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Caving for “Pink Puffers” and “Blue Bloaters”

The terms “Pink Puffers” and “Blue Bloaters” have been around for many years. They are used in a colloquial sense by speleologists to describe how cavers react to an elevated concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) and reduced oxygen (O2) in a cave’s “foul air” atmosphere. Foul air is only found in a small number of Australian caves and is defined as having a noticeable abnormal physiological eff...

Beyond “Pink” and “Blue”: Gendered Attitudes towards Robots in Society

Developing an improved understanding and awareness of how gender impacts perceptions of robots and interactions with them is crucial for the ongoing advancement of the human-robot interaction (HRI) field, as a lack of awareness of gender issues increases the risk of robot rejection and poor performance. This paper provides a theoretical grounding for gender-studies in HRI that illustrates poten...

Pink puffers vs blue bloaters in asthma too?

W e would like to think that dyspnea, like pain, serves as an early-warning sign of developing disease, respiratory or cardiac. To be effective as an early-warning system, dyspnea should be absent in the absence of disease, its severity should correlate with the severity of lung function impairment, and it should be unpleasant enough to call attention to itself. However, when lung function cann...

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Pink and Blue Pixel$: Gender and Economic Disparity in Two Massive Online Games

Pink and Blue Pixel$: Gender and Economic Disparity in Two Massive Online Games Vili Lehdonvirta, Rabindra A. Ratan, Tracy L. M. Kennedy & Dmitri Williams a Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom b Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA c Department of Communication, Popular Culture ...