Input-output analyses have gained relevance in studies examining the value added distribution along globally fragmented value chains. However, their reliability to reflect true value added contributions has been challenged by biases identified by Nomaler & Verspagen (2014). In order to extend their analysis with an empirical component, we construct hypothetical input-output tables representing

Many students who enter college are insufficiently prepared to follow a demanding college-level curriculum. Thus, higher education institutions often require low-performing students to repeat failed courses, a full term, or even a full year. This paper is the first to investigate the effects of such a “(grade) retention” policy on student performance in higher education. We study a setting where f

Does the provision of after-school care promote maternal employment and thus help to foster gender equality in labor supply? We address this question by exploiting variation in cantonal (state) regulations of after-school care provision in Switzerland. To establish exogeneity of cantonal regulations with respect to employment opportunities and preferences of the population, we restrict our analysi

Disability insurance (DI) beneficiaries lose part or all of their benefits if earnings exceed certain thresholds (“cash-cliffs”). This implicit taxation is considered the prime reason for the low number of beneficiaries who expand work and reduce benefit receipt. We analyse a conditional cash programme that incentivises work related reductions of disability benefits in Switzerland. Four thousand D

Listen. If I ask you to listen, what is it that I ask of you—that you will understand, or perhaps obey? Or is it some sort of readiness that is requested? What occurs with a body in the act of listening? How do sound and voice structure audio-visual-spatial relations in concrete situations? This doctoral thesis in fine arts consists of six artworks and an essay that documents the research process,

En berättelse om organisering blandar fiktion med organisationsteorins grunder. Boken drivs framåt av vad som händer på det nystartade modeföretaget Mess. Genom skildringen av Mess och människorna i och runt omkring företaget ser vi framgångar, konflikter och utmaningar i organisationsteorins ljus.Mötet mellan den fiktiva berättelsen och de teoretiska fördjupningarna ger grundläggande förståelse f

Fiskeriavtal med Europeiska unionen är en stor inkomstkälla för vissa utvecklingsländer. Intäkterna från att utländska flottor tillåts fiska på ens territorium kan ligga på 30–50 procent av statsbudgeten.I den här rapporten analyserar författarna Johan Blomquist, Cecilia Hammarlund och Staffan Waldo – samtliga verksamma vid AgriFood Economics Centre – effekterna av EU:s fiskeriavtal med länder i V

The MAX IV facility in Lund, Sweden, consists of two storage rings for production of synchrotron radiation, and a full-energy LINAC for top-up injections. The LINAC also delivers short high-intensity electron bunches to a short pulse facility. MAX IV was inaugurated in June 2016, and the larger 3 GeV ring has been delivering light to users since November 2016. In this thesis, the design and implem

People, places, and production contributing the least to climate change will suffer the most. This calls for adaptation as a key climate change response. But adaptation is surrounded by problems. Finance is uncertain and fragmented, mainstreaming into development is complicated, and technical solutions often overshadow existing social relations and institutions. From a gender perspective, and as a

The literature on employee spinoffs has, for a long time, stressed the importance of industry-specific skills and experiences in explaining the success of new firms. We argue that employees also develop skills that are associated with their occupation within an industry, and that success as an entrepreneur, therefore, is also contingent on the relation between the entrepreneurs’ previous occupatio

Alien crosstalk is one of the major impairments for copper-based transmissions. This letter outlines a method for mitigating alien crosstalk for DSL downstream transmissions impaired by multiple interference sources. The method requires a reference channel, and includes a post processing stage in which induced correlation is applied to prepare the interference at the target channel to be reasonabl

Efficient direct electron transfer (DET) between a cellobiose dehydrogenase mutant from Corynascus thermophilus (CtCDH C291Y) and a novel glassy carbon (GC)-modified electrode, obtained by direct electrodeposition of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) was realized. The electrode was further modified with a mixed self-assembled monolayer of 4-aminothiophenol (4-APh) and 4-mercaptobenzoic acid (4-MBA), by u

We give a semi-analytical method for the calculation of the transient power and energy dissipated in the cavity walls of an accelerating structure due to the excitation of the higher order modes by a sequence of accelerating bunches. We treat the case where more than one bunch is present in the structure at the same time. The dissipated power is evaluated using the Lagrangian formalism and the dis

Basal colonic crypt stem cells are long lived and play a role in colon homeostasis. Previous evidence has shown that high-calorie diet (HCD) enhances colonic stem cell numbers and expansion of the proliferative zone, an important biomarker for colon cancer. However, it is not clear how HCD drives dysregulation of colon stem cell/colonocyte proliferative kinetics. We used a human-relevant pig model

Autoantibodies against the smaller isoform of glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) are markers for Type 1 diabetes. GAD65 autoantibody (GAD65Ab)-positive individuals in the general population are, however, mostly at low risk of developing Type 1 diabetes, suggesting that GAD65Ab phenotypes may be associated with different underlying pathogenic processes. The aim of this study was to test the hypothes

Background Differentiation between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in adults is difficult at diagnosis. In this study we tested the hypothesis that autoantibodies at diagnosis are predictive for insulin treatment within 3 years in patients initially not classified as Type 1 diabetes. Methods In a nationwide population-based study, blood samples were obtained from 764 patients, all diagnosed with diabet