Field Experiment Tests for Discrimination against Hispanics in the U.S. Rental Housing Market

This article tests for discrimination against Hispanics in the U.S. rental housing market using e-mail correspondence with landlords advertising units online. We divide Hispanics into two groups: those that appear assimilated into American culture and recent immigrants. We find little difference in the treatment of assimilated Hispanics and whites; however, Hispanics we portray as recent immigrants receive less favorable treatment with margins of net discrimination as large as 6.89% of landlords. We also find discrimination varies significantly at the region level and by the ethnic composition of neighborhoods

The Form of the Good in Plato's Republic

The theory of the Form of the Good in the Republic is truly and coherently the centerpiece of the canonical Platonism of the middle dialogues, the centerpiece of Plato's metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and politics, and even his theory of love and art. In this theory of the Form of the Good Plato was truly the first grand philosophical synthesiser. If to achieve such a grand synthesis he had to employ a few unholy combinations, such as the combination of reality, goodness, and self-predication, he may perhaps be forgiven - at least if he is understood

Determination of total plasma hydroperoxides using a diphenyl-1- pyrenylphosphine fluorescent probe

Plasma hydroperoxides (HPs) are widely accepted to be good indicators of oxidative stress. By means of the method proposed here, which uses diphenyl-1-pyrenylphosphine (DPPP) as a fluorescent probe, all types of plasma HP were determined. The limits of detection and quantification of the method were 0.08 and 0.25 nmol of cumene hydroperoxide (CHP) equivalents in 40 μl of plasma, respectively. The method is satisfactory in terms of precision (5.3% for 14.5 μM CHP eq., n = 8), and the recoveries were 91% and 92% after standard additions of 26 and 52 μM CHP, respectively. The selectivity of the proposed method is higher than 96%. Moreover, optimization of the reaction conditions and the addition of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) disodium salt and 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol (BHT) prevented the formation of HP artifacts during the analysis. Therefore, the proposed method is useful for simple and quantitative determination of total plasma HPs. © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Peer Reviewe

Regulación Emocional y Calidad de Vida en mayores. Un estudio piloto

El presente estudio tiene como objetivo comprobar la influencia que la gestión de habilidades emocionales sobre en el nivel de calidad de vida de las persones mayores. Una muestra de 55 personas mayores alumnos de la Universitat per a Majors de la Universitat Jaume I de Castellón rellenaron los cuestionarios TMMS (Trait Meta Mood Scale) y GL-I (Indice de Calidad de Vida). Los resultados de correlaciones bivariadas muestran relaciones significativas entre dos de las habilidades emocionales medidas: la atención emocional y la comprensión emocional se relacionan positivamente con varios de los indicadores de calidad de vida: funcionamiento interpersonal y apoyo socio-emocional con atención emocional; bienestar psicológico/emocional, funcionamiento ocupacional, funcionamiento interpersonal y plenitud espiritual con comprensión emocional. No encontramos relaciones significativas entre la regulación emocional y el índice de calidad de vida percibido.This study aims to test the influence that managing emotional skills has on the quality of life of elderly people. A sample of 55 elderly people who were students at Universitat per a Majors of the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón fulfilled two questionnaires: the TMMS (Trait Meta Mood Scale) and GL-I (Quality of Life Index). The results obtained show significant bivariate correlations between two emotional measures skills: attention to feelings and clarity of feelings are positively related to several indicators of quality of life: interpersonal functioning and socio-emotional support were related to attention to feelings; psychological/emotional well-being, occupational functioning,interpersonal functioning and spiritual fulfilling to clarity of feelings. We found non significant relationships between mood repair and perceived quality of life indexes