Although efforts have been directed toward the advancement of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) positions, little research has directly examined women's perspectives and bottom-up strategies for advancing in male-stereotyped disciplines. The present study utilized Photovoice, a Participatory Action Research method, to identify themes that underlie women's experie...

Multiscale entropy (MSE) of physiological signals may reflect cardiovascular health in diabetes. The classic MSE (cMSE) algorithm requires more than 750 signals for the calculations. The modified short-time MSE (sMSE) may have inconsistent outcomes compared with the cMSE at large time scales and in a disease status. Therefore, we compared the cMSE of 1500 (cMSE1500) consecutive and 1000 photopl...

A multitude of metagenomic studies has brought to light an enormous richness of human gut microbiota compositions. In this space of possible configurations, clinical specialists are trying to mine the markers of healthy microbiota via case-control and longitudinal studies. We have discovered potentially beneficial communities while examining the microbial diversity in rural Russians in comparis...

Using 1000 successive points of a pulse wave velocity (PWV) series, we previously distinguished healthy from diabetic subjects with multi-scale entropy (MSE) using a scale factor of 10. One major limitation is the long time for data acquisition (i.e., 20 min). This study aimed at validating the sensitivity of a novel method, short time MSE (sMSE) that utilized a substantially smaller sample siz...

The term ”global games” was introduced by Carlson and Van Damme in their classic 1993 Econometrica paper to describe a type of Bayesian game. In this type of game, the players’ payoffs for a given strategy profile also depends on the realization of a fundamental ”state of the economy”, which is unobserved.The fundamental has a prior distribution which is common knowledge. At the start of the pl...

(1) Background: Computer-based analyses have been widely used to study aspects of various team and racket sports. However, such so far eluded table tennis, except in special competition forms, under fixed laboratory conditions or only tracked the ball. The aim was detect a basic, global, positional behavior, independent score. (2) Methods: We investigated player position professional male tenni...

Systems that involve more than one decision maker are often optimized using the theory of games. In the traditional game theory, it is assumed that each player has a well-defined quantitative utility function over a set of the player decision space. Each player attempts to maximize minimize his her own expected utility and each is assumed to know the extensive game in full. At present, it canno...