Preterm birth remains the leading cause of perinatal mortality and morbidity, largely as a result of a poor understanding of the precise mechanisms controlling labour onset in humans. Inflammation has long been recognised as a key feature of both preterm and term labour, with an influx

Current therapies for preterm labour (PTL) focus on arresting myometrial contractions but are largely ineffective, thus alternative therapeutic targets need to be identified. Leukocytes infiltrate the uterus around the time of labour, and are in particularly abundant in decidua (maternal

The dynamics of human capital and the world of work: towards a common

The concept of the competitiveness of a country’s economy is closely linked to the labour market. The most obvious and best known reason for this is that labour productivity is a key factor in shaping competitiveness. At the same time, changes in competitiveness (for example in branches) may induce

of human labour and machine labour were accepted as a criteria of optimisation. The 4th variant was an optimal variant from among the analysed. Total inputs of human labour and machine work in this variant were 788.9 h·ha-1 and were respectively lower by: 555.1, 568.9 and 659.1 h·ha-1 than the estimated

. We do not find support for a strict human capital interpretation of the role of education in the U.K. graduate labour market and support an assignment model in which the characteristics of the job, as well as the individual, determine earnings. [JEL I21, J24]

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(labouring) and 17 women after elective Caesarean section (non-labouring). All women were Caucasian and had uncomplicated pregnancies. For global gene expression analysis, 17 human oligo-arrays were used, represent-ing 24 650 genes each. An empirical Bayes analysis was applied in order to find differentially

The main question of this paper is: what type of social capital is able to mitigate labour precariousness and to foster human development? This issue has been addressed through a review of the literature and an empirical investigation on the Italian regions. The analysis shows that only bonding

This paper compares labour supply behaviour under a uniform education voucher system with one involving a means-tested scheme in which the voucher is subject to a taper or withdrawal rate as parental gross income increases. Particular attention is given to the implications of nonlinear budget