Comments on "State equation for the three-dimensional system of 'collapsing' hard spheres"

A recent paper [I. Klebanov et al. \emph{Mod. Phys. Lett. B} \textbf{22} (2008) 3153; arXiv:0712.0433] claims that the exact solution of the Percus-Yevick (PY) integral equation for a system of hard spheres plus a step potential is obtained. The aim of this paper is to show that Klebanov et al.'s result is incompatible with the PY equation since it violates two known cases: the low-density limit and the hard-sphere limit.Comment: 4 pages; v2: title chang

A Self-reflection Tool for Black Trustees on Foundation Boards

A companion to ABFE's Responsive Philanthropy in Black Communities: A Framework and Agenda for Chang

The Art of Friluftsliv, a New Philosophy for Climate Change

2015 essay contest winner Sarah Mason\u27s The Art of Friluftsliv, a New Philosophy for Climate Chang

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Index de les obres ressenyades: J. ANDERSON ; S. DUNCAN ; R. HUDSON, Redundant spaces in cities and regions? Studies in industrial decline and social chang

An idea for a new modeling approach of climatic changes. A correlation study for Cyprus

Mathematical Modeling in climatic changes prediction has been based on more or less simple energy balances considering the Earth along with its atmosphere, with the so-called solar "constant" taken as an invariant. However evidence has been supplied in previous WSEAS Conferences that this constant, S, does not remain a constant but it does fluctuate, following the cycles of the solar activity. Furthermore the transmission parameters concerning the input and the output energy, τ V and τ IR from/to the system Earth-Atmosphere also vary and this reflects the human activity leading to increased greenhouse gas quantities, being blamed for a dramatic climatic change the last decades. Thus, considering those fluctuating properties, the following equation for Earth's mean temperature, T, has been developed (A being albedo equal to 0.3 and σ is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant) (Equation presented) with the following multivariate treatment: (Equation presented) We need to obtain the derivatives: (Equation presented) because all S, τ IR, τ V chang

Teaching Asian Americans and the Law: Struggling with History, Identity, and Politics

In this brief article, Professor Chang explores the goals and challenges in constructing a course on Asian Americans and the Law. In his course on Asian Americans and the Law, Professor Chang tries to include in the weekly reading packets history, narratives, and cases. Professor Chang includes the narratives because he has found that the students often have a difficult time relating to the history without them. After all, narratives bring life to history, making it easier for students to relate to and/or identify with the historical persons who occupy very different subject positions with regard to race, nationality, immigration history, class, and gender. He also includes cases because they simultaneously document enactments of power directed against persons of Asian ancestry and stand as examples of active resistance by those persons in the face of state and private power. This article is also accompanied by the course syllabus

Teaching Asian Americans and the Law: Struggling with History, Identity, and Politics

In this brief article, Professor Chang explores the goals and challenges in constructing a course on Asian Americans and the Law. In his course on Asian Americans and the Law, Professor Chang tries to include in the weekly reading packets history, narratives, and cases. Professor Chang includes the narratives because he has found that the students often have a difficult time relating to the history without them. After all, narratives bring life to history, making it easier for students to relate to and/or identify with the historical persons who occupy very different subject positions with regard to race, nationality, immigration history, class, and gender. He also includes cases because they simultaneously document enactments of power directed against persons of Asian ancestry and stand as examples of active resistance by those persons in the face of state and private power. This article is also accompanied by the course syllabus

The End of Innocence or Politics After the Fall of the Essential Subject

Stuart Hall, writing in the context of British Cultural Studies, describes the demise of the essential black subject as the end of innocence. We have seen in feminist theory and in critical race theory the debate about essentialism, along with various recuperative proposals such as intersectionality, multiple consciousness, positionality, and strategic essentialism. Rather than revisit those discussions, Professor Chang raises the possibility of constructing new subject positions in an attempt to move us beyond the difference divide, to move us from identity politics as we now know it to political identities. In this essay, Professor Chang asks whether we can imagine a world where the utterance of the Korean grocer, in Spike Lee’s film Do the Right Thing, would not be greeted with incredulity. Is there a way to understand his claim that he is Black as part of the logic of Hall\u27s pronouncement? In his conclusion, Professor Chang offers an alternative reading, one that attempts to read the Korean grocer\u27s statement from a perspective that understands and takes seriously identity as political, not essential