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Antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater - studies on factors critical for assessing the risks.
Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) can be present in both pathogens and harmless environmental bacteria.The acquisition of ARGs, often situated on plasmids, by pathogens and their...
Built Environments to support rehabilitation for patients with stroke - From the hospital to the home (B Sure)
There is a fundamental transformation of healthcare where care and rehabilitation aim to be provided outside the specialized hospitals closer to the person and often also at home i...
Doctoral students’ dependence on supervisors and local research networks for successful thesis writing and future research career
The aim of the project is to examine the extent to which academic career progression is conditional upon factors in play during doctoral research training.The proposition explored...
Antarctic Animal Atmospheres: An Environmental History of Bird Island
I propose to study the way that human and non-human animals have interacted and defined their inhabited spaces in Antarctica. I will examine one ecological space and the complex in...
Understanding hybrid future for smart destinations
In recent years, there has been an increasing amount of literature on the concept of smart tourism and what are the elements that distinguished a smart destination as a result of t...
Teleworking and rural development after the pandemic
The project’s goal is to investigate the potential of teleworking for rural development in post-pandemic Sweden.The aims of the project are to study the opportunities and obstacles...
Roadmap towards adaptability of timber buildings
Due to the significant global share of greenhouse gas emission, raw material consumption and waste production of the construction sector, the shift towards a circular economy is cr...
Chemical-safe recycling of post consumer plastics
In a circular economy recycling of plastics needs to increase dramatically.Plastics contain additives (plasticizers, stabilizers, biocides, flame retardants, accelerators, colorant...
MASSA - Prototype
The goal is to develop a prototype for a new aquatic landscape typology in Stockholm that restores and initiates ecological functions and habitats that have been lost due to centur...
Characterisation and effects of micro and nanoscale components and their impact on efficiency of chemical additives
Purpose and goal:Starting with the recent development of new experimental techniques to characterize the size distribution of fibrillar components in dispersions, it is possible to...
Network for Maternal and Neonatal Health in Resource Limited Settings
Sepsis, premature delivery, still births and newborn deaths are very high in Kenya.A strong contributing factor are sexually transmitted infections (STIs), such as gonorrhoea, chla...
Mechanistic principles of methylmercury formation in anaerobe microbial biofilms
The global spread of mercury (Hg) is a major threat to ecosystem viability and human health, mainly due to microbially mediated formation of methylmercury (MeHg). This neurotoxic f...
Landscape management in the Wildland-Urban Interface to reduce future wildfire vulnerability for communities. What are the barriers to change?
Climate change studies for northern Europe point to an increased number of days with high wildfire danger in the near future.Wildfires have the last decades already severely challe...
AI-based cybersecurity for CAN and IP communication in existing vehicle environments
Purpose and goal:The purpose of the project was to demonstrate the feasibility of developing a security system that can use machine learning to analyze CAN bus and IP communication...
Acoustically-driven optical-interferometric microscope for cell characterization
AbstractThe goal of this proposal to develop a first of its kind acoustically driven quantitative phase microscopy (QPM) rheology system. Mechanical forces play an important role i...
Acoustically-driven optical-interferometric microscope for cell characterization
Abstract The goal of this proposal to develop a first of its kind acoustically driven quantitative phase microscopy (QPM) rheology system. Mechanical forces play an important role...
Synthetic transmembrane peptide conjugates as biomimetic carriers for specific treatment and diagnostics of pancreatic cancer
Membrane proteins play an essential role for the controlled transport of compounds through the cell membrane.Studying their structure and transport functions is essential to develo...
What are the mechanisms behind negative effects of vaccination on growth in fish?
The aim is to contribute to economically, ethically and environmentally sustainable fish aquaculture through more effective vaccination methods with decreased side effects, and tha...
Function-driven design of new degradable polymers - Toward surface eroding polyesters with programmed performance and service lifetime
A new EU regulation for medical devices comes into action in May 2020.One of the main requirement is to prove a safe and controlled performance of the devices in the physiological...
XR Combat Sports Metaverse: Content Design for Generation-Z
Application for £35K funding for a customer insights study of Generation Z (Gen-Z, those born 1995-2019) to test different visual and audio solutions to layer VFX eSports...