We study a dynamic principal-agent problem where social capital is an important part of the system of incentives. In each period the firm chooses an incentive intensity, and its employees allocate effort between individual and cooperative tasks. Cooperative tasks are within bounds more pro­ ductive than individual tasks, but employees are not monetarily rewarded for them. Rather, and consistent...

methylation changes and temperature adaptation Xia Shen1, Jennifer De Jonge2, Simon Forsberg1, Mats Pettersson1, Zheya Sheng1, Lars Hennig2 and Örjan Carlborg1* Affiliations: 1Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Computational Genetics, Box 7078, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden. 2Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Plant Biol...

Jörg Richter, Lars Erik Lauritz, Elizabeth du Preez, Nafisa Cassimjee, Mehdi Ghazinour Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Eastern and Southern Norway, Oslo, Norway Basic Training Program for Police Officers, University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden Division of Public Health and Psychosocial Studies, School of Psychology, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand Department of ...

BACKGROUND Injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) of the knee is common. Following complete rupture of the ACL, insufficient re-vascularization of the ligament prevents it from healing completely, creating a need for reconstruction. A variety of grafts are available for use in ACL reconstruction surgery, including synthetic grafts. Over the last two decades new types of synthetic ligame...

Abstract Low anterior resection syndrome (LARS) comprises a collection of symptoms affecting patients’ defecation after restorative surgery for rectal cancer. The aim this work was to study the incidence and risk factors LARS in China. Rectal cancer patients undergoing total mesorectal excision colorectal anastomosis between May 2012 January 2015 were identified from single center. completed sc...

*Correspondence should be directed to Lars-Erik Cederman ([email protected]). We would like to thank the many individuals who helped assemble the data set on which this article relies. We cannot list all country experts who generously shared their knowledge, but we should like to mention Dennis Avilés, Yuval Feinstein, Dmitry Gorenburg, Wesley Hiers, Lutz Krebs, Patrick Kuhn, Anoop Sarbahi, Jam...

This paper investigates the response of hours worked and real wages to fiscal policy shocks in the U.S. during the post World War II era. We identify these shocks with exogenous changes in military purchases and argue that they lead to a persistent increase in government purchases and tax rates on capital and labor income, and a persistent rise in aggregate hours worked as well as declines in r...

this study aims to evaluate effects of two downscaling methods; change-factor and statistical downscaling on therunoff of the azam-harat river located at yazd province (with an arid climate) of iran, under the a2 emission scenariofor the period of 2010-2039. for this purpose, cgcm3-ar4 model; a rainfall-runoff conceptual model, ihacres; twodownscaling models, change factor and lars-wg were appl...