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2014 - Eastern European immigration and the Swedish economy - Joakim Ruist - Gothenburg School of Economics
The EU's eastward enlargement in 2004 and 2007 is the only example in modern times of the introduction of free movement of labor...
2014 - Multicultural management teams in Swedish companies - Timurs Umans - Kristianstad University
Multicultural competence in business is highlighted by researchers, politicians and business representatives, but how does a multicultural management team actually work? If they work at all...
2014 - Historical stock price and accounting database - Kristian Rydqvist - Stockholm School of Economics
Swedish stock price and accounting data are available in the Findatabase from 1979 onwards. The purpose of this project is to update the Findatabase backwards...
2014 - Trust, tolerance and growth - new methods for finding causal relationships - Niclas Berggren - Swedish Institute for Business Research
It is not self-evident that an economy functions well and contributes to increased prosperity. In recent years, economists have realized...
2014 - Platform for the metagenome and its role in metabolic disease - Fredrik Bäckhed - University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska Academy
Our intestinal tract contains 10 times more bacteria than we have cells in our body. These bacteria express 150 times...
2014 - Muscle stimulation for elderly and disabled people - Ann Christin Mona - Selsmark
For about 20 years, I have been working with a microcurrent that strengthens muscles through isometric training without the client...
2014 - Culture-free identification of antibiotic resistance - Fredrik Westerlund - Chalmers University of Technology
Bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics is one of the major threats to world health. The WHO reported in April 2014 that...
2014 - Towards new treatment strategies for obstetric asphyxia and stroke - Marcela Pekna - University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska Academy
Brain ischemia, i.e. oxygen deprivation due to lack of blood circulation after stroke or childbirth (asphyxia), causes great suffering in patients...
2014 - HMGB1, inflammation and cognitive function after severe sepsis - Peter Sackey - Karolinska Institutet
Every year, 40,000 patients are treated in Swedish intensive care units (ICUs). More than 35% of all ICU patients suffer from blood poisoning (sepsis), with...
2014 - Autism in girls and women - brain function and symptoms - Christopher Gillberg - University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska Academy
Autism and other early-onset developmental disorders (such as ADHD) (now often grouped together under the title ESSENCE for Early Symptomatic Syndromes Eliciting Neurodevelopmental...
2014 - Development of new cell therapies for stroke - Zaal Kokaia - Lund University
Every year, 30 000 people suffer a stroke in Sweden. Stroke is the most common cause of chronic disability among adults;...
2014 - Mesenchymal stem cells to stop type 1 diabetes development - Per-Ola Carlsson - Uppsala University, Sweden
Type 1 diabetes is the most common chronic disease in children for which there is no cure. At the onset of type 1 diabetes...
