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Development of autoreactive naïve and memory B cells in autoimmune disease
Autoimmune diseases, which are often debilitating and chronic, pose significant challenges to the patients, health-care systems and Society.For many of these diseases, the aetiolog...
Exploring multiple stress adaptation for plant breeding
In natural habitats, plants interact with environmental factors that determine their geographical distribution but also their development.Agriculture confronts these concepts since...
A family decision? Population studies of parental leave at the gendered workplace
Men and women in childless couples in Sweden spend roughly the same number of hours on paid and unpaid work. When the first child arrives, couples’ time divisions become gender une...
Genetic monitoring of connectivity, diversity and adaptive potential
In a rapidly changing world, adaptation to novel conditions is necessary to ensure population persistence.To ensure conservation of insects and the ecosystem services they supply,...
Healthy working life after a myocardial infarction: the impact of adverse conditions on remaining at work, event recurrence, and mortality
Cardiovascular disease is one of the main causes of disease in Sweden.However, due to advances in care, death and disability resulting from a myocardial infarction (MI) have decrea...
Paradigm shift in the view of ectomycorrhizal symbiosis in boreal forest - but in which direction?
Does forestry contribute to increased greenhouse gas emissions or is it a useful tool in mitigation of climate change?Much of the debate revolves around the choice of silvicultural...
Dignity and decency at work - the invisible and unrecognised workers in hotel housekeeping
This study focuses on hotel housekeeping staff who, to a large extent, are women and (new) migrants with limited possibilities of influence over their own work and overall work-lif...
Socioeconomic Consequences and Mental Health Outcomes in Parents and Siblings of Childhood Cancer Survivors
Little attention has been paid to the parents and siblings of childhood cancer survivors although childhood cancer may cause significant trauma to the entire family.In this project...
Push-pull pollination: a precision innovation for sustainable food production
Consumer demand for pollinator-dependent crops is increasing in the Nordic countries.Growers thus require solutions to sustainably increase pollination services to crops, as well a...
Icke-destruktiv övervakning av markens makrofauna med hjälp av markljud
We currently lack methods that allow us to study the in situ behaviour of soil macrofauna and their response to chemical stressors without disturbing the soil system itself.This is...
Fungal degradation of wood under precisely controlled internal and external moisture conditions
Wood is an increasingly important material in the construction sector, but the use of wood in moist environments is hampered by its susceptibility to fungal decomposition. Water is...
Home care as integrated in older people’s lives: Developing a user-oriented perspective
Research on eldercare has been dominated by a provider-oriented perspective, concerned with the conditions and views of those who provide care. This perspective has been developed...
Artificial groundwater recharge – A shortcut for harmful poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) into groundwater systems and drinking water supplies – Can we avoid this?
In Sweden, artificial surface water infiltration into groundwater systems (artificial groundwater recharge) is widely applied to ensure sufficiently high groundwater quantities for...
Social inequality at campus. Perspectives on the relation between full-time studies and part-time work in Swedish higher education
The project aims to clarify a central issue in welfare policy and sociology of education that hitherto has received little attention: What are the living conditions for Swedish stu...
Photoperiodism in chickens: neuroendocrine regulation and health and welfare implications
Photoperiodism has evolved in temperate animals to facilitate adaptation to seasonal changes in the environment.The most abundant bird on the planet, the chicken, initiates reprodu...
Changing gender and class relations in the wake of RUT and ROT usage
The Swedish RUT and ROT reforms, which allow tax deductions for outsourced household work and maintenance work have since their implementation – in 2007 and 2009 respectively – gro...
Magnitude and drivers of legacy mercury emission from contaminated pulp-fiber sediments: Towards a refined risk assessment by accounting for emission to the atmosphere
Large amounts of toxic mercury (Hg), cellulose and wood fibers discharge during past paper and pulp industry formed hundreds Hg contaminated fiberbanks in Swedish inland and coasta...
Effects of increased ultra-processed food advertisement (outdoors and digital) exposure on behaviours associated with obesity development in Swedish adolescents, evaluated in a socioeconomic context.
In Sweden adolescent obesity is still a public health issue.The problem is reinforced by aggressive marketing of ultra-processed foods (UPF), like fast foods and sugary drinks, how...
E-CHoSyn: Utilization of Electrochemical C–H Functionalization for the Ecofriendly Synthesis of Value-added Products from Biomass
The goal of E-CHoSyn is to develop a new generation of green C-H functionalization protocols, which can allow for the sustainable synthesis of value-added products from biomass-der...
Being an older person with drug addiction – a qualitative study of the living conditions of a growing group
There is a need to put focus on older persons with long-term drug problems. Currently, there is a lack of knowledge about this group´s life situation and need for support.Internati...