Immigrant Participation in SNAP in a Period of Immigration Policy Changes, 2017-2019
Ajay Chaudry (New York University), Claudia Babcock, Benjamin Zhu Zhu, Sherry Glied (New York University), Immigrant Participation in SNAP in a Period of Immigration Policy Changes, 2017-2019, NYU Wagner Research Paper (forthcoming): One in seven residents of the United States... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 11, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Study in China finds that retirement may accelerate cognitive decline, even for those with stable income
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
The Study:
Pension Benefits, Early Retirement and Human Capital Depreciation in Late Adulthood (Papers, arXiv.org)
Abstract: Historically, economists have mainly focused on human capital accumulation and considerably less so on the causes and consequences of human capital depreciation in late adulthood. Studying human capital depreciation over the life cycle has powerful economic consequences for decision-making in old age. Using data from the introduction of a retirement program in China, we examine how the introduction of a retirement program influences ind...
Source: SharpBrains - June 10, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning aging China cognition cognitive decline cognitive-abilities cognitive-functioning cognitive-skills dementia developing countries mental retirement middle-income countries neuropl Source Type: blogs
Are Social Media Companies Common Carriers?
Matthew FeeneyDuring Donald Trump ’s presidency, many Republican lawmakers and conservative activists took steps to address perceived anti‐conservative bias in “Big Tech.” The most prominent of these efforts fit into two categories: proposed amendments to Section 230 and executive branch action. More recently, legal schol ars, policy analysts, and one Supreme Court justice have considered a third option—common carriage regulation—as a means to force prominent social media companies to host more speech. Such an approach would require these social media companies to treat all legal content equally and refrai...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 24, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Matthew Feeney Source Type: blogs
Cats Like To Sit In Squares — Even Ones That Are Really Optical Illusions
By Emma Young
The world is not exactly short of videos of cute cats up to strange antics. But one particular set of videos collected by cat owners during a COVID-19 lockdown reveals something genuinely interesting: a famous optical illusion that fools us also gets cats. The citizen science project, in which cats were experimented on in their own homes, shows that they, too, are tricked by “Kanizsa squares”, an illusion that suggests the presence of a square that doesn’t in fact exist.
It’s well known that cats love to sit in enclosed spaces, like boxes. They even like to sit in square shapes made...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 24, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cognition Comparative Illusions Source Type: blogs
Pipeline Flex Embolization Device with Shield Technology FDA Approved
Medtronic has won FDA approval for its Pipeline Flex Embolization Device with Shield Technology. The original Pipeline Flex was the first commercially available flow diverter for brain aneurysms. Shield Technology, a novel surface treatment that now encompasses the device, helps to reduce the tendency of the device itself to produce clots.
A few days ago New York University’s Langone Health center in New York City was the first hospital in the U.S. to employ the Pipeline Flex Embolization Device with Shield Technology. “The Pipeline Flex-Shield that we used today at NYU Langone to treat a giant left int...
Source: Medgadget - April 28, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Neurology Neurosurgery Source Type: blogs
Describing Groups To Children Using Generic Language Can Accidentally Teach Them Social Stereotypes
By Matthew Warren
When we talk to children about the characteristics of boys and girls, our word choice and syntax can profoundly shape what they take away from the conversation. Even attempts to dispel stereotypes can backfire: as we recently reported, telling kids that girls are “as good as” boys at maths can actually leave them believing that boys are naturally better at the subject and that girls have to work harder.
Other work has shown that “generic” language can also perpetuate stereotypes: saying that boys “like to play football”, for instance, can make children believe that all boys like to ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - April 20, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Gender Language Source Type: blogs
What is Public Safety?
Barry Friedman (New York University), What is Public Safety? Boston U. L. Rev. (Forthcoming): For literally hundreds of years, political leaders and thinkers have deemed public safety the first duty of government. But they have defined public safety largely in... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 20, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
TRIP-ing Up: The Failure of TRIPS Article 31bis
Nicholas Vincent (New York University), TRIP-ing Up: The Failure of TRIPS Article 31bis, Gonzaga J. Int ’l L. (2020): The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), enacted as part of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, is... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 23, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Dark Web Marketplaces and COVID-19: The Vaccines
Alberto Bracci (City University London), Matthieu Nadini (City University London), Maxwell Aliapoulios (New York University), Damon McCoy (New York University), Ian Gray (Fordham University), Alexander Teytelboym (University of Oxford), Angela Gallo, Andrea Baronchelli (City University London), Dark Web Marketplaces and... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 22, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Children As Young As Eight Show A Gender Gap In Negotiation
By Emma Young
Though the gender pay gap is narrowing in the UK, it still remains. It’s vital, then, to fully understand what causes it — and so what can be done to ensure that women are paid the same as men for doing the same work. Research does show that women are less likely than men to initiate salary negotiations, and also ask for less. Now a new study in Psychological Science reveals that a gender gap in negotiation emerges surprisingly early, becoming apparent among children aged just eight to nine. This implies that efforts to close the gender pay gap should start long before anyone even enters the workf...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 11, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Gender Source Type: blogs
Bargaining for Integration
Shirley Lin (New York University), Bargaining for Integration, 96 N.Y.U. L. Rev (Forthcoming, 2021): The Americans with Disabilities Act ( “ADA”) accommodations mandate requires employers to restructure exclusionary environments to enable their employees with disabilities to continue working. Under a virtually... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 9, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Towards a New Functional Anatomy of Language: A Proposal for a Special Issue of Cognition, circa 2001
Conclusions Michael UllmanGeorgetown University The contribution of brain memory circuits to language Our use of language depends upon two capacities: a mental lexicon of memorized words, and a mental grammar of rules that underlie the sequential and hierarchical composition of lexical forms into predictably structured larger words, phrases, and sentences. The Declarative/Procedural model posits that the lexicon/grammar distinction in language is tied to the distinction between two well-studied brain memory systems. On this view, the memorization and use of at least si...
Source: Talking Brains - March 8, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Why Should We See Brain Death as Socially Situated?
Thaddeus Mason Pope (Mitchell Hamline School of Law), Ariane Lewis (New York University), Why Should We See Brain Death as Socially Situated?, 12(12) AMA J. Ethics 983 (2020): There are 2 ways to determine death: (1) by irreversible cessation of... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 7, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Advocates Of Equality For All Are More Likely To Show Prejudice Against Older Adults At Work
By Emma Young
Social justice movements, such as Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, have done huge amounts to address racism and sexism in our society. It’s now common for organisations to have diversity programmes, for example. As Ashley Martin at Stanford University and Michael S North at New York University note in their new paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Facebook has famously invested millions of dollars in increasing diversity. However — and this is a big however — the pair’s work reveals that people who are keenest to advocate for women and racial minorities harbour more prejudice a...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 4, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Occupational Source Type: blogs
