Guides and Guidance: Subverting Tourist Narratives in Trans-Indigenous Time and Space

My dissertation is a study of the ways in which Indigenous writers and theorists suggest we decolonize the sites of knowledge production through our pedagogical and methodological practices. Ultimately, my dissertation is about the power of story and finding the necessary strategies to change the narratives that do harm in our daily lives. I focus on the sites of knowledge production because these are the institutions and practices with which I am the most familiar. The purpose of this work is beyond metaphorical as I strive to forefront the narratives that change the ways in which settler-Indigenous relationships are formed in a geopolitical context. The subjects of this study include textbooks, curriculum requirements, archives, gardens, fieldwork research methodologies, museums, tourist sites, and schools that utilize decolonial praxis. As its primary theoretical framework, this project relies on Doreen Massey’s conceptualization of space as interrelational and ongoing, coupled with Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s definition of intervening as an Indigenizing methodology that changes institutions to serve Indigenous peoples, rather than changing Indigenous peoples to fit institutions. Since the sites of knowledge production are often intertribal, I examine trans-Indigenous strategies for intervening in Eurocentric narrative spaces by using Chadwick Allen’s trans-Indigenous methodologies in my literary analysis. In this study, I also analyze academic tourism — yet to be explored in my field — as the conflation of research methodologies and tourist practices at museums and heritage sites where knowledge is packaged for popular consumption and risks being unethically oversimplified. I expect my dissertation fieldwork on the spatial narrative of the Indian Community School (ICS) in Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) will illuminate necessary strategies to create spaces that reflect our shared visions for a just society

On the Collective Mode Spectrum for Composite Fermions at 1/3 Filling Factor

The collective mode spectrum of the composite fermion state 1/3 filling factor is evaluated. At zero momentum, the result coincides with the cyclotron energy at the external magnetic field value, and not at the effective magnetic field, in spite of the fact that only the former enters in the equations, thus, the Kohn theorem is satisfied. Unexpectedly, in place of a magneto roton minimum, the collective mode gets a treshold indicating the instability of the mean field composite fermion state under the formation of crystalline structures. However, the question about if if this outcome only appears within the mean field approximation should be further considered.Comment: 17 pages, one figure. Submitted to Int. Jour. Mod. Phys.

Modifying IMSMA Training: The Mine Action Information Management Qualification Scheme

The Mine Action Information Management Qualification Scheme (MIQ) is a new training tool for the Information Management System for Mine Action. It was created in response to the Next Generation version of IMSMA, the newest version of the system. The Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining eliminated the rigid and unnecessary parts of the training-system in order to make MIQ more user-friendly. The MIQ scheme is currently being incorporated into several countries’ information-management programs, but it could still use input as it is being refined and implemented

Land-release Information Management: Advocating for a Collaborative Approach

For land release to become more efficient and less dangerous, operations on the ground need accurate information. Collaboration between information management and operational planning will help increase safety while working toward releasing more land. The most challenging aspect of land release is the identification of boundaries around contaminated areas, and using new information technologies will aid not only operation managers in the area, but also senior managers setting long-term goals

Magnetic Collapse of a Neutron Gas: No Magnetar Formation

A degenerate neutron gas in equilibrium with a background of electrons and protons in a magnetic field exerts its pressure anisotropically, having a smaller value perpendicular than along the magnetic field. For critical fields the magnetic pressure may produce the vanishing of the equatorial pressure of the neutron gas, and the outcome could be a transverse collapse of the star. This fixes a limit to the fields to be observable in stable pulsars as a function of their density. The final structure left over after the implosion might be a mixed phase of nucleons and meson ($\pi^{\pm,0},\kappa^{\pm,0}$) condensate (a strange star also likely) or a black string, but no magnetar at all.Comment: 5 pages, 1 latex file, 1 encapsulated figure. Submitted to Physical Review Letters (24/11/2000

CONSTRUCCIÓN DE UN PORTAFOLIO CON RIESGO MENOR AL RIESGO DE MERCADO UTILIZANDO LA METODOLOGÍA DE MARKOWITZ

Ya sabemos que existen diversas opciones de inversión, y que los portafolios de inversión ayudan a disminuir en gran medida el riesgo de pérdida en una inversión, ahora lo que necesitamos saber es como medir el riesgo del portafolio, y para ello existen diversos modelos establecidos que nos permiten evaluar los portafolios, para que la inversión a realizar se haga con decisiones fundamentadas con bases probabilísticas. De acuerdo a lo anterior, es de donde surge el interés en realizar este estudio, cuyo objetivo general es la construcción de un portafolio que minimice el riesgo de la inversión y maximice el rendimiento utilizando acciones de empresas que cotizan actualmente en la Bolsa Mexicana de Valores y forman parte del IPC. Además se plantean los objetivos particulares siguientes: • Conocer el funcionamiento del Mercado Financiero Mexicano, para así poder crear el portafolio de inversión. • Identificar los tipos de activos financieros que pueden conformar el portafolio de inversión. • Analizar el riesgo y el rendimiento de los activos financieros, que integrarán el portafolio de inversión, para decidir en cuales es conveniente invertir. • Conocer la Teoría de Markowitz y la Teoría del Portafolio. • Analizar la importancia de diversificar una inversión haciendo uso de un portafolio. En la búsqueda de cumplir con dichos objetivos, se plante la siguiente hipótesis: Es posible reducir el riesgo de una inversión mediante un ejercicio de optimización basada en la teoría de portafolio. La presente tesis está integrada por tres capítulos. En el capítulo uno se da a conocer la definición del Sistema Financiero Mexicano, así como una descripción de la integración del mismo, sus funciones, historia y el Mercado de Valores. Es en el capítulo dos en donde se verán las teorías que se utilizaran para la creación de un portafolio de inversión dando mayor importancia a la Teoría del Portafolio de Markowitz. Y finalmente, en el capítulo tres se expondrán los supuestos que se habrán de utilizar como estrategias para la elección de los activos financieros, se realizara el portafolio eficiente y se analizarán los resultados cuantitativos. Tomando en cuenta dichos resultados se darán las conclusiones del presente trabajo

Stability Conditions and the Single Mode Approximation in FQHE

A thermodynamic stability criterion for the spontaneous breaking of the translation invariance of many particle systems is derived. It simply requires the positive character of the wavevector dependent dielectric function as generalising the same condition for macroscopic dielectric constants. Its application to the Single Mode Approximation (SMA) for the description of the collective modes of the filling factor 1/m Laughlin states is considered. The results indicate that the stability condition is violated by the SMA for all the relevant states m=3,5,7,9 in a wavevector neighborhood of the magneto-roton minima. These conclusions are in qualitative agreement with similar results obtained from the solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation at 1/3 filling factor for both composite fermions and phenomenologically described electrons in the Laughlin state.Comment: 14 pages, two figures, the spelling and acknowledgments were correcte