Avoidance of sun exposure as a risk factor for major causes of death : A competing risk analysis of the Melanoma in Southern Sweden cohort

Objective: Women with active sunlight exposure habits experience a lower mortality rate than women who avoid sun exposure; however, they are at an increased risk of skin cancer. We aimed to explore the differences in main causes of death according to sun exposure. Methods: We assessed the differences in sun exposure as a risk factor for all-cause mortality in a competing risk scenario for 29 518 S

Academic Entrepreneurship: spin-offs in Sweden and the UK

Straitjacket or Sovereignty Shield? The Danish Opt-Out on Justice and Home Affairs and Prospects after the Treaty of Lisbon

How are we to understand the perplexing and sometimes even counter-intuitive position of Denmark in relation to Justice and Home Affairs (JHA)? In this article, we attempt to go behind the many myths and misunderstandings involved and analyse the consequences of the Danish opt-out from EU cooperation in Justice and Home Affairs. Symbolically, the opt-out plays a major role for large parts of the D

Creating an Entrepreneurial region: Two waves of academic spin-offs from Halmstad University

Bridging the Functional and Territorial rationales – Proposing an Integrating Framework for Regional Dynamics

Introduction: The Challenge, the Journey, The Lessons

Linking Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education: A Study of Swedish Schools of Entrepreneurship

Total, caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee and tea intake and gastric cancer risk : Results from the EPIC cohort study

Prospective studies examining the association between coffee and tea consumption and gastric cancer risk have shown inconsistent results. We investigated the association between coffee (total, caffeinated and decaffeinated) and tea consumption and the risk of gastric cancer by anatomical site and histological type in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study. Coffee an

The Right to Seek Revisited: On the UN Human Rights Declaration Article 14 and Access to Asylum Procedures in the EU

Th is article compares the “right to seek and enjoy asylum” enshrined in Art. 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with the current EU policy developments to “externalize” or “extraterritorialise” migration control and refugee protection. Examining the genesis of Art. 14 during the negotiations of the Universal Declaration, it is argued that while Art. 14 clearly falls short of granting

Entrepreneurial Spin-off Enterprises in Göteborg, Sweden

Growth and Innovativeness in Technology-based Spin-off Firms

Technology-based SMEs in the Göteborg Region: Their origin and interaction with universities and large firms

The Dynamics of Innovation Financing in Sweden

Nurturing Acquired Small Technology-based Firms

Universities and Technology-based Entrepreneurship in the Gothenburg region

How business opportunities constrain young technology-based firms from growing into medium-sized firms

The Logic of the entrepreneur: Implications of the entrepreneur’s perception of early-stage financing

Sponsored spin-offs, industrial growth and change

Technology-based Entrepreneurship

Fetal Cortisol and the Initiation of Labour in the Human

The role of the fetal adrenal activity in the initiation of parturition in the human has been investigated. Women were studied in the last trimester of pregnancy during treatment with betamethasone for prevention of the idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome. Although betamethasone caused a considerable drop in the cortisol concentrations of fetal plasma and amniotic fluid, the time to spontaneo