Right-Wing Extremism and the Well-Being of Immigrants

This study analyzes the effects of right-wing extremism on the well-being of immigrants based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2006 merged with state-level information on election outcomes. The results show that the life satisfaction of immigrants is significantly reduced if right-wing extremism in the native population increases. Moreover, the life satisfaction of highly educated immigrants is affected more strongly than that of low-skilled immigrants. This supports the view that policies aimed at making immigration more attractive to the high-skilled have to include measures that reduce xenophobic attitudes in the native population.well-being, life satisfaction, right-wing extremism, migration, SOEP

Glass Thomsen : en vurdering av merkenavnets verdi og image

I denne oppgaven har vi, på oppdrag fra Johan Thomsen AS, gjennomført en markedsundersøkelse for Glass Thomsen, som er en kjede av glass og gavebutikker i bergensområdet. Bakgrunn for dette oppdraget var at ledelsen følte butikkene var lite synlig i markedet og at de begynte å miste grep om kundene. Gjennom en assosiasjonsstudie har vi søkt å identifisere image og merkenavnets verdi for Glass Thomsen. Dette ble undersøkt ved å se på Glass Thomsen opp mot konkurrentene Tilbords og Christiania GlasMagasin. Vi presenterer teori, metode og resultater for denne studien og ser på implikasjoner for videre posisjonering av Glass Thomsen og deres muligheter i fremtiden

Right-wing extremism and the well-being of immigrants

This study analyzes the effects of right-wing extremism on the well-being of immigrants based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2006 merged with state-level information on election outcomes. The results show that the life satisfaction of immigrants is significantly reduced if right-wing extremism in the native population increases. Moreover, the life satisfaction of highly educated immigrants is affected more strongly than that of low-skilled immigrants. This supports the view that policies aimed at making immigration more attractive to the high-skilled have to include measures that reduce xenophobic attitudes in the native population

<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Bacteremia from Diffuse Muscular Infection Following Acupuncture Visualized by F-FDG PET/CT and MRI

We describe the clinical course of a 60-year old male admitted with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and back-pain. The patient was suspected of having spondylitis and treated as such with antibiotics; however, both fluorine-18 fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (18F-FDG) positron-emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with iv contrast showed significant inflammation of muscles and subcutaneous soft tissue in relation to the patients back and left shoulder, but no signs of the working diagnosis of spondylitis. The unusual location of the infection was not explained until a few days prior to being discharged when the patient reported visits to a local physiotherapist where he would have acupuncture performed for non-specific back pain. His last acupunctural procedure had been performed 6 days prior to admission. This case is, to our knowledge, the first to show muscular inflammation on both 18-F-FDG PET/CT and MRI following acupuncture due to S. aureus. This case highlights the need for clinicians to search for alternative explanations when imaging does not support the diagnosis