As the general population in the United States becomes more diverse, the need for increased diversity in medical education becomes apparent. Nonetheless, minority faculty, defined as African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Native Americans, and Mainland Puerto Ricans continue to be underrepresented in medical education. There are concerns that this underrepresentation directly affects recruitment...

Cellular automata have been mainly studied on very regular graphs carrying the vertices (like lines or grids) and under synchronous dynamics (all vertices update simultaneously). In this paper, we study how the asynchronism and the graph act upon the dynamics of the classical Minority rule. Minority has been well-studied for synchronous updates and is thus a reasonable choice to begin with. Yet...

The convening of, and the charge to, a Hurricane Intensity Research Working Group (HIRWG) by the NOAA Science Advisory Board (SAB) attested to the following assessments by the agency's leadership. First, the predictive tools available to guide operational forecasting of tropical-cyclone intensity need to be upgraded. Second, it is not clear that the current research activities in NOAA will furn...

Ethnic minority is a comparatively important group that comprises a large sector of the American hospitality industry. The purpose of this study was to investigate the career expectations of ethnic minority students majoring in the hospitality industry and to examine if ethnic minority students perceived more career barriers than White students. Results showed that ethnic minority students perc...