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Novel wood panel for efficient and healthy built environment
We are seeing escalating urbanization and the need for more constructions. Meanwhile, the construction industry has been a major contributor to the global greenhouse gas emissions....
Closing the loop: “The role of pallido-striatal neurons in sensory functions in the intact and parkinsonian basal ganglia”
The Globus Pallidus (GP) is a central part of the Basal Ganglia (BG), a group of subcortical nuclei supporting motor control and involved in movement disorders such as Parkinson’s...
Knowledge, Magic and Horse Medicine in Late Antiquity
This project will study ancient hippiatric material: Greek and Latin texts on the care and medical treatment of horses. The material consists of texts excerpted from veterinary man...
Immune-Vascular Interactions in Atherosclerosis
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the world. We have established the importance of chronic inflammation and adaptive immune reactions in atherosclerosis. This...
Pregnancy-related risk factors for cardiovascular disease: Foetal and maternal cardiovascular function during and after normal and complicated pregnancies in relation to the dysfunctional placenta
BACKGROUND: Placental function influences the health of woman and foetus during pregnancy, and lifelong cardiovascular risk of both. Little is known of the mechanisms behind placen...
Platform development of bioengineered extracellular vesicles for targeted RNA delivery
Using mRNA as a gene therapy modality has opened a new avenue for treatment of a range of diseases, however, they need to be encapsulated in nanocarriers to ensure stability and ce...
Carbon saturation revisited: Effects of aluminium oxides and soil structure on the carbon storage capacity of Swedish agricultural soils
Soils have a large potential to sequester carbon and thereby help mitigating climate change. Based on recent research, which shows that oxalate-extractable aluminium (Alox) correla...
Fumarate-directed quick breeding of low-methane rice for the global environment
Paddy rice is one of the largest anthropogenic sources for atmospheric methane and its greenhouse effect is equivalent to CO2 emissions from ca 250 million cars. Thus, there is an...
Genetics and genomics of highly flexible horses - a comparison with hypermobility syndromes
Warmblood sport horses are strongly selected for performance, favoring supple and elastic gaits, or athletic show jumping. Some of these horses show extreme locomotion that could b...
Consequences of climate change in a Baltic Sea bay exposed to 50 years
Global warming is the anthropogenic-related increase in the Earth’s surface temperature, primarily due to release of greenhouse gases. Understanding how rising temperatures will al...
Following the money: cross-national study of pharmaceutical industry payments to medical associations and patient organisations
Social science has a long-standing interest in the pharmaceutical industry and its relations with the health system. A key area of concern is the large money sums paid or donated t...
Genetic analysis of venous thromboembolism, peripheral artery disease, and varicose veins: Analysis of GWAS, WES and WGS data and evaluation of the clinical significance of associated variants
Background: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is the third most common cardiovascular disease and is associated with high recurrence and mortality risks. The underlying causes are unkno...
Cash – Human rights and social sustainability in the transition to a cashless society
This project investigates aspects of the transition towards a cashless society, with an empirical focus on Sweden. There are strong and obvious benefits to – and support for – the...
Activation and articulation of authoritarian attitudes: The importance of the media
The purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of the media agenda and the framing of news on the emergence of authoritarian attitudes. Research suggests that predisposition...
Climate-forcing BC+SO4 aerosols and CH4+CO gases from India: Observational constraints on sources with isotope fingerprinting
S Asia is home to 1.5 billion people and to 14 of the World’s 15 most polluted cities. its emissions of pollutants have severe effects on climate and the quality of the air people...
Militarised Social Reproduction: Women´s Labour and Civil War
What role do households play in sustaining long-term civil wars? That is the key question to be explored in this project. Using a framework drawn from feminist political economy, t...
Neurotrophic Mechanisms in the Adult Nervous System – Vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
An unwanted outcome of increased life expectancy in modern societies is the growing prevalence of age-associated diseases. Among these, dementia is one of the biggest unmet healthc...
Practicing Food Sovereignty: Indigenous Peoples and Agroecological Relationships in the Eastern Himalayas
This study concerns indigenous communities and agriecological practices in four countries of the Eastern Himalaya region; Nepal, Bhutan, Chittagong Hill Tracks of Bangladesh and th...
Hot Desks in Cool Places: Coworking Spaces as Post-Digital Industry and Movement
The project addresses the future of digitalized work and its social consequences through a study of coworking spaces (CWS) in Sweden. CWS refer to shared and digitally connected wo...
Nervtransplantat-bypass – en ny kirurgimetod för ryggmärgsskadereparation
There is no intervention or treatment for persons that suffer a spinal cord injury and the functional loss is irreversible. Peripheral nerve graft (PNG) transplantation as a means...