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In debt – Young adults and the dimensions of guilt
“Over-indebtedness” indicates enduring difficulties to pay off debts and fixed expenses. During the 2010s, over-indebtedness has increased among Swedish households and manifested i...
New modelling tools to understand fishing fleet dynamics under changing economic and management conditions
It has long been recognized that understanding fisher behavior is key to successful fisheries management and, in the end, long-term sustainability of the fish resource. In this pro...
Fermentation of Swedish faba beans for foods with improved texture, flavour and nutritional properties
A growing body of evidence is pointing at the need for more sustainable diets and methods of food production. Plant based milk analogues, which generally represents more sustainabl...
Seafood in Japan and Sweden - alternative pathways to sustainability
The seafood sector is set to provide a more important contribution to feeding a growing world population. A key challenge is to deliver healthy seafood to the consumer in a both en...
Is food waste illegal?
Existing food legislation focuses primarily on meeting basic hygiene requirements, i.e. making food suitable for human consumption from a microbiological perspective. The food wast...
What is the effect of decision fatigue on healthcare workers’ medical judgment? Analysis and assessment of telephone triage (1177), antibiotics prescribing (primary care), and diagnosis of skin cancer
Everyday healthcare workers make repeated decisions about patient care. Many of these decisions require careful deliberation and hard thinking. According to behavioral theory, repe...
Mariculture Technical Innovations in Sweden (MARTINIS)
The overall goal of this project is to develop novel land-based marine recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) with a reduced nitrogen footprint. Fish waste contain ammonia/ammoniu...
Planning for Integration: Landscapes of Power in Borderland Governance
Integration issues are important in border regions, in particular when their residents differ from other citizens and have ties to ethnic kin in neighboring states. These situation...
Modulating the Persistence of Intrusive Memories: From the Lab to Naturalistic Environments
Intrusive memories of trauma are distressing and disruptive—too often persisting for years. Understanding intrusions from an experimental psychology perspective informs both theory...
The impact of neonatal treatment and interventions in preterm infants on neurodevelopmental and psychiatric outcomes - an international population-based study.
Due to the highly specialized care provided in neonatal intensive care units (NICU), neonatal mortality rates have substantially declined, especially in preterm infants. Neverthele...
The nanomodule as the dynamic, functional building block of the glutamate synapse
Synapses are responsible for transmitting, processing and storing information in the brain. Recent ultrastructural data from rodent glutamate synapses has shown aligned clustering...
Forest based biofuels for Sustainable Arctic Marine Shipping
Shipping transportation in Arctic is growing significantly, affecting climate change, causing marine & human health risks especially on indigenous peoples. This research addresses...
Who gets asylum? The impact of traits and biases on bureaucrats´ decision making
Our proposed 3-year project will study the role of bureaucrats in the asylum process. Our main purpose is to investigate the outcome of asylum applications, and to what extent thes...
Immune-to-brain signaling mechanisms
Peripheral inflammatory processes elicit a number of CNS mediated sickness responses, including fever, fatigue, depression, anorexia, social avoidance, and increased stress hormone...
Biological function of mast cell tryptase: cancer and beyond
Mast cells are currently emerging as major players in a variety of pathologies, but the mechanisms by which they exert such diverse functions remain to be elucidated. A hallmark fe...
Using large-scale genome-wide genetic data on millions of individuals to understand causal inference and shared genetic basis between modifiable environmental exposures and multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a progressive neurodegenerative autoimmune disorder. The estimated incidence and prevalence of MS in Sweden are among the highest globally. Despite sever...
Dopamine neurons: Subtypes, microenvironment, and regenerative potential
Midbrain dopamine (mDA) neurons play essential roles in diverse neural processes and degenerate in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Our studies address key questions concerning the develo...
Risk factors differences for occupational injuries among immigrants versus natives in Sweden
BackgroundImmigration to Sweden has increased since 1960. This increase has shown variations in country of origin and reason for migration, with a higher proportion of refugees in...
Understanding local and systemic immune responses in natural and experimental human influenza virus infection to combat disease
The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic resulted in 20-50 million deaths worldwide from disease caused by influenza virus infection. 100 years later, influenza remains an emerging virus with...
The Many Meanings of Perineal Injuries. Care-seekers’ and care-providers’ perspectives on second-degree perineal injuries, their implications, and potential to improve care
Perineal injuries have far-reaching effects on physical and mental quality of life. While second-degree injuries (perineal and vaginal ruptures that need suturing) are estimated to...