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The essential dilemmas of long-term peacebuilding: the cases of Cambodia and Mozambique
The aim of this project is to pursue in-depth research of two well-documented and “successful” cases and thus both address the long-term effects of intensive peacebuilding and iden...
Interracial Love in Literature from Southern Africa, 1900-1950
This project aims to investigate the representation of interracial love in novels and short stories from South Africa and Zimbabwe, 1900-1950, when ideas of race held a crucial rol...
Sensing yourself: Mechanical feedback between organ curvature and cell-based decisions
Growth asymmetry is key for morphogenesis in most eukaryotes. During animal embryo development, asymmetric cell constriction and migration cause tissue folding required for gastrul...
Nests, eggs, and embryos: revealing reproductive behaviour and ontogeny of early dinosaurs
This project will cast new light on the early evolution of dinosaur reproductive behaviour, and the establishment of dinosaur-dominated faunas, by describing exceptional new fossil...
Feeling ourselves? Sound, affect and female subjectivity in music streaming
With 299 million active users, the Swedish company Spotify is one of the biggest music streaming services today. A decennial report released in 2019 revealed a salient gender gap i...
Population-based Analyses of Incidence, Prognostic Determinants and Outcome of Aortic Dissection
Bakgrund: Klassificering av dissektion gjordes av DeBakey redan 1965 och sedan enligt Stanford 1970. Än idag är korrekt klassificering av aortadissektion central i hur patienterna...
Music and Identity in Diaspora: novel perspectives on female Vietnamese immigrants in Scandinavia
The project explores the role of music in identity formation among Vietnamese immigrants, with a particular focus on the role of music in confirming or subverting traditional gende...
Determination of reaction mechanism and specificity in nucleotide sequence recognition
In this project we will address the fundamental question of how the genetic information in DNA codes for rates of binding and unbinding, by using p53 - DNA binding as a model syste...
Exosomes in lung diseases understanding their role in disease and exploring them as biomarkers
Background: Exosomes are nanovesicles released from virtually all cells in the body. They are 30-100 nm in size and express MHC class I and II, as well as co-stimulatory molecules....
BigOx: Understanding and predicting long-term oxygen decline in northern lakes using big data
Oxygen is essential for the health of lake ecosystems, but global climate warming may severely deplete oxygen concentrations by increasing microbial respiration rates and stifling...
Parallel Histories, entwined Futures?: Exploring the potential of unaccessioned collections in (post)ethnographic museums
All over the Global North, ethnographic museums have been under increasing pressure to address colonial or racist representations or practices. These discussions tend to equate the...
Gestures in spoken and signed discourse
When producing discourse, humans use conventional language but also gestures. For spoken language, gestures are defined as visible actions, mostly of the hands and arms, which hear...
AISS-mélange - Antarctic Ice Sheet stability: ocean-ice-mélange model to reduce uncertainties in sea level rise projections
The purpose of this project is to better understand ice-ocean processes involved in the potential collapse of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to help reducing uncertainties in sea level ri...
Statistical Innovation to Promote Fairness in Modern Educational Assessment Tests
Educational assessment tests are used to measure the proficiencies of examinees worldwide, and the test results are often used for decision-making at the individual level. These te...
Immune-gene evolution and susceptibility to pathogens in the Anthropocene
Understanding how genetic factors affect host-pathogen dynamics is essential to assess the risk of disease outbreaks, mortality, and transmission among species. Many wildlife and h...
TARGETING THE MEVALONATE PATHWAY TO TREAT INFLAMMATORY JOINT DISORDERS
Inflammation is the first response of the immune system to invading pathogens or tissue injury. Environmental factors and/or genetic predispositions can however alter the tight reg...
Increasing nitric oxide signaling in cardiovascular disease
Bakgrund: En fungerande kroppsegen produktion av kvävemonoxid (NO) är centralt i reglering av hjärtkärlfunktion. Vid sjukdom och stigande ålder är ofta kroppens egna NO signalerin...
Defining the functional role of a novel Plasmodium falciparum protein domain involved in liquid-liquid phase separation
Malaria constitutes an enormous global health burden, and there is an urgent need to identify new targets for antimalarial therapy to eradicate this parasitic disease. In the malar...
Extending Liberal Legitimacy: Beyond the State and the Present
According to the Liberal Principle of Legitimacy – a highly influential view among liberal political philosophers - normative political legitimacy requires justifiability to all ci...
DAP5/eIF3d: En ny translationsinitierings-mekanism som är nödvändig för bröstcancer metastasering
Currently there are no effective treatments that can cure metastatic breast cancer and therefore patients diagnosed with metastatic disease have an extremely poor prognosis. A crit...