From plastic toys to Industry 4.0: How Taiwan is using science to upgrade its manufacturing
Published in Nature
The island is turning to smart machinery and artificial intelligence to improve the quality and flexibility of the products it makes.
The dangers of fringe economics in government
Published in Nature
Three books warn of the perils of basing policy on untested ideas President Reagan with a taxation program chart for the private American citizen, 1981
Ethnicity and tax filing behavior
We analyze differences in tax filing between natives and immigrants, focusing on two empirical examples. First, we study deductions for costs associated with traveling between home and work allowed in the Swedish tax code. Using the total population of commuters within Sweden's largest commuting zone, we find that newly arrived immigrants file sub...
The distribution of Foreigners and Locals in Sweden
This study aims to find a relationship between the distribution of locals inside of Sweden and the municipalities’ relative concentration of foreigners. With the usage of data found in the website Statistics Sweden, we aim to investigate the existence of any relationship between the local population size of a municipality against the number of fore...
Vilka faktorer påverkar efterfrågan på kollektivtrafiken i Stockholm?
Forskare har kommit fram till att en väl utvecklad kollektivtrafik är obligatorisk för en hållbar tillväxt, såväl ekonomisk, social och miljömässig. Den här studien studerar efterfrågeelasticiteter på kollektivtrafik, vilket är viktigt att ha i beräkning för att kunna föra effektiv transportpolitik. Ämnet har studerats i flera länder sedan 80-talet...
Wind Power and Job Creation
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Essays on military labour supply in the era of voluntary recruitment
This thesis consists of an introductory part and two self-contained chapters related to the supply of volunteers to the Swedish Armed Forces. Chapter [I] represents the first effort to explore the relationship between civilian labour market conditions and the supply of labour to the military in the all-volunteer environment that Sweden entered afte...
Nutritional impact of partial or complete replacement of clover hay by untreated or biologically treated rice straw and ...
Published in Bulletin of the National Research Centre
BackgroundAgriculture by-products are considered a great potential value for utilization by ruminants as well as rabbits. They usually can be the maintenance and part of the production requirements. However, in developing countries, as well as in Egypt, animals suffer from shortage of feeds that are continuously increasing in costs. In general, bio...
What should Peru do to improve its science?
Published in Nature
Scientists say the country has many home advantages for good research, but it desperately needs more government interest.
Dispatches from a world in turmoil
...Published in Nature
Scientists from Syria, Bolivia, Sudan, Iran, Chile, Ecuador, Lebanon, Venezuela, Hong Kong and Catalonia reflect on a year of civil unrest. Juan Guaido chants slogans as he marches with students during a protest in Caracas
