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Social Identity and Preferences
Social identities prescribe behaviors for people. We identify the marginal behavioral effect of these norms on discount rates and risk aversion by measuring how laboratory subjects’ choices change when an aspect of social identity is made salient. When we make ethnic identity salient to Asian-American subjects, they make more patient choices. When we make racial identity salient to black subjects, non-immigrant blacks (but not immigrant blacks) make more patient choices. Making gender identity salient has no effect on intertemporal or risk choices.
Religious Identity and Economic Behavior
We randomly vary religious identity salience in laboratory subjects to test how identity salience contributes to six hypothesized links from prior literature between religious identity and economic behavior. We find that religious identity salience makes Protestants increase contributions to public goods. Catholics decrease contributions to public goods, expect others to contribute less to public goods, and become less risk averse. Jews more strongly reciprocate as an employee in a bilateral labor market gift-exchange game. We find no evidence of religious identity salience effects on disutility of work effort, discount rates, or generosity in a dictator game.
Can real-time visual feedback during gait retraining reduce metabolic demand for individuals with transtibial amputation?
The metabolic demand of walking generally increases following lower extremity amputation. This study used real-time visual feedback to modify biomechanical factors linked to an elevated metabolic demand of walking in individuals with transtibial amputation. Eight persons with unilateral, traumatic transtibial amputation and 8 uninjured controls participated. Two separate bouts of real-time visual feedback were provided during a single session of gait retraining to reduce 1) center of mass sway and 2) thigh muscle activation magnitudes and duration. Baseline and post-intervention data were collected. Metabolic rate, heart rate, frontal plane center of mass sway, quadriceps and hamstrings muscle activity, and co-contraction indices were evaluated during steady state walking at a standardized speed. Visual feedback successfully decreased center of mass sway 12% (p = 0.006) and quadriceps activity 12% (p = 0.041); however, thigh muscle co-contraction indices were unchanged. Neither condition significantly affected metabolic rate during walking and heart rate increased with center-of-mass feedback. Metabolic rate, center of mass sway, and integrated quadriceps muscle activity were all not significantly different from controls. Attempts to modify gait to decrease metabolic demand may actually adversely increase the physiological effort of walking in individuals with lower extremity amputation who are young, active and approximate metabolic rates of able-bodied adults
Self-consistent predictions for LIER-like emission lines from post-AGB stars
Early type galaxies (ETGs) frequently show emission from warm ionized gas.
These Low Ionization Emission Regions (LIERs) were originally attributed to a
central, low-luminosity active galactic nuclei. However, the recent discovery
of spatially-extended LIER emission suggests ionization by both a central
source and an extended component that follows a stellar-like radial
distribution. For passively-evolving galaxies with old stellar populations, hot
post-Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars are the only viable extended source of
ionizing photons. In this work, we present the first prediction of LIER-like
emission from post-AGB stars that is based on fully self-consistent stellar
evolution and photoionization models. We show that models where post-AGB stars
are the dominant source of ionizing photons reproduce the nebular emission
signatures observed in ETGs, including LIER-like emission line ratios in
standard optical diagnostic diagrams and H equivalent widths of order
0.1-3 angstroms. We test the sensitivity of LIER-like emission to the details
of post-AGB models, including the mass loss efficiency and convective mixing
efficiency, and show that line strengths are relatively insensitive to post-AGB
timescale variations. Finally, we examine the UV-optical colors of the models
and the stellar populations responsible for the UV-excess observed in some
ETGs. We find that allowing as little as 3% of the HB population to be
uniformly distributed to very hot temperatures (30,000 K) produces realistic UV
colors for old, quiescent ETGs.Comment: ApJ accepted. 20 pages, 8 figure
Update on form factor at zero-recoil using the Oktay-Kronfeld action
We present an update on the calculation of
semileptonic form factor at zero recoil using the Oktay-Kronfeld bottom and
charm quarks on flavor HISQ ensembles generated by the MILC
collaboration. Preliminary results are given for two ensembles with and fm and MeV. Calculations have been done
with a number of valence quark masses, and the dependence of the form factor on
them is investigated on the fm ensemble. The excited state is
controlled by using multistate fits to the three-point correlators measured at
4--6 source-sink separations.Comment: 7 pages and 4 figures. Talk at The 36th Annual International
Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - LATTICE201
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