We address the issue of Western European regional productivity growth and convergence by means of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), decomposing labor productivity into efficiency change, technical change and capital accumulation. The decomposition shows that most regions have fallen behind the production frontier in efficiency and that capital accumulation has had a diverging effect on the labor pr

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Popular Abstract in Swedish Den medicinska termen sepsis, "blodförgiftning" orsakas av bakterier i blodet. Symptombilden kan variera från tämligen lindriga förlopp till septisk shock, som har en hög dödlighet. Vid sepsis och septisk shock aktiveras olika kroppsegna system såsom koagulations- och komplementsystemet. Många mekanismer medieras av så kallade cytokiner. Dessa budbärarmolekyler byggs upPurified bacterial cell wall components peptidoglycan and teichoic acid were isolated from staphylococcal species S. aureus and/or S. epidermidis and tested for their ability to induce cytokine release from plastic-adherent human monocytes. Both cell wall components dose-dependently induced TNF-alpha, interleukin-1beta, and interleukin-6 release, peptidoglycan being more potent than teichoic acid.

Every year, there are more than 2500 new international students coming to Lund University and starting their higher education path. A higher number of foreign students increased the international competitiveness of Lund University, but at the same time the international students had to face many problems for instance, culture shock and language barriers. In this report we focused on issues in teac

Scientific communication presumes a well functioning infor¬mation and documentation system. Information retrieval systems have been designed for making possible rapid and precise answers to inquiries. This report includes (1) a short survey of international and national documentation activities, (2) a description of rules and criteria to be used and the way these can be applied in an information r

The damage caused by the dramatic worldwide increase in ‘natural’ disasters is staggering, with the poor in developing countries being most at risk. Disasters make their already precarious living conditions worse, creating a vicious circle of poverty from which they find it hard to escape. To achieve sustainable poverty reduction, more and more attention has thus been given to the need to reduce d

Att se spridning av idéer som översättning istället för som "diffusion", är ett perspektiv som har blivit allt vanligare. Översättning associaeras ofta till beskrivningar och analyser av förändringar och organisatoriska reformer, och har då utgjort ett alternativ till nyinstitutionella teorins antagande om homogenisering och stabilitet i den institutionella ordningen. Det finns många studier som a