Imbedding Christian Values in the Public Education Setting: Creating a Democratic Classroom Environment

This article supports the need for Christian education in the sustainment of democracy and discusses the opportunity for Christian values to be implicitly imbedded into classroom through the creation of a democratic forum. This nation was founded on Christian principles. While the basis of today’s public education setting includes a basic understanding of the core skills (reading, writing and basic arithmetic), these skills alone are not enough for a student to achieve success. A student must also learn, through the education and spiritual process, courage, confidence and life skills in order to survive in today’s society. Furthermore, the ability to apply the core skills is necessary in order for an individual to fully achieve his or her potential. Through education and spirituality, an individual undergoes a transformation, gaining an understanding and appreciation of the world

CP Violation and Future `B-Factories'

This lecture contains a brief introduction to CP violation in the B system before discussing future experimental programmes and their CP reach in the B system.Comment: 12 pages. 11 postscript figures + 1 postscript preprint logo + 1 LaTeX file + 1 style file. Also available at http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/preprints/97/09/ Lecture given at ` The Actual Problems of Particle Physics', Gomel, Belaru

QCD at HERA

A review of HERA measurements of structure functions, fragmentation functions and forward jet production is presented.Comment: 12 pages. 13 postscript figures + 1 postscript preprint logo + 1 LaTeX file + 1 style file. Also available at http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/preprints/98/02/ Invited talk given at SILAFAE9

Gravitational Stability of Vortices in Bose-Einstein Condensate Dark Matter

We investigate a simple model for a galactic halo under the assumption that it is dominated by a dark matter component in the form of a Bose-Einstein condensate involving an ultra-light scalar particle. In particular we discuss the possibility if the dark matter is in superfluid state then a rotating galactic halo might contain quantised vortices which would be low-energy analogues of cosmic strings. Using known solutions for the density profiles of such vortices we compute the self-gravitational interactions in such halos and place bounds on the parameters describing such models, such as the mass of the particles involved.Comment: 17 pages, 4 figures, submitted to CQ