2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/82928We argue that the difficulties associated with the convergence properties of conventional SU(3) chiral perturbation theory can be ameliorated by use of a cutoff, which suppresses the model-dependent short distance effects in such calculations.Talk given at Workshop on Quark-Hadron Degrees of Freedom, CSSM, Adelaide, March 1998Nuclear Theorytext