Self-concordance strategies as a necessary condition for self-management

A Necessary Condition for Weyl-Heisenberg Frames

Self-concordance for empirical likelihood

The usual approach to computing empirical likelihood for the mean uses Newton’s method after eliminating a Lagrange multiplier and replacing the function − log(x) by a quadratic Taylor approximation to the left of 1/n. This paper replaces the quadratic approximation by a quartic. The result is a self-concordant function for which Newton’s method with backtracking has theoretical convergence gua...

Group Education Strategies for Diabetes Self - Management

Diabetes self-management education (DSME) is recognized as a fundamental component of diabetes care.1 The goal of DSME is to help patients acquire the knowledge, information, self-care practices, coping skills, and attitudes required for the effective selfmanagement of their diabetes. Several reviews and meta-analyses have found DSME interventions to have a positive impact on diabetes-related h...

A new necessary condition for implementation in iteratively undominated strategies

Implementation in iteratively undominated strategies relies on permissive conditions. For the sufficiency results available, although authors succeed in constructing finite implementing mechanisms, they have relied on assumptions that amount to quasilinear preferences on a numeraire. We uncover a new necessary condition for implementation by mechanisms that satisfy the “best element property” w...

Is perception of self-motion speed a necessary condition for intercepting a moving target while walking?

While it has been shown that the Global Optic Flow Rate (GOFR) is used in the control of self-motion speed, this study examined its relevance in the control of interceptive actions while walking. We asked participants to intercept approaching targets by adjusting their walking speed in a virtual environment, and predicted that the influence of the GOFR depended on their interception strategy. I...