Overview of Non-Relativistic QCD

An overview of recent theoretical progress on Non-Relativistic QCD and related effective theories is provided.Comment: Plenary talk at the 4th International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics (QNP06), 5-10 June 2006, Madrid, Spain; 6 pages, 1 figure, EPJ style. References added. Journal versio

Transnational Knowledge Projects and Failing Racial Etiquette

Abstract: This essay calls upon Chicana/o Studies scholars to interrogate some of the assumptions underwriting the transnational turn. Chief among these is the implicit supposition that in order to produce transnational scholarship, one simply (but necessarily) must cross a national border. On the one hand, in taking the concept “transnational” far too literally, this simplistic assumption ignores far more substantive and compelling questions about transnational capitalism’s affects on subjectivity, desire, and resistance. On the other hand, the (sole) crossing-borders criterion suggests that those scholars who work on racial formations within the U.S. (Chicana/o Studies scholars, for instance) have no responsibility to think and work transnationally. Why should people, culture, racializations, literatures, produced within the U.S. not be studied within the larger context of transnational capitalism? Soto also critiques the fetishization of international difference and visibility politics. Queer theory, she argues, provides a helpful set of tools for negotiating these challenges of the transnational turn. Queer theory’s healthy poststructuralist skepticism of empiricism and positivism—together with its commitment to social justice and keen awareness of the power differentials within knowledge production—makes it poised to help us out of the temptation to simply shine a light on the global south

Scheduling Activity in an Agent Architecture

Proceedings of the AISB’00 Symposium on AI Planning and Intelligent Agents. Birmingham, UK, 17-20 April, 2000.Agents for applications in dynamic environments require artificial intelligence techniques to solve problems to achieve their objectives. For example, they must develop plans of actions to carry out missions in their environment, in other words, to achieve some state in the world. But also, the agents must fulfill real-time requirements that arise because the characteristics of the applications and the dynamism of the environment. In this paper we analyze the use of a schedule of activity in an agent architecture to control the resources (time) needed by agents to accomplish their objectives.Publicad

Promising Practices: Informational Outreach to The HIV/AIDS Population On SSI/SSDI Benefits and Work

HIV / AIDS crosses all borders, rich and poor, black and white and youth and seniors alike. Additionally, individuals with HIV/AIDS are told not to work as they may lose their benefits, should a continuing disability review be conducted. Perseverance, building trust and investing many hours of staff time has brought a level of comfort to allow Barrier Free Living in New York City to successfully reach out to the HIV/AIDS population. With the successful outreach efforts enumerated below, Barrier Free Living has seen dramatic increases in the numbers of clients with HIV/AIDS served by the BPA&O program. Amazingly, like in the Latino population, the community as a whole did not know of the agencies’ existence before the outreach efforts