Immigration remains a powerful and recurrent feature of American politics. Of the issues related to immigration, controversy over government policy for controlling illegal immigration occupies a central position in the debate. One increasingly important and prevalent type of control policy that has received little scholarly attention is worksite employment eligibility enforcement, otherwise kno...

Methods: Overall health status was measured by self-rated health (SRH), health related quality of life (SF-36) and psychological distress (Kessler-10). Age standardised means or prevalence and confidence intervals were computed and compared between surveys. The ratio of age standardised prevalence of very good/excellent SRH and high/very high K-10 scores to the respective total population score...

Background. Carbon dioxide inhalation is known to induce an emotion similar to spontaneous panic in Panic Disorder patients. The affective response to carbon dioxide in healthy subjects was not clearly characterized yet. Methodology/ Principal Findings. Sixty-four healthy subjects underwent a double inhalation of four mixtures containing respectively 0, 9, 17.5 and 35% CO2 in compressed air, fo...

The present paper studies the evolution of a set of USA firms during the years 1993–2002. The firms that faced a difficult economic and financial situation in 1993 were considered to be in a distress situation. The aim of this study is to explore if the evolution of this situation depends on the initial features of the distress or if it concerns certain firms’ characteristics. If the evolution ...

If tenant farmers would try the process once, they would be sure to repeat i t ; and I shall be fully rewarded if the reading of this paper will have the effect of inducing a few of those who hear me to turn their attention to the subject, and to induce those who have the means and the opportunity, to try a practice which has been so lucrative elsewhere, and which we have so long and so foolish...

Back in September 2006 the ALPSP held a one-day meeting on ‘publication ethics’. During the day I learnt much about how journal editors and publishers had worked with other parties to improve the reporting of research involving human subjects. I was left wondering if there were similar initiatives for the reporting of research involving animals given that both areas of research can be controver...

Results: The study revealed that sisters have relationships with siblings that are based on warmth, and achieve higher average results in empathic care and personal distress and lower average results in self-defeating humor style than brothers. Relational variables with predictive value for empathy and humor styles were identified in both groups. In brothers, they explained a higher percentage ...