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Toward a New Chicanidad: New Tribalism, Environmental Justice, and China
No full textThis article explores how the trip of environmental activist mark! Lopez to a Clean Air Asia conference in Beijing, China, serves as a case study for understanding the theoretical framework of "new tribalism" and its application to a transnational Chicanidad. Lopez, a representative for the East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (EYCEJ) and the Moving Forward Network (MFN), was invited to share his experiences with clean air initiatives in Los Angeles, particularly those around the San Pedro Port Complex. The conference organizers were specifically interested in the policy changes achieved in California, such as the California Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory Program, that have led to lower air pollution
Stochastic Domination of Prime Powers of a Uniform Random Integer by Geometric Distributions
Get PDFFor each natural number n ≥ 2 and for each prime p ≤ n, we provide three proofs of the fact that the power, Cp(n), of the prime p in the prime factorization of a uniformly chosen random integer from 1 to n is stochastically dominated by a nonnegative geometric random variable, Zp, of parameter 1/p. In one of these proofs, we construct a coupling of Zp and Cp(n) such that with probability one we have both
Zp-1 ≤ Cp(n) ≤ Zp whenever Zp ≤ ⌊logp n⌋ and Cp(n) = ⌊logp n⌋ whenever Zp > ⌊logp n⌋; then we will show that any coupling of Zp and Cp (n) satisfying this constraint is a maximal coupling of Zp and Cp(n) if and only if n = pk for some positive integer k. We will also show how our couplings of the variables Zp and Cp(n) correspond to rigid bracings of an ∞ × ⌊logp n⌋ rectangular grid if and only if n is not divisible by p
