In recent y ears there has been a revival of interest in the trade-growth nexus. A number of authors have suggested that regional economic integration and liberalization of international trade are likely to have positive eects not only on productivity levels but also on long-term productivity growth rates in developing countries. Using a panel of Mexican manufacturing industries, this paper exa...

We consider model selection and estimation for partial spline models and propose a new regularization method in the context of smoothing splines. The regularization method has a simple yet elegant form, consisting of roughness penalty on the nonparametric component and shrinkage penalty on the parametric components, which can achieve function smoothing and sparse estimation simultaneously. We e...

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...