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Do entrepreneurs benefit post their entrepreneurial careers on re-entry into paid employment? An answer to this question provides a career value of engaging in an entrepreneurial career. Results have so far been inconclusive suggesting that we still do not know whether entrepreneurship pays or not. Using job matching as the main theoretical foundation, this study investigates how the returns from

Plants have a variety of ways to defend themselves against pathogens. A commonly used model of the plant immune system is divided into a general response triggered by pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs), and a specific response triggered by effectors. The first type of response is known as PAMP triggered immunity (PTI), and the second is known as effector-triggered immunity (ETI). To ob

Background: Endotoxin may cause inflammation and increased intestinal permeability in infants with immature immune systems and gut microbiota. This study analysed the presence of endotoxin together with other potentially hazardous agents in commercial infant cereals. Methods: Four porridges and six milk cereal drinks bought in Sweden were analysed for the presence of endotoxins using Endosafe MCS.

COVID-19 is spiralling like wild fire and has caused a global mayhem. Many lives have already been lost, and the global economy is at stake. In the absence of vaccine, social distancing and total lock down is the current mainstay in efforts to mitigate and flatten the epidemic curves. Several countries across the globe are currently implementing social distancing and total lock downs. However, wha

Huntington’s disease (HD) is caused by CAG repeat expansion in the huntingtin gene. The expanded polyglutamine (polyQ) repeat of the encoded protein leads to protein misfolding and aggregation, resulting in increased neuronal cell death. DNAJ co-chaperones play a crucial role in transferring misfolded/unfolded proteins to HSP70 chaperones, which play an essential role for protein folding. Here, we

An experiment for salinity-gradient solar pond has been constructed and operated at the Dead Sea area over a period of 3 months. The pond has a volume of 5m3 with dimensions of (L, H, W) as 2.0m, 2.0m and 1,25m respectively. The two parameters temperature and salinity concentration profiles were evaluated through the measurements of the solar pond with respect to time. The experimental result show

Many Alzheimer’s disease (AD) genes including Apolipoprotein E (APOE) are found to be expressed in blood-derived macrophages and thus may alter blood protein levels. We measured 91 neuro-proteins in plasma from 316 participants of the Rotterdam Study (incident AD = 161) using Proximity Extension Ligation assay. We studied the association of plasma proteins with AD in the overall sample and stratif

Strong, cold winds constitute a problem in southern Scandinavia with its open, flat terrain. In the city of Malmö in the south of Sweden there are several new ongoing and planned large development projects, many of which are being constructed in wind exposed areas. One of the planned areas is Nyhamnen, a former harbour area in the north of the city. This paper describes an analysis of a preliminar

This study uses the sanctions imposed on and by Russia in 2014 as an exogenous shock on Swedish firms. The results suggest that the total short‐run cost of these sanctions on the Swedish economy amounted to around 1 billion SEK in 2013 prices, which implies a rather limited impact (around 0.025% of the Swedish GDP). The sanction effects were, however, highly asymmetric, and the direct effect on fi

The Silurian was a time of major climatic transition punctuated by multiple biotic crises and global carbon cycle perturbations. The most severe of these biotic events was the late Silurian (Ludfordian) Lau/Kozlowskii extinction event (LKE) and the associated Lau carbon isotope excursion (CIE). Although the extinction event and Lau CIE are globally documented, the only records thus far of local an

The DAC countries have for a long time been practically the only large donors of international aid. However, China has become increasingly influential the last decade. This study is aimed at investigating how aid from the DAC countries has changed when Chinese aid has increased. Aid aimed at promoting democracy, corruption, governance, and human rights is investigated since these sectors present

Intresset för svenska modeprodukter ökar både i Sverige och utomlands. Under 2011 omsatte svensk modeindustri 206 miljarder kronor. I takt med att intresset för svenskt mode ökar blir det alltmer lockande att plagiera framgångsrika företags plagg. Modeföretagen investerar mycket tid och stora summor på formgivningen av en produkt för att den ska bli så attraktiv och konkurrenskraftig som möjligt.Interest in Swedish fashion products is increasing in Sweden as well as abroad. In 2011, Swedish fashion industry had a turnover of 206 billion kronor. As the interest in Swedish fashion increases, it becomes increasingly appealing to plagiarize the designs of successful companies. Fashion companies invest much time and large sums of money in the designing of a product to make it as appealing and

Syftet med föreliggande uppsats är att undersöka domstolsprövningen av förvaltningsbeslut och hur dess roll i det konstitutionella systemet har förändrats till följd av europeiseringen av den nationella rätten. Uppsatsen inleds med ett kapitel om de europarättsliga kraven på domstolsprövning av förvaltningsbeslut. Därefter ägnas ett kapitel åt utvecklingen av den svenska förvaltningsprocessen. FörThe aim of this study is to examine the judicial review of administrative decisions and how its function in the constitutional system has changed following the Europeanization of national law. The essay begins with a chapter on judicial review of administrative proceedings according to the European law. Then a chapter follows on the Swedish administrative procedural law and its development. To cla

From being primarily associated with the political climate of the United States, pluralism as a political mind-set with its focus on interest groups as important political entities has become increasingly descriptive of the European Union as well. Seeking to investigate the theoretical aspects of pluralism, the purpose of this essay is to analyse and discuss whether the European setting might have

In the year of 2000 the world leaders signed on the Millennium Development Goals, which is eight measurable and time-bound targets to reduce world poverty and promote human rights. In order to achieve these sets of goals by 2015 a lot of foreign aid is being given. The approach towards aid and the MDGs are being criticised by William Easterly. He claims that this approach, which he calls planners

China’s economic development has made a remarkable achievement over the past three decades. However, compared with other developed economies, it still mainly relies on coal resources as its primary energy. As country’s leading coal resources producer, Shanxi is now in an awkward position. A possible explanation is this region suffering “Resource Curse”: that the abundant resources did not bring ra

Everfresh AB är Sveriges största frukt- och grönsaksdistributör med Coop som viktigaste kund. Företaget saknar idag ett dokumenterat miljöledningssystem, deras miljöaspekter är inte heller identifierade enligt kraven i miljöledningsstandarden ISO 14001. Mitt uppdrag är att identifiera dessa samt att göra en modell som kan användas vid värdering av miljöaspekterna. Arbetet grundas på ISO 14001-stanEverfresh AB is the largest fruit and vegetable distribution company in Sweden. Coop is their most important customer. Today the company is lacking a documented environmental management system, neither are their environmental aspects identified according the demands in the environmental standard of ISO 14001. My task is to identify the environmental aspects at Everfresh AB in Helsingborg, and also