labor and societal impacts created by the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The report is intended to contribute to the discussion and decisions stemming from ongoing reviews of proposed reforms to NAFTA as well as to help shape future trade agreements. It offers detailed proposals on topics including services, manufacturing, agriculture, investment, intellectual property, labor, environment, and migration. Fifteen years after NAFTA was enacted, there is widespread agreement that the trade treaty among the United States, Canada and Mexico has fallen short of its stated goals. While proponents credit the agreement with stimulating the flow of goods, services, and investment among the North American countries, critics in all three countries argue that this has not brought improvements in the standards of living of most people. Rather than triggering a convergence across the three nations, NAFTA has accentuated the economic and regulatory asymmetries that had existed among the three countries. [TRUNCATED

Alpha decay and proton-neutron correlations

We study the influence of proton-neutron (p-n) correlations on alpha-decay width. It is shown from the analysis of alpha Q values that the p-n correlations increase the penetration of the alpha particle through the Coulomb barrier in the treatment following Gamow's formalism, and enlarges the total alpha-decay width significantly. In particular, the isoscalar p-n interactions play an essential role in enlarging the alpha-decay width. The so-called "alpha-condensate" in Z > 84 isotopes are related to the strong p-n correlations.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C (R.C.

Roles of proton-neutron interactions in alpha-like four-nucleon correlations

An extended pairing plus QQ force model, which has been shown to successfully explain the nuclear binding energy and related quantities such as the symmetry energy, is applied to study the alpha-like four-nucleon correlations in 1f_{7/2} shell nuclei. The double difference of binding energies, which displays a characteristic behavior at $N \approx Z$, is interpreted in terms of the alpha-like correlations. Important roles of proton-neutron interactions forming the alpha-like correlated structure are discussed.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures, RevTex, submitted to Phys. Rev.

Structure of the vacuum states in the presence of isovector and isoscalar pairing correlations

The long standing problem of proton-neutron pairing and, in particular, the limitations imposed on the solutions by the available symmetries, is revisited. We look for solutions with non-vanishing expectation values of the proton, the neutron and the isoscalar gaps. For an equal number of protons and neutrons we find two solutions where the absolute values of proton and neutrons gaps are equal but have the same or opposite sign. The behavior and structure of these solutions differ for spin saturated (single l-shell) and spin unsaturared systems (single j-shell). In the former case the BCS results are checked against an exact calculation.Comment: 19 pages, 5 postscript figure

Gamow Shell Model Description of Weakly Bound Nuclei and Unbound Nuclear States

We present the study of weakly bound, neutron-rich nuclei using the nuclear shell model employing the complex Berggren ensemble representing the bound single-particle states, unbound Gamow states, and the non-resonant continuum. In the proposed Gamow Shell Model, the Hamiltonian consists of a one-body finite depth (Woods-Saxon) potential and a residual two-body interaction. We discuss the basic ingredients of the Gamow Shell Model. The formalism is illustrated by calculations involving {\it several} valence neutrons outside the double-magic core: $^{6-10}$He and $^{18-22}$O.Comment: 19 pages, 20 encapsulated PostScript figure

Cultura imperial, cultura ilustrada y liberación de la cultura popular

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Universalismo y misión en los poemas del Siervo de Iehvah

El tema del Siervo de Iehvah es uno de los más discutidos en exégesis de nuestro tiempo. El himno de San Pablo (Filip.2,5-11), Midrash eclesial del antiguo poema de Isaías, ha dado motivo a toda una teología protestante de la kenósis de donde Hegel se inspirará, en alguna manera, para fundar su filosofía de la historia. El mismo MArx, partiendo de la teoría hegeliana de la Entäusserung y la Entfremdung, expondrá su doctrina del trabajo y la alienación. Un Freud, un Hesnard utilizan todavía la dialéctica del Señor-esclavo como explicación de los fenómenos psicopáticos. Por otra parte, el renacimiento de los estudios eclesiológicos y la universalización de la misión, nos inclinan a investigar en sus fundamentos mismos, en sus estructuras metafísica y teológica, la rica problemática que el mundo pagano de nuestra época plantea a la Iglesia de Jesús, que "cargó nuestras flaquezas y llevo nuestras enfermedades" (Mat. 8,17).Por ello hemos elegido los temas del universalismo y la misión, en la compleja realidad del Siervo de Iehvah, sin pretender estudiar los otros aspectos de tan sugestivo personaje. Nos situaremos, entonces, en el presente trabajo, en tres niveles distintos; el filológico, o la crítica y contenido de los textos; el exégito, o el de las conclusiones de coherencia bíblica -tanto filológicas como históricas-; el teológico, o la reflexión científica que iluminada por la fe alcanza a vislumbrar el sentido de la Historia Santa

Hacia una historia de la iglesia latinoamericana

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Para una fundamentación dialéctica de la liberación latinoamericana

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Crisis de la Iglesia latinoamericana y situación del pensador cristiano en Argentina

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