Beginning with the Pronto4TM Strap-on Autonomy System — a retrofit kit that makes any existing vehicle with a steering wheel a drive-by-wire system — and including a flexible, shared variable software base running on an open architecture system, DesignJug is enhancing its technology by creating a new sensor platform with supporting software that provides input to the team’s Actively Refined Rea...

The aim is to explain why union density not only considerably higher in the Ghent country Sweden than non-Ghent Norway but also it has declined much more Sweden, particular among blue-collar workers. We show how changes Swedish unemployment insurance 2007–2013 were followed by a decline and white-collar unions successful developing supplementary income schemes that counteracted membership losse...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact two trading strategies (exporting and importing) on total factor productivity (TFP) potential complementarity/substitutability effects these strategies. In order assess effects, robust estimates TFP are obtained using a general method moments approach that explicitly determines ability firm's experience affect productivity. Data from Annual Man...

The earlier 2007/2008 financial crisis generated the main lessons for monetary policy, notably that price stability does not necessarily guarantee financial stability. Nevertheless, the on-going Eurozone crisis has pointed to further lessons, notably that a single currency covering diverse states does need a Banking Union; and to problems of zero risk-weighting for sovereign debts. Without such...

BACKGROUND Transmitted HIV-1 drug resistance (TDR) is an ongoing public health problem, representing 10-20% of new HIV infections in many geographic areas. TDR usually arises from two main sources: individuals on antiretroviral therapy (ART) who are failing to achieve virologic suppression, and individuals who acquired TDR and transmit it while still ART-naïve. TDR rates can be impacted when no...

OBJECTIVE Demand for ambulances is growing. Nevertheless, knowledge is limited regarding diagnoses and outcomes in patients receiving emergency ambulances. This study aims to examine time trends in diagnoses and mortality among patients transported with emergency ambulance to hospital. DESIGN Population-based cohort study with linkage of Danish national registries. SETTING The North Denmark...

BACKGROUND Heart failure is a leading cause of admission to hospital, but whether the incidence of heart failure is increasing or decreasing is uncertain. We examined temporal trends in the incidence and outcomes of heart failure in Ontario, Canada. METHODS Using population-based administrative databases of hospital discharge abstracts and physician health insurance claims, we identified 419 ...

Little research has explored how exactly information processes relate to their context. Context is defined as all those things which are not an inherent part of information phenomena, but which nevertheless bear some relation to these. This article addresses the issue by discussing empirical findings from a study on Internet searching and personal development. The purpose of the article is to c...