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Welfare conditions of dairy calves housed outdoors and with deep litter system while using heat-treated reed canary grass during winter in Northern Sweden.
Animal welfare is an ethical and legal commitment for farmers, which will reflect in livestock system’s sustainability. In Scandinavia, it is common practice to house calves indoor...
The assessment of cattle cleanliness
Too dirty cattle is a common problem detected by the County Administrative Boards in Swedish herds. This leads to compromised animal welfare and poses risks to animal health, food...
Promoting natural feeding behaviour to enhance health and welfare in commercial pig production
Despite the availability of creep feed, many piglets have not learned how to eat before weaning, leading to stress, reduced growth and an increased risk of post-weaning diarrhoea.G...
Socially sustainable dairy calf management for better animal welfare – how can technology contribute?
Restrictive diets have been highlighted as a critical calf welfare concern. Today most farms have not adopted biologically normal milk allowances (BNMA) corresponding to 20% of the...
Toilet training: an innovative approach towards increased welfare and sustainability of dairy farming
Every day, dairy cows suffer the risk of slipping and falling in aisles and to develop lameness and mastitis due to dirty surfaces originating from their own manure. The mixture of...
Improving honeybee welfare and protection
Honeybees are kept and managed by humans for producing food for human consumption as well as for their pollination services as the dominate species used for pollination-dependent c...
Dark nights for dairy cows
The light environment is a fundamental part of animals’ experience of their immediate surrounding and it is well established that lactating cows benefit from 16 hours of daylight a...
Electrophysiological tools for accessible, animal-free proarrhythmia safety screening
Regulatory bodies require to assess the proarrhythmic effects of drugs before commercialization.Even though human cells proved to be a better model, the high cost and complexity of...
Web-based Climate Calculator for strategic planning
For urban planning to contribute to reducing climate emissions, both at the municipal, national, and global levels, municipalities and regions require tools that estimate the clima...
CEASE cancer: CarcinoEmbryonic Antingen-targeting Scaffold protein Engineering for precision targeted therapy of carcinomas
Affibodies are unconventional targeting proteins, which are based of non-immunoglobulin scaffold and have a number of advantages over antibodies. CEACAM5 is a pancarcinoma antigen,...
Probing the multipotency of neural crest in health and disease
Stem cells in the embryo produce different cell types, but ultimately decide their fate by communicating with other cells.In case of individual multipotency, all individual stem or...
Genetic and immunological basis of severe SARS-CoV-2 infection
The purpose of the proposed project is to identify the key molecules and molecular pathways that underlie severe forms of SARS-CoV-2 infections.We have collected samples from sever...
Bacterial cell wall homeostasis and plasticity: from fundamentals to antimicrobial targeting
Bacteria are surrounded by a protective cell wall of peptidoglycan.This structure has no homolog in human cells, so the enzymes building up the peptidoglycan are preferred targets...
Bacterial Injection Machines within the Human Gut: Structure, Function and Potential as Novel Avenue in Precision Medicine to Battle Antimicrobial Resistance
Gut beneficial bacteria produce a newly discovered molecular syringe, so called Bacteroides injection system (BIS) and genes thereof were shown to be predominant in 99% of healthy...
Digitalization of the underground utility locating process
(NEDANSTÅENDE TEXT OMGES AV AFFÄRSSEKRETESS)BackgroundDug off underground utilities is a global concern for society, which affects access to electricity, clean water, sewage water,...
The Sustainability Compass: a digital management tool for sustainability management, organizational development and sustainable growth.
The sustainability compass: a digital management tool for sustainability management, organizational development and sustainable growth.During the years 2003-2013, I was the Swedish...
Network driven model for industrialized constrution
The high cost of housing construction in Sweden is well-documented, leading to a shortage of housing and unaffordable living costs Despite extensive research and development effort...
Creative cooperation on site
With the "Creative cooperatin on site" project, we want to create better working methods and have a fixed plan for how we plan thecity and the city´s future construction....
Digitalization of tree care for climate benefit in cities
BackgroundDuring the spring of 2023, a preliminary study was carried out through a collaboration between Arboair and Husqvarna. The aim has been to do a market verification of digi...
AI-support for reviewing building permit applications
Today, an average of 75% of all building permit cases that come to our department are incomplete. Once a case has been submitted, it is reviewed and we will get back to the applica...