When a firm offers health benefits to workers, it exposes the firm to the risk of making payments when workers get sick. A firm can either pay health expenses out of its general assets, keeping the risk inside the firm, or it can purchase insurance, shifting the risk outside the firm. Using data on insurance decisions, we find that smaller firms, firms with more investment opportunities, and fi...

BACKGROUND To explore differences related to health and working conditions by comparing socio-demographic parameters, reproductive and prenatal care characteristics and working conditions among pregnant women who are employed outside the home (extra-domestic) while still performing a domestic workload versus those who perform exclusively domestic work in the home (intra-domestic). METHODS A c...

Salmonella are intracellular pathogens that infect and multiply inside macrophages. Although Salmonella are some of the best-studied pathogens, it is difficult to determine quickly and reliably whether the bacteria are intracellular or extracellular. We have developed a novel method using differential fluorescence of two fluorescent proteins to determine the cellular location of pathogenic bact...

The giant isoforms of nesprins 1 and 2 are emerging as important players in cellular organization, particularly in the positioning of nuclei, and possibly other organelles, within the cytoplasm. The experimental evidence suggests that nesprins also occur at the inner nuclear membrane, where they interact with the nuclear lamina. In this paper, we consider whether this is consistent with current...

Acquiring linguistically plausible phrase-structure grammars from ordinary text has proven difficult for standard induction techniques, and researchers have turned to supervised training from bracketed corpora. We examine why previous approaches have failed to acquire desired grammars, concentrating our analysis on the inside-outside algorithm (Baker, 1979), and propose that with a representati...

Measuring and evaluating tactical behavior is one of the main goals in performance analysis in professional soccer. A specific tactical approach may present the difference between winning and losing, especially in the highest level of competition. So fare tactical behavior is mostly determined by using one or two variables, like ball possession or number of passes. Within this study, we introdu...