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A Virtual Acoustic Urban Space to Ensure Health and Safety
The built environment is under constant evolution, subject to socio-cultural, but also socio-technical, and environmental forces that transform and adapt the elements composing the...
Nya metoder för diagnostik av aktiv och latent tuberkulos
Bakgrund: A quarter of the world´s population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and 10% of those latently infected will develop active tuberculosis (TB) with an in...
Sound, Image, Body: Intersensory relations in late medieval song
This project delves into the relationships between sound, image, and body in late medieval song in order to assess various forms of intermediality and intersensoriality and examine...
Feeding Capitalism and Facing its Consequences? Upland Pastoralism in Ireland and Sweden, AD1350-1850
This project seeks to develop an approach which can determine the role of livestock-rearing communities in the emergence of capitalism in north-west Europe (1350-1850). With their...
Constraining the uncertainties of key climate-affecting components from African large-scale fires
Large-scale biomass fires in Africa emit vast amounts of aerosols and gases into the atmosphere, perturbing the regional climate. In this project, we address the large uncertaintie...
Presynaptic mechanisms in neurodegenerative disorders
Synapses have recently been found critical in the early pathogenetic changes taking place in tauopathies, including Alzheimer´s disease (AD). They have been implicated in the sprea...
The Wisdom of the Crowd: The Evidential Role of Convergence and Consensus
While there exists a rich philosophical literature about the epistemological significance of disagreement, agreement is a topic that has received less attention. The project seeks...
Bringing evidence-based treatment to practice. Rehabilitation using eHealth for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The overall aim of this project is to evaluate a novel strategy for delivering pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) through an eHealth tool (the PR-app) to people with chronic obstructive...
The impact of corporate governance on carbon emissions
In this project, we will empirically examine how ownership form, through its effect on corporate governance, affects firm carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions abatement activities. We w...
Health promoting qualities in the outdoor environment at residential care facilties for older persons
The project is about increasing knowledge of health promoting qualities in the outdoor environment at residential care facilities for older persons. An identified need in urban pla...
Measuring forest vitality with radar remote sensing
In the past few years, Sweden’s forests have experienced unprecedented levels of degradation due to ecological stress, fires and insect damage. These effects are a consequence of u...
Predicting postpartum depression with the Mom2B app: a large-scale Swedish study using artificial intelligence to improve mothers´ mental health
Peripartum depression (PPD) is a common, serious and potentially life-threatening disorder with high societal costs. Preventive efforts targeting PPD are cost-effective only among...
ECMO-behandling av hjärtstopp - validering av riktlinjer och långtidsuppföljning.
Bakgrund: Vissa av de tusentals som dör varje år av hjärtsopp som inte kan hävas, kan räddas om en ECMO-apparat istället återställer cirkulationen (E-CPR). Hjärtmassagen måste då g...
Fertility intentions, fertility considerations and Swedish fertility decline
Over the past decade, fertility rates in Sweden have declined unexpectedly. Meanwhile new social inequalities in ultimate childlessness have emerged. Our project seeks to investiga...
Establishment of early life humoral immunity in homeostasis and in the context of enteric virus infection
The neonatal immune system is uniquely suited to the enormous challenge of de novo antigen encounter by balancing host protection and tolerance establishment. However, some infecti...
Meeting the challenges of applying the "essential use" concept to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are used in a broad range of consumer products and industrial applications. There is concern about the high persistence of PFAS, and cert...
Pathophysiological mechanisms in different types of heart failure -- a genomics, proteomics, biomarkers and metabolomics study using cardiac biopsies and blood
Purpose and aims: Our purpose is to use modern molecular large-scale techniques to characterise heart failure (HF) patients with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), with reduced e...
Impacts of climate change on lake ecosystems in the Swedish arctic
The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere in the world. The Arctic also has a significant proportion of the freshwater and terrestrial organic carbon (C) stocks on the planet. Lak...
Prospective evaluation of early-life environmental triggers for pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (PREVENT IBD)
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic, debilitating immune-mediated disease with a typical onset in childhood and young adulthood. After a rising incidence over the past de...
A self-management program to prevent falls in ambulatory and non-ambulatory community dwelling people with multiple sclerosis
Among people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS), falls can lead to fear of falling, injuries and/or compromised quality of life. MS fall prevention research has overwhelmingly focused...