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Remote epitaxy of silicon carbide for quantum nanophotonic crystals
Silicon carbide (SiC ) offers a unique combination of material properties for quantum technologies. Harnessing these properties simultaneously through an integrated SiC photonics p...
Combating cerebral small vessel disease by new diagnostic tools and therapy development
Bakgrund: A dysfunctional brain vasculature is a well-established aspect of cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) which is responsible for at least 20% of all strokes. CADASIL is th...
Hypertoni Vanligt, farligt med underbehandlat
Bakgrund Hypertoni är en stark oberoende riskfaktor för stroke, hjärtsvikt, hjärtinfarkt, och död. Trettio procent av den vuxna befolkningen i Sverige har högt blodtryck. I kv...
Combined Hyperlipidemia: a Lense into Systemic Inflammation's Role in Accelerated Aging
Bakgrund: Atherosclerosis is a major challenge for healthcare providers as most patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) are >75 years old and only few of them...
The past as repeatable presence: How phonography changed music from ephemeral event to ever accessible object (a comparison between Sweden and Italy during the interwar years)
The aim of this project is to investigate an important condition for music production, distribution and listening in today’s digital world. More specifically it asks the question:...
Mamabies" among the Afro-Baloch community: Social status and cultural heritage of a low caste community in Iran
Proposed project is about songs sung by women for women during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum. I will call these songs "mamabies". Mamabies are recited in the Afro-Baloch commu...
Nya infallsvinklar för att förstå slem (mucus)-ackumulering vid lungsjukdom
Bakgrund: Kroniskt obstruktiv lungsjukdom (KOL) är en mucus-associerad obotlig sjukdom som orsakar stort lidande och kännetecknas av hosta, mucus-produktion och andfåddhet. Otillr...
Antiviral Immunity and New Vaccines For Early Intervention and Prevention of Lung Disease In CF
Bakgrund: Respiratory virus infections increase the sensitivity of the Cystic Fibrosis (CF) lung to bacterial colonization and is the major cause of pulmonary exacerbations in CF....
Mysteriet med den dolda ärftligheten bakom hjärt-kärlsjukdomar, diabetes och astma
Only a small proportion of the genetic contribution to common diseases is explained by the genetic variants identified till date. It is likely that much of the remaining genetic co...
Nordic exceptionalism? Mapping constitutional reasoning in the Nordic countries
The rise of judicial power has been a global trend in the last three decades. Supreme and constitutional courts play an increasingly larger role in defining the direction, shape an...
Stress susceptibility: genetic and environmental influences on brain function and gene expression in blood following stress
Stress is a risk factor for anxiety disorders, but not all individuals exposed to stress develop anxiety. Differences in stress susceptibility can be explained by genetic and envir...
Academia and cultural production as ‘postmigrant’ fields in Sweden
The migrants’ and their descendants’ presence in leading positions in Europe is full of tensions and does not develop at the same pace in all professional fields. This project expl...
Linguistic and Epistemological Perspectives on Testimony
Testimony is an essential and indispensable method for acquiring knowledge. Yet understanding the semantics and pragmatics of testimonial utterances and explicating the conditions...
Changing Families and the Reciprocal Exchange of Living Conditions between Generations
De senaste decennierna har det skett stora förändringar i barns och föräldrars familjeförhållanden i de flesta europeiska länder. Förekomsten och antalet former av icke-traditionel...
Towards an effective treatment for fibromyalgia: A randomized, controlled trial comparing exposure-based treatment to traditional cognitive behavior therapy
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a common disorder characterized by generalized pain and fatigue as well as many other somatic and psychiatric symptoms. FM leads to large suffering, high disab...
CAPTivating: Comparative Analysis of Public speaking with Text-to-speech
Captivating an audience means attracting and holding the listeners' attention by being very interesting, exciting or pleasant. Thanks to a combination of a paradigm shift in the ar...
The missed side of breathing. The importance of monitoring and assisting expiration during mechanical ventilation to avoid ventilator induced lung injury.
Bakgrund: Mechanical ventilation is a life-saving supportive therapy for patients admitted to intensive care. However, despite substantial technological progress, the risk for v...
Therapeutic interventions towards vascular changes in COPD
Bakgrund: Kroniskt obstruktiv lungsjukdom (KOL) är en lungsjukdom som påverkar syreupptagningen och kan ge upphov till hjärt-kärlkomplikationer. Vaskulär endotelial tillväxtfaktor...
AiDA: A new technique for diagnosis of disease in small airways and peripheral lung
Bakgrund: Diseases in the small airways (< 2 mm in diameter) and acinus are among the most common causes of death globally. Nevertheless, precise and accessible tools to detect di...
The different sleep problems of men and women – a comprehensive study of objective sleep, stress, immune activity, sickness absence, morbidity and mortality
Sleep disturbances are associated with a number of diseases and mortality, and women complain more of disturbed sleep than men, and seek treatment more often. The reason for the di...