INTRODUCTION Research with Indigenous populations is not always designed with cultural sensitivity. Few publications evaluate or describe in detail seeking consent for research with Indigenous participants. When potential participants are not engaged in a culturally respectful manner, participation rates and research quality can be adversely affected. It is unethical to proceed with research wi...

Drivers in urban neighborhoods who cruise streets, seeking inexpensive on-street parking create a significant fraction of measured traffic congestion. The solution to this problem is to reduce the total traffic volume including cruising traffic by implementing a congestion pricing scheme: the imposition of a usage fee on a limited-capacity resource during times of high demand. We review the his...

The causes of megafaunal extinctions in North America have been widely debated but remain poorly understood. Mammoths (Mammuthus spp.) in the American Southwest were hunted by Clovis people during a period of rapid climate change, just before the regional onset of Younger Dryas cooling and mammoth extirpation. Thus, these mammoths may provide key insights into late Pleistocene extinction proces...

PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether patients' perceptions exceed expectations when seeking treatment in private healthcare settings in the Klang Valley Region of Malaysia. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH A survey was conducted among 191 patients in the Klang Valley Region of Malaysia to measure service quality of the private healthcare setting in Malaysia using SERVQUAL 5 ...

Submitted for the MAR11 Meeting of The American Physical Society Boundary properties between monolayer and bilayer graphene and valley filter TAKESHI NAKANISHI, AIST, MIKITO KOSHINO, Tohoku Univ., TSUNEYA ANDO, Tokyo Inst. Tech. — Graphene consists of a twodimensional hexagonal crystal of carbon atoms, in which electron dynamics is governed by the Dirac equation. The purpose of this paper is to...

Abstract The observation of strongly correlated states in moiré systems has renewed the conceptual interest magnetic with higher SU(4) spin symmetry, e.g., to describe Mott insulators where local moments are coupled spin–valley degrees freedom. Here, we discuss a numerical renormalization group scheme explore formation ordered and unconventional liquid at zero temperature based on pseudo-fermio...

The prevailing analyses of sinusoidally perturbed extremum-seeking (ES) schemes require the ES scheme to act slowly relative to the plant dynamics. Existing analyses that do allow for fast ES are fairly restrictive, considering only local behaviour on Wiener–Hammerstein plants where the nonlinear element is quadratic. In this paper, semi-global stability of an ES scheme acting on a general Hamm...

Caldera systems such as Long Valley Caldera, California; Taupo, New Zealand; and Campi Flegrei, Italy, experience centuries to millennia without eruption, but have the potential for large eruptions. This raises questions about how local residents' behavioral responses these low-probability high-consequence events differ from their events, wildfires earthquakes, that higher probabilities. To exa...

BACKGROUND Researchers are required to seek consent from Indigenous communities prior to conducting research but there is inadequate information about how Indigenous people understand and become fully engaged with this consent process. Few studies evaluate the preference or understanding of the consent process for research with Indigenous populations. Lack of informed consent can impact on rese...

The morphology of glacial valley can be described in terms of power law or quadratic equations fitted to valley cross-profiles. These two models are used to study the cross-profiles of 86 valley cross-profiles in the Zardkuh Mountain in order to understand the evolutional patterns of valleys. Assessment of using the power law function indicates that b values for both valley sides range from 1.0...