Lao PDR has been relatively successful in raising incomes and reducing poverty since the early 1990s. However, the gains in terms of poverty reduction are unevenly distributed across regions and population groups. This paper uses a detailed household survey data set to examine the determinants of income and poverty in Lao PDR. The results suggest that household size, dependency ratios, education,

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Popular Abstract in Swedish Syftet är att utifrån studenters livsberättelser, få kunskap om och förståelse för hur de upplever och hanterar sjuksköterskeutbildningens olika delar med särskilt fokus på spänningsfälten mellan: yrkesexamen ? akademisk examen, högskoleförlagd utbildning ? verksamhetsförlagd utbildning samt huvudämnet omvårdnad ? stödämnet medicinsk vetenskap. Syftet är vidare att få kThe aim of this study is to gain knowledge and understanding of how nursing students experience and manage the different parts of the education. A particular focus is set on the tension between a professional degree and an academic degree, between theoretical and clinical studies, and between the subjects nursing and medical science. Furthermore, the aim is to gain knowledge and understanding of a

In this paper, we investigate the impact of spatial coupling on the thresholds of turbo-like codes. Parallel concatenated and serially concatenated convolutional codes as well as braided convolutional codes (BCCs) are compared by means of an exact density evolution (DE) analysis for the binary erasure channel (BEC). We propose two extensions of the original BCC ensemble to improve its threshold an

This study is an extension of previous studies, Hagnell (1991) and Hagnell(1996), where the data used are annual time series for the whole of Sweden during the period 1751-1850 for the crude birth rate, the death rate for ages 20-50 years, the crude marriage rate and an index of the real wages. The aim of the study of Hagnell (1991) was to investigate the relationships between ferility, adult mort

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Abstract in Norwegian At eierskap kan uttrykkes på flere måter i språk, er kjent, og også at ulike typer eierskapsrelasjoner uttrykkes ulikt innenfor ett og samme. Imidlertid finnes det noen misoppfatninger når det gjelder norsk, som at norsk bare har et rudimentært system for eierskapskategorier (Stolz et al. 2008). Vi viser at norsk tvert imot har et rikt system av kategorier og uttrykksformer.

Injection into the MAX IV Storage Rings will not make use of a conventional local injection bump with dipole kickers. Instead, pulsed multipole injection will be applied. Previously, it was foreseen to use a pulsed sextupole magnet similar to what KEK had originally designed for the PF ring. But after seeing encouraging results with a prototype nonlinear kicker magnet developed for BESSY-II, pulse

Popular Abstract in Swedish Mjölk värmebehandlas för att döda eventuella bakterier och för att förlänga hållbarheten på produkten. Samtidigt som eventuella bakterier förstörs av värmen så sker även andra reaktioner i mjölken. Proteiner förlorar sin naturliga struktur och börjar sätta ihop sig i olika aggregat och formationer som sedan kan fastna på den värmande ytan. Tillsammans med proteinerna faFouling is the deposit of proteins and minerals formed on equipment surfaces during the heat treatment of dairy products. The concentrations of the components and the structure of the fouling reflect the processing conditions used. The use of a higher processing temperature, e.g., ultra-high temperature (UHT) treatment, promotes a mineral-rich fouling. The fouling layer decreases the transfer of h

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