Gender Dynamics and Connecting Comparisons

Connecting Smiles and Basket Dynamics

• Overview of the smile problem • Local volatility models: mixture of densities' model • A practical choice: an uncertain volatility model • The link: a projection result • Properties, precautions, niceties; explanatory power • Mixtures of densities in the multivariate context: – brute force approach (Simply Correlated Mixture Dynamics) – subtler approach: MultiVariate Mixture Dynamics – consis...

Gender comparisons between unilateral and bilateral landings.

The increased number of women participating in sports has led to a higher knee injury rate in women compared with men. Among these injuries, those occurring to the ACL are commonly observed during landing maneuvers. The purpose of this study was to determine gender differences in landing strategies during unilateral and bilateral landings. Sixteen male and 17 female recreational athletes were r...

Connecting cluster dynamics and protein folding

The relaxation dynamics of clusters can be interpreted in terms of the topographies of their potential surfaces. Systems with short-range potentials have sawtooth-like potential surfaces with small drops in energy from one local minimum to the next and few-body motions as the clusters move from one minimum to another; such systems readily take on amorphous structures. These are called “glassfor...

Connecting Cortical And Behavioral Dynamics: Bimanual Coordination

For the paradigmatic case of bimanual coordination, we review levels of organization of behavioral dynamics and present a description in terms of modes of behavior. We briefly review a recently developed model of spatiotemporal brain activity that is based on short- and long-range connectivity of neural ensembles. This model is specified for the case of motor and sensorimotor units embedded in ...

Gender and Power Dynamics