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Development of new mathematical models for determination of image biomarkers of cerebral function from fMRI data
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measures the blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) response to neural activation, the so-called neurovascular coupling. Since the introdu...
From work force immigration to inclusion – A study of Vocational Education & Training development in relation to society changes and immigration in a historical perspective.
Since the mid 1950s Sweden has experienced major challenges, amongst them, a shift from an industrial based economy to a knowledge intensive and service-oriented economy. In additi...
Tephrochronology of Sweden – tying the bag together
The aim of the project is to get a better understanding of rapid climate changes in the past and to compare climate signals preserved in different high-resolution climate archives....
Healthy vs. unhealthy food choices? Unpacking the drivers of mothers’ feeding decisions for their young children. A mixed methods study in Addis Ababa
BACKGROUND.The co-occurrence of undernutrition and overnutrition in low-income countries poses major challenges to society in general, and the urban poor in particular.AIMS.Focusin...
The expansion of the paraprofessional territory in schools - A reorganization of educational doings and relatings?
The paraprofessional territory in Swedish schools is growing.It is populated mainly by low-educated staff doing low-paid work supporting or supplementing already established profes...
Distributed solar driven hydrogen generation with water cleaning
The increase of the Earth´s population has put great pressure on access to energy and food, but also large problems with sustainable waste management.This project targets two of th...
TELL-ABILITY: STORYTELLING AS LIFE SKILL AND INTERACTIONAL COMPETENCE IN L2 LANGUAGE EDUCATION
The telling and sharing of stories have long been viewed as central to human experience, memory, and imagination.While the importance of narrative competencies is emphasized in the...
Invisibility Amidst Existence: Understanding Power, Agency, and Voice of the Severe Poor
The purpose of the research is to understand the power and agency problematic within the lived spaces of the ‘severe poor’ and critically examine the role and position of developme...
Children, diapers and bodily care in preschool: Scaffolding young children’s self-regulation and cleanness practices
This project develops knowledge about how young children, over time together with caregivers, learn to independently take responsibility for their cleanness in the preschool, e.g....
Architectures of Certitude: software, linguistics, and biology in planning.
Digitalization has become an objective pursued across ideological lines in Sweden.Government policies, implemented as new planning technical and institutional infrastructures, are...
Partisan contact-phobia: Prevalence, antecedents, consequences, and motives for avoiding direct and indirect contact with the political outgroup.
Political polarization is a viable threat to democratic institutions, and can reveal itself in behaviors such as selective information seeking or expressions of outrage or ridicule...
The Sumuri language of Indonesian Papua - Documenting an endangered language isolate
Sumuri [ISO 639-3: tcm] is an endangered and almost completely undocumented language spoken on the Bomberai peninsula in the Indonesian (western) part of the New Guinea island.To d...
Dangerous Russian Poets: The case of Natalya Gorbanevskaya and Joseph Brodsky - Poetry as Political Resistance
This project posits a new and unprecedented role played by poetry in the last decades of the Soviet regime, that of fomenting civil disobedience and advancing political dissent. It...
Refugee protection or cherry picking? Assessing new admission policies for refugees in Europe
The right to flee and seek asylum has come under increasing pressure.Following the increase in migrant arrivals and fatalities in the past decade, expanding ‘safe and legal routes’...
Music of the Indeterminate Place: telematic performance and composition intersecting physical and networked spaces
The connections network technologies create between distant spaces, objects, and people result in an extended experience of place.This interconnectedness entails a constantly shift...
Vernacular fiction and digital platforms: An ethnography of contemporary Indian book worlds
The global publishing industry is increasingly present in India.Furthermore, corporate capital from both theinternational and the Indian IT industry is investing in literary “conte...
No wo/man is an island. A social theory of economic voting.
The overall aim of this project is to advance our knowledge of how individuals’ personal economic situation can explain vote choice.We argue that previous research has had a too na...
E!1512 ACTaNe
Purpose and goal:Individuals suffering from arthritis or cancer that has metastasized to bone report chronic pain both during active disease and when the disease is in remission. L...
How the brain constructs the present and reconstructs the past via sequences of eye movements
Episodic memory refers to our ability to mentally travel back in time to relive past experiences in vivid detail.A critical aspect when forming coherent episodic memories is that o...
EUREKA SMART SIMS
Purpose and goal:Fatigue life is an essential property for many metal products, determining their safety and life cycle. During welding or Additive Manufacturing, AM, the solidific...